What the Hair?!

What the Hair?! is the first episode of Tangled: The Series a Disney Channel animation following Rapunzel storyline after the Tangled Movie. Rapunzel became a damsel in distress in the first episode, but she also had the chance to be a heroine.

Story
After the events in the tv movie Tangled: Before Ever After, Rapunzel's hair has grown again and the princess wants to find why. Following the advice of her Lady in Waiting, Cassandra, they visit a mysterious wizard, Varian.

Entering his lair, a pink ball of goo traps the two women, glueing their feet to the floor, Rapunzel is barefeet and Cassandra has boots, and they are unable to move away from the spot were they were catched.

They remain trapped for a little while, but after they explain Varian what they are doing there, he uses a substance to set them free.

Varian turns out to be an alchemist, and in order to find out why Rapunzel's hair grew again, he says he need to run some experiments, this requires Rapunzel to be strapped in a table while a complicated machine makes tests. Rapunzel happily allows herself to be restrained, and then endures a quick shaking of her body and hair, she is satisfied when it all finishes and thinks its all over, but then Varian informs her that's just the begining, and that in order to have results he need to do 86 more tests.

As a consequence, Rapunzel spends practically the rest of the episode restrained to the table. Her boyfriend Eugene eventually finds her and thinks she is in danger, but everything is cleared out.

By the end of the episode, real danger comes, as the village where they are is about to suffer some explosions, Eugene wants to go away, but Rapunzel insists on remaining restrained and finishing the tests.

When everything is exploding, Rapunzel wants out, and both Eugene and Cassandra try to free her, this probes hard and by the time she is cut free, the building colapses upon Rapunzel and Eugene.

Disaster is avoided, because once free, Rapunzel plays the hero and she uses her long hair to protect herself and her fiance, and they lovingly hug each other.