The Hair Raising Rapunzel Case

The Hair-Raising Case of Rapunzel is the seventeenth episode in the tv series Fairy Tale Police Department. The show is a cartoon dealing with two police officers making sure fairy tales go as the are supposed to. In this ocassion, they have to work helping Rapunzel, who becomes a damsel in distress.

Story
The Prince who is supposed to save Rapunzel from her tower, goes to find help from the police, since once he climbed the tower he found the princess wasn't there.

The police officers investigate until they find Rapunzel, who had escaped on her own, once she is found she reveals she was hiding from the prince who, she reveals, is not who he says he is.

In reality, He is a criminal who wanted to steal Rapunzel's hair growing formula and then make a lot of money selling it as his own, Rapunzel doesn't want to give him the formula, but as this is revealed she is abducted by the villian who escapes the lead characters.

The male agent, Johnny Legend, finds the bad guy lair and discovers that Rapunzel is now a damsel in distress.

She is tightly tied up with rope holding her wrists behind her back, and with a lot of rope holding her arms to her body, she is gagged with a cloth tied over her mouth and, worst of all, is suspended over a tank of acid by her long hair, which is tied to a beam in the roof.

Rapunzel has given the bad guy the formula, and now he intends to kill her so that no one ever has the information but him.

As he makes his escape, the bad guy lets some acid shampoo fall over Rapunzel tied hair, once it is disolved it will make her fall in the acid.

In seconds, Johnny Legend swings over the tank and catchess the princess as she is falling, saving her life.

Damsel and rescuer fall in a bunch of boxes, and a desperate Rapunzel demands to be untied, but with her gag silencing her she cannot do anything but mmmppphhh.

Legend, who is not really brilliant, cannot understand her and keeps talking without untying her, he even believes the girl is asking him for the time rather than asking for freedom, and finally Rapunzel surrenders any effort to communicate.

Finally she gets untied offscreen.