"The Marriage" is the fifty-second episode of Butterfly Valley (1969 series) and the twenty-sixth and final episode of the second season.
Synopsis[]
Princess Butterfly Valley and Frank are about marry each other, but King Boogieman, Bluebell and the twins stop them from doing so. There must be a way to evict Frank off the palace.
Plot[]
The Butterfly kingdom is preparing for the wedding of Frank and Princess Butterfly, but the priest realizes his mistake and announces that Princess Butterfly will be marrying King Boogieman. Everybody at the palace are confused, then Bluebell asks the twins why is Butterfly marrying to Boogieman and Rose explains to her that Boogieman is the only person of royal blood that Butterfly can marry.
Princess Butterfly came and asks Bluebell, Rose and Petunia that they should be the flower girls and they gladly agree.
They are soon introduced to a young male fairy in a troll-only armor, revealing to be a grown up Buggle. He claims himself to be the ring bearer of the wedding and everyone agrees with him.
At this point, Buggle develops a crush on and childishly flirts with Petunia, much to Rose's dismay.
The wedding then begins, but Frank storms out of his room, only to find that Princess Butterfly is being married to King Boogieman. Enraged, Frank magically summons his crossbow, just as the two are about to kiss. He shoots an arrow to Princess Butterfly, causing her to collapse, due to the injury.
King Boogieman, broken hearted and depressed, begins to cry over her body and the others follow suit. He soon kisses Princess Butterfly, who is then revived by love's first kiss as the blood disappears. Butterfly suddenly wakes up, wondering where is she now. Rose tells her that she was originally shot by an arrow.
Everybody are glad that Princess Butterfly is alive again, then the priest declares Princess Butterfly and King Boogieman married.
Frank soon tries to attack Butterfly Valley, but is fought by King Boogieman, Buggle, the Royal Troll Army, and the Butterfly Fairy army.
Eventually, Rose and Petunia converge their magical powers to send a powerful blast at Frank, forcing him to retreat. The episode ends with flower petals and rice flying around the palace as everyone celebrates the wedding.
Trivia[]
This episode was reworked from a scrapped episode titled "Wedding."
This is the first episode to explicably feature blood, due to a scene where Frank fires an arrow to Princess Butterfly, her right arm begins to bleed. Said scene was edited to remove blood after this episode initially premiered on TV.
Later episodes, mainly those from the fourth season, will feature some instances of blood in some scenes, but those will end up being edited due to television regulations at that time. This never happens again in the franchise after the conclusion of the 1969 series.
