Saban's Adventures of the Little Mermaid * MARVELMAN > THIS IS AN OLD CARTOON FROM 1991. ANYWAY, IN THE EPISODE "LOTHAR'S REVENGE" MARINA (THE LITTLE MERMAID) LEARNS THAT HER BOYFRIEND (THE PRINCE) HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED BY HEDWIG (THE SEAWITCH) AND TAKEN TO HER UNDERWATER CAVE. MARINA GOES TO THE CAVE AND FINDS HER BOYFRIEND BOUND TO A ROCK AND GAGGED. MARINA REMOVES THE GAG FROM HIS MOUTH AND WARNS HER ITS A TRAP. BUT TOO LATE. SHARKS THAT WORK FOR THE WITCH GROUP AROUND THE CAVE AND TRAP HER INSIDE WITH HEDWIG. LATER IN THE EPISODE WE SEE MARINA TIED TO A ROCK PILLAR NEXT TO HER PRINCE. ONLY THIS TIME SHE IS GAGGED AND THE PRINCE IS NOT. THEY HAVE SOME GREAT CLOSE-UP SCENES OF HER GAGGED. THEN ONE OF THE MERMAID'S FISH FRIENDS SNEAKS UP BEHIND THEM WITH A KNIFE IN IT'S MOUTH AND CUTS THEM LOOSE WHILE HEDWIG BACK IS TURNED. THE PRINCE AND MARINA JUMP HEDWIG AND NEXT THING YOU KNOW HEDWIG IS TIED UP AND GAGGED. WHAT IS REALLY NEAT ABOUT THIS EPISODE IS THAT THEY KEEP USING THE SAME GAG ON EVERYONE IN THE CAVE: FIRST THE PRINCE, THEN MARINA***, FINALLY HEDWIG. FUNNY EPISODE. Sabrina's Secret Life * Grimbor > "Food'tude" Brought from the dreamworld into the realworld when the self starving Sabrina's wand malfunctions General Cheesehead and his food troops declare war and take over the cafeteria. Hilda and Zelda drop by the school to see if Sabrina's given up on her extreme diet and are lassoed with linguini. When Sabrina gets to the cafeteria she finds her aunts, several students & a few staff hanging from the ceiling in small groups of two or three (male & female) from linguini ropes around their waists with their hands tied behind them (no shots of the wrist bonds). Sabrina brings an end to hostilities by agreeing to stop treating food as the enemy and sits down to eat a balanced meal before worrying about getting everybody down. Which her aunts support though I'm surprised everyone else isn't demanding she gets them down as the cartoon ends with her chewing away. Sabrina the Animated Series * Biff Barksdale and RKNAUS (details from both combined) ** ComicMan16 In one episode, they go back in time to pirate days, and Sabrina and two friends are captured after they appear on a pirate ship. Her friends are locked in a cell, while Sabrina is tied to a mast, arms at sides, lots or rope pinning her to it. However, her friends soon escape from the cell, and one swings over to her and pulls her right out of the ropes. > In one episode dealing with dogs who become as intelligent as humans, Sabrina (who wears combat fatigues), her two hippie aunts, a man, and Salem the cat all get tied up (presumably by them, but the person who found this didn't see the whole scene). Sabrina's aunts have their torsos wrapped in rope, Sabrina herself has her hands tied behind her back and her feet tied, the man is wrapped up in rope (with only head and feet sticking out) and gagged with a dog bone stuck in his mouth, and Salem the cat is wrapped up in rope with only his head, feet and tail sticking out. Sabrina casts some spell that bounces around the room and finally frees them all. Very cute scene. >> The episode was called The Importance of Being Norma and it seemed that everyone wanted to just like Norma, but Sabrina didn't want to be so they tied her to a pole and were changing her to look like Norma. Then she spotted Norma was tied up with her and found out that Norma was not quite "Norma" enough. It looked like Sabrina was about to be changed forever when all of a sudden everyone was back to normal and Sabrina and Norma were untied. Sabrina the Teenage Witch (an older version, not Sabrina the Animated Series) * Biff Barksdale > In one episode, Sabrina is overgagged and bound with rope 'round her upper torso while riding on her broom. Salem, possessed in some way, magically binds her. The scene lasts a couple of minutes, with quite a few long, medium and closeup images. This scene possibly may have been in a number of other Archie-related toon series rather than SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH. I counted six possibilities in the IMDb, but I'll go with this series until I know differently. Sailor Moon * Sailor Moon Golden99 ** Biff Barksdale *** Grimbor > Episode 12 "An Unnatural Phenomenon" Sailor Mercury and Sailor Moon get tied up by vines. Sailor Moon all around her body, Sailor Mercury all around her body as well. Sailor Mars blasts the vines off with her fire blast which Sailor Moon doesn't exactly appreciate. [additions by Grimbor] Episode 49 "Food Fetish" Sailor Mercury gets her hands tied behind her back by a mop ends, Sailor Moon gets her hands in front of her and Sailor Jupiter gets her hands tied in front of her. I know it sounds weird but it's true. Moon and Mercury get wrapped up by a Carden mop head in a big ball of yarn with only their heads visible until Sailor Mars frees them. Luckily there's a fountain below them to extinguish the singed sailors. [additions by Grimbor] >> Episode 20 "A Friend in Wolf's Clothing" Around ten minutes in, Molly finds herself bound arms apart in her jammies, kneeling on the floor. Neflyte comes to her rescue. The scene lasts a minute or so. Episode 21 "Jupiter Comes Thundering In" Around 17 minutes in, Sailor Moon's arms are pinned to her sides by a claw-like device shot from the arm of a Negaverse miscreant. Jupiter comes to her rescue in the brief scene. >>> Episode 13 "Wedding Day Blues" Sailor Moon is wrapped in spidersilk by a spiderlike negamonster which tries to pull her to it for dinner until Tuxedo Mask intervenes. Episode 59 "A Charmed Life" Sailor Jupiter finds herelf caught in Prisma's jelly goop while Avery's whip has a stranglehold on Venus. Jupiter is shocked in several ways to learn that Prisma can electrify the goop and doesn't like it when prisoners won't answer her questions. A rescue attempt by Mars and Mercury doesn't quite work out and soon all four Sailors are bound by tendrils of goop until Sailor Moon and Tuxedo Mask save the day Episode 67 "Rubeus Strikes Out" Sailors Jupiter, Mars, Mercury and Venus are tractor beamed aboard Rubeus's spaceship and imprisoned. In the original japanese version they were seen hanging from floating crystal crosses with their hands and feet embedded in the crystal but I believe all traces of those scenes have been cut from the DiC version and they're not seen again until Rubeus is defeated and the crosses have already dissolved. Episode 83 "Star Struck, Bad Luck" Raye is manacled to a wall by the Heart Attacker's detachable hands. It grows new hands and uses them and its feet to manacle Sailor Moon to a tree then bites and damages her transformation locket so she reverts to Serena. Lita, Mina and Amy are tied to trees by vines thrown by the monster. It then zaps Raye and removes her heart crystal which sounds very painful. Raye doesn't recover until her heart crystal is restored. Episode 84 "Crystal Clear Again" Brief shots of Sailor Mercury wrapped in the cat monster's tail and of the tail binding Sailor Venus's wrists as it throws her into a wall. Episode 89 "Lita Borrows Trouble" Lita is wrapped in a Heart-Attacker's red ribbons which she can't escape before her heart crystal is stolen. The same ribbons also bind Sailors Mars and Venus until Amy and Serena restore Lita's heart crystal so Sailor Jupiter can cut loose. Episode 90 "Damp Spirits" Amy is sealed in a column of magically solidified water so her heart crystal can be stolen and Sailor Moon is bound by a life preserver ring until Tuxedo Mask deflates it. Episode 91 "Friendly Foes" Kaolite's magic causes chaos when she creates magic handcuffs that chain Sailor Moon and Sailor Uranus together so they get in each other's way. Also her Tire Monsters captures Sailor Neptune and tie her to a tree as bait for the other two sailors. They manage to work together to rescue Neptune and defeat the Tires. Episode 93 "Individual Happiness" Sailor Venus is wrapped in a magical volleyball net by a heart attacker after her old school friends. Episode 98 "People Who Need People" Sailors Moon, Jupiter, Mercury, Mars and Venus are tightly squeezed together by the Heart Attacker's tentacles but combine their powers to blast themselves free. Episode 99 "Related by Destiny" Sailors Moon, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury and Venus are tied together by a "finishing tape" until Sailor Neptune frees them. Episode 103 "Destiny's Arrival" During their attack on Eudial's cathedral hideout Sailor Neptune is captured and bound to a board by thorny tentacles as bait for Sailor Uranus. She breaks free but is blasted by the trap Eudial set for Uranus. Episode 104 "The Purity Chalice" To cover her retreat Eudial coats the floor with glue and Sailors Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Venus and Mini-Moon wind up stuck to the floor. So Sailor Moon has to use them as stepping stones to get past the glue. Episode 111 "It's in the Cards" By losing to rigged games of chance run by the gambling motified monster of the day the Sailors get sealed into giant transparent playing cards which hold them frozen in place. At the climax of the show Sailors Moon, Mars. Mercury, Jupiter and Venus are prisoners and it's up to Rini to save the day. Episode 118 "Darkness, My Old Friend" Mistress Nine's enchanted hair mummifies Sailors Neptune and Uranus from toes to shoulders then throws them against and fuses with a statue to become stone holding them immobile. Hair nooses settle around their necks as Mistress Nine threats to strangle them if Sailor Moon doesn't hand over the Silver Crystal. Episode 121 "Dreams Take Flight" Lizzy (Andrew's sister) is targeted by Tigereye and manacled by her wrists and ankles to the magic board the trio can summon with their "1-2-3" incantation. He summons her dream mirror to see if she's the pegasus's host and having your dreams invaded appears to be painful. Lizzy is saved by the timely intervention of Tuxedo Mask, Sailor Moon, Sailor Mini-moon and the mysterious pegasus. Episode 122 "No Ordinary Horsepower" Rita (Andrew's girlfriend) becomes Tigereye's next victim and is manacled to the 1-2-3 board. Tiger Eye gets a look at her dream mirror but the Sailors save her. Episode 123 "Sweet Dreams" Hawkeye takes a turn at looking for the pegasus and picks Serena's mother as his victim. The 1-2-3 board is used again nad she passes out during the dream examination. Her daughter saves her as Sailor Moon without revealing her secret identity. Episode 124 "Baiting the Trap" Serena's old friend Molly is targeted by Tigereye and manacled by her wrists and ankles to the magic board the trio can summon with their "1-2-3" incantation. When Sailor Moon and Mini Moon go to rescue her a cage springs up around them to trap the pegasus but it fails to hold it and they save Molly. Episode 125 "Perfect Couple" Tigereye goes after a female friend of Darien's using the good old 1-2-3 board. Episode 126 "Much Ado About Kitten" Tigereye chains a nun to the 1-2-3 board. Is nothing sacred? Episode 127 "A Pegasus Pager Turner" Sailors Moon. Jupiter and Mini-Moon are chained together by Tigereye's minion and nearly electrocuted when Jupiter tries to blast them free with her lightning attack. A bomb is attacked to their chains and they're expected to make like escape artists but they're having no luck and about to go up in smoke when the bomb's disposed of by Tuxedo Mask. Episode 128 "A Teacher's Lesson" Rini's teacher is stalked and captured by Tigereye. Episode 129 "The Trouble With Love" Raye becomes Tigereye's next victim when she's attacked at the Temple. He manacles her to the board and sees her dream mirror but fortunately it doesn't betray her secret identity as Sailor Mars. She is saved from Tigereye by a combined attack from the other Sailors. Episode 131 "Driven Dreamer" Hawkeye goes after and captures a female mechanic Amy knows. Episode 132 "Cutting It Close" Rini's young ninja wannabe friend is targetted by Tigereye. She's a bit harder to catch than his usual victims with her martial arts training but he tricks her onto the 1-2-3 board. Episode 134 "Double Trouble" Mina's attempt to juggle two dates on the same night date turns into a disaster because she's dating both Tigereye and Hawkeye. Angry at being tricked the pair team up to manacle Mina to the 1-2-3 board and extract her dream mirror. Furious at this treatment Mina doesn't wait for rescue and tears free of the board then transforms into a very angry Sailor Venus. The two bad guys barely escape. Episode 135 "Recipe For Danger" Hawkeye goes after an older than usual female victim this time with the good old 1-2-3 Board. Episode 137 "Beach Blanket Bungle" Amy's beach day is interrupted when she's chosen as the next pure hearted victim and manacled to the Amazone Trio's 1-2-3 Board by Tigereye so he can study her dream mirror. Episode 139 "Duchess's Day Off" Hawkeye pursues and captures an incognito noblewoman with the 1-2-3 routine. Episode 140 "No Prince Charming" Tigereye goes after Lita but it's Fisheye who gets her dream mirror while Tigereye nets the Rini and Serena who are watching from behind a bush. Lita gets angry enough to power up to Super level and blast their minion with a new attack. Episode 142 "Eternal Dreams" The trio finally target and capture Serena and while they don't find the pegasus in her dream mirror they discover she's Sailor Moon. Too bad for them that's not good enough since the pegasus is the only real concern of the circus. They've failed for the last time and their master sends a monster to destroy them. This is the last time the 1-2-3 board appears in the series and their replacements don't use manacles to hold their victims still. Episode 146 "Dental Dilemma" Serena and Rini visit a dentist who is under the control of PallaPalla of the Amazon Quartet. They're both terrified of dentists and finding themselves manacled to the dentist's chairs by clamps in the armrests doesn't lessen their fears. Tuxedo Mask frees them and for the first time since episode 1 Sailor Moon uses the crying so hard she creates a sonic wave attack which knocks out the possessed dentist and his assistant. Episode 147 "Nightmare Garden" Lita and Mina get bound by vines before they can transform and save the day so it's up to Mini-Moon to rescue them. Sailor Moon R the Movie: Promise of the Rose. Near the start Amy and Raye find themselves wrapped from waist to neck when the flower monster grabs them and its arms become vinelike tentacles. Near the end after they've teleported to the asteroid Sailors Jupiter,Mars, Mercury and Venus are captured and bound to a plant stalk by vines whcih can be electrified by the villain (Fiore)a s he tries to force Sailor Moon to surrender. Samurai Champloo *Biff Barksdale "Artistic Anarchy" (1.5) About twelve minutes in, Fuu is grabbed by men intending to sell her to European slave traders, and bound and gagged. She's shown tied with rope around her upper torso and her arms behind her, and more bonds pinning her thighs together. Her ankles are free. Due to a continuity glitch, during the sequence she's seen alternately overgagged and standard animé over-the-nose gagged. Shortly after, she's shown inside a large cask. A bit later, the artist who set her up has a change of heart and releases her, but her freedom is fleeting, as the henchmen arrive before she can make good her escape. About 21' in, after Mugen intercedes to thwart her abduction, she's removed from the cask and lugged under the arm of a perp before ending up on the floor of a house as Mugen gives her captor what for, martial-arts style. Lastly, she's again underarmed, this time by a detective on the trail of the kidnap racket, who neglects to free her while he expounds upon how he broke the case. Everything wraps up around the 23' mark. Fuu wears a traditional kimono, in keeping with the feudal Japan setting of the series. In the english dub Fuu's voice is done by Kari Wahlgren, who also did the voice for Haruko in FOOLY COOLY. Schoolhouse Rock * PRW > On the Grammer Rock part of show, there is a song called "CONJUCTION JUNCTION", which, BTW, is one of my favorites, there is a cartoon damsel tied to the railroad track. She gets up on her own, ropes still crossing her body, and hops away while the conductor watches admiringly. The rope is wrapped around her torso. She's wearing a long (pink?) dress & has short curly hair. She is crying as she lies down the tracks. As she gets up and hops away, she is still crying. The scene is short and definitely more "cartoonish" than detailed or realistic in drawing style. Scooby Doo (various series, as there were many) * Xosaur ** Biff Barksdale *** Grimbor In the episode "That's Snow Ghost!", *Velma* got tied to a log with chains. After a strange chain of events, Scooby sails on the lake on Velma's log (!!!) and takes off her glasses to see a bomb right behind him. Sounds strange, but you really have to see it to understand it. > You forgot several Daphne scenes in "Scooby Doo, Where Are You?". In one episode, a zombie grabbed Daphne after a whitch made it look like she disapeared. THey later found her under a white sheet cloth gagged with rope around her arms. In another, two demons wanted a chinese mask daphne purchased but she wouldn't let him have it so they chase the gang in a car and grab Daphne after the Mystery Machine crahses, you see them drive off with Daphne gagged in the back seat. Later, they find her gagged and tied around her upper body. >> In the episode "Decoy for a Dognapper", in the last third of the episode, Daphne is discovered bound to a pole. Scooby finds her sitting on the ground, rope below her shoulders and around her waist, hands behind, legs not tied. In the episode of the "New Scooby Doo Movies", with guest star Sandy Duncan, Daphne's grabbed and handgagged by a Mr. Hyde type. She's later seen in a castle on an outdoor movie set, gagged over-the-nose with white cloth, but unbound. She's wearing a green gown. Her wrists are later tied behind her as her captor attempts to flee from Sandy and the gang in a golf cart. Finally, she's seen gagged with a bulky overgag (Continuity!), still bound, in a faux mausoleum, before she's rescued. As far as scene times, in a airing on CARTOON NETWORK that ended around ten before the hour, Daphne's grabbing occured about the 35' mark and she's first seen being gagged a few minutes later. >>> In the episode "What the Hex is Going On?" a missing heiress is briefly seen tied to a wooden chair and gagged behind a sliding wall panel when the "zombie" leaves his lair. Her hands are tied to the bars of the chair, and her feet are tied together. Scooby Doo and the Legend of the Vampire (animated movie) * Grimbor > Girl Goth Rock trio "The Hex Girls" have just started their set when the vampires attack and the giant vampire that appears above the stage sends down energy ropes which bind the girls arms to their sides at they're hauled upward to disappear. Sadly it tunrs out while they have been kidnapped the guys behind the vampire scam don't have them tied up somewhere but have just dumped them to wander in the desert which we never see because they've already been rescued and reappear while Fred and Velma are explaining the scheme. Scooby Doo And the Monster Of Mexico * Grimbor > Daphne gets abducted again (this time by participating in what's supposed to be an interactive museum display about human sacrifice) and is spotted a few minutes later through binoculars standing atop an Olmec pyramid, blindfolded and with her hands tied behind her. Daphne manages to break the ropes and remove the blindfold herself which is good because it takes her friends awhile to climb the pyramid and they're exhausted when they arrive at the top Scooby Doo and the Witch's Ghost * Grimbor > The Hex Girls make their second appearance in a Scooby Doo movie and get grabbed again when writer turned warlock Ben Ravencroft enchants a spindle of wool in a model puritan village and has it bind them to a pole in the last half hour. During the first hour it was the usual fake ghosts which Ravencroft had set up to get the gang to find the spell book ofSarah Ravencroft (his ancestor). Anyway after he gets the book and summons Sarah back she starts enchanting things including tree roots which grab Daphne. Anyway after Velma gets her loose it turns out one of the Hex Girls has wiccan ancestors and is able to banish Sarah (who is more of a traditional wicked witch) back into the book along with Ben who was standing a bit to close to the portal Sealab 2021 * Biff Barksdale > In the episode "Bizarro", Debbie (voiced by Kate Miller) spends the entire ep bound sitting, with stout rope wrapped above and below both her breasts and knees. The crew's been captured by the Bizarros, weird doppelgangers of the members who aren't so much threatening as really, really annoying. Star Wars Clone Wars * Grimbor "Chapter 25" Near the end of this final chapter female Jedi Knight Shaan Ti is overpowered by General Grevious who pulls out a handful of glowing (electrified?) ropes. When Mace Windu breaks into the bunker he finds her bound with the ropes and hanging from the ceiling and looking the worse for wear. She manages to tell Mace she failed to protect Palpatine and he heads off to try and rescue the Grand Chancellor rather than getting her down. Shinzo * Biff Barksdale > In the episode "Awakening", about nine minutes in, Yakumo is bound with rope around her arms and torso, her hands behind but unbound, it appears, and suspended over towering flames. She's rescued by the male lead, who's freed himself from the same predicament. The scene lasts a minute or so. Around 22 minutes in, an anthropomorphized queen bee enwraps her in her bullwhip, fettering her as before, and pulls her up to her. Yakumo is unbound but is now held tightly in the queen's arms. Again the male hero comes to her rescue. In the episode "Web of Evil": (Note: this is listed as "Web of Death" at TV Tome [http://tvtome.com], but the title graphic read "Web of Evil".) Yakumo is captured by bad spider people (as in hankerin' to eat her). The grab isn't shown. When the gang comes to rescue her, she's seen with her captors on a cliff above them, her hands bound behind her. A razor-sharp spider web stretches out below. She's pushed off the cliff and plunges toward the web, but at the last moment she's pulled up short. Her ankles have been fettered with a thread of spider silk. She dangles for a bit before she's saved. The scene lasts about two minutes and begins around 19 minutes in. In the episode "Battling Daku", Yakumo has been captured by the evil King Daku, lord of the insect Enterrans. Around 16 minutes in, she's shown bound to a post on a wooden platform. Her wrists are pulled behind her, her upper torso is wrapped in rope, and her ankles are tied together. She is rescued by Mushra in the nick of time. The scene lasts about two minutes. In the episode "Reptiles", Yakumo's been captured by some lizard prince with a long and grabby tongue, which he loops around her neck. He switches off to enwrapping her in his arms, then hands her off to his snake minions, who entwine themselves around her and spirit her off. The sequence begins around ten minutes in. Later, she's seen again in his grasp, bundled under his arm. Finally, she's turned to stone and thrown into a lake of acid. In the episode "The Test"... Unfortunately, I missed the first twelve minutes or so. Around 19 minutes in, Yakumo is seized by plant tendrils which enwrap her arms and upper torso. The sequence lasts for about four minutes until she's rescued. The Simpsons * Arsehole ** Fnord Perfect Fnord 'the little blue guy' *** BLAH **** Grimbor > Bart and Lisa got tied up by the Babysitter Bandit in one episode and Bart was gagged after he showed he wasn't "smart enough to keep your mouth shut". Really quite crap, and probably to almost no-one's interest. "Some Enchanted Evening" was its name. When Marge and Homer get home they find the female babysitter in front of the TV hogtied and gagged and watching Maggie's "Happy Little Elves" videotape which seems to be destroying her mind. >> In one episode, Martin got tied to a chair (hands behind back, rope wrapped around) by Bart and Milhouse. Marge came in and saw the scene but made a friendly comment about their "tie-up game" and left. >>> There was an episode where Milhouse was bored with Springfield and complained that nothing exciting ever happened there. The whole episode was filled with little stories about weird things that happened that day, including one Pulp Fiction parody where Chief Wiggims and a local punk were tied to chairs and ball-gagged a la Bruce Willis in the film. >>>> "Tales from the Public Domain" Joan of Arc (Lisa) is on trial for being a witch and is held in place with chains from her wrists to rings in the floor. After God, her surprise witness, bails on her when it's revealed he promised both sides victory Joan is sentenced to be burned at the stake until deemed fit to re-enter the community. She's tied to a stake by an executioner wearing a "Kiss Ye Cook" apron and tells her family not to worry as God will save her but it's getting hot and she's starting to get worried when Marge interrupts and changes the ending of the story so the family won't freak out. Slayers Mext * Biff Barksdale > In episode 5 "For the Love Left Behind!" (one of several translations of the original "Nokosareshi ai yue ni!"), around 11 minutes in (with ads), Amelia is cocooned by a giant spider in preparation for having her life force sucked from her body. She's seen in a few scattered quick shots before Lina and Gourry rescue her. Spawn - see "Todd McFarlane's Spawn" Speed Racer In one episode, Trixie was captured and tied up hanging from some object. She was slowly lowered to her death, but Speed showed up in time with some artifact that was demanded in return for Trixie's life. And once, Spridle and Chim Chim were captured and tied to a table underneath a swinging pendulum which would eventually slice them open. Speed managed to save them. In another episode, Spridle and Trixie were captured by a mad scientist and tied to 2 hooks hanging over a pirahna infested pool of water. Later, the good scientist who was being threatened then said he would build some invention for the mad scientist and the 2 were freed, for the moment. Later, Trixie and Spridle were hooked to a wall and an invention was about to be used on them to turn them into giants (I don't think a giant Trixie or giant Spridle would have done the villians much good). Also, another episode of Speed Racer involved Speed and Spridle getting caught by a group of villians/racers known as Alpha Team. They got tied up with their hands behind their back and rope around them in the basement. But their feet weren't tied, so Speed managed to cause a riot by drawing fire to him as he ran past several explosives. In another episode, Speed and crptured ae ctped to a crate, with their hands behind their backs, while a fuse was lit on the crate, that would cause it to explode. Chim Chim later came to rescue them, and e them, and something went wrong, and Spridle went flying, wrapping the rope back over them, and Chim and tied up by too. Racer X saved them. Later in the same episode, Spridle and Chim Chim sneak aboard the Mammoth Car and get caught by a villian. They are tied up back to back with their hands behind their back hanging from the ceiling. They manage to get lowered and run around the man, tying him up, and then bite at each other's ropes. In yet another episode, Speed had rescued a "girl daredevil" from falling to her death and hid in a secret cave. However, there were 2 villians in the cave, who tied up Speed Racer and the girl, hands behind back, ropes wrapped around them. The girl, though, was an escape artist and managed to get free, in a good, but brief, struggling scene that showed her hands behind her back as she slipped one out. Speed Racer 2002 (note - 2002 is not in the title, but this is the later series, rather than the 1960s series) * Biff Barksdale ** Anonymous > In the episode "The Jinx of Racer X", about 19 minutes in, reporter Trixie Fontaine is grabbed by the Clever Brothers and bundled into a van to be held hostage in order to smoke out Racer X. A few minutes later, after an ad break, she's seen with her wrists bound before her as Speed arrives. The thugs threaten to toss her off the bridge when he tells them X won't be coming. She lets out an ear-piercing scream, Speed grabs her, and they make their escape in the Mach 5, naturally. The scene lasts about ninety seconds. >> This was a very forgetable early 90's el-cheapo, that tried to re-do Speed Racer. In one episode, concerning a mad doctor & a "Creature of the black lagoon"-like monster, the "new" Trixie is captured by the monster, and taken to the doctor, for some reason. She is tied up, hands behind her ,and later is detective gagged with a brown cloth. Oh, Sparky was also a captive, with her. And in one scene, as Trixie is brought into the tent where he is being held captive, he is just bound hand & foot, he speaks to Trixie, they cut to her reply then back to Sparky. But, now he's gagged and grunts at her. Cut back to Trixie who says something in reply, then back to Sparky, who is no longer gagged! A fine example of an animation screw up! Spider-Man (90s series) * Lard 69909 ** Biff Barksdale > In an second part of an adaption of the story "The Kid That Collected Spider-Man", Spidey loses his memory, and starts working with Doc Ock. While robbing a bank this lady taxi driver tries to stop him. Spidey ends up tying her up and gagging her in webbing. Then, him and Doc Ock take he back to their hide out. On an episode with the villains The Scorpio and Vulture, they kidnap the Black Cat, and when Spidey tries to rescue her he finds her in a large dome with her hands tied behind her back, and detective gagged. >> In the episode "Neogenic Nightmare, Chapter 7: Enter the Punisher", a young woman has been kidnapped for ransom. She is bound to a chair, wrists behind, and overgagged with a red cloth. Some nice shots before being rescued by the Punisher. Begins about two minutes in, and lasts a couple of minutes or so. In the episode "Partners in Danger, Chapter 3: The Black Cat", in the first few minutes, Spidey binds Black Cat with his webbing, but she quickly frees herself with her claws and gasses him. She has the opportunity to unmask him, but declines, and makes her escape over the rooftops. In the episode "Partners In Danger, Chapter 5: Partners", Alistare Smythe, now working for Silvermane, captures the Black Cat and uses her to force Spiderman to track down the Scorpion or the Vulture. Around 19 minutes in, she's shown imprisoned inside a clear dome, bound with her wrists behind and rope around her arms and upper torso, and overgagged to prevent her from warning her partner of Smythe's impending treachery. When he arrives with the Scorpion in tow, the trap is sprung. Black Cat frees herself from her bonds, but remains inside the dome, with Spider-man in a separate one. Presently they make their escape, and do the superhero bit. The sequence lasts about two minutes. In addition, about two minutes in she's the recipient of a brief thug bearhug, pinning her arms. Spider-Man (2003) * Biff Barksdale > "Spider-Man Dis-Sabled" (1.8) About 17 minutes in, Mary Jane and Indy are seen bound (wrists forward) and gagged with gray tape, along with Harry, in the back of a van. There are a couple of brief shots. Around 25 minutes in, they're shown still bound, but no longer gagged. They remain so, pounding on a baddie at one point, for another minute or so. "Mind Games" Part 1 (1.12) Early on, mind controller Roxanne Gaines is shown restrained along with her brother while being transported. They attempt an escape which Spidey spoils, and are handcuffed behind their backs and blindfolded (their eyes are their weapons, y'see). At around the 17' mark, Spider-Man webs Silver Sable's upper torso in a short scene. Lastly, and bestly, about 29' in MJ is briefly shown lying bound wrists behind and tapegagged at the close of the ep. Her ankles are together, but whether they're actually tied can't be made out. "Mind Games" Part 2 (1.13) There's a reprise of MJ's scene from Part 1 about two minutes in. A couple of minutes later, she's shown tied to a chair, her wrists bound to the sides of the chair's back. She's no longer gagged. She quickly works her hands loose, but can't make good her escape. She's next shown around the 14' mark, chairbound as before. There are numerous short shots of her over the next three minutes or so before Spider-Man rescues her. Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends * Bob Nielsen > In "Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends," The Red Skull captured all 3. He then bound them to rockets using ropes specially treated to nullify their powers. Spider-Man's bonds were electrified, Iceman's had heat, and, the kicker, Firestar's were frozen. She was only bound that one time (that I remember). Spiderman "In Color" * Grimbor > In the episode "Neptune Nose Cone" Reporter Penny Jones is tied to the top of a rocket's nose cone while the caveman on the forgotten island plan to sacrifice her to the local volcano. Later on she is seen standing on top of the nosecone with her hands tied behind her and blindfolded. Good thing too as otherwise she'd have seen Spiderman and with Peter Parker the only other American on the island it wouldn't have been hard to figure out his secret identity. Anyway after rescuing her he manages to change back before the blindfold comes off. In "The Power of Doctor Octopus" Betty Brant is handcuffed to a bar of Spiderman's cell. Spy Groove * Grimbor > In the episode "Tokyo Takedown" Cathy Lee Gifford unsuccessfully attempts to break out of a Tokyo hotel/Supervillain's HQ and is next seen strapped into a brain downloading machine (alongside Agent #1 and Fake McName) which looks a lot like an electric chair. After the download copies their skills Dr Ken attempts to kill all three with laughing gas but they're rescues by Agent #2. Stargate Infinity * Alan Smithee > In the episode "Hot Water" raven haired telepath Seattle Montoya is kidnapped by a pair of alien bounty hunters to be used as bait for her alien friend Draga. When Draga tracks her down, she is in an old-style hut, bound wrists behind, more rope around torso, her feet are also bound. She has a white OTM gag and tries to warn her rescuer only for her to end up captured as well (and wrapped in energy bonds). Later both are seen in a boat, where Seattle manages to get her gag off and call her other teammates who are nearby. Later however, when the bounty hunters are on the run with thier captives, the gag has been replaced and she makes several muffled noises. She is seen in long shots for a few minutes before the bad guys are pulled by a giant octopus through the Stargate and drop thier still bound captives near it. [additions from Biff Barksdale: The whole event begins about 22 minutes in. There's also a netting by what turn out to be friendly aquatic inhabitants about 6 minutes in.] Static Shock * Biff Barksdale > In the episode "Hard as Nails", Ally, a young woman with special powers, is ensnared by Batman's batarang lasso, pinning her arms to her sides. Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy, who want to use her for their own nefarious ends, come to her "rescue", incapacitating the Dark Knight and Static Shock, and Ally frees herself with her claws. The scene begins around eight minutes in, and lasts about a minute. Stickin' Around Stacy Stickler is strapped to a table (arms at sides) in a sequence in which Bradley is imagining her being forced to "squeal" to the principal on something he did. However, Stacy, like all other characters in this cartoon, is a stick figure, so not many people might be interested. ;) In one episode, Bradley imagines his friends tied together on railroad tracks, arms at sides, some gagged. The Stone Protectors * Anonymous > This was an early '90's ninja turtle like show,made to cash in on the brief Troll doll craze of the time (very brief.) The show concerned a lousy rock band's members that were somehow transported to the planet Mythrandir. And in the process, became super powered troll beings, that actually play good music. They are just in time to save the planet's ruler Empress Opal, who's been over thrown by the the evil reptilian Zok and his right hand man General Zink. Empress Opal was the series equal to April O'neil, a hot, well drawn, chick usally in need of rescue. In the series opener, "Forged in fire", Opal is bound, hands in front, with chains. Later, in the "Crystal Vampires", Opal and one of the trolls are captured by Gen. Zin, and pole tied, with rope, in a cave, til their rescue. In "Island Hopping", Empress Opal and the trolls land on a strange island that is actually a huge Godzillian-like creature. At one point, Opal and 2 of the trolls are bound in tentacles, and for a few seconds, gagged with them.(nice struggling) In the episode "Black Heart, the terrible" Empress Opal finally gets it! It concerns them finding the title character, a washed up famous warrior, with hopes that he'll help in the fight against Zok. But he's actually a cowardly lion sort. Well, somehow, Opal and the trolls are captured. As Zok and Zink set about draining the trolls' power (or some such sillyness), they have Empress Opal rope bound to a chair and detective gagged with a white cloth. This is a classic chair tie, with ropes around her arms, and such. There's a number of nice shots, with some really good close ups of Opal's gagged face. (Not much mumffing, tho.) And in one frame, a medium shot of her, you get to see a text book example of cheap animation, as her glorious shot is spoiled by a F.U.B.A.R. of having the background layer overlaying her! (guess it was a friday) This was Opal's only full treatment (the tentacle scene was too breif) and it was a good one!! This is not a complete list of Empress Opal's tie ups, she was in numerous scrapes with Zok & Zink, but this is the best of them. I had them on video for years, til they were tragically over taped by accident. Street Fighter * WayCool104 > I'm not positive about these episode titles, so if anyone can identify any errors, please do so. Episode: (Final Fight) Only seen this episode once, it aired on the Cartoon Express back when USA was still airing animated stuff like Mortal Kombat and Savage Dragon, but it's been a holy grail of mine for a long time now. As in the game of the same name, Jessica Haggar, daughter of Mike Haggar, the mayor, gets kidnapped by an evil gang, and is later shown very nicely tied to a chair and gagged with tape. I also believe she was wearing a pink party dress. She is first shown on Mike Haggar's TV screen being menaced by a bad guy, then later shown again when a disguised Ken and Ryu come to rescue her. All hell breaks loose after Cody, Jessica's hot headed boyfriend, and his friend Guy, burst onto the scene. She does eventually get rescued, but I'm not sure how. Anyone with a better or more accurate synopsis please send it in. Episode: (The Warrior King) I believe the plot of this episode involved some guy from another cartoon series (erm, another DIMENSION, yeah, that's what I meant) who comes to the street fighter universe. Sometime in the episode, Chun Li gets trapped in vines wrapped around her whole body. She's not wearing her traditional fighting gear, she is instead wearing a blue evening gown. Episode: (Unknown) There were two episodes featuring Blanka's girlfriend, this was the first. This is a girl who holds no prejudice against Blanka based on his color, even though that color happens to be green. But some people don't see things from her point of view, so they kidnap her to get to Blanka. I only remember a brief scene showing the girl's hands tied standing in a helicopter. Sripperella * Grimbor > "Beauty and the Obese" Knocked out by the gas attack of mad plastic surgeon Dr Cesarian our heroine wakes up shackled to an operating table and threatened with multiple cellulite injections from giant hypodermics on robot arms. After some heroine-villain banter and listening to the explanation of Cesearian's evil scheme Stripperella frees herself with the laser built into her stiletto heel and knocks the Doctor onto the table to take her place before running off to save the model he fitted with explosive breast implants. "The Evil Magicians" Posing as magic magazine reporter April Mayjune and wearing a big black wig Stripperella gets invited into the Las Vegas home of magicians turned master criminals Walter and Moe. Except the tour of the house turns deadly when they figure out she's not a real reporter so Walter handcuffs her hands behind her back, slaps tape over her mouth and tosses her into a crate which he nails shut then begins to saw in half except he's not planning to put her back together afterwards. Stipperella manages to undo the cuffs and avoid the saw then change and emerge as Stripperella. Except she's forgotten to remove the tape so her introductory speech is all muffled. Realising the problem she peels off the tape then decides to forget repeating the speech and get on with the ass kicking. "Cheapo By The Dozen" Knocked out by Cheapo while still in her civilian identity Stripperella is taken to a Las Vegas ice cream factory by his minions due to a typo on his order to "Bury Her In Desert". She wakes up tied hand and foot at the base of a giant sundae maker while Cheapo and his sidekicks argue about the extra "s" in his instructions. Making the best of it Cheapo tells them to keep going which horrifies Stripperella since it's not lo-fat ice cream. Once she's been dropped in the giant glass bowl and buried in ice cream, nuts and fudge Cheapo and his sidekicks leave. Soon as they're gone Stripperella is able to swim through the ice cream and use her nipple drills to cut through the glass and escape. She then wriggles around so she can use the drills to free her wrists, untie her feet and change to Stripperella. Super Chicken In one episode, some woman who looks a lot like Marigold from "Tom Slick" (an actress who put on a performance with the familar cheering and booing of "Tom Slick", strangely enough) got kidnapped and was tied up with her arms at her sides and feet together. Superfriends (aka Challenge of the Superfriends Legendary Superpowers) * Grimbor > "The Bride of Darkseid" Kalibak wraps Wonder Woman from boots to shoulders in an unbreakable green ribbon. She is freed by Firestorm's transmutaion powers. "The Island of the Dinosaurs" Wonder Woman is netted then tied with her own lasso by a mad scientist who intends to (and does) turn her into a dinosauroid. After the transformation she is released and like Batman becomes one of the bad guys until the other Superfriends change her back. "The Darkseid Deception" Wonder Woman winds up manacled to a wall by her wrists after Darkseid gets close enough to zap her and carry her through a stargate by shapechanging into Steve Trevor. WW stands shackled next to the real Steve Trevor and manages to break free but Darkseid turns her into a glass statue to preserve her beauty eternally. She's changed back to nromal when the rest of the guardians take over Desaad's lab. Superman (1940s) * Grimbor > During the 1940s Fleischer Brothers cartoons Lois Lane gets tied up on several occasions. In "Electric Earthquake" she's strapped to a chair by metal bands. In "The Mad Scientist" she's tied to a chair and gagged by the mad scientist. In "The Lost World" she's tied to a post along with a male explorer and lowered towards a pit of molten gold. In "Mechanical Monster" the robot's builder ties and gags her then sits her on a platform that's slowly lowering towards a vat of acid. In "Japoteurs" the spies tie her up then put her in the bomb dropping mechanism of the world's largest airplane to discourage Superman from interfering. They try to drop her anyway after Superman backs off but he catches her. During "Jungle Drums" she was tied to a stake and in danger of being roasted by natives under the influence of a cult run by the nazis. Again Superman arrived in the nick of time. That's all I can remember. During "Destruction Inc" Lois who is undercover at a munitions plant is grabbed, bound, gagged and stuffed into a torpedo by nazi saboteurs. The torpedo is packed with high explosives then sent to the testing range and fired at a hulk. Fortunately Clark Kent was also undercover at the plant and rescues her in the nick of time. During "The Eleventh Hour" Lois is sent before a Japanese firing squad with her hands tied behind her as a penalty for Superman's 11 o clock daily raids on the Yokohama shipyards and surrounding military infrastructure. Superman is nearby to rescue her since both Lois and Clark were captured when the Japanese forced their plane down. Superman gets Lois to allied territory but Clark stays behind so Superman can continue smashing Japan's military might without sacrificing his secret identity. Superman (late 1960s) * Lard 69909 One time Lois was tied up, feet together, hands behind back, rope wrapped around torso, and gagged, and on a platform slowly being lowered to a "pool" of lava. > Lois, of course, found herself B&G three times on this show. Once, dangling from the top of a Scotish castle with Jimmy Olsen. Then, in the back of a police car by the mystrious Mr. Mist, before being dropped down a well. (A little note: At the top of the well Lois has an over the mouth cloth gag on. When she is dropped down the well the gag disappers. I believe this is to show us that when dropping people down wells over the mouth cloth gags can get blown off, and are therefore, useless. Or the artist just screwed up.} Finally, in an episode that takes place in the jungle, Lois is kidnapped (Wow, like that's new. Do you think her insurance premiums are high, or what?) and taken to a temple where she is B&G to a piller behind a statue that is slowly moving back to crush her. In all the scenes above she is wearing an over the mouth cloth gag. Super Mario Bros. All-Stars In one episode, Mario, Luigi, Toad, and the Princess had their feet buried in cement, and ropes tied around their arms, and they were dumped underwater. Nasty. A bit of struggling, then Mario used a Starman (!) to free everyone else.