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| Alfred J. Kwak "De Eieren" | |
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Animation Staff | |
| Episode direction | Masayuki Kojima |
| Animation direction | Kazuo Tomizawa |
| Episode storyboards | Hiroshi Saitō |
| Screenplay | Akira Miyazaki |
| Music | Herman van Veen Erik van der Wurff Nard Reijnders |
| Sound director | Shigeharu Shiba |
| Running time | 25 min |
| Original airdate | 3/4/1989 (Japan) |
| Original production episode number | 1 |
"De Eieren" (lit: The Eggs) or "アルフレッド誕生" (Arufureddo tanjō; lit: Alfred's birth) Is the first episode of Alfred J. Kwak's first season. The episode first aired in Japan on TV Tokyo on 3 April 1989 in the Monday 17:00 - 17:30 slot.
The sun rises over Breed Rietland, and bees begin to pollinate the flowers, signaling the arrival of spring. A jet plane passes overhead as Henk de Mol emerges from his molehill. Checking the time, he remarks that Johan Kwak is late for their meeting again. Meanwhile, Johan rushes to meet Henk, nearly getting run over while crossing the road. He arrives at the wrong tree and calls out for Henk, who redirects him to the willow where they had agreed to meet. Henk scolds Johan for his tardiness, but quickly adds that he is glad Johan kept his promise to meet.
Johan praises the arrival of spring and predicts something extraordinary will happen this year. Henk asks if Johan has any special plans, specifically suggesting marriage. Johan dismisses the idea, saying he is too young. At that moment, he hears the song of Anna van de Polder, who is picking flowers. Henk introduces Johan to Anna, and Johan, overwhelmed with nerves, struggles to speak coherently. Before he embarrasses himself further, he bids a quick farewell and runs off, sitting down in a pasture to dream about Anna. Unbeknownst to him, two heron surveyors, Stip and Stap, begin measuring the pasture around him.
The next morning, Johan wakes up and takes a dip in the river. Hearing Anna's voice in the distance, he heads toward her but quickly returns to the river to clean himself and brush his teeth. As he approaches Anna, another duck engages her in a one-sided conversation about tennis. Soon after, a second duck on a motorcycle arrives and attempts to impress Anna by doing loops around them. The first duck takes the key from the motorcycle which leads to a brawl between them. Anna walks away from the scene, and Johan approaches her, offering her a flower. In return, Anna kisses him. Elated, Johan jumps around joyfully and kisses both of the other ducks in his excitement.
As it begins to rain, Stip and Stap run for shelter under the willow tree where Johan and Anna are sitting. After the rain stops, Anna and Johan swim and dance under the moonlight. Shortly after, Henk attends Anna and Johan’s wedding.
Henk later visits them with flowers on a maternity visit to see Johan and Anna’s clog filled with seven eggs. Meanwhile, Rap de Kiekedief spies on them through binoculars.
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Jan van de Polder (Anna's father, Anna is his youngest daughter). Alfred de Mol (Henk's grandfrather)
Read the full script down below.
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In the original outline written by Herman van Veen, the episode ends right after Alfred's family was run over by a car.[12] This was later changed to happen in Episode 2. There are many minor changes between the original script and the final episode, but the biggest changes include:

For this episode 21 characters (including all Alfred's brothers and sisters were designed by Harald Siepermann and Hans Bacher, based on the script outline by Herman van Veen. Several other characters appear, for example Dolf's mother, but her Character model sheet is labelled as Episode 5 and 6, even though she does not appear in those. Other characters not included in designs specifically linked to this episode are Willem Bij and his family who appear in the second cut of the episode. They were originally designed for Episodes 7 and 22. Another character remains unnamed, but the character design sheet calls this character De Duizendpoot (the centipede) which shows up walking by when Alfred is sitting in the clog with his brothers and sisters.
Also a character design for a young Hannibal Nijlpaard appears in the original line up, who at some stage of the production might've been part of the story. Character model sheets for Big, Hannes and Wannes are also linked to this episode (as they are linked to episodes 1-6), but do not appear in the episode, nor in the line up.
Characters designed for this episode were drawn primarily in March through August of 1988, with Alfred's design as a small child designed last.[13]
The following table is a list of the musical cues used in this episode, accompanied by our in-house wiki ids. The Opening and Ending songs Yakusoku Dayo and Happy Happy are performed by Megumi Hayashibara. A7 / Nog Nooit is sung by Herman van Veen.
| Alfred J. Kwak: Episode 1 OST | ||||||
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| Catalogue | NTSC Time Range | Title | Wiki ID | Availability | Notes | |
| OP | 0:00 - ?:?? | Yakusoku Dayo (TV Size) |
M-1B | Unreleased | ||
| TC | Untitled Cue (UC-1) | M-3A | Unreleased | |||
| A1 | Voorjaar In Groot Waterland | M-7A | Partial | |||
| A2 | Spetter Pieter Pater | M-2A | Unreleased | |||
| A3 | Untitled Cue (UC-3) | M-9A | ? | |||
| A4 | In De Val | M-8A | ? | |||
| A5 | Untitled Cue (UC-4) | M-10A | ? | |||
| A6 | In De Val | M-8B | ? | |||
| A7 | Nog Nooit | M-11A | With SFX | |||
| A8 | K. Rokodil | M-12A | ||||
| A9 | Untitled Cue (UC-5) | M-13A | ||||
| B1 | Untitled Cue (UC-6) | M-14A | ||||
| B2 | Untitled Cue (UC-7) | M-15A | ||||
| B3 | Zo Vrolijk (Rode Wangen) |
M-16A | Released | |||
| B4 | In De Val | M-8C | ? | |||
| B5 | Untitled Cue (UC-4) | M-10A | ? | |||
| B6 | K. Rokodil | M-12A | ||||
| B7 | K. Rokodil | M-12A | ||||
| B8 | Untitled Cue (UC-8) | M-16A | ||||
| B9 | Untitled Cue (UC-9) | M-17A | ||||
| B10 | Help Help | M-18A | Released | |||
| B11 | Schuilen | M-19A | Released | |||
| EP | Untitled Cue (UC-2) | M-4A | Unreleased | |||
| ED | Happy Happy (TV Size) |
M-5B | Released | |||
| Alfred J. Kwak: Episode 1 Major OST Differences | ||||||
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| Catalogue | Version | Title | Wiki ID | Availability | Notes | |
| A.7 | French | Nog Nooit | M-11A | Partial | Instrumental | |
| A.7 | Hungarian | Nog Nooit | M-11A | Partial | Instrumental | |
Several adaptations have been made of the story contained in this episode.
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