Song of Celice

The kingdom of Tahryn is living with the permanent threat of being destroyed by a monster called Yog, which can only be kept asleep by the singing of the beautiful Celice. When Skeletor learns of this threat, he captures Celice in an attempt to use the demon to his advantage. Teela tells viewers music can help them feel better, and suggests singing, humming or whistling when sad.

**Teela:** "In today's story, the beautiful voice of Celice kept the evil Yog from making all sorts of bad things happen. Now, I can't promise that a song will make any magic for you, but I can promise that when you're feeling lonely or sad, and we all do sometimes, if you try singing a song, or maybe whistling, or maybe just smiling, you'll feel a lot better. Honest! Try it and see. And I'll be seeing you, very soon. Bye now!"

John Erwin as He-Man/Prince Adam and Prime Minister Pangas

Alan Oppenheimer as Skeletor, Man-At-Arms and Cringer

Linda Gary as Teela, Evil-Lyn, Celice and the Sorceress

Lou Scheimer (credited as Erik Gunden) as Orko, Lizard Man, Trap Jaw and Orcs

Erika Scheimer as Celice's singing voice (uncredited)

1. Behind the scenes: Script was approved January 25, 1983 and final script revision took place July 28, 1983. In the original script, Man-At-Arms was part of the group visiting Tahryn from the beginning, thus explaining He-Man's line when he tells Teela and Man-At Arms to go to Snake Mountain. The script identifies the beautiful landscape that Man-At-Arms and Teela fly over as the Plain of Perpetua, a location mentioned in the Masters of the Universe series bible and in subsequent other media, but never mentioned on screen during the Filmation series.
2. Continuity: The character model for Celice was reused for Mira in Ordeal in the Darklands and once more as Princess Nami in City Beneath the Sea. Prime Minister Pangas' character model was used again as Professor Orion in The Shadow of Skeletor. The animation of Beast Man summoning the Giant Crawler would be reanimated for Mer-Man summoning a Spidasaur in Double Edged Sword. The animated sequence in which Man-At-Arms uses a tree branch to keep the Giant Crawler at bay was first used in Creatures from the Tar Swamp, when he kept a Shrieker at bay.
3. More continuity: The image of the Sorceress lying on the floor in her weakened state is reused from Daimar the Demon. A recolored version of Yog appears in The Cold Zone and yet another version is seen at Horror Hall in the She-Ra: Princess of Power episode Shades of Orko. Background elements were reused for the inside entrance to Shokoti's lair in House of Shokoti Part 2. The bottomless abyss that Yog is thrown into is a recolored version of the Bottomless Hole of Trolla background from Dawn of Dragoon. The statue of Skeletor can be spotted once again in the background at Snake Mountain in The Magic Falls. Several interior backgrounds seen in Tahryn are reused as those of the Castle of Moragore in Beauty and the Beast. Exteriors of the city of Tahryn will be reused as the castle where Prince Kevin's father rules as seen in the She-Ra: Princess of Power'episode '[A Lesson in Love]].
4. Animation errors and goofs: During the close-up of Adam piloting the Wind Raider at the start, his legging is flesh colored instead of purple, giving the appearance of a bare leg. Orko's size keeps changing during the early scenes in Tahryn. He is very tiny when Adam reaches up Orko's shirt to grab the amulet, and oversized in the next show when Orko presents the amulet to Prime Minister Pangas. As Lizard Man turns his head to run away from Trap Jaw, his hood becomes the same color green as his skin. The same thing happens a little while later when he says "Not this time, lady." After kidnapping Celise, Trap Jaw is surprised to find He-Man and Battle Cat barring his way and suddenly has a visible tongue. In the wide shot that follows it, his mechanical jaw is green instead of magenta. When we first see Beast Man in the Snake Mountain throne room, Skeletor is sitting on his Bone Throne on the left, but the same throne is also visible in the background between Skeletor and Beast Man. When Man-At-Arms screams while being grabbed by a Giant Crawler, his voice is performed by Lou Scheimer instead of Alan Oppenheimer. When Celice tests her powers on Skeletor's model of Grayskull, his bone-throne is visible in the background, but without the table in front of it. Both the throne and the background are incompletely drawn and only it's top half appears to be floating in mid-air.

A Paul Dini script using a magical-young-girl premise. Celice never returns as a recurring character but the episode shows the show’s willingness to introduce one-shot magical figures with substantive backstories.

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