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"The Citadel" is the forty-fourth episode of Aladdin, originally aired on October 31, 1994. It is the thirty-seventh episode to air in syndication.

Plot[]

A young, powerful sorcerer named Mozenrath and his flying eel, Xerxes, make a large pterodactyl-like monster attack the marketplace. Aladdin shows up flying on Carpet to save the city. When the creature grabs Carpet and Aladdin is about to land on a bed of nails, Genie shows up and rescues the street rat.

Mozenrath sees Genie and suggests that he sees how Aladdin handles his magic without Genie's help. The creature goes after Aladdin again. Aladdin gets on the creature, takes one of the sheets from the clothesline and puts it in the creature's face, which makes it run into a wall. Mozenrath then comes up with another idea. Aladdin, who is hanging on a line, sees a woman and her crying baby standing at the top of an arch. The creature gets to where they are, and Aladdin grabs the woman and swings to a high balcony to put her down. The creature reaches him and vanishes in a puff of smoke.

Aladdin takes the blanket off the baby's head and finds Xerxes. The woman disappears and Mozenrath shows up and congratulates Aladdin for passing the test. The street rat realizes that Mozenrath turned the creature loose. Genie shows up and meets Mozenrath as well. He and Aladdin hop on Carpet to leave and as they do so, Aladdin tells Mozenrath that he'll risk his life saving others but not for gold. The sorcerer then comes up with an idea.

Early the next morning at Aladdin's hovel, Mozenrath arrives and makes Genie and his lamp disappear. Everybody wakes up and finds the sorcerer, who tells Aladdin that he can't take "no" for an answer. Everyone sees Genie's lamp missing and Mozenrath takes them to his home: The Land of the Black Sand, also called the Citadel. The sorcerer shows them his slaves called Mamluks. Aladdin asks Mozenrath where Genie is and they hear a beast's sound, making Mozenrath tell them that this is where the jinn is. He tells Aladdin that the beast is called a Thirdac, which is a magic-eating creature. Mozenrath tells the street rat that he has to put a collar on the Thirdac to control it. When the sorcerer leaves, the gang goes inside the citadel and Aladdin tells Iago and Carpet to get the collar while he and Abu find Genie.

Genie gets out of his lamp and runs into the Thirdac, who chases him around the building. He hides in a closet, which Aladdin opens and finds the jinn. The thirdac gets in and starts to suck the magic out of Genie. When Aladdin stops it, Genie vanishes, making Aladdin and Abu think the Thirdac ate him. However, when the Thirdac leaves, it turns out Genie has been hiding under Abu's fez. Aladdin tells Genie about the collar that's suppose to control the creature.

Iago shows the three and Carpet Mozenrath's lab. Carpet shows Aladdin the collar that's suppose to control the Thirdac. After the gang reads more information about the Thirdac, the creature shows up and sucks Carpet. Two of his tassels gets sucked in and he starts unravelling. Genie pulls Carpet out underneath the thirdac and everyone gets out of the lab, leaving the creature behind. Genie then repairs Carpet. Aladdin suggests that Iago and Abu distract the Thirdac while he snaps the collar around its neck.

They all get back in the lab and search for the creature. Genie turns his head and sees the Thirdac standing behind him and Carpet. The two fly up to the ceiling and the thirdac goes after them. Aladdin stands on a table and makes Abu cut the rope so that a lantern falls on it and makes Aladdin get to the rafters on the ceiling. He then tries to put the collar on the Thirdac. When he climbs on the thirdac, the rafters break and everyone falls. Aladdin managed to put the collar on the creature. Mozenrath shows up and tells Aladdin that the Thirdac is under his control. Aladdin decides that Mozenrath wins, with his friends shocked. However, when they get out of the citadel, it turns out that Aladdin giving up was just a ruse. He then gets an idea.

Back at Mozenrath's lab, the sorcerer is looking at a big, golden wheel thinking of who to conquer next, with the Thirdac tied up next to it. Aladdin and his friends are back in Mozenrath's lab and try to make the sorcerer put the thirdac back to its world. When Mozenrath refuses to do so, Iago takes the collar off the Thirdac and the creature attacks Mozenrath. He casts a spell on a tapestry with other thirdacs on it and it turns into a portal. The Thirdac sees it and gets inside it and Mozenrath turns it back into a tapestry. He then decides that Aladdin wins for now, which Aladdin replies "for good."

Trivia[]

  • First appearance of Mozenrath.
  • Jasmine is absent.

Goofs[]

  • When Mozenrath considers conquering Agrabah, his gauntlet becomes black, twice.

Home video releases[]

US[]

  • Aladdin's Arabian Adventures: Magic Makers (VHS)

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Characters
Original: AladdinGenieJasmineAbuMagic CarpetThe SultanRajahJafarIagoThe PeddlerRazoul The Royal GuardsGazeemPrince AchmedHarem GirlsFarouk

Sequels: Abis MalAbis Mal's ThugsCassimSa'LukForty ThievesThe Oracle
TV Series: SadiraMercQueen HippsodethScaraKing PectorThe MukhtarKing MamoodEdenSultan Pasta Al-DenteDhandiHamedPharabuPrince UncouthmaGeneral GoudaBrawnhildaBudRuntaThundraQueen KimblaSydneyBrisbaneKoala KidMachanaFasirRiders of RamondSamir the "Destroyer"SquirtCaptain Al BahtrossPrince WazooAjed Al-GebraicAmalAbnor MalMechaniclesScooterMaraudersZorastoMozenrathXerxesKhartoumSiroccoShamanMirageHaroud Hazi BinFashoomSaleenArmandAyam AghoulEvil AladdinCaliph KapokSootinaiDaru TavelevilMalchoDominus TuskAl Muddy SultanAl MuddyAzizMinos and FatimaNefir HasenufNefir's ImpsArbutusMagmaAmuk MoonrahChaosEvil GenieScourge of the DesertAmin DamoolaFrigeedAnubisSahkata, Razili, and FaridaSand MonsterSand SharkMothiasDing and OopoQueen DelucaKing ZahbarQueen Deluca's BrothersThe Great RiftMamluksKileemThe EtherealZin and ZangKutatoUnkbuutDestane
Enchanted Tales: AneesaHakeemSaharaSharma
Video game characters: NasiraBizarrahVery Ankh-Amman
Deleted Characters: ZenaGenie of the RingJasmine's MotherBabkak, Omar, and Kassim
Remake: Dalia

Episodes
Season One: Getting the Bugs OutMudder's DayFowl WeatherThe Prophet MotiveMuch Abu About SomethingMy Fair AladdinTo Cure a ThiefNever Say NefirRaiders of the Lost Shark

Season Two: "Air Feather Friends" • "Bad Mood Rising" • "Do the Rat Thing" • "The Vapor Chase" • "Garden of Evil" • "Some Enchanted Genie" • "Web of Fear" • "Plunder the Sea" • "Strike Up the Sand" • "Sneeze the Day" • "I Never Mechanism I Didn't Like" • "Forget Me Lots" • "Scare Necessities" • "SandSwitch" • "Lost and Founded" • "Moonlight Madness" • "The Flawed Couple" • "Rain of Terror" • "Dune Quixote" • "That Stinking Feeling" • "The Day the Bird Stood Still" • "Of Ice and Men" • "Opposites Detract" • "Caught by the Tale" • "Elemental, My Dear Jasmine" • "Beast or Famine" • "Smolder and Wiser" • "The Game" • "Poor Iago" • "The Spice is Right" • "The Animal Kingdom" • "Power to the Parrot" • "The Sands of Fate" • "Hero with a Thousand Feathers" • "The Citadel" • "Snowman is an Island" • "The Secret of Dagger Rock" • "In the Heat of the Fright" • "Witch Way Did She Go?" • "The Seven Faces of Genie" • "The Wind Jackals of Mozenrath" • "A Clockwork Hero" • "Mission: Imp Possible" • "Stinker Belle" • "Sea No Evil" • "Shadow of a Doubt" • "Smells Like Trouble" • "The Way We War" • "Night of the Living Mud" • "Egg-stra Protection" • "A Sultan Worth His Salt" • "Heads, You Lose" • "The Love Bug" • "When Chaos Comes Calling" • "Genie Hunt" • "Armored and Dangerous" • "The Lost Ones" • "Eye of the Beholder" • "Shark Treatment" • "Black Sand" • "Love at First Sprite" • "Vocal Hero" • "The Lost City of the Sun" • "As the Netherworld Turns" • "Seems Like Old Crimes" • "From Hippsodeth, with Love" • "Destiny on Fire" • "The Return of Malcho"
Season Three: "The Hunted" • "Riders Redux" • "The Book of Khartoum" • "While the City Snoozes" • "Two to Tangle" • "The Ethereal" • "The Shadow Knows" • "The Great Rift"

Locations
AgrabahCave of WondersThe Sultan's PalaceThe Vanishing IsleOdiferousThe Isle of GalifemMorbiaOld Wizard's Lab
Objects
Golden Scarab BeetleJafar's Snake StaffGenie's LampJafar's LampEden's BottleMozenrath's GauntletCrystal of IxBlue Rose of ForgetfulnessTree of RenewalEmerald of KhufuCassim's DaggerThe Oracle's ScytheHand of Midas
Songs
Original: Arabian NightsOne Jump AheadFriend Like MePrince AliA Whole New World

The Return of Jafar: I'm Looking Out for MeNothing in the World (Quite Like a Friend)Forget About LoveYou're Only Second Rate
King of Thieves: Party in AgrabahOut of Thin AirWelcome to the Forty ThievesFather and SonAre You In or Out?
Enchanted Tales: More Than a Peacock PrincessI've Got My Eyes on You
Deleted: Humiliate the BoyProud of Your BoyWhy Me?You Count on MeCall Me a PrincessBabkak, Omar, Aladdin, KassimHow Quick They ForgetHigh AdventureMy Finest HourTo Be FreeDesert Moon
Broadway: A Million Miles AwayThese Palace WallsSomebody's Got Your BackDiamond in the Rough
Remake: Speechless

See also
MusicalFriend Like IagoThe Disney AfternoonDisney RenaissanceAs Told by Emoji
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