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* In ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' episode "The Lady in the Lake," [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Adam]] is telling a story to a witness's kids while they're in the station waiting for their mother. He starts off telling them a story about a Cinderella-esque victim who was found [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin in the lake]] during a ball. The suspects actually line up fairly closely to a PrinceCharming (the victim's wealthy fiance), an EvilSorcerer (her drug-dealer ex who [[spoiler: wasn't so evil after all]]) and a WickedWitch (the fiance's snobbish mother, who [[spoiler: committed the murder]].) Of course, the story is derailed because it's Adam telling it, and he'd also found a piece of a spaceship, and there's a murder involved.

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* In ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' episode "The Lady in the Lake," [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Adam]] is telling a story to a witness's kids while they're in the station waiting for their mother. He starts off telling them a story about a Cinderella-esque victim who was found [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin in the lake]] during a ball. The suspects actually line up fairly closely to a PrinceCharming (the victim's wealthy fiance), an EvilSorcerer (her drug-dealer ex who [[spoiler: wasn't so evil after all]]) and a WickedWitch (the fiance's snobbish mother, who [[spoiler: committed the murder]].) Of course, the story is derailed because it's Adam telling it, and he'd also found a piece of a spaceship.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' HalloweenSpecial ''Scared Shrekless'', Puss is trying to tell a scary story, but the jealous Donkey keeps horning in and changing the story in his favor, which Puss then changes again. They go back and forth until Donkey gets eaten by a giant waffle.

* ''WesternAnimation/SuperWhy'' is pretty much (in)famous for doing this.

** The second has Dia made to tell the story of Goldilock and the Three Bears with Mari as Goldilock and Chika, You, and Kanan as the three bears. Dia portrays Goldilock as a criminal that broke into the bears' home and ate their mikans (Chika), wore and even broke one of their uniforms (You), and even sleep in their end, ending with Goldilock locked away for her crimes.

* The entire premise behind Disney's ''Film/BedtimeStories2008'' with Adam Sandler. The added twist is that the bits the kids make up (such as raining gumballs or the main character getting kicked by an angry dwarf) happen in some way to the protagonist.

** Homer reads Lisa a chapter from ''Angelica Button'' (a ''Literature/HarryPotter'' parody) every night. When he gets to the part where the Dumbledore Expy pulls a HeroicSacrifice to save Angelica from the Snape Expy, however, he instead creates a happier but rather nonsensical ending where not-Dumbledore beats not-Snape up with his [[ManlyFacialHair mustache]] and Angelica saves herself "[[HandWave somehow]]." After he leaves Lisa reads the real ending, shrugs and decides that she likes Homer's better.
** In "Tales of the Public Domain", when the Joan of Arc story ends with her being burnt at the stake, Marge grabs the book, invents an ending where she has a RescueRomance with [[Myth/ArthurianLegend Lancelot]] and then eats the page.

** Homer reads Lisa a chapter from ''Angelica Button'' (a ''Literature/HarryPotter'' parody) every night. When he gets to the part where the Dumbledore Expy pulls a HeroicSacrifice to save Angelica from the Snape Expy, however, he instead creates a happier but rather nonsensical ending where not-Dumbledore beats not-Snape up with his [[ManlyFacialHair mustache]] and Angelica saves herself "[[NoodleIncident somehow]]." After he leaves Lisa reads the real ending, shrugs and decides that she likes Homer's better.

* In one of the ''U.S. Acres/Orson's Farm'' segments on ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'', the story of Chicken Little becomes an exercise in [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot random plot points]], until the only plot point to remain is the ozone layer gag.

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---> '''Calvin''': Wow, the story was ''different'' that time!\\
'''Hobbes''': Do you think the townsfolk will find Hamster Huey's head?

* Calvin from ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' tends to insist that all animals in the stories be turned into tigers, among other demands, until his father resorts to RocksFallEveryoneDies.
-->...And the tiger ate them both, and he lived happily ever after. The end.
** On another occasion, Calvin requests his dad to read his favorite bedtime story, "Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie!", and because his dad is so tired of reading it to him, he changes the events a lot.

* The entire premise behind Disney's ''Film/BedtimeStories'' with Adam Sandler. The added twist is that the bits the kids make up (such as raining gumballs or the main character getting kicked by an angry dwarf) happen in some way to the protagonist.