History Main / FairyTaleEpisode

* An early episode of ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' is titled "Haruhi in Wonderland". Among all things, it features Honey as the White Rabbit, the twins as the twin Cheshire Cat, Tamaki as the Mad Hatter, and others. There are also four [[spoiler:actually five]] Alices: The twins as Alice A and B, Tamaki as Alice C, and finally Haruhi as the 'true' Alice. [[spoiler: And at the end we get Mori as Alice D]].

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' had "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E11Scroogerello Scroogerello]]", a SickEpisode which parodied ''Cinderella'' - specifically, Scrooge is suffering from a fever, and falls asleep listening to Webby reading, which leads to a FracturedFairyTale Cinderella dream sequence.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' had "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E11Scroogerello Scroogerello]]", a SickEpisode which parodied ''Cinderella'' - specifically, Scrooge is suffering from a fever, and falls asleep listening to Webby reading, which leads to a FracturedFairyTale Cinderella dream sequence. An episode of ''WesternAnimation/MagicAdventuresOfMumfie'' also followed the same plot, except that Scarecrow did not have a fever and was reading the story to Mumfie, and drank hot chocolate to summon the dream.

* ClassicDisneyShorts: along with straight adaptations in the SillySymphonies, the main character series occasionally took detours into storybook land.

* ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' the TV show had a couple of episodes playing with fairy tale tropes. In one, a troll kidnaps Sabrina in order to force her to be his bride, he locks her in a tower and its up to Harvey to save her. In true Rapunzel fashion Sabrina casts a spell to make her hair absurdly long and Harvey climbs her tresses in order to get into the tower. In another episode Sabrina drops some magical beans which cause a giant beanstalk to grow in her back yard. Harvey ends up at the top of it but rather than a giant being there, there is an evil witch in a gingerbread house like in Hansel and Gretel. And she is prepared to fatten up and then eat Harvey.

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* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' had "Dunce Upon A Time" which is a retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk, with Lumpy as the giant.

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** "BraveLittleTailor", starring Mickey again.

* ''TheSimpsons'' had a HalloweenEpisode that reimagined the family in a fairy-tale world. It was primarily based on "Hansel and Gretel," but had references to others (for example, Homer passes Rapunzel's tower, etc.)

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* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'' has ''Cinderella for a Day''. A mysterious shoe salesman lends Miss Brooks a custom-made gold slipper until midnight. Miss Brooks is treated to several Cinderella-style presents, from the same mysterious donor, that allow her to attend the masquerade ball at the country club in style. [[spoiler: It turns out the shoe salesman was a millionaire gambler who had placed a bet with a expert shoemaker that he could find a feet that would perfectly fit the custom made slippers. The gifts were partly his reward to Miss Brooks, and partly for laughs.]]
* ''TheSuiteLifeOnDeck'' had an episode that put the main characters into different fairy tales. They ha fallen asleep in class and the fairy tales themselves were all just dream they were having.

* In TheMightyThor back-up-feature "Tales of Asgard", a version is told of Little Red Riding Red. While the Goddess Idunna is taking her golden apples to the Ruler of the Gods Odin and wearing red, the Wolf Fenris shapeshifts into a human to get close to her, then attacks her. However Harokin the Hunter uses his magic sword to banish Fenris to the Netherworld. The story lampshades this by saying it was eventually adapted into Little Red Riding Red.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'' was based on Beauty and the Beast. Some years before Jasmine was born, the Sultan stole a flower from the WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds plant-wizard Arbutus. He vowed to return and steal "your greatest treasure," which turned out to be Jasmine. She doesn't fall in love with him, obviously; but in keeping with her role as Beauty she ''does'' try to get Aladdin and Arbutus to reason with each other and when that doesn't work, she's the one to CryForTheDevil.

** "Beanstalk Bunny". ''Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk'' with WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck as Jack, Elmer Fudd as the giant, and BugsBunny as... well, he's just along for the ride.

** "Beanstalk Bunny". ''Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk'' with DaffyDuck as Jack, Elmer Fudd as the giant, and BugsBunny as... well, he's just along for the ride.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' had "Scroogerello", a SickEpisode which parodied ''Cinderella'' - specifically, Scrooge is suffering from a fever, and falls asleep listening to Webby reading, which leads to a FracturedFairyTale Cinderella dream sequence. An episode of ''WesternAnimation/MagicAdventuresOfMumfie'' also followed the same plot, except that Scarecrow did not have a fever and was reading the story to Mumfie, and drank hot chocolate to summon the dream.

* An episode of ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' had the sisters finding out that at on point in time all fairy tales were actually true an thy have to battle against an evil witch who find out by asking her magic mirror that she isn't the most powerful witch in the world because the charmed ones were. To fix this she puts the sisters into different fairy tale roles. Phoebe becomes Cinderella, Paige is Snow white, and Piper is little red riding hood.

* The whole of the first season of ''Series/OnceUponATime'' is an inversion as it's several fairy tale beings unknowingly trapped in the "real" world thanks to the Evil witch's spell.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' had "Scroogerello", a SickEpisode which parodied ''Cinderella'' - specifically, Scrooge is suffering from a fever, and falls asleep listening to Webby reading, which leads to a FracturedFairyTale Cinderella dream sequence.

** "LittleRedRidingRabbit". Bugs intrudes on ''Literature/LittleRedRidingHood'' and gives TheBigBadWolf the business.

** "AliBabaBunny". A WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque lands Bugs and Daffy in the cave from ''Literature/AliBabaAndTheFortyThieves''.

** A ''HouseOfMouse'' short had Mickey and Minnie as HanselAndGretel.
* ''{{Ducktales}}'' had a SickEpisode which parodied Cinderella - specifically, Scrooge is suffering from a fever, and falls asleep listening to Webby reading, which leads to a FracturedFairyTale Cinderella dream sequence.

* ''Anime/OtomeWaBokuNiKoishiteru'' had the OVA titled ''[[Literature/{{Cinderella}} Tsunderella]]'', which recast Takako as Cinderella while the main protagonist, Mizuho, gets recast as the Prince. Similarly, many other characters from the series get set in roles befitting Cinderella.

** "Beanstalk Bunny". ''JackAndTheBeanstalk'' with DaffyDuck as Jack, Elmer Fudd as the giant, and BugsBunny as... well, he's just along for the ride.
** "LittleRedRidingRabbit". Bugs intrudes on ''LittleRedRidingHood'' and gives TheBigBadWolf the business.

** "Goldimouse and the Three Cats". Sylvester takes the place of the Papa Bear in ''GoldilocksAndTheThreeBears''.
** "AliBabaBunny". A WrongTurnAtAlbuquerque lands Bugs and Daffy in the cave from ''AliBabaAndTheFortyThieves''.

** A ''HouseOfMouse'' short had Mickey and Minnie as HanselAndGretel.

* ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' had an episode in which Alex's SitcomArchNemesis Gigi enters her magical diary only to find a magical fairy tale-esque world. In contrast to moat examples this doesn't directly reference any particular tale and rather just plays with a few motifs. Alex was the princess and her boyfriend was her knight in shining armor.