History Main / FairyTaleEpisode

** Poppo is Literature/Cinderella and Michael is the prince. When she tries on the glass slipper, he finds out the one cat who stole his cake and run away.

** There's also a series titled ''[[https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C%E5%90%8D%E4%BD%9C%E7%AB%A5%E8%A9%B1 Seikai Meisaku Dōwa]] which consists of shorts parodying classic fairy tales. Here, Literature/TheUglyDuckling is an actual duckling mistakenly adopted by a mother swan, the Literature/SleepingBeauty becomes sleepless after sleeping for so long, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urashima_Tar%C5%8D Urashima Tarō]] returns to Earth and finds out it has been taken over by [[Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes the apes]], and Literature/HanselAndGretel trick the witch into opening a diner.

** Poppo is Literature/Cinderella and Michael is the prince. When she tries on the glass slipper, he finds out the one cat stole his cake and run away.

** The premise of volume 11 of ''Manga/DoraemonsLongTales'', [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doraemon:_Nobita%27s_Dorabian_Nights ''Nobita no Dorabian Naito'' ("Nobita's Dorabian Nights")]], is that the Doraemon gang has to rescue Shizuka, who's trapped in an ''Literature/ArabianNights'' comic book, after Gian and Suneo mix all the fairy tale comic books up, which results in [[Literature/SnowWhite the evil queen with the poison apple]] going to [[Literature/HanselAndGretel the wrong home]], while Literature/TheLittleMermaid trying to rescue [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio Geppetto]] and returning to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%ABg%C5%AB-j%C5%8D Ryūgū Palace]], etc. The only way to save her is to go back to ancient Baghdad and team up with Literature/SinbadTheSailor, now a retired old man.

* ''WesternAnimation/Rocko'sModernLife'': the episode "the Yarnbenders" has Rocko and Heffer healing Filbert (who is sick) with a mash up of stories about Hansel and Debbie.

* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', which is about alien RobotKid superheroes called the Supermen who fight many a MonsterOfTheWeek, has an entire StoryArc in Season 4 called "The Fairy Tale Adventure" that gives a focus on fairy tales. The arc, which covers episodes 27 to 32 of that season, is about the Supermen going into the fairy tale world to restore the stories that have been [[FracturedFairyTale fractured]] by Big M. and Little M., the series antagonists, as part of one of their evil schemes. The Supermen take on the role of certain fairy tale characters, such as Sweet S. becoming the Witch from ''Literature/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' and feeding Big M. a cooked apple instead of a poison apple (Sweet S. is a LethalChef, so the joke is that she just has to cook the apples to make them taste disgusting).

* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', which is about alien RobotKid superheroes called the Supermen who fight many a MonsterOfTheWeek, has an entire StoryArc in Season 4 called "The Fairy Tale Adventure" that gives a focus on fairy tales. The arc, which covers episodes 27 to 32 of that season, is about the Supermen going into the fairy tale world to restore the stories that have been [[FracturedFairyTale fractured]] by Big M. and Little M., the series antagonists, as part of one of their evil schemes.

* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'', which is about alien RobotKid superheroes called the Supermen who fight many a MonsterOfTheWeek, has an entire StoryArc in Season 4 called "The Fairy Tale Adventure" that gives a focus on fairy tales. The arc, which covers episodes 27 to 32 of that season, is about the Supermen going into the fairy tale world to restore the stories that have [[FracturedFairyTale fractured]] by Big M. and Little M., the series antagonists, as part of one of their evil schemes.

* ''Disney/FunAndFancyFree''. The segment "Mickey and the Beanstalk" retold the story of ''Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk'', with Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy taking the place of Jack.

** "Disney/BraveLittleTailor", starring Mickey again.

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

* An episode of ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' had the sisters finding out that at one point in time all fairy tales were actually true, and they have to battle against an evil witch who finds out by asking her magic mirror that she isn't the most powerful witch in the world because the Charmed Ones are. To fix this, she puts the sisters into different fairy tale roles in order to kill them -- Phoebe becomes Cinderella, Paige is Snow White, and Piper is Little Red Riding Hood.

Has [[IThoughtItMeant nothing to do]] with ''Manga/FairyTail'' episodes.

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

* The ''{{Series/Scrubs}}'' episode "My Princess" features a FramingDevice of Dr Cox telling his son a story about his day at the hospital, disguised as a fairy tale. JD is the village idiot, Elliot is a princess, Turk and Carla are a two-headed witch, Cox himself is the knight in shining armour, the illness takes the form of a monster attacking a helpless maiden and Jordan of course cameos as a WickedWitch.

* WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts: along with straight adaptations in the SillySymphonies, the main character series occasionally took detours into storybook land.
** "Thru The Mirror", with MickeyMouse taking the role of [[Literature/AliceInWonderland Alice]].

* ''WesternAnimation/PunkyBrewster'': "Punky, Snow White the Seven Dwarves" is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, thanks to Glomer bringing the characters out of the book, including the Wicked Queen. Snow White ''and'' Henry both succumb to a tainted apple pie from the Queen, who is later returned to the book. Brandon (Punky's dog) licks Snow White back awake, but it doesn't work on Henry. Punky's kiss eventually wakes Henry.

* WesternAnimation/YogiBear and Boo Boo come across the Three Little Pigs, who pawn off their homes to them, knowing full well the Big Bad Wolf will come and blow the houses down. Instead of holing up in the third pig's brick house, the pigs move into Yogi and Boo Boo's cave (saving on all the bureaucracy of building a new structure), leaving the two bears no recourse but to room with them. ittle Red Riding Hood and Sleeping Beauty also had the Yogi Bear treatment.

* The whole point of the ''Fractured Fairy Tales'' segment of ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle. A more notable installment using "Sleeping Beauty" had a caricature of Walt Disney using the title beauty as a theme park attraction.
* WesternAnimation/YogiBear and Boo Boo come across the Three Little Pigs, who pawn off their homes to them, knowing full well the Big Bad Wolf will come and blow the houses down. Instead of holing up in the third pig's brick house, the pigs move into Yogi and Boo Boo's cave (saving on all the bureaucracy of building a new structure), leaving the two bears no recourse but to room with them.