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* ''MacGyver'': "Good Knight [=MacGyver=]".

Note that these "Storybook" settings are incredibly generic. They are not adaptations of any previous material, just TheThemeParkVersion of fables and chivalry. If it is a straight adaptation of a specific fairy tale, then it falls under WholePlotReference.

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* ''SouthPark'': "Woodland Critter Christmas". Its twistedness is no surprise—not just because it's ''South Park'', but because [[spoiler:it's Cartman telling the story.]]
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Note that these "Storybook" settings are incredibly generic. They are not adaptations of any previous material, just TheThemeParkVersion of fables and chivalry. If it is a straight adaptation of a specific fairy tale, then it falls under FableRemake.

* ''ThePrisoner'' does this in [[spoiler:"The Girl Who Was Death"]] (though the frame doesn't get revealed until the end of the episode).

* ''Series/{{Charmed}}'': The Season Five episode Happily Ever After has an evil witch bring fairytales to life.

Such archetypes will be applied [[AndYouWereThere to each of the lead characters, their current situations and relationships]] in order to draw on [[{{Fairytale Motifs}} familiar archetypes]], but also to suggest a Happily Ever After Ending.

[[AC: Comic Books]]

[[AC: Film]]

* One [[ShowWithinAShow Short Story Within A Short Story]] in the ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' novels takes this form after Haruhi asks Mikuru to write a fairy tale complete with illustrations for the Literature Club's magazine. The illustrations are all SuperDeformed depictions of the SOS Brigade members ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Tsuruya-san]]) as storybook characters such as Literature/SnowWhite (Haruhi) and the seven dwarfs (''[[MesACrowd all]]'' [[MesACrowd Yuki]]), [[Literature/TheLittleMermaid a mermaid]] (Mikuru), and [[PrinceCharming a prince]] (Kyon).

[[AC: Live Action Television]]
* ''WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' has an episode which takes place largely in Alex's magical SecretDiary. Shedding her typical "tough-girl" image, the diary is filled with knights and, whenever she transports herself into it, she turns into a princess.
* ''{{Scrubs}}'': "My Princess"
* ''{{MacGyver}}'': "Good Knight [=MacGyver=]".

[[AC: Video Games]]

[[AC: Western Animation]]

* There's a fantasy Fairy Tale-ish land in the Ghost Zone of ''DannyPhantom'', complete with knights (what Danny is anyways), princesses, and dragons--not to mention a DamselInDistress plot (though subverted). The only problem is that it isn't happy, thanks to a [[FisherKing certain]] EvilPrince.
* ''DextersLaboratory'': Dexter tries to read his sick sister a story, but she quickly got bored when he's just reading a science textbook. Deedee takes it and reads it for herself, changing the story to ''Deedee Locks and the Ness Monster'', making all sorts of plot holes from various other fairy tales (such as the three pigs made entirely of straw, sticks, and bricks, and a Napoleon-esque wolf that is small in stature but big in ego)

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* One [[ShowWithinAShow Short Story Within A Short Story]] in the ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' novels takes this form after Haruhi asks Mikuru to write a fairy tale complete with illustrations for the Literature Club's magazine. The illustrations are all SuperDeformed depictions of the SOS Brigade members ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Tsuruya-san]]) as storybook characters such as Literature/SnowWhite (Haruhi) and the seven dwarfs (''[[MesACrowd all]]'' [[MesACrowd Yuki]]), [[TheLittleMermaid a mermaid]] (Mikuru), and [[PrinceCharming a prince]] (Kyon).

* There's a fantasy Fairy Tale-ish land in the Ghost Zone of ''DannyPhantom'', complete with knights (what Danny is anyways), princesses, and dragons--not to mention a DamselInDistress plot (though subverted). The only problem is that it isn't happy, thanks to a [[FisherKing certain]] EvilPrince. [[IGotBetter It gets better]].

* One [[ShowWithinAShow Short Story Within A Short Story]] in the ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'' novels takes this form after Haruhi asks Mikuru to write a fairy tale complete with illustrations for the Literature Club's magazine. The illustrations are all SuperDeformed depictions of the SOS Brigade members ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Tsuruya-san]]) as storybook characters such as [[SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarves Snow White]] (Haruhi) and the seven dwarves (''[[MesACrowd all]]'' [[MesACrowd Yuki]]), [[TheLittleMermaid a mermaid]] (Mikuru), and [[PrinceCharming a prince]] (Kyon).

* The SonicStorybookSeries is a video game take on this, transporting Sonic to the ArabianNights and [[KingArthur Camelot]].

* One [[ShowWithinAShow Short Story Within A Short Story]] in the ''HaruhiSuzumiya'' novels takes this form after Haruhi asks Mikuru to write a fairy tale complete with illustrations for the Literature Club's magazine. The illustrations are all SuperDeformed depictions of the SOS Brigade members ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Tsuruya-san]]) as storybook characters such as [[SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarves Snow White]] (Haruhi) and the seven dwarves (''[[MesACrowd all]]'' [[MesACrowd Yuki]]), [[TheLittleMermaid a mermaid]] (Mikuru), and [[PrinceCharming a prince]] (Kyon).

* MarriedWithChildren did a "pirates" episode, complete with David Garrison making a return as the bad guy.

* ''Series/{{X-Men}}'': "Jubilee's Fairytale Theater"

* ''{{Futurama}}: Bender's Game''.

* DextersLaboratory : Dexter tries to read his sick sister a story, but she quickly got bored when he's just reading a science textbook. Deedee takes it and reads it for herself, changing the story to ''Deedee Locks and the Ness Monster'', making all sorts of plot holes from various other fairy tales (such as the three pigs made entirely of straw, sticks, and bricks, and a Napoleon-esque wolf that is small in stature but big in ego)
* RockosModernLife: ''Yarn Benders''

* ''{{Farscape}}'': "John Quixote".

* The SonicStorybookSeries is a video game take on this, transporting Sonic to the ArabianNights and [[KingArthur Camelot]].

* ''Series/{{X-Men}}'': "Jubilee's Fairytale Theater"
** The story itself was based on Kitty in ''Uncanny X-Men'' #153.
** Again with the NewMutants graphic novels "Rahne of Terra" and "Knight of Terra"
* ''FairlyOddparents'': "Timmy the Barbarian".

* ''SamuraiJack'': Aku reads some fairy tales to children with Jack as the villain of each one.

* The first fantasy segment in ''Bedtime Stories'' was along these lines.
* ''{{Futurama}}: Bender's Game''.
* ''TheBackyardigans'': "Knights are Brave and Strong", "A Giant Problem", "Tale of the Mighty Knights" and "Escape from Fairy Tale Village".
* The Elseworld Story {{Superman}}: Kal

* ''TomGoesToTheMayor'': "Rat's Off to Ya!" (incidentally doubles as the ChristmasEpisode)
* There's a fantasy Fairy Tale-ish land in the Ghost Zone of ''DannyPhantom'', complete with knights (what Danny is anyways), princesses, and dragons--not to mention a DamselInDistress plot (though subverted). The only problem is that it isn't happy, thanks to a [[FisherKing certain]] EvilPrince. [[IGotBetter It gets better]].

* One [[ShowWithinAShow Short Story Within A Short Story]] in the ''HaruhiSuzumiya'' novels takes this form after Haruhi asks Mikuru to write a fairy tale complete with illustrations for the Literature Club's magazine. The illustrations are all SuperDeformed depictions of the SOS Brigade members ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Tsuruya-san]]) as storybook characters such as [[SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarves Snow White]] (Haruhi) and the seven dwarves (''[[MesACrowd all]]'' [[MesACrowd Yuki]]), [[TheLittleMermaid a mermaid]] (Mikuru), and [[PrinceCharming a prince]] (Kyon).