History Main / StorybookEpisode

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

--> '''Aku''', ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack''

--> ''"[[Literature/LittleRedRidingHood Once upon a time, there was a little girl with an adorable red cape]]... and [[EvilEyebrowsGREAT FLAMING EYEBROWS]]!"''
---> ''Aku'', ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack''

[[caption-width-right:256:[[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] ran straight into Camelot.]]

* ''TomGoesToTheMayor'': "Rat's Off to Ya!" (incidentally doubles as the ChristmasEpisode)

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* ''WesternAnimation/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]].

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

* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'', "Deedeelocks and the Ness Monster": Dexter tries to read his sick sister a story, but she quickly gets bored when he's just reading from a science textbook. Deedee takes it and reads it for herself, making up a crazy story combining all sorts of fairy tale elements (such as a three-headed bagpipe creature called the Ness Monster; three pigs made entirely of straw, sticks, and bricks; and a not-so-Big Bad Wolf who's [[TheNapoleon small in stature but big in ego]]).

* ''WesternAnimation/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)
* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'': "Yarn Benders". When Filburt falls ill, Rocko decides to tell "Hansel and Gretel" to him, but Heffer keeps injecting random elements into the story in a "Mad-Libs" fashion.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': "Nursery Crimes". When Billy is unable to fall asleep and won't leave Mandy alone because of it, Grim decides to tell them "Hansel and Gretel", except they have to be the kids in the story and the witch turns out to be Pinocchio who believes that if he eats Billy, he will become a real boy!

* ''TheBackyardigans'': "Knights are Brave and Strong", "A Giant Problem", "Tale of the Mighty Knights" and "Escape from Fairy Tale Village".

* The ''[[DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines Magnificent Muttley]]'' installment "What's New, Old Bean?" has Muttley as Jack from "Jack And The Beanstalk" and Dick Dastardly as the giant ("Fee, fi, fo, fooch...I smell the blood of a mangy pooch!")

* The game show ''Hollywood Squares'' did a week as ''Storybook Squares'' with the celebrities as storybook characters.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}: Bender's Game'', for Act 3 at least.

* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'': "Yarn Benders".

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

[[caption-width-right:256:[[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog ran straight into Camelot.]]

[[caption-width-right:256:What, you thought King Arthur was human?]]

* The NewMutants graphic novels "Rahne of Terra" and "Knight of Terra" feature a fantasy alternate universe in which Rahne is a princess and the other characters are knights and mages.

* 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).

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. If it is a parody or subverted version of a popular story, it's a FracturedFairyTale.

A branch off the SomethingCompletelyDifferent tree, in which in the characters are cast into a "storybook land" in which there are [[HeroicFantasy chivalrous knights]], [[DistressedDamsel beautiful maidens]] and, of course, dragons.

* ''ThePowerpuffGirls'': "Bedcrime Story" (issue #17) had the girls interpreting the story of Little Red Riding Hood in their own individual perspectives.

* The first fantasy segment in [[Film/BedtimeStories Bedtime Stories]] was along these lines.

* 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).

* ''TheCosbyShow'' had an episode where it was Rudy's fairy tale story, with all the actors as characters (in costumes that looked as if they were drawn with crayon).
* ''TheMonkees'': "Fairy Tale"

* ''{{Fringe}}'': Excellently done in "Brown Betty" where Walter tells young Ella a story. Instead of a generic fantasy tale, he casts her aunt Olivia as the heroine of a film Noir mystery full of SchizoTech, in which characters (and corpses) [[MusicalEpisode break out in song]].
* ''MarriedWithChildren'' did a "pirates" episode, complete with David Garrison making a return as the bad guy.
* ''ILoveLucy'' did it first.

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

* ''RockosModernLife'': "Yarn Benders"
* ''WesternAnimation/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.]]
* ''PhineasAndFerb'': "Excaliferb"

* The Elseworld Story ''{{Superman}}: Kal''

* The first fantasy segment in ''Bedtime Stories'' was along these lines.

* ''{{Fringe}}'': Excellently done in "Brown Betty" where Walter tells young Ella a story. Instead of a generic fantasy tale, he casts her aunt Olivia as the heroine of a film Noir mystery full of SchizoTech, in which characters (and corpses) break out in song.

* The Elseworld Story {{Superman}}: Kal

** 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"

* ''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.
* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': "My Princess"