History WesternAnimation / HappilyEverAfterFairyTalesForEveryChild

An animated series that originally aired on {{Creator/HBO}} and ran for three seasons over 1995-2000. The episodes take different traditional fairy tales and set them in a variety of cultures from all around the world, with an appropriate RaceLift applied to the characters. In Season Three, all the stories have female lead characters, which depending on the source material may or may not be the result of a GenderFlip. Each episode is narrated by Robert Guillaume, with a recurring cast of guest stars including Sinbad, Rosie Perez, and B.D. Wong. And yes, every story ends with the characters living HappilyEverAfter.

* AdaptationalNationality: The stories are cahnged to different countries, such as Thumbelina being Brazilian instead of Danish.

** The ''Three Little Pigs'' episode has no shortage of these kinds of girls given the pig standard of beauty is the fatter the better. The one exception is one of the three little pigs who is really skinny, which ended up ruining her modeling career.

* CatsAreMean: Zigzagged with Puss In Boots. He truly cares for his master and wants to help him, but the way he goes around this is ''very'' underhanded.

** The Dream Diva from King Midas might be an inversion. She doesn't mean for her spell to be evil, but the negative consequences sure feel that way.

** Puss In Boots is snarky and sneaky, but sincerely wants to help his master make it big.
** Turkey Lurkey is condescending and quite vain, but he truly does want to make the barn a safer and better place. Noticeably, when his campaign manager's true colors are revealed he is quick to confront him and thanks Goosey Loosey for questioning him. [[GracefulLoser He even happily applauds Loosey Goosey for beating him in the election.]]

* MyBelovedSmother: The Queen in "The Princess and the Pea".
** Madame Zenobia is a very dark example.

* BreakTheHaughty: Happens too many times to count.

* FurIsSkin: This is used in the ''Three Little Pigs'' episode. White pigs have pink fur, black pigs have brown fur, and Asian piga have light brown-ish fur.

* MeaningfulName: All the "little men" in the Snow White adaptation are given Native American names that reflect obvious traits. The exception appears to be Bright Silver.

* TheRuntAtTheEnd: One of the princess in "The Princess and the Pea".

* YourNormalIsOurTaboo: The Three Little Pigs--in pig-world, it's considered horrific to be thin or clean, which leads to the Camp Piggywood motto of, "You can never be too fat or too dirty." This is also used as justification for why Barbie-Que Pepper's career is suffering at the story's outset.

* AdaptationExpansion: Many of the fairy tales have new characters, expanded worlds, and endings that often give more closure than the original tales.

* BigBeautifulWoman: Considering this is the pig standard of beauty, the ''Three Little Pigs'' episode has no shortage of these kinds of girls.

* BigFun: Delly Porkchop, a [[BigBeautifulWoman big woman]] with an even bigger heart.

* AbusiveParents: Sometimes. The wicked stepmothers in ''Cinderella'' and ''Snow White,'' naturally. Madame Zenobia of ''Rapunzel'' is more of an abusive guardian. King Midas of the fairy tale of the same name is not classically abusive to his daughter Goldina, but is certainly neglectful of her in favor of gold. And Scofflaw, pauper Zoe's father in ''The Princess and the Pauper,'' is definitely an abusive dad. He even tries to force his daughter to steal even when she says she doesn't want to.

** ''The Happy Prince'' portrays the ending of the original story almost spot on, with Pidge ending up dying of starvation and hypothermia due to her choosing to stay with Happy in NEw York City over the winter to help him with aiding the people rather than migrate south with the other pigeons, and Happy's statue is burned down due to its now shabby appearance from Pidge removing all the gold and jewels from it to aid the indigent. However, Pidge and Happy's spirits both ascend into the skies where they can watch over the now prosperous city forever and admire all the good they did for it.

* BittersweetEnding: The Happy Prince and Pied Piper of Hamlin both have this.

* DeadpanSnarker: Sharp Flint from the Snow White adaptation is one.

* GenderFlip: "Literature/ThreeLittlePigs", "Literature/ThePrinceAndThePauper", "RobinHood", "TheNightingale", "Literature/TheSteadfastTinSoldier", and "Literature/TheBremenTownMusicians" get this treatment, and few of the characters from Literature/AesopsFables in the last episode.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Vanna's "Hippy, Dippy, a Little Bit Trippy" ballad from the Rip Van Winkle episode counts. In "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," we have the teddy bear warning the clown not to "do anything illegal, like the last time!"
** Sly Fox's Magic Mirror in Snow White makes a reference to Sly Fox's "little backside" and powwow dancers "shaking their feathers" in response to her beauty.
** In "The Princess and the Pea", while observing the visiting princesses, the Queen said that one of them is "a man". The King caught this.
** In Snow White, the mirror tells stepmother character Sly Fox that White Snow is fairest of all and that compared to her, Sly Fox looks like...well. Doubles as a LastSecondWordSwap.

* BigEater:
** The two iguanas in the Cinderella episode--they even have a song dedicated to it. Susana the witch from Hansel and Gretel also counts.

* BigEater:
** The two iguanas in the Cinderella episode--they even have a song dedicated to it. Susana the witch from Hansel and Gretel also counts.

* VegetarianCarnivore: The Wolf in "Three Little Pigs" ''claims'' to be one. It's a {{Blatant Lie}}s.

* BigEater: The two iguanas in the Cinderella episode--they even have a song dedicated to it. Susana the witch from Hansel and Gretel also counts.