* Of the 26 episodes of this series, 23 have {{Happy Ending}}s, "The Little Mermaid" and "Rip Van Winkle" have {{Bittersweet Ending}}s...and then there's "The Pied Piper of Hamelin", one of the saddest pieces of media aimed at a family audience in The80s. As a direct adaptation of the Creator/RobertBrowning poem to the point that it's a RhymingEpisode, that it will have a DownerEnding is a given -- and the sheer scale of the loss of the children of Hamelin and the resultant grief and guilt of the adults lands heavily -- but the AdaptationExpansion actually makes the denouement even sadder with regards to the lame boy, the only one who doesn't make it through the portal. It's bad enough he spends the rest of his life pining for the nonexistent paradise that lay within the mountain, but to make things ''much'' worse he never realizes that '''''he was being spared''''' the exile in a foreign land the other children were actually sent to -- the Piper made sure the portal closed before he could reach it. Why? The boy was, unlike the others in the town, polite to the Piper when he first arrived there. With this in mind, he promised the boy that he would be protected from "unnatural selection", and even cryptically warned him that "The rainbows that we chase are no more real/Than the idea your foot will heal"; as the Piper's MindControlMusic lures its targets away by inducing visions of whatever their idea of Paradise is, he was warning the boy to see through that illusion. In any case, and in a tragically stark contrast to the Mayor and Corporation, [[BlueAndOrangeMorality the Piper kept his word]].
* "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" has the dwarfs' discovery of Snow White's [[DisneyDeath "dead"]] body after she eats the poisoned apple. While at first their reactions are slightly PlayedForLaughs ("She's just fakin' it!"), by the end of the scene they're forced to accept that she's really dead, and they all break down sobbing. Then their next scene shows them all gathered sadly around her bier, agreeing that she's too beautiful to bury. While it might not be quite as heart-tugging as the corresponding scene in [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs the Disney version]], the poignancy is still there.
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