History Literature / TheStinkyCheeseMan

* MilestoneCelebration: In 2002, a "Special Ten Year Anniversary Edition" of the book was printed, featuring a dust jacket containing the lost story, "The Boy Who Cried Cow Patty". [[spoiler:The Little Red Hen is also on the dust jacket, complaining about the celebration efforts and how the Stinky Cheese Man overshadowed her due to her story being neglected.]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: At the end of the book, the Little Red Hen's loudly squawking about how she's going to eat all the bread that no one helped her bake. [[spoiler: The noise wakes up the sleeping Giant, who promptly decides he could go for a chicken sandwich.]]

--> THE END\\

* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler: On the flaps of the 10th anniversary edition dust jacket, the Little Red Hen shows up yet again to whine about her lost story, despite the fact that she gets eaten by the Giant at the end of the book.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy:

The narrator, Jack (of "and the Beanstalk" fame) relates to the reader extremely silly takes on a number of classic fairy tales, including "The Princess and the Bowling Ball," "The Tortoise and the Hair" and more. But [[TheShowMustGoWrong Jack's production is plagued with problems from the very beginning]]... literally. Before the book even begins, the bossy Little Red Hen shows up on the front paper and demands Jack tell her story (she's also on the back of the book, complaining about the UPC and wondering "Who is this ISBN guy?"). The table of contents goes missing, only to end up as the punch-line to one of the stories. And when Jack finally gets around to telling ''his'' story, the Giant shows up and threatens him.

* KillEmAll: The end of "Chicken Licken" has all the characters in the story squashed by the falling Table of Contents.

* StylisticSuck: The Giant's Story, which is literally made of pieces cut out ransom-note-style from other fairy tales and makes pretty much no sense.

* TemptingFate: At the end, when the Little Red Hen is going off on another tirade about how no one helped her bake the bread or tell her story, she then asks: "Who thinks they're going to help me eat the bread?" [[spoiler:The Giant does when her shouting wakes him up. With her in between the slices.]]

* NoodleIncident: The "Boy Who Cried Cow Patty" story, shown falling off of the Table of Contents, isn't actually in the book. We can assume, based upon its title, that it's supposed to be a parody of The Boy Who Cried Wolf.

--> THE END... of the evil stepmother... said "I'll huff and snuff and... give you three wishes." ...the Beast changed into... seven dwarves... happily ever after... because a spell had been cast by a wicked witch... once upon a time.

* NauseaFuel: In-universe, the smell of the Stinky Cheese Man. At one point, he smells so bad he ''melts the very page he's on.''
* NoEnding: "The Tortoise and the Hair." See OverlyLongGag. It even wraps up with "Not The End."

* CuttingTheKnot: In "The Princess and the Bowling Ball", every princess who stays at the king's and queen's castle fails the pea test since they can't feel the pea under the hundred mattresses. When the prince meets the girl of his dreams, he solves the problem by replacing the pea with a bowling ball. His parents are satisfied and they get married.

--->Tortoise ran. Rabbit grew his hair. Tortoise ran. Rabbit grew his hair. Tortoise ran. Rabbit grew his hair. [...] Tortoise is ''still'' running. Rabbit is ''still'' growing his hair.

** The Wolf from ''The True Story Of The Three Little Pigs'' plays the part of TheBigBadWolf in "Little Red Running Shorts." Or at least, he would have if he hadn't left in a huff with his co-star after Jack spoiled their entire story.
** In "Giant Story" the illustration of Aesop from ''Squids Will be Squids'' (by the same authors) can be seen.

* CuttingTheKnot: In "The Princess and the Bowling Ball", every princess tested by the prince's parents fails the pea test since they can't feel the pea under the hundred mattresses. When the prince meets the girl of his dreams, he solves the problem by replacing the pea with a bowling ball.

* CuttingTheKnot: In "The Princess and the Bowling Ball", every princess tested by the prince's parents fails the pea test since they can't feel the pea under the hundred mattresses. When the prince meets the girl of his dreams, he solves the problem by putting his bowling ball under all the mattresses.

* DenserAndWackier: Every Fairly Stupid Tale is this to the original fairy tale it's based off of.

* KillEmAll: The end of "Chicken Licken."

* NestedStory: "Jack's Story" has the giant telling Jack to tell him a better story or else, noting [[MortonsFork he'll probably grind Jack's bones to makes his bread either way]]. Jack's only way out is to tell a long nested story until the giant falls asleep.

* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler: On the flaps of the 10th anniversary dust jacket, the Little Red Hen shows up yet again to whine about her lost story, despite the fact that she gets eaten by the Giant at the end of the book.]]

* BlahBlahBlah: The Little Red Hen's rant on the back page eventually trails off into a long string of blahs. Interestingly enough, this was a case of ThrowItIn; originally, more lines of dialogue for the Hen were going to be written for the back cover, with "blah blah blah" as placeholder text, but it was decided that this was probably funnier than any actual dialog.

''The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales'' is a book of [[FracturedFairyTale spoof fairy tales]] written by Creator/JonScieszka and illustrated by Creator/LaneSmith, and first published in 1992.

''The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales'' is a book of [[FracturedFairyTale spoof fairy tales]] written by Creator/JonScieszka and illustrated by Lane Smith, and first published in 1992.

''The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales'' is a book of [[FracturedFairyTale spoof fairy tales]] written by Jon Scieszka and illustrated by Lane Smith, and first published in 1992.

* NoodleIncident: The "Boy Who Cried Cow Patty" story, shown falling off of the Table of Contents, isn't actually in the book. We can assume, based upon it’s title, that it's supposed to be a parody of The Boy Who Cried Wolf.

* NoodleIncident: The "Boy Who Cried Cow Patty" story, shown falling off of the Table of Contents, isn't actually in the book.

''The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales'' is a book of [[FracturedFairyTale spoof fairy tales]] written by Jon Scieszka and illustrated by Lane Smith.