History Trivia / GrimmsFairyTaleClassics

* DubInducedPlothole: In the Spanish and Portuguese dubs, the narrator assures us that Snow White's WickedStepmother was banned from the kingdom...ignoring how viewers just saw her get eaten by wolves.

** If Wikipedia is to be believed, despite being some of the first episodes to surface online, "The Demon and the Devil" and "The Faithful Watchmen" were also probably skipped on Nickelodeon. Both stories reference Satan and demons. Interestingly, "Bearskin," which features a DealWithTheDevil, did air.
** Allegedly, the version of "The Coat of Many Colors" that aired on Nick was edited so that the princess was fleeing a war. The surviving dub of the episode keeps the subplot of the princess' father wanting to marry her.

** ''Bluebeard'' opens up with the title character impaling his sixth wife with a sword, and the climax of the whole story is the heroine (his seventh wife) finding the mutilated corpses of the previous wives. There were also magic roses that turned into blood. Although this episode apparently did not air on Nickelodeon, a [=YouTube=] blogger documenting the channel's history did an in-depth review of Saban's dub of this episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgEgm1lr0-w here]] and notes it reflects a typically Japanese approach to horror filmmaking.
** ''The Crystal Ball'' focuses on a decaying old witch who imprisons a beautiful princess in her castle, and every night performs a demonic ritual where she bites said princess, and drains all her blood. This restores her youth for about a day, and the princess is left a decaying corpse, but regenerates in about a second. What makes it worse is that this happens every night.

** ''Godfather Death'' has a lot of on screen deaths.
** If Wikipedia is to be believed, despite being some of the first episodes to surface online, "The Demon and the Devil" and "The Faithful Watchmen" were also probably skipped on Nickelodeon. Both stories reference Satan and demons. Interestingly, "Bearskin," which features a DealWithTheDevil did air.

** ''The Iron Stove'' and ''The Water Witch'' featured attractive, scantily-clad female villains, and went unaired in the U.S.

* MissingEpisode: The anime did have dubs for all of the episodes, but many were unaired in the U.S., or were pulled from syndication. Limited dubbed episodes were released on DVD in the UK as part of a newspaper promotion back in the mid 2000s. However, it's difficult to track these DVD's down now, and they're also region locked. Subverted years later with Discotek Media's SD-BD release, which includes every episode uncut in both English and the original Japanese language with English subtitles.

* NamesTheSame: Princess Genevieve, the protagonist from ''[[Literature/TheTwelveDancingPrincesses The Worn-Out Dancing Shoes]]'', shares her name with the protagonist of ''WesternAnimation/BarbieInTheTwelveDancingPrincesses'', which was also an adaptation of ''The Twelve Dancing Princesses''.

** ''Bluebeard'' opens up with the title character impaling his sixth wife with a sword, and the climax of the whole story is the heroine (his seventh wife) finding the mutilated corpses of the previous wives. There were also magic roses that turned into blood.

* BannedEpisode: For various reasons (typically violence, blood, or Nightmare Fuel), a number of the episodes in the Saban run did not air on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}. See Missing Episode below for details.

* OlderThanTheyThink: The ''Beauty and the Beast'' episode isn't actually based on the familiar French versions of the tale by Villeneuve and Beaumont, but on a variant from Creator/TheBrothersGrimm's first edition of their tales called ''[[http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0425c.html#garden The Summer and Winter Garden.]]'' This explains why it differs in so many ways from the familiar French version, including how Beauty's (Maria's) sisters are nicer than in Villeneuve's and Beaumont's takes, and the fact that [[spoiler: the father dies]]. In the Grimms' later editions of their collection, this tale was replaced by a different animal bridegroom story, ''Literature/TheSingingSpringingLark.''

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* DuelingDubs: There are two English dubs. One of which was done by Saban in 1989, which aired in Western countries (United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia). The other English dub was done by Ziv Sidi, who founded two recording studios in Israel, in 1993 in the Zound Studios recording studio, which was distributed by Israeli company Mega Entertainment. The Ziv dub was aired in Eastern European countries, which also had their other language dubs based on the Ziv dub. There are noticeable differences between the dubs; The Ziv dub is uncensored, while the Saban dub isn’t. The Ziv dub retains the music from the original Japanese version, which the Saban dub changed. Both dubs, however, have an AlternativeForeignThemeSong.

* DuelingDubs: There are two English dubs. One of which was done by Saban in 1989, which aired in Western countries (United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia). The other English dub was done by Ziv Sidi, who founded two recording studios in Israel, in 1993 and was distributed by Israeli company Mega Entertainment. The Ziv dub was aired in Eastern European countries, which also had their other language dubs based on the Ziv dub. There are noticeable differences between the dubs; The Ziv dub is uncensored, while the Saban dub isn’t. The Ziv dub retains the music from the original Japanese version, which the Saban dub changed. Both dubs, however, have an AlternativeForeignThemeSong.

* DuelingDubs: There are two English dubs. One of which was done by Saban in 1989, which aired in Western countries (United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia). The other English dub was done by Ziv Sidi, who founded two recording studios in Israel, in 1993 and was distributed by Mega Entertainment. The Ziv dub was aired in Eastern European countries, which also had their other language dubs based on the Ziv dub. There are noticeable differences between the dubs; The Ziv dub is uncensored, while the Saban dub isn’t. The Ziv dub retains the music from the original Japanese version, which the Saban dub changed. Both dubs, however, have an AlternativeForeignThemeSong.