History Film / BedtimeStories

* TomboyishName: Bobbi, Skeeter's niece. This may be a nickname (for Roberta?) though it's never said.

* PetTheDog: When Violet watches the kids for a minute early in the film, she is very nice, treats them well, and takes an interest in their romantic life. It is an early sign that Violet isn't a bad person, just a bit of a spoiled {{daddy's girl}} with tabloid issues.

With nothing to do at the kids' home, Skeeter starts to tell bedtime stories in order to entertain the kids. These stories vary in theme, from UsefulNotes/AncientGreece to SciFi. The kids often throw in events to mix up the story, coming up with better stuff than Skeeter's RealLife events. When the events the kids throw into Skeeter's story affect Skeeter in real life, Skeeter uses this to his advantage.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Skeeter. Just watch the scene where he introduces Mr. Nottingham to the audience.

* HappilyEverAfter: Happens, but not in the way you expect.

* MeatVersusVeggies: Skeeter's sister Wendy raises her kids on a strict vegetarian diet, e.g. a gluten-free wheatgrass cake that nobody eats at Bobbi's birthday party. Skeeter has trouble making them breakfast using various foods from her kitchen, asking "Doesn't your mother have tastebuds?", and later gets them burgers for dinner.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Creator/TeresaPalmer plays Violet Nottingham: a young, blond 20-something hotel heiress celebutante notorious for partying and winding up in the tabloids.

* PetTheDog: When Violet watches the kids for a minute early in the film, she is very nice, treats them well, and takes an interest in their romantic life. It is an early sign that Violet isn't a bad person, just a bit of a spoiled Daddy's girl with tabloid issues.

* RainOfSomethingUnusual: The children that Skeeter is telling a story to interrupt his tale with gumball rain. Because the stories supposedly comes to life, Skeeter is caught in the middle of a gumball rainfall when he's driving home. The camera reveals that it's the result of a gumball lorry crashing into a pillar on the road above him.
* RomanticFalseLead: [[spoiler:Violet]]

** In his story set in Ancient Greece, Skeeter shouts [[Film/TheWarriors "Can you dig it?!"]].

*** [[spoiler:At the same time as Bugsy the guinea pig, who goes on to have a lot of big-eyed babies.]]

* CompanyCrossReferences: During one of Skeeter's bedtime stories, a costumed [[Franchise/ToyStory Buzz Lightyear]] appears.

With nothing to do at the kids' home, Skeeter starts to tell bedtime stories in order to entertain the kids. These stories vary in theme, from AncientGreece to SciFi. The kids often throw in events to mix up the story, coming up with better stuff than Skeeter's RealLife events. When the events the kids throw into Skeeter's story affect Skeeter in real life, Skeeter uses this to his advantage.

This film is entirely unrelated to the 1979 GameShow produced by Creator/MerrillHeatter and Bob Quigley. Nor does it have anything to do with the Music/{{Madonna}} album of the same name. And most especially not related with the similarly named [[WebVideo/BedtimeStoriesYoutubeChannel Youtube series]], which is definitely not for children either.

* [[MockingMusic Your Radio Hates You]]: After the kids finish a story that has Skeeter's character set on fire and disintegrated, all the songs on Skeeter's radio have to do with fire.

This film is entirely unrelated to the 1979 GameShow produced by MerrillHeatter and Bob Quigley. Nor does it have anything to do with the Music/{{Madonna}} album of the same name. And most especially not related with the similarly named [[WebVideo/BedtimeStoriesYoutubeChannel Youtube series]], which is definitely not for children either.

This film is entirely unrelated to the 1979 GameShow produced by MerrillHeatter and Bob Quigley. Nor does it have anything to do with the Music/{{Madonna}} album of the same name.

* Malaproper: Patrick, being a young child, has some gems like "incineratated" and "underdemeciated". The first clue that the stories are affecting events in the real world is when other people start using the same malapropisms.

* ItsBeenDone: Kendall's theme for the new hotel was going to be rock and roll, but when Skeeter points out how the Hard Rock hotel has run on this theme for years, Mr.Nottingham gives Skeeter a chance to think up a better theme that can get him in charge.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Skeeter telling the kids that there are no happy endings near the beginning gets him fired near the end after the kids make a story with a bad ending, saying they want their story to be "real".

* [[YourTelevisionHatesYou Your Radio Hates You]]: After the kids finish a story that has Skeeter's character set on fire and disintegrated, all the songs on Skeeter's radio have to do with fire.

** In his last, sci/fi-themed, story, Barry Nottingham is dressed like [[Film/FlashGordon Ming the Merciless]], and Skeeter is dressed like [[Franchise/StarWars Han Solo]] while Mickey's character spoofs C-3PO.

! This work provides examples of:

* Creator/AdamSandler meets {{Disney}} Magic.
** Sort of, because it's never fully explained how the magic works. It just does.
*** Actually, every time someone said something in the story that would come true, the camera focused on the Guinea Pig, with magic type sound effects.

This film is entirely unrelated to the 1979 GameShow produced by MerrillHeatter and Bob Quigley.

* BettyAndVeronica: Blonde, sweet heiress Nicole vs. the practical brown-haired principal Jill.

*** actually every time someone said something in the story that would come true the camera focused on the Guinea Pig, with magic type sound effects.

* actually every time someone said something in the story that would come true the camera focused on the Guinea Pig, with magic type sound effects.

* BettyAndVeronica: Blonde, SpoiledSweet heiress Nicole vs. the practical brown-haired principal Jill.

* SpoiledSweet: Violet Nottingham.

* IdeaBulb