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* TheGirlWhoFitsThisSlipper: Played with in that Arthur accidentally steps on the slipper, making it next to impossible that he can find the girl. Then the King realizes that, while there might be a damsel out there with a pair of glass slippers, there's only one who could possibly have just ''one'' glass slipper.
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* TheGirlWhoFitsThisSlipper: Played with in that Arthur accidentally steps on the slipper, slipper and smashes it, making it next to impossible that he can find the girl. Then the King realizes that, while there might be a damsel out there with a pair of glass slippers, there's only one who could possibly have just ''one'' glass slipper. So instead of searching for the girl who fits the slipper, they search for the girl who has the other slipper.
* ShoutOut:
** The stepsisters' names are [[Art/TheMonaLisa Mona and Lisa.]]
** At first the FairyGodmother thinks Cinderella wants to be changed [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio from a puppet into a real boy]] or to [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz go home to Kansas.]] In a CallBack, she briefly sends her to Kansas by accident in the final scene.
** At one point at the ball, one of the stepsisters (who has a big red nose) dances with Main/SantaClaus and asks him "And who is this [[Literature/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer Rudolph]] I remind you of?"
** The stepsisters' names are [[Art/TheMonaLisa Mona and Lisa.]]
** At first the FairyGodmother thinks Cinderella wants to be changed [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio from a puppet into a real boy]] or to [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz go home to Kansas.]] In a CallBack, she briefly sends her to Kansas by accident in the final scene.
** At one point at the ball, one of the stepsisters (who has a big red nose) dances with Main/SantaClaus and asks him "And who is this [[Literature/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer Rudolph]] I remind you of?"
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** Also when Cinderella has Arthur "pretend" to be the prince so she can practice how she'll interact with the prince if she meets him at the ball, Arthur imagines he'll say "hey, Cinderella!", which Cinderella doesn't think is proper enough for a prince to say.
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** Also when Cinderella has Arthur "pretend" to be the prince so she can practice how she'll interact with the prince if she meets him at the ball, Arthur imagines he'll say "hey, "Hey, Cinderella!", which Cinderella doesn't think is proper enough for a prince to say.
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Up To Eleven is being dewicked.
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* ClarkKenting: Despite the fact that Cinderella and Arthur should recognize each other's voices at the very least, just because they're wearing masks at the masquerade ball neither is able to realize who the other is.
** Taken UpToEleven when the Fairy Godmother fails to recognize Splurge the monster because he has a tiny domino mask on.
** Taken UpToEleven when the Fairy Godmother fails to recognize Splurge the monster because he has a tiny domino mask on.
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* ClarkKenting: ClarkKenting:
** Despite the fact that Cinderella and Arthur should recognize each other's voices at the very least, just because they're wearing masks at the masquerade ball neither is able to realize who the other is.
** TakenUpToEleven up to eleven when the Fairy Godmother fails to recognize Splurge the monster because he has a tiny domino mask on.
** Despite the fact that Cinderella and Arthur should recognize each other's voices at the very least, just because they're wearing masks at the masquerade ball neither is able to realize who the other is.
** Taken
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* ThrowTheDogABone: After being excluded from the king's parties throughout the entire special, TheStinger has Kermit receive an invitation to Cinderella and Arthur's wedding.
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* "Did you say reddish [radish]?"
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Made in Toronto, the special aired on Creator/{{CBC}} first in 1969 before premiering on Creator/{{ABC}} a year later.
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* DumbassHasAPoint: The king decides that the mysterious princess must be avoiding him and that they should look in the least obvious place. Guess who's house is the first they search.
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* DumbassHasAPoint: The king decides that the mysterious princess must be avoiding him and that they should look in the least obvious place. Guess who's whose house is the first they search.
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* {{Bowdlerize}}: The back cover of the 1994 home video release includes an image of King Goshposh with his cigar digitally removed from the photo (though it is still present in the special itself).
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The King's line when the Fairy Godmother accidentally summons him into Cinderella's house:
-->'''King:''' ''[drinking from a goblet]'' Oh, hey! Featherstone! Find out what this is and order a case of it!
-->'''King:''' ''[drinking from a goblet]'' Oh, hey! Featherstone! Find out what this is and order a case of it!
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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The King's line when the Fairy Godmother accidentally summons him into Cinderella's house:
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-->'''King:''' ''[drinking from a goblet]'' Oh, hey! Featherstone! Find out what
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* CigarChomper: The king always has a cigar in his mouth. Sometimes, it's not even lit.
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* EyeGlasses: Featherstone's eyes are part of his glasses instead of his head.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: For a Jim Henson special, this one is very light on songs. Aside from some early establishing scenes where vocals are heard singing about Cinderella and Prince Charming, respectively, there's only one real song, "If I Could Go Dancing", which isn't even sung by any Muppet characters.
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** Also when Cinderella has Arthur "pretend" to be the prince so she can practice how she'll interact with the prince if she meets him at the ball, Arthur imagines he'll say "hey, Cinderella!", which Cinderella doesn't think is proper enough for a prince to say.
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* IronicEcho: When Kermit sees how bad Arthur's gardening is, he tells him, "you're lucky you're a prince because you'd never make it as a gardener." When Cinderella, who does not yet know Arthur is actually the prince, has Arthur "pretend" to be the prince so she can practice interacting with him at the ball, she ends up saying to Arthur, [[DramaticIrony "you're lucky you're a gardener because you'd never make it as a prince."]]
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* TitleDrop: Done by the Wicked Stepmother whenever she calls, "Hey, Cinder''Ella!''"
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: The Fairy Godmother often screws her spells up and repeatedly mistakes Cinderella for characters like {{Pinocchio}} and [[TheWizardOfOz Dorothy]], but otherwise is fairly competent when it comes to helping Cinderella out.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: The Fairy Godmother often screws her spells up and repeatedly mistakes Cinderella for characters like {{Pinocchio}} Literature/{{Pinocchio}} and [[TheWizardOfOz [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Dorothy]], but otherwise is fairly competent when it comes to helping Cinderella out.
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--> '''Arthur:''' Dad! We found the mysterious princess! She's Cinderella!
--> '''King: *completely unconcerned*''' Oh, really?
--> '''Arthur:''' But she's vanished!
--> '''King:''' Huh, how 'bout that?
--> '''King: *completely unconcerned*''' Oh, really?
--> '''Arthur:''' But she's vanished!
--> '''King:''' Huh, how 'bout that?
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* TheGirlWhoFitsThisSlipper: Played with in that Arthur accidentally steps on the slipper, making it next to impossible that he can find the girl. Then the King realizes that, while there might be a damsel out there with a pair of glass slippers, there's only one who could possibly have just ''one'' glass slipper.
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''Hey Cinderella'' is a [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppets]] special released in 1969 that was directed by Jim Henson and written by Jon Stone and Tom Whedon. It is a retelling of the classic fairy tale of ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}'' and features Kermit the Frog in a supporting role. Many of the puppets would be reused for the similar special ''Film/TalesFromMuppetlandTheFrogPrince'' two years later.
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!! "Hey Cinderella" contains examples of the following tropes:
* AchievementsInIgnorance: After repeatedly screwing up her spell to turn a pumpkin into a carriage, the Fairy Godmother finally succeeds when she manages to string a set of magic words all together as she lists all of her failures when trying to cast the spell.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: The Fairy Godmother often screws her spells up and repeatedly mistakes Cinderella for characters like {{Pinocchio}} and [[TheWizardOfOz Dorothy]], but otherwise is fairly competent when it comes to helping Cinderella out.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Kermit is much more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold than the NiceGuy he's better known for being.
* ClarkKenting: Despite the fact that Cinderella and Arthur should recognize each other's voices at the very least, just because they're wearing masks at the masquerade ball neither is able to realize who the other is.
** Taken UpToEleven when the Fairy Godmother fails to recognize Splurge the monster because he has a tiny domino mask on.
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: As Kermit notes, Cinderella and Arthur could have been reunited months ago instead of unintentionally avoiding each other if Arthur had just let him tell her who he really was in the beginning.
* CrossdressingVoices: The two Ugly Stepsisters are portrayed by Frank Oz and Jerry Nelson.
* DeadpanSnarker: Kermit supplies the majority of snarking in the special. Not too surprising, considering the father of Creator/JossWhedon co-wrote this.
* DramaticIrony: The entire story focuses on this. Arthur pretends to not be a prince when he meets Cinderella because the princesses he's met in the past have only been vain and selfish and interested in his title rather than him. Due to the ball being a masquerade, Arthur doesn't realize that the "mysterious princess" he meets is Cinderella. Thus during the third act when the king orders the men to search for her as per the story, Arthur does his best to try to avoid the "princess" and Cinderella doesn't have any interest marrying the prince because she's in love with the "castle gardener".
* DumbassHasAPoint: The king decides that the mysterious princess must be avoiding him and that they should look in the least obvious place. Guess who's house is the first they search.
* EpicFail: Arthur is so terrible as a gardener that the pumpkins he tries growing wind up smaller than tangerines.
* ExactWords: Splurge uses this to take part in the ball, reminding the king that everyone in the kingdom except for frogs were invited to it, and it's clear just by looking at him that he's definitely not a frog.
* FantasticRacism: The king is okay with everyone coming to the ball except for Kermit, and even explicitly bans all frogs from it in the invitations just to keep him from coming. He apparently softens up on this stance later though, since Kermit is shown receiving an invitation from his men to Arthur and Cinderella's wedding in TheStinger.
* GentleGiant: Splurge is pretty big and appears to be imposing but is otherwise very friendly and laidback, unless radishes are somehow involved.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The King's line when the Fairy Godmother accidentally summons him into Cinderella's house:
--> '''King: *drinking from a goblet*''' Oh, hey! Featherstone! Find out what this is and order a case of it!
* HypocriticalHumor: When Arthur tells his father how all of the past princesses he met have been vain, the king brings up how he turned out pretty well, as he then proceeds to gush excellent of a king he is.
* InsaneTrollLogic: The wicked stepmother and stepsisters practically run on this. Examples include having Cinderella find a muddy pool to walk in so she can get the floor dirty just to clean it later and convincing themselves that the best present for the king is old socks since it's the opposite of what Cinderella wants (a new hair ribbon).
** At one point during the ball, Arthur (who thinks the "mysterious princess" he's dancing with is strangely familiar) asks if they went to school together. Cinderella (said "princess") says she never went to school. Arthur says that he hadn't either, then wonders if they met ''not'' going to school.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Kermit is much more snappy than he is in later Muppet works but he still has no problem helping Cinderella out, stating "the easiest way to get to a frog is through his emotions!"
* PaperThinDisguise: Played for laughs with Splurge. The Fairy Godmother doesn't recognize him when he has a mask on, despite the fact that he's still a giant, fuzzy purple monster.
** Cinderella and Arthur don't know they are dancing with each other at the ball, despite the fact that their masks only go over their eyes. They should recognize each others hair and voices. Semi-justified in that they were dressed differently than the other expected and had only met once, though three months later when they see each other again they instantly recognize each other, and Cinderella initially doesn't recognize Arthur in prince clothing.
** At one point, the Fairy Godmother disguises herself as a lamp simply by putting a lampshade on her head. Despite actually ''speaking'' to the stepmother while in this "disguise", it works.
* RefugeInAudacity: When the stepmother returns home unexpectedly and interrupts Cinderella and the Fairy Godmother's meeting, the Fairy Godmother disguises herself as a lamp... by putting a lampshade on her head. And finishing the stepmother's sentence when she's trying to figure out what the Godmother is. ''And it works''.
* RunningGag:
** Kermit falling into the well and making a splash, usually as his equivalent of performing a FacePalm.
** The fairy godmother's constant failures at turning a pumpkin into a carriage during the her magic show in the first half of the special.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Splurge really likes radishes.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The King really doesn't seem to surprised at being magically teleported into Cinderella's house.
--> '''Arthur:''' Dad! We found the mysterious princess! She's Cinderella!
--> '''King: *completely unconcerned*''' Oh, really?
--> '''Arthur:''' But she's vanished!
--> '''King:''' Huh, how 'bout that?
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!! "Hey Cinderella" contains examples of the following tropes:
* AchievementsInIgnorance: After repeatedly screwing up her spell to turn a pumpkin into a carriage, the Fairy Godmother finally succeeds when she manages to string a set of magic words all together as she lists all of her failures when trying to cast the spell.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: The Fairy Godmother often screws her spells up and repeatedly mistakes Cinderella for characters like {{Pinocchio}} and [[TheWizardOfOz Dorothy]], but otherwise is fairly competent when it comes to helping Cinderella out.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Kermit is much more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold than the NiceGuy he's better known for being.
* ClarkKenting: Despite the fact that Cinderella and Arthur should recognize each other's voices at the very least, just because they're wearing masks at the masquerade ball neither is able to realize who the other is.
** Taken UpToEleven when the Fairy Godmother fails to recognize Splurge the monster because he has a tiny domino mask on.
* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: As Kermit notes, Cinderella and Arthur could have been reunited months ago instead of unintentionally avoiding each other if Arthur had just let him tell her who he really was in the beginning.
* CrossdressingVoices: The two Ugly Stepsisters are portrayed by Frank Oz and Jerry Nelson.
* DeadpanSnarker: Kermit supplies the majority of snarking in the special. Not too surprising, considering the father of Creator/JossWhedon co-wrote this.
* DramaticIrony: The entire story focuses on this. Arthur pretends to not be a prince when he meets Cinderella because the princesses he's met in the past have only been vain and selfish and interested in his title rather than him. Due to the ball being a masquerade, Arthur doesn't realize that the "mysterious princess" he meets is Cinderella. Thus during the third act when the king orders the men to search for her as per the story, Arthur does his best to try to avoid the "princess" and Cinderella doesn't have any interest marrying the prince because she's in love with the "castle gardener".
* DumbassHasAPoint: The king decides that the mysterious princess must be avoiding him and that they should look in the least obvious place. Guess who's house is the first they search.
* EpicFail: Arthur is so terrible as a gardener that the pumpkins he tries growing wind up smaller than tangerines.
* ExactWords: Splurge uses this to take part in the ball, reminding the king that everyone in the kingdom except for frogs were invited to it, and it's clear just by looking at him that he's definitely not a frog.
* FantasticRacism: The king is okay with everyone coming to the ball except for Kermit, and even explicitly bans all frogs from it in the invitations just to keep him from coming. He apparently softens up on this stance later though, since Kermit is shown receiving an invitation from his men to Arthur and Cinderella's wedding in TheStinger.
* GentleGiant: Splurge is pretty big and appears to be imposing but is otherwise very friendly and laidback, unless radishes are somehow involved.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The King's line when the Fairy Godmother accidentally summons him into Cinderella's house:
--> '''King: *drinking from a goblet*''' Oh, hey! Featherstone! Find out what this is and order a case of it!
* HypocriticalHumor: When Arthur tells his father how all of the past princesses he met have been vain, the king brings up how he turned out pretty well, as he then proceeds to gush excellent of a king he is.
* InsaneTrollLogic: The wicked stepmother and stepsisters practically run on this. Examples include having Cinderella find a muddy pool to walk in so she can get the floor dirty just to clean it later and convincing themselves that the best present for the king is old socks since it's the opposite of what Cinderella wants (a new hair ribbon).
** At one point during the ball, Arthur (who thinks the "mysterious princess" he's dancing with is strangely familiar) asks if they went to school together. Cinderella (said "princess") says she never went to school. Arthur says that he hadn't either, then wonders if they met ''not'' going to school.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Kermit is much more snappy than he is in later Muppet works but he still has no problem helping Cinderella out, stating "the easiest way to get to a frog is through his emotions!"
* PaperThinDisguise: Played for laughs with Splurge. The Fairy Godmother doesn't recognize him when he has a mask on, despite the fact that he's still a giant, fuzzy purple monster.
** Cinderella and Arthur don't know they are dancing with each other at the ball, despite the fact that their masks only go over their eyes. They should recognize each others hair and voices. Semi-justified in that they were dressed differently than the other expected and had only met once, though three months later when they see each other again they instantly recognize each other, and Cinderella initially doesn't recognize Arthur in prince clothing.
** At one point, the Fairy Godmother disguises herself as a lamp simply by putting a lampshade on her head. Despite actually ''speaking'' to the stepmother while in this "disguise", it works.
* RefugeInAudacity: When the stepmother returns home unexpectedly and interrupts Cinderella and the Fairy Godmother's meeting, the Fairy Godmother disguises herself as a lamp... by putting a lampshade on her head. And finishing the stepmother's sentence when she's trying to figure out what the Godmother is. ''And it works''.
* RunningGag:
** Kermit falling into the well and making a splash, usually as his equivalent of performing a FacePalm.
** The fairy godmother's constant failures at turning a pumpkin into a carriage during the her magic show in the first half of the special.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Splurge really likes radishes.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: The King really doesn't seem to surprised at being magically teleported into Cinderella's house.
--> '''Arthur:''' Dad! We found the mysterious princess! She's Cinderella!
--> '''King: *completely unconcerned*''' Oh, really?
--> '''Arthur:''' But she's vanished!
--> '''King:''' Huh, how 'bout that?
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