History Fridge / GrimmsFairyTaleClassics

** While we're on the subject of ''Rapunzel''...the narrator takes great pains to tell the audience that the Prince and Rapunzel married, right there in the tower. At first blush it might seem like a way of getting around the idea that their child (only one in this adaptation...down one from the twins of the original Grimm version) is illegitimate. But the story also takes place in medieval/Renaissance times, when a promise of marriage was considered every bit as binding as marriage itself (pre-contracting, they called it).

** While we're on the subject of ''Rapunzel''...the narrator takes great pains to tell the audience that the Prince and Rapunzel married, right there in the tower. At first blush it might seem like a way of getting around the idea that their two children (who do feature in this retelling) are illegitimate. But the story also takes place in medieval/Renaissance times, when a promise of marriage was considered every bit as binding as marriage itself (pre-contracting, they called it).

* Funny how this version of Bluebeard doesn't break out the SecretTestOfCharacter every other wife has failed up to this point until Josephine starts acting like a huge jerk and getting on his nerves, isn't it? Kind of makes you wonder...

* In the series' version of ''Brother and Sister'', one wonders why Rose/Sister was able to pull an AstralProjection to breastfeed her son despite being kept prisoner in a foreboding mountain (in the original she was killed, and the one feeding the baby was her soul). It may be possible because the one who kidnapped her was the WickedStepmother doubling as a WickedWitch, and her lair is located in the same mountain when Rose is being held... it's likely that ''the mountain itself'' had some magic of its own, which coupled with Rose's maternal love for her newborn and her desire to protect him even when she's far away, let her pull the trick [[CastFromLifespan at huge risk to herself.]]