History Main / BeanstalkParody

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': The episode "Jaw$!" opens with Scrooge and his family returning from a treasure hunt that involved climbing and chopping down a giant beanstalk. [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome We don't get to see the adventure, only its aftermath]].

** In ''Mickey's Ultimate Challenge'', once Mickey/Minnie has done collective deeds for the citizens of Beanwick, he/she has to give them items in exchange for 5 magic beans. After which he/she tosses them into the WishingWell and wishes to find out the cause of the kingdom's rumbling, causing a gigantic beanstalk to sprout from the ground and breaking the wishing well. Mickey/Minnie climbs up the beanstalk to find the cause of the earthquakes: A snoring giant. Once he awakens the giant with an alarm clock, the giant remarks that he had the strangest dream and couldn't wake up, and befriends the mouse before Mickey/Minnie [[AllJustADream wakes up back in bed]].

** In ''Mickey's Ultimate Challenge'', once Mickey has done collective deeds for the citizens of Beanwick, he has to give them items in exchange for 5 magic beans. After which, he tosses them into the wishing well and wishes to find out the cause of the kingdom's rumbling, causing a gigantic beanstalk to sprout from the ground and breaking the wishing well. Mickey climbs up the beanstalk to find the cause of the earthquakes: A snoring giant. Once he awakens the giant with an alarm clock, the giant remarks that he had the strangest dream and couldn't wake up, and befriends the mouse before Mickey wakes up back in bed.

* In ''Mickey's Ultimate Challenge'', once Mickey has done collective deeds for the citizens of Beanwick, he has to give them items in exchange for 5 magic beans. After which, he tosses them into the wishing well and wishes to find out the cause of the kingdom's rumbling, causing a gigantic beanstalk to sprout from the ground and breaking the wishing well. Mickey climbs up the beanstalk to find the cause of the earthquakes: A snoring giant. Once he awakens the giant with an alarm clock, the giant remarks that he had the strangest dream and couldn't wake up, and befriends the mouse before Mickey wakes up back in bed.

* The ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' TV episode "Recap/HTFDunceUponATime" has this trope as its gist. It's basically a grisly retelling of the fairy tale, though it also includes elements of ''Rapunzel'' and ''Rumpelstiltskin''.

** ''VideoGame/MarioParty'': One mini-game in the fifth game is called "Leaf Leap", where Mario and his friends plant beans that grow into beanstalks. As these beanstalks grow, they have to jump from leaf to leaf to reach the top. The player that climbs the highest within the time limit wins.

* ''VideoGame/NordAndBertCouldntMakeHeadOrTailOfIt'': The level "Shake a Tower" revolves around {{Spoonerism}}s. At the end, you visit a stockroom full of pairs of jeans. The back of the jean stock becomes Jack and the Beanstalk, and a man surveying the jeans (a jean client) gets turned into a clean giant, who climbs up the stalk. You meet him at the top of the stalk, where he pours a bucket of thick butter down it so you can't climb as easily. To defeat the giant, you give him your hat, which contains a head louse. Turning it into a lead house, you crush the giant and tie bed sheets (from the beets in his shed) to climb back down. The client isn't done yet, and shows up once more at the bottom, where you deliver a crushing blow to defeat him for good.

** In ''VideoGame/LandOfIllusion'', when Mickey meets Minnie at the [[BigFancyCastle Good Princess' Castle]], she gives him the magic beans and advises him to plant them on the island below the [[OminousFloatingCastle Phantom's Cloud Castle]] so that a beanstalk will grow from them. Mickey also needs to collect the Cloud Shoes from the Stone Pyramid in the [[ShiftingSandLand Desert]] so that he walk on the clouds without falling through them. When Mickey plants the beans, a giant beanstalk does grow from them and he has to climb to the top so he can reach the Phantom Cloud's Castle, which is the game's final level.

A SubTrope of WholePlotReference. Compare CinderellaPlot, another fairy-tale reference trope.

A SubTrope of FairyTaleEpisode, FracturedFairyTale, WholePlotReference and JourneyToTheSky. Compare CinderellaPlot, another fairy-tale reference trope.

* ''Literature/TheStinkyCheeseMan'' is an anthology of {{Fractured Fairy Tale}}s, with Jack (of "and the Beanstalk" fame) serving as the InteractiveNarrator for the whole thing. When it comes time for Jack to tell his own story, the Giant comes down the beanstalk early and announces he hates how the story usually goes, [[HostileShowTakeover and instead he reads to the audience a story he wrote himself]]. Said "story" turns out to be [[StylisticSuck a nonsensical mashup of sentence fragments literally cut-and-pasted from other stories]]. Jack complains about how bad this new story is, so the Giant grabs him and threatens to eat him if he doesn't tell a better story--[[MortonsFork then he adds that when the story's over, he'll eat Jack anyway.]] Realizing that his only hope is to [[ScheherezadeGambit stall for time]], Jack tells an [[NestedStory an endless, recursive story]] and keeps it up until the Giant falls asleep, allowing him to sneak away.

* Salem managed to grow one in an episode of ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'', though instead of a giant, a mortal eating witch named Margalo lived at the top (however, Sabrina's aunts warn her that beanstalks leading to the home of a giant exist too; beanstalks in general always lead to a bad neighborhood). Margalo managed to lure [[DistressedDude Harvey]] up, causing Sabrina to follow despite the altitude shorting out her powers due to her half mortal status (which also made her fair game as far as Margalo was concerned). The two are eventually able to escape, and when Sabrina's magic is restored, she gets some revenge on Margalo by [[FateWorseThanDeath turning her into]] [[AndIMustScream a vegetarian]]. Hilda and Zelda, after spending the entire episode trying to get help but runnin into a ObstructiveBureaucrat, finally get a tree trimmer to get rid of the beanstalk.

** The 1943 short ''Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk'' has Bugs Bunny going up the beanstalk go get some giant carrots and meeting a dopey giant.

** The 1957 short ''Tweety and the Beanstalk'' has Sylvester going up a beanstalk and trying to capture get a giant Tweety while avoiding his owner.

** ''VideoGame/PaperMario64'': Since the villainous Huff N. Puff is clouding the sky with his Puff Puff machine during Chapter 6, sunlight isn't reaching the plants. Mario aims to reach the sky to challenge Huff N. Puff and revert the situation, but to do so he needs to gather some items first: a Miracle Bean that can grow into a tall beanstalk, a Fertile Soil to plant the bean onto, and some Miracle Water to make it grow. With the items gathered and the beanstalk grown, Mario climbs it to reach the Cloudy Climb and look for the boss. At the end of the ordeal, he frees the sixth Star Spirit and continues on his adventure.

* The ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'' episode "Jeffy and the Beanstalk" is about Jeffy being forced to eat [[StockYuck green beans]] (again), except that he lies about eating them and buries them in the backyard. The next day, Jeffy discovers that the (cooked) green beans grew into a giant beanstalk and he climbs it. At the top, Jeffy encounters the Green Bean Giant, who turns him into a green bean after he yells about his hatred of the vegetable. Jeffy turns back to normal after relenting to eat the green beans he dislikes so much.

* The ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' book "Thomas and the Beanstalk" involves Thomas, having heard the story of ''Jack and the Beanstalk'' delivering a train of beans, when he gets knocked down by Diesel 10, causing his load to spill into the ground. A giant beanstalk grows from the beans, with railroad tracks circling it, allowing Thomas to climb it. When Thomas reaches the top, he sees a golden engine being held prisoner by The Giant and a giant Diesel 10 (big enough for The Giant to ride in). In the end, the story appears to have been AllJustADream from Thomas, but then [[OrWasItADream Thomas' driver finds a piece of gold-colored coal from the Golden Engine in his bunker]].

In video games, this trope is used when the level takes place on a giant beanstalk. This may often involve fighting [[BigCreepyCrawlies giant insects]] and [[BubblyClouds walking across clouds]], and you might even have to fight a giant at the end of the stage.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse'' episode "Donald and the Beanstalk", Donald accidentally trades away Boo-Boo Chicken for magic beans to Willie the Giant. It's up to Mickey, Donald, and Goofy to go up the beanstalk to retrieve the chicken back from Willie.

* The ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' book "Thomas and the Beanstalk" involves Thomas, having heard the story of ''Jack and the Beanstalk'' delivering a train of beans, when he gets knocked down by Diesel 10, causing his load to spill into the ground. A giant beanstalk grows from the beans, with railroad tracks circling it, allowing Thomas to climb it. When Thomas reaches the top, he sees a golden engine being held prisoner by The Giant and a giant Diesel 10 (big enough for The Giant to ride in). In the end, the story appears to have been AllJustADream from Thomas, but then [[OrWasItADream Thomas' driver finds a piece of gold-colored coal from the Golden Engine in his bunker]].

** In one of the news skits, Kermit climbs a beanstalk and meets a giant.

* The first story in the ''Westernanimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' book "Once Upon a Spongebob" parodies ''Jack and the Beanstalk''. Spongebob, playing Jack, is sent to sell Gary by his mother (played by Mrs. Puff), but is tricked into buying magic kelp from Squidward, which grows into a giant kelpstalk. Spongebob climbs it, but is caught by the giant (Plankton) before he can steal the magic golden jellyfish.