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In a twist on The Three Little Pigs, the pigs are women who inherit money so they each build mansions. The talking mirror is a scam powered by one of the dwarfs and Snow White turns out to be someone they invented to get the queen to hand over her riches. In a retelling of Snow White, the Wicked Queen is fleeced for all her money by the dwarfs for dance, charm and nutrition lessons. Sleeping Beauty awakens and confesses she was faking so she could see if she could make it in show biz. As the interest in the attraction wanes, the fairy comes back and confesses she’s not really a fairy. The fairy who cast the spell tries to get her cut so he makes several attempts to get rid of her. He creates “Sleeping Beautyland,” (an obvious dig at Disneyland) and rakes in the money. What I noticed while re-watching several segments for this blog post is how many of the segments skewer popular culture and American consumerism.įor instance, a version of Sleeping Beauty has the prince decide, rather than kiss the princess and awaken her, to turn her into a tourist attraction. cartoons, there was a subtext to most of them that is only appreciated after you become a bit older. I could appreciate Fractured Fairy Tales when I was little because most of them honed closely enough to the original tales to be familiar to children. The Rocky and Bullwinkle segments were a dead-on satire of Cold War politics. It took me a while to figure out it really was for adults. I guess because it was animated, network executives thought it was for children, so they would program it with other children’s shows and cartoons. When I was a little kid, I would watch Rocky and Bullwinkle now and then but never liked it.

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Many are available to watch for free.) The tales were narrated by Edward Everett Horton and voiced by June Foray (who also voiced Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Natasha Fatale), Bill Scott, Paul Frees and Dawes Butler. This post is Part 2 of my contribution to the Fairy Tale Blogathon, hosted by Movies Silently.įractured Fairy Tales was a regular animated segment on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.

$fractured fairy tale scripts$

Fractured fairy tale scripts