History Literature / PoliticallyCorrectBedtimeStories

The book serves as a double parody: firstly it satirizes {{political correctness|GoneMad}} and [[{{Bowdlerise}} censorship of children's literature]], and secondly it satirizes the ValuesDissonance that have become more apparent in traditional folk tales in modern times.

* TheParodyBeforeChristmas: ''Politically Correct Holiday Stories'' includes "Twas the Night Before Solstice," in which [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad a politically correct-minded family]] meet Santa Claus and judge him for his enslavement of reindeer and commercially-driven gifts. The poem ends with Santa expressing his exasperation.

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: {{Parodied}} to hell and back throughout all the books.

A collection of "children's stories" written in 1994 by James Finn Garner, ''Politically Correct Bedtime Stories'', [[FracturedFairyTale retells traditional fairy-tales in an elaborately tongue-in-cheek]] politically correct fashion.

A collection of "children's stories" written in 1994 by James Garner, ''Politically Correct Bedtime Stories'', [[FracturedFairyTale retells traditional fairy-tales in an elaborately tongue-in-cheek]] politically correct fashion.

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* InterspeciesFriendship: "Little Red Riding Hood" ends with one of these.
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A collection of "children's stories" written in 1994 by James Garner, ''Politically Correct Bedtime Stories'', [[FracturedFairyTale retells traditional fairy-tales in an elaborately tongue-in-cheek]] politically correct fashion. The book serves as a double parody: firstly it satirizes {{political correctness|GoneMad}} and [[{{Bowdlerise}} censorship of children's literature]], and secondly it satirizes the ValuesDissonance that have become more apparent in traditional folk tales in modern times. It spawned three sequels: ''Once upon a More Enlightened Time: More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories'', ''Politically Correct Holiday Stories: For an Enlightened Yuletide Season'' (satirizing political correctness during {{Christmas}}), and ''Politically Correct Literature/{{Pinocchio}}''. He later attacked the other side of the political spectrum with ''Tea Party Fairytales''.

A collection of "children's stories" written in 1994 by James Garner, ''Politically Correct Bedtime Stories'', [[FracturedFairyTale retells traditional fairy-tales in an elaborately tongue-in-cheek]] politically correct fashion. The book serves as a double parody: firstly it satirizes {{political correctness|GoneMad}} and [[{{Bowdlerise}} censorship of children's literature]], and secondly it satirizes the ValuesDissonance that have become more apparent in traditional folk tales in modern times. It spawned three sequels: ''Once upon a More Enlightened Time: More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories'', ''Politically Correct Holiday Stories: For an Enlightened Yuletide Season'' (satirizing political correctness during {{Christmas}}), and ''Politically Correct Literature/{{Pinocchio}}''.

A collection of "children's stories" written in 1994 by James Garner, ''Politically Correct Bedtime Stories'', [[FracturedFairyTale retells traditional fairy-tales in an elaborately tongue-in-cheek]] politically correct fashion. The book serves as a double parody: firstly it satirizes {{political correctness|GoneMad}} and [[{{Bowdlerise}} censorship of children's literature]], and secondly it satirizes the ValuesDissonance that have become more apparent in traditional folk tales in modern times. It spawned two sequels: ''Once upon a More Enlightened Time: More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories'' and ''Politically Correct Holiday Stories: For an Enlightened Yuletide Season'', the latter satirizing political correctness during {{Christmas}}.

* GenderFlip: In the {{Cinderella}} retelling, the [[FairyGodmother Fairy Godperson]] is male.

A collection of "children's stories" written in 1994 by James Garner, ''Politically Correct Bedtime Stories'', [[FracturedFairyTale retells traditional fairy-tales in an elaborately tongue-in-cheek]] politically correct fashion. The book serves as a double parody: firstly it satirizes [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad political correctness]] and [[{{Bowdlerise}} censorship of children's literature]], and secondly it satirizes the ValuesDissonance that have become more apparent in traditional folk tales in modern times. It spawned two sequels: ''Once upon a More Enlightened Time: More Politically Correct Bedtime Stories'' and ''Politically Correct Holiday Stories: For an Enlightened Yuletide Season'', the latter satirizing political correctness during {{Christmas}}.

* DownTheRabbitHole: Deconstructed. A character says she thinks the cliché of a young girl going on a journey in a surreal world where she's acted upon but rarely gets a chance to act on the setting is overplayed, and she refuses the call to adventure and goes home "In the name of Alice, Dorothy, Wendy and all the others".

* MeatVersusVeggies: Discussed in "Jack and the Beanstalk".

* InterspeciesFriendship: "Little Red Ridinghood" ends with one of these.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The books lampoon the liberalism of the 1990s, back then attacked at every possible turn by conservative pundits.

''Politically Correct Bedtime Stories'' contains examples of the following tropes:

* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: Throughout.

* DoesNotLikeMen: Several of the stories' heroines, such as Little Red Riding Hood, end up this way.

A collection of "children's stories" written in 1994 by James Garner, ''Politically Correct Bedtime Stories'', [[FracturedFairyTale retells traditional fairy-tales in an elaborately tongue-in-cheek]] politically correct fashion. The book serves as a double parody: firstly it satirizes [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad political correctness]] and [[{{Bowdlerise}} censorship of children's literature]], and secondly it satirizes the ValuesDissonance that have become more apparent in traditional folk tales in modern times.

* FracturedFairyTale

A collection of "children's stories" written in 1994 by James Garner, ''Politically Correct Bedtime Stories'', retells traditional fairy-tales in an elaborately tongue-in-cheek politically correct fashion. The book serves as a double parody: firstly it satirizes political correctness and censorship of children's literature, and secondly it satirizes the ValuesDissonance that have become more apparent in traditional folk tales in modern times.

* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Played for Laughs in the "Three Codependent Goats Gruff" story. When we first meet the troll under the bridge, he declares that he happens to have the natural attributes of a troll and thus should not be denied his essential right to act as a troll (i.e., eat goats). The Goats Gruff realize they can't dispute this argument, so they each talk the troll into letting them go to discuss each imminent devouring with their siblings, claiming it would be "selfish" not to do so. (Eventually, when the biggest of the goats shows up, the troll is so frightened that he immediately apologizes for trying to eat the goats; this leads the goat in turn to apologize for trying to deprive the troll of his source of food. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny They each become so adamant about claiming the guilt for the incident that they eventually get into a fistfight]].)

* [[Veganopia]]: In "Jack and the Beanstalk" and several other stories.

* MarsAndVenusGenderContest
* MeatVsVeggies: Discussed in "Jack and the Beanstalk".

* FreudWasRight

* HoYay: Sometimes the solidarity between those of the same gender becomes this.