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-->"Could you please stop talking in uppercase letters? It really messes up the page."
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* StrikeEpisode: After Jack the Narrator gives away the ending of "Little Red Running Shorts," Red and the Wolf walk off the job in protest, leaving the rest of the chapter's pages blank.
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* MilestoneCelebration: In 2002, a "Special Ten Year Anniversary Edition" of the book was printed, featuring a dust jacket containing the lost story, "The Boy Who Cried Cow Patty". [[spoiler:The Little Red Hen is also on the dust jacket, complaining about the celebration efforts and how the Stinky Cheese Man overshadowed her due to her story being neglected.]]
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: At the end of the book, the Little Red Hen's loudly squawking about how she's going to eat all the bread that no one helped her bake. [[spoiler: The noise wakes up the sleeping Giant, who promptly decides he could go for a chicken sandwich.]]
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: At the end of the book, the Little Red Hen's loudly squawking about how she's going to eat all the bread that no one helped her bake. [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The noise wakes up the sleeping Giant, who promptly decides he could go for a chicken sandwich.]]
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* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler: On the flaps of the 10th anniversary edition dust jacket, the Little Red Hen shows up yet again to whine about her lost story, despite the fact that she gets eaten by the Giant at the end of the book.]]
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* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler: On [[spoiler:On the flaps of the 10th anniversary edition dust jacket, the Little Red Hen shows up yet again to whine about her lost story, despite the fact that she gets eaten by the Giant at the end of the book.]]
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* DelusionsOfBeauty: "The Really Ugly Duckling" is about an ugly duckling who imagines turning into a beautiful swan. Unfortunately, he really is a duckling and only grows up to be an ugly duck.
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The narrator, Jack (of "and the Beanstalk" fame) relates to the reader extremely silly takes on a number of classic fairy tales, including "The Princess and the Bowling Ball," "The Tortoise and the Hair" and more. But [[TheShowMustGoWrong Jack's production is plagued with problems from the very beginning]]... literally. Before the book even begins, the bossy Little Red Hen shows up on the front paper and demands Jack tell her story (she's also on the back of the book, complaining about the UPC and wondering "Who is this ISBN guy?"). The table of contents goes missing, only to end up as the punch-line to one of the stories. And when Jack finally gets around to telling ''his'' story, the Giant shows up and threatens him.
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The narrator, Jack (of "and the Beanstalk" fame) relates to the reader extremely silly takes on a number of classic fairy tales, including "The Princess and the Bowling Ball," "The Tortoise and the Hair" and more. But [[TheShowMustGoWrong Jack's production is plagued with problems from the very beginning]]... literally. Before the book even begins, the bossy Little Red Hen shows up on the front paper and demands Jack tell her story (she's also on the back of the book, complaining about the UPC and wondering "Who is this ISBN guy?"). The table of contents goes missing, only to end up as the punch-line to one of the stories. Another story gets left out of the book by accident, forcing Jack to put it on the dust jacket of a later anniversary printing of the book to make up for it. And when Jack finally gets around to telling ''his'' story, the Giant shows up and threatens him.
* CryingWolf: In "The Boy Who Cried Cow Patty", everyone gets fed up with the boy's cow patty pranks, so when he inevitably falls into a pile of cow patty, [[spoiler:he cried fire instead to attract firemen to rescue him, knowing full well no one would take his cries of cow patty seriously anymore]].
* {{Dedication}}: Parodied with the page dedicated to "(your name here)" by the author and illustrator... which is in the midst of being set up by Jack (and upside down, at that).
* EverybodyDiesEnding: The end of "Chicken Licken" has all the characters in the story squashed by the falling Table of Contents.
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* KillEmAll: The end of "Chicken Licken" has all the characters in the story squashed by the falling Table of Contents.
* MilestoneCelebration: In 2002, a "Special Ten Year Anniversary Edition" of the book was printed, featuring a dust jacket containing the lost story, "The Boy Who Cried Cow Patty". [[spoiler:The Little Red Hen is also on the dust jacket, complaining about the celebration efforts and how the Stinky Cheese Man overshadowed her due to her story being neglected.]]
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* StylisticSuck: The Giant's Story, which is literally made of pieces cut out ransom-note-style from other fairy tales and makes pretty much no sense.
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* StylisticSuck: The Giant's Story, which is literally made of pieces cut out ransom-note-style from other fairy tales and makes pretty much no sense. The accompanying image, which is assembled of picture clippings, is just as bizarre.
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* TemptingFate: At the end, when the Little Red Hen is going off on another tirade about how no one helped her bake the bread or tell her story, she then asks: "Who thinks they're going to help me eat the bread?" [[spoiler:The Giant does when her shouting wakes him up. With her in between the slices.]]
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* TemptingFate: At the end, when the Little Red Hen is going off on another tirade about how no one helped her bake the bread or tell her story, she then asks: "Who thinks they're going to help me eat EAT the bread?" BREAD?" [[spoiler:The Giant does when her shouting wakes him up. With her in between the slices.]]
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* NoodleIncident: The "Boy Who Cried Cow Patty" story, shown falling off of the Table of Contents, isn't actually in the book. We can assume, based upon its title, that it's supposed to be a parody of The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
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* NoodleIncident: The "Boy Who Cried Cow Patty" story, shown falling off of the Table of Contents, isn't actually in the book. We can assume, based upon its title, that it's supposed to be a parody of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. It is, however, on the back of the dust jacket for the book's 10th anniversary edition.
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--> THE END... of the evil stepmother... said "I'll huff and snuff and... give you three wishes." ...the Beast changed into... seven dwarves... happily ever after... because a spell had been cast by a wicked witch... once upon a time.
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* NauseaFuel: In-universe, the smell of the Stinky Cheese Man. At one point, he smells so bad he ''melts the very page he's on.''
* NoEnding: "The Tortoise and the Hair." See OverlyLongGag. It even wraps up with "Not The End."
* NoEnding: "The Tortoise and the Hair." See OverlyLongGag. It even wraps up with "Not The End."
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* NauseaFuel: In-universe, the smell of the Stinky Cheese Man. At one point, he smells so bad he ''melts ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou melts the very page he's on.on]].''
* NoEnding: "The Tortoise and the Hair." See OverlyLongGag. It even wraps up with"Not "''Not'' The End."
* NoEnding: "The Tortoise and the Hair." See OverlyLongGag. It even wraps up with
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Little Red Running Shorts and the Wolf both decide to abandon their story after Jack ruins the ending for them.
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* ColdOpening: The story of "Chicken Licken" is shown before the table of contents in the book is shown, which Jack remembers he forgot about until after he started the story. [[spoiler:The story ends with said table of contents falling and squashing all the characters.]]
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* CuttingTheKnot: In "The Princess and the Bowling Ball", every princess who stays at the king's and queen's castle fails the pea test since they can't feel the pea under the hundred mattresses. When the prince meets the girl of his dreams, he solves the problem by replacing the pea with a bowling ball. His parents are satisfied and they get married.
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* CuttingTheKnot: In "The Princess and the Bowling Ball", every princess who stays at the king's and queen's castle fails the pea test since they can't feel the pea under the hundred mattresses. When the prince meets the girl of his dreams, he solves the problem by replacing the pea with a bowling ball. His parents are satisfied and they get married.married, and they live happily, if not honestly, ever after.
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--->Tortoise ran. Rabbit grew his hair. Tortoise ran. Rabbit grew his hair. Tortoise ran. Rabbit grew his hair. [...] Tortoise is ''still'' running. Rabbit is ''still'' growing his hair.
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--->Tortoise ran. Rabbit grew his hair. Tortoise ran. Rabbit grew his hair. Tortoise ran. Rabbit grew his hair. [...] Tortoise is ''still'' running. Rabbit is ''still'' growing his hair. ''Not'' the end.
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** The Wolf from ''The True Story Of The Three Little Pigs'' plays the part of TheBigBadWolf in "Little Red Running Shorts." Or at least, he would have if he hadn't left in a huff with his co-star after Jack spoiled their entire story.
** In "Giant Story" the illustration of Aesop from ''Squids Will be Squids'' (by the same authors) can be seen.
** In "Giant Story" the illustration of Aesop from ''Squids Will be Squids'' (by the same authors) can be seen.
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** The Alexander T. Wolf from ''The True Story Of The Three Little Pigs'' ''Literature/TheTrueStoryOfTheThreeLittlePigs'' plays the part of TheBigBadWolf in "Little Red Running Shorts." Shorts". Or at least, least he would have have, if he hadn't left in a huff with his co-star after Jack spoiled their entire story.
** In "GiantStory" Story", the illustration of Aesop from ''Squids Will be Squids'' (by the same authors) can be seen.
** In "Giant
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* AccidentalMurder: In "The Stinky Cheese Man", the fox is carrying the Stinky Cheese Man on his back across the river, but sneezes from the terrible smell. The force of it accidentally throws the Stinky Cheese Man off his back and into the water, where he falls apart.
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* CuttingTheKnot: In "The Princess and the Bowling Ball", every princess tested by the prince's parents fails the pea test since they can't feel the pea under the hundred mattresses. When the prince meets the girl of his dreams, he solves the problem by replacing the pea with a bowling ball.
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* CuttingTheKnot: In "The Princess and the Bowling Ball", every princess tested by who stays at the prince's parents king's and queen's castle fails the pea test since they can't feel the pea under the hundred mattresses. When the prince meets the girl of his dreams, he solves the problem by replacing the pea with a bowling ball. His parents are satisfied and they get married.
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* CuttingTheKnot: In "The Princess and the Bowling Ball", every princess tested by the prince's parents fails the pea test since they can't feel the pea under the hundred mattresses. When the prince meets the girl of his dreams, he solves the problem by putting his bowling ball under all the mattresses.
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* CuttingTheKnot: In "The Princess and the Bowling Ball", every princess tested by the prince's parents fails the pea test since they can't feel the pea under the hundred mattresses. When the prince meets the girl of his dreams, he solves the problem by putting his replacing the pea with a bowling ball under all the mattresses.ball.
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* CuttingTheKnot: In "The Princess and the Bowling Ball", every princess tested by the prince's parents fails the pea test since they can't feel the pea under the hundred mattresses. When the prince meets the girl of his dreams, he solves the problem by putting his bowling ball under all the mattresses.
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* MediumAwareness: The characters are not only perfectly aware they're in a book that's going wrong, they comment and complain about the front matter, table of contents, typography, endpapers, and even the UPC and ISBN on the cover.
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* DenserAndWackier: Every Fairly Stupid Tale is this to the original fairy tale it's based off of.
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* DenserAndWackier: Every Fairly Stupid Tale is this to a much sillier version of the original fairy tale it's based off of.
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* KillEmAll: The end of "Chicken Licken."
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* KillEmAll: The end of "Chicken Licken."Licken" has all the characters in the story squashed by the falling Table of Contents.
* NapInducingSpeak: "Jack's Story" has the giant telling Jack to tell him a better story or else, noting [[MortonsFork he'll probably grind Jack's bones to makes his bread either way]]. Jack's only way out is to tell a long NestedStory until the giant falls asleep.
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* NestedStory: "Jack's Story" has the giant telling Jack to tell him a better story or else, noting [[MortonsFork he'll probably grind Jack's bones to makes his bread either way]]. Jack's only way out is to tell a long nested story until the giant falls asleep.
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* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler: On the flaps of the 10th anniversary dust jacket, the Little Red Hen shows up yet again to whine about her lost story, despite the fact that she gets eaten by the Giant at the end of the book.]]
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* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler: On the flaps of the 10th anniversary edition dust jacket, the Little Red Hen shows up yet again to whine about her lost story, despite the fact that she gets eaten by the Giant at the end of the book.]]
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* BlahBlahBlah: The Little Red Hen's rant on the back page eventually trails off into a long string of blahs. Interestingly enough, this was a case of ThrowItIn; originally, more lines of dialogue for the Hen were going to be written for the back cover, with "blah blah blah" as placeholder text, but it was decided that this was probably funnier than any actual dialog.
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* BlahBlahBlah: The Little Red Hen's rant on the back page eventually trails off into a long string of blahs. Interestingly enough, this was a case of ThrowItIn; originally, more lines of dialogue for the Hen were going to be written for the back cover, with "blah blah blah" as placeholder text, but it was decided that this was probably funnier than any actual dialog.
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''The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales'' is a book of [[FracturedFairyTale spoof fairy tales]] written by Creator/JonScieszka and illustrated by Creator/LaneSmith, and first published in 1992.
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''The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales'' is a book of [[FracturedFairyTale spoof fairy tales]] written by Creator/JonScieszka and illustrated by Creator/LaneSmith, Lane Smith, and first published in 1992.
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''The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales'' is a book of [[FracturedFairyTale spoof fairy tales]] written by Creator/JonScieszka and illustrated by Lane Smith, and first published in 1992.
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''The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales'' is a book of [[FracturedFairyTale spoof fairy tales]] written by Creator/JonScieszka and illustrated by Lane Smith, Creator/LaneSmith, and first published in 1992.
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''The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales'' is a book of [[FracturedFairyTale spoof fairy tales]] written by Jon Scieszka and illustrated by Lane Smith, and first published in 1992.
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''The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales'' is a book of [[FracturedFairyTale spoof fairy tales]] written by Jon Scieszka Creator/JonScieszka and illustrated by Lane Smith, and first published in 1992.
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* NoodleIncident: The "Boy Who Cried Cow Patty" story, shown falling off of the Table of Contents, isn't actually in the book. We can assume, based upon it’s title, that it's supposed to be a parody of The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
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* NoodleIncident: The "Boy Who Cried Cow Patty" story, shown falling off of the Table of Contents, isn't actually in the book. We can assume, based upon it’s its title, that it's supposed to be a parody of The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
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* NoodleIncident: The "Boy Who Cried Cow Patty" story, shown falling off of the Table of Contents, isn't actually in the book.
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* NoodleIncident: The "Boy Who Cried Cow Patty" story, shown falling off of the Table of Contents, isn't actually in the book. We can assume, based upon it’s title, that it's supposed to be a parody of The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
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* ShoutOut: {{Literature/Madeline}}'s hat can be seen in the collage-style illustration that accompanies the Giant's story.
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''The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales'' is a book of [[FracturedFairyTale spoof fairy tales]] written by Jon Scieszka and illustrated by Lane Smith.
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''The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales'' is a book of [[FracturedFairyTale spoof fairy tales]] written by Jon Scieszka and illustrated by Lane Smith.Smith, and first published in 1992.