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* 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.
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** Bean Valley in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'' consists of a colorful forest/jungle that ends with a brick block that has a beanstalk leading to the clouds. There are more beanstalks up there connecting to Nimbus Land, where [[spoiler:Mallow was originally born in as the long-lost prince]].
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* In ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'', the Level 10 quest has you find a way to stop the giant trash falling from the sky. You plant an enchanted bean in some giant coffee grounds and climb the beanstalk. You then adventure in the [[Franchise/FinalFantasy Penultimate Fantasy Airship]] to collect four Immaterias and give it to a guy who will make a smaller airboat that will take you to the Giant's Castle. Then you make your way through a number of hobby enthusiast giants to reach the chore wheel, and turn it so someone besides the Procrastination Giant picks up the trash.
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* The ''Fanfic/ThisTimeRound'' fic ''[[http://www.ttrarchive.com/stjackbeanstalk.html Story Time! Jack and the Beanstalk'' has Chris and Roz from the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' as Jack and his mother, OC Bob the Muse as the giant, Fitz from ''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'' as the giant's wife, and Mel Bush as the harp. It goes ''completely'' off the rails in the final scene.
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* The ''Fanfic/ThisTimeRound'' fic ''Storytime: Jack and the Beanstalk'' has Chris and Roz from the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' as Jack and his mother, OC Bob the Muse as the giant, Fitz from ''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'' as the giant's wife, and Mel Bush as the harp. It goes ''completely'' off the rails in the final scene.
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* The ''Fanfic/ThisTimeRound'' fic ''Storytime: Jack and the Beanstalk'' has Chris and Roz from the ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' as Jack and his mother, OC Bob the Muse as the giant, Fitz from ''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'' as the giant's wife, and Mel Bush as the harp. It goes ''completely'' off the rails in the final scene.
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* In Creator/AbbottAndCostello's ''Jack and the Beanstalk'', Eloise Larkin and her fiancé Arthur's plans to attend the rehearsal of a play are jeopardized because no one will babysit her obnoxious kid brother Donald. Eloise phones the Cosman Employment Agency, where Mr. Dinkel (Bud) and Jack (Lou) just happen to be seeking work. Jack flirts with Cosman employee Polly, but he is thwarted by the arrival of her boyfriend, a towering police officer. Polly sends Dinkle and Jack to babysit, but an attempt to lull the boy to sleep by reading the fairy tale ''Jack and the Beanstalk'' (Jack's "favorite novel") aloud fails when Jack stumbles over the larger words. Bemused by Jack, Donald reads the story instead — a role-reversal made complete when Jack falls asleep as Donald reads. In his slumber, Jack dreams that he is the young Jack of the fairy tale. HilartyEnsues as he [[AndYouWereThere the people he has met fill the various roles in the story]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'': The episode "Johnny and the Beanstalk" revolves a ''hair stalk'' made from some magic hair tonic that leads to the castle of a very ditzy giant that treats Johnny like a toy.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop'' short, simply titled "Jack and the Beanstalk" has Bimbo as the role of Jack and Betty as The Giant's prisoner/cook.
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* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'': While in a [[DimensionalTraveler dimension]] on par with a standard fairy tale setting, Rick and Morty travel up a beanstalk to a Giant's castle to steal his treasure, only for the giant to injure himself; Rick and Morty get the blame and are arrested in a more modern day setting with giants.
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* In the Creator/NationalFilmBoardOfCanada short "WesternAnimation/TheHouseThatJackBuilt1967", Jack trades his busted car for magic beans that grow into a beanstalk. Jack climbs it and reaches the castle of Mr. Giant, who is not a giant at all (in fact, he's shorter than Jack) but has a "motivational mirror" that makes him think he is. Jack steals the mirror and uses it to become wealthy and successful.
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* ''WesternAnimation/MaxAndRuby'': The show has a trilogy of episodes parodying fairytales, entitled "Max and Ruby's Bunny Tales". [[ThreeShorts The second segment]] of the first ''Bunny Tales'' episode parodies ''Jack and the Beanstalk'', with a lesson on why green beans are good for you.
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* In the ''[[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} The Charlie Brown And Snoopy Show]]'' episode, "Snoopy and the Giant", a beanstalk grows in the garden that Woodstock has Snoopy make for him. When Snoopy and Woodstock climb the beanstalk, they come to the Giant's castle and find a room full of cookies. The Giant captures Woodstock and Snoopy has to save him. When Snoopy and Woodstock get back home, Snoopy cuts down the beanstalk with a chainsaw, and when Woodstock tries to plant a new garden, [[WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain Snoopy takes the key to his tractor]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Grimm Job" parodies several fairy tales read by Peter. One story is "Jack And The Beanstalk", where Peter is Jack, Stewie is the golden goose, and Chris is the giant.
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* In the ''[[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} The Charlie Brown And and Snoopy Show]]'' episode, episode "Snoopy and the Giant", a beanstalk grows in the garden that Woodstock has Snoopy make for him. When Snoopy and Woodstock climb the beanstalk, they come to the Giant's castle and find a room full of cookies. The Giant captures Woodstock and Snoopy has to save him. When Snoopy and Woodstock get back home, Snoopy cuts down the beanstalk with a chainsaw, and when Woodstock tries to plant a new garden, [[WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain Snoopy takes the key to his tractor]].
* On ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'', the ''Magnificent Muttley'' short "What's New, Old Bean?" spoofs "Jack and the Beanstalk". While on garden duty, Muttley imagines himself as Jack, and Dick Dastardly as the giant.
* The ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Grimm Job" parodies several fairy tales read by Peter. One story is "JackAnd The and the Beanstalk", where Peter is Jack, Stewie is the golden goose, and Chris is the giant.
* On ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'', the ''Magnificent Muttley'' short "What's New, Old Bean?" spoofs "Jack and the Beanstalk". While on garden duty, Muttley imagines himself as Jack, and Dick Dastardly as the giant.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheTomAndJerryShow'' short "Beanstalk Buddies", Tom and Jerry's last bean falls off their plate, through the floor of their shack and into the ground. While they sleep, the bean grows into a beanstalk. Tom and Jerry climb the beanstalk the next morning, and encounter a giant whose treasures include a talking harp and a goose that lays golden eggs. After they return home with the treasures and the giant's dog, Tom and Jerry enjoy a seven-course meal, made for them by the harp.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots'', "Jack and the Beanstalk" really happened, but it happened about 60-100 years ago, as evidenced by the fact that Jack is now an old man. The main plot is about Humpty Dumpty and Puss growing a second beanstalk.
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** One mini-game in ''VideoGame/MarioParty 5'' 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/PaperMario64'': In the sixth chapter, Mario has to help the flowers in Flower Fields in order to get a Magical Bean, Fertile Soil, and Miracle Water. He then uses these three items to grow a giant beanstalk that takes him to [[BubblyClouds Cloudy Climb]] high above Flower Fields, where the chapter boss resides.
** ''VideoGame/PaperMario64'': In the sixth chapter, Mario has to help the flowers in Flower Fields in order to get a Magical Bean, Fertile Soil, and Miracle Water. He then uses these three items to grow a giant beanstalk that takes him to [[BubblyClouds Cloudy Climb]] high above Flower Fields, where the chapter boss resides.
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** ''VideoGame/PaperMario64'':In 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 chapter, Mario has to help the flowers in Flower Fields in order to get a Magical Bean, Fertile Soil, Star Spirit and Miracle Water. He then uses these three items to grow a giant beanstalk that takes him to [[BubblyClouds Cloudy Climb]] high above Flower Fields, where the chapter boss resides.continues on his adventure.
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--> "...and then Jack chopped down the beanstalk, adding murder and ecological vandalism to the theft, enticement and trespass charges already mentioned, but he got away with it and lived happily ever after without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done. Which proves that you can be excused anything if you're a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions."
--> "...and then Jack chopped down the beanstalk, adding murder and ecological vandalism to the theft, enticement and trespass charges already mentioned, but he got away with it and lived happily ever after without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done. Which proves that you can be excused anything if you're a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions."
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TalesFromTheCryptKeeper'' episode "Chuck (and Melvin) and the Beanstalker", the titular brothers, returning from "Sleeping Beauty", find themselves in the castle from the tale. After they make off with the golden harp, it turns out to be merely ''painted'' gold. [[spoiler:The harp's ''strings'' on the other hand...]]
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* In ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'', the Level 10 quest has you find a way to stop the giant trash falling from the sky. You plant an enchanted bean in some giant coffee grounds and climb the beanstalk. You then adventure in the [[Franchise/FinalFantasy Penultimate Fantasy Airship]] to collect four Immaterias and give it to a guy who will make a smaller airboat that will take you to the Giant's Castle. Then you make your way through a number of hobby enthusiast giants to reach the chore wheel, and turn it so someone besides the Procrastination Giant picks up the trash.
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''Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk'' is one of the most iconic fairy tales, and as such, it is often parodied in media. These works will most often involve a giant beanstalk leading to a castle in the clouds, inhabited by a giant. The giant will often be guarding a DamselInDistress (most commonly, a living harp), a goose that can lay golden eggs, a vast amount of treasure, or any combination of the three. Some works may also have the twist that the giant may not actually be that big, and [[CompensatingForSomething is using the castle as compensation for his diminutive size]]. This trope is more commonly seen in surreal works, but in works more grounded in realism, this will often be used as story being told to the works' characters or used as an ImagineSpot by one of the characters.
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.
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* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'': In one comic, Jughead is reading ''Jack and the Beanstalk'' to Jellybean's class, but Jellybean spaces out and [[ImagineSpot imagines]] Jughead going up a beanstalk to find a goose who lays golden [[BlandNameProduct Pookey-Man cards]].
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* In ''Fanfic/DangerThanFiction'', a bookwalking spell gets the pony protagonists [[PortalBook sucked into the plots of numerous books]]. Near the end, as the spell starts to break down, they wind up as interlopers in a mash-up of two different versions of "Jack and the Beanstalk". The Giant is replaced by Gullfaxi from Myth/NorseMythology, and there are two Jacks invading the Giant's castle: the regular version from a straight telling of the fairy tale, and a cynical smart-ass (literally--he's a donkey) from a FracturedFairyTale version. The two Jacks get to arguing and take so long that [[IgnoredEnemy Gullfaxi eventually gets confused and just wanders away]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/FunAndFancyFree'': The second half of the film is a retelling of the story with WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse, WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck and WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} in the collective role of Jack.
* ''Anime/JackToMameNoKi'' is an anime retelling of the Jack and the Beanstalk story.
* In ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots'', "Jack and the Beanstalk" really happened, but it happened about 60-100 years ago, as evidenced by the fact that Jack is now an old man. The main plot is about Humpty Dumpty and Puss growing a second beanstalk.
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* ''Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story'' revolves around a descendent of Jack trying to undo the mistakes of his greedy ancestor.
* ''Film/JackTheGiantSlayer'' is an ActionizedAdaptation of the story, where there is an entire tribe of giants living in the sky, waging a war on humanity.
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* In ''Literature/TheBigOverEasy'', set in a world where fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters walk among us, Jack Spratt is an amalgam of several oral tradition characters named Jack. Minor plot elements subtly recreate the "Jack and the Beanstalk" story and build up towards the climax. Early on, he trades a Stubbs' cow painting his mother told him to sell for some magic beans, which create a huge beanstalk in his mother's backyard. In the climax of the book, [[spoiler: Jack climbs up, then falls off of the beanstalk in order to escape a ''giant'' bioengineered chicken-monster. Jack then chops down the beanstalk, and it falls down, killing the monster and its creator who was the villain of the story.]]
* In the kids' book ''Jim and the Beanstalk'', a boy named Jim climbs another beanstalk and meets the original giant's adult son.
* In ''Literature/RevoltingRhymes'', the "Jack and the Beanstalk" parody turns the mother into an AbusiveParent and {{Retcon}}s the reason the giant can smell people into being because they didn't wash.
* ''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.
* 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]].
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* The DreamSequence in the ''Series/GilligansIsland'' episode "V For Vitamins" features Gilligan in one of these, searching for "The Goose That Lays The Golden Oranges." Mrs. Howell plays his mother, Mr. Howell sells him the beans, and The Skipper is the Giant.
* ''Series/TheGoodies'': In "The Goodies and the Beanstalk", the Goodies fall on hard times, and Tim and Graeme send Bill to sell their trusty three-seater trandem. All the local townspeople find it ridiculous and Bill is humiliated by only being offered a tin of baked beans. Tim and Graeme are disgusted with only getting baked beans, instead of money, but Graeme gets the idea to plant a bean. This rapidly grows into an enormous beanstalk - reaching all the way from England to the summit of Mt. Everest. In hot pursuit of their beanstalk, the Goodies enter an "It's a Knockout" competition, which is being held at the foot of Mt. Everest. Among other things, the Goodies have to climb the beanstalk to the top of the mountain, as part of the contest. There, they find the Giant's castle and, in it, a Giant of surprising height who has a valuable secret to protect.
* Series/GreenAcres: The episode "Oliver and the Cornstalk" has Oliver's corn growing into an enormous cornstalk. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Eb and Lisa, who directly compare it to "Jack and the Beanstalk" and "Jacqueline and the Beanstalk", respectively (each comparison is followed by a child with that name climbing down). The Jolly Green Giant is also apparently at the top - we hear his laugh come from the clouds above, and he thows down several cans of vegetables, causing Eb to remark "Golly! We're in a TV commerical!"
* ''Series/MrYoung'': Invoked. "Mr. Freshman" involves [[TeenGenius Adam]] trying to convince [[ChildishOlderSibling Ivy]] to go to college by relating to her a story of how he also felt college was to difficult and went back to regular school (Adam being only [[ChildProdigy 9 at the time]]) and accidentally caused the class project of growing beans, to grow a massive Beanstalk trapping Mr Tater up the top. [[EccentricMentor Professor Fenway]] keeps trying to implement a giant into the story to fit with the fairy tale, to Adam's annoyance.
* 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.
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* ''Series/SesameStreet'':
** In one episode, Jack grows a beanstalk but refuses to climb it for fear of damaging it.
** In one of the news skits, Kermit climbs a beanstalk and meets a giant.
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* ''VideoGame/Action52'': Game 43 in the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis version is Magic Bean. In it, you control presumably Jack who has to climb the giant beanstalk while dodging objects thrown at him, like boots, swords, bottles, and horseshoes.
* Chapters 4, 5, and 6 of ''VideoGame/{{Bubsy}} in: Fractured Furry Tales'' are called "Out on a Limb", "Highly Stung", and "Jungle Furvor". These chapters are based on ''Jack and the Beanstalk'' and feature Bubsy climbing the titular beanstalk. "Jungle Furvor" takes place in the Giant's castle, although the boss is a normal-sized man in a pair of robot legs, rather than the Giant.
* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'': Getting one of Tiny Kong's golden bananas in Fungi Forest involves obtaining a magic bean from one area of the world and then planting it in another. The bean immediately grows into a giant talking beanstalk which gives Tiny a golden banana that she grabs using her Mini Monkey ability.
* ''Elmo and the Beanstalk'' is a LicensedGame of ''Series/SesameStreet'' involving Elmo collecting beans and climbing up a beanstalk.
* ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'': Kirby's current adventure has him climbing the giant flower tree called "Dreamstalk" in order to save the kidnapped Dedede, and he stumbles into a FloatingContinent called Floralia along the way.
* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse'' games:
** In ''VideoGame/MickeyMania: The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse'', the fifth level, ''Mickey and the Beanstalk'', is based on [[WesternAnimation/FunAndFancyFree the animated short of the same name from 1947]]. Mickey travels up the beanstalk and into Willie the Giant's Castle, where [[MeetYourEarlyInstallmentWeirdness he meets his 1947 counterpart]] at the end of the stage.
** 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.
** In ''Mickey Mouse 3: Dream Balloon'', Stage 3 takes place on Willie the Giant's beanstalk. Mickey must climb to the top of the beanstalk while dodging giant insects, flying eggs, [[PersonalRaincloud rain clouds]], and [[WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} Lucifer the Cat]]. The boss of the stage is Willie the Giant himself. A modified version of this level was also featured in its North American DolledUpInstallment, ''VideoGame/KidKlownInNightMayorWorld''.
* One of the missions in ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'' is called "The Great Moshi Beanstalk" and it's about Dr. Strangeglove, the main villain in the series, growing a giant beanstalk to nab the Moshlings (little animals that exist in the game) at the top. The player succeeds in saving the Moshlings, but not before being captured by a giant who mistakes them and two Moshlings named Burnie and Weeny for toys.
* In ''VideoGame/RugratsCastleCapers'', the "Beanstalk Babies" level takes place on the beanstalk from ''Jack and the Beanstalk''. Enemies in this level include anthromporphic beans and [[BigCreepyCrawlies giant insects]]. The boss of the level is Angelica as The Giant, although you don't actually have to fight her to defeat her, as the goal of the level is to rescue [[CompanionCube Kimi's Superthing doll]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons: Bart and the Beanstalk'' is a video game for the UsefulNotes/GameBoy that parodies the story of ''Jack and the Beanstalk'', with Bart in the role of Jack, Mr. Burns in the role of the bean dealer, and Homer in the role of the giant.
* ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon'': The level Charmed Ridge has a MiniDungeon that revolves around a man named Jack trying to find a golden goose on top of a tower using special seeds. You have to wisely use the seeds in order to reach the tower's top to help him.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** In ''VideoGame/MarioKart8'', part of Cloudtop Cruise takes place on a giant beanstalk.
** One mini-game in ''VideoGame/MarioParty 5'' 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/PaperMario64'': In the sixth chapter, Mario has to help the flowers in Flower Fields in order to get a Magical Bean, Fertile Soil, and Miracle Water. He then uses these three items to grow a giant beanstalk that takes him to [[BubblyClouds Cloudy Climb]] high above Flower Fields, where the chapter boss resides.
* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures: Buster and the Beanstalk'' (also known as ''The Great Beanstalk'') is a video game for the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation PS1]] and PC where the goal of the game is to get Buster Bunny and Plucky Duck into The Giant's castle by finding pieces of a key. This is done by using hints given by the loudspeaker (by Babs Bunny), and pointing and clicking on objects found in the game. There are a total of three keys to be found on Easy Mode, but changing the difficulty to Hard can give the player a longer adventure. [[AndCallHimGeorge Elmyra Duff]] takes on the role of a magical witch that can capture Buster or Plucky, hindering their quest for a bit.
* ''VideoGame/YoshisNewIsland'': The World 1 boss Big Beanie is fought at the top of the giant beanstalk he is attached to.
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* ''WebVideo/FiftyWaysToDieInMinecraft'': The Fairy Tale episode involves a few ''Jack and the Beanstalk'' parodies, which involve the giant crushing Jack after falling from the beanstalk and the giant refusing to eat an American because of "too much trans fat".
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily1992'' episode, "Jack and Jill and the Beanstalk", Uncle Fester has trouble sleeping, so Wednesday and Puggsley tell him the story of Jack and Jill and the Beanstalk, with Puggsley in the role of Jack, and Wednesday in the role of Jill. Jack and Jill recieve magic beans from the Big Bad Wolf when they loan him their alligator. When they get to the Giant's castle, the Giant is revealed to have an obsession with underwear, and has Rumpelstiltskin as his prisoner to make him a golden pair.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'':
** The short "The Warners and the Beanstalk" has Yakko, Wakko and Dot in a parody of the story, with Hello Nurse as the harp and Ralph as the giant. It later turns into a parody of ''Literature/GreenEggsAndHam'' when the Warners try to coax the giant with gold eggs and meat.
** The ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' special "Spell-Bound" features a cameo by the Warners (in a possible CallBack to the earlier short) retrieving a singing harp resembling Music/DeanMartin.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode, "Just Desserts", Arthur eats too much, and has [[AcidRefluxNightmare a fairy tale-esque dream]]. Part of his dream involves D.W. tossing antacid tablets into the ground and a beanstalk growing from them. When Arthur climbs to the top of the beanstalk, he encounters a giant made of eight years worth of food.
* WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts: The 1933 short ''Giantland'' has Mickey Mouse telling a group of mouse children the story with himself in the title role.
* The ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'' episode, "Duck and the Broccoli Stalk" provides a variation; Thanks to Dr. Von Goosewing's vegetable grower, Duckula, Igor and Nanny find themselves up a broccoli stalk and into a giant's castle.
* ''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 the ''[[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} The Charlie Brown And Snoopy Show]]'' episode, "Snoopy and the Giant", a beanstalk grows in the garden that Woodstock has Snoopy make for him. When Snoopy and Woodstock climb the beanstalk, they come to the Giant's castle and find a room full of cookies. The Giant captures Woodstock and Snoopy has to save him. When Snoopy and Woodstock get back home, Snoopy cuts down the beanstalk with a chainsaw, and when Woodstock tries to plant a new garden, [[WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain Snoopy takes the key to his tractor]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Grimm Job" parodies several fairy tales read by Peter. One story is "Jack And The Beanstalk", where Peter is Jack, Stewie is the golden goose, and Chris is the giant.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Leela and the Genestalk", Leela has a disease that makes her grow tentacles. A con man sells Fry some "magic beans" to allegedly cure Leela but Farnsworth throws them out the window and they grow a beanstalk. When they get to the top, they meet a giant, along with several other genetically-engineered people. However, there is nothing magical going on; the castle is a laboratory run by [[BigBad Mom]], and the giant is actually a human suffering from severe gigantism who volunteered to try Mom's genetic engineering as a cure. The beans and the resulting beanstalk are also the result of her genetic experiments.
* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'': The ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' segment, "Jack II: The Rest of the Story" begins with Orson reading the story of ''Jack and the Beanstalk'' to Booker, Sheldon, Wade, and Roy. The four decide to write their own sequel to the story after questioning the ending of Jack having an unconscious giant in his front yard. In this sequel, Jack is arrested for theft, attempted murder of a giant, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and chopping beanstalks out of season]]. Meanwhile, the giant takes back the Goose that lays golden eggs and uses the gold to turn his castle into a mini-mall.
* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'': The episode "Johnny And The Beanstalk" revolves around Johnny growing a giant beanstalk, although this version uses cereal pieces instead of magic beans.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
** The 1942 short ''Foney Fables'' has a scene where Jack is chased down the beanstalk by a two-headed giant. The giant pauses after a while because one of his heads is sick.
** 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 1954 short ''Goo Goo Goliath'' has a drunken stork mistakenly delivering a giant baby, who was meant to go to the top of the beanstalk, to a normal-sized couple.
** The 1955 short ''Beanstalk Bunny'' features Daffy Duck in the Jack role, Elmer Fudd as the giant, and Bugs...well, he's just along for the ride.
** 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.
--->'''Giant:''' Fe, fi, fo, fat! [[BorrowedCatchphrase I tawt I taw a putty tat!]]
*''WesternAnimation/MadJackThePirate'': The penultimate episode ''Mad Jack and the Beanstalk'', Snuk loses the money Mad Jack gave him to pay off Jack's landlord to a conman, and is left with beans tied to string. Jack throws the beans in the sea resulting in a giant bean stalk growing. Like in the fairy tale, they find a giant's castle on top of the beanstalk, and eventually rob it of a single, gigantic coin which they use to pay off the landlord.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'': In the episode "Gets Planted", the class does a play of "Jack and the Beanstalk".
* ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'': The Season 1 episode "Pups and the Beanstalk" revolves around Rubble dreaming of an adventure based on ''Jack and the Beanstalk''. This dream is the result of an earlier incident where Chickaletta ate some seeds that were meant to be planted in Yumil's farm. In the dream, Alex Porter is a giant, and the first who tries to climb the beanstalk is Marshall.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/PegPlusCat'' episode "The Giant Problem", Peg, Cat, the Three Billy Goats Gruff, the Three Bears, and two of the Three Little Pigs are up a beanstalk and the giant and his wife want to have lunch with them, but they think that they want to have ''them'' for lunch, so they escape and cut the beanstalk down, but the giants turn out to be friendly, and they make later appearances in other episodes.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'': The 1943 short ''Ration fer the Duration'' (remade in 1951 as ''Let's Stalk Spinach'') has Popeye dreaming about climbing a giant spinach-stalk that his nephews grew.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'':
** In "The Magic Baby", after Grandpa Lou tells the babies the story of ''Jack and the Beanstalk'', they become convinced that Dil has eaten some magic beans (really some bean-shaped pieces of cereal) and that he now possesses the ability to grant wishes.
** The direct-to-video ''Tales from the Crib'' special "Three Jacks and a Beanstalk", with the babies collectively playing the role of Jack, and Angelica is the giant.
* ''WesternAnimation/SecretSquirrel'': In "Cuckoo Clock Cuckoo", a giant steals the face of Big Ben for his cuckoo clock, and Secret and Morocco have to go to the top of the beanstalk (which conveniently contains an elevator) to retrieve it.
* In the ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' episode, "Mario and the Beanstalk", Mario sells Princess Toadstool's royal cow to raise money for the Mushroom Kingdom Orphanage. Dealin' Delbert gives them garbanzo bean seeds, which grow into a beanstalk. Inside the Giant's Castle, King Koopa takes on the role of the Giant thanks to a magic spell he cast upon himself, and guards a goose that can lay gold coins. It's up to Mario and his friends to rescue the goose and the Mushroom Kingdom Orphanage.
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''Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk'' is one of the most iconic fairy tales, and as such, it is often parodied in media. These works will most often involve a giant beanstalk leading to a castle in the clouds, inhabited by a giant. The giant will often be guarding a DamselInDistress (most commonly, a living harp), a goose that can lay golden eggs, a vast amount of treasure, or any combination of the three. Some works may also have the twist that the giant may not actually be that big, and [[CompensatingForSomething is using the castle as compensation for his diminutive size]]. This trope is more commonly seen in surreal works, but in works more grounded in realism, this will often be used as story being told to the works' characters or used as an ImagineSpot by one of the characters.
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.
Supertrope of a FairyTaleEpisode and a FracturedFairyTale. Also a subtrope of WholePlotReference and JourneyToTheSky.
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* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'': In one comic, Jughead is reading ''Jack and the Beanstalk'' to Jellybean's class, but Jellybean spaces out and [[ImagineSpot imagines]] Jughead going up a beanstalk to find a goose who lays golden [[BlandNameProduct Pookey-Man cards]].
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* In ''Fanfic/DangerThanFiction'', a bookwalking spell gets the pony protagonists [[PortalBook sucked into the plots of numerous books]]. Near the end, as the spell starts to break down, they wind up as interlopers in a mash-up of two different versions of "Jack and the Beanstalk". The Giant is replaced by Gullfaxi from Myth/NorseMythology, and there are two Jacks invading the Giant's castle: the regular version from a straight telling of the fairy tale, and a cynical smart-ass (literally--he's a donkey) from a FracturedFairyTale version. The two Jacks get to arguing and take so long that [[IgnoredEnemy Gullfaxi eventually gets confused and just wanders away]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/FunAndFancyFree'': The second half of the film is a retelling of the story with WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse, WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck and WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} in the collective role of Jack.
* ''Anime/JackToMameNoKi'' is an anime retelling of the Jack and the Beanstalk story.
* In ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots'', "Jack and the Beanstalk" really happened, but it happened about 60-100 years ago, as evidenced by the fact that Jack is now an old man. The main plot is about Humpty Dumpty and Puss growing a second beanstalk.
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* ''Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story'' revolves around a descendent of Jack trying to undo the mistakes of his greedy ancestor.
* ''Film/JackTheGiantSlayer'' is an ActionizedAdaptation of the story, where there is an entire tribe of giants living in the sky, waging a war on humanity.
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* In ''Literature/TheBigOverEasy'', set in a world where fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters walk among us, Jack Spratt is an amalgam of several oral tradition characters named Jack. Minor plot elements subtly recreate the "Jack and the Beanstalk" story and build up towards the climax. Early on, he trades a Stubbs' cow painting his mother told him to sell for some magic beans, which create a huge beanstalk in his mother's backyard. In the climax of the book, [[spoiler: Jack climbs up, then falls off of the beanstalk in order to escape a ''giant'' bioengineered chicken-monster. Jack then chops down the beanstalk, and it falls down, killing the monster and its creator who was the villain of the story.]]
* In the kids' book ''Jim and the Beanstalk'', a boy named Jim climbs another beanstalk and meets the original giant's adult son.
* In ''Literature/RevoltingRhymes'', the "Jack and the Beanstalk" parody turns the mother into an AbusiveParent and {{Retcon}}s the reason the giant can smell people into being because they didn't wash.
* ''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.
* 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]].
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* The DreamSequence in the ''Series/GilligansIsland'' episode "V For Vitamins" features Gilligan in one of these, searching for "The Goose That Lays The Golden Oranges." Mrs. Howell plays his mother, Mr. Howell sells him the beans, and The Skipper is the Giant.
* ''Series/TheGoodies'': In "The Goodies and the Beanstalk", the Goodies fall on hard times, and Tim and Graeme send Bill to sell their trusty three-seater trandem. All the local townspeople find it ridiculous and Bill is humiliated by only being offered a tin of baked beans. Tim and Graeme are disgusted with only getting baked beans, instead of money, but Graeme gets the idea to plant a bean. This rapidly grows into an enormous beanstalk - reaching all the way from England to the summit of Mt. Everest. In hot pursuit of their beanstalk, the Goodies enter an "It's a Knockout" competition, which is being held at the foot of Mt. Everest. Among other things, the Goodies have to climb the beanstalk to the top of the mountain, as part of the contest. There, they find the Giant's castle and, in it, a Giant of surprising height who has a valuable secret to protect.
* Series/GreenAcres: The episode "Oliver and the Cornstalk" has Oliver's corn growing into an enormous cornstalk. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Eb and Lisa, who directly compare it to "Jack and the Beanstalk" and "Jacqueline and the Beanstalk", respectively (each comparison is followed by a child with that name climbing down). The Jolly Green Giant is also apparently at the top - we hear his laugh come from the clouds above, and he thows down several cans of vegetables, causing Eb to remark "Golly! We're in a TV commerical!"
* ''Series/MrYoung'': Invoked. "Mr. Freshman" involves [[TeenGenius Adam]] trying to convince [[ChildishOlderSibling Ivy]] to go to college by relating to her a story of how he also felt college was to difficult and went back to regular school (Adam being only [[ChildProdigy 9 at the time]]) and accidentally caused the class project of growing beans, to grow a massive Beanstalk trapping Mr Tater up the top. [[EccentricMentor Professor Fenway]] keeps trying to implement a giant into the story to fit with the fairy tale, to Adam's annoyance.
* 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.
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* ''Series/SesameStreet'':
** In one episode, Jack grows a beanstalk but refuses to climb it for fear of damaging it.
** In one of the news skits, Kermit climbs a beanstalk and meets a giant.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/Action52'': Game 43 in the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis version is Magic Bean. In it, you control presumably Jack who has to climb the giant beanstalk while dodging objects thrown at him, like boots, swords, bottles, and horseshoes.
* Chapters 4, 5, and 6 of ''VideoGame/{{Bubsy}} in: Fractured Furry Tales'' are called "Out on a Limb", "Highly Stung", and "Jungle Furvor". These chapters are based on ''Jack and the Beanstalk'' and feature Bubsy climbing the titular beanstalk. "Jungle Furvor" takes place in the Giant's castle, although the boss is a normal-sized man in a pair of robot legs, rather than the Giant.
* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'': Getting one of Tiny Kong's golden bananas in Fungi Forest involves obtaining a magic bean from one area of the world and then planting it in another. The bean immediately grows into a giant talking beanstalk which gives Tiny a golden banana that she grabs using her Mini Monkey ability.
* ''Elmo and the Beanstalk'' is a LicensedGame of ''Series/SesameStreet'' involving Elmo collecting beans and climbing up a beanstalk.
* ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'': Kirby's current adventure has him climbing the giant flower tree called "Dreamstalk" in order to save the kidnapped Dedede, and he stumbles into a FloatingContinent called Floralia along the way.
* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse'' games:
** In ''VideoGame/MickeyMania: The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse'', the fifth level, ''Mickey and the Beanstalk'', is based on [[WesternAnimation/FunAndFancyFree the animated short of the same name from 1947]]. Mickey travels up the beanstalk and into Willie the Giant's Castle, where [[MeetYourEarlyInstallmentWeirdness he meets his 1947 counterpart]] at the end of the stage.
** 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.
** In ''Mickey Mouse 3: Dream Balloon'', Stage 3 takes place on Willie the Giant's beanstalk. Mickey must climb to the top of the beanstalk while dodging giant insects, flying eggs, [[PersonalRaincloud rain clouds]], and [[WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} Lucifer the Cat]]. The boss of the stage is Willie the Giant himself. A modified version of this level was also featured in its North American DolledUpInstallment, ''VideoGame/KidKlownInNightMayorWorld''.
* One of the missions in ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'' is called "The Great Moshi Beanstalk" and it's about Dr. Strangeglove, the main villain in the series, growing a giant beanstalk to nab the Moshlings (little animals that exist in the game) at the top. The player succeeds in saving the Moshlings, but not before being captured by a giant who mistakes them and two Moshlings named Burnie and Weeny for toys.
* In ''VideoGame/RugratsCastleCapers'', the "Beanstalk Babies" level takes place on the beanstalk from ''Jack and the Beanstalk''. Enemies in this level include anthromporphic beans and [[BigCreepyCrawlies giant insects]]. The boss of the level is Angelica as The Giant, although you don't actually have to fight her to defeat her, as the goal of the level is to rescue [[CompanionCube Kimi's Superthing doll]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons: Bart and the Beanstalk'' is a video game for the UsefulNotes/GameBoy that parodies the story of ''Jack and the Beanstalk'', with Bart in the role of Jack, Mr. Burns in the role of the bean dealer, and Homer in the role of the giant.
* ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon'': The level Charmed Ridge has a MiniDungeon that revolves around a man named Jack trying to find a golden goose on top of a tower using special seeds. You have to wisely use the seeds in order to reach the tower's top to help him.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** In ''VideoGame/MarioKart8'', part of Cloudtop Cruise takes place on a giant beanstalk.
** One mini-game in ''VideoGame/MarioParty 5'' 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/PaperMario64'': In the sixth chapter, Mario has to help the flowers in Flower Fields in order to get a Magical Bean, Fertile Soil, and Miracle Water. He then uses these three items to grow a giant beanstalk that takes him to [[BubblyClouds Cloudy Climb]] high above Flower Fields, where the chapter boss resides.
* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures: Buster and the Beanstalk'' (also known as ''The Great Beanstalk'') is a video game for the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation PS1]] and PC where the goal of the game is to get Buster Bunny and Plucky Duck into The Giant's castle by finding pieces of a key. This is done by using hints given by the loudspeaker (by Babs Bunny), and pointing and clicking on objects found in the game. There are a total of three keys to be found on Easy Mode, but changing the difficulty to Hard can give the player a longer adventure. [[AndCallHimGeorge Elmyra Duff]] takes on the role of a magical witch that can capture Buster or Plucky, hindering their quest for a bit.
* ''VideoGame/YoshisNewIsland'': The World 1 boss Big Beanie is fought at the top of the giant beanstalk he is attached to.
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* ''WebVideo/FiftyWaysToDieInMinecraft'': The Fairy Tale episode involves a few ''Jack and the Beanstalk'' parodies, which involve the giant crushing Jack after falling from the beanstalk and the giant refusing to eat an American because of "too much trans fat".
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily1992'' episode, "Jack and Jill and the Beanstalk", Uncle Fester has trouble sleeping, so Wednesday and Puggsley tell him the story of Jack and Jill and the Beanstalk, with Puggsley in the role of Jack, and Wednesday in the role of Jill. Jack and Jill recieve magic beans from the Big Bad Wolf when they loan him their alligator. When they get to the Giant's castle, the Giant is revealed to have an obsession with underwear, and has Rumpelstiltskin as his prisoner to make him a golden pair.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'':
** The short "The Warners and the Beanstalk" has Yakko, Wakko and Dot in a parody of the story, with Hello Nurse as the harp and Ralph as the giant. It later turns into a parody of ''Literature/GreenEggsAndHam'' when the Warners try to coax the giant with gold eggs and meat.
** The ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' special "Spell-Bound" features a cameo by the Warners (in a possible CallBack to the earlier short) retrieving a singing harp resembling Music/DeanMartin.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' episode, "Just Desserts", Arthur eats too much, and has [[AcidRefluxNightmare a fairy tale-esque dream]]. Part of his dream involves D.W. tossing antacid tablets into the ground and a beanstalk growing from them. When Arthur climbs to the top of the beanstalk, he encounters a giant made of eight years worth of food.
* WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts: The 1933 short ''Giantland'' has Mickey Mouse telling a group of mouse children the story with himself in the title role.
* The ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'' episode, "Duck and the Broccoli Stalk" provides a variation; Thanks to Dr. Von Goosewing's vegetable grower, Duckula, Igor and Nanny find themselves up a broccoli stalk and into a giant's castle.
* ''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 the ''[[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} The Charlie Brown And Snoopy Show]]'' episode, "Snoopy and the Giant", a beanstalk grows in the garden that Woodstock has Snoopy make for him. When Snoopy and Woodstock climb the beanstalk, they come to the Giant's castle and find a room full of cookies. The Giant captures Woodstock and Snoopy has to save him. When Snoopy and Woodstock get back home, Snoopy cuts down the beanstalk with a chainsaw, and when Woodstock tries to plant a new garden, [[WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain Snoopy takes the key to his tractor]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Grimm Job" parodies several fairy tales read by Peter. One story is "Jack And The Beanstalk", where Peter is Jack, Stewie is the golden goose, and Chris is the giant.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Leela and the Genestalk", Leela has a disease that makes her grow tentacles. A con man sells Fry some "magic beans" to allegedly cure Leela but Farnsworth throws them out the window and they grow a beanstalk. When they get to the top, they meet a giant, along with several other genetically-engineered people. However, there is nothing magical going on; the castle is a laboratory run by [[BigBad Mom]], and the giant is actually a human suffering from severe gigantism who volunteered to try Mom's genetic engineering as a cure. The beans and the resulting beanstalk are also the result of her genetic experiments.
* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'': The ''ComicStrip/USAcres'' segment, "Jack II: The Rest of the Story" begins with Orson reading the story of ''Jack and the Beanstalk'' to Booker, Sheldon, Wade, and Roy. The four decide to write their own sequel to the story after questioning the ending of Jack having an unconscious giant in his front yard. In this sequel, Jack is arrested for theft, attempted murder of a giant, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and chopping beanstalks out of season]]. Meanwhile, the giant takes back the Goose that lays golden eggs and uses the gold to turn his castle into a mini-mall.
* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'': The episode "Johnny And The Beanstalk" revolves around Johnny growing a giant beanstalk, although this version uses cereal pieces instead of magic beans.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
** The 1942 short ''Foney Fables'' has a scene where Jack is chased down the beanstalk by a two-headed giant. The giant pauses after a while because one of his heads is sick.
** 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 1954 short ''Goo Goo Goliath'' has a drunken stork mistakenly delivering a giant baby, who was meant to go to the top of the beanstalk, to a normal-sized couple.
** The 1955 short ''Beanstalk Bunny'' features Daffy Duck in the Jack role, Elmer Fudd as the giant, and Bugs...well, he's just along for the ride.
** 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.
--->'''Giant:''' Fe, fi, fo, fat! [[BorrowedCatchphrase I tawt I taw a putty tat!]]
*''WesternAnimation/MadJackThePirate'': The penultimate episode ''Mad Jack and the Beanstalk'', Snuk loses the money Mad Jack gave him to pay off Jack's landlord to a conman, and is left with beans tied to string. Jack throws the beans in the sea resulting in a giant bean stalk growing. Like in the fairy tale, they find a giant's castle on top of the beanstalk, and eventually rob it of a single, gigantic coin which they use to pay off the landlord.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'': In the episode "Gets Planted", the class does a play of "Jack and the Beanstalk".
* ''WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol'': The Season 1 episode "Pups and the Beanstalk" revolves around Rubble dreaming of an adventure based on ''Jack and the Beanstalk''. This dream is the result of an earlier incident where Chickaletta ate some seeds that were meant to be planted in Yumil's farm. In the dream, Alex Porter is a giant, and the first who tries to climb the beanstalk is Marshall.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/PegPlusCat'' episode "The Giant Problem", Peg, Cat, the Three Billy Goats Gruff, the Three Bears, and two of the Three Little Pigs are up a beanstalk and the giant and his wife want to have lunch with them, but they think that they want to have ''them'' for lunch, so they escape and cut the beanstalk down, but the giants turn out to be friendly, and they make later appearances in other episodes.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'': The 1943 short ''Ration fer the Duration'' (remade in 1951 as ''Let's Stalk Spinach'') has Popeye dreaming about climbing a giant spinach-stalk that his nephews grew.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'':
** In "The Magic Baby", after Grandpa Lou tells the babies the story of ''Jack and the Beanstalk'', they become convinced that Dil has eaten some magic beans (really some bean-shaped pieces of cereal) and that he now possesses the ability to grant wishes.
** The direct-to-video ''Tales from the Crib'' special "Three Jacks and a Beanstalk", with the babies collectively playing the role of Jack, and Angelica is the giant.
* ''WesternAnimation/SecretSquirrel'': In "Cuckoo Clock Cuckoo", a giant steals the face of Big Ben for his cuckoo clock, and Secret and Morocco have to go to the top of the beanstalk (which conveniently contains an elevator) to retrieve it.
* In the ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' episode, "Mario and the Beanstalk", Mario sells Princess Toadstool's royal cow to raise money for the Mushroom Kingdom Orphanage. Dealin' Delbert gives them garbanzo bean seeds, which grow into a beanstalk. Inside the Giant's Castle, King Koopa takes on the role of the Giant thanks to a magic spell he cast upon himself, and guards a goose that can lay gold coins. It's up to Mario and his friends to rescue the goose and the Mushroom Kingdom Orphanage.
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