History WesternAnimation / GrizzlyTalesForGruesomeKids

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Benjamin in "The Top Hat" steals a magician's top hat, which can grant wishes, and he soon abuses it's power to get everything he wants, but when he's cornered by the magician and his parents he wishes that he "wasn't here" - so a hand pulls him into the hat, and he vanishes inside it (but is hined to still be in there, somewhere).

* YankTheDogsChain: "Goblin Mountain" ends with the ordeal being AllJustADream...[[ThatWasNotADream only for the boy to turn into a tree after all when he wakes up the]] ''[[ThatWasNotADream next]]'' [[ThatWasNotADream morning.]]

* Foreshadowing: Several episodes will tend to have a recuring scene, which lasts for only a second or so, which foreshadows the final fate of the kid in today's story.

* NoSympathy: Truffles from "The cloths pigs" takes the cake. He treats his parents like slavves. His mother breaks her leg. His response? Demand she make his dinner, then when its apparent she's in too much pain to. Rather than call an ambulance, he mockingly 'calls her an ambulance' and leaves to get a take away leaving the poor woman to suffer until her husband comes in.

* AdultsAreUseless: One reason that the kids need such an extreme and often deadly punishment, is because their parents don't even try to discipline them, and when they do, they make a very poor job of it.
** Special mention goes to Araminta's parents in "Superstitious Nonsense", as they blatantly fall for pretty much every fake superstition she tells them (even though, she lies the way most kids her age would - very badly)
* AndIMustScream: The fate of Thomas Ratchet in the episode "Sweets." he gets turned into a paper mache statue at the end of the episode. He can only move his eyes.
** Even more suited to the fate of the ever-talkative Jack in "Jack In The Box", who - at the end of his tale - is turned by a magician/ventriloquist into a dummy...with a zipped-shut mouth.

* HellHotel: The Hot[[note h]]el[[note l]] Darkness, which was the Storyteller's setting in the later episodes.

* HellHotel: The Hot[[note: h]]el[[note: l]] Darkness, which was the Storyteller's setting in the later episodes.

* Foreshadowing: Several episodes will tend to have a recuring scene, which lasts for only a second or so, which foreshadows the final fate of the kid in today's story.

* ForeShadowing: Several episodes will tend to have a recuring scene, which lasts for only a second or so, which foreshadows the final fate of the kid in today's story.

* Foreshadowing: Several episodes will tend to have a recuring scene, which lasts for only a second or so, which foreshadows the final fate of the kid in today's story.

* AssholeVictim: Every kid a story centered around is an obnoxious BrattyHalfPint with next to no redeeming aspects, not to say the large majority of their fates aren't completely disproportionate.

* YankTheDogsChain: "Goblin Mountain" ends with the ordeal being AllJustADream...only for the boy to turn into a tree after all when he wakes up the ''next'' morning.

* InfantImmortality: Averted.

* AndIMustScream: The fate of Thomas Ratchet in the episode "Sweets." he gets turned into a paper mache statue at the end of the episode.

* AndIMustScream: The fate of Thomas Ratchet in the episode "Sweets."

* [[LetsMeetTheMeat Let's Meet The Pasta]]: The basis for the episode "The Spaghetti Man".

* KarmicTransformation:

* AssholeVictim: Pretty much every kid a story centered around is an obnoxious BrattyHalfPint with next to no redeeming aspects, not to say the large majority of their fates aren't completely disproportionate.

* InfantImmortality: '''COMPLETELY''' Averted.
* KidsAreCruel: So much it's justification for having them eaten by trolls, being trapped inside a photo or turning them into a gold statue, or even turning into a [[ItMakesSenseInContext Chocolate-fly]].

* KidsAreCruel: So much it's justification for having them eaten by trolls, trapped inside a photo or turning them into a gold statue.

* '''WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids''': No, ''seriously''.

A SpaceWhaleAesop-tastic kid's show, depicting the [[NightmareFuel terrifying consequences]] of behaving badly.

A SpaceWhaleAesop-tastic kid's show, depicting the [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel terrifying consequences]] of behaving badly.