History WesternAnimation / GrizzlyTalesForGruesomeKids

* AdaptationalNameChange:
** The P. E. kit in "Tag" belonged to A. Phantom in the original, instead of the cartoon's phantom judge Jim Spectre.

** "Fatal Attraction" was renamed "Nerves of Steel".

* DeadAllAlong: The twist ending to both [[spoiler:"Grandmother's Footsteps"]] and [[spoiler:"Athlete's Foot"]] involve the protagonist realizing that the elderly person they interacted with was a ghost the whole time.

* DeathOfAChild: The series as a whole is infamous for explicitly featuring this trope on the most frequent basis and often in some of the most violent ways of perhaps ''any'' actual [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids "children's"]] series in animation.
* DepravedKidsShowHost: Uncle Grizzly.

* FriendlyNeighborhoodSpider: Spindleshanks, which makes his abuse much more harrowing.

* HereWeGoAgain: "Revenge of the Bogeyman" has Dee persuaded by the Bogeyman who lives in her nose to stop picking her nose and playing wit her boogers, but at the end she switches to picking wax from her ears and is implied by Uncle Grizzly to soon be at the mercy of the Wax Woman who lives in her ears.

* JerkAss: Most of the kids.

* NightmareFuel:[[invoked]] Intentional.

* ScareEmStraight: The point of the show. Viewers were known to have nightmares after watching the series.

* UniversalAdaptorCast: Every episode is guaranteed to have the same character models from another episode. Since the stories are set in different places, these recognisable faces in the background aren't playing the same people, but viewers have fun pointing out what other stories they've seen certain extras star in.

* DeadAllAlong: The twist ending to both [[spoiler:"Grandmother's Footsteps"]] and [[spoiler:"Athlete's Foot"]].

** The TV series version of "Doctor Moribundus" leaves Loralilee's treatment [[TheUnreveal out of the story]]. This is most likely because her fate in the book would be ''[[UpToEleven too graphic]] [[EverybodyHasStandards and frightening]]'' for the [[MediaWatchdog cartoon's target audience]].

* AnachronismStew: School headmasters' typical representation in episodes is an angry moustachioed man holding a cane. Schools [[DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff beating children for punishment]] wasn't outlawed in the UK until the 1980s, making many school stories seem like an inverse of {{Zeerust}}. The worst offender is "The Barber of Civil", despite the acknowledgement it's a tale of a long-forgotten town -- the school tropes are too wide to pinpoint what moment of the 20th century this is meant to be, from the headmaster with a cane (before the 1980s), the school having a matron (1950s), being forced to take part in P.E. in your underwear (mid-20th century), to students standing whenever an adult enters the classroom (associated with World War Two education).

When a new series returned after a four-year hiatus (retitled ''Grizzly Tales -- Cautionary Tales for Lovers of Squeam''), the introductions were relocated to the [=HotHell=], a [=3D=] CGI hotel that implied links to the underworld. Although Planer remained as the host, the storyteller was now Uncle Grizzly's half-brother, The Night Night Porter, and the stories were still [=2D=] animated but in an updated art style. For some long-time viewers, this new update wasn't received well, which might have contributed to the show's abrupt end.[[note]]Not helping that the CITV show was constantly [[AdoredByTheNetwork re-aired]] across ''several'' children's channels...[[/note]]

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* TheHunterBecomesTheHunted: "The City Fox" is about a rich family moves into a working-class suburb and discover that their neighbours have a fox as a pet. The son and daughter of the family decided to gather their old friends from the country together and hunt the fox, but the fox manages to outsmart them [[spoiler:and the police are called. The gang of rich kids sneak into the sewers to wait out the police stick-up and are still down there to this day]].

** We are told in "It's Only a Game, Sport!" that Bruce and Kitty's parents were once a popular athletic power couple in the Australian sporting world and hoped that [[ChildProdigy their children could carry on their legacy]], so if you only saw the cartoon version where this backstory isn't included, Bruce has a [[{{justified}} very understandable reason]] to be [[WellDoneSonGuy bad-tempered about sports]]!

** In "The Recyclops" There is a blatent reference to [[Series/TheYoungOnes The Young Ones]] with Mike and Vvyien appearing on an quiz show in a reference to the episode Bambi. It also crosses into ActorAllusion given the narrator, Nigel Planer was cast as one of the shows main characters.

** In "The Recyclops" There is a blatent reference to the [[Series/TheYoungOnes]] with Mike and Vvyien appearing on an quiz show in a reference to the episode Bambi. It also crosses into ActorAllusion given the narrator, Nigel Planer was cast as one of the shows main characters.

** In "The Recyclops" There is a blatent reference to the [[Television/TheYoungOnes]] with Mike and Vvyien appearing on an quiz show in a reference to the episode Bambi. It also crosses into ActorAllusion given the narrator, Nigel Planer was cast as one of the shows main characters.

* WouldHitAGirl: Johnny Bullneck in "Fat Kid with a Trumpet" willingly hits girls, which makes his eventual comeuppance all the more satisfying.

* AnAesop: [[Aesop/GrizzlyTalesForGruesomeKids Too many to fit on this page.]]

* 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)

* UnfortunateNames: Some names of the characters skirt this. Trueman Snuffle only got this when the starving piglets heard his nickname "Truffle" (a portmanteau of his first and last name) and they assumed that he ''was'' a truffle (most likely, truffle chocolate).

* KidsAreCruel: 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]].

* ReplacedTheThemeTune: The orchestral theme from the original series has a noticeable change once the claymation segments end. Every episode in the final season has a had a completely different theme from before; compare the opening from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieD7Yzft5XE a season one]] episode to one from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYp5Y_neWBc season six]].

* WidgetSeries: Pretty much a wabbit.

* InfantImmortality: Regularly, notoriously averted with numerous school-age kids, but notably played straight with a literal infant in ''Prince Noman''; nothing bad happens to him at the end due to him not being the AntiRoleModel subject of the episode's ostensible moral at all, and in fact, [[spoiler:the mutilation that ultimately ''does'' befall the story's decidedly adult AssholeVictims is what ends up ''curing'' Noman's ailment]].

Based on a [[Literature/GrizzlyTalesForGruesomeKids children's book series of the same name]] by Jamie Rix, ''Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids'' is a British {{Nightmare Fuel}}led SpaceWhaleAesop animated series, narrated by the host Nigel Planer (best known for starring in ''Series/TheYoungOnes''). The series began in 2000 and ended in 2007 but was later revived briefly in 2011 for two seasons. Think ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'' for Creator/{{CITV}}.

When a new series (albeit InNameOnly) returned after a four-year hiatus (retitled ''Grizzly Tales -- Cautionary Tales for Lovers of Squeam''), the introductions were relocated to the [=HotHell=], a [=3D=] CGI hotel that implied links to the underworld. Although Planer remained as the host, the storyteller was now Uncle Grizzly's half-brother, The Night Night Porter, and the stories were still [=2D=] animated but in an updated art style. For some long-time viewers, this new update wasn't received well, which might have contributed to the show's abrupt end.

** Downplayed with Johnny Bullneck, who was a FatBastard that bullied other kids in "Fat Boy with a Trumpet", but in the cartoon, he looks more like an [[AdaptationalCurves early bloomer]], albeit an unfortunate-looking early bloomer.

** Tom and Jerry ([[WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry no, not those guys]]) from "The Nuclear Wart" were renamed Jim and Terry.

* StockSoundEffect: In the original intro, the death scream of the Evil Queen from ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'' (also recycled as Maleficent's death scream in ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhite'') can be heard.

* StockFootage: Frequently the show would repeat the same chunks of animation in a story, and other times whole backgrounds and settings would be lifted from other episodes.