History WesternAnimation / TalesFromTheGooseLady

* DisproportionateRetribution: In "The Egg Who Would Be King", Humpty Dumpty orders his advisor to be executed for the trivial offense of telling him to do something about his subject's problems.

* DisproportionateRetribution: In "The Egg Who Would Be King", Humpty Dumpty orders his advisor to be executed for the trivial offense of telling him to do something about his subject's problems.

* DisproportionateRetribution: In "The Egg Who Would Be King", Humpty Dumpty orders his servant to be executed for the trivial offense of telling him to do something about his subject's problems.

* LazyBum: When Humpty Dumpty becomes king in "The Egg Who Would Be King", his subjects grow to despise him because he'd rather laze around eating junk food and watching TV than doing anything to help with their problems.

''Tales from the Goose Lady'' is in a similar position as another Oh Yeah! Cartoons program, ''WesternAnimation/MinaAndTheCount'', in that a total of six episodes were made, making it a kind of MiniSeries. The series is available through Itunes and Amazon Video.

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Dot and Randy eventually give the Goose Lady a taste of her own medicine in the final short "Dot and Randy's Sad Tale of Woe" by tying her to a tree and reading a story to her that casts them as a pair of gifted children who are supposed to remove a golden abacus from a stone to start an age of enlightenment, only to fail to make it to the stone before it disappears for another 500 years due to being exhausted from an unflattering representation of the Goose Lady distracting them with her stories. All the Goose Lady learns from this is that Dot and Randy are lousy storytellers.

* KarmaHoudini: The Goose Lady never gets punished for interfering with Dot and Randy's attempts at doing well in school in order to force them to listen to her stories.

-->'''The Goose Lady''': You think this is easy for me? Look at me ''LOOK AT ME! I'M A TALKING GOOSE WITH FAIRY WINGS!'' I'm an outcast! All I ''have'' are these stories! (''sobs hysterically'')

-->'''The Goose Lady''': You think this is easy for me? Look at me ''LOOK AT ME! I'M A TALKING GOOSE WITH FAIRY WINGS!'' I'm an outcast! My stories are all I have! (''sobs hysterically'')

* ButtMonkey: Dot and Randy are always forced to listen to the Goose Lady's stories and in the process have their attendance and performance rates at school being put in jeopardy, whether from the Goose Lady keeping them up at night when there is an exam tomorrow or from the Goose Lady making them miss the school bus.

* KafkaKomedy: The Goose Lady's rendition of Hansel and Gretel. Hansel and Gretel are two greedy fat kids who keep trying to eat the Witch's candy house. Ever time the Witch tries to stop them, they cry for help and a nearby Woodsman, assuming the Witch is trying to eat the kids, attacks her with his ax. The pattern repeats itself until the Witch's home is nearly entirely gone. She then constructs a new house made out of liver, which repulses Hansel and Gretel... but it turns out the Woodsman loves liver and starts eating the house while the Witch breaks down into tears.

* ThrowTheSogABone: "A Fisherman, A Fisherman's Wife and a Fish" ends with the Goose Lady yet again running away before she can face repercussions for her actions, but Dot and Randy are at least able to get away before getting wrongly punished for the Goose Lady scribbling on the museum's paintings.

* BrokenAesop: The stories morals are often nonsensical and terrible, as Dot and Randy often point out.

''Tales from the Goose Lady'' is in a similar position as another Oh Yeah! Cartoons program, ''WesternAnimation/MinaAndTheCount'', in that a total of six episodes were made, making it a kind of MiniSeries. One may speculate that the reason ''Tales From the Goose Lady'' never became a full series was because Dave Wasson decided to take his talents to Cartoon Network and create ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'' (which was also short-lived, but it lasted longer than ''Tales from the Goose Lady'' and has a bigger cult following). ''Tales from the Goose Lady'' was only recently through Itunes and Amazon Video were these shorts brought back in their entirety into the public eye after some episodes were considered 'lost' for almost a decade.

''Tales from the Goose Lady'' is in a similar position as another Oh Yeah! Cartoons program, ''WesternAnimation/MinaAndTheCount'', in that a total of six episodes were made, making it a kind of MiniSeries but was not made into a full series by Nickelodeon. One may speculate that besides the fact that Nickelodeon just wasn't interested in making ''Goose Lady'' a full show, creator Dave Wasson was probably too busy getting ''WesternAnimation/TimeSquad'' made for Cartoon Network in 2000 to really give it attention. it was only recently through Itunes and Amazon Video were these shorts brought back in their entirety into the public eye after some of the episodes were considered 'lost' for almost a decade.

* StepfordSmiler: The Goose Lady appears to be one, leading in to her having a breakdown near the end of one of her shorts by pointing out how ridiculous her entire existence is.
-->'''The Goose Lady''': You think this is easy for me? Look at me ''LOOK AT ME! I'M A TALKING GOOSE!''

* KidsAreCruel: Hamsel and Grande are awful brats who get the witch's head cut off repeatedly by the woodsman and laugh about it.

* FracturedFairyTale: consists of the Goose Lady forcing two children to listen to bizarre versions of famous fairy tales.

* KarmaHoudini: The Goose Lady never gets punished for preventing the two children from attending school in order to force them to listen to her stories.

* MachoCamp: The Woodsman in the Hamsel and Grande episode is a big, burly ax wielding man with a strong effeminate lisp and skips his way through the wood to save the "innocent" children from the "evil" witch.

* CrossDressingVoices: The Goose Lady is voiced by Creator/RobPaulsen.

A total of six episodes were made, and it was only recently through Itunes and Amazon Video were these shorts brought back in their entirety into the public eye after some of the episodes were considered 'lost' for almost a decade.

A total of six episodes were made, and it was only recently through Itunes and Amazon Video were these shorts brought back in their entirety into the public eye after being some of the episodes were considered 'lost' for half a decade.