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* RealityEnsues:
** Unlike in most versions of "The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids," the wolf does ''not'' sleep through the scissors poking his stomach.
** In "Sleeping Beauty", the titular princess is not happy about missing her beauty sleep. She even says [[LampshadeHanging "What d'you think this is--a fairy tale?"]]


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** Unlike in most versions of "The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids," the wolf does ''not'' sleep through the scissors poking his stomach.
** In "Sleeping Beauty", the titular princess is not happy about missing her beauty sleep. She even says [[LampshadeHanging "What d'you think this is--a fairy tale?"]]

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The Topsy-Turvy Storybook is a 1992 children's book by British author Creator/DickKingSmith. It is a collection of fairy tales and nursery rhymes turned over their heads (usually in a humorous manner). It also has stories about famous people.

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* BadassPrincess: The princess in "The Princess and the P (for Pumpkin)" is able to withstand not only a pea, but also a lemon, a grapefruit, a melon, a vegetable marrow, and a pumpkin.
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* TheBadGuyWins: The wolf in "The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids" scarves down the youngest kid, and decided to do the same to the mother goat.

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* TheBadGuyWins: The wolf in "The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids" scarves down the youngest kid, and decided decides to do the same to the mother goat.
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* BadassPrincess: The princess in "The Princess and the P (for Pumpkin) is able to withstand not only a pea, but also a lemon, a grapefruit, a melon, a vegetable marrow, and a pumpkin.

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* BadassPrincess: The princess in "The Princess and the P (for Pumpkin) Pumpkin)" is able to withstand not only a pea, but also a lemon, a grapefruit, a melon, a vegetable marrow, and a pumpkin.



** The grandmother in "Huge Red Riding Hood" verbally abuses her daughter for eating her goodies, stuffing her in a closet, and messing up her bed, and does not even notice the wolf (whom Red has suffocated). Red even says she should have let the wolf eat Grandma.

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** The grandmother in "Huge Red Riding Hood" verbally abuses her daughter granddaughter for eating her goodies, stuffing her in a closet, and messing up her bed, and does not even notice the wolf (whom Red has suffocated). Red even says she should have let the wolf eat Grandma.
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The Topsy-Turvy Storybook is a 1992 children's book by British author Creator/DickKingSmith. It is a collection of fairy tales and nursery rhymes turned over their heads (usually in a humorous manner). It also has stories about famous people.

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The Topsy-Turvy Storybook is a 1992 children's book by British author Creator/DickKingSmith. It is a collection of fairy tales and nursery rhymes turned over their heads (usually in a humorous manner). manner). It also has stories about famous people.



* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Averted (and probably ''inverted'') in Thinderella. The titular character's older sisters are beautiful, but vain and mean. Thinderella is nice, but skinny and plain, and no one notices her.
* DumbBlonde: Rapunzel is portrayed as this. She even gets the idea to cut her hair so the witch can't come, not realizing that she will get no food.
* [[FatBastard Fat Bitch]]: The Queen in "Snow White". Snow White herself becomes this after she's stuck underground and rescued by a prince.

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* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Averted (and probably ''inverted'') in Thinderella. The titular character's older sisters are beautiful, but vain and mean. mean. Thinderella is nice, but skinny and plain, and no one notices her.
* DumbBlonde: Rapunzel is portrayed as this. She even gets the idea to cut her hair so the witch can't come, not realizing that she will get no food.
* [[FatBastard Fat Bitch]]: The Queen in "Snow White". Snow White herself becomes this after she's stuck underground and rescued by a prince.



* ImAHumanitarian: The witch in Hansel and Gretel, as usual. Hansel and Gretel lampshade this by noting that "calibans"[[note]]the right word is cannibals[[/note]] eat people because they're hungry, and decide to eat the witch.

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* ImAHumanitarian: The witch in Hansel and Gretel, as usual. Hansel and Gretel lampshade this by noting that "calibans"[[note]]the right word is cannibals[[/note]] eat people because they're hungry, and decide to eat the witch.



** In "Sleeping Beauty", the titular princess is not happy about missing her beauty sleep. She even says [[LampshadeHanging "What d'you think this is--a fairy tale?"]]

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** In "Sleeping Beauty", the titular princess is not happy about missing her beauty sleep. She even says [[LampshadeHanging "What d'you think this is--a fairy tale?"]]



** The grandmother in "Huge Red Riding Hood" verbally abuses her daughter for eating her goodies, stuffing her in a closet, and messing up her bed, and does not even notice the wolf (whom Red has suffocated). Red even says she should have let the wolf eat Grandma.

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** The grandmother in "Huge Red Riding Hood" verbally abuses her daughter for eating her goodies, stuffing her in a closet, and messing up her bed, and does not even notice the wolf (whom Red has suffocated). Red even says she should have let the wolf eat Grandma.
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The Topsy-Turvy Storybook is a 1992 children's book by British author Creator/DickKingSmith. It is a collection of fairy tales and nursery rhymes turned over their heads (usually in a humorous manner). It also has stories about famous people.

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* AdaptationalWimp: This version of Robin Hood is a far cry from his usual badass portrayal, to say the least.
* BadassPrincess: The princess in "The Princess and the P (for Pumpkin) is able to withstand not only a pea, but also a lemon, a grapefruit, a melon, a vegetable marrow, and a pumpkin.
* BearsAreBadNews: The bear in "Bear and the Three Goldilocks" breaks into the titular sisters' house, makes a mess of their stuff, and [[spoiler: is implied to eat the girls themselves at the end]].
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Averted (and probably ''inverted'') in Thinderella. The titular character's older sisters are beautiful, but vain and mean. Thinderella is nice, but skinny and plain, and no one notices her.
* DumbBlonde: Rapunzel is portrayed as this. She even gets the idea to cut her hair so the witch can't come, not realizing that she will get no food.
* [[FatBastard Fat Bitch]]: The Queen in "Snow White". Snow White herself becomes this after she's stuck underground and rescued by a prince.
* FracturedFairyTale: Every story (and rhyme) in this book.
* ImAHumanitarian: The witch in Hansel and Gretel, as usual. Hansel and Gretel lampshade this by noting that "calibans"[[note]]the right word is cannibals[[/note]] eat people because they're hungry, and decide to eat the witch.
* LittleRedFightingHood: "Little" is probably not the right word here, but Huge Red Riding Hood is more than capable of holding her own against the wolf.
* RealityEnsues:
** Unlike in most versions of "The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids," the wolf does ''not'' sleep through the scissors poking his stomach.
** In "Sleeping Beauty", the titular princess is not happy about missing her beauty sleep. She even says [[LampshadeHanging "What d'you think this is--a fairy tale?"]]
* TheBadGuyWins: The wolf in "The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids" scarves down the youngest kid, and decided to do the same to the mother goat.
* UngratefulBastard: Quite a few.
** The grandmother in "Huge Red Riding Hood" verbally abuses her daughter for eating her goodies, stuffing her in a closet, and messing up her bed, and does not even notice the wolf (whom Red has suffocated). Red even says she should have let the wolf eat Grandma.
** The princess in "The Frog Prince" has the frog made into dinner after he gets her ball.

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