Funny / Faerie Tale Theatre

• Henbane in the adaption of Sleeping Beauty and her Faux Affably Evil demeanor.
  The Pink Fairy: You know something, Henbane? For a good fairy, you're really not very nice.
  Henbane: Takes all kinds.
  The Pink Fairy: Still, some day, a prince will come.
  Henbane: You do have a way with words, dear heart.
  • Henbane's bombastic appearance at the princess's christening dinner has her walking around on the table, mocking the gifts the other fairies gave as worthless. Alongside the Green Fairy's relentless snarking even before she arrived.
    Henbane: All these gifts, what are they good for? Falling in love? Living happily ever after? Great, right? SILLY! WORTHLESS! Men? Yuck! Love? Double-yuck! You're talking pain, heartbreak, you listening to me?! I know, trust me. I'm 300 years and change!
    Green Fairy: She's 400 years if she's a day.
• The Woodsman in "Sleeping Beauty" is a marvel.
  Woodsman: Yes, a huge, fire-breathing giant, just like in the good old days!
• Robin Williams completely steals the show as the Frog Prince.
• Their version of "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp" has a few, including "Grand Vizier, look at this! It goes round and round forever, and yet the dog never catches the cat!" Followed by a very "see what I have to deal with?" Aside Glance from the Grand Vizier. It also provides a lot of Hilarious in Hindsight moments compared to the Disney version because there are some similar elements, like the Sultan being a little fat man who collects toys and the Genie being a wisecracker who knows about things from the future.
• The Princess and the Pea has the prince and his fool finding out how the prince's mother plans to test if the love interest is a real princess; the familiar 'pea in the bed' trick - "If the girl is sensitive, fragile and delicate as a princess should be, she will have no trouble feeling the pea." There's a Beat while they process this, before the prince grabs the fool and loudly points out how impossible this is.
  • In an earlier scene, when the prince is showing the princess around the castle, she comes across a spittoon in the throne room. The embarrassed prince explains that his Proper Lady mother "occasionally indulges" in chewing tobacco, but that it's a family secret. The princess agrees to keep the secret, but then a moment later it dawns on her what the prince just said, and she loudly exclaims "The queen spits?! Bleagh!"
• While it's the darkest episode overall The Pied Piper of Hamelin has its share of humorous moments in its first two-thirds, in particular a brief invocation of Interactive Narrator when the title character misses their offscreen cue (even funnier given the same actor plays both):
  Narrator: Just as he said this, what should hap
  Upon the door but a gentle tap?
  (Nothing happens)
  Narrator: (Clears his throat, then) A gentle tap.
  (Which is promptly heard)
  • Blink and it's easily missed, but later in the scene the Piper claims to the Mayor and Corporation "You should be rid of your rats... by lunch." During the indicated pause, he checks his wristwatch — or rather where a wristwatch would be if this story weren't taking place in 1376 (with an 1840 framing device). And he's surprised there's nothing there.
• Cinderella ends with the stepmother shamelessly hoping to exploit Cinderella's marriage to the prince.
  Stepmother: Well son, now we can all be one big, happy family! (The stepmother and stepsisters are turned into rabbits by the Fairy Godmother)
• Pinocchio has Paul Reubens playing the title role as a Pee-wee Herman Expy, but even more naïve and childlike than Pee-wee because he Really Was Born Yesterday.
• In Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, there's the Queen's unsuccessful attempt to flirt with the Prince in the forest, not remembering that she's in disguise as an ugly old woman until she sees her reflection in the Prince's medallion. There's also her clever and funny Fate Worse than Death the end: the Prince's court magician puts a curse on her so that every mirror she looks into will turn black, preventing her from seeing the thing she loves most in all the world, her own beauty, ever again.
• Rapunzel is mostly one of the more serious episodes, but the early scenes with Rapunzel's parents include some comedy. For example, Claude responds to Marie's wacky craving for radishes by asking "Sure you wouldn't like a nice cucumber?", and once he gets her the radishes, she finds all sorts of weird ways to eat them, even dipping one in chocolate fondue, which she eats with a silly expression of bliss.
• In Goldilocks..., the Three Bears are a funny, Adorkable family, with a funny mixture of human and ursine traits, and Cubby Bear is a Large Ham Expy of Lou Costello, with Papa Bear serving as his Abbott-like Straight Man when they interact.
• Thumbelina has the Mole's obsession with the ancient world and disgust with "progress," to the point that he even performs a sing-talking musical number all about it. The fact that he insists on reclining during meals like the ancient Romans also leads to slapstick, as Thumbelina is forced to do acrobatics just to reach the salt and other far-away items on the floor-level table, and ends up Face Planting in a platter of powdered sugar donuts.
• The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers is full of Horror Comedy, mainly stemming from Martin's nonchalant responses to all the ghoulish horrors he faces, and the befuddlement his lack of fear inspires in other people and monsters alike. A particular standout is his second night in the castle, where he gives a zombie a lesson in how to howl better, and then cheerfully joins a whole group of zombies in bowling with human bones (complete with an anachronistic neon "Jackpot" sign on the castle wall).
• Basically all of The Three Little Pigs is hilarious, especially any scene involving Jeff Goldblum as the outwardly suave and gangster-like yet thoroughly stupid Buck Wolf, and/or Valerie Perrine as the flirty Southern Belle pig Tina.