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== Light Novel ==

* One [[Show Within a Show|Short Story Within A Short Story]] in the ''[[~~Haruhi Suzumiya (Literature)|~~Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' novels takes this form after Haruhi asks Mikuru to write a fairy tale complete with illustrations for the Literature Club's magazine. The illustrations are all [[Super-Deformed]] depictions of the SOS Brigade members ([[My Friends and Zoidberg|and Tsuruya-san]]) as storybook characters such as [[Snow White (~~Literature~~)|Snow White]] (Haruhi) and the seven dwarfs (''[[Me's a Crowd|all]]'' [[Me's a Crowd|Yuki]]), [[The Little Mermaid|a mermaid]] (Mikuru), and [[Prince Charming|a prince]] (Kyon).

* One [[Show Within a Show|Short Story Within A Short Story]] in the ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' novels takes this form after Haruhi asks Mikuru to write a fairy tale complete with illustrations for the Literature Club's magazine. The illustrations are all [[Super-Deformed]] depictions of the SOS Brigade members ([[My Friends and Zoidberg|and Tsuruya-san]]) as storybook characters such as [[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (novel)|Snow White]] (Haruhi) and the seven dwarfs (''[[Me's a Crowd|all]]'' [[Me's a Crowd|Yuki]]), [[The Little Mermaid|a mermaid]] (Mikuru), and [[Prince Charming|a prince]] (Kyon).

== Live Action Television ==

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* ''[[Scrubs]]'': "My Princess"

* ''[[MacGyver]]'': "Good Knight MacGyver".

* ''[[~~Farscape (TV)|~~Farscape]]'': "John Quixote".

* ''[[Farscape]]'': "John Quixote".

* ''[[The Cosby Show]]'' had an episode where it was Rudy's fairy tale story, with all the actors as characters (in costumes that looked as if they were drawn with crayon).

* ''[[The Monkees]]'': "Fairy Tale"

* ''Andy Richter Controls the Universe'': "Final Fantasy"

* ''[[Fringe]]'': Excellently done in "Brown Betty" where Walter tells young Ella a story. Instead of a generic fantasy tale, he casts her aunt Olivia as the heroine of a film Noir mystery full of [[Schizo-Tech]], in which characters (and corpses) break out in song.

* ''[[Married ~~With~~ Children]]'' did a "pirates" episode, complete with David Garrison making a return as the bad guy.

* ''[[Married... with Children]]'' did a "pirates" episode, complete with David Garrison making a return as the bad guy.

* ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' did it first.

== Video Games ==

* The [[Sonic Storybook Series]] is a video game take on this, transporting Sonic to the [[~~Arabian Nights (Literature)|~~Arabian Nights]] and [[King Arthur|Camelot]].

* The [[Sonic Storybook Series]] is a video game take on this, transporting Sonic to the [[Arabian Nights]] and [[King Arthur|Camelot]].

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[X-Men (~~Animation~~)|X-Men]]'': "Jubilee's Fairytale Theater"

* ''[[X-Men (animation)|X-Men]]'': "Jubilee's Fairytale Theater"

** The story itself was based on Kitty in ''Uncanny X-Men'' #153.

** Again with the [[New Mutants]] graphic novels "Rahne of Terra" and "Knight of Terra"

* ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'': "Timmy the Barbarian".

* ''[[Samurai Jack]]'': Aku reads some fairy tales to children with Jack as the villain of each one.

* ''[[~~Futurama (Animation)|~~Futurama]]: Bender's Game''.

* ''[[Futurama]]: Bender's Game''.

* ''[[The Backyardigans]]'': "Knights are Brave and Strong", "A Giant Problem", "Tale of the Mighty Knights" and "Escape from Fairy Tale Village".

* ''[[Tom Goes to ~~The~~ Mayor]]'': "Rat's Off to Ya!" (incidentally doubles as the [[Christmas Episode]])

* ''[[Tom Goes to the Mayor]]'': "Rat's Off to Ya!" (incidentally doubles as the [[Christmas Episode]])

* There's a fantasy Fairy Tale-ish land in the Ghost Zone of ''[[Danny Phantom]]'', complete with knights (what Danny is anyways), princesses, and dragons--not to mention a [[Damsel in Distress]] plot (though subverted). The only problem is that it isn't happy, thanks to a [[Fisher King|certain]] [[Evil Prince]].

* ''[[~~Dexters~~ Laboratory]]'': Dexter tries to read his sick sister a story, but she quickly got bored when he's just reading a science textbook. Deedee takes it and reads it for herself, changing the story to ''Deedee Locks and the Ness Monster'', making all sorts of plot holes from various other fairy tales (such as the three pigs made entirely of straw, sticks, and bricks, and a Napoleon-esque wolf that is small in stature but big in ego)

* ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'': Dexter tries to read his sick sister a story, but she quickly got bored when he's just reading a science textbook. Deedee takes it and reads it for herself, changing the story to ''Deedee Locks and the Ness Monster'', making all sorts of plot holes from various other fairy tales (such as the three pigs made entirely of straw, sticks, and bricks, and a Napoleon-esque wolf that is small in stature but big in ego)

* ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'': "Yarn Benders"