Goldilocks

## Stats

**Goldilocks** (aka Goldilocks and the Three Bears) is the eighth episode of the second season of Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, and the twenty-first episode in total. It aired on June 1, 1997.

## Summary

Once upon a time in a Jamaican fishing village, people lived excitedly and lived like one big family. But of course, in a peaceful village, there had to be a trouble, and if it had a name, it would be Goldilocks. Goldilocks started her day off by stealing clothes from a clothesline and swinging to a wagon, wheeling down the village. The teacher at a school arrives and greets her students, also demanding who drew a picture of her on the chalkboard. Goldilocks flies right in, and says that it was Jeffrey's fault. In belief that Goldilocks is an angel, Jeffrey has to sit in detention while the students go out for recess. Goldilocks, holding a ball, is told that she will get her and all in trouble, but Goldilocks brags that she can get away with just about everything. She kicks the ball and it crashes into the window, and the teacher, holding Jeffrey, demands that the whole class gets in detention for a whole month, minus Goldilocks.

The next morning, Goldilocks gets up. She gets a piece of gingerbread for lunch and ran to the village square to meet her friends with her ball, but they aren't there to be found. Goldilocks waits and waits, but realizes they won't show up at all. Goldilocks runs off into the forest deciding to find new friends. The forest is dark and Goldilocks passes signs telling her that she is making a bad decision. Goldilocks is frightened and prepares to eat her gingerbread, when a spider comes down who is hungry too. Goldilocks runs away frightened, leaving her bread behind. She drops her ball while running and a snake picks it up. The snake wonders what is a child like her doing by herself, when a bat also appears. Goldilocks says that her friends are also there with her. The snake and bat believe she has no friends, particularly because she lies to them like she is lying to the two animals right now. The snake, bat, and spider taunt her for breaking rules, until she makes her escape out of the forest.

Meanwhile, a bear family wakes up after a long hibernation. There was the papa bear named Desmond, the mama bear named Winsome, and the baby bear named Dudley. Desmond suggests they have porridge for breakfast, but Dudley gives a good suggestion of salt fish with acai. The family heads to the river where Desmond gets a big fish, Winsome gets a little fish, and Dudley gets a fish that is just right size. He also gets the right acai for the dish, not too ripe. When they eat their breakfast, it is too hot for them to eat. Desmond suggests they go out for a while until it cools off. The family inexplicably banks on going to a reggae concert, so they hop on the bus with some other familiar fairy tale characters like Hansel and Gretel. Goldilocks finds the house and decides to play around in it, causing a wreck until she smells the food. First she bites into Desmond's but it's too hot, then she bites into Winsome's but it's too cold, then she finally takes a bit of Dudley's plate and it tastes just right. She also finds chairs and sits in Desmond's and then Winsome's, but the chairs are too hard and soft respectively, though she then settles herself in Dudley's rocking chair. And lastly, Goldilocks falls asleep in Dudley's bed.

The three bears come back home and are appalled to find their house a mess. Their breakfast had been touched, their chairs had been messed with, and so have their beds. Dudley finds Goldilocks asleep in the bed. Goldilocks is scared by Desmond and the two other bears, but she tells them that somebody else did it. Desmond doesn't believe it at all, but Goldilocks only wanted to make new friends. The three bears scare her out of the house, and she runs far into the forest. The spider, bat, and snake taunt her once again, but all Goldilocks just wants to do is get home. Fortunately they do, and the spider asks if she ever comes back, to bring back a husband for her. When she gets to school, she tells her teacher a lie, but then tells the truth. In fact, she also tells the teacher that her friends shouldn't be in detention at all because it was her fault the window broke. Goldilocks has to sit inside while the class plays outside, where she finds a spider. When she goes out, her friends think if Goldilocks should play with them, and luckily, they agree to let her in their game. Goldilocks had learned her lesson on friendship, and she lived happily ever after, along with the spider in the forest who had found a new husband. Though, it may not be happily ever after for him.

## Cast

Raven-Symoné as Goldilocks

Pauletta Washington as Miss Gruff

Marcus T. Paulk as Geoffrey

Davida Williams as Angela and School Child #1

Rickey D'Shon Collins as School Child #2

Vanessa Lee Chester as School Child #3

Lou Rawls as Bat

Ben Vereen as Snake

Jenifer Lewis as Black Widow Spider

Tone Loc as Desmond Bear (Bamikki Bandula providing his singing voice)

Alfre Woodard as Winsome Bear

David Alan Grier as Dudley Bear

## Songs

* I Can Get Away With It
* You Can't Get Away With It
* Da Bearz

## Trivia

* Future Disney Channel actress Raven-Symoné voiced Goldilocks. She would later return for *The Princess and the Pauper,* voicing both of the titular roles.
* Rumpelstiltskin is the reggae bus driver, and Hansel and Gretel have a somewhat major appearance in the bears' song. This actually isn't the first time characters from past episodes have made cameos.
	+ While there are some noticeable color changes in these characters in question, the most glaring one is Jack, who has much lighter skin than his normal appearance. He actually looks Caucasian more than African-American.
* This is the second episode in the series to have the fairy tale take place in the West Indies (specifically Jamaica).
* According to now lost HBO Family schedule archive pages from 2014, it indicated that this was the only episode of the series broadcasted in HD. The HD programs listed on each page had a bold dot on them, and out of all the episodes of Happily Ever After, *Goldilocks* was the only one that had one. In fact, it was the only episode out of *the entirety* of Jam's episode library to be in HD. Chances are, this could've simply been an error on the schedule page, because most of the episodes have been remastered in good quality.