Aesop's Funny Fables

***Aesop's Funny Fables*** is an American animated comedy short film series produced by Dora Wilson, starting in 1950, during the golden age of American animation, and ending in 1970. Consisting of 7-12-minute-long shorts and 16-30-minute-long featurettes, *Aesop's Funny Fables* is distinguished from Wilson's other series, *Dreamtoons*, due to its exclusive focus on one-shot stories; most of them being twisted, humorous retellings of novels, plays, children's stories, folklore, fables, and fairy tales, and several other shorts (e.g., *Daisy-Head Mayzie*) being original stories. Most of them were written by John W. Dunn.

Mrs. Fairy, the narrator character who appears in most of the series' shorts since 1953 is a caricature of (and was voiced by) Wilson herself.

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### 1950

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* ***Daisy-Head Maysie*** - a young girl gets a daisy magically planted on her head.
* ***Sasha and Baba Yaga*** - a little girl is sent by her cruel stepmother to a carnibalistic witch's home.
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* ***The Scoundrel Fox*** - in a mashup of five fox stories *The Fox and the Crow*, *The Fox and the Stork*, *The Fox and the Geese*, and *The Fox and the Cat*, a trouble-making fox ends up receiving the comeuppance of his actions when a clever cat outsmarts him by getting him chased by a bunch of fox hunters.
* ***Of Mice and Men*** - a parody of John Steinbeck's novella of the same name but with the characters being played by mice.
* ***The Little Red Hen*** - a hen tries to ask her two barnyard neighbors (a pig and a goose) to collaborate in cooking bread, but they tell excuses every time she asks them.
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* ***The Carnival of the Animals*** - an adaptation to Camille Saint-Saëns' music suite.
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* ***Fish Out of Water*** - based on the short story "Gustav the Goldfish" by Dr. Seuss; a boy overfeeds a goldfish named Gustav, causing him to grow until he fills a cellar.
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* ***Hedgehog Beats Hare*** - a loose adaptation to the fable *The Hare and the Hedgehog*, slightly influenced by the Bugs Bunny shorts *Tortoise Beats Hare* and *Tortoise Wins by a Hare* (both parodying *The Tortoise and the Hare*).
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* ***The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse*** - a hillbilly mouse is visited by his urban cousin who convinces him to visit the big city and know its cultures.
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* ***Cinderella*** - a comical adaptation of Charles Perrault's classic story narrated by a man talking to a fox in the local inn.
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* ***Hop-o'-My-Thumb*** - an adaptation of Charles Perrault's story; seven little mouse siblings get lost in the forest and are kidnapped by an ogre cat.
* ***The Ants and the Grasshopper*** - a lazy grasshopper sings and mocks a bunch of working ants, only to become into a victim of cold and hunger.
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* ***King Thrushbeard*** - a spoilt, vain princess insults a king and ends up learning a valuable lesson in humility in the hard way.
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### 1968

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* ***The Red Shoes*** - a comical retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's story of a spoiled little girl who is forced to dance continually in her red shoes as punishment for her arrogance.
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* ***The Cop and the Anthem*** - an animated adaptation to O. Henry's story of the same name.
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## Trivia

* *Aesop's Funny Fables* is considered by many as the "antecessor" to Jay Ward's *Fractured Fairy Tales* and *Aesop and Son*.
* Warner Bros.' 1964 animated short film *Señorella and the Glass Huarache* was considered a shot-to-shot remake to the 1952 *Aesop's Funny Fables* short *Cinderella* but set in Mexico. Coincidentally, both shorts were written by John W. Dunn.
* The 1950 short *Daisy-Head Maysie* later became the basis for a 1995 television special produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and a 1995 book based on the special along with a 2016 book that follows the original short's story more closely.
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