The first story, about a weird man who just wants a kid. The second, another story about a dumb person who has unlimited power and doesn't know how to use it.
The first story, about a weird man who just wants a kid. The second, another story about a dumb person who has unlimited power and doesn't know how to use it.
A creepy kid stumbles on two items that bring him unlimited wishes. Of course he keeps forgetting that and spends the rest of the story wasting his own time- And also forcing a woman to love him.
Another episode where I read fairy tales like a crabby uncle. This one, about a boy who wants to feel fear so he lights fires and kills his way toward understanding… Because he’s a psychopath. That’s his real problem. It’s the story of a boy with a seriou
One story ends pretty abruptly, but that’s how it goes when the protagonist is murdered. The other involves marrying your grandma. I don’t even care what the rest of the story was about beyond that.
What do you do if you’re poor as hell, but have a beautiful daughter? Sell her off to a white bear for money.
You know what takes a fairy tale from average to ‘top-shelf’? A yellow dwarf sitting in a tree eating oranges. Everyone dies in the end.
‘The Bronze Ring’ is the story of hubris. ‘Prince Hyacinth…’ is about how you should hope you’re never born ugly.
When a student’s idea of a ‘fun vacation’ is to just to be alone in an empty house so he can study- it’s about a fun as you’d expect.