Rumpelstiltskin (Britannica) - Phelous

[@chimerakuchar3972]

the queen: *rattling off wierd names* rumplestiltskin: *furiously writing those down because they're good ideas for naming his stolen baby*

[@sarasaland4709]

Phelous, do you believe in Wabuu? In Germany, people told the story of a crazed raccoon who went on an attempted murder spree. And when all the other animals were willing to forgive him, he gave them a cake full of sneezing powder.

[@thenumberquelve158]

That sounds wonderful! And it sounds like it'd be made with a lot of effort, both with top-notch animation and a skilled, carefully-selected dubbing team!

[@StarSnowGhost]

There's a children's book called "Rumplestiltskin's Daughter" where the miller's daughter bails out on marrying the tyrant king and runs off with Rumplestiltskin instead and they have the titular daughter together. It's good.

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

Now i can't help but thinking about Miller's daughter and Rumplestiltskin doing It. Eeeeewwww.

[@fermintenava5911]

There's also an GDR-adaptation where the Miller's daughter tells the king about the deal and calls him out for his greed. The king regrets his actions and helps her finding more names. Rumpelstiltskin doesn't rip himself in half, because he only wanted to save the child from a life in greed, and the Miller is exiled for his lies.

[@rdsasuke1]

@@MinscFromBaldursGate92 Don't kinkshame.

[@phelous]

I love that exists, lol.

[@theuncalledfor]

Rumpelstiltskin: "I can save you... but in exchange, you must give me your firstborn child!" Miller's daughter: "Oh, gladly! If you save me, you can have _all_ of my children!" Rumpelstiltskin: "Eh heh heh, well, if you say so, my dear! Now let's get to spinning all this straw into gold." The miller's daughter reaches for Rumpelstiltskin's hands and takes them into hers, pulling slightly. His gaze is directed away from the spinning wheel, and into the miller's daughter's eyes. Her eyes are filled with a deep joy that he had not expected. Miller's daughter: "Who said anything about spinning the straw?

[@stevegeorge6880]

Floating Pat Morita in purple is perhaps the hero we don't deserve but the one we most want and need.

[@rarristar]

Because we believe in true love at first sight?

[@ametislady2]

@@rarristar yes

[@rogue7723]

He's Patman.

[@geoentronecromancer]

This is honestly why Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter by Diane Stanley is a favorite of mine; the miller's daughter realizes from the get-go that the king is a Class A prick and marries Rumpelstiltskin instead, and then their daughter ends up tricking the king into being generous for once in his miserable life.

[@misskate3815]

… if your choice is between a guy extorting your child out of you by withholding the thing you need to save your life, or the tyrant threatening to kill you because of the impossible task he set you, it’s not much of a choice.

[@altromonte15]

The Olaf story is the most realistic of all: a wealthy businessman screwing over a small-time contractor after they've done all the work for an important building project.

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

This story is racist to trolls.

[@kolonarulez5222]

I was trying to find a way to say the same thing but you put it better

[@skwills1629]

@Frizzurd I do find it weird they;d decide to do a COD payment and not an upfront dispersal contract.

[@chocodoeeyes]

No wonder it was most the infuriating..

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

@Mullerornis Yeah Wotan did the same thing with the giants, except he promised his sister-in-law to them. And then stole the gold of a dwarf to pay them with! Then again, Wotan/Odin was a dick, and never pretended to be a saint.

[@OnDavidsBrain]

Do you believe in Secrets? Like if my parents were turned into musical instruments? Or if I was really an Angel or that Quan Chi's first appearance was in Defenders of the Realm? Ok, you're clearly insane so never come near me please!

[@BATCHARRO]

My secret is Mulan is a bug.

[@rodrolliv]

Don't tell anyone but... I hate Splinter.

[@HeilRay]

My secret is Rocket Raccoons is Wabuu’s bastard child. The genetic thing is just him running from his more troubled past.

[@Chimerism101]

Or I was really a butterfly!

[@Tareltonlives]

Do you believe in Hunchbacks?

[@Kitty-the-Bunny]

"If you thought the TROLL was mean and ugly..." ...I didn't??? We have literally been shown absolutely nothing that suggests the troll is even the slightest bit mean???

[@koshavinka2995]

13:03 He tries killing a mother and a kid here Still doesnt make Olaf a decent person tho

[@gracekim1998]

Frizzurd hmmm 🤔 interesting

[@BBBHuey]

@@koshavinka2995 While Olaf tricking the troll feels right because they were considered the natural enemies of Man, the troll was still being more of a nuisance than a terrible threat that had to be dealt with.

[@tempestfennac9687]

@Mullerornis Shouldn't that have meant Trolls could get along with the christian god though? :P

[@tempestfennac9687]

@Mullerornis That's a good point.

[@U014B]

"Do you believe in secrets? I know what I know, boy, but I'm _not _*_telling it!_* "

[@rdsasuke1]

This should have been top comment.

[@yoshikfireball]

Noel Goetowski START TELLING

[@TheDUDERulez1]

HA! Classic Phelous!

[@Tareltonlives]

I think we've found the best comment

[@gracekelley2907]

Truth be told, I was also bothered with how the miller’s daughter always married the king, in some versions, he even threatened her life all three times if she didn’t spin the straw into gold. Personally, if I were writing a version of this, I’d have her steal some gold before he came on the third day, pretend to be chill with marrying him, ask for a horse as a wedding gift and then book it out of the kingdom the night she gets the horse.

[@sammettik]

That apparently bothered a lot of authors, because many "for kids" versions of the book changed it so she married the King's son instead.

[@bryedtan]

I heard some versions had her marry the King's son. After the king died the prince became king and she became queen and had the young king's child.

[@unamed2516]

Grace Kelley I imagine that they developed love for each other time.

[@unamed2516]

Sammettik I’ve never read such versions.

[@JThom529]

@@unamed2516Stockholm syndrome

[@mathieuleader8601]

Rumplestilskin is actually Gollum who survived the battle against Sauron and changed his name

[@arte0021]

He must be related to Bowser, if he survived falling into lava.

[@DasKame]

thats why he would have the Ring!

[@DigiMega351]

And then he got plastic surgery to give himself a new look that happens to resemble R.L Stine.

[@Tareltonlives]

Do you believe in the Precious?

[@SmartassX1]

So Olaf was a king, who couldn't afford to pay "several months" worth of wages to a single worker, so he needed to cheat his way out of payment. Seems legit.

[@cursedalien]

He didn't need to, he just wanted to.

[@licoriceechidna]

P0

[@alexandram5845]

There’s a children’s book where the miller’s daughter decides to escape with Rumplestiltskin and marry him. It was because he was actually a nice dude who promised he’d take good care of her firstborn child. Then the king tries to lock their daughter in a room so she’ll spin straw into gold. But she winds up outsmarting him and becomes the Prime Minister of the land

[@Private-Potato]

Alexandra Moseley what’s it called.? Sounds interesting

[@alexandram5845]

Dorky-Dark -Type Rumplestiltskin’s Daughter

[@kilomillensimus9379]

I remember that one. I think of it every time I hear of the story because even as a little kid I liked it so much more.

[@alexandram5845]

gunwild gunwild Same. It’s so bizarre that the miller’s daughter was perfectly happy marrying the guy who locked her up and threatened to kill her. I also really like the Fractured Fairytales episode about Rumplestiltskin

[@drygonfyre]

I had that book as a kid! I remember really liking it. And considering the, ah, issues the original tale had, it's probably for the best that that book is what I think of first whenever Rumpelstiltskin is brought up.

[@phoenixx-7997]

“Do you believe in curses?” “Do you believe in magic?” “Do you believe in secrets?” “Do you believe in witches?” “Do you believe in true love?” “Do you believe in love at first sight?” Did Pat Morita predict Frozen or something?

[@girlinahat3407]

Do you believe in life after love.

[@tultsi93]

Do you believe in afterlife?

[@Tareltonlives]

I'm getting Fact or Fiction flashbacks myself

[@DasKame]

"I believe in Karate!"

[@gracekim1998]

Do you believe in Phelous?😎🥳 because I do😉

[@rossthebesiegebuilder3563]

4:20 Apparently, the miller's daughter accomplished something the title character couldn't; she successfully kept her name a secret.

[@suprememaz]

The moral of the episode is: Once people know your name, you’re Completely Useless!

[@Fanimati0n]

But he didn't even get wet

[@Iamafishproductions]

That's why they call him Old Man, so Death can't find him. Well, Death and the *many* people he's stolen huge chests of money from.

[@psycher7]

HHGGGNNGGG!

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

''When you're nameless you are fine. When you have a name you are fucked. You are on your own.'' - George Carlin.

[@markcobuzzi826]

Also the moral to “The Conjuring 2”.

[@Caarajack]

It’s nice that Britannica’s stories have a different animation style for each story even that the quality is quite varied throughout. Rumpelstiltskin’s characters have this carved look reminiscent of old wooden theater puppets with a distinct mouth part that opens and shuts in rolling fashion. Also that king’s demonic grin would’ve haunted me next night as a kid, so the animation still managed to retain that cautionary atmosphere as many old children stories tend to.

[@TommyDeonauthsArchives]

That's what I was thinking... wood hand puppets...

[@primrosett]

I appreciate the attempt but some of the art is pretty ugly

[@mastermarkus5307]

I think one of the problems with that particular style is that they don't look ENOUGH like puppets so they just kind of end up lookng like stiff and wrinkly humans.

[@ametislady2]

HOW THIS COMMENT WAS MADE A WEEK AGO?

[@mastermarkus5307]

@@ametislady2 PATREON.

[@dreamlandnightmare]

"Your, father, wind and weather" - that's a more unnatural line than "Save Martha."

[@kimifw58]

In the original story, Rumpelstiltskin is a type of fairy, and in their lore you can control a fairy by knowing his true name.

[@solouno2280]

Not a fairy, a leprechaun... Something in middle of the way between fairies and demons

[@MissEarthling]

@@solouno2280 ugh same difference

[@hopemueller2658]

Yeah but then he...inadvertently killed himself so...

[@gracekim1998]

@@MissEarthling not really no

[@RaphaelRavenwing]

King Olaf would eventually be demoted to Count and die trying to steal three childrens inheritence.

[@RaphaelRavenwing]

@@Yazanico Only until his debt of the sun, the moon and his immortal soul are repaid through merchandise money.

[@alexv3375]

"Where's the roast beef? It's the Swedish term for beef that is ROASTED!"

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

And that's why you don't mess with trolls, especially not the colorful hair-style kind.

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

He was a good troll. (Lip smack) What a rotten way to die.

[@lizzychrome7630]

But the door in front of that inheritance creaked opened, so he was expected.

[@matane2465]

King Olaf would later get into an accident with a carriage carrying mysterious chemicals that would make his DNA bond with snow turning him into a living snowman.

[@gundammakerworldbreaker6133]

That plot sound like a killer snowman would said!!

[@dancepiglover]

Sounds like a real mys-carriage. Wah wah

[@Emberilliance]

Just as long as he doesn't run into any Christmas Lights, he should be okay.

[@readingtoomuchintothings834]

weirdly, the Olaf story has several similarities to a Norse Myth, where a disguised Giant comes to build a wall against the giants for the Gods, asking price being the Sun, Moon, and hottest of the Goddesses. Loki convinces them that if they give the builder a really short time limit, his pride will make him do the task but then he'll obviously fail so they would risk nothing... then he nearly does complete the task in the time provided, so instead Loki disguises himself as a hot female horse, distracting the builder's horse from doing his job so he fails to complete the task, reveals himself to be a giant, tries to attack the gods, but then Thor shows up and kills the giant... then several months later, Loki shows back up with a young 9 legged horse which he presents to Odin.

[@BBBHuey]

Pretty sure Sleipnir is an eight legged horse. But everything else is spot on ^^

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

Oh that's so Loki.

[@cursedalien]

Yeah, I was about to say that! Who can forget the time Loki fucked a horse?

[@gracekim1998]

Wait a second did LOKI do the THING with a horse??!

[@Tareltonlives]

@@gracekim1998 Yep. Loki got pregnant before the fanfic writers made it cool.

[@Shades14]

6:14 That face is legitimately terrifying. If I watched this as a kid, I'd probably have nightmares.

[@MrHypnofan]

I was kind of expected the troll to fall on Olaf and kill him. It would made more sense as a comeuppance story.

[@kolonarulez5222]

It's crazy how unbelievable crappy "Saint" Olaf is in the second one. They didn't even try to make the troll evil other than being "ugly." He was just a dude working for what was promised with a wife and baby back home.

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

And now his kid is an orphan... Unless Saint Olaf found out their names too and had them killed.

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

Designated Hero and Designated Villain in one package.

[@BBBHuey]

Yeah, I would've expected the troll to be a genuine menace that Olaf had to deal with. This was just outright tricking someone for no real reason.

[@doctorhandsome]

I really want to see a sequel with the troll son avenging his father's betrayal and murder.

[@BBBHuey]

@@doctorhandsome The historical Saint Olaf met his demise at the Battle of Stiklestad. Sources around that time say he was murdered by his own men in an ambush during the battle.

[@Nekucloud]

"Do you believe in padding out the runtime with unnecessary questions?"🙄

[@Morbos1000]

How could you not believe in secrets? Its not even a question. Do you believe someone knows something they haven't told you? Nah, everyone literally tells everyone else everything they know.

[@yoursonisold8743]

"Do you believe in magic? Witches? Curses?" Fictional concepts that you actually need to believe in, makes sense. "Do you believe in true love? Love at first sight?" ...weird. At least they are concepts whose true existence one can debate on an intellectual level. "Do you believe in secrets?" Wait what?

[@MVR3IWER]

Do you believe in life after love?

[@WxIxLxLxIxAxMxS]

@@MVR3IWER I can feel something inside me say I really don't think you're strong enough, no.

[@gracekim1998]

@@MVR3IWER thank you for that🤣

[@CMW1995]

One of these things is not like the other!~

[@marplatense31]

Troll: I finished building the church you wanted. Olaf: Well done! (takes out gun)

[@theuncalledfor]

Troll: _"Olaf."_ Narrator woman: "Oh dear! The king turned into stone, and fell over, onto the ground."

[@mandalknight9930]

IN THE NAME OF GOD! DEUS VULT!

[@michaelmalfaro3746]

"If you want the sun and the moon you'll have to shoot them down yourself, and then you may have my immortal soul." The troll, being an idiot, immediately agreed.

[@marley7868]

worth noting the troll never finished the church it's steeple still isn't done also in the version I took on that I think is the original the troll was a murderer that was the only reason olaf knew his name

[@mlpfanboy1701]

@@marley7868well that last part changes up the morality a bit.

[@UJEvans]

Do you believe in Phelous? The truth is, I don't know if i do

[@DasKame]

Hes just a Fable i guess!

[@gracekim1998]

Eh!

[@DmitryKurushin]

Jesus, the gold-obsessed king was creepy. Why did they do this? Yeah, sure he is the real villain of the story, but then why keeping the marriage and Rumpelstiltskin's demise and pretending that this is a happy ending. I've seen another cartoon of this story before and there they at least made the king into a better person and made Rumpelstiltskin more threatening. Still somewhat questionable, but at least they tried.

[@noemitamas4066]

Exactly! In the version I knew it was the girl who boasted about being able to make gold and the king asked her because the kingdom needed money. It still had the part where he marries her just because she made the gold which is weird, but in the end the girl told him the truth and they found out Rumpelstiltskin's name together. In this version he acts totally like a villain (and a quite disturbing one at that)

[@DmitryKurushin]

@@noemitamas4066 yeah and in the version I've watched the king was only doing this at the behest of his evil advisor (who was actualy stealing the gold and put the kingdom in a desperate situation). Once the girl showed him what the advisor was plotting, the king immidiately banished the criminal and stopped asking for the gold. They still married, but at least this version showed that they both liked each other.

[@DmitryKurushin]

@@noemitamas4066 Not sure how I feel about either of the versions, since they essentially took the real villain from the original story and turned him good. But at least they didn't make him creepier and then pretended that him marrying the heroine is a happy ending. It would be like if in Harry Potter we showed every bad thing Voldemort did and then suddenly made him the next Minister of Magic without any redemption or character development. More realistic? Maybe, but I'm not entirely sure a fairy tail in which a small gnome makes gold out of straw yearns for realism

[@Tareltonlives]

@@DmitryKurushin Not that far off from Harry Potter with the whole "Bravest Man I ever knew!"

[@Sam-wv4fz]

I believe I knew a version where her reward is to marry his son, who later becomes king. Problem solved.

[@haggardwashere262]

Rumpelstiltskin looks like he stepped out of a Real Ghostbusters episode.

[@MrDrokkul]

Pat Morita: "Do you believe in magic?" ...in a young girl's heart How the music can free her, whenever it starts And it's magic, if the music is groovy It makes you feel happy like an old-time movie I'll tell you about the magic, and it'll free your soul But it's like trying to tell a stranger 'bout rock and roll

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

I fear no man, but that thing 6:15 It scares me.

[@rogue7723]

That's what I thought during Pat Morita's opening narration.

[@schlamuffenimperator9460]

@@MinscFromBaldursGate92 Silent Hill Robotnik

[@ebwarg]

When I heard “Saint Olaf,” I kept expecting a clip of Betty White.

[@sadtitties222]

@E. Bernhard Warg I sure love me some Golden Girls references, lol. 😄

[@AmishParadise27]

Pat Morita: Do you believe... Cher: *_IN LIFE AFTER LOVE_*

[@leontrotsky7816]

The real St Olaf seems to have spent most of his time fighting. He would probably have been insulted that anyone believed he wasn't capable of beating a troll without tricking it.

[@gracekim1998]

Leon Trotsky hmm 🤔

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

If the vikings relied only on brute force their pillaging careers wouldn't have lasted very long.

[@biropgrules]

actually, he was a devout catholic, who's most enduring act was to exterminate the norse faith throughout norway by the sword, to such a degree that when his son retook the throne after his father's death, the majority of the country had abandoned the norse gods and accepted the cross.

[@Tareltonlives]

He was such a tyrant the Norwegians killed him

[@michaelmalfaro3746]

@@biropgrules The Norse gods wouldn't have had it any other way.

[@jeffrieturner3850]

Wind And Weather's Son: Hello, my name is Victory Bear. You turned my father to stone; prepare to die. Saint Olaf: Victory Bear. Wind And Weather's Son: Oh shit. *turns to stone*

[@mitkitty]

I actually had a book when i was younger that had a bunch of retellings of Rumplestiltskin, and one of them DID have the woman going off with Rumplestiltskin and they made up the "first born child" thing as a cover bc the king was awful and shitty and she and Rumplestiltskin fell in love. It was a very sweet short story

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

Olaf: I know your killphrase, Winds and Weather. Troll: I'm not a win- Olaf: Sticks and stones.

[@MegaDeathRay10]

What a shame.

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

@@MegaDeathRay10 he was a good troll. What a rotten way to die.

[@manat31790]

There's a story in Norse myth very similar to Saint Olaf's where a giant master-builder offers the gods to build a wall within a seemly impossible time limit in exchange for the Sun, the Moon, and the goddess Freya. Like Olaf, Odin tries to find a way to screw up the giant's progress so he doesn't need to pay the fee. But at least in that story, it's the giant's plan all along to shame Odin and take his wife. Saint Olaf here is just downright petty and evil.

[@mathieuleader8601]

I like to think the king is Goldfingers ancestor with his fixation on *GOLD*

[@hunnykun101]

That or the jealous cousin of King Midas

[@GleeChan]

Phelan can turn any crappy cartoon into gold. ( Let's hope a greedy king doesn't read this..)

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

Then Phelous suddenly turned to stone and shattered to pieces.

[@gracekim1998]

🤣

[@nintendoangel2478]

*Hands him every single Dingo Pictures cartoon.* Spin this 💩 into gold or else.

[@cartooncritique6625]

5:52 Yeah, it's a little fucked up that Rumpelstiltskin is considered the "villain" of this story when honestly NONE of the main characters are likeable or redeemable. The miller's daughter is arguably the best character only because she technically didn't have much of a choice to begin with, and was caught up in a mess of bullshit she didn't ask for. 9:03 I don't think it's ever been definitely stated what Rumpelstlitskin wanted her child for (but if my knowledge of fairy lore is any indication, probably nothing good)...however I do like to imagine that Rumpel just really wanted to be a dad.

[@meganmchugh8841]

Honestly, a better ending to Rumpelstiltskin would have been the daughter running off and marrying Britannica Rapunzel, at least they could've sympathized about being locked in a tower by idiots

[@seanstark4312]

Lesbian Tower Queens, now that sounds like a cool idea

[@otakunthevegan4206]

If only 15th Century Germany was that Progressive to Allow Same Sex Partners live in Fire Hazard Towers. Alas, their Fire Safety Codes were so Backwards back then.

[@seanstark4312]

@@otakunthevegan4206 yeah, if only it was much more normal back then, and i'd really love to see some fanart of those two together, that would be adorable

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

''Screw Prince Charming. Let's be lesbians!''

[@Little_Eris]

Or better yet marrying rumpelstiltskin

[@The_Masked_0ne]

I laughed way too hard at Pat Morita’s head just float in on screen. Thank you so much Phelous. Never knew I needed that visual.

[@SyberiaWinx]

I feel bad for Rumpelstiltskin. It’s, like, the most forgotten fairytale ever.

[@GeneralKenobi75]

So in these stories some entitled pricks get other people to do all the work and then screw them over by going back on their deals. I'd say there's a metaphor for real life somewhere in here but I'm not clever enough to make it.

[@daredrogers3884]

I want to say that this is similar to what has happened to Goldie locks and the three bears were in the attempts to give it a "Happy ending" has caused it to go against what it originally was supposed to be but, apparently even the older adaptions have a similar ending to what we have now and I'm not entirely sure if the original tales were supposed to be about not promising something you can't follow thourgh or if that was just something Barney and HKFTT just slapped on to give it a moral. (tough HKFTT has the best adaption I've seen)

[@unamed2516]

GeneralKenobi75 I don’t think the miller’s daughter was that entitled. I mean she was a mother and by the time Rumpelstiltskin came she probably already had a pretty good motherly connection to her child.

[@h193013]

Dared Rogers What’s HKFTT

[@GeneralKenobi75]

@@unamed2516 I'm more referring to the King with that one.

[@LiliumSnow]

I actually remember watching this in class in third grade, and the part where Rumpelstiltskin shattering at the end scarred the crap out of me as a kid. --- I recently got a book that contained a bunch of Celtic fairy tales, one of them called "The Clumsy Beauty and Her Aunts", which is essentially like Rumpelstiltskin, but with three magic aunts who help her instead. And it had a happier ending, where the three aunts came to the wedding and when the Queen (who had the "clumsy beauty" marry her son so she could get the beauty to spin shirts non-stop) asked the three aunts why they massive feet, nose, and hips (because that's polite), they told her is was from all the spinning they do. And the prince was like, "Omg I don't want my new wife getting massive feet and nose from spinning all the time!", and so the girl was spared from having to spin for the rest of her life.

[@drunkrdm]

"do you believe in awkward pauses where phelous stares into your soul? well if i told you...."

[@crazyluigi6664]

**Magically disappears into the ether.**

[@SereneDancer]

I mean the version I know ends with him screaming: The devil told you that! The devil told you that!, so he probably did go to hell.

[@unamed2516]

Justine Burns That’s what I remember as a kid.

[@Sam-wv4fz]

@@unamed2516 same!

[@Tareltonlives]

The intro is hilarious. I feel like Pat Morita should have had a question-off with Johnathan Frakes-that supercut was amazing

[@tf2godz]

back when it was written magical creatures were seen as evil by default in the Christian world, basically demons. However today we don't automatically associate evil with magic so the king Olaf story comes of as a jerk tricking somebody to do his bidding and then killing him

[@mastermarkus5307]

I feel like they should've at least added something about the troll like... eating people or terrorizing the countryside so he didn't just seem like a poor guy with a nagging wife that people thought was ugly.

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

Wasn't one of Warcraft (and modern fantasy and sci-fi in general) themes that there is no such thing as Always Chaotic Evil?

[@edisonlima4647]

Not just Christians, a lot of Norse mythology is: magical creature: exists gods: kill them through flat out betrayal and manipulation.

[@renamon5658]

I wonder if Britannica's Cinderella prince is just as or stupider than goodtimes Cinderella prince

[@sweetcinnamonpnchkin]

Well he hates that and he’s such a great guy

[@ExtremeWreck]

That intro though. The fact that you called yourself an, "idiot", makes it even more hilarious.

[@geardog24]

6:14 Jeez, are we sure the King and Rumplestiltskin aren't related?

[@toongrowner1]

For a moment I thought they where implying that they are the same person

[@Tareltonlives]

I love how they're basically the same person.

[@tacoman422]

Saint Olaf and the Troll, or "When the DM lets players take "Always Chaotic Evil" for granted".

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

Yeah, cheating and killing a guy just because he's a troll doesn't sound right to modern audiences.

[@theuncalledfor]

King David: "It's Winds And Weather!" Narrator woman: "And then god turned into stone, fell from the sky, and shattered into a million pieces!"

[@tultsi93]

So God fell from the sky and shattered into a million pieces? I thought it was that troll.

[@theuncalledfor]

@@tultsi93 I hate explaining jokes, but apparently it's necessary here. Phelous made the joke during the video, that god's name is "Winds and Weather" as a reference to the previous story within the same movie. I built upon that by applying the same rules to god, that apply to the troll. Even though explaining it kinda ruins the joke, I think that's still a much nicer response than saying "r/woooosh", right?

[@QJ89]

So ugly-looking!

[@KingdomHeartsBrawler]

That's not the way I remember it. Last I checked, God disappeared in a puff of logic when He found out that the Babel Fish proved His existence.

[@NODNS_n_M.ORD11630]

@@KingdomHeartsBrawler See? There's a hoopy frood if I see one

[@jj48]

I think the lesson of Rumpelstiltskin is to make sure you always choose a secure password, and make sure to protect it rather than making up a little song about it.

[@ser6Ijvolk]

Phelan's right on the characters being ugly in the first story, but I think the good animation makes up for it.

[@honestdave]

Pat Morita : Do you believe I agreed to Karate Kid 4? I sure as hell don't.

[@ernstfriedricheckhoff4652]

The change in Rumpelstilzchen's voice right before his death reminds me of Bill Cipher, and particularly his destruction.

[@johnalogue9832]

Alternate ending: Rumpelstiltskin takes the baby and queen away from the castle as a twist on his demand and they have a family sitcom at his house in the woods

[@HiperPivociarz]

How do trolls get their names if saying their name turns them to stone? Why not just not give your troll son or daughter a name? It's not like it would be of any use to them.

[@elsie8757]

The troll's wife said his name and he didn't turn to stone. I guess it's only if a human says it?

[@HiperPivociarz]

@@elsie8757 I guess, but he also wasn't there to see it. Still, it seems like a troll without a name would just be unstopable.

[@elsie8757]

@@HiperPivociarz They just said saying their name turns them to stone, they didn't say the troll had to _hear_ it

[@markcobuzzi826]

Valak the Defiler: “Dammit! I would succeeded, if not for that Lorraine Warren discovering my name and saying it out loud!” Rumpelstiltskin and the Troll: “First time?”

[@LadyCoyKoi]

I believe that Phelous is the best cure for forced quarantine depression.

[@capnpen7690]

Not gonna lie, I actually really liked everything they had going in the that Rumpelstiltskin story. The eerie vibe and artstyle really worked.

[@decepticreep952]

Occasional weird animation aside, I think it's pretty cool how Britannica tells similar stories from all over the world. I've never heard most of the alternate versions.

[@HORRIOR1]

You know… the line "looks like a scrotum" gets thrown about quite a bit. But this Rumpelstiltskin REALLY embodies that line perfectly.

[@heathercalun4919]

I really hope Phelous eventually reviews HBO's Happily Ever After Fairytales. After watching them again recently for nostalgia, I gotta say Rumpelstiltskin is probably one of the best episodes. They don't sugarcoat the fact that the king is basically a secondary villain and he even gets a bit of a character arc. Plus Rumpelstiltskin is legitimately terrifying, as he goes out of his way to explain why he wants the woman's jewelry even though he can make as much gold as he wants by himself: he likes taking things from people that have sentimental value and seeing them cry. And then when he's defeated, he gets so pissed off that it practically stops the video.

[@h193013]

“Another story where a parent gets their child in trouble” I actually did think of this. This actually happens twice in Rumpelstiltskin the miller tells the king his daughter can spin straw into gold and the king orders her to do it or she’ll be executed then the miller’s daughter promises her baby to Rumpelstiltskin and the baby is almost taken by him. Also Rapunzel’s father stole from the witch’s garden so the witch took her and locked her in the tower and Sleeping Beauty was cursed because her parents didn’t invite the evil fairy to her christening and Belle had to live with the beast because her father took the rose from the beast.

[@JackedThor-so]

Not gonna lie the animation on the first one, at least for the parts where rumplestiltskin was on screen was pretty cool in that gritty eighties kind of way.

[@jersy6406]

You would think having a common phrase like Wind and Weather as a name would have gotten the troll killed much sooner

[@domotormate]

We're more than 4 months into 2020 and there hasn't been one Dingo review! Phelous, this is not done. Start telling!

[@phelous]

There's a new Dingo review on my Patreon now.

[@ExplorerDS6789]

Hopefully he'll review Golden Films and GoodTimes movies too. By my count, there are only a few left he hasn't looked at.

[@Jigwally]

the animation of rumplestiltskin falling through the floor and it regenerating back is actually really badass

[@shawnconway6009]

"Do you believe in deep dark secrets that nobody knows? In Germany-" I'm going to have to stop you right there Pat Morita. I don't think we can get into whatever you're about to tell me without getting on a watch list somewhere.

[@KetwunsGamingPad]

6:15 Ah well, looks like we have to deal with King.EXE now!

[@shawnconway6009]

King Olaf 'sneaking' behind the troll reminds me of having max stealth in skyrim.

[@171QA]

Well, St. Olaf did start off as a viking so him wanting to kill somebody makes some sense. Maybe he was bored and just wanted an excuse to murder a troll. :\

[@Gasoline85]

Or maybe he was just trolling... Thank you, you’ve been a lovely audience!

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

@@Gasoline85 Limp Bizkit: Keep trolling trolling trolling trolling. Keep trolling trolling trolling trolling.

[@SailorBayleyMoon]

@@Gasoline85 wow that was a funny joke

[@DJ_Mystic]

In some versions of the Rumpelstiltskin story, the miller's brag is that his daughter's straw-like blonde hair looks golden when the sun shines on it, and the king misunderstood him.

[@bigcat5348]

"And for his good deeds, he was made a saint." ...While he was still alive? That...that's not how sainthood works.

[@visidenvisidane1155]

You’d think at some point the King would sit there and ask her to spin gold while he watched just to confirm or something.

[@ebwarg]

Visiden Visidane The problem is, he used to like sausage ...

[@Wario7793]

Hearing Pat Morita talk about secrets made me think of the Secret Box in Spongebob.. I wish Pat Morita would have said it like "So, do you know secrets are the most secret-y secret of all of secret-dom and I am its sole witness?"

[@MinmoKitty]

Phelous’ videos are a blessing aside from their tendency to literally make me laugh myself sick. I’m gonna go lie down

[@kagehikari4281]

Huh Olaf and the troll reminds me of the tale of Oden and the norse gods needing to build a wall. The only one guy willing to do it they didint want to pay and wanted free labor. Loki opened his big mouth trying to help and then was forced to trick the poor worker so they didint have to give up freya. For his thanks, Loki wound up pregnant by the workers stallion. And thats how sleipnir came to be.

[@skwills1629]

SO the Worker and Loki both got Screwed in different ways.

[@skwills1629]

@Mullerornis Er, the Eddas were not written by Christians...

[@skwills1629]

Snorri Sturlusson only COmpiled the Prose. or Younger eddas, and he still mainly just collected Pre-Existing text. THe Poetic Edda is Older.

[@kagehikari4281]

@Frizzurd I dont think I did, I just wasint planing to go in to the details and just giving the quick general summery but I suppose I should had added that bit at least. And I may add, he didint just lure the stallion away. He basically became a mare, said hey good looking with the idea to lead him a way easy like. And the Stud sounds like he lost his mind and Loki was like "oh sh*$" and ran as hard as he could but that boy chased Loki so hard all night and finally ran him down. Pretty sure Loki had no intentions for the encounter to get physical, poor guy XD

[@kagehikari4281]

@@skwills1629 yep, he seems to get screwed over a lot in the myths, only this was one where it was literal lol I really like Loki and feel bad for him. Hes probably one of the few norse gods that is not a straight up a-hat and likeable. Even Thor is a dbag. Loki is quite a tragic figure from what i seen.

[@BlackburnBigdragon]

Am I the only one who wanted Pat Morita to start saying stuff like, "Do you believe in The Karate Kid?", and "Do you believe in Wax on Wax off?"?

[@Clonekiller66]

"Daniel-San. In order to get your first born back, You must sand the floor."

[@redkingrauri3769]

I might have gotten an odder adaptation but when I was a kid I had a book of rumpelstiltskin where when he stomps the ground he gets stuck and is torn apart because he was made of gingerbread. They line always confused me because it seemed to come out of nowhere. "for he was made of gingerbread instead of rumpeltstilt".

[@PopfulFrost]

Vausch, what're youuuuuuu doing heeeere~?!

[@gracekim1998]

Whoa. I’m aware of the take where when you say his name he stomps the ground so hard he falls through it and never seen from again 😅

[@otakunthevegan4206]

God was then like "What the hell you murdered that innocent troll!" And Saint Olaf was then Punished by being Turned into a Talking Snowman.

[@dragonkeeper19600]

Miller's Daughter: "You can have anything you want!" Rumpelstiltskin: "Anythiiiiing?" Miller's Daughter: "Oh, yes! Even my virginity!" Rumpelstiltskin: "..." Rumpelstiltskin: "Well, gee, I was gonna ask for your firstborn child, but under the circumstances..."

[@cthonisprincess4011]

dragonkeeper19600 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Reminds me of a book I owned as a child that illustrates Rumpelstiltskin as being beautiful faery. One time when me and my friend was reading it to my little sister, when the scene where he wants to collect the child appeared, my friend made the joke about the fact that they’d “made gold” three nights in a row meaning that the kid was probably Rumplestiltskin’s to begin with.

[@lizzychrome7630]

Watching this while trying to eat was a mistake. I lost it just from looking at your *face* in the *thumbnail* image. XDDD It's been far too long since we had a Phelous review of a crappy animated movie, and this came right when we needed one! Thank you so much for this review sir.

[@remem95]

Rumpelstilskin asking for small things in the beginning is the OG lootbox trap! But seriously, its an old trick to get people to pay a huge price by readying them up with cheap offers. Maybe what this story was supposed to warn children about?

[@OlineB]

Never heard of saint Olav and the troll. rumpelstilskin is way more known in Norway,as far as I know. I guess they have to go super obscure if they want to find three variants of each story.

[@stefannydvorak7919]

Ingeborg Oline I think the story of King Olaf was a Christian adaptation of the Norse myth where Odin hired a Giant to build the wall of Asgard. I remember the Gods promised to give the Giant the sun and the moon, only to trick him and turn him into stone.

[@OlineB]

@@stefannydvorak7919 Very likly,the sun and moon part is very similar. I can't find a source where Hrimturs/Hrimthurs is turned to stone though, from what I can find he is simpy killed by Tor's hammer.(After Loke sleeps with his horse. norse mythology is weird)

[@stefannydvorak7919]

Ingeborg Oline Oh, My memory of the tale must have been mixed with what I saw in the video!

[@stefannydvorak7919]

But I really love Norse mythology (or any mythology, really).

[@kaydwessie296]

Missed your animation reviews! Need them more than ever these days

[@TheBatIsRad6435]

“ hey I’m Olaf and I like scamming and murdering people” Frozen reference

[@jasongretencord3326]

Victory bear is the older brother of Victory Interrupting Bear.

[@Tareltonlives]

Victory Bear is when Red Tired Offended Bear eats someone

[@jeffrieturner3850]

10:04 Miller's Daughter: "Is it Jabberwocky, or Eggs Benedict, or Oompa Loompa?" Me: "Or is it Taserface?"

[@GermanLeftist]

It's metaphorical!

[@U014B]

BIFF HARDCHEESE

[@christopherschuch5328]

Joker

[@drixg555]

Kltpzyxm?

[@GalakStari]

1:41 Phelous: “I kinda feel like they cheated a bit on those last ones: ‘Do you believe in true love’ AND ‘do you believe in love at first sight’? I don’t believe it!” Me: “Believe it.”

[@ExplorerDS6789]

Phelan, I just wanted to thank you for all you do. I know that whenever I'm having a rough day, I put on one of your videos and instantly, I'm cheered up. The effort you put into your videos to make them funny and informative is outstanding. Just know how much we all appreciate you and your efforts to entertain us. Me personally, I've been following you since 2010. Keep up the good work, man!

[@phelous]

Thanks a lot!

[@ExplorerDS6789]

Thank YOU.

[@KingdomHeartsBrawler]

The "no she can't" guy seriously looks like one of the Strangers from Dark City.

[@Antonio_Martinez]

Rumplestiltskin: “And now you made me ruin my branch hat. It’s completely useless now.” Old Man: “HEEEEEEEEE”

[@a.dennis4835]

Out of curiosity, I tried to look up the King David fairy tale. The only source that I could find that recorded the entire story was the book "Legends of Old Testament Characters" (Chapter 37 specifically).