I've got some fairy tales that you can
scar kids with.
Let's talk about that?
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- Good Mythical Morning!
- In our ongoing Good Mythical
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Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The
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- And we're gonna talk more about this
- in Good Mythical More, but it's
- Yes.
basically a modern-day fairy tale, which
got me thinking about fairy tales in
general. Did a little research.
Boopity boop boop boop!
- (high-pitched) Mm!
- I have brought together...
It turns out there's some really bizarre
fairy tales that… Once you really think
- about it, I can't believe that they were
- Yeah.
- ever told to children. So I've brought
- Mhm.
a number of these together and created a
game, some of which I've made up.
The game is called "Fairy Tales:
Messed Up, or Made Up."
So some of these fairy tales are actual
fairy tales that are just crazy, and some
- of 'em are Linky tales.
- Oh, Linky tales.
- Fairy tales that Linkypoo made up. 
- That's… I get it.
Hold on. You're not supposed to call
yourself Linkypoo.
- True.
- If I say it, it's weird but okay.
If other people on the Internet say it,
it's totally acceptable.
- Well, we'll just cut it out in the edit.
- You can't call yourself...
- Because we edit this show…
- We won't cut it out.
- …all the time, right?
- We won't cut it out.
If you get five out of eight of
these right...
- Okay, Linkypoo.
- …then I have to wear this amazing
- princess dress the rest of the day.
- You can call yourself Linkypoo all
- you want to in that dress.
- So you better hope that you
- get at least five of these right.
- I'm a pretty messed up dude, so
you know, I'm good at figuring out which
things are messed up and which things are
- made up by Linkypoo.
- Here's the first one. Once upon a
time, Rhett, a mouse, a bird, and a
sausage all lived together,
and they each had their own household
chores. Of course!
- Mouse, bird, and sausage?
- But one day, the bird suggests they
switch things up. Spoiler alert! They all
die gruesome deaths. The bird drowns.
The sausage is eaten by a dog. And the
mouse cooks himself alive.
Eugh. Is this fairy tale real or fake?
- The mouse cooks himself alive?
- (Link) Alive.
- And the sausage is already cooked.
- He's eaten by a dog.
That is the weird part about this.
Does the mouse become a sausage?
- You're not given clarifying questions.
- Okay.
- Real or fake, Rhett?
- Um...
I'm gonna go with… I'm gonna go
with fakey-poo on this one.
- Nope, it's real.
- Oh, really?! What?! (incorrect buzzer)
It's called "The Bird, the Mouse, and the
Sausage." Written in 1810 by
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, AKA the
Brothers Grimm. My favorite part of
- this story is… the dog says that it was
- Dang, Grimms!
okay to eat the sausage because the
sausage was "carrying forged documents."
- We'll, I'd eat-- yeah. You gotta eat...
- Totally true.
- ...those misbehaving sausages.
- All right, you're already behind the--
Law-breakin' Sausages! That's a good
name for a band.
Once upon a time, a stepmother didn't like
her stepson.
- Okay… Yeah, I've heard of that.
- That's big news.
So, spoiler alert! She slams the lid of a
chest down on his head, decapitating him.
And then feeds him to his father in a pie.
- Mm, cannibalism, kids!
- (forced laughter) This has some...
(high voice) "Go to sleep,
little children!"
This has some tropes, and I feel like
it's so trope-y...
- (Link) Hm.
- …that it's definitely a Linkypoo
- thing. This is fake.
- (laughing) Dude. (stammering)
- It's real.
- It's real?! Dang it! (incorrect buzzer)
- Listen, I told you these are crazy!
- The step… (laughing)
Hold on, the step-- (stammering) in
the pie? I was like, "Oh, come on.
He's just takin' things from all kinds
of fairy tales."
- It gets even crazier. It's called
- What?!
"The Juniper Tree." This is also...
- (Rhett) She fed? Oh, gosh.
- …a Brothers Grimm thing.
- After the dead-- Listen.
- This is real? This is for kids?
The dead, eaten kid becomes a bird,
murders the stepmom by dropping a
- giant rock on her head.
- Oh.
- That's the double spoiler alert.
- If you had've gotten to that,
- I would've known it was real.
- No, you wouldn't have.
All right. You gonna have to wear that
dress if you don't shape up!
- Once upon a time…
- I can only miss one more.
Yeah. Once upon a time, a bear fell in
love with a hen. He followed her around
everywhere, but a jealous rabbit, also
in love with the hen, devised a plan.
(snaps) Spoiler alert! The bear
accidentally sits on the chicken,
squishing the life out of it, and then he
bludgeons the rabbit to death with
the floppy body of the chicken.
Is this fairy tale real or fake?
- (tapping the table)
- Just because Lizzie is giggling over
- there doesn't mean that it's fake.
- Well, I feel like just based on just
- statistics at this point…
- (laughing)
(Rhett) You can't have three real in a
row. This is a fake one!
- Yeah, this is fake.
- Hey! (correct ding)
But if it were real, I would call it,
"Bear with Me: There's a Chicken under
- My Butt." Or "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
- Oh, that's good.
Nobody! He Was a Jealous, Murderous
Jerk!"
- What's that in German?
- Danke schön.
- Dunka shing?
- Danke schön!
- Gunka sheng?
- (crew laughing offscreen)
- Isn't "danke schön" a German word?
- (crew offscreen) It's "thank you."
- Oh, "thank you." You're welcome.
- We digress. Once upon a time...
- You're velcome.
- …three surgeons tried to impress
- an innkeeper with their skills.
- Three surgeons?
Surgeons. Spoiler alert! One cut off his
own hand. The other gouged out his own
eyes, and kids, the third one cut out
his beating, bleeding heart.
Anybody hungry? Kids, wanna peanut
butter and jelly?
- Want some heart sausage?
- (laughing) Real or fake?
Surgeons… Surgeons don't often make
their way into children's tales.
- (laughing)
- I mean, give me an example of surgeons
- in a fairy tale.
- Um, this one.
Uh… Linkypoo! Messed up.
I mean, made up.
- (laughing) No, this is real!
- Made up. Dang it! (incorrect buzzer)
- Okay.
- They're surgeons?! You Germans...
- For every other one you lose,
- …is this Germans?
you're gonna have to wear the dress
another day now.
- Is this Germans?
- this is also the Brothers Grimm.
- These guys were messed up.
- Man, they write about surgeons?
The surgeons ended up replacing their
missing body parts with the hand of
a thief, the eye of a cat, and the heart
of a pig.
- You know what? That was foresight.
- Right, 'cause you can do that.
- I have a pig heart.
- I know a guy who does.
- Oh, I seem insensitive now.
- Yeah, let's not bring him into that.
Yeah. Sorry. Sorry pig heart people.
I'm just saying that it's something
that can be done, and it's pretty amazing.
Thanks to modern medicine.
Once upon a time, a vain prince rejected
a beautiful princess. He was then eaten
by a panther and regurgitated as the
ugliest man on Earth. Spoiler alert!
The princess ends u falling in love with
him anyways. They slaughter the panther
and serve him on a spit at their wedding
feast. Real or fake?
- Is there sausage involved?
- Yes. I'll add sausage.
- (laughing) So it's fake.
- (laughing) Yes, it's fake!
- (laughing) (correct ding)
- But if it were real...
- You walked right into that.
- it would be called "Beauty and the
- Hairball." Just trying to keep this
- Oh, that's good.
interesting. Once upon a time, a king
vowed that he would only marry
a woman who fit perfectly into his dead
wife's clothes.
- Mm…
- Spoiler alert! The woman happened to be
- his own daughter. Ooh!
- (laughing) Oh, gosh.
- Real or fake?
- Oh, man! Wow!
- (laughing)
- You know, the funny thing is this has
- happened in real life.
- Does it happen in a real fairy tale.
No, there was a real life case of a father
meeting after never seeing each other
- and falling in love. That's weird stuff.
- Is that where I got this from
- when I made it up?
- (Rhett) I think it was in Florida.
- That's not German.
- Did I read that article and make this
- up, this Linky tale?
- Uh… Yep, this is fake.
- Nope, it's real.
- Gah! (incorrect buzzer)
This is an old, Scottish folk tale.
John Francis Campbell compiled it
in 1860: "The King Who Wished to Marry
His Daughter." They just go with it right
- off the bat, the title of the thing.
- You people.
- All right. I'm just in for the pride now.
- Once upon a time, a beautiful princess
was cursed to transform into a hideous
creature every night at sunset.
Only true love's kiss could break the
spell. Ironically, she's rescued not by a
handsome prince on a horse, but by a
grotesque monster with a mule.
Spoiler alert! They do kiss, but the
princess stays ugly. Real or fake?
- (slaps the table) Fake.
- You are horrible at this. It's real.
- (incorrect buzzer)
- It is the 2001 computer-animated
- fantasy comedy, "Shrek."
- (both Rhett & Link laughing)
- (Rhett) Oh, man. You totally got me.
- I got you with the Shrek-es!
- Aw, you Shreked me, man.
- Last one.
- I got Shreked!
- I'm so happy that you fell for that.
- I've been Shreked!
- (laughing) Once upon a time,
- a bags-pipes-playing…
- "A bags pipes?"
A bags-pipes-playing-chicken-riding
human-hedgehog hybrid man
met two kings in the woods, who each offered
their daughter's hand in marriage.
- So there's multiple bags.
- That's just how you say it.
It's bagpipes. It's not bagpipe.
I looked it up, 'cause I didn't wanna
seem stupid, and you're still calling'
me on it.
Spoiler alert! He marries one princess
and murders the other one by riddling her
body with razor sharp hedgehog quills:
human pin cushion. Real or fake?
Hedgehogs are not real. They were invented
for the game Sonic the Hedgehog.
- So I'm gonna say this is fake.
- It's real.
- (incorrect buzzer) (laughing)
- It's called "Hans My Hedgehog"
- by the Brothers Grimm in 1815.
- I know hedgehogs are real.
- Please don't comment.
- Yeah, I mean, look at that picture
- of that guy. He's so weird.
- (Rhett) Dang. You know what?
I'm sorry. I've disappointed myself,
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through to that. Rhett's gonna be putting
on a fairy dress and wearing it all day.
- Is it a princess dress?
- I think it's a princess dress.
- (bells ringing) Win face!
- Whoa!
- Woo woo woo woo! (et cetera)
- ♪ (celebratory horn music) ♪
- It is…
- Congratulations!
- (Rhett) hepworthgretta!
- (Link) Guess what you win?
A butter cutter. And Rhett & Link merch.
(laughing)
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- ♪ (You're amazing!) ♪
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