- Ah!
- Let's go!
- Dude!
- Let's go dog!
Ooh man.
- Dude, that was good!
- Imagine if Disney kept that,
oh my gosh.
- I have no clue
what the heck he was talking about.
♪ (upbeat brass intro) ♪
- (FBE) How well do you know
the origin stories 
of Disney characters?
- Oh!
- God!
I don't know, I'm trying to think
of even like princesses that I know.
- Aren't those like
the Brothers Grimm kind of things?
Right, like I know they're 
like dark.
- I know some of the original
like fairy tales, I used to at least.
So let's see if I have
a good memory or not.
- (FBE) As you probably know,
many old tales come from
grim beginnings, and have been 
modified throughout time.
We're going to be testing to see
if you can guess
which Disney character
is based on each origin story.
- Ooh.
- Okay!
- That sounds kinda hard. (laughs)
- I know!
- (FBE) Here's how this will go,
we'll play you a clip
of producer Kyle reading
the basic original plot outlines
of several well-known stories,
and you'll have to guess
which popular Disney character
he is describing.
- Oh!
- Okay.
- (FBE) You'll write it down
on the whiteboards
that we're gonna give you,
and have you reveal.
The person who gets the most correct
out of five rounds wins the game.
- Five rounds, okay.
- Okay!
Kyle better like subtly
put in some answers for us maybe,
in whatever clips are shown.
- Just like, bottom right corner,
is like the little answer.
- Yeah! (laughs)
- Oh my God.
- I feel like this is gonna 
be pretty mellow.
They weren't modified that much.
- Yeah, they have probably like 
a similar origin and context, right?
- I'm actually really 
excited about this.
- I know, me too.
At least we get to 
like learn something
about their actual stories.
- And it seems pretty,
like it seems pretty easy,
but we'll see how it's gonna go.
- Yeah. (laughs)
- I really don't wanna be proven
that I'm not a real Disney fan.
- Yeah, I have zero skin in this game.
- (Kyle) A non-human maiden
falls in love with a human man.
In order to be fully human too,
she makes a deal 
with a terrible witch.
- I got this, so easy.
- This is too easy.
- I know!
- (Kyle) In order to be
fully human too,
she makes a deal
with a terrible witch.
- Oh!
- (Kyle) She can become human,
but she will have to live
the rest of her life
always in pain,
like the stabbing pain of knives.
In the end, the prince
marries someone else,
and the beautiful maiden
throws herself into the ocean.
- Oh man.
- Okay.
- (Kyle) Where she turns 
into sea foam.
- That's way different 
than the Disney version.
- (Kyle) Interesting,
good luck with that one.
- Okay.
- What?
- I know this!
- You do?
- Yeah, I like how this is
kind of like kids explaining things,
except it's Kyle explaining things.
- Yeah Kyle! (laughs)
- It's almost the same.
- Yeah, exactly!
Except the ending,
that was kinda dark.
- Yeah, I remember,
I remember thinking about that dark.
- Wow, this is a guess.
- Wow, I don't know this one.
- I know this because 
I've read this before.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- (FBE) Okay, one, two, three.
- Ariel, aka The Little Mermaid!
- Ha!
- You got it too?
- Yes!
- (FBE) Pulled from the original
Hans Christian Andersen story,
this was a much more tragic ending
for Ariel from The Little Mermaid.
- Yeah!
- Oh, let's go, okay, okay.
- I just knew that in like
the Disney story,
she falls in love with a man,
and that's the only non-human
Disney princess there is.
- Oh yeah, damn.
- That's really dark.
- Yeah, and every step is painful.
- Right?
- As a human.
- So she did all that,
and she didn't even get it.
Like, that sucks! (laughs)
- Yeah!
- Alright, all of my English classes
that I'm taking
are gonna help me with this.
- (Kyle) A woman loses her mother,
and goes to live 
with her evil relatives.
One evening at a party,
she meets a handsome prince.
As she's leaving,
she loses a precious item.
The next day, the prince
goes door to door
to find the maiden
who the prized item belongs to,
testing its size.
- Oh, okay.
- (Kyle) The woman's stepsisters
can't fit their large feet into it,
so they cut them to squeeze into it.
- Ugh!
- (Kyle) The prince comes
across the woman,
and she fits into the footwear
without bodily modifications,
and they live happily ever after.
- He's a good storyteller,
by the way. (laughs)
- I love this whole background...
- Right?
- Going on.
- (Kyle) That's good tea.
- And now she only
has one foot, right?
- It's more like if this is the foot,
they cut it like that,
so now they're missing a toe,
or they're missing part of the foot.
- Oh!
- Not the foot completely off.
- Oh they just chopped off,
oh you lied, it doesn't fit.
- Imagine if Disney kept that,
oh my gosh.
- I don't know, it'd be interesting.
- (FBE) One, two, three.
- Cinderella!
- Yeah!
- (FBE) You both said Cinderella,
you both got it.
- Woo, yeah!
- Yeah!
- There's no one else that like
goes to a party, loses a thing,
has evil stepsisters, like she
checks all the boxes.
- That is true.
- (FBE) There have been
many, many versions of this story
created throughout time,
with the oldest known variation
coming from Greece from between
7 B.C. and 23 A.D.
- Whoa!
- Wow.
- Greece, that's so, I literally
thought it was just like
from France or something like that.
- I think it's really interesting
how a lot of these folklore stories
all originate independently,
but they're the same story.
- There's like a universal theme
that we don't even know
that we're all putting out
together at once.
- Exactly.
- (Kyle) A woman falls in love.
She convinces her suitor to allow her 
to visit her sisters for a week.
- Hmm.
- (Kyle) When her jealous sisters
hear about her luxurious life
with her new man,
who they see as a monster,
they convince her to extend
her visit with them,
hoping that the monster
will be driven crazy
by her absence and eat her.
The end.
- What, I'm so confused.
- (Kyle) And they lived
happily ever after.
- (gasps) What, that's it?
- If I'm right, there's like
a significant twist to this.
- This is my all-time favorite movie,
I read the true story behind it,
so I know it.
- I'm just gonna guess.
So we'll see. (laughs)
- Who has a sister?
I can't even think of anyone
that has a sister?
- Aside from Cinderella
that has stepsisters.
- Yeah, exactly.
- (FBE) Let's see 'em.
- I said Sleeping Beauty.
- Belle.
- (FBE) Belle, Sleeping Beauty.
Brayden you got this one correct.
- Yes! (laughs)
- (gasps) Really?
Oh, I should have thought,
because like the beast...
- Yeah 'cause like a monster.
- Was maybe the person
trying to eat her!
- That's so different!
- Okay, oh, we should have 
said the character.
Why did we do that?
We both made the same mistake.
- Oh, yeah, we both 
did the movie, okay.
- (FBE) In the original French version
of this story,
the protagonist had 
11 brothers and sisters.
That character was Belle
from Beauty and the Beast.
- Wow!
- Yeah.
It's a very, very different story.
- Yeah.
- So I don't know how
they got that from like back to,
and it turned into the actual movie.
- Yeah.
That's literally completely different
than the Disney one.
- Yeah.
- For sure.
- It's weird, 'cause it's not
the first thing I would think.
Like, these are pretty 
gruesome stories,
and then to be like ah, this is good 
source material for a kids movie.
- That is true, that is true.
- Yeah!
- Who has the mind to do that?
Just like ah, let's just change it.
- Let's change it a little bit,
add some talking animals,
and we're good!
(both laugh)
- (Kyle) A beautiful princess has been
locked away since she was a baby
by a terrible old woman.
- Got it.
- (Kyle) The princess has
the ability to provide eternal youth,
and the old woman uses this
as a tool to keep herself young.
- You know this.
- Oh yeah.
- Yeah, there's no way you don't.
- (Kyle) A prince finds the princess.
- Oh.
- (Kyle) But when he goes 
to save her,
the evil woman tosses him
out of a window.
- What?
- (Kyle) He lands on spikes
that are driven through his eyes,
which makes him blind.
- Oh, okay.
- (Kyle) Without sight, 
he roams the area
until he hears the princess's 
singing voice.
Her tears for him are magic
and give him back his sight.
Sounds like bull [censored].
(Carlos laughs)
- Wow.
- Same, same.
- You know what,
that's a nice happy ending though,
'cause I thought like,
the person that has this baby captured
just like straight up 
blinded this man forever.
- (FBE) One, two, three.
- Rapunzel, yeah!
- Yeah!
- (FBE) Yeah, this one's Rapunzel.
- Oh, okay.
- You always hesitate every time,
and it freaks me out.
- Oh my gosh.
- Hey!
- Hey!
- Wow, I got that!
- There you go!
- What the hell?
I'm a Disney stan all of a sudden.
- (FBE) This was originally
a Brothers Grimm fairy tale
first published in 1812,
and you got it,
this was indeed Rapunzel.
- Oh man, that's
so different than the...
- Yeah, but the new version,
like Tangled,
definitely touched upon that,
the whole tear is being magic,
and then like a prince.
- Oh yeah!
- Yeah.
- At the end, yeah, yeah.
- So it definitely incorporated
more of that version of it.
But like the actual original story
that I grew up with,
definitely didn't have all that.
- Yeah.
- I think Barbie's Rapunzel
was better than Tangled. (laughs)
- Dang, low key.
- (FBE) Very controversal.
- Actually, I low key agree,
I low key agree.
- The Barbie movies,
nothing like that
will ever be made again. (laughs)
- That is true. (laughs)
- (FBE) So we're going into
the last round.
This is either gonna be
for the tie or the win.
- Okay, let us hope for the best.
- (Kyle) A young Chinese man
lives with his mother
and attempts to woo a princess
named Badroulbadour.
- (both) What?
- (Kyle) Princess marries one of
the three terrible 
villains in the story.
The young protagonist 
kidnaps her husband
imprisoning him for two nights,
until he begs to have
his marriage annulled.
- Huh.
- (Kyle) Since she is 
no longer married,
the man tries to...
- I have no idea.
- (Kyle) And her father.
- Oh, I know this one.
- (Kyle) With the help 
of a magical friend,
he gives her jewels, gold,
a palace, servants...
- What?
- I have no idea what this is.
- (Kyle) She is impressed.
They get married and live
happily ever after.
- Wow, very shallow.
- I have no clue
what the heck he was talking about!
Dang, I was doing so good.
Now I totally...
- I know, I'm so,
dang, I forgot like how,
okay, I know exactly
who this is.
- What?
- And it's a Chinese tale.
I'm trying to think of like
anything I've even
vaguely heard of,
that's originally sourced
as like a Chinese tale.
- If I'm right, the story
is like incredibly far adapted.
- I'm purely guessing
on this one.
Like, I feel like 
I'm gonna be so wrong!
- (FBE) One, two, three.
- Oh, it's probably Aladdin.
- Mulan!
- Aladdin.
- (FBE) Aladdin and Mulan.
Well one of you is correct.
- Oh!
- (FBE) It was Aladdin!
- Woohoo!
- I just thought Chinese,
I was like, 
I might as well just put Mulan.
- Well, because I'm Middle Eastern,
like, I'm interested 
in the Aladdin movie,
and I remember looking into
the origins, and I was like,
that's so crazy that it went from
like a Chinese story,
and it somehow turned into
like an Arab story.
So that's why like, I remember that.
- I had no idea,
that one really stumped me.
- Ah!
- Let's go!
Let's go dog!
- Dude.
Dude, that was good.
- Oh man.
- I didn't even think about Aladdin.
I was purely thinking 
of princess movies.
- Yeah.
- Rather than like anything else
that was starring a guy.
- (FBE) The story of Aladdin
comes from the centuries old
set of stories within a story,
1,001 Nights,
also known as the Arabian Nights.
- Yes.
- (FBE) These stories, though,
come from Arabic, Persian,
Turkish, North African, Indian,
and East Asian cultures.
- Got it.
- Okay.
- I never heard that in my life.
- That's why a lot of the things
that are adapted,
into like the modern day films
are south Asian.
Like, they're not even Arabic based.
Like, that's totally two
different cultures,
but people associate
two different things,
like Jasmin and stuff,
so I'm like, it might be Aladdin.
- Okay, it makes total sense now,
because of all the things
that he buys her at the end,
and that's kind of why
she like ends up marrying him.
- Yeah, that makes sense yeah.
- 'Cause he has money now.
- Yeah, mulah! (laughs)
- (FBE) Okay, this was a very
hard fought battle,
the final score was 5 to 4!
- Yeah.
- Honestly, good job,
you still did pretty good.
- Okay, now I feel bad
making a face, I was like ugh!
(both laugh)
- For how not confident
you were in the beginning,
you pulled through!
- Okay, Brayden,
you deserve it though.
- Thank you.
- You used more parts of your brain
than I did. 
(both laugh)
- Hey, you know what?
Good match.
- I'll give you my Disney+ login.
- I really want the yearly pass.
Maybe I'll get in the theme parks.
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