Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 23, 2015
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Transcript:
Goat: What are you writing, Rat? Rat: A kids book. It's a lot like 'Curious George,' but I take it a step further. Goat: How do you take 'Curious George' a step further? Rat; By making him this... Goat: Kids books shouldn't be creepy. Rat: I'm changing that.
More like returning it to the way things once were. Look at how the old fairy tales originally wore, a lot more gruesome, and in some cases quite creepy, than the toned down versions we have today. Doubt Disney would have done as well with Cinderella if they depicted women mutilating their feet with knives to try and fit into the glass slipper (in the Grimm’s version one step-sister cut off her toes to fit the slipper and the other her heel, later they each get pecked in an eye by doves). Or how about Snow White and the Seven Dwarves having the queen eat the heart and lungs of a boar because she believed them to be Snow Whites (yup, happened in the fairy tale, along with a punishment of having to wear red hot metal shoes and dance until she died for trying to kill Snow White). Fairy tales of old have become a lot tamer.