Friday Fun: Fairy Tale Ads

Here is a little bit of Friday fun that I found on Tales of Faerie. Lemmonpepper99 on You Tube has compiled a playlist of fairy tale TV ads dating all the way back to the 1930s!

It is interesting to see what themes the ads pull out while trying to sell something. Little Red Riding Hood is either about sex, safety, or personal power. Cinderella is more often than not about searching for things we desire or transformation. Sleeping Beauty is strangely comedic in most, and ends up being either about sleeping peacefully or waiting for what you want. The Goldilocks ones are always about "just right." 

I think my favorites were the Little Red Adidas commercial and the Oreo commercial for their animation, the Nokia one for finding fairy tales in every day life, and the GHD and 7up commercials where our heroines take their destiny into their own hands. 

Art: Some Silly Friday Tumblr Goodness

From tragedyseries: 

Tragedy Series posts strange lamentable events, like this one: 

 

I always wondered this. Same thing with the beast. Did he like being a Beast better? 

From sarah531: 

 

 

Sarah531 has paired the companions of Doctor Who with fairy tale heroines. I think these are rather perfect, though Rose's is a bit obvious and kind of a stretch-plot and personality wise. What do you think? Would you have done them differently? Who would you choose for other companions?