- 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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