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Nursery Rhyme
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Nursery rhymes. Full of rhyme and rhythm and odd images. Not so full of sense. Nursery rhymes are a form of oral folklore and overlap with children's songs, lullabies and Riddles. They may be connected to Parlor Games. Counting-out rhymes are a subgroup. The English nursery rhymes specifically are connected with the name of Mother Goose, whence they are also called 'Mother Goose rhymes'. Mother Goose is an old folklore figure or stereotype — an archetypal elderly country woman, who was originally interpreted as a teller, or mythical originator of fairy tales; but her focus shifted to nursery rhymes in the late 18th century. She also figures in a nursery rhyme herself, and is the subject of a traditional pantomime. She is usually portrayed wearing a tall hat and shawl (the old Welsh peasant costume), except when she is an anthropomorphic goose. Characters from nursery rhymes, like Old King Cole, Humpty Dumpty, or Mother Goose herself are Public Domain Characters that may feature in all kinds of works. The writer may try to explain their rhymes — often enough, with a parody origin. Modern lore often attributes macabre and horrifying "origin stories" to nursery rhymes; the most widespread possibly being that "Ring Around the Rosy" note "Ring a Ring o' Roses" in Britain is a song about the plague. While that particular example is most likely Urban Legend, debate continues for others. The origins of most nursery rhymes are simply not known, and many are in all likelyhood nonsense rhymes that never made much sense. There are, however, more firmly rooted examples demonstrating that this can be Truth in Television. "There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe", for instance: Not only is the rhyme itself openly dark, but its second printed appearancenote in 1797, the first printed appearance being in 1794, with predating references indicating that it existed as oral tradition long before that. documents an additional, even darker and stranger couplet. Its wording hints at a Shakespearean-era origin, and bolsters a suspicion among folklorists that it has a lost political or allegorical meaning as well: Newer Than They Think also often applies to this, with people sometimes attributing much older meanings to nursery rhymes that are much more recent ("Pop Goes The Weasel" for example is thought to only be about 150 years old). Obviously, drawn upon for Ironic Nursery Tune. May also feature in a Fractured Fairy Tale or a Fairy Tale Free-for-All. Often has Rhyming Title and/or features characters with Rhyming Names. Compare the Playground Song. Examples |
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The soundtrack of Cross of Iron includes the German nursery rhyme "Hänschen klein", which is used ironically to produce Soundtrack Dissonance with the war. | |
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Alongside fairy tales, the Shrek franchise has also adapted and parodied multiple characters from English-language nursery rhymes, who all coexist with each other and other traditional stories. In the main films, the Three Blind Mice are recurring characters and the Muffin Man is the baker who created the Gingerbread Man; in the spin-offs, Puss in Boots (2011) shows Little Boy Blue as a bully in Puss' orphanage, Jack and Jill as a feared couple of bandits, and Humpty Dumpty as an anthropomorphic egg and Puss' former best friend, while its sequel Puss in Boots: The Last Wish shows Little Jack Horner as the vicious owner of a pie factory and crime lord who built a collection of smuggled magical artifacts after growing envious of fairy-tale characters for upstaging his nursery rhyme. | |
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In Frank and Ernest, when dealing with Fairy Tale characters, such figures as Little Bo-Peep also appear. | |
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Dead Space has the very very very creepy singing of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in it. | |
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Lincoln's Memories: Luna, when she's between the ages of three and seven, frequently quotes nursery rhymes. Her first line in the series was her at age five saying, "Lincoln, Lincoln, pumpkin eater" about a baby Lincoln eating mashed pumpkin. | |
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"Little Otik": Before each meal, the titular monster sings a nursery rhyme in which it lists everything and everyone whom it has previously eaten. | |
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Thief: Deadly Shadows contains several nursery rhymes, all of them rather disturbing (and accurate foreshadowing). | |
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And Mother Goose and Grimm does it too, naturally. | |
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Mother Goose Treasury might as well be Nursery Rhyme: The Show. It is all about the title character's interaction with Nursery Rhyme characters. | |
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Mother Goose often features in pantomime, albeit as a real woman (honest) who has had children and happens to own a very large goose note who'll probably lay a golden egg at some point during the performance. | |
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In Black Butler, the main antagonist of the Noah's Ark Circus uses the name Tom the Piper's Son as his alias. | |
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In "Maid Maleen", the tower where Maleen was imprisoned inspired children to sing a nursery rhyme as they passed it. | |
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Mutts has a book club; a goose, one reader, resorts to nursery rhymes quite often. | |
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In Conker's Bad Fur Day, Conker is forced to sing a nursery rhyme to Fangy the Raptor in order to hypnotize him. | |
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In The Noddy Shop, a fairy tale book based on a nursery rhyme will sometimes be read by the characters, with a modern version of the rhyme being played over it based on the episode's moral. For example, in "Lost and Found", a version of Little Bo Peep is shown in which Bo Peep and her sheep decide to split up to become famous, but then realize that it would be better if they did an act together. | |
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Several nursery rhyme characters appear in Fables and even more in the spinoff Jack Of Fables. | |
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Angela Nicely: “Talent!” reveals that Angela used to dress as a teapot and sing “I’m a Little Teapot” when she was in nursery school. Later in the same story, Angela tells Laura to say, “Eenie meenie miny moe” when trying to hypnotise her. | |
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Jack Spratt of Jasper Fforde's Nursery Crime books is himself a nursery rhyme figure and runs across several others. (Though his ambit includes Fairy Tales as well.) | |
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In Bear in the Big Blue House, Shadow's stories are often nursery rhymes with some modern jokes sprinkled in. | |
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In Legend of the Gold of Babylon, Lupin's search for the MacGuffin Location is hidden within an actual Nursery Rhyme; "How many miles to Babylon? Three-score miles and ten...". Lupin even lampshades it regarding its brilliance and figures out the code within the rhyme; the 70 miles mentioned in the rhyme refer to seven booby traps in the Tower of Babel's ruins protecting part of the titular MacGuffin. | |
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One episode of U.S. Acres from Garfield and Friends had Aloysius Pig asking the cast to do some of these. This turns out to be easier said than done, as every nursery rhyme they try has offensive things in them. Towards the end, they get back at Aloysius by making up a rhyme about him. | |
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Brave New World features a more adult version of Georgie Porgie called "Orgy Porgy." (Given kids in this world are encouraged to sexually experiment as young as six, this isn't surprising) | |
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In Fate/EXTRA, the embodiment of nursery rhyme, mostly from Alice in Wonderland, is a Caster-class Servant. A representative of children's love for the genre, the Moon Cell thus recognizes the genre itself as the "Hero of Children" and makes a Servant that mirroring its Master's adoration to it. Its Matrix; descriptions of identity, skills, and Noble Phantasm, and its dialogues are written in nursery rhyme. | |
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The 1938 Silly Symphony short "Mother Goose Goes Hollywood" is a series of nursery rhymes with celebrity caricatures in the main roles. | |
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Roys Bedoys: In one video, Roys and his friends, plus Ms. H, parody “The Wheels on the Bus”. | |
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In the Doctor Who serial Frontier in Space, Jo prevents her hypnosis by reciting nursery rhymes. | |
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Apart from the pop hits and Nick Jr. songs that play in Face's Music Party, remixes of popular nursery rhymes also play in each episode. | |
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In Children's Party at the Palace, two nursery rhymes, “Baa Baa Black Sheep” and “Three Little Kittens” are referenced by Cruella de Vil and her chaperone. | |
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Cursery are a series of games produced by Blue Tea Games that are a Darker and Edgier spin on the rhymes. "The Crooked Man" and "Humpty Dumpty" are the first ones. | |
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