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A tall tale is a story with unbelievable or outright impossible elements (such as an impossibly tall man, hence the name "tall" tale), told as if it were true and factual. Tall tales arose, more or less, from braggy exaggerations and other cock-and-bull stories. They may contain exaggerations of actual characters or events, or they can be entirely made up. Common prototypes for tall tales are fish stories ("it was this big!") (which makes it transparent where the "tall" humor is coming from), as well as the hunter's story, the war story, and the traveler's story. There's also significant overlap with the "Just So" Story, as many tall tales center on the origins of notable landmarks. Tall Tales are inherently related to Satire, although they are usually humorous and good-natured. Some tall tales draw on myth or legend but while mythology may exaggerate the exploits of their heroes to make them more awesome, the Tall Tale is aware of its own absurdity and exaggerates so as to become ludicrous. Note that "tall tale" is sometimes also used in a wider sense for any "story that isn't true" (particularly when the teller pretends it is true); in this looser sense it also covers Shaggy Dog Stories and campfire Ghost Stories (in parts of the US, "tall tale" and "shaggy dog story" are indeed synonyms). Tall tales are also often told in a way that makes the narrator seem to have been a part of the story. If he himself is the hero, there are likely to follow outrageous Badass Boasts (often followed by the praise of one's own modesty). This kind of a narrator is a Munchausen or a Miles Gloriosus. Standard stylistic devices are also the insistence on factuality, and the pitying of naïve skeptics for their disbelief. Tall tales may also include fantastic creatures. In the USA, the Fearsome Critters of American Folklore are a traditional subject of tall tales. In Australia, expect to see Yowies and Bunyips and Drop Bears, Oh My. Tall tales are an ancient genre of folktales (as encountered in the tales around Paul Bunyan in the USA or Crooked Mick in Australia). But there is also the literary tall tale; the literary tall tale catalyzed the emergence of such respectable genres as Science Fiction and the Utopia. This page is for the Tall Tale genre. If a work is a tall tale itself, or a compendium of them, or the plot revolves around the telling of tall tales, then it goes in this trope. If it merely contains a braggart who is telling tall tales, but the tales aren't the focus of the work, then the trope you seek is Miles Gloriosus or The Münchausen instead. |
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Grampy from Grass and Sky is fond of telling exaggerated stories about his family history, at one point claiming that Paul Bunyan stole credit for his great-great-grandfather's accomplishments. | |
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In The Hobbit Gandalf tells the story of how Bilbo's ancestor Bullroarer Took knocked the head off the orc chieftain Golfimbul and sent it down a rabbit hole, winning the battle and inventing the game of golf at the same time. Bilbo is skeptical.note The same incident is described in the book, but is presented more ambiguously and implied to have actually happened. | |
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The Pixar Shorts: "Mater's Tall Tales" are a modern spin on this tradition. The short "Boundin'" is a tall tale that features a Jackalope. |
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The Simpsons did "Simpsons Tall Tales", featuring Homer as Paul Bunyan, Lisa as Connie Appleseed, and Bart and Nelson as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. | |
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Melody Time has segments for Johnny Appleseed and Pecos Bill. | |
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Your goal in Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is to collect stories of the common folk of America, and then to tell them to other people, planting the seeds for tall tales to grow. | |
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Teen Titans Go!: The episode "Tall Titan Tales" has Robin trying to get his teammates into Tall Tales, only for them to tell their own versions. First, Raven as Paul Bunyan suffering from a painful bunion due to having shoes too small for her and her talking green socks (played by Beast Boy). Next, Cyborg as John Henry, who buys the steam drill after losing to it and goes off into space to fight aliens with a Combining Mecha. And finally, Starfire as Johnny Appleseed who harvests the apples so they can be thrown at the forest animals bullying a skunk for its smell, before giving the skunk its stripes to show it's under protection. | |
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Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill, a Disney film about a young boy's adventures with Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan and John Henry. | |
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Arabian Nights is an ancient Arabic version, with a woman spinning fantastic tales in order to prevent her own execution and eventually win the heart of the king. | |
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The SCP Foundation has one such example in SCP-5634, which is heavily inspired by the legend of Paul Bunyan. | |
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Big Fish, which is all about a man deciphering his father's tall tales. Lampshaded in an exchange between Edward and Josephine. | |
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The World of Warcraft quest series "The Day that Deathwing Came" features three adventurers with their own stories of how they defeated the dragon, whether it's punching him in the face, throwing him across the ocean, or beating him in a knife fight. | |
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The Relativity story "The Legend of the Cheese Maidens" begins with Ravenswood telling the story of the time a bunch of cheerleaders (the "Cheese Maidens") saved the Earth from an alien invasion. | |
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An episode of The Twilight Zone (1959) ("Hocus-Pocus and Frisby") features a backwoods man named Frisby who continually tells tall tales. When he tells the townsfolk he was abducted by aliens, they believe he is just Crying Wolf—even though for once, he's telling the truth! (The whole episode could be a tall tale... from Rod Serling's point of view.) | |
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The several books under the label The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, by Erich Rudolph Raspe (1785-1789 and 1792) and Gottfried August Bürger (1788), wherein Munchausen loves bragging about riding cannonballs and performing even more preposterous deeds. | |
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The characters in the Fantasy Midwest setting of The Sharing Knife entertain themselves with tall tales a few times; old boatman Bo is particularly good at it. Hero Dag, however, finds himself at a disadvantage, as the many improbable stories he has to tell are actually true. | |
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Molly of Denali: In "First Fish," Molly wants to catch her first fish so that she can join in the fish story competition her parents and grandfather have going. | |
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Rarely in Tomodachi Life, a Traveler the player receives via Streetpass may exclaim that a Mii on the player's island was interested in their "stories" and they want the traveler to visit their apartment and tell more. The extreme number of Pictorial Speech Bubbles that appear strongly suggest that they're Tall Tales due to the over the top natures of some of them (which include being attacked by an octopus, swept up in a tornado, riding in a kangaroo's pouch, or finding a group of Lilliputians), and the player's Mii believes every word they say. | |
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Peter, Paul and Mary's "Autumn to May" is about several outlandish animals which the narrator allegedly possessed, namely a dog with fourteen-yard-long legs and ears they could ride on, a clothed talking frog that went sailing in a shoe, flying sheep which delivered gold and candy and a swan which hatched an oyster shell. | |
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Classic Disneyshorts: Disney has made shorts based on Paul Bunyan and John Henry. | |
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Tall Tale America: A Legendary History of Our Humorous Heroes is a book about American tall tales. | |
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Pinky and the Brain had "A Legendary Tail", an episode where the Brain used a computer to combine elements of other tall tales and make one starring himself. He hoped to use this as a way to gain acclaim as a folk hero. However, the resulting tall tale ended with other folk heroes suing the Brain's character for plagiarizing parts of their names (his name, by the way, was "Big Johnny Brain Jones Peachpit Bill Boone Crockett"). | |
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Simple Samosa: One of Samosa's signature characteristics is his tendency to tell tall tales about some stuff he claims to have done (to give a random example, in the episode "Sumo Momo", while on the way to a wrestling match featuring the wrestler Sumo Momo, he brags that he once encountered not one, but two Sumo Momos and defeated them both). This does not go unnoticed by his friends (except perhaps Vada, who actually believes the aforementioned Sumo Momo story); Jalebi in particular calls out Samosa for being such a "bluff master" several times. | |
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Terry Gilliam, based on the 18th century tall tales around Baron Munchhausen and the novel The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by R.E. Raspe. | |
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The World of Commander McBragg, loosely based on Baron Munchausen, consisted of the eponymous McBragg telling ridiculous tall tales about himself, including digging the Grand Canyon, building the Great Pyramid and digging the Panama Canal. Or so says the brag of McBragg. | |
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Superman story The Living Legends of Superman: The year 2199 sequence features an old snake oil salesman named Homer who is fond of telling outrageous and contradictory tales about his career as an astronaut. | |
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Played with in The Star Diaries by Stanisław Lem. It's never clear whether Ijon Tichy, the book's narrator, "really" had all those wacky adventures in space, or whether he is just a teller of tall tales. | |
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"Boots Who Made the Princess Say 'That's a Story!'" revolves about Boots telling scurrilous tales until the princess cries he is making up stuff. | |
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In The Adventures of Tintin (2011), Haddock tells the story of his ancestor battling the feared pirate Red Rackham. The events have clearly been exaggerated somewhat over the generations (and quite a few whiskey bottles). | |
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Käpt'n Blaubär's whole shtick. The Framing Story of every episode (done in puppetry) is retired sea captain Bluebear telling an improbable sounding tale about an adventure he once supposedly had. Those stories (told in animation) are always MST fodder for his three very skeptical grandkids. | |
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The entire point of Call of Juarez: Gunslinger: The over-the-top violence so typical in First Person Shooters is justified in-story by the manner how said story is presented by Silas, who is both Character Narrator and protagonist—namely, as a Tall Tale to entertain random pub patrons. | |
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Grampa Hercules from Robert McCloskey's Homer Price and Centerburg Tales is the town tall tale teller, spinning a wide variety of highly improbable yarns of his youth and his alleged ancestors. | |
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Chau from Off Centre did this once about the story of Euan and Liz. | |
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The Worst Shots in the West is sub-titled as being a tall-tale; although that's quite obvious when reading it. | |
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Deadlands: The "Living Legend" monster is a Tall Tale character that spontaneously comes to life as a result of the ambient magic, which can (and, considering the Crapsack World, usually does) have tragic occurrences. Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bill are explicitly statted up as examples of the forms taken by the Living Legend. John Henry is a real character in the Deadlands version of the Wild West. In fact, his hammer has become a magical artifact, and the man himself has returned from the grave as an undead monster called a Harrowed. |
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The Bolt Chronicles: In "The Spaceship," Rhino's age-related dementia sees the hamster playing the role of The Münchausen. Among other things, he claims to have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, led an army of elephants over the Alps to attack Rome, invented the telephone and Internet, and served as trusted advisor to British Prime Ministers and U.S. presidents. It has unexpected consequences when two space aliens try to kidnap him, wanting him to head up their civilization's Brain Trust Committee. | |
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In the beginning of Dragon Age II, the Character Narrator, Varric, tries to start his story as a tall tale (resulting in a Tutorial Level wherein you control unkillable Game-Breaker characters), but is soon interrupted by his listener, who wants to hear the real story. He still occasionally lapses into tall tales later (and is always interrupted again). | |
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True History by 2nd century AD author Lucian of Samosata is likely the Ur-Example. | |
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The Cat Who... Series: Qwilleran collects various tall tales from around Moose County, and eventually publishes them. | |
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In the Red Mars Trilogy, which is set on a future Mars that is being terraformed, people still tell stories of a Paul Bunyan-type figure called "Big Man," but they make him out as a The Trickster creator figure, not unlike Raven in Native American mythology. This is an In-Universe illustration of how tall tales can evolve into mythology. | |
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