The Princess and the Pea (Bevanfield) - Phelous 

Better plot idea: The prince chooses Bob the construction worker, the queen disapproves and hires an assassin, but the prince is able to sneak Bob a weapon by hiding a derringer under her mattress. And we call it, "The Princess and the Peashooter."

"I slept so badly and I'm all in bruises" "Because of the pea?" "No, because I fell from the 20 mattresses bed you dumbasses gave me!"

"Your cousin Prince Charming seems to find a princess nearly every month!" Well, no wonder Prince Boring can't find any princesses, his cousin's hogging them all!

I actually prefer the parody version of this story from "the Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales." There, the prince was so fed up with having to wait for one of these princesses to feel the pea that he replaced the pea with a bowling ball so the next princess could actually feel it, and this nonsense could be over and done with. I highly reccomend it.

It's only fitting that an adaption of this story contains almost nothing but padding.

6:56 Bob seems way too interesting for a Bevanfield character. A busty redhead working in a construction site in olden times, has a sense of humor, has affairs with the prince, i want to hear her story damn it.

I wonder what happened behind the scenes at the animation department on this one: "Sorry boss, we can't animate the Princess actually atop the 100 mattresses" "Well, at least we can animate the Prince standing and walking by himself" "Nope, we can only animate the Prince with his arm outstretched to hold someone's hand" "Well then what CAN we animate?!" "...we can animate the King eating a slice of toast" "Perfect! Let's get the writer to add that into the script!"

One of my favorite lines from Rugrats: "I can feel it when Phill pees through a lot of blankets, does that make me a princess?" "No, that just makes you both disgusting"

"I DON'T GIVE A SHIT IF YOU'VE HEARD OF HER OR NOT! SHUT UP! MOVE ON" is now gonna be my new favourite forum weapon.

I foresee Phelous getting a ton of use out of that ""Oh", said the prince, totally uninterested" clip

"There's being polite and there's blindly walking towards your death." The amount of cartoons and sitcoms this sentence applies to is astounding.

As a kid, I always thought it was a joke... that the nobility are used to luxury and wealth to such an extent that even the slightest thing out of place (like a pea in the mattress), would be enough to completely devastate them.

Given what I know about Hans Christian Andersen, the story being a dig at high society is the most likely moral of the story; Hans Christian Andersen himself was from a very poor family before he became a famous writer, and a lot of his other stories paint high society in a negative light. There's The Emperor's New Clothes, where a vain emperor is cheated by two con artists and is humiliated by parading around either naked or in his underwear depending on the version, there's Numbskull Jack where the title character's two older brothers, who are the rich family's golden children and have received expensive horses and education, fail to impress the princess, but Numbskull Jack, who had to make due to with an old goat and whatever he found on the way to the castle, wins the princess' heart, there's The Swineherd where the princess is painted as shallow and materialistic for rejecting a songbird and rare flower as courtship gifts because they're real instead of artificial Edit: I wrote that Numbskull Jack rode a donkey originally, but I remembered wrong; it was a goat

I appreciate the inclusion of a phone in what looks like medieval England. I guess being time travelers is how they got to be king and queen

"The pea test? alright my queen. But where ever shall we find 'Sir Robert of Kelly' at at this dreadful hour?"

"Isn't that where King and Queen Michael live?" Yes, King Michael and his beloved wife, Mike.

God, at least Dingo Picture's incompetence and crappiness has an adorable charm to it.....

Through half of this video, I was thinking that the story of The Princess and the Pea ended with the prince meeting the woman of his dreams, and determined to make sure he marries her, replaces the pea with something huge, like a boulder or something. So the woman obviously feels it and his parents are none the wiser. It just occurred to me that that was a parody of the story I read years ago. To me, that parody ending feels like a more fitting way for this tale to resolve

"The play was canceled because the queen developed a severe headache ". Maybe she should stop shaking her head all the time, especially in front of people?

I can create a better version of this story right now while I'm literally taking a dump. The royal family was too uptight and selfish, the town they ruled over hired a thief to break into the castle and place a single pea under the mattress cover of the young princess, knowing that their delicate skin from doing no labour for themselves would make it impossible for her to sleep. The next day, the king and queen came down to the town and ordered their finest tailor to weave the highest quality mattress possible for their fair daughter. The tailor nodded and did as they were told, knowing it would make no difference. Once the mattress was completed, the royals had their servants place it on top of the current mattress as they were too self indulgent to throw out their property. As suspected, the new mattress made no difference whatsoever to the princess' sleep and the royals ordered another mattress to be made. This repeated until the princess' bed reached her chamber ceiling. As this was starting to cost the tailor more than they were making, they sent a letter to the royal family asking why so many mattresses were being demanded. The king had his courier return a letter to the tailor saying that the mattresses all had a bump and was uncomfortable for their fair daughter to sleep on. The tailor sent a letter in reply asking what was causing the bump. The royal family had their servants dismantle the mattress behemoth and the pea was revealed. Moral: Don't just try to cover up a problem, discover what is causing it.

The version of the story I heard, the “princess” was a huntress. The Prince liked that they had some things in common that he coached her to pass all his mom’s nitpick tests. Oh and in this version the mom KILLED all the princesses who failed

Queen: Did you sleep well? No, I slept terribly! Queen: Then you must be a princess! What? No, I'm not! Queen: But didn't you notice the pea under the mattress? What pea? All I noticed was you had me sleeping on a huge pile of mattresses that started wobbling back and forth as I was trying to sleep, then I fell down and broke a few bones! Queen: Oh...

I fear Phelouss sanity is being torn asunder from these horrible 'movies'. Stay strong, we appreciate the sacrifice.

Her shock at the actress is understandable, for two reasons: 1- In this time period, acting was done only by men, who dressed in drag to play the women's parts 2- actors were on the same level/sometimes synonymous with prostitutes (very risqué we're going with this fairy tale) Either way, probably better that the prince broke up ziggy (stardust)

If there are such a large number of available princesses it would suggest that each kingdom covers like 3 blocks or so.

"A little later, the Prince fell in love." That is one of the oddest lines of exposition I've ever heard.

Once Upon a Matress is actually a pretty good retelling of the story, it's definitely entertaining and has more plot. In that story the whole pea test is just a ploy for the queen to get rid of another potential bride so she can keep her son all to herself so the ridiculousness of it makes some sense.

My favorite version of this story is the Happily Ever After: Tales for Every Child, where the Pea Test was heavily hinted to be a way for the smothering queen to keep her son to herself, and in the end served as a lesson to her when the only girl who felt the pea was the one girl she deemed uncouth for her son.

I remember a version of this where the mother made up the whole pea thing to keep her son from getting married because she had a kind of toxic dependency on him and the plot was the girl and her friends trying to figure out what the secret test was really about so they could beat the queen at her game. I think it was like a 15 minute animated short-film or something. I don't remember the thing itself very well, just that detail. I'm betting they don't do anything to try and make this story have anything to give it a plot. Edit: It wasn't an animated feature, it was a school play.

I read a version in which she faked being bothered, having been warned about the test That makes WAY more sense, as if she really was that sensitive, she’d feel all the pebbles and stuff on the road through her shoes

“Yippee beans!” Is exactly what I say when these videos are uploaded

I'm calling it now: the Queen really wanted a girl who she could live vicariously through and is determined to get that through a daughter-in-law; her son is an unobservant loser who keeps bringing home brothel women that his dad's clearly more interested in than his wife.

In the version of this story I grew up with, the queen was possessive of her son the prince, and made up the pea test just so he wouldn't find a "suitable" princess. The prince finds out, and while the princess is asleep he switches the pea with a bowling ball. In the morning he switches it back and the Queen is all flustered and Prince gets the princess.

Bevanfield: Maybe we can't make an actual animated film but I'll bet you cabbage to yippie beans we can a half-assed approximation of one and call it a day!

This cartoon actually had me on the edge of my seat. Figuratively, of course. I couldn't afford to do anything other than shake my head in disapproval.

I've never seen a good animated adaptation of The Princess and the Pea, because I don't think there can be one. The original story is basically a joke, it ends on a punchline... sorta. I guess there is a way to tell it so that it IS a joke, but I don't think even Norm Macdonald could have stretched this thing out to 25 minutes.

Who else wants Phelous to write his own book version of Fairy Tales?

With all the inbreeding inherent in royal families it makes perfect sense that paper skin would be something that crops up

The bit with Prince Charming leaping out of a window was a perfect and hilarious way to break up the monotonous pain Bevanfield has unleashed upon us, albeit temporarily :|

Seeing Phelous in my notifications is MY injection of yippee beans.

Phelous: "So the queen did just call a brothel, right?" Me: "A PRINCESS brothel!"

I've only one thing to say about this movie. *shakes head disapprovingly*

I have apparently never seen the original story because the way it was told to me, the girl wasn't a real princess, but she and the prince were in love, so he'd come to her at night to let her know when she was supposed to be having an awful night's sleep so his mom wouldn't suspect anything, and together, they pull one over on her so they can marry.

For all the limited animation issues, at least the backgrounds look like they'd make for a perfectly fine children's book.

The only time anyone is excited for Bevanfield is when it's in the title of a new Phelous video... myself included.

"Oh, she squeaks when she curtsies! Can't marry THAT monster!" "This is terrible!.......................I AGREE..............." "So, the queen DID just call a brothel, right?" "I DON'T GIVE A SHIT IF YOU'VE HEARD OF HER OR NOT! SHUT UP! MOVE ON!" "Beggars can't be choosers, Prince Judge-y Ass Hat!" "Okay, there's being polite and then there's blindly marching towards your DEATH!" If we've run out of animated stuff, ON to the plethora of 80s Fairy Tale Theatre movies!!

How can a story so short create something so mind-numbing??? Oh it's Bevanfield magic!

The story was made into a musical. Once Upon a Mattress is a musical comedy with music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer. It opened off-Broadway in May 1959, and then moved to Broadway. It marked the Broadway debut of later stage and TV personality Carol Burnett, who originated the role of the princess in the musical.

I know one good version of this story called the Princess Test and the moral of that one is basically “it’s okay to have a bunch of allergies/be picky because that’s who you are and you have ur own charms.” It’s very funny: the ‘princess’ maid spends much of the story trying to murder her because she’s such a disaster to take care of.

Jesus, this Bevanfield animation in particular has reached a Dingo level style.

I wondered why Dingo's love of padding never irked me the way Bevanfields does, and I think I know the answer; Dingo manages to EARN its padding. When Dingo has to fill time, they do with a small aside or silly character moment to (try and) endear you to its world, and most importantly, AFTER they established what you need to know about the plot thus far. Bevanfield on the other hand, resorts having characters needlessly overexplain themselves and their predicaments, and they ALWAYS do it in a way that stops the story dead in its tracks.

Phelous: "His cousin is Prince Charming. Guess that makes him Prince Charm... less!" Yep, still got it!! Seriously, though, great video. Keep it up, brother.

Atleast this prince seems to go for inner beauty for a change unlike all the other "Gentleman" in these fairytails. Like all the women he brought home seemed to be "flawed" but like genuenly nice and likeable while the ones he did not like were all imposters and liars.

Oh my god, that fart noise took me completely off guard and cracked me up and then Phelan comes around saying he "seriously didn't add" the fart noise and now I'm cackling.

i do appreciate that the prince is dating the "ugly fat chicks" that normally would be the ones the prince is turning down in favor of cinderella or sleeping beauty or whatever hot girl the story is about at the time. actually, if he actually loved one of them but his mom was all "ew she's not pretty enough" that might actually be somewhat interesting, over the stupid "he's in love with ____ because of her pure heart but she's not royalty" crap done with a super perfect body/perfect face/perfect hair beauty queen instead of what a sweet-natured peasant actually looks like.

Well didn't expect boringfield to make this story adaptation.

I'll give Bevanfield this: Their videos are perfect for putting children to sleep.

Simce we're talking about better interpretations of this story, I recommend looking up the musical "Once Upon a Matress."

This series is slowly becoming a deep dive into Phelan's descent into madness as these movies start to haunt him, and break him more and more.

I suppose you could say this movie about a pea really pissed Phelan off.

plotttwist, the princes isn't feeling the pea beneath the matrass, she is simply allergiv to some pesticide :O

18:52 Oh he's lame all right, the prince not the horse.

I really apreciate the research that Phelous does into the original story these bad movies are based on, it is always interesting to me!

Better be nice to Phelous, or he'll send you to the Bevanfield.

I like to imagine that Bevanfield is actually in the Hellraiser dimension where pain is pleasure... except they deliver pain as pure boredom.

“Maybe Hans Christian Andersen just really hated peas.” I can’t blame him. I think peas are gross.

Welcome to another episode of "Phelous Dissects Classic Fairy Tales And Their Bad Adaptations!"

I read one that made sense. A Princess was due to marry a prince. When she set off with her maid, the Maid turned on her. She forced the Princess to swap clothes and pretended to be her. The Maid went on to the castle with the carriage, etc. The Princess made her way there and arrived in a less than good state. She declared she was the real Princess. They tested it by having each girl sleep in a bed with a pea underneath. The Maid slept fine. The Princess did not. That proved she was the real one. The Maid was used to sleeping on less nice beds and the Princess wasn't. Just take it as it is and that version is fine. Since the reason is good.

Glad to see this Bevanfield animation also has the scary witch hands on every character.

Finally a story where bevenfield’s voices match the characters: half asleep

Who would have known back in the days when Phelous just did horror movies, that the true horror would come so much later...

Don't think I realized how short the original was as I guess I was use to other versions like how the Queen kept making up crazy tests for each princess (to make sure they failed as no one was good enough for him) with the mattress test being the last one. Once Upon A Mattress makes this story a silly musical and I love the cast.

my favorite version of this tale is the one in "The Fairytaler", it adds some things for it to tell specifically the "bloodline doesn't matter" moral better. With the "princess" vry clearly being a liar, even down to noticing the pea (she _did_ sleep badly, but only from being anxious) and after chewing out the king and queen for messing with her and bad-mouthing royalty as a whole, that's when the prince goes all "YES! SHE'S THE ONE!" bc she didn't give a shit about his status lol

Phelous’ slow descent into being bored and becoming mad is hilarious

I am so happy you told us how the sleep test went for you at the end, I sat through the credits in suspense to hear that. Will not spoil the answer in my comment though in case someone sees it before they watch the video to the end.

"If there was a message to found in the original tale, Bevanfield has quite effectively smothered it to death." LOL

Bevanfield loves making the most unlikeable of characters. Like the greedy wife making her husband steal from their neighbour, baby bear, and now the queen

Ah, our favourite Yippee Bean dealer is back. I've had withdrawal symptoms and was halluzinating that Bevanfield was entertaining. Also when the first woman courtsied I thought she farted long, awkward and with a cocky smile.

I may be wrong, but I think I heard somewhere that back in olden times, actresses were looked down upon because it was assumed they were prostitutes or something. Also, since the girl named Bob worked in construction, I'm surprised we didn't get some sort of Bob the Builder joke.

I can't recall where or when, but I remember reading a version where the pea is irrelevant to the test because the princess couldn't sleep as she kept giving her mattresses to the less fortunate peasants. The queen was confused but the prince was won over by her kind heart.

The princess and the pea is such a pointless story that I genuinely thought you were talking about Rapunzel for like a full minute because I forgot about it.

I swear I don't think he'll ever run out of content. They're truly is an endless dumpster of this kinda stuff.

When they mentioned they were adding Anastasia to the story, I was really hoping you would mention her parents were musical instruments, and you absolutely delivered.

"The Princess and the Pea (Bevanfield)" is the "Five Across the Eyes" of the animated series.

That Cinderella III clip was a brilliant inclusion xD

Princess Ella is by far the best looking Bevanfield character so far, and that’s something I never thought I’d say.

9:48 You can't just throw that in out of nowhere, Phelous. It was too perfect...

Never before this review I've realized how pointless the story of the Princess and the Pea is... I remember there being an animated movie that pretended it was a Princess and the Pea story, but in reality it was a tale about two royal brothers and the evil one (and his hawk pet) overthrew the good one and then it was followed by a prince not being interested in princesses but this common girl, who in reality was the daughter of the good king and at the end she sleeps on the pea and so they ended up together after the evil king died... And it was all narrated by this annoying old bird.... And the princess also had three pig pets... Does anyone else remember it? Or did I just dream it up as a kid...

Based on the thumbnail I thought Bob was supposed to be some kind of Pea Fairy who was gonna give the down-on-her-luck princess a magic pea to prove her royalty

You know, that "Tocatta and Fugue In D Minor" and stock spook house sound effects at the beginning really make me want to see Phelous review the original 70s "Tales From the Crypt" Movie Series.

Oh Phelous, you’ll always be a prince in my book! Seriously, watching these is a truly noble undertaking. Thank you for suffering through this nightmare! This video cracked me up. I always love it when you review animation, although it’s a bit of a stretch to call this animated…. Again, thank you for enduring this painfully dull adaptation of an already rather dull fairy tale. Your sacrifice is greatly appreciated. 🖤

I don't know why anyone would still want Phelous to go back to horror movies. These animated films are FAR more terrifying than any old early 2000s franchise reboot-movie.

Yet another Fairy Tale with Phelous... For Yooooooou

I thought it was weird that they all had three fingers on each hand, but then I looked at my own hands and sure enough, I have three per hand as well. I guess it’s just another one of those “Mandela Effect” things.

The narration he adds to scenes of these kind of movies while taking the piss out of them never fails to deliver such good giggles. 😆

My favorite adaptation actually acknowledges and subverts the pea plot point; it was a trap for the bitch pining for the prince, knowing that even the most delicate princess couldn't feel a pea underneath all those mattresses. She only found it BECAUSE she was looking for it, so they condemned her to leave the palace with just a pea since she must've wanted it so badly.

I remember a version where the Prince found the whole "pea" thing so absurd that when he found a girl, he snuck in and swapped the pea with a watermelon

I like the story of The Princess and the Bowling Ball from the book The Stinky Cheese Man and other Fairly Stupid Tales by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith. It's pretty much the same as The Princess and the Pea except when she goes to sleep at night the prince has replaced the pea with a bowling ball, so she is sure to feel it overnight. The queen accepts their relationship after hearing the girl say that it felt like she slept on a bowling ball thinking she was talking about the pea. Yes, it's stupid but it is better than this animated version.

I love how the Queen runs off due to a ‘headache’🤣 Wait what CENTURY is this movie? I forgot when they randomly mention Anastasia 😶

You know, I think some of the Prince's 'ugly' girlfriends at the start were kinda cute. I wish the twist was that Prince Bored decided to elope with one of them.......... espacially since it would have pissed off that awful Queen.