Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child Rip Van Winkle (Season 3, Episode 9)
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TV Episode | 30 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

Rip Van Winkle (Season 3, Episode 9)

TV-Y

TV Episode | 30 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A feminist rethink of Washington Irving's classic tale. Rip's a chauvinistic rock & roller who marries the talented Vanna, whose music career goes by the wayside when they marry. Harried and in need of some peace, she finds The Women of ...See moreA feminist rethink of Washington Irving's classic tale. Rip's a chauvinistic rock & roller who marries the talented Vanna, whose music career goes by the wayside when they marry. Harried and in need of some peace, she finds The Women of Thunder Mountain, who give her a potion designed to help her annoying hubby (Tom Arnold as Rip Winkle) change his rigid and male piggy ways. Instead, he goes for a long snooze. When he wakes up 20 years later, he finds that not only are his clothes out of style, but his ideas about men & women's roles are too. The president is a woman, Vanna owns her own business, and his now-grown son is a stay-at-home-dad. A rock & roll take on this classic tale, with Edgar Winter supplying the singing and the song for Tom Arnold's Rip, and a cadre of famous feminists and ground-breaking women supplying the voices for the Women of Thunder Mountain. Written by Gael MacGregor See less

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13 cast members

Name	Known for
Robert Guillaume Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice) See fewer	Benson (1979)
Maya Angelou Fairy Godmentor (voice) Fairy Godmentor (voice) See fewer	Poetic Justice (1993)
Tom Arnold Rip Van Winkle (voice) Rip Van Winkle (voice) See fewer	True Lies (1994)
Sandra Bernhard Bluebird (voice) Bluebird (voice) See fewer	The King of Comedy (1982)
Linda Ellerbee Thunder Mountain Woman (voice) Thunder Mountain Woman (voice) See fewer	Nick News with Linda Ellerbee (1991)
Calista Flockhart Vanna Van (voice) Vanna Van (voice) See fewer	Ally McBeal (1997)
Betty Friedan Thunder Mountain Woman (voice) Thunder Mountain Woman (voice) See fewer	Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1995)
Martin Grey Assistant / RD (voice) Assistant / RD (voice) See fewer	About Fifty (2011)
Gary Lazer Rocky (voice) Rocky (voice) See fewer	White Men Can't Jump (1992)
Jessye Norman Thunder Mountain Woman (voice) Thunder Mountain Woman (voice) See fewer	Wild at Heart (1990)
Ann Richards Thunder Mountain Woman (voice) Thunder Mountain Woman (voice) See fewer	Home on the Range (2004)
Gloria Steinem Thunder Mountain Woman (voice) Thunder Mountain Woman (voice) See fewer	The First Wives Club (1996)
Pati Welch Vanna Van (singing voice) Vanna Van (singing voice) See fewer	Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1995)