NSFW 'Bedtime Stories'

Having gone to a liberal arts college, I am quite familiar with the re-imagining of fairy tales in modern contexts, which is often thought provoking but occasionally vomit inducing (I was given a C on a paper sophomore year because my dislike for Angela Carter was too obvious, though I have since grown to like her).

Bedtime Stories, created for MyDamnChannel by Steve Kerper and starring Grace Helbig, presents it’s own foul-mouthed, testicle-injury obsessed, not-so-earnest brand of feminism.  Her version of Little Red Riding Hood

The gag, one I’m familiar with, is the contrast of perverted humor with cute drawings and Grace’s bedtime story reading voice, and is effective because the ideas are original and the drawings are authentic to children’s literature.  Grace is faithful to the tone and Steve adheres to the narrative strategies of fairy tales, while injecting his own modern sensibilities, which range from drug use and mock-gangster violence, to internet porn and an old woman’s genitalia, making it often NSFW enough to be censored by DailyMotion.