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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

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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Director
Writers
Neena Beber (teleplay) | Washington Irving (story) | Erica Jong (teleplay)
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Status
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Updated Mar 21, 2000

Release date
Mar 21, 2000 (United States)
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13 cast members
Name Known for
Robert Guillaume
Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice)   See fewer
Maya Angelou
Fairy Godmentor (voice) Fairy Godmentor (voice)   See fewer
Tom Arnold
Rip Van Winkle (voice) Rip Van Winkle (voice)   See fewer
Sandra Bernhard
Bluebird (voice) Bluebird (voice)   See fewer
Linda Ellerbee
Thunder Mountain Woman (voice) Thunder Mountain Woman (voice)   See fewer
Calista Flockhart
Vanna Van (voice) Vanna Van (voice)   See fewer
Betty Friedan
Thunder Mountain Woman (voice) Thunder Mountain Woman (voice)   See fewer
Martin Grey
Assistant / RD (voice) Assistant / RD (voice)   See fewer
Gary Lazer
Rocky (voice) Rocky (voice)   See fewer
Jessye Norman
Thunder Mountain Woman (voice) Thunder Mountain Woman (voice)   See fewer
Ann Richards
Thunder Mountain Woman (voice) Thunder Mountain Woman (voice)   See fewer
Gloria Steinem
Thunder Mountain Woman (voice) Thunder Mountain Woman (voice)   See fewer
Pati Welch
Vanna Van (singing voice) Vanna Van (singing voice)   See fewer
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