Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater

Hello Kitty's Furry Tale Theater is a Japanese-American co-produced animated series. The series involved Hello Kitty and her friends doing their own version of popular fairy tales and stories. Each of the 13 half-hour episodes consisted of two 11-minute cartoons, for a total of 26 shows; each show was a spoof of a well-known fairy tale or movie.

Characters

 * Hello Kitty
 * My Melody
 * Tuxedo Sam
 * Chip
 * Catnip
 * Grinder

Format
Each cartoon opens with a big huge modern theater located in the big city of London, England filling up with patrons, and usually a look at some comical goings-on backstage. The play then begins (with Hello Kitty or Tuxedo Sam saying "Once upon a meow") and the stage transforms into whatever setting the story calls for, like outer space, the American Old West, the Great Depression or the Middle Ages. Each show is a light-hearted takeoff of a children’s story or a popular movie. Catnip and Grinder were usually typecast as the villains.

At the end, the stage returns to normal, and the actors take their bow.

One exception to this format is the cartoon "The Phantom of the Theater," which begins after the actors have finished a show (specifically "Robin Penguin"); all the action in this story takes place backstage.