Tales from the Goose Lady was a series of shorts created and produced by Dave Wasson with Frederator Studios for Oh Yeah! Cartoons.
The shorts focus on siblings Dot and Randy, who are actively trying to do good in school but are constantly being tormented by the Fairy Goose Lady, and her talking wand Juanito. The Goose Lady always appears when they least want her around, often when they are already in trouble (usually directly because of her meddling) and sometimes goes to insane lengths to make sure they listen to her tales. The fairy tales Juanito spins are "twisted" versions of classic stories including Hansel and Gretel (who are portrayed as fat, greedy children who torment the witch). The Goose Lady always gives the kids a very stupid moral at the end of the stories, which leave Dot and Randy to point out the flaws in her logic. In the end the Goose Lady usually leaves the kids getting into trouble with an adult figure who happens to come in at the wrong time.
Tales from the Goose Lady is in a similar position as another Oh Yeah! Cartoons series, Mina and the Count, in that a total of six episodes were made, making it a kind of mini-series but was not made into a full series by Nickelodeon. One may speculate that besides the fact that Nickelodeon simply wasn't interested in making Goose Lady a full show, creator Dave Wasson was probably too busy getting Time Squad made for Cartoon Network in 2000 to really give it attention. It was only recently, through Oh Yeah!'s releases on iTunes and Amazon Video, that the shorts brought back in their entirety into the public eye after being considered "lost" for almost a decade.
Episode list[]
| Title card | # | Title | Original Airdate |
|---|---|---|---|
| [[File:|120px]] | 1 | "Jack and the Beatstalk" | August 23, 1998 |
| [[File:|120px]] | 2 | "Hamzel and Grandé" | September 27, 1998 |
| [[File:|120px]] | 3 | "The Little Pigs 3" | September 25, 1999 |
| [[File:|120px]] | 4 | "The Egg Who Would Be King" | September 18, 1999 |
| [[File:|120px]] | 5 | "The Tortoise & the Hairpiece" | October 30, 1999 |
| [[File:|120px]] | 6 | "Three Bears and a Blonde" | November 20, 1999 |
| [[File:|120px]] | 7 | "The Ugly Duck-Thing" | March 30, 2002 |
| [[File:|120px]] | 8 | "The Fisherman, the Fisherman's Wife and the Fish" | June 9, 2002 |
| [[File:|120px]] | 9 | "Dot & Randy's Sad Tale of Woe" | June 11, 2002 |