Here's one of the most famous fairy tales of all, "Cinderella." The Italian, "La Cenerentola" comes from the noun la cenere (ash, ashes, cinder). See how much you can understand without the English subtitles!

Being a fairy tale, there's a happy ending. Maybe you'll understand it even without the subtitles!

There's plenty of new vocabulary in the well-known story of "Sleeping Beauty". And since there are both a king and a queen, and twelve fairies, many verbs are in the third person plural of the passato remoto! Make the most of it!

Many of us know how this story ends. That's why it will be easy to understand. And there are still plenty of verbs to learn in the passato remoto!

"The Frog Prince" is a famous fairy tale—nothing new! But what an opportunity to learn and practice the passato remoto! In everyday conversations this tense is rare in much of Italy, but when we're talking about "once upon a time..." it's a mainstay.

A cartoon in which two aquarium fish worry about the kids of the house who are going on a school trip.

Somehow Pippo and Palla get kidnapped and they begin to worry about ending up in a can!

The parents are arguing and Palla worries that it will end in divorce, and this could mean being flushed down the toilet. Luckily, the parents patch things up.

This time our little Minivip is transformed into an antenna technician, when trying to help a lady in distress. He also gets taken for a garden dwarf!

Summer heat brings on unnerved parents, a power failure, chaos, and amused fish.

This time Minivip meets up with an opera singer/pianist, who goes a just little too far.

Minivip tells the doctor about trying to help an old lady. But she was afraid of him and took him for the Devil!

The two kids want to go on strike because their father won't raise their allowance. But they are having a hard time finding something to strike over, and decide to take advice from the fish in the acquarium.

Minivip tells his shrink about another bad dream. In this one he meets up with an ugly duckling, and risks getting eaten by an ogre.

Chris doesn't want to talk about his flunked math test, only about his date with Margherita at the pizzeria. Chris's infatuation makes Palla remember his own love affair with Sardy. Pizza Margherita is named after an Italian queen, who loved her pizza with just tomato sauce and mozzarella.