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I think I found the funniest version of "The tortoise and the hare" tale type just now 
From Japan.
It is about a centipede and a slug running a race to a shrine. Obviously the centipede gets there first, but when the slug arrives, centipede is still taking his sandals off, so slug enters the shrine first.
@TarkabarkaHolgy There is a German fairy tale about a race between a hare and a hedgehog. In this story, the hedgehog's (identical-looking) wife waits at the finish line and claims “I'm already here”. The hare then wants to do the race again and again until he dies from exhaustion.
@erinaceus whoa that is the most German ending
@TarkabarkaHolgy I don't get why everyone thinks that these kind of endings are specific to Germany. They are specific to _fairy tales_. If you look at other European fairy tales it's the same. They only became less bloody in Disney adaptions. Also: Shakespeare's plays: more often than not everyone's dead in the end. Ancient Greek tragedies? Same. Violence sells. It's been that way thousands of years ago and it's still this way today.
@erinaceus oh I know :) Hungarian tales are pretty brutal too.
@erinaceus to clarify, I was commenting more on the deadpanness of the brutality than the brutality itself :D
@TarkabarkaHolgy Oh, I think that's just me.