Non-Disney fairy tale cartoons

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When I was young, my parents had some presumably low-budget, non-Disney fairy tale cartoons on VHS. They were pretty funny, but likely not very successful. I've tried searching Google for every known publication of a title, as well as quotes from the movies, all to no avail. There was a Cinderella cartoon, with one obese stepsister, and one really skinny. I remember one scene where the stepsisters are standing over Cinderella, who is working on a sewing machine to make their dresses for the ball. The heavy sister is trying to rush Cinderella, and the skinny sister says, "if she didn't have to use a mile of cloth to cover that bulk of yours, she'd have been done hours ago." Without missing a beat, the fat sister replies, "in that case, yours should take just a few seconds. She can make it out of a kerchief." "OH, WELL!" There was a Tom Sawyer cartoon, from which I remember a couple of different lines. In one scene, Aunt Polly and Becky’s mother are mourning at a memorial service or afterword, and Aunt Polly says, "Tom weren't really bad, only mischievous. Only just giddy and sort of harum-scarum. He never really meant any harm, and he was the best-hearted boy that ever was!” Becky’s mother added, “and my Becky: such a basic, good little child. So sweet and well-intentioned. Why, she could have brought a bucketful of sunshine to every place she ever went!” There was a Robin Hood cartoon, with a young boy questing to rescue his father, who had been arrested. The boy advised by one of the guards that the Sheriff would gladly trade his life for that of Robin Hood, so he took his dog and a quarterstaff, and began his journey. When he found the Merry Men (unknowingly) and explained his objective, he was mocked by Little John, who said, “tell me, Sir Flea, how do you intend in catching your bear? Show me!” The boy replies, “please, sir, I do not wish to harm you.” The men roar with laughter, and comments like, “careful, Little John; he has your measure,” and “treat him easy, lad; he breaks like glass!” Little John eggs him on, and the boy says, “as you wish, sir,” and rushes him. The man jumps over the boy’s head, but the boy turns and attacks his legs with the quarterstaff, taking him down. The boy’s dog then jumps on his chest and wags his tail in the man’s face. Lastly, I remember a Puss in Boots cartoon. One thing that stood out for me in this version was that the cat did not kill the ogre in mouse form; he asked him to transform again, this time into a mosquito. He then proceeded to jump off a chair or table and crush him. Is anybody familiar with these films and, if so, do you remember who made them? Edit: I found them! The cartoons were made by Rankin/Bass. They made a name for themselves with animated Christmas movies that I saw every year in my childhood, and still air today. They also made ThunderCats in the 1980s.