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-->'''Alice:''' "Timmy, didn't you learn something today?"
--> '''Timmy:''' "Nope."
--> '''Timmy:''' "Nope."
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--> '''Timmy:'''
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** The events of the episode get Timmy killed. Moral lessons are moot if you aren't alive to apply them.
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** The lesson can still be applied by the survivors.
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** Life is too complicated to be dumbed down into simple morals and no policy is the best answer to every possible situation.
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** The story acknowledges that life is complex and uses its morals to instead encourage positive values such as tolerance, protection of the innocent, and critical thinking.
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* '''Justified''': Hey, [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped teaching people to not be prejudiced is a very important thing]].
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* '''Justified''': Hey, [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped teaching people to not be prejudiced is a very important thing]].thing.
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An inversion needs to invert the trope, not the example used to demonstrate it. "Judging people by the color of their skin is a great way to measure character" still falls under An Aesop.
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* '''Inverted''':
** The lesson comes at the beginning of the episode, and the show is based on trying to prove that it's a good lesson.
** Alternatively, Timmy learns that judging people by the color of their skin is a great way of measuring someone's character.
** The lesson comes at the beginning of the episode, and the show is based on trying to prove that it's a good lesson.
** Alternatively, Timmy learns that judging people by the color of their skin is a great way of measuring someone's character.
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* '''Inverted''':
**'''Inverted''': The lesson comes at the beginning of the episode, and the show is based on trying to prove that it's a good lesson.
** Alternatively, Timmy learns that judging people by the color of their skin is a great way of measuring someone's character.lesson.
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** Alternatively, Timmy learns that judging people by the color of their skin is a great way of measuring someone's character.
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** Alternatively, Timmy learns that [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop judging people by the color of their skin is a great way of measuring someone's character.]]
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** Alternatively, Timmy learns that [[FamilyUnfriendlyAesop judging people by the color of their skin is a great way of measuring someone's character.]]
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* '''Defied''': Timmy refuses to learn any lessons.
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* '''Defied''': '''Defied''':
** Timmy refuses to learn any lessons.
** Timmy refuses to learn any lessons.
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* '''Deconstructed''': At first, it would be your usual moral that people are supposed to know. Then people realized that it's insultingly simple and decided to go with something that's not just a shoehorned moral, but something for people that's genuinely fun and not so [[CaptainObviousAesop painfully obvious]]. Aesops can't ever help Timmy or others with everything and are no valid substitutes to actual people who passed away or are still living, regardless of species. They also can't conveniently ease up everyone's emotions.
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* '''Deconstructed''': '''Deconstructed''':
** At first, it would be your usual moral that people are supposed to know. Then people realized that it's insultingly simple and decided to go with something that's not just a shoehorned moral, but something for people that's genuinely fun and not so [[CaptainObviousAesop painfully obvious]]. Aesops can't ever help Timmy or others with everything and are no valid substitutes to actual people who passed away or are still living, regardless of species. They also can't conveniently ease up everyone's emotions.
** At first, it would be your usual moral that people are supposed to know. Then people realized that it's insultingly simple and decided to go with something that's not just a shoehorned moral, but something for people that's genuinely fun and not so [[CaptainObviousAesop painfully obvious]]. Aesops can't ever help Timmy or others with everything and are no valid substitutes to actual people who passed away or are still living, regardless of species. They also can't conveniently ease up everyone's emotions.
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* '''Reconstructed''': Timmy is a kid, so the Aesop is not obvious, and they make sure there is plenty of fun and actual storyline thrown in and practiced writing methods so the moral was not shoehorned, and was actually a sub-plot to the genuinely fun episode. They also made sure the moral is given in a far more natural and realistic way, rather than treating it like an endorsement or giving them out in a forced manner.
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* '''Reconstructed''': '''Reconstructed''':
** Timmy is a kid, so the Aesop is not obvious, and they make sure there is plenty of fun and actual storyline thrown in and practiced writing methods so the moral was not shoehorned, and was actually a sub-plot to the genuinely fun episode. They also made sure the moral is given in a far more natural and realistic way, rather than treating it like an endorsement or giving them out in a forced manner.
** Timmy is a kid, so the Aesop is not obvious, and they make sure there is plenty of fun and actual storyline thrown in and practiced writing methods so the moral was not shoehorned, and was actually a sub-plot to the genuinely fun episode. They also made sure the moral is given in a far more natural and realistic way, rather than treating it like an endorsement or giving them out in a forced manner.
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** One specific aesop from one of the more popular episodes of ''Timmy's World O' Fun'' ends up starting a trend with television writers, causing many similar shows to tack on the same moral in order to [[FollowTheLeader cash in on the success]]. This causes a drop in ratings for all shows since viewers are tired of being preached the same moral from all ends.
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** The ratings drop competing shows received caused their writers to [[IronicEcho learn their lesson]] about teaching lessons. They realize they have to have more variety in their aesops if they want their shows to stay on the air, otherwise they could come across as {{Anvilicious}} and annoy viewers who would feel like they're being talked down to.
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** The lessons Timmy learns are irrelevant, because they will never apply to him.
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The trope is not restricted to TV shows.
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'''Basic Trope''': A TV show has a moral tacked on.
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'''Basic Trope''': A TV show story has a moral tacked on.
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* '''Reconstructed''': Timmy is a kid, so the Aesop is not obvious, and they make sure there is plenty of fun and actual storyline thrown in and practiced writing methods so the moral was not shoehorned, and was actually a sub-plot to the genuinely fun episode.
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* '''Reconstructed''': Timmy is a kid, so the Aesop is not obvious, and they make sure there is plenty of fun and actual storyline thrown in and practiced writing methods so the moral was not shoehorned, and was actually a sub-plot to the genuinely fun episode. They also made sure the moral is given in a far more natural and realistic way, rather than treating it like an endorsement or giving them out in a forced manner.
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* '''Deconstructed''': At first, it would be your usual moral that people are supposed to know. Then people realized that it's insultingly simple and decided to go with something that's not just a shoehorned moral, but something for people that's genuinely fun and not so [[CaptainObviousAesop painfully obvious]]. Aesops can't ever help Timmy or others with everything and are no valid substitutes to actual people who passed away or still living, regardless of species. They also can't conveniently ease up everyone's emotions.
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* '''Deconstructed''': At first, it would be your usual moral that people are supposed to know. Then people realized that it's insultingly simple and decided to go with something that's not just a shoehorned moral, but something for people that's genuinely fun and not so [[CaptainObviousAesop painfully obvious]]. Aesops can't ever help Timmy or others with everything and are no valid substitutes to actual people who passed away or are still living, regardless of species. They also can't conveniently ease up everyone's emotions.
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* '''Deconstructed''': At first, it would be your usual moral that people are supposed to know. Then people realized that it's insultingly simple and decided to go with something that's not just a shoehorned moral, but something for people that's genuinely fun and not so [[CaptainObviousAesop painfully obvious]]. Aesops can't help Timmy or others with everything.
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* '''Deconstructed''': At first, it would be your usual moral that people are supposed to know. Then people realized that it's insultingly simple and decided to go with something that's not just a shoehorned moral, but something for people that's genuinely fun and not so [[CaptainObviousAesop painfully obvious]]. Aesops can't ever help Timmy or others with everything.everything and are no valid substitutes to actual people who passed away or still living, regardless of species. They also can't conveniently ease up everyone's emotions.
