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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': The episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E5TheCartridgeFamily The Catridge Family]]" ultimately takes a neutral stance on gun control/possession in America, and the writers admitted there's no real moral aside from "morons like Homer shouldn't have guns".
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* ''Film/SuperSizeMe'' is often accused of having the obvious aesop that eating excessive amounts of fast food isn't healthy. Within the film, Spurlock lampshades this reading and stresses that the point is to show just ''how'' bad it is for you... but a careful reading of how he arranges his diet and exercise habits makes it clear he's rather badly skewed the experiment, to the point an entire other film, ''Film/FatHead'', exists to skewer this one. (Not disclosed, for example, is that Spurlock drank ''heavily'' during the filming of ''Super Size Me'', adding a massive number of calories that weren't counted for the experiment.)
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* ''Film/SuperSizeMe'' is often accused of having the obvious aesop that eating excessive amounts of fast food isn't healthy. Within the film, Spurlock lampshades this reading and stresses that the point is to show just ''how'' bad it is for you... but a careful reading of how he arranges his diet and exercise habits makes it clear he's rather badly skewed the experiment, to the point an entire other film, ''Film/FatHead'', exists to skewer this one. (Not disclosed, for example, is that Spurlock drank ''heavily'' during the filming of ''Super Size Me'', adding a massive number of calories that weren't counted for the experiment.experiment and causing liver damage that probably ''shouldn't'' be fairly blamed on [=McDoubles=] and Shamrock Shakes.)
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Misuse. This is complaining that the aesop is unrealistic not too obvious. Discussion at "is this an example thread"
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* Literature/{{Snuff}}: The ending, in which [[spoiler: a stunningly beautiful harp concert given by a young goblin girl ends up changing the entire Disc's perspective on goblins]] is jarring for some groups of people. Poles, Jews, Roma -- all these groups, and more, have been called subhuman, and still are discriminated against, despite having master musicians, heroes and geniuses. And goblins were considered ''vermin'' on the Disc, making this switcheroo even less believable.
** There's also the fact that the goblins are so inhumanly meek and harmless that the message becomes something like, [[FantasticAesop "we shouldn't abuse people who are incapable of evil."]]
** Also, SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil. A sentiment not even most people on the Disc is likely to disagree with, to say nothing of the book's readership, but [[{{Anvilicious}} the way it's pounded home]] you'd think it was the most pressing issue of our times!
** There's also the fact that the goblins are so inhumanly meek and harmless that the message becomes something like, [[FantasticAesop "we shouldn't abuse people who are incapable of evil."]]
** Also, SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil. A sentiment not even most people on the Disc is likely to disagree with, to say nothing of the book's readership, but [[{{Anvilicious}} the way it's pounded home]] you'd think it was the most pressing issue of our times!
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* ''ComicBoo/{{Superman}}'': [[http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/12/30/worst-comics-2010-superman-grounded/ This]] article mocks the ''[[ComicBook/SupermanGrounded Grounded]]'' AbortedArc for this, pointing out that Superman appears to be making the statement that drug dealers and child abuse are bad and treating it as though it's some radical new idea. The more specific statements, on illegal immigration and government investment in corporations, were basically in-line with US government policy at the time, which makes Superman's support of them seem even more limp.
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* ''ComicBoo/{{Superman}}'': ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': [[http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/12/30/worst-comics-2010-superman-grounded/ This]] article mocks the ''[[ComicBook/SupermanGrounded Grounded]]'' AbortedArc for this, pointing out that Superman appears to be making the statement that drug dealers and child abuse are bad and treating it as though it's some radical new idea. The more specific statements, on illegal immigration and government investment in corporations, were basically in-line with US government policy at the time, which makes Superman's support of them seem even more limp.
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** Jeff cynically spouts several of these in the speech he gives while running for student body president. He says that 9/11 was bad and freedom? (charming smile) ...Well freedom's just a little bit better.
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* [[http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/12/30/worst-comics-2010-superman-grounded/ This]] article mocks the ''[[ComicBook/SupermanGrounded Grounded]]'' AbortedArc of Franchise/{{Superman}} for this, pointing out that Superman appears to be making the statement that drug dealers and child abuse are bad and treating it as though it's some radical new idea. The more specific statements, on illegal immigration and government investment in corporations, were basically in-line with US government policy at the time, which makes Superman's support of them seem even more limp.
* ''Franchise/XMen'' often edges into this under bad writers. Did you know that bigotry is ''a bad thing''?!
* ''Franchise/XMen'' often edges into this under bad writers. Did you know that bigotry is ''a bad thing''?!
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* ''ComicBoo/{{Superman}}'': [[http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/12/30/worst-comics-2010-superman-grounded/ This]] article mocks the ''[[ComicBook/SupermanGrounded Grounded]]'' AbortedArc of Franchise/{{Superman}} for this, pointing out that Superman appears to be making the statement that drug dealers and child abuse are bad and treating it as though it's some radical new idea. The more specific statements, on illegal immigration and government investment in corporations, were basically in-line with US government policy at the time, which makes Superman's support of them seem even more limp.
*''Franchise/XMen'' ''ComicBook/XMen'': The comic often edges into this under bad writers. Did you know that bigotry is ''a bad thing''?!
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'''Lois:''' ''[[{{Beat}} (beat)]]'' 9/11.\\
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-->'''Congressman:''' Smoking is a horrible vice! It shortens life expectancy and pollutes our air. And according to recent polls, air is good!
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'''Lois:''' 9/11 was bad.\\
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'''Lois:''' 9... 11.\\
''[the crowds cheers again]''
'''Lois:''' 9... 11.\\
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'''Lois:''' ''[[{{Beat}} (beat)]]'' 9/11.
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'''Angela:''' What about our traffic problem?\\
'''Lois:''' 9...
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'''Lois:''' 11.\\
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** When testing the myth of peeing on the third rail of a subway train, they find that because urine streams break up after a short distance, one has to physically grab the rail to actually make an electrical circuit. Adam then declares that the moral is, "If peeing on the third rail, do not grip the rail with both hands!"
