YMMV / Recess S 4 E 13 The Biggest Trouble Ever

• Moral Event Horizon: The Recess Gang accidentally break the statue of Thaddeus T. Third III, the namesake of Third Street school, thus becoming hated by the entire town and are labeled as "The Destructive Six" and are given to work menial jobs by Ms. Finster as a punishment. But it goes too far when Mayor Fitzhugh, the mayor of Third Street, and the city Council decide to send the Recess Gang to six separate schools, despite the fact that the Recess Gang broke the statue by accident and were genuinely remorseful. This shocks everybody and even Prickley and Finster think that this punishment is going too far. Not only was it a naked ploy to exploit the current mob mentality against the kids in order to improve his re-election chances, but Mayor Fitzhugh also took sadistic pleasure in trying to punish the kids and tried to punish them after they told him that they are sorry. Luckily, Thaddeus T. Third V, grandson of Thaddeus T. Third III, called him out on this and revealed that Fitzhugh intentionally tried to break the statue when he was a child. In other words, Fitzhugh took sadistic pleasure in punishing small, defenseless children for breaking something by accident and who were genuinely sorry for it, even though he (Fitzhugh) tried to do same thing in his childhood, but intentionally. Most of antagonists in this series are jerks, but they never did anything that bad.
• Values Dissonance: The main cast get in trouble for breaking a statue by accident. Here is the thing; if the statue is that fragile, why doesn't it have a railing around or a warning to not climb it? In the 2020s, the school would be more concerned about ensuring the statue is solid and stable and covering their butts in court by putting written warnings up. If any of the kids had gotten hurt, their parents could have sued the school for child endangerment rather than the other way around.

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