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** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS35E5TreehouseOfHorrorXXXIV Treehouse Of Horror XXXIV]]": "Lout Break" has two:
*** Workplace regulations exist for your safety and everybody else's.
*** If you're feeling ill, stay at home. If Homer had stayed home when his stomach was acting up, his Homerizing virus would have been limited to infecting Marge and the pets instead of infecting the rest of Springfield and the world.
*** Workplace regulations exist for your safety and everybody else's.
*** If you're feeling ill, stay at home. If Homer had stayed home when his stomach was acting up, his Homerizing virus would have been limited to infecting Marge and the pets instead of infecting the rest of Springfield and the world.
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*** One could also see it as AnAesop against petty grudges or standoffish behavior, with Homer's fanatically spiteful retaliation towards one slight doing far more damage to him, his family and the whole town, when just amicably filing a complaint could have likely quickly solved things.
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*** One could also see it as AnAesop a lesson against petty grudges or standoffish behavior, with Homer's fanatically spiteful retaliation towards one slight doing far more damage to him, his family and the whole town, when just amicably filing a complaint could have likely quickly solved things.
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** Be honest when someone isn't ready for something. While he was too harsh about it, [[JerkassHasAPoint Mylo was ultimately right]] when he pointed out how Powder keeps making mistakes that screwed the gang over, but Vi always brushed it off and built-up Powder's confidence way too high, to the point where the first time Vi tells her that it's too dangerous and that she isn't ready, Powder is so emotionally devastated that she is in the middle of a complete emotional breakdown by the time we next see her. The only way she finds to snap out of it is finding a way that she can prove herself to Vi again, and we know how that went.
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** Be honest when someone isn't ready for something. While he was too harsh about it, [[JerkassHasAPoint Mylo was ultimately right]] when he pointed out how Powder keeps making mistakes that screwed up the gang over, but gang’s missions. Unfortunately, Vi always brushed it off and built-up Powder's Powder’s confidence way too high, high without actually helping her improve so she could actually help. It’s to the point where the first time Vi tells her that it's too dangerous and that she isn't ready, Powder is so emotionally devastated that she is in the middle of a complete emotional breakdown by the time we next see her. The only way she finds to snap out of it is finding a way that she can prove herself to Vi again, and we know how that went.
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** Be honest when someone isn't ready for something. While he was too harsh about it, [[JerkassHasAPoint Mylo was ultimately right]] when he pointed out how Powder keeps making mistakes that screwed the gang over, but Vi always brushed it off and built-up Powder's confidence way too high, to the point where the first time Vi tells her that it's too dangerous and that she isn't ready, Powder is so emotionally devastated that she is in the middle of a complete emotional breakdown by the time we next see her. The only way she finds to snap out of it is finding a way that she can prove herself to Vi again, and we know how that went.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst: In the premiere episode "Just One of the Princes", Prince Hugo constantly makes fun of Sofia for failing to ride her flying horse and James for helping her. In the season 2 episode "The Flying Crown", it's revealed that when he's not bullying any students at Royal Prep, he's at home being pushed by his father in sports and bullied by his older brother to live up to the family legacy. Bullying is unacceptable, but some people will do it anyway because they're miserable at home.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst: ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'': In the premiere episode "Just One of the Princes", Prince Hugo constantly makes fun of Sofia for failing to ride her flying horse and James for helping her. In the season 2 episode "The Flying Crown", it's revealed that when he's not bullying any students at Royal Prep, he's at home being pushed by his father in sports and bullied by his older brother to live up to the family legacy. Bullying is unacceptable, but some people will do it anyway because they're miserable at home.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst: In the premiere episode "Just One of the Princes", Prince Hugo constantly makes fun of Sofia for failing to ride her flying horse and James for helping her. In the season 2 episode "The Flying Crown", it's revealed that when he's not bullying any students at Royal Prep, he's at home being pushed by his father in sports and bullied by his older brother to live up to the family legacy. Bullying is unacceptable, but some people will do it anyway because they're miserable at home.
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** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E3WhenFlandersFailed When Flanders Failed]]":
*** While the main lesson of the story is "don't wish suffering onto others", the other lesson of the episode seems to be "don't sink your family's financial future on a gamble." While Homer does behave like a spiteful {{Jerkass}} to Ned, Ned's problems aren't at all Homer's fault: Ned gave up a perfectly lucrative career in pharmaceuticals and suffered because he made a very bad investment. Ned even admits he was foolish to do that.
*** Also if you start a business, success doesn't just come to you; you have to market and promote it. Homer helps rescue Flanders' business by simply telling people about it, but if Flanders had known what he was doing, he would've done those things himself.
*** While the main lesson of the story is "don't wish suffering onto others", the other lesson of the episode seems to be "don't sink your family's financial future on a gamble." While Homer does behave like a spiteful {{Jerkass}} to Ned, Ned's problems aren't at all Homer's fault: Ned gave up a perfectly lucrative career in pharmaceuticals and suffered because he made a very bad investment. Ned even admits he was foolish to do that.
*** Also if you start a business, success doesn't just come to you; you have to market and promote it. Homer helps rescue Flanders' business by simply telling people about it, but if Flanders had known what he was doing, he would've done those things himself.
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** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E10FlamingMoes Flaming Moe's]]": Don’t be greedy. If Moe was so impressed with Homer’s drink he should’ve teamed up with him for exclusive rights to the recipe. Instead, he decides to take full credit and cut Homer out entirely. Moe would’ve made just as much money had he just included Homer, but he wanted it all to himself, which resulted in Homer ruining everything at the worst possible time out of spite.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E3HomerTheHeretic Homer The Heretic]]": Not going to church every Sunday isn't harmful by itself, but getting so caught up in hedonistic indulgences that you forget basic personal health and safety (like taking a nap while smoking a cigar surrounded by flammable magazines) will catch up with you eventually.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E12MargeVsTheMonorail Marge vs. the Monorail]]": Although Lyle's monorail scheme is presented more as the actions of a SnakeOilSalesman and a satire of government spending priorities more broadly, a lot of transit enthusiasts see the episode as a bit of forward-thinking commentary on the issue of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadgetbahn gadgetbahns]], a term used to describe experimental and often propriety public transport systems that are criticised for being heavily influenced by private sector demands, difficult to expand and maintain long-term, and taking political and economic capital away from more traditional but proven infrastructure projects.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E3HomerTheHeretic Homer The Heretic]]": Not going to church every Sunday isn't harmful by itself, but getting so caught up in hedonistic indulgences that you forget basic personal health and safety (like taking a nap while smoking a cigar surrounded by flammable magazines) will catch up with you eventually.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E12MargeVsTheMonorail Marge vs. the Monorail]]": Although Lyle's monorail scheme is presented more as the actions of a SnakeOilSalesman and a satire of government spending priorities more broadly, a lot of transit enthusiasts see the episode as a bit of forward-thinking commentary on the issue of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadgetbahn gadgetbahns]], a term used to describe experimental and often propriety public transport systems that are criticised for being heavily influenced by private sector demands, difficult to expand and maintain long-term, and taking political and economic capital away from more traditional but proven infrastructure projects.
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** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E15OhBrotherWhereArtThou Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?]]":
*** While it's good to have a little ambition and pride in your work, listen to the experts who warn you if your ideas are practical. Herb may have meant well, but giving Homer, someone with no automotive experience, control over designing a car and ignoring his engineers was a reckless move.
*** Don't live beyond your means. While it's pretty clear that Herb's company is in serious jeopardy of going under (which it does), this apparently doesn't stop him from [[ConspicuousConsumption living in a huge, luxurious mansion with all sorts of creature comforts]]. Also, Herb blows away even more money by spoiling Bart, Lisa, and Maggie with extravagant gifts and activities. As bad as things were with his company, Herb drove himself even further into ruin with his financially over-the-top lifestyle and spending.
*** The episode also pulls a small devil's advocate for ExecutiveMeddling; since Herb's company is too out-of-touch and stubborn to make cars that appeal to their market, Herb deprives them of ''any'' control over making the new car. Notably, after the engineers are forced to obey Homer, [[DumbassHasAPoint his ideas start off halfway decent]], though slowly devolve into an overpriced "monstrosity" that only he would find appealing, with a more consumer and budget-friendly revision aggressively shot down. Good marketing ''does'' come from actually listening to the consumers, but still having moderated professional assessment of what ideas do and don't work.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E21ThreeMenAndAComicBook Three Men And A Comic Book]]": Always negotiate payment for services rendered before engaging in said services. Such a lesson would have saved Bart a week of pointless torment.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E22BloodFeud Blood Feud]]": While this isn't directly touched upon by any of the characters and isn't the actual moral of the story, the episode does make a good point about blood donation. Blood donations aren't just needed during events such as highly publicized disasters; people with serious illnesses, (in particular, the elderly and the chronically ill,) may end up needing one at any time, blood shortages can and do happen, and donating blood can mean the difference between life and death for somebody in that situation.
*** While it's good to have a little ambition and pride in your work, listen to the experts who warn you if your ideas are practical. Herb may have meant well, but giving Homer, someone with no automotive experience, control over designing a car and ignoring his engineers was a reckless move.
*** Don't live beyond your means. While it's pretty clear that Herb's company is in serious jeopardy of going under (which it does), this apparently doesn't stop him from [[ConspicuousConsumption living in a huge, luxurious mansion with all sorts of creature comforts]]. Also, Herb blows away even more money by spoiling Bart, Lisa, and Maggie with extravagant gifts and activities. As bad as things were with his company, Herb drove himself even further into ruin with his financially over-the-top lifestyle and spending.
*** The episode also pulls a small devil's advocate for ExecutiveMeddling; since Herb's company is too out-of-touch and stubborn to make cars that appeal to their market, Herb deprives them of ''any'' control over making the new car. Notably, after the engineers are forced to obey Homer, [[DumbassHasAPoint his ideas start off halfway decent]], though slowly devolve into an overpriced "monstrosity" that only he would find appealing, with a more consumer and budget-friendly revision aggressively shot down. Good marketing ''does'' come from actually listening to the consumers, but still having moderated professional assessment of what ideas do and don't work.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E21ThreeMenAndAComicBook Three Men And A Comic Book]]": Always negotiate payment for services rendered before engaging in said services. Such a lesson would have saved Bart a week of pointless torment.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E22BloodFeud Blood Feud]]": While this isn't directly touched upon by any of the characters and isn't the actual moral of the story, the episode does make a good point about blood donation. Blood donations aren't just needed during events such as highly publicized disasters; people with serious illnesses, (in particular, the elderly and the chronically ill,) may end up needing one at any time, blood shortages can and do happen, and donating blood can mean the difference between life and death for somebody in that situation.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E4ItchyAndScratchyLand Itchy & Scratchy Land]]": The scene where it looks like Homer crashed the car due to falling asleep [[BaitAndSwitch only for it to turn out to be a different car]] and he actually took Marge's advice of spending the night at a hotel can be seen as a lesson to not drive while tired, especially on long road trips.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E2YouOnlyMoveTwice You Only Move Twice]]": The moral of the episode seems to be "treat people well and they'll do well." Homer's productivity and drive improves because [[BenevolentBoss he has a nurturing boss who rewards him for his hard work]]. Homer slacks off at his own job partly because [[BadBoss Burns is an abusive boss who can't even be bothered to remember Homer's name]].
** "Homer's Enemy":
*** "Don't let resentment and envy consume you and prevent you from accepting apologies from people who genuinely want to befriend you".
*** Combined with the rant at Homer's house, and his own ButtMonkey role in most other episodes (see below) one could also interpret it as not obsessing over things from face value. After all, the GrassIsGreener on the other side.
*** ''WebVideo/RenegadeCut'' makes the case for an unintentional [[CapitalismIsBad anti-capitalism]] message; instead of Grimes realizing that his problems are InherentInTheSystem and then working towards changing the system, he directs all his ire at ''Homer'' for [[{{Scapegoat}} things he has absolutely no control over]], because he's an easier target than Mr. Burns.
*** The entire episode can be interpreted as a repudiation of the HardWorkFallacy. Grimes makes a big deal about how little reward he has reaped from his lifetime of hard work, but doesn't understand that there are more factors to success than just hard work. Homer was successful because he valued the people in his life, was sociable enough to make fast friends with anyone (from local drunks to politicians and celebrities), and was nice enough to sincerely try making amends with Grimes by inviting him to dinner. While Grimes is overwhelmed with envy and tries to humiliate the man out of raw spite.
*** "Dwelling on self-pity and envy will ruin your life, not make it better. Appreciate what you have and take the opportunity when it's offered to you, not wait for the next one." Grimes' envy blinded him to his own accomplishments, he broke through every wave of struggle and achieved a lot in life despite his awful childhood, but he couldn't appreciate any of them because he felt Homer was given far better opportunities than he deserved. Grimes was so honed in on Homer's accomplishments and validating his own hard work that he refused to learn how Homer got these opportunities in the first place or how they truly affected his life.
*** "Hyperfocusing is good in some situations and bad in others." Grimes was able to get his degree in spite of [[CosmicPlaything a world that hated him]], and we're all proud and everything. Unfortunately that desire to accomplish a specific goal against all odds is far less of a virtue when that goal is to shame a coworker. Grimes started off with the reasonable conclusion that someone as grossly incompetent as Homer shouldn't be in charge of safety. But this fell apart when he was more mad at Homer for getting him in trouble for the acid accident than he was at [[NoOSHACompliance whoever left an open beaker of sulfuric acid on the coffee table]]. He was so focused on hating Homer he forgot what the problem was in the first place.
*** Don't work somewhere that makes you miserable or disrespects your opinion. While Grimes does have good reasons to dislike Homer, most of the problems at the plant stem from how it is ''run''. Homer's own co-workers are apathetic to his antics while Burns is the one who punishes Grimes while also making dumb decisions like keeping acid in a break room and revoking Grimes' promotion in favor of hiring a dog to be an executive.
*** "Don't let resentment and envy consume you and prevent you from accepting apologies from people who genuinely want to befriend you".
*** Combined with the rant at Homer's house, and his own ButtMonkey role in most other episodes (see below) one could also interpret it as not obsessing over things from face value. After all, the GrassIsGreener on the other side.
*** ''WebVideo/RenegadeCut'' makes the case for an unintentional [[CapitalismIsBad anti-capitalism]] message; instead of Grimes realizing that his problems are InherentInTheSystem and then working towards changing the system, he directs all his ire at ''Homer'' for [[{{Scapegoat}} things he has absolutely no control over]], because he's an easier target than Mr. Burns.
*** The entire episode can be interpreted as a repudiation of the HardWorkFallacy. Grimes makes a big deal about how little reward he has reaped from his lifetime of hard work, but doesn't understand that there are more factors to success than just hard work. Homer was successful because he valued the people in his life, was sociable enough to make fast friends with anyone (from local drunks to politicians and celebrities), and was nice enough to sincerely try making amends with Grimes by inviting him to dinner. While Grimes is overwhelmed with envy and tries to humiliate the man out of raw spite.
*** "Dwelling on self-pity and envy will ruin your life, not make it better. Appreciate what you have and take the opportunity when it's offered to you, not wait for the next one." Grimes' envy blinded him to his own accomplishments, he broke through every wave of struggle and achieved a lot in life despite his awful childhood, but he couldn't appreciate any of them because he felt Homer was given far better opportunities than he deserved. Grimes was so honed in on Homer's accomplishments and validating his own hard work that he refused to learn how Homer got these opportunities in the first place or how they truly affected his life.
*** "Hyperfocusing is good in some situations and bad in others." Grimes was able to get his degree in spite of [[CosmicPlaything a world that hated him]], and we're all proud and everything. Unfortunately that desire to accomplish a specific goal against all odds is far less of a virtue when that goal is to shame a coworker. Grimes started off with the reasonable conclusion that someone as grossly incompetent as Homer shouldn't be in charge of safety. But this fell apart when he was more mad at Homer for getting him in trouble for the acid accident than he was at [[NoOSHACompliance whoever left an open beaker of sulfuric acid on the coffee table]]. He was so focused on hating Homer he forgot what the problem was in the first place.
*** Don't work somewhere that makes you miserable or disrespects your opinion. While Grimes does have good reasons to dislike Homer, most of the problems at the plant stem from how it is ''run''. Homer's own co-workers are apathetic to his antics while Burns is the one who punishes Grimes while also making dumb decisions like keeping acid in a break room and revoking Grimes' promotion in favor of hiring a dog to be an executive.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E6BartStar Bart Star]]":
*** Encouraging your family and giving them special treatment are two completely different things and confusing them will often only make things worse.
*** Don't join something because you want to prove a point. Join because you want to enjoy yourself.
*** Encouraging your family and giving them special treatment are two completely different things and confusing them will often only make things worse.
*** Don't join something because you want to prove a point. Join because you want to enjoy yourself.
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** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS16E16DontFearTheRoofer Don't Fear The Roofer]]": If you ever become friends with someone, make sure everybody knows it — with extensive proof — ASAP, otherwise you will be seen as crazy.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS23E6TheBookJob The Book Job]]": Writing is a job like any other that deserves respect. Even if the end result is bad, the author has filled hundreds of pages - which sounds easy until you actually try it - and should be paid for their work.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS29E17LisaGetsTheBlues Lisa Gets The Blues]]": If you're not the best at something just give up. Lisa only got the Yips when told there is AlwaysSomeoneBetter and was cured only after being told that wasn't the case.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS23E6TheBookJob The Book Job]]": Writing is a job like any other that deserves respect. Even if the end result is bad, the author has filled hundreds of pages - which sounds easy until you actually try it - and should be paid for their work.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS29E17LisaGetsTheBlues Lisa Gets The Blues]]": If you're not the best at something just give up. Lisa only got the Yips when told there is AlwaysSomeoneBetter and was cured only after being told that wasn't the case.
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** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E10GrampaVsSexualInadequacy Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy]]": Being involved in your kids' lives is fine, but be considerate of them and their boundaries. [[HelicopterParents Homer trying to "over-parent" Bart and Lisa]] leaves them feeling more annoyed than cherished.
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** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E16LisaTheIconoclast Lisa The Iconoclast]]": Wait until you have enough proof to back up your claims before revealing a major historical discovery. The entire first half of the episode has Lisa trying to get people to believe her when she calls Jebediah Springfield a fraud despite not readily having access to the most crucial evidence proving it's true. Aside from Homer who believes her because he knows she tends to be right about this kind of thing a lot, everyone else is quick to judge her for making (mostly) baseless accusations against a beloved icon with nothing substantial to give it legitimacy (such as the confession hidden in the fife and the silver tongue exhumed from Jebediah's grave).
