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* ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' had many anvilicious [[AnAesop aesops]], particularly of the CantGetAwayWithNuthin variety. Perhaps it was the force of all those anvils that led the main character to be so unhinged in the final seasons.

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* ''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'' had many anvilicious [[AnAesop aesops]], aesops, particularly of the CantGetAwayWithNuthin variety. Perhaps it was the force of all those anvils that led the main character to be so unhinged in the final seasons.



* ''Series/FullHouse'' invariably ended in someone learning [[AnAesop a lesson]].

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* Pick an episode of ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch''. Generally it will have a hamfisted moral about how using magic to solve your problems is immoral unless you're not Sabrina. Surprisingly, the AnimatedAdaptation is far less so. The format allowed a lot more outrageous situations, which make the [[AnAesop moral of each episode]] make some sort of sense.

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* Pick an episode of ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch''. Generally it will have a hamfisted moral about how using magic to solve your problems is immoral unless you're not Sabrina. Surprisingly, the AnimatedAdaptation is far less so. The format allowed a lot more outrageous situations, which make the [[AnAesop moral of each episode]] episode make some sort of sense.
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** An Episode? Every episode! (It's probably not a coincidence that the anvils didn't ''really'' start coming down hard (as it were) until ''after'' Jack Klugman had Glen A. Larson thrown off the show...

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** An Episode? Every episode! (It's probably not a coincidence that the anvils didn't ''really'' start coming down hard (as it were) until ''after'' Jack Klugman had Glen A. Larson Larson[[note]]He may have been so notorious for stealing credit and stories to be nicknamed Glen Larceny and was unashamedly commercial, he didn't go in lecturing the audience.[[/note]] thrown off the show...)
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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': Several episodes written by Creator/RodSerling come off as terribly heavy-handed today ([[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E97TheGift "The Gift"]] is an JustForFun/{{egregious}} example, made worse by casting with UnfortunateImplications) -- but given that Serling created the show due to ExecutiveMeddling with his more socially conscious scripts ([[http://www.ithaca.edu/hs/depts/theatre/news/3163/ the story]] about his script based on the lynching of Emmett Till is a doozy), it may just be that one generation's subversive social commentary is the next generation's dropped anvil. It's easy to forget that Emmett Till's funeral was recent at the time of the script, and that having a righteous black man surrounded by corrupt racists was, well, so out of the ordinary it is amazing it aired. Sometimes it's difficult for those who grew up in the 80s and 90s to remember that some of those classic programs were on the air before (or at the very start of) the civil rights movement. It's jarring to remember that, at the time, showing non-whites as stupid, worthless, and/or actively evil was generally considered ''just fine''.

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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': Several episodes written by Creator/RodSerling come off as terribly heavy-handed today ([[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E97TheGift "The Gift"]] ("[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E32TheGift The Gift]]" is an JustForFun/{{egregious}} example, made worse by casting with UnfortunateImplications) -- but given that Serling created the show due to ExecutiveMeddling with his more socially conscious scripts ([[http://www.ithaca.edu/hs/depts/theatre/news/3163/ the story]] about his script based on the lynching of Emmett Till is a doozy), it may just be that one generation's subversive social commentary is the next generation's dropped anvil. It's easy to forget that Emmett Till's funeral was recent at the time of the script, and that having a righteous black man surrounded by corrupt racists was, well, so out of the ordinary it is amazing it aired. Sometimes it's difficult for those who grew up in the 80s and 90s to remember that some of those classic programs were on the air before (or at the very start of) the civil rights movement. It's jarring to remember that, at the time, showing non-whites as stupid, worthless, and/or actively evil was generally considered ''just fine''.
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* While the cable anthology horror series ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' tends toward good old-fashioned gore and nudity, Season 1's ''Homecoming,'' directed by Joe Dante (of ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' and ''Film/TheHowling'' fame), is anvilicious to the extreme. For no clear reason, the soldiers killed in Iraq rise from their graves as shambling zombies -- not to eat us, but simply to ''vote against the current president.'' The supporting characters are all [[CaptainErsatz pastiches]] of RealLife political heavyweights (Karl Rove becomes "Kurt Rand," Ann Coulter is [[BlondeRepublicanSexKitten "Jane Cleaver"]]). When the zombies garner enough sympathy to sway public opinions, [[spoiler:and the election outcome favors the opposition, the zombies' votes are thrown out to skew the results (in Ohio and Florida, natch).]] Of course, the zombies won't stand for this, and [[spoiler: suddenly ''all'' of America's war dead (all the way back to the ''Civil War'') rise from the grave to get revenge.]] Particularly egregious when one considers how thoroughgoing George W. Bush's support among soldiers is, even to this day and especially among the "combat arms" soldiers who actually prosecute war as opposed to supporting the war effort.

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* While the cable anthology horror series ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' tends toward good old-fashioned gore and nudity, Season 1's ''Homecoming,'' directed by Joe Dante (of ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' ''Film/{{Gremlins|1984}}'' and ''Film/TheHowling'' fame), is anvilicious to the extreme. For no clear reason, the soldiers killed in Iraq rise from their graves as shambling zombies -- not to eat us, but simply to ''vote against the current president.'' The supporting characters are all [[CaptainErsatz pastiches]] of RealLife political heavyweights (Karl Rove becomes "Kurt Rand," Ann Coulter is [[BlondeRepublicanSexKitten "Jane Cleaver"]]). When the zombies garner enough sympathy to sway public opinions, [[spoiler:and the election outcome favors the opposition, the zombies' votes are thrown out to skew the results (in Ohio and Florida, natch).]] Of course, the zombies won't stand for this, and [[spoiler: suddenly ''all'' of America's war dead (all the way back to the ''Civil War'') rise from the grave to get revenge.]] Particularly egregious when one considers how thoroughgoing George W. Bush's support among soldiers is, even to this day and especially among the "combat arms" soldiers who actually prosecute war as opposed to supporting the war effort.
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* Critics have been universally fulsome in their praise for ''Series/MadMen''. But they have a lot of good-natured fun pointing out that the show is way too insistent that women were treated poorly in the late '50s and early '60s, and that was ''awful'', OK?

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* Critics have been universally fulsome in their praise for ''Series/MadMen''. But they have a lot of good-natured fun pointing out that the show is way too insistent that women were treated poorly in the [[TheFifties late '50s '50s]] and the [[TheSixties early '60s, '60s]], and that was ''awful'', OK?
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* ''Series/TheOrville'': ** Three out ten episodes in the first season ("Krill", "If Stars Should Appear" and "Mad Idolatry") could instead be titled "Creator/SethMacfarlane spends an hour mocking and criticizing certain religions and those who follow them". Also, every positive example of religion, religious people or religious teachings seems to have disappeared.

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** Three out ten episodes in the first season ("Krill", "If Stars Should Appear" and "Mad Idolatry") could instead be titled "Creator/SethMacfarlane spends an hour mocking and criticizing certain religions and those who follow them". Also, every positive example of religion, religious people or religious teachings seems to have disappeared.

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* ''Series/TheOrville'': Three out ten episodes in the first season ("Krill", "If Stars Should Appear" and "Mad Idolatry") could instead be titled "Creator/SethMacfarlane spends an hour mocking and criticizing certain religions and those who follow them". Also, every positive example of religion, religious people or religious teachings seems to have disappeared.

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* ''Series/TheOrville'': ** Three out ten episodes in the first season ("Krill", "If Stars Should Appear" and "Mad Idolatry") could instead be titled "Creator/SethMacfarlane spends an hour mocking and criticizing certain religions and those who follow them". Also, every positive example of religion, religious people or religious teachings seems to have disappeared.disappeared.
** Season 2's "All the World is Birthday Cake" is about a planet governed by astrology which persecutes people of a particular star sign, even Kelly and Bortus, who obviously were born in ''completely different star systems''. It's obviously not intended as an analog to astrology on Earth, but still, it lays it on a bit thick to say the least.
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** Who can forget [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E4NightmareOfEden "Nightmare of Eden"]]? A four-episode long PSA about the dangers of doing drugs and the evils of drug smuggling, hidden behind a somewhat mediocre story. The story's [[http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Nightmare_of_Eden article]] on the [[TheWikiRule TARDIS Data Core]] even states that "narratively, it was notable for its anti-drug theme, delivered in an unusually unvarnished way for Doctor Who. Though the drug was given a 'sci-fi' name and origin, it was nevertheless a direct commentary on drug use and trafficking."

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** Who can forget [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E4NightmareOfEden "Nightmare of Eden"]]? A four-episode long PSA about the dangers of doing drugs and the evils of drug smuggling, hidden behind a somewhat mediocre story. The story's [[http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Nightmare_of_Eden article]] on the [[TheWikiRule TARDIS Data Core]] Core even states that "narratively, it was notable for its anti-drug theme, delivered in an unusually unvarnished way for Doctor Who. Though the drug was given a 'sci-fi' name and origin, it was nevertheless a direct commentary on drug use and trafficking."
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* ''Series/BlueBloods'' started beating the "Not all cops are bad!" drum like it was going out of style shortly after the Michael Brown police shooting, and only sped up the tempo with the police murders of Eric Garner and George Floyd (for which several officers eventually served time) to the point of being called "copaganda" by many. This is especially ironic considering that the main StoryArc of the first season revolved around an organized crime ring of {{Dirty Cop}}s who had murdered a member of the central Reagan family to conceal their actions.
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* ''Series/StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds'': "[[Recap/StarTrekStrangeNewWorldsS2E02AdAstraPerAspera Ad Astra, Per Aspera]]" directly compares the Federation's [[Recap/StarTrekS1E22SpaceSeed long-established]] NoTranshumanismAllowed laws to apartheid and other discriminatory legal systems of old, and more subtly directs similar criticisms at contemporary efforts to roll back LGBT rights--driven home by the fact that guest star Creator/YetideBadaki is a bisexual black woman. Una Chin-Riley nearly died of an infected compound fracture as a child because her parents feared exposure as genetically augmented Illyrians, and as a young woman she dreamed of joining Starfleet because out of admiration for the cause, but again would have been excluded from the Academy had she not lied on her application--leading to her current CourtMartial after Starfleet found out.

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* ''Creator/TylerPerry's'' ''Meet The Browns'' is chock-full of them: shoplifting, carrying a gun to school, growing marijuana, birth control, drinking, molestation, teen pregnancy, credit card over-reliance, and tons of others. At some point, they made it too obvious to miss. "Meet the Interrogation" touched on how lotto addictions bleed you dry. "Meet The Christmas Spirit" went as far as to play up the Christmas spirit cliche by having an angel befriend Joaquin. But the real hum-dinger was "Meet the Big Payoff," sugarcoating that texting while driving will get you killed, which was basically a thinly-veiled obligatory public service announcement.
** ''Series/HouseOfPayne'' was the same way: drug use, the pitfalls of teen sex, teen pregnancy, STD's, HIV/AIDS, domestic violence, sexual abuse, divorce, cancer, choosing family over career, going back to school at an older age, pursuing your dreams ONLY AFTER your family is grown and out of your house, autism, interracial relationships, the evils of single parenting, not being a selfish JerkAss, guns, skipping school, the importance of having the Christmas Spirit (complete with a visit from Madea), death, etc.

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* ''Creator/TylerPerry's'' ''Creator/TylerPerry'' oeuvre is chock-full of them:
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''Meet The Browns'' is chock-full of them: Browns'': shoplifting, carrying a gun to school, growing marijuana, birth control, drinking, molestation, teen pregnancy, credit card over-reliance, and tons of others. At some point, they made it too obvious to miss. "Meet the Interrogation" touched on how lotto addictions bleed you dry. "Meet The Christmas Spirit" went as far as to play up the Christmas spirit cliche by having an angel befriend Joaquin. But the real hum-dinger was "Meet the Big Payoff," sugarcoating that texting while driving will get you killed, which was basically a thinly-veiled obligatory public service announcement.
** ''Series/HouseOfPayne'' was the same way: ''Series/HouseOfPayne'': drug use, the pitfalls of teen sex, teen pregnancy, STD's, HIV/AIDS, domestic violence, sexual abuse, divorce, cancer, choosing family over career, going back to school at an older age, pursuing your dreams ONLY AFTER your family is grown and out of your house, autism, interracial relationships, the evils of single parenting, not being a selfish JerkAss, guns, skipping school, the importance of having the Christmas Spirit (complete with a visit from Madea), death, etc.



* [[Creator/{{NBC}} Green Is Universal]], a concept so heavy-handed and self-righteous that it couldn't be contained on just one network. Indeed, this bi-yearly theme appears on every cable and broadcast channel owned by NBC. NBC in turn was owned by General Electric, a polluter so massive and frightening that even WesternAnimation/{{Captain Planet|and the Planeteers}} would fear to confront it. [[{{Hypocrite}} The irony]] is so thick and juicy that you could cut it with a steak knife.
** Bonus points awarded for extending it to, of all things, their ''sportscasting'' when they thought it was a good idea to make the guys sit around in the studio with their lights off.
** Except that they paid whatever minuscule environmental benefit all back, with massive interest, by [[http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2007/11/nbcs_global_war.html flying to the Arctic to film a promo]]. Unless they faked it (the reporter's breath has no fog), in which case they're scamming the audience.
** ''Series/ThirtyRock'', being set at NBC and with a character (Jack Donaghy) meant in part to mock this kind of corporate thinking, has made a tradition of lampshading/parodying this every year (in the same way as it lampshades/parodies ProductPlacement).
** Season 1's "Greenzo," where David Schwimmer is a mascot who tries to put a positive spin on GE's corporate practices; he ends up going ''actually'' environmental.
** Again the following year, when Jack mocks the idea of NBC acknowledging the environment, and even calls attention to the fact that one of the only noticeable differences during the week is that the NBC logo turns green.
** General Electric stands to make a huge profit off of manufacturing "Green" products (e.g. high-efficiency home appliances and low-emission aircraft engines and locomotives). Thus, they are promoting their own products by telling consumers that they should be green.
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* News and news commentary in general can get pretty bad with this trope, but television news is worse. Televised news commentary takes the cake for anviliciousness, as sending a message about opinion of current events is practically the entire point of the genre.
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* [[Creator/{{NBC}} Green Is Universal]], a concept so heavy-handed and self-righteous that it couldn't be contained on just one network. Indeed, this bi-yearly theme appears on every cable and broadcast channel owned by NBC. NBC in turn was owned by General Electric, a polluter so massive and frightening that even WesternAnimation/{{Captain Planet|and the Planeteers}} would fear to confront it. [[{{Hypocrisy}} The irony]] is so thick and juicy that you could cut it with a steak knife.

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* [[Creator/{{NBC}} Green Is Universal]], a concept so heavy-handed and self-righteous that it couldn't be contained on just one network. Indeed, this bi-yearly theme appears on every cable and broadcast channel owned by NBC. NBC in turn was owned by General Electric, a polluter so massive and frightening that even WesternAnimation/{{Captain Planet|and the Planeteers}} would fear to confront it. [[{{Hypocrisy}} [[{{Hypocrite}} The irony]] is so thick and juicy that you could cut it with a steak knife.
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* ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' was notoriously anvilicious as they depicted their characters seemingly being the first living beings on this Earth to deal with issues that are today nearly cliche. But as the series reached its end, it got DarkerAndEdgier, and even more anvilicious. This led to a KillEmAll DownerEnding where lead character [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds Earl Sinclair]] had a hand in wiping out not just dinosaurs, but ''[[ApocalypseHow all life on Earth]]''. While a few appreciated the message on irresponsible business practices, many more felt the ending was entirely too dark for what was originally advertised as a sitcom even considering [[ItWasHisSled dinosaurs ultimately meet their end anyway]].

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* ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' was notoriously anvilicious as they depicted their characters seemingly being the first living beings on this Earth to deal with issues that are today nearly cliche. But as the series reached its end, it got DarkerAndEdgier, and even more anvilicious. This led to a KillEmAll DownerEnding {{Downer|Ending}} EverybodyDiesEnding where lead character [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds Earl Sinclair]] had a hand in wiping out not just dinosaurs, but ''[[ApocalypseHow all life on Earth]]''. While a few appreciated the message on irresponsible business practices, many more felt the ending was entirely too dark for what was originally advertised as a sitcom even considering [[ItWasHisSled dinosaurs ultimately meet their end anyway]].
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** Another Vietnam-oriented episode was "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS2E19APrivateLittleWar}} A Private Little War]]", which has two native cultures fighting against each other. It would be a "Prime Directive" issue, except the Klingons are supplying one of the tribes with weapons...just like China with North Vietnam. It gets to the point that Kirk and [=McCoy=] even ''discuss'' UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar (with all the names conveniently left out), and note that the best solution would've been to supply the South with weapons and advisors (basically, Kennedy's approach -- and what would later become known as the [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan "Reagan Doctrine"]], instead of fighting the war for them.

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** Another Vietnam-oriented episode was "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS2E19APrivateLittleWar}} A Private Little War]]", which has two native cultures fighting against each other. It would be a "Prime Directive" issue, except the Klingons are supplying one of the tribes with weapons...just like China with North Vietnam. It gets to the point that Kirk and [=McCoy=] even ''discuss'' UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar (with all the names conveniently left out), and note that the best solution would've been to supply the South with weapons and advisors (basically, Kennedy's approach -- and what would later become known as the [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan "Reagan Doctrine"]], Doctrine"]]), instead of fighting the war for them.
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** The finale of M*A*S*H* deconstructed the concept of WarIsHell by having a mix of traumatic and heartwarming events befall several of the main characters to show that war will have its mark on them, as it does to all who suffer (or enjoy) it -- and it gives us a stark reminder of what it's really like to say goodbye for good.

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** The finale of M*A*S*H* M*A*S*H deconstructed the concept of WarIsHell by having a mix of traumatic and heartwarming events befall several of the main characters to show that war will have its mark on them, as it does to all who suffer (or enjoy) it -- and it gives us a stark reminder of what it's really like to say goodbye for good.
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* The last two seasons of ''Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt'' ramped up the feminist message that was already prevalent in the series (the theme song literally has the words "females are strong as hell") to a level that drowned out nearly any attempt at comedy or drama. Circumstances have Kimmy go to university ''just'' long enough for some [[VerySpecialEpisode very special episodes]] about consent and about college girls using feminism to justify dressing slutty (also about privacy in the information age, but that goes against the topic of this bullet point); then she gets an honorary degree and leaves. The main antagonist is in jail, so new antagonists are introduced: a men's rights activist and [[RippedFromTheHeadlines a celebrity who uses his status to cover up his history of sexual harassment]] (the former is quickly converted after a speech from Kimmy). The series ends with Kimmy writing a successful series of novels like [[HarsherInHindsight J. K. Rowling]], only the novels center around a fantasy world where all men have "monsters" inside of them that they need to learn to control.
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* ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2163012/ Serial Killer Earth]]'', an otherwise-unremarkable found-footage documentary about natural disasters, incessantly rams home its [[GaiasVengeance "the Earth is a serial killer"]] metaphor.
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* The US version of ''Series/QueerAsFolk'' was a tutorial on how to be an "acceptable" gay person in the US, running along the lines of: get married in Canada, [[NoBisexuals don't be bi]], don't be angry at homophobes, remember that God loves you after all, adopt children and be nice to your mother.

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* The US version of ''Series/QueerAsFolk'' ''Series/QueerAsFolkUS'' was a tutorial on how to be an "acceptable" gay person in the US, running along the lines of: get married in Canada, [[NoBisexuals don't be bi]], don't be angry at homophobes, remember that God loves you after all, adopt children and be nice to your mother.
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* ''Series/{{Beforeigners}}'' is about immigration and intergration issues in western Europe. In spite of its premise, it doesn't even try to pretend otherwise.
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** During the years that Andrew Cartmel was script editor (1987-1989) had a tendency to be a bit on-the-nose about how 'right-on' the show was. In 2010 this was admitted by people who worked on the show and who claimed they had filled the [=McCoy=]/Seventh era (1987-89) with attacks on the Thatcher government. This "revelation" was largely treated with derision, firstly for the sheer hubris of those involved (the show's days as a national favourite were well behind it and the audience by the late '80s consisted of hardcore fans and kids, neither of whom were a large voting block) and secondly because this was barely a secret since the attacks on Thatcherism had all the subtlety of, well, an anvil. Add in the fact that a LOT of shows were attacking Thatcher, so it was also a bit of "yeah, you and a thousand other blokes."

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** During the years that Andrew Cartmel Creator/AndrewCartmel was script editor (1987-1989) had a tendency to be a bit on-the-nose about how 'right-on' the show was. In 2010 this was admitted by people who worked on the show and who claimed they had filled the [=McCoy=]/Seventh era (1987-89) with attacks on the Thatcher government. This "revelation" was largely treated with derision, firstly for the sheer hubris of those involved (the show's days as a national favourite were well behind it and the audience by the late '80s consisted of hardcore fans and kids, neither of whom were a large voting block) and secondly because this was barely a secret since the attacks on Thatcherism had all the subtlety of, well, an anvil. Add in the fact that a LOT of shows were attacking Thatcher, so it was also a bit of "yeah, you and a thousand other blokes."
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** The episode "The Neutral Zone" went anvilicious against the capitalists of the era on its way to demonstrating through Picard's actions that what Kirk did in the corresponding TOS episode was wrong. Gets {{Funny Aneurysm Moment}}s from [[BrokenAesop later events]]; Data proudly announces that the Federation has no television -- but it will eventually come out that holodecks are, in their way, worse.

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** The episode "The Neutral Zone" went anvilicious against the capitalists of the era on its way to demonstrating through Picard's actions that what Kirk did in the corresponding TOS episode was wrong. Gets {{Funny Aneurysm Moment}}s HarsherInHindsight from [[BrokenAesop later events]]; Data proudly announces that the Federation has no television -- but it will eventually come out that holodecks are, in their way, worse.
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* ''Series/MrRobot'': The series is quite careful, subtle and complex when dealing with variety of themes and issues, and that only makes it more jarring to see all that subtlety thrown away when it comes to politics. All of a sudden, a viewer is subjected to one-sided filibuster monologues by variety of characters stating that capitalism is evil incarnate, rich are only rich because they are scumbags, religion is stupid, society is intolerant and so on. When such a lecture occurs, counter-arguments are never brought up. What makes it really preachy is that usually brilliantly-written dialogue loses all sophistication and characters begin to speak in a very plain and direct manner, as if explaining a textbook axiom to a child. These statements are further reinforced by the plot of the show where not a single sympathetic right-leaning character is to be found.
** The series gets a little better at this in the third season as Elliot begins to realize that Ecorp is not the epitome of evil he believed it to be and that his methods of fighting it were in many worse than what it does. However, in the same season, shot in the middle and immediate aftermath of 2016 U.S. presidential elections, author of the series, Sam Ismail, begins to throw direct jabs at newly elected President Donald Trump, despite the show being set in an alternate version of 2015. In particular, Trump's speech is played on TV with a villainous foreign character commenting that installing such a "stupid" person as a president would be in the interests of said foreign power. In Season 4, Ismail's dislike (to put it mildly) of Trump, openly declared on his social media accounts, gets even more frenzy as Trump, along with a number of other real life politicians and corporate leaders (presumably not liked by Ismail as well) is shown to be a member of villainous Illuminati-like group. By the end of Season 4, a character looking as Trump is shown attending Illuminati conference.

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* ''Series/TheTwilightZone2019'': "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone2019S1E7NotAllMen Not All Men]]" was pretty heavy-handed. While no one is arguing that violence against women isn't a terrible thing, making the point by having ''literally every man on the planet'' turn into a misogynistic murderer is akin to taking subtlety out back and shooting it in the head.



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--->"Just because you're having a baby together doesn't mean you two are right for each other"\\

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* ''Series/{{Homeland}}'' starting in Season 6. Due to complaints from Muslim groups, the show took a serious anvil turn. The bad guys were no longer the radical Muslim terrorists who want to kill us. No, the REAL bad guy were the US Intelligence Services. It's really funny to watch now because the plot of the US Intelligence Community trying to take down the FEMALE president (at a time everyone KNEW Hillary would be elected) became reality now that we know they actually DID try that against Trump.

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* ''Series/{{Homeland}}'' starting in Season 6. Due to complaints from Muslim groups, the show took a serious anvil turn. The bad guys were no longer the radical Muslim terrorists who want to kill us. No, the REAL bad guy were the US Intelligence Services. It's really funny to watch now because the plot of the US Intelligence Community trying to take down the FEMALE president (at a time everyone KNEW Hillary would be elected) became reality now that we know they actually DID try that against Trump.
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** At the height of UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS1E23ATasteOfArmageddon}} A Taste of Armageddon]]" was set in a planet whose two nations were involved in a decades-long, computer-simulated war: citizens of both nations, when "killed" in a simulated attack, obediently marched into disintegration booths. Body counts are bad, mmmkay?

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** At the height of UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, "[[{{Recap/StarTrekS1E23ATasteOfArmageddon}} A Taste of Armageddon]]" was set in a planet whose two nations were involved in a decades-long, computer-simulated war: citizens of both nations, when "killed" in a simulated attack, obediently marched into [[DisintegrationChamber disintegration booths.booths]]. Body counts are bad, mmmkay?

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