History Main / AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle

->And so what we have learned applies to our lives today, and {{God}} has a lot to say [[TheBible in his book]].\\
You see we know that God's word is for everyone, and now that our song is done, we'll take a look.

->And so what we have learned applies to our lives today and {{God}} has a lot to say [[TheBible in his book]].\\
You see we know that God's word is for everyone and now that our song is done, we'll take a look.

->'''Riku:''' Now you know. [[TropeNamers And knowing is half the battle]]!\\
'''Sora:''' The other half is shooting somebody.
-->-- ''Webcomic/AnsemRetort'' #120

-->--'''''Webcomic/AnsemRetort''''' #120

* The Creator/ABCFamily series ''TheSecretLifeOfTheAmericanTeenager'' features a clip of ShaileneWoodley's character prompting teens and parents to talk about underage sex, because "Teenage pregnancy is 100% avoidable!"
** Sometimes other characters do this, like FranciaRaisa's character, Adrian.

* Parioded in a few Family Guy episodes, via G.I. Jose. Yes, the Mexican-like version of G.I. Joe would tell kids to not do crazy stuff that G.I. Joe would'nt talk about (no, not drugs) and would offer children to take some stuff out of his trinket. It even has a (Mexican) chorus!
** ''G.I. JOSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!''

* The ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "The Son Also Draws", (featuring an Indian casino) ended with the family acting racist towards a nationality stereotype, then immediately explaining why the stereotype is incorrect, with at "The More You Know" star showing up behind them. Then comes Peter:

** ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' does this several times. In "North by North Quahog" Chris gets caught drinking in the boy's bathroom and a GIJoe steps outta the stall and gives a lecture about drinking.
*** Specifically, it was Flint. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Voiced by the original actor.]]

Sometimes it wasn't even a moral lesson, but a science fact related to the SciFi setting. The first season of ''Series/SeaQuestDSV'' had real life ocean expert Robert Ballard from the Woods-Hole Oceanographic Institute give a one minute lecture on the science of the episode next to the credits; this segment vanished in the second season. RankinBass SciFi cartoon ''WesternAnimation/{{Silverhawks}}'' had something about the planets framed as a lesson to the crew's PluckyComicRelief / Robot Monkey. A variant on this could be seen in the short segments in prime-time that recommended the viewer to consult his local library for selected books related to the preceding program.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Silverhawks}}'' had a similar segment at the end of each episode where Copper Kid got in a space simulator, where he was put against a simple astronomy quiz, usually by Bluegrass. Given the nature of the show, it was actually quite appropriate to have a segment about astronomy at the end of the show.
** Which was a bit odd, given that interstellar space was depicted as containing [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace breathable air]] and Earth-normal gravity throughout the show proper.
** In fact everything about that universe was divorced from our own laws of physics. This was a world where banging a tuning fork in space created wind and ice.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats}}'' more or less averted this by not having end of episode segments where the cast breaks the fourth wall and talks straight to the viewer, but some of the morals the episodes themselves are trying to teach come over as obvious anyway. This is sometimes pushed a bit too far when one of the [=ThunderCats=] practically spells out the moral in a piece of dialogue in a very {{anvilicious}} way, such as one time when Tigra makes a small speech about how "Rules are only meaningful if people agree to follow them. Otherwise, they're just words". In retrospect, it's strangely ambiguous. It ''sounds'' like a worthy and moralistic exhortation to follow the rules, but could equally be taken as saying that rules have no meaning if you don't agree with them, or could even be a veiled attack on rules that have no mechanism for enforcement (it was in response to a comment that the "Interstellar Council" ruled against a weapon that the mutants were using).

->'''Riku:''' Now you know. And knowing is half the battle!\\

* ''TheMatchmaker'' ends with Barnaby stating a somewhat facetious moral.

* The 80s show ''{{Voyagers}}'' always had star Meeno Peluce tell the viewers, during the closing credits, that if they wanted to learn more about the historical periods and/or people from the episode, they could visit their local library ("It's all in books!").
* ''AttackOfTheShow'' will occasionally mock this trope. When they teach the audience a "lesson," Kevin or Olivia will inform then that they "just got learned!". Cut to a parody of the shooting star made famous by NBC; only it's a rocketship flying over the Earth, and it crashes into a blimp, and the blimp [[TooSoon hindenbergs]] back into the atmosphere.
* ''CodeRed'' episodes had a coda where a cast member give a fire safety or first aid lesson.
* The ''SonOfTheBeach'' show attempted to parody this. Unfortunately, the parodies weren't funny.

* ''The Music/{{Weird Al|Yankovic}} Show'' suffered from this phenomenon.
* ''PoliceCameraAction'' started doing from 2007 onwards at the end of the show. Even the episode ''Ultimate Pursuits'' had one, although that could be considered as [[TheParody a parody]] of ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' (with the accompanying theme music). It's rare to see such things on a documentary...

* When drinking in ''Catherine'', a DisembodiedVoice will interrupt you to tell you about some random trivia about the drink you chose.

* "Read More About it" was a variation of this that aired frequently on CBS during ''TheEighties'', most notably following animated specials, ''HallmarkHallOfFame'' movies, and a few movies that were ''BasedOnATrueStory''. The segments started off with a TV turning into the pages of a book. These featured the star from the movie or a character voiceover from the animated specials encouraging viewers to learn more about the show's topic by visiting their local library or bookstore along with a list of recommended books selected by the Library of Congress.

* Every ''InvisibleNetworkOfKids'' episode ends with the 'Science Club' segment where Cosmo Soper discusses the scientific or hostoric basis for something that had been the theme of that episode; like amnesia, or chess.

* A internet phenomenon was the spoof [[{{Redubbing}} redubs]] of the original ''GIJoe'' shorts by Fensler Films, which usually turned them into [[{{Detournement}} something utterly incoherent and surreal]] ("Alright, give 'im the stick - DOOOOON'T GIVE 'IM THE STICK!").

* ''Comicbook/ScottPilgrim'': [[http://www.scottpilgrim.com/index.php?id=previews Free Scott Pilgrim]] ends with "Scott Pilgrim Says", where we are taught never to hit a girl. Unless it is an emergency. And that's what Scott Pilgrim says!

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Silverhawks}}'' had a similar segment at the end of each episode where Copper Kid got in a space simulator, where he was put against a simple astronomy quiz. Given the nature of the show, it was actually quite appropriate to have a segment about astronomy at the end of the show.

* DC Comics once commissioned a series of in-house [=PSAs=] in the early 90s featuring several DC heroes like [[{{Batman}} Robin]], BoosterGold, TheFlash, among others getting informed about the real facts concerning HIV and AIDS. The most well known of the bunch was the adult-oriented Neil Gaiman and Dave Mckean authored ''[[http://members.fortunecity.com/bookdepository/comics/death/life.html Death Talks About Life]]'', featuring Death of the Endless from ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' and John Constantine.

* Several PSA segments were prepared for ''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1'', another Hasbro property produced by Sunbow and Marvel Productions concurrent with G.I. Joe. The segments even used the "and knowing is half the battle" line (and the scripts from the G.I. Joe PSAs almost VERBATIM), but they never aired. These were placed as unlockable bonuses in the [[TransformersArmada Armada]]-based [=PS2=] game, and are also available on some DVD releases of the show. The most hypocritical one had an anti-sexism message, at a time when there were no female Transformers, and came from Powerglide, who had an episode that season where a human woman fell in love with him (presumably, the PSA would have aired after that episode...).

* ''{{Jem}}'', another Hasbro property produced by Sunbow and Marvel Productions (like ''G.I. Joe''' and ''Transformers'') also featured similar PSA segments. Like the Transformers ones, these also mimicked the G.I. Joe versions, sometimes word-for-word, but the "Knowing is half the battle" line was replaced with "Doing the right thing makes you a Super Star".
* ''CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'' -- Either the whole show, or just the "Planeteer Alert" at the end, depending on [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism how cynical you are.]]

** In the 13th season premier, Kyle and Cartman actually quoted the phrase verbatim [[spoiler: after Kenny's death from syphilis, caught by getting oral sex from his girlfriend]].

* Spoofed at the end of the ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' "Grande Size Me", where Ron delivers the moral of the episode to the audience at the end -- with Kim and everyone else wondering [[NoFourthWall who on earth he is talking to...]] The fact that the aesop ron delivers is a SpaceWhaleAesop further baffles them.

** Which was a bit odd, given that interstellar space was depicted as containing [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace breatheable air]] and Earth-normal gravity throughout the show proper.

** this takes the form of the letters that [[TheSmartGuy Twilight Sparkle]] writes to her mentor [[TheHighQueen Princess Celestia]] at the end of every episode. Unlike others, this is implemented into the plot instead of a random [=PSA=] disconnected to the events of the episode; Twilight is officially tasked by Celestia with studying the PowerOfFriendship and reports her findings in the form of aesops.

** Some of these took ''extremely'' vague lessons out of the material. As [[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses That Chick With The Goggles]] points out two good examples-- "[[ItMakesSenseInContext Today we saw buses vanish into thin air]]. If only we could make the smog that buses cause vanish into thin air, too! Even though we're just kids, we can carpool and make a difference." ...yeah. Another example given was that one episode had a lesson to believe in yourself and have confidence, because the episode was about an insecure artist who was afraid to draw what she really looked like because she didn't believe she looked good enough. The end of that episode included a reminder that DrugsAreBad.

* Parodied in [[http://www.pvponline.com/2008/03/22/safety-first-kids/ this PVP comic]] that suggests what "the other half of the battle" is.

** ''FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids'' would invariably end their episodes with a musical performance by Albert and the gang, that would spell out the lesson of the day. They, along with BillCosby's narrative asides, tended to make the lessons go down more smoothly than a lot of 70s cartoons did.
-->"This is BillCosby comin' at you with music and fun, and if you're not careful you may learn something before we're done. So let's get ready, okay? Hey, Hey, Hey!"

** In the episode, "Keeping Up With Our Joneses" (where the entire family, sans Luanne, gets addicted to cigarettes), Boomhauer gave a lecture on the effects of smoking on your lungs, with car parts as visual aids, before being led away by a random woman, during the end credits.

** Interestingly, Season 1 of My Little Pony has the EI rating, while season 2 does not. The production team apparently decided this change of rules was ''awesome'', and thus made "Lesson Zero": Twilight is unable to learn a new lesson about friendship and [[SanitySlippage goes a nuts]] with fear. At the end of the episode, Princess Celestia tells Twilight she only has to write letters when she feels she has learned something, effectively freeing this from being mandatory and expanded the responsibility to include the others element bearers. Since then a 'Twilight writes a letter' scene has been rare but the general form remains more or less constant.

* Also parodied in [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=eILYTLKJqtQ this]] ''MassEffect'' fan video, in which [[ActionGirl Ashley's]] line "shooting people isn't always the answer" is presented as one of these.