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* ThreatenAllToFindOne: Downplayed. A food fight happens in the cafeteria, causing the ''entire student body'' to be held in for Lunch Detention until Ms. Finster finds out who started it. Surprisingly, Gus (who knew Randall started it) is the only one who ''didn't'' say who did it - because he was afraid of being seen as a tattler. So he only told one kid to get it off his chest... and proceeded to tell everyone else.
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* AnAesop:
** In ''Kindergarten Derby:'' You shouldn't continue a tradition which the children made to take part in don't enjoy, even if you yourself were made to do it when you were younger.
** In the episode "Yes, Mikey, Santa Does Shave", Mikey learns that he doesn't have to see with his eyes or hear with his ears in order to believe something is real, and that fictional things like Santa can be real if you believe in them in your heart rather than just believing that they don't exist because you can't see or hear them.
** The episode "Recess Is Cancelled" delivers an Aesop about how children ''need'' time to have fun, play together, build friendships, and in general just be kids. In the episode, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Third Street School cancels recess]] in an attempt to improve the kids' test scores. As the weeks go by, all of the children gradually become soulless, emotionless shells of their former selves who can't recognize each other or even formulate thoughts. It's only after their test scores drop dramatically that recess is reinstated, and the kids are immediately brought back to their original, joyful selves, thus improving the test scores. This was further lampshaded in the theatrical movie.
** "The Rules" dropped a surprisingly thoughtful message about blindly following laws and revering past generations. When King Bob recovers an old playground rulebook written by a past King of the Playground, he immediately starts enforcing the old King's rules on how to properly play games at recess, employing a private force of "fun police" to punish any kids who break the rules. He's so set on following the old rules that he never considers that some of the more baffling ones (requiring the kids to play four-square with an old stump, for example) are completely irrelevant to their lives, and that a previous generation's king might not have had all the answers.
** "The Rules" also has a lesson that kids at good schools should appreciate how good they have it. The cast learns this when it turns out that the author of the rulebook devised them during the Great Depression as a way to make recess fun without any equipment for sports or games.
** The kids learn that sometimes a person just doesn't like you for no apparent reason and trying to change that will only worsen things in ''Nobody Doesn't Like TJ.'' The episode revolved around TJ learning that Gordy doesn't like him. He spends the episode trying to figure out ''why'' Gordy doesn't like him; learns from Ms Finster that, even if she puts him into detention, that doesn't mean she hates him and finally trying to show Gordy how cool and fun he is, so Gordy ''would'' like him. When everything backfires, TJ demands to know if there's at least one good reason why Gordy doesn't like him, to which Gordy regretfully admits that there isn't any, he just doesn't TJ in general.
** "A Genius Among Us" explores that a person's hobby shouldn't necessarily be the same as their career; otherwise it's no more enjoyable than the next job. For being the school janitor, Hank is good at math and even likes it. But he chooses to remain a janitor because if he became a professional mathematician, he wouldn't be able to simply do math for fun.
%%** Mostly in the earlier episodes, and then sometimes after the first season.
** In ''Kindergarten Derby:'' You shouldn't continue a tradition which the children made to take part in don't enjoy, even if you yourself were made to do it when you were younger.
** In the episode "Yes, Mikey, Santa Does Shave", Mikey learns that he doesn't have to see with his eyes or hear with his ears in order to believe something is real, and that fictional things like Santa can be real if you believe in them in your heart rather than just believing that they don't exist because you can't see or hear them.
** The episode "Recess Is Cancelled" delivers an Aesop about how children ''need'' time to have fun, play together, build friendships, and in general just be kids. In the episode, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Third Street School cancels recess]] in an attempt to improve the kids' test scores. As the weeks go by, all of the children gradually become soulless, emotionless shells of their former selves who can't recognize each other or even formulate thoughts. It's only after their test scores drop dramatically that recess is reinstated, and the kids are immediately brought back to their original, joyful selves, thus improving the test scores. This was further lampshaded in the theatrical movie.
** "The Rules" dropped a surprisingly thoughtful message about blindly following laws and revering past generations. When King Bob recovers an old playground rulebook written by a past King of the Playground, he immediately starts enforcing the old King's rules on how to properly play games at recess, employing a private force of "fun police" to punish any kids who break the rules. He's so set on following the old rules that he never considers that some of the more baffling ones (requiring the kids to play four-square with an old stump, for example) are completely irrelevant to their lives, and that a previous generation's king might not have had all the answers.
** "The Rules" also has a lesson that kids at good schools should appreciate how good they have it. The cast learns this when it turns out that the author of the rulebook devised them during the Great Depression as a way to make recess fun without any equipment for sports or games.
** The kids learn that sometimes a person just doesn't like you for no apparent reason and trying to change that will only worsen things in ''Nobody Doesn't Like TJ.'' The episode revolved around TJ learning that Gordy doesn't like him. He spends the episode trying to figure out ''why'' Gordy doesn't like him; learns from Ms Finster that, even if she puts him into detention, that doesn't mean she hates him and finally trying to show Gordy how cool and fun he is, so Gordy ''would'' like him. When everything backfires, TJ demands to know if there's at least one good reason why Gordy doesn't like him, to which Gordy regretfully admits that there isn't any, he just doesn't TJ in general.
** "A Genius Among Us" explores that a person's hobby shouldn't necessarily be the same as their career; otherwise it's no more enjoyable than the next job. For being the school janitor, Hank is good at math and even likes it. But he chooses to remain a janitor because if he became a professional mathematician, he wouldn't be able to simply do math for fun.
%%** Mostly in the earlier episodes, and then sometimes after the first season.
