Trivia / Aesop's Fables

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  • A Canadian Duracell battery commercial from 1994 parodies The Tortoise and the Hare. In it, four battery-powered tortoises are racing each other, with the red one being powered by Duracell. After outlasting the other tortoises, the Duracell-powered tortoise passes by a pink rabbit sleeping under a tree.
  • God of War (PS4): Kratos tells his son Atreus several of Aesop's fables during their boat travels before meeting Mimir, like "The Hare and the Tortoise", "The Frogs and the Well", "The Woodman and the Trees" and "The Frog and the Scorpion", and Kratos is implied to have learned them from the fabulist himself during his time in Greece. As a man of few words, Kratos appreciates them for being brief and teaching important lessons of discipline, but Atreus considers the way Kratos tells the fables to be way too laconic and blunt compared to how his mother Faye used to tell stories.
  • sasakure.UK's "A Soliloquy of The Boy who Cried Wolf" is based on The Boy Who Cried Wolf, one of Aesop's fables.
  • Madeline (1988): Madeline explains to Genevieve that telling lies can ruin your credibility, backing up her claim with a variation on this story where the sheep (probably) manage to escape the wolf's wrath, but are still lost.
  • In Uncle Albert's Magical Album, Uncle Albert mentions the story of The Tortoise and the Hare as a hint as to which animal is the best at the racing mini-game. To drive the point further, the transformation potion turns the fast snail (the winner of the race) into a tortoise.
  • In a 2008 episode of Fireman Sam, Sam tells Norman the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf to deter him from pulling a fire alarm when there's no fire.

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