And Knowing Is Half the Battle: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Superfriends]]'' - safety tips, magic tricks, science projects, you name it. Probably set the tone for all the others.

* ''[[Superman: The Animated Series|Superman the Animated Series]]'' once put this trope to an interesting use for the opening of one of its episodes: it starts with a setup that might have come out of one of these [[PSA|PSAs]] from an old Silver Age animated series with Superman flying in to rescue a kid whose friends have goaded him into endangering himself and giving the kids a little lecture on not giving in to peer pressure before flying away. Our first hint that something's out of place is that, right after he leaves, one of the less admiring kids mocks him for being such a stiff. Sure enough, {{spoiler|it turns out this is actually the first appearance of Bizarro, an imperfect clone [[Lex Luthor]] made using a bit of Superman's blood. The reason he comes off sounding so pompous is that he thinks he's Superman and is trying too hard to do what he thinks Superman typically does. In case we missed the hint, his next good deed for the day is rescuing Clark Kent and Lois Lane from a car crash, thereby alerting Superman to this odd twist of events as well.}}

** Parodied in an episode of ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' where Optimus Prime talks about prostate cancer.

* ''[[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".