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* ''[[The People's Court]]'' does this at the end of each case, with host Harvey Levin giving some practical advice on how to avoid the mess the judge just cleaned up. Note: Since laws vary from state to state, he's not always right. Check your jurisdiction's rules to be sure.
** Indeed, in the original version, the producers explicitly advised this in a disclaimer shown at the end of each program.
* [[Wizards of Waverly Place]] did this once.
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'''Weird Jimmy''': "Well, knowing ''is'' half the battle. The other half is doing. Well, not half but [mutters]...65 for knowing [mutters] the doing is-is..." }}
* For some reason, ''[[Sonichu]]'' issue 10 has a message not to let your kids play M-rated games.
* ''[[Full Metal Panic Abridged]]'' parodies this in the first episode, after warning it's viewers about the dangers of creating an abridged series!
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** ''[[Filmation's Ghostbusters|Filmations Ghostbusters]]'' (the 1986 TV series by [[Filmation]], not [[The Real Ghostbusters|the other one]])
** ''[[Bravestarr]]'', as with most [[Filmation]] shows. Unusually, there is at least one episode where a ''villain'' gets to deliver the message, with Outlaw Scuzz talking about how bad smoking is for one's health, and how he wishes he could quit but he's addicted.
* ''[[Bravestarr]]'s'' counterpart [[Space Western]] ''[[Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs]]'' used it, mostly in the title character's closing voice over.
* ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers]]'' was very conscious about ''averting'' it (making it a rarity among the [[Animation Age Ghetto]]). This became one of the reasons it attracted an [[Periphery Demographic|older audience]].
* ''[[Superfriends]]'' - safety tips, magic tricks, science projects, you name it. Probably set the tone for all the others.
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* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]'' parodies this in one episode. Erwin steals Grim's scythe and causes a lot of chaos with it. From their beaten up positions, two characters say to the audience "Remember kids, playing with scythes isn't cool or fun." "It's dangerous!" "So if you see a scythe, don't pick it up! Tell an adult immediately!" ...they then proceed to nod at the camera knowingly.
* In one early morning commercial on [[Nickelodeon]], Katara from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' gives a lecture about swimming safety, and how you should always have an adult around. This is a ''horribly'' [[Broken Aesop]] considering these are the kids who do everything with the oldest member being fifteen, from world travel, to swimming, to fighting, to [[Refuge in Audacity|completely unpunished]] [[Flopsy|insurance fraud]]. Also [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Toph farts in the pool]].
** You should also keep in mind that when you have characters who can [[Making a Splash|control the very water]] around them, and [[Healing Hands|heal you]] if you do get hurt, drowning is probably not high on their list of worries.
* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' included a [[Very Special Episode]] about testicular torsion - an obscure and embarrassing medical problem to which Dean succumbed. The after-credits segment included the [[Animated Actors]] woodenly giving awareness lectures while reading off cue cards, in a very 'The More You Know' style.
** Interestingly enough, Doc Hammer actually suffered from testicular torsion when he was younger and based Dean's experience in the episode on his own.
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** In fact, so much so that in Part 2 of "The Return of Harmony", these letters (sent back by Celestia) gave her the resolve she needed to rescue her friends, power up the Elements of Harmony, and defeat Discord when all hope seemed lost. Even more impressive, she turns the aesop of ''that'' episode into an ''epic'' [[World of Cardboard Speech]]/[[Shut UP, Hannibal]] against Discord.
** 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 ''awesome'', and thus made "Lesson Zero", an episode where Twilight is unable to learn a new lesson about friendship and [[Sanity Slippage|goes a little nuts]]. At the end of the episode, Princess Celestia tells Twilight she only has to write letters when she feels she has learned something and not all the time, effectively freeing this from being mandatory. This hasn't stopped the end-of-episode aesops as they still show up in subsequent episodes afterwards, but interestingly, though, fans and staff liked the idea so much that the writers also utilized the opportunity to allow ''other'' members of the mane cast to occasionally write their own letters to the Princess.
** This is given a hilarious subversion in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2
* Spoofed in a ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law]]'' episode about heroin--er, tanning creme addiction, with Peanut as [[Elton John]] and Reducto as Jennifer Grey.
* Every episode of ''[[Rescue Heroes]]'' would end with the characters recapping the lessons learned earlier in the episode. These typically were reduced to restating the emergency situation of the episode, telling you how it should be dealt with, and ending with the <s>clever</s> annoyingly cheesy phrase, "Think like a Rescue Hero. Think safe."
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* Every ''[[Invisible Network of Kids]]'' 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.
* ''[[Pound Puppies]]'' had a "Pet Care Corner" where viewers were given hints on how to take care of their pets.
* The Captain Atom episode of ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'' begins with one of these. The Captain tells 2 kids to stay away from a downed power line and delivers the egotistical Aesop of "Next time, be a hero, by remembering you're not." The same line is later [[Ironic Echo|turned back around on him]] after the [[Monster of the Aesop|bad guy]] [[Brought Down to Normal|takes his powers away]] and he starts [[Plot Parallel|getting in the way by trying to be a hero.]] At the end of the episode, after his temporary loss of powers has apparently shown him that [[Stock Aesops|there's more to being a hero than having special powers]], an almost-identical PSA [[Aesop Amnesia|starring the same two kids]] is shown: "You don't have superpowers, and [[Subverted Trope|that makes you some of the most fragile]] and [[Spoof Aesop|pathetic organisms in the whole universe."]]
* Parodied at the end of an episode of ''[[The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat]]'', in which Felix steps up to deliver a [[Fantastic Aesop]] based on the episode's storyline. Instead of being about just saying "no" to [[The Aggressive Drug Dealer]], it's about not ever buying a magic bag from anyone. (And no, it's not supposed to be analogous to not wasting money or something, since Felix then urges to viewer to [[It Makes Just As Much Sense in Context|purchase an edible wig instead]].)
* Davey's father in [[Davey and Goliath]] got this duty, recapping the lesson of the day by talking with Davey (and sometimes others) about it. Mountain Dew even produced a commercial that parodied this practice (and subverts this trope in the process).
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