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{{quote|''"How dare you! I knew evil was bad, but ''come on''! Eating kittens is just plain... Plain wrong, and no-one should do it, '''ever'''!"'' |'''[[The Tick (animation)]]''', "Armless But Not Harmless"}}

* ''[[Law & Order|Law and Order]]'' itself tends to be just as bad when their cases have sex crimes connection (with a side of [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?]] when dealing with escort services).

* ''[[CSI]]'' does this with child molesters quite a lot, too, to contrast them with the frequently jovial treatment they give killers on the show and to say, "But this is ''really'' bad!"

{{quote|'''Sisko:''' Sometimes life seems so complicated. Nothing is truly good or truly evil. Everything seems to be a shade of grey. And then you spend some time with a man like Dukat, and you realize that there is such a thing as truly evil.}}

* ''[[Scrubs]]'' used this to push itself into [[Refuge in Audacity]] when J.D. has a day dream of a Public Service Announcement for Munchausen's by Proxy i.e. child abuse to get attention. Remember - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OClhuzy6d2o Don't smother your kids.]

{{quote|'''Sokka''': I always knew he was bad, but this..... This is pure evil.}}

** To be fair, Sokka is also pointing out Ozai's wartime [[Moral Event Horizon]]. Before this, he was continuing a war that was passed down to him from his father and his father before him. Like Zuko, he could be considered an appeaseable king building an empire. Which is bad, yeah, but realistic. But committing {{spoiler|genocide against millions}}? That's just terrible.

* The DVD sets for ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' and ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' contain disclaimers (the former had unskippable speeches from Whoopie Goldberg) about some of the racist content of a few shorts, emphasizing that the racial humor was "wrong then and is wrong now", but is included on the DVD for the sake of historical preservation (though that ''still'' doesn't stop them from editing or outright excluding some shorts because of blackface gags and such).

** Including the disclaimers just opens the door to further controversy. What, exactly, is the message here? "Don't make fun of people who look different from you?" (When, frankly, that's what 50 percent of American humor is, anyway!) "Joking about people is fine, but make sure they're not racial minorities, because they're emotionally fragile and can't handle teasing?" Or is it just "Shooting someone in the face will not result in a blackface gag, so don't try it?"