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*** You know, in 1949 no one really though smoking was bad. Just saying. |
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* Ah, ''Tinkerbell & The Great Fairy Rescue''. This entry in the otherwise surprisingly good ''[[Disney Fairies]]'' movie series soured some viewers thanks to it's intended Aesop being presented in such a clueless way as to become downright [[Warped Aesop|warped]]. The morals of the story were probably originally meant as, "spend more time with your child" and "don't stifle your child's imagination" and "have an open mind". In practice, the moral instead became an alarmingly [[Anvilicious]] [[Science Is Bad|Science Is]] [[Science Is Wrong|Badong]] [[Script Wank]]. These days, do we really need a children's film where a skeptical biologist is the antagonist? |
* Ah, ''Tinkerbell & The Great Fairy Rescue''. This entry in the otherwise surprisingly good ''[[Disney Fairies]]'' movie series soured some viewers thanks to it's intended Aesop being presented in such a clueless way as to become downright [[Warped Aesop|warped]]. The morals of the story were probably originally meant as, "spend more time with your child" and "don't stifle your child's imagination" and "have an open mind". In practice, the moral instead became an alarmingly [[Anvilicious]] [[Science Is Bad|Science Is]] [[Science Is Wrong|Badong]] [[Script Wank]]. These days, do we really need a children's film where a skeptical biologist is the antagonist? |
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* [[In-Universe]] example from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'': In the episode [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1 |
* [[In-Universe]] example from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'': In the episode [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1/E21 Over a Barrel|"Over A Barrel"]], Pinkie Pie's song about sharing is so annoying, [[Stop Helping Me!|it makes]] [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|things worse]]. |
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** The show also had a real life one with "Feeling Pinkie Keen" (from the same writer, oddly enough). Similar to the "Tinkerbell" example, the message was supposed to be that you shouldn't obsess over finding explanations for all the weird stuff you see. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJQGS0ZMf0A Twilight's final summation] had some unfortunate phrasing that made it sound like the message was "Scientists should admit that God exists." |
** The show also had a real life one with "Feeling Pinkie Keen" (from the same writer, oddly enough). Similar to the "Tinkerbell" example, the message was supposed to be that you shouldn't obsess over finding explanations for all the weird stuff you see. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJQGS0ZMf0A Twilight's final summation] had some unfortunate phrasing that made it sound like the message was "Scientists should admit that God exists." |
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* Also happens [[In-Universe]] in ''[[South Park]]'', when the school decides they need to teach the kids about safer sex -- without actually talking about sex. So they just tell the kids that boys always need to wear condoms, or else they might get girls pregnant, and leave it at that. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. |
* Also happens [[In-Universe]] in ''[[South Park]]'', when the school decides they need to teach the kids about safer sex -- without actually talking about sex. So they just tell the kids that boys always need to wear condoms, or else they might get girls pregnant, and leave it at that. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. |
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