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* Another example was the D.A.R.E. group in the late 1980s that tried to encourage kids to not do drugs and in their educational kits they included a pencil with the slogan "Too Cool To Do Drugs". Unfortunately, because they set their slogan not to start at the eraser end but at the lead end of the pencil, as it was sharpened the slogan devolved on the pencil from the original message, down to [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing|"Cool To Do Drugs"]], to simply "Do Drugs".
** A similar incident happened on a smaller scale for some rubber wristbands for red ribbon week. The slogan on the wristbands: I've got BETTER things to DO than DRUGS. Observant students quickly noticed the message in all caps. Despite the mistakes ([https://web.archive.org/web/20080625095600/http://www.thehawkeye.com/Story/Drug_Slogan_102507 and news coverage]) the exact same design is still in production.
* Then there's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvjFsZJqAPs this] [[Digital Piracy Is Evil]] ad from Warner Bros. using a scene from ''[[Casablanca]]''. Only trouble is anyone who has seen the movie knows Rick is actually angry at Ilsa for ''resisting the [[Those Wacky Nazis|Nazis]]!'' So WB is comparing themselves to... [[Godwin's Law|what]]?
** While not as uncomfortable in terms of subtext, the one where the [[Wizard of Oz]] yells at Dorothy and company for, er, pirating media is pretty terrible too.
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== Web Original ==
* This trope was brutally satirized in ''[[The Onion]]'' article "[https://web.archive.org/web/20100225054036/http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38286 Talking To Your Child About The WTC Attack]", which encouraged parents to give a no-holds barred explanation of the world history leading up to the World Trade Tower attacks in order to answer why this bad scary thing happened (serious [[Tear Jerker]] warning). Although given that the material is fairly obscure even among adults who try to keep with the news, the real moral might have been "try hard to understand world history, and don't believe the simplified explanations we have to tell our kids."
* Poked fun at by [[The Cinema Snob]] in his review of "Rock: It's Your Decision". The reformed, ex-rock-and-roll-fan protagonist preaches to a group of kids about what he saw at a rock concert once: The people listening weren't just sitting quietly and listening to the music! They were ''getting up and dancing!'' The music was ''controlling'' them! The Snob snarks, "This is an emotional response, like crying when you're sad. This, too, is sinful, and should be suppressed."
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** What makes it even worse is that D.W. never got punished. Arthur spent an entire week making a model plane, and DW not only ruins the wet paint, then blames it on Arthur, but she then throws his plane out the window, after he specifically told her not to touch it. She's not even sorry that it broke, blaming the plane for being defective because it didn't fly. Arthur hits D.W. in retribution, but gets all the blame.
*** From what we've seen. [[Unreliable Narrator|Her punishment could have happened off-screen.]]
* [[Anvilicious]] as it could be at times, ''[[Captain Planet]]'' sometimes went in over its head. It gave us the following stellar examples, some of which can be viewed via [https://web.archive.org/web/20130709012753/http://www.uproxx.com/feature/2010/09/5-weird-captain-planet-episodes-you-probably-dont-remember/ list of uncomfortable "Captain Planet" episodes]:
** The infamous "[[Stroke Country|If It's Doomsday, It Must Be Belfast]]" episode, which was meant to promote world peace. What it managed to do instead was become the single most offensive example of both the [[Oireland]] trope and [[The Troubles]] trope, making the struggle between Catholics and Protestants look like [[West Side Story|The Jets against The Sharks]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQJrovKgrTw Highlights can be seen here]. (And the comments. Dear God, the comments.)
*** Even better, while the titular subplot is far better known, this episode also had the team attempt to ''solve the Israeli / Palestine conflict''... with '''[[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|Ma-Ti]]'''. Yeah really.
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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]].
** At the end of the episode, Chef specifically calls this out, points out that the people teaching the sex ed (Mr. Garrison, Mr. Mackey, and Miss Choksondick) are all misguided, misinformed, or just plain clueless about sex themselves, and says that if the parents want it done right they should do it themselves.
* According to ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130630013653/http://www.everythingisterrible.com/2012/02/drug-avengers.html Drug Avengers]'', an obscure and [[Deranged Animation|very weird]] educational cartoon recently exhumed by ''[[Everything Is Terrible]]'', the reason [[Space Whale Aesop|Earth will not be able to join the Galactic Federation in the future]] is because we do too many drugs. Yup.
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