Spoof Aesop: Difference between revisions

* In [[Kingdom of Loathing]], low-quality booze gives one very few adventures, and some even does Stench/ Sleaze damage, and takes one forever to get drunk off of. Only go for the good stuff.

* When you complete all of [[Brutal Legend]]'s Overslaughter side-quests, the Hunter leaves with: "Whenever you kill something, a part of you dies. A tiny, pathetic little part of you that you didn't need anyway." (paraphrased)

 

== Webcomics ==

'''Torg''': I've learned that I need to appreciate you more. I've been taking your friendship for granted when I should have listened with my heart.

'''Riff''': And I learned it's OK to eat people if they're the bad guys. }}

{{quote|'''Torg''': "Devaluing everything material is a road to ruin. That was a lesson Clutter Monster learned too late and at too high a price."}}

{{quote|''Luckily the volcano was actually a magic portal that returned me to the real world. It was my salvation, not my destruction. I learned an important lesson that day. Lava heals all wounds. When life gets me down, I look to jump in some lava. Barring that, I remember that freedom is not found on the horizon. True freedom is found by looking within. Within mountains filled with lava.''}}

* From ''[[The Wotch]]'' ( http://www.thewotch.com/?epDate=2007-04-23 ) "Now Jennie, what did we learn again?" "That it's never okay to drop bowling balls on people's heads unless they are evil wizards hurting your friends."

* From ''[[Stickman and Cube]]'': "Don't think too much or you'll disappear into nothingness. Especially if you're a cube."

** Also one presented in [[The Rant]] for [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=224 this strip]:

{{quote|Tom Siddell: Kids! Guys in forests are always willing to help!}}

* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'': Read or the owl will eat you.

* ''Commissioned'' teaches us an important lesson about donuts and arm pimples here: [http://www.commissionedcomic.com/strips/2008/index.php?date=2008-10-15\]{{Dead link}}.

* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0612.html This] [[Order of the Stick]] strip. "See what we learned today, Mr. Scruffy. Solve a mans problems with violence, help him for a day. '''Teach''' a man to solve his problems with violence, you help him for the rest of his life."

* [http://nedroid.com/2009/07/the-seven-trials-more-like-the-seven-stupid-trials-am-i-right-folks/ The Seven Trials], by [[Nedroid]].

* [[Xkcd]]: "[http://xkcd.com/984/ If you want something done right, learning from the Nazis isn't enough, you have to actually put them in charge.]"

 

== Web Original ==

* Seanbaby said this about ''River City Ransom'': "Kids, if there's one thing you take away from River City Ransom, may it be that violence is the answer to your problems. If you beat a gang member hard enough, he will become an honor student. And if you beat an honor student hard enough, he will give you his lunch money. And the final moral is: it's all about good grades and trips to the mall."

* The ''[[Tipping Forties]]'' like to end each episode with each player sharing what they've 'learned' from that day's [[Let's Play]].

* ''[[80's Dan]]'' Christmas special:

{{quote|"Whether we think about Santa this season, or Jesus, whether we're religious, or we just like presents, we can all agree on one thing. And that's that killing Nazis is fun."}}

'''Orson:''' That's pretty much it. }}

** In one episode, Jon, Garfield and Odie go to Doc Boy's farm. Doc is proud of running an efficient operation, and to Garfield's horror he has no TV, because he thinks that would make things inefficient. While he's away, Garfield signs the farm up for cable. Now at this point the most likely moral would be "Doc learns that, in moderation, TV is okay" (or possibly "Garfield learns it's wrong to sign other people up for things they'll be expected to pay for without asking them"). Instead, this being [[Mark Evanier]], we get "Doc Boy learns watching TV does indeed make farm animals lazy and inefficient, but that's okay because you can win Big Cash Prizes, and not ''need'' to work."

{{quote|'''Inner Frat Boy:''' Aw, clowns aren't scary, Billy. They're just different. And just because someone looks different than you, or thinks differently than you, doesn't mean you should be afraid of them. ''It means you should be angry at them!'' How dare they be different! What, my way of life's not good enough for them?

'''Billy:''' So you're saying I should beat them up?

*** So 8 year old kids ''should'' buy companies on everaged credit?

**** Well, they'd do less damage than a lot of the adults.

{{quote|'''Clinton''': If something doesn't go right, just complain until you get what you want.

'''Marge''': That's a pretty lousy lesson.

** In the South Park episode where Stan and Cartman break a dam and the ensuing Hurricane Katrina inspired chaos leads the town to blame it all on various things, from global warming, to terrorists to Crab people. At the end of the episode Stan has had enough and states "I broke the dam!" Everyone takes this metaphorically though, in that they ''all'' broke the dam, and all begin repeating [[I Am Spartacus|"I broke the dam!"]] to Stan's annoyance.

* Done in every episode of the short-lived cartoon ''Spacecats''. In an unfortunate [[Irony]], the first such lesson was [[Logic Bomb|"Don't watch cartoons. They will rot your brain."]] The cartoon aired on NBC the year the network decided to replace its Saturday morning cartoon lineup with an expanded morning news show.

{{quote|'''Robin:''' So, I guess it is bad to watch too much TV.

'''Starfire:''' But, we were only victorious because Beast Boy watches too much the television.

 

{{reflist}}

[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]

[[Category:An Aesop]]

[[Category:Parody Tropes]]

[[Category:Self-Referential Humor]]