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* The ending of [[PDQ Bach]]'s ''Oedipus Tex'':

{{quote|Well the moral of the story is, of course:

If you give your mom the love you should be saving for your horse! }}

* (Could also be a case of [[Space Whale Aesop]]) There is a 16th century French farce which goes as follows: An alchemist arrives to a village and proclaims that he can remelt old men and make them young again. The old crones of the village convince their husbands to try the [[Applied Phlebotinum|alchemist's foundry]]. They come out of it [[Fountain of Youth|rejuvenated]]... and immediately dump their wrinkled wives and start chasing young girls. The moral of the play? "God save you from the idea to remelt your husbands".

* From a [http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/tooth.asp Snopes] article:

{{quote|I think there are two lessons here: Don't believe all those Coke stories you hear. And don't, for any reason, let a fly drink Roto-Rooter.}}

{{quote|'''Joshua''' "Strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

'' *everyone cheers* ''

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

* [http://www.cracked.com/article/187_6-people-who-got-away-with-living-implausible-lie/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=fanpage&utm_campaign=new+article&wa_ibsrc=fanpage This Cracked list about impersonators] points out that at least two of them were able to achieve fame, fortune and very little punishment after dropping out of school and pretending to be someone else. #1 died of diabetes, so the writer decides that that's the moral: impersonate someone, and you get diabetes.

{{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."}}

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[Adventure Time]]'' the original short.

''Finn'': NEVER! }}

** In one episode, Finn tries to make everyone happy by fixing all their problems for them, but discovers it's impossible, because there's too many problems to fix and solving one always means making a different one worse. Then Jake asks, "What do YOU want, Finn?" and of course the viewer expects Finn to have an aesop and realize that he can't please everybody all the time. There's a pause, then Finn proceeds to fix everyone's problems and make everyone happy anyway.

** In the episode "Once Upon A Time Warp", Roy is convinced that he should pay Wade the $5 owed him by a rocket that homes in on the pilot's debtors. When the rocket disappears, Roy takes the money back, but then Orson finds his book of prehistoric monsters:

{{quote|'''Orson:''' As you can see, kids, there's a lesson to be learned from this story.

'''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."

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