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* As was mentioned in [[Berserk Button]], the [[Aesop]] of ''[[The King of Queens]]'' episode "Bun Dummy" is "Save the bun hairstyle for when you're an old lady, and if you're bold enough to wear it as a young lady, don't [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|act like it's the greatest thing that ever happened to you]]".
* The Bernadette Peters episode of ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', Sam the Eagle started reading the famous story of "The Ant and the Grasshopper". However, when winter came in the story, Sam was shocked to learn that {{spoiler|the grasshopper drove his sports car to Florida, and the ant got stepped on.}}
* From a ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20130923191141/http://snltranscripts.jt.org/96/96rtwilight.phtml parody] of the classic "Eye of the Beholder" segment of ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' (on the season 23 episode hosted by Pamela Anderson {named Pamela Lee at the time}) comes this demolition of [[Rod Serling|Rod Serling's]] usual closing narration:
{{quote|'''Serling:''' So, there you have it. Something that is beautiful to one is not beautiful to another. As this woman learned when she... well... she didn't really learn anything. And neither did we. Frankly, usually I try to have some kind of ironic twist or moral in these things, but... I got nothing this time, because that woman ''was'' hot! In [[The Twilight Zone]].}}
** Another one from a [https://web.archive.org/web/20130923191257/http://snltranscripts.jt.org/99/99mfunhouse.phtml TV Funhouse] segment starring Tracy Morgan (later of ''[[30 Rock|Thirty Rock]]'' fame) as Mr. T, complete with mixed metaphors:
{{quote|'''Mr. T:''' Let that be a lesson to all the Gary Burghoffs, Joey Lawrences, Tina Yotherses, and George "Goober" Lindsays! If you believe in yourself, eat all your school, stay in milk, drink your teeth, don't do sleep, and get eight hours of drugs - you can get work!}}
* Even with its "No hugging, no learning" motto, an episode of ''[[Seinfeld]]'' does have a Spoof Aesop. In the episode "The Summer of George", George's plan to fulfill his personal goals during that summer (which he declared "The Summer of George", hence the title) go terribly awry. The Spoof Aesop here would seem to be "Never name a season after yourself; it will only end in tragedy".
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* 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."
** From the same comic: [https://web.archive.org/web/20100526130615/http://www.drunkduck.com/Stickman_and_Cube/index.php?p=256280 "Never invade Stickman and Cube, or the author will drop an infinity-tonne weight on you."]
* ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'': At the end of [https://web.archive.org/web/20091024042035/http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=22&issue=1 every] [https://web.archive.org/web/20091024222524/http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=45&issue=2 issue], Dr. McNinja [https://web.archive.org/web/20091024222529/http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=48&issue=3 struggles] [https://web.archive.org/web/20090202073841/http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=52&issue=5 to] [https://web.archive.org/web/20091212100447/http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=34&issue=9 find] [https://web.archive.org/web/20090204102836/http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=56&issue=10 an] [https://web.archive.org/web/20090201135359/http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=56&issue=11 Aesop] except the 5th. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090901200058/http://www.drmcninja.com/mcdonalds.html Or the 1st ever.]
* In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', chapter 15, Antimony and Kat see that Red has become estranged from her friend, Blue; they blame her acerbic personality, but [[Minor Flaw, Major Breakup|Red blames her hair]]. Annie and Kat humor her by taking her to get a haircut, but they also tell Red that it will take more than new hair to win her friend back. Then {{spoiler|the new haircut ''does'' win Blue back. So the real lesson is that [[The Fair Folk|fairies are capricious and weird]].Or alternatively, "No one is too happy to wang (throw) tomatoes".}}
** Also one presented in [[The Rant]] for [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=224 this strip]:
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** Another one in [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=632 this strip:] "Never let sixty angry kids use a herd of laser cows to take over your house."
* ''[[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."
** The strip in question is entitled: "Technically, the 'Fish' Version is a Subset of This One."
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{{quote|'''[[The Angry Video Game Nerd]]''': We shouldn't hate each other!
'''[[The Nostalgia Critic]]''': We should team up to hate other things! }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140704174418/http://www.accursedfarms.com/Video.php?Video_ID=9 Civil Protection] would like to remind you that we're kind of fucked, so you'd better hope aliens from outer space conquer us and massacre four fifths of our population.
** "Hell, we almost had it coming!"
* From [[The Nostalgia Chick]]: "Remember, you can't spell [[Black Comedy Rape|rape without rap]]." [[Dude, Not Funny|It wasn't really her shining moment]].
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* In ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]'', at the end of the episode "Siren Says," the main characters try to figure out an [[Aesop]] but can't. For instance, they start out thinking that it's that [[Stock Aesops|old chestnut]] "don't be prejudiced for the beautiful and against the less attractive"...except that lesson would be [[Broken Aesop|rather inappropriate]] since the beautiful girl was innocent, and the less attractive girl was [[Horny Devils|the evil Siren]] that was framing the beautiful one. Jake briefly considers that agreeing to date the less attractive girl in the first place would have prevented her from attacking him in the first place...but then he'd be dating a clingy, psychotic Siren who could go off at any minute.
** They eventually decide the lesson is {{spoiler|don't trust children's paper fortunetelling toys, and always wait an hour after eating before going swimming.}}
* Many episodes of ''[[Animaniacs]]'' ended with the Warners getting a random lesson for the day from the "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131222045124/http://home.eunet.no/~rfyri/Animaniacs/moral.html Wheel of Morality]". In a great gag, one of the spots reads "Bankrupt", making it both a parody of "Wheel of Fortune" and of the phrase "morally bankrupt". There's also a prize space, which they actually hit at one point.
** Lessons "we should learn" from the Wheel of Morality include "Never ask what hot dogs are made of," "If you don't have something nice to say, you're probably at the Ice Capades," and "If at first you don't succeed, blame it on your parents."
** An example ''not'' coming from the Wheel of Morality bits came from the show's ''[[Power Rangers]]'' parody "Super Strong Warner Siblings", with Yakko, Wakko, and Dot as pseudo-Power Rangers fighting off bug monsters and the like. At the end of the short, the Warners show up to deliver the moral of the story...
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