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Basic Trope: A TV show has a moral tacked on to the end.
- Straight: At the end of an episode of Timmy's World O' Fun, Timmy learns not to judge people by the color of their skin.
- Exaggerated:
- Everyone on that episode Timmy's World O' Fun learns a different lesson.
- Timmy learns a lesson every episode.
- Up to Eleven: Everyone learns a lesson in every episode of Timmy's World O' Fun.
- Justified: Hey, teaching people to not be prejudiced is a very important thing.
- Inverted:
- The lesson comes at the beginning of the episode, and the show is based on trying to prove that it's a good lesson.
- Alternatively, Timmy learns that judging people by the color of their skin is a great way of measuring someone's character.
- Subverted: It seems like the show is building towards the traditional "don't judge others" Aesop, but the last few minutes of the show trail off into a different direction.
- Double Subverted:
- Only to firmly veer back into Aesop territory.
- Then a horde of Exclusively Evil orcs raids the school, and all humans, white, black and green team up, apply the Power of Love, and the trope is justified.
- Parodied: Spoof Aesop
- Deconstructed: ??
- Reconstructed: ??
- Zig Zagged: The show can't seem to decide whether it wants to teach a lesson or not.
- Averted: There is no Aesop.
- Enforced: The FCC mandates a certain amount of educational programming.
- Lampshaded: "Gather round, kids, it's time for Timmy Troper's Lesson Of The Day!"
- Invoked: ??
- Defied: Timmy refuses to learn any lessons.
- Discussed: "Timmy, why do you seem to learn some obvious lesson every week?"
- Conversed: "Shows like that always have some kind of moral at the end."
Today, we learned that editing a trope page during the wee hours of the morning doesn't make you a bad person. Go back to An Aesop for more lessons.