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Always had a great message at the end.

posted 8 years ago by great_one_32789
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One of my favorite shows growing up and love the message they always had at the end.

One of the things that helped to set the MOTU PSA/Messages apart is that in many cases they were tied--however loosely--to the episode they were attached to. "In today's episode, Orko learned that...". With G.I. Joe and the other 'toons that followed suit, the PSA's were generic and interchangeable.

I still prefer the practical info in a G.I. Joe PSA to a preachy lesson, but the stuff here was often bland and inoffensive.

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[–] Navaros 8 years ago

Actually, MOTU has also some episodes where the message at the end is completely generic & interchangeable and has no relation to any particular episode whatsoever.

[–] Fluke_Skywalker 8 years ago

Yeah, I've caught a few of those too when I've revisited it. But it seems--though I may be wrong--that more often than not there's synergy there.

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[–] bug76 8 years ago

I loved 'The Moral message' at the end. It's common sense.
Sad, that I don't see this in shows today. But, then, again common sense isn't common anymore and political correctness has eaten away at America like a cancer.
I miss shows like these.
I always thought the cartoons of my parent's time and my time were the best.
I've been collecting all my old favorites on DVD.
There's not much on TV worth watching anyway.
On 'He-Man', some of my favorite moral messages were about treating people with respect to matter their race or religion. Or not judging a book by its cover. I love those.

TV stations should really think about having a channel or two soley focused on the shows we grew up with. 60's through the 90's.

[–] hurricane (1911) 4 years ago

I remember one episode from when I was a kid, not seen it in decades though, but the general gist of it was that there was another prince (I think) or some other kind of important dignitary that came to visit the royal family. They all got on well with him, and he had presents that he handed out to them.

During the episode, a big mole type creature kept digging his way up through the ground and they would attack him and chase him off.

It turns out that their human visitor was actually up to no good, and the mole creature had been trying to warn them.

At the end the moral message was; "Well kids, we thought our visitor was nice because he was good looking, charming and gave us gifts. But we made a mistake, and didn't listen to a warning because the person who gave it didn't look like us...."

I've probably got a lot of that wrong, but I remember the lesson being not to judge a book by it's cover.

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