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* British educational shorts are parodied by the series ''Series/LookAroundYou''.

* British educational shorts are parodied by the series ''Series/LookAroundYou''.

* When Disney bought ABC and reformatted its Saturday morning lineup, it included a whole slew of of these, including ''How Things Work'' starring ''Disney/TheLionKing's'' Timon and Pumbaa, and ''Great Minds Think For Themselves'', with Genie from ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}''. Unfortunately, most of the shorts were gone after two seasons.

* The aforementioned ''GIJoe'' "Knowledge is Power" blurbs, which aired at the end of each episode, after the teaser but before the credits. In each one, two kids are going to do '''something''', but a member of the GI Joe team stops them and moralizes about why what they're doing is wrong, ending with the phrase "AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle". Cheesy doesn't describe them...enough. These blurbs were sometimes shown as stand-alone shorts, hence their inclusion in this part of the Wiki.

Educational Shorts are short stand-alone programs designed to convey a moral about something within the space of a standard commercial break. Often shown at the tail-end of American Saturday morning cartoon shows, or during the commercial breaks in-between shows. Parodied often elsewhere (who can forget those "Knowledge Is Power" ''Main/GIJoe'' shorts, or their various spoofs?). The television versions were first created as a form of commercial during the early days of TV, where commercials actually tried to inform the viewing audience of the uses of a product, instead of simply making the product attractive through glitz and glamour.

* When Disney bought ABC and reformatted its Saturday morning lineup, it included a whole slew of {{Educational Short}}s, including ''How Things Work'' starring ''Disney/TheLionKing's'' Timon and Pumbaa, and ''Great Minds Think For Themselves'', with Genie from ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}''. Unfortunately, most of the shorts were gone after two seasons.

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* ''Film/{{Threads}}''. The children of a post-nuclear war Britain are educated in the English language by a scratchy pre-war video, in a classroom run by an elderly apathetic teacher. The children only speak a simplified form of English anyway, further demonstrating the decline of civilization let alone educational standards.

Educational Shorts are short (5 minutes or less) stand-alone programs designed to convey a moral about something within the space of a standard commercial break. Often shown at the tail-end of American Saturday morning cartoon shows, or during the commercial breaks in-between shows. Parodied often elsewhere (who can forget those "Knowledge Is Power" ''Main/GIJoe'' shorts, or their various spoofs?). First created as a form of commercial during the early days of TV, where commercials actually tried to inform the viewing audience of the uses of a product, instead of simply making the product attractive through glitz and glamour.

!!Examples

** "Fai goal al bullismo" has a boy playing soccer with Rex. When Rex goes to retrieve the ball, a teenagertakes the boy's hat and grabs him by his shirt.

* The UrExample of this concept is the ''Main/SchoolhouseRock'' series, featured on Creator/{{ABC}} (later ABC Family) television in the early-to-mid 1970s. Popular enough that the entire series is available in a 2-DVD boxed set.

** "Fai goal al bullismo" has a boy playing soccer with Rex. When Rex goes to retrieve the ball, a teenager

* ''Series/InspectorRex'' has one called "Rispettando le regole si vive meglio", in which Monterosso is with his niece and Rex. Monte is teaching his niece that the rules are to be respected. A man doing grafitti in a wall and a bicycle rider who does not respect the semaphor are seen. Monte himself throws the cover of a candy in the floor, to which Rex and Monte's niece call Monte to pick it up.

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* The Ur-example of this concept is the ''Main/SchoolhouseRock'' series, featured on Creator/{{ABC}} (later ABC Family) television in the early-to-mid 1970s. Popular enough that the entire series is available in a 2-DVD boxed set.

* When Disney bought ABC and reformated its Saturday morning lineup, it included a whole slew of {{EducationalShort}}s, including ''How Things Work'' starring ''Disney/TheLionKing's'' Timon and Pumbaa, and ''Great Minds Think For Themselves'', with Genie from ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}''. Unfortunately, most of the shorts were gone after two seasons.