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* '''Straight''': To teach the DrugsAreBad Aesop, Alice gets addicted to a made-up drug.
* '''Exaggerated''': There are made up drugs to teach DrugsAreBad, made-up animals to teach GreenAesop, the list goes on.

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* '''Straight''': To teach the DrugsAreBad Aesop, Alice gets addicted to a [[FantasticDrug made-up drug.
drug]].
* '''Exaggerated''': There are made up made-up drugs to teach DrugsAreBad, made-up animals to teach GreenAesop, the list goes on.



* '''Inverted''': A land full of made-up stuff uses stuff from our world to teach Aesop's.
* '''Subverted''': Alice gets hooked on a made-up drug....but it's not to teach an Aesop.
* '''Double Subverted''': Then Bob preaches to the viewers not to do drugs.
* '''Parodied''':
** The drug is called Aesoptus Moralia.

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* '''Inverted''': A land full of made-up stuff things uses stuff one or more things from our world to teach Aesop's.
Aesops.
* '''Subverted''': Alice gets hooked on a made-up drug....drug ... but it's not to teach an Aesop.
* '''Double Subverted''': Then Bob [[BreakingTheFourthWall preaches to the viewers not to do drugs.
drugs]].
* '''Parodied''':
'''Parodied''':
** The drug is called [[CanisLatinicus Aesoptus Moralia.Moralia]].



* '''Zigzagged''': Alice gets addicted to a made-up drug. Sometimes the plot involves getting Alice un-addicted, sometimes they focus on something else entirely, and other times it gets all preachy and {{Anvilicious}}.

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* '''Zigzagged''': '''Zig-Zagged''': Alice gets addicted to a made-up drug. Sometimes the plot involves getting Alice un-addicted, sometimes they focus on something else entirely, and other times it gets all preachy and {{Anvilicious}}.



* '''Lampshaded''': "It's as though this drug was made up just to teach us that DrugsAreBad or something"

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* '''Lampshaded''': "It's as though this drug was made up just to teach us that DrugsAreBad or something"something."



* '''Defied''': ???

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* '''Defied''': ???Alice already knows that illegal drugs are illegal for a good reason and eschews using them.



%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???

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%%* * '''Played For for Laughs''': ???A FantasticDrug with [[MarijuanaIsLSD hilariously inaccurate]] effects.



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* '''Parodied''': The drug is called Aesoptus Moralia.

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* '''Parodied''': '''Parodied''':
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The drug is called Aesoptus Moralia.Moralia.
** Aesoptus Moralia is just an alternate name for heroin, which many characters point out despite Bob's insistence on the made-up name.

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* '''Played for Laughs''': ???
* '''Deconstructed/Reconstructed''': ???

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* %%* '''Deconstructed''': ???
%%* '''Reconstructed''': ???
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'''Played for For Laughs''': ???
* '''Deconstructed/Reconstructed''':
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'''Basic Trope''': AppliedPhlebotinum that only exists to teach AnAesop.
* '''Straight''': To teach the DrugsAreBad Aesop, Alice gets addicted to a made-up drug.
* '''Exaggerated''': There are made up drugs to teach DrugsAreBad, made-up animals to teach GreenAesop, the list goes on.
* '''Downplayed''': The made-up drug (and Alice's addiction to it) are used, with the Aesop as the subplot and getting Alice back to normal as the main plot.
* '''Justified''': This world doesn't have drugs as we know them.
* '''Inverted''': A land full of made-up stuff uses stuff from our world to teach Aesop's.
* '''Subverted''': Alice gets hooked on a made-up drug....but it's not to teach an Aesop.
* '''Double Subverted''': Then Bob preaches to the viewers not to do drugs.
* '''Parodied''': The drug is called Aesoptus Moralia.
* '''Zigzagged''': Alice gets addicted to a made-up drug. Sometimes the plot involves getting Alice un-addicted, sometimes they focus on something else entirely, and other times it gets all preachy and {{Anvilicious}}.
* '''Averted''': Nothing is made up solely to teach AnAesop.
* '''Enforced''': It's a kids' show and they don't want to show real-world drugs.
* '''Lampshaded''': "It's as though this drug was made up just to teach us that DrugsAreBad or something"
* '''Invoked''': Carol makes the drug and gets Alice addicted to get her to learn about addiction the "hard" way.
* '''Exploited''': Dave sells potions which make you un-addicted along with the drugs, with a sign saying "GET ADDICTED, LEARN THAT ADDICTION IS BAD, THEN GET UN-ADDICTED FOR HALF PRICE".
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': "Did the writers just make that up for the sake of preaching AnAesop?"
* '''Implied''': The Aesop might be real or it might be an AccidentalAesop.
* '''Played for Laughs''': ???
* '''Deconstructed/Reconstructed''': ???
* '''Played for Drama''': A thing which means that if Alice doesn't learn her Aesop, she will die.
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