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Morals
Morals noun - The code of good conduct for an individual or group.
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Only after they were first recorded by early folklorists did the stories obtain morals and, eventually, kiddie-friendly endings that removed the graphic violence and occasional Cruel Twist Ending.
Source: Grimmification -
Framing Device: The Toddle Tales and two of the Rainbow Parade shorts have live action openings and endings, with the cartoon segments inbetween that provide the "morals" of the cartoons.
Source: Creator / Van Beuren Studios -
Discussed in the 1934 film Search For Beauty, in which the publishers of a health magazine, realizing that Sex Sells, starts publishing steamy romance stories with "just enough morals to sneak them through the mails." Their female readers see right through the tacked-on "paying the price" endings.
Source: Do Not Do This Cool Thing
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