Stock plots and lessons in children's TV

This morning it so happened that I watched half an episode of Roary the Racing Car, a kind of Thomas the Tank Engine/Cars hybrid, over breakfast.

Anyway a major lesson of today's episode was that if you are overburdened you should admit it and ask for help. Then everybody can work together and everything will be fine.

Obviously that one has been done before. I bet they also have an episode where one of the characters tries to cover up the results of their secret misbehaviour making everthing worse in the process.

What are other popular lessons?

Not to make fun of another kid as they are different in all of it forms.

"The Boy Who Cried Wolf" must still be getting done.

More can be done working together than separately.

I was just reading a Thomas the Tank Engine book yesterday which had a good one (Thomas is filled with these). It's a classic that is perhaps best told in The Three Little Pigs: When you do a job, do it conscientiously and to the best of your ability. After you are done, then it is time to play.

Oh boy. I've seen a ton of these from the shows my youngest niece watches and yet I'm having the hardest time thinking of them now.

The only one I can think of now is the old "one lie leads to another" plot. It usually starts out with a kid making a small exaggeration or someone misreading a situation, and then the kid continues to come up with more and more outlandish lies until it all comes tumbling down and a Valuable Lesson Is Learned.

The "ugly duckling" story, where the one character that is different and left out actually has special talents he didn't realize.

My favorite example of this is Disney's "Lambert the Sheepish Lion".

There is, of course, the classic "facing your fears" trope. That one comes up a lot, where one of the characters is anxious about something and tries to avoid it, then discovers that it isn't as bad as s/he had feared.

I can't think of any specific examples but I seem to remember a lot of children's shows in which a class learns the valuable lesson of welcoming the new kid.

Thanks for your answers. This thread reminded me of something tangentially related that I could post about.

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Originally posted by Taumpy

My favorite example of this is Disney's "Lambert the Sheepish Lion".

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Aw, I have not seen this in 20 years at least. Thanks for posting it.