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The show you're watching is not made for educational purposes, nor is it a total Aesop magnet. It most certainly isn't full of And Knowing Is Half the Battle sequences at the end of each episode. It may not even be a hundred percent accurate about what it's depicting, and that's entirely for Rule of Cool, Rule of Funny, or any of the other Rules. But it's still, oddly enough, an educational experience — you have a better understanding of the topic it depicts than you did before. It's a trend that's increased in time over the Internet, as wikis and fansites are very adept at dissecting the Genius Bonuses that various works have to offer, and creators realise this and start to insert more and more references to things they are interested in and know a lot about. This creates a viable middle ground — it's not essential to enjoying the story, but it adds another dimension to it if you're willing to keep your mind open to it. It stops short of From Entertainment to Education, which is the point at which actual educational institutions think you can learn from the show in an academic setting. See also I Read It for the Articles, which may point to this sort of thing happening but isn't necessarily true. Not to be confused with an Accidental Aesop, where the lesson learned comes from a misinterpretation, intentional or otherwise, of the original lesson, or with Space Whale Aesop, where the "lesson" learned quite literally comes out of nowhere with no relation to the circumstances of the story. See Shameful Source of Knowledge for a related In-Universe trope. |
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Watchmen is one of the earliest exposures to high-level quantum physics for most non-specialists and cited as an inspiration for other depictions of Quantum Mechanics Can Do Anything such as Lost and Bioshock Infinite. It also thematically explores multiple codes of ethics, including deontology and utilitarianism, and the flaws and strengths of each. | |
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In a similar fashion, Finding Nemo introduced 2000s children to many species of Indo-Pacific aquatic wildlife (e.g., clownfish, royal blue tang, Moorish idol, etc.). | |
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Promethea likewise has introduced many readers to the occult, and Moore intended it to be largely educational in nature. | |
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GoldenEye: For many people, this movie may have been the first time they heard about the post-World War II repatriation of the Cossacks to the Soviet Union and the atrocities that followed. | |
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Trading Places is so informative about economics and trading that, following the 2008 recession, Section 136 of the Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Act (also known as the Dodd-Frank Act) — which was an Obvious Rule Patch to prevent some of the shenanigans shown at the end of the film — is informally known as the "Eddie Murphy Rule". | |
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Digimon is basically a crash course in theology, both Eastern and Western. The card game and several characters draw parallels to multiple cultures and traditions. The third series relates to Eastern principles such as the idea of a Deva as well the Four Animals of the Earth, and villains are based on the Eastern Zodiac. There's even a Taomon. The following series is Western based, with the ideas of Seraphim and Ophan, as well as Lucifer himself as the real Big Bad, with several allusions to his origins and portrayal in Paradise Lost. | |
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While the research in DEATH BATTLE! is subject to the viewer's interpretation, the show offers a few tidbits of mathematics, science, and history. It also no doubt generates interest from viewers in some of the more obscure combatants and where they came from, such as Bucky O'Hare and Gamera. And you get a cool fight scene between two fictional characters too. What's not to love? | |
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Considering how much the movie was criticized for mangling Greek mythology, Hercules: The Animated Series was more sufficiently grounded in research on ancient myths and Greek history to make viewers, especially international ones who have no grounding in Western culture, learn a great deal about Ancient Greece, learning the names and stories of Prometheus, Orpheus, and Medusa, and unpacking references to the Trojan War and Greek City States. | |
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Toontown Online introduced kids to plenty of unfamiliar business terminology, such as stock options or a District Attorney's office, and put them in a context that makes it easy to understand what they are. Many of the Cog names are also slang terms for people with certain habits in the industries (Mr. Hollywood, Name Dropper, Mover and Shaker). The Lawbot boss, the Chief Justice, also teaches you about how a jury works in a court case and that you need evidence to support your defense. | |
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You can learn a great deal about historical artifacts from Pawn Stars (see, The History Channel isn't suffering complete Network Decay!), and it can even show you how to avoid damaging valuable antiques. | |
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MS Paint Adventures can broaden your vocabulary, teach you about data structures and the Western zodiac, help you think in a more non-linear fashion, and be more attentive to detail. (Way more attentive to detail.) | |
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All things considered, it is probably not wise to let a hypochondriac watch House. It has described a plethora of exotic diseases, even as it warns that it's utterly stupid to diagnose yourself with them. | |
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MythBusters is in the business of busting myths, so it is educational, but notably, several people have credited the "what to do when your car is submerged" episode with saving their lives. | |
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Dark Souls teaches you different types of medieval weapons and armors (standard weapons, not boss weapons) as well as bringing attractions to historical European martial arts (HEMA). That said, the overswings may get you killed in a real fight. | |
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Drunk History: For all of the antics of the drunk narrators, over-the-top reenactments, and anachronisms, the historical events are retold accurately and respectfully enough for its audience to say that they learned more from this show than they do at school, especially when some light gets shined on more obscure people and events. | |
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The goal of Residents of Proserpina Park is to teach listeners about creatures from across mythology and folklore in an entertaining way. The emphasis on lesser known creatures means it is possible to learn quite a bit about the more obscure corners of mythology and folklore. | |
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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, the Spiritual Successor to Civilization, gives you just enough info about fields ranging from ecology to economics to sociology to philosophy to Chinese poetry to make you want to look stuff up when you are inevitably forced to quit, as well as including some pretty cool projections about plausible near-to-middle future (next 100-500 years) technology. At the very least, it will completely disabuse you of the notion that genes are blueprints. | |
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The Matrix has been played in philosophy classes for showcasing concepts such as the Platonic Cave or to graphically explain the concept of perception shift after reaching nirvana. | |
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Looney Tunes has for decades been the primary vehicle for children around the world to first come across many classical musical pieces, to the point of Parody Displacement— many of these tunes are now impossible to take seriously because of their association with the Looney Tunes franchise. Franz Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsody #2" has arguably suffered from its association with "Rhapsody in Rivets", "Rhapsody Rabbit", and "Daffy's Rhapsody" (the special tune recorded by Mel Blanc). Rossini's The Barber of Seville suffers from its association with "Rabbit of Seville", and Richard Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" (when not associated with Apocalypse Now) is associated with "What's Opera, Doc?". | |
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The attention to historical detail, plus the bonus episodes exploring the history behind the fiction, mean that is is possible to learn quite a bit about the history of the Johnson Administration and the politics of late 1860s America from 1865. Likewise, the bonus episodes also provide quite a bit of information about what goes into the making of an audio drama podcast. | |
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Bungo Stray Dogs is chock full of references to classic literature from various parts of the world (mostly Japan and America, but also Russia, England, and France so far), from the characters and their abilities to the relationships between them. The translator's notes pointing out references here and there is educational enough as it is, and fans tend to be influenced to read the works referenced in the series as well. | |
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Shin Megami Tensei's Crossover Cosmology taught many gamers about various (often obscure) aspects of religion (from Christianity to Hinduism) and mythology. The Persona spin-off series (especially from Persona 3 onwards) also covers a wide range of topics from geography to advanced English to the major arcana to, of course, Jungian psychology. | |
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The developers of Saurian did such extensive research for their depiction Hell Creek Formation environment of latest Cretaceous South Dakota that the companion book can be used as a legitimate paleontological resource. | |
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Stand Still, Stay Silent: The Translation Punctuation uses the similar-looking flags of Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. While a cheat sheet is provided, parts of the comic are much easier to read once one has gotten the hang of the differences between the flags. Some characters who are technically monolingual are able to talk with each other entirely because of the similarities between Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish. The Encyclopedia Exposita of Adventure I even includes a couple vocabulary sheets showing those similarities. A language tree made for the comic pretty much has a life of it own on the Internet because of the effort that was put in it. Both Norse Mythology and The Kalevala inspired the fantasy elements, which can encourage people to seek out both. Finding people who have already done so is fairly easy in places where the comic is discussed. Many of the places that have become surviving settlements in the comic are real, but not widely known of outside of their respective countries. People trying to figure out how people are managing to do various things after the loss of both modern technology and global trade has led to the fandom being a decent source of information on pre-industrial and early industrial life in the Nordics. |
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Being a documentary, Mayday obviously falls under the category of "educational", but what makes it unconventional is that although it focuses on plane crashes, it also teaches a lot about airlines and models of aircraft throughout the years and how the various things in an aircraft cockpit work. In fact, it has been used in an educational setting to teach prospective pilots, not investigators. | |
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Sid Meier's Pirates! certainly taught a lot of people the geography of the Caribbean, especially considering it was using a properly scaled map in-game, so it was player's best interest to pick up real-world map with major ports for at least basic orientation. | |
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If you're interested in how to lead a populist religious movement and in general create a world changing social movement, just pick up a copy of Dragon Age: Inquisition. It also teaches you how to navigate the political and diplomatic landmines that a leader faces. | |
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The Journey Through Time series of Geronimo Stilton contains very detailed trivia and information about the time periods visited by the characters, including several pages of maps, cultural information, and even clothing. | |
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The Discworld novels can teach you such things as unconventional historical means of arsenic poisoning, the symbolism of maypoles and broomsticks, the origins of midwinter festivals, and the meaning of the word "susurrus". You just need to tease it out of the fictional stuff, for which Sir Terry recommended the public library. | |
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Code Black is one of the most stunningly accurate medical dramas to ever hit the airwaves, with both extremely solid medical science and an incredibly realistic portrayal of the emotional stresses, character development, and staff relationships that go on in a major hospital's emergency room. Just to hammer this home, one of the doctors who was featured in the documentary of the same name that inspired the show has said that the main cast has received enough medical training to qualify as EMTs, though they obviously never sat the exams. | |
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Final Fantasy XIV teaches a variety of learning and thinking methods (Visual, Verbal, Mechanical, etc). While these are often used in other games to teach players who would rather learn by doing than by reading, mechanics in XIV are made bright and obvious to account for groups of eight strangers with their own strengths or difficulties learning them. Players are often surprised to hear mechanics they completed easily are That One Attack to others due to relying on mental math (Construct 7), memorizing words or mnemonic devices (Omega), rotating and flipping shapes (Zodiark) and the list goes on. | |
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World of Warcraft A number of players (as well as Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games in general) credit it as a great way to passively learn how to type faster, as you'd need speedy typing skills to participate frequently in a very active guild chat. A boy used the skills he learned from the game (namely, drawing aggro and playing dead) to save his sister from an angry moose. And it also turns out that being in a raiding party can teach one teamwork and leadership skills that are applicable to the real world. A well-balanced and cooperative raiding party with a leader who can plan and strategize on the fly and earn respect while doing so is a raiding party that wins battles and loot, after all. It's gotten to the point that more than a few young adults with those skills entering the workforce have asked job-hunting and professional development forums for advice on how to state those things on their resumes and in job interviews without explicitly mentioning Warcraft. |
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World of Warships covers several decades of naval shipbuilding and references the very complicated naval politics of the era. And much like the KanColle entry above, history of Naval Warfare too (even those that occurred during The Great War.) Expect a double dose of the same if you pop on the forums. | |
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Grand strategy simulation games like Europa Universalis and Hearts of Iron are a good learning tools for historical geography, as they involve a whole lot of long-gone countries and specific regions of them, which you would normally require a specialised atlas to check. And in addition to that, they have a tendency to subtly guide the player towards an understanding of concepts such as geopolitics, the neo-realist theory of international relations, or colonialism and imperialism. | |
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Cinematic Excrement, in later episodes of the series, goes into more detail about the movies, their production, and other tidbits. | |
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Instead of watching 24-hour news networks, you can tune in to The Daily Show and The Colbert Report which satirize these programs, and still get a good chunk of pertinent information on whatever it is they report. The Daily Show is particularly notable for being a "better" news source than many mainstream American news channels like Fox News and MSNBC, with a survey showing that viewers who got their news primarily from the Daily Show were the best informed about political issues in the country. (Fox News viewers were the least informed.) Jon Stewart has even won journalistic awards for his work on the show, but was notably uncomfortable about this, acknowledging his success but stating that it's the "real" news media's job to be more informative than he is. | |
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The Big Bang Theory is a show about scientists, so naturally they will teach people physics, biology, and mathematics. In fact, the show goes out of its way to not only be scientifically accurate, but also display accurate equations and science on whiteboards. | |
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Scandinavia and the World and Polandball comics can teach foreign cultures and customs, history, and even vexillology (the study of flags). The latter is especially useful in Polandball, since the only way to recognize the characters in a given comic is by memorizing national and historical flags. The Polandball wiki includes a surprisingly thorough list of countries' relations with each other, giving you a one-stop shop to find out who hates whom and why all over the world. | |
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Knights of the Old Republic is based on one of the Dungeons and Dragons systems (specifically D20). Unlike in the tabletop game, all the maths is done by the computer, but the game makes up for this by featuring a lot of classic maths and logic puzzles, with name changes to fit the local aesthetic. The creators of the Star Forge apparently decided to defend the maps to their superweapon with seventh-grade-level math. | |
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Similarly, Kemono Friends and its predecessor video game were just fun stories about animal girls that occasionally had information about their base animals, but it really got people taking up an interest in the animal kingdom and some of the species featured on the show, to the point where some zoos owed their continued success to it. There is even a wiki that contains information about their real-life counterparts, correlating the characters and the animals. | |
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Similarly, early story arcs of The Order of the Stick used enough mechanics of 3rd edition Dungeons & Dragons to teach new readers the basics of the game, such as trying to explain armor penalties to Elan, and an entire strip dedicated to classes and features that use the 12-sided die. There was even a page where the characters debate whether to update the comic to 4th or 5th edition rules, concluding that they don't want to have to rewrite the tutorial strips or gags using now-outdated mechanics. | |
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Go on, ask any kid who grew up in the '90s where they learned the state capitals, the names of all the U.S. Presidents, the plots of The Godfather and Les Misérables, and the story of Ferdinand Magellan from. The answer is usually Animaniacs. | |
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The Metal Gear games are a unique example of a video game franchise that can teach you about nuclear weapons, ICBMs, firearms, mechanics, genetics, psychology, philosophy, Cold War politics, and foreign cultures and media. | |
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Moon Knight (2022) focuses on the protagonist Steven Grant learning he's an alter for Marc Spector and what it means to live with DID. It also led to the likes of Steven and Jake Lockley to be called "alters" (the correct term for someone with multiple personalities) on this very site. | |
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My Cousin Vinny, despite being a comedy, is noted for being one of the most accurate legal movies ever made. Attempting to pull off Courtroom Antics just ends up getting the main character in hot water more than once, and it accurately shows not only opening statements but how to effectively cross-examine a witness. It's notable that many actual law schools will show it to the class for them to dissect and learn from. | |
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Dwarf Fortress teaches how to make steel, the properties and types of different rocks, the use of potash in farming techniques, the true meaning of the serenity prayer, and how to plan around everybody you command being a complete moron. | |
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You can learn a lot about China's Three Kingdoms Period from Dynasty Warriors, and a lot about the Sengoku Era of Japan from Samurai Warriors... just as long as you remember to take it all with a grain of salt. If nothing else, you might get interested enough to look some of the characters up, just to see how much they were changed — and better yet, how much of the awesome, far-out stuff was actually real. | |
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If you know anything about life in Japan during the bubble economy back in the '80s, chances are you've played Yakuza 0. | |
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The Kane Chronicles covers Egyptian Mythology (and ancient Egypt in general). | |
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Neopets is a good way to teach economics to young kids, to the point where it has been studied in university courses as an example of a "perfect economy". Trading and bartering with Neopoints relates to the principles of exchange. The NPC-run shops and their fluid stocks teach supply and demand, and the user-run shops can teach arbitrage. Employment is 100% because anyone can play the games, and there's even a symbolic Stock Market. | |
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Things that can be learned from Avatar: The Last Airbender: Eastern philosophy and metaphysics, traditional Chinese characters, the length of a total solar eclipse (around 8 minutes), Western elements and cosmology, and a little bit about chakras (at least the names are accurate). | |
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Though not usually billed as educational, many Doraemon stories bring up trivia about science, nature, history, and culture, which often form the basis for plots or gadgets. | |
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KanColle might be a bit more well known of "cute girl with World War II ship parts," there has been plenty of comments on how fans learned more about the naval actions of the Pacific and Atlantic Ocean theatres, weaponry development of both land and sea, the various military officers and politicians, and history leading from World War I. "Come for the cute girls, stay for the naval war history" is something of a joke among fans. | |
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Band of Brothers is a pretty good history lesson for high school students who want to learn about World War II. There's some Artistic Licence – History, but for the most part it's a good representation of what happened, and it's often shown in high school history classes. | |
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V for Vendetta is, alongside The Dispossessed, a fine primer on anarchy. Fittingly, it doesn't provide any easy answers. How very anarchist of it. | |
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If you manage to decypher it, The Invisibles alone will at least make you knowledgable about Aztec and Australian mythology, Haitian Voodoo, quantum physics, the history of revolutions, classic literature, fringe science and conspiracy theories, English pop culture, the works of Terrence McKenna and Philip K. Dick and Buddhism. | |
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Player's handbook for Delta Green kindly provides a chapter on the structure of law enforcement agencies in the United States of America, as that's where the game is assumed to be set and what player characters assumed to be employed in, and the game relies heavily on the specific culture of US governmental agencies. As a result, if they aren't otherwise interested in the topic, non-American players may well end up with a better working understanding of the American law enforcement than that of their own countries. | |
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The Zombie Survival Guide guide lays out some pretty good basic survival tips and techniques when dealing with a disaster, even though said disaster will (almost) certainly not involve zombies. A few people have claimed to have used it during real natural disasters. It even includes the often underappreciated advice that not every disaster is an apocalypse and that the law should be respected for as long as it has any meaning — in other words, don't wish for a disaster so that you can show off your survivalist chops. | |
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Mass Effect is, at first glance, a Space Opera epic about a wo/man named Commander Shepard and his/her fight against extragalactic genocidal robots called Reapers. It also manages to explore scientific concepts like the Fermi paradox and evolution, socio-political concepts like globalism and racism, and literary concepts like Lovecraftian horror and the Byronic Hero, when you're not blowing up Eldritch Abominations or banging aliens. | |
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While the routes in Star of Africa were made up by the designer, the African cities featured in it are real and have served to teach children a bit of African geography. | |
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Phineas and Ferb may as well have defied a generation from asking "What the Heck Is an Aglet?" All thanks to one infectiously catchy song. | |
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In Our Miss Brooks this is unavoidable, given that the program is set in a High School and stars an English teacher. For example, in "The English Test", Miss Brooks tutors Harriet Conlin, Walter Denton and "Jerky" McGuirk for an upcoming examination. Connie Brooks covers such topics as "Concord and Governance", "Gerundial Phrases" and "Sentence Structure". Humour is provided by Walter and McGuirk trying to crib off Harriet. Similarly, the episode "Yodar Kritch Award" features Connie attempting to tutor Bones Snodgrass. Here, she covers the subjunctive mood, using the phrase "If I were John the Fisherman." This is a Sound-to-Screen Adaptation of the radio episode, only substituting Bones for his brother Stretch. Our Miss Brooks similarly covers scientific topics, due to the fact biology teacher Mr. Boynton is Miss Brooks' Love Interest. The episode "Life Can Be Bones" relies heavily on a discussion of paleontology. A good deal of time is also spent relating the idea of a "Missing Link". | |
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Boney M.'s song "Rasputin" tells the story of the titular preacher and faith healer, including his relationship to the family of the Tsar, and his assassination. | |
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Sabaton is a Power Metal band that sings almost entirely about historical battles. The fandom joke is that listening to their music would give them the basic essentials of historical battles and events (in particular, a good chunk of 17th century history with the Carolus Rex Concept Album). The band itself has fully embraced this, even starting a YouTube channel, Sabaton History, hosted by Indy "TimeGhost" Neidell (The Great War and World War II) in 2019. | |
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Impressions' City-Building Series from Caesar 3 onward included an extensive in-game encyclopedia, particularly expanded for Pharaoh and Emperor. On top of that, the campaigns in those games followed historical events and construction of famous landmarks as much as they could, with narration to each mission discussing real-life events and people. Plus, of course, the city-management aspect of it all. While never intended as edutainment, both Pharaoh and Emperor ended up on list of teaching aids approved by Ministries of Education across Europe. | |
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Gargoyles has a lot of references to the works of William Shakespeare, and the creator has said it has gotten quite a few kids interested in the Bard's work. Interestingly, its depiction of the historical Scottish king Macbeth is almost nothing like his depiction in Shakespeare's play on him— which is just as well, as Shakespeare's play was notoriously historically inaccurate (and kind of had to be for political reasons), while the show taught many viewers about the real history that inspired the play. | |
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God of War Ragnarök, and specifically its depiction of Thor, whose depicted as having Stout Strength instead of a Heroic Build as is typical in fictional depections, opened up a massive fan backlash, backlash to the backlash, and debate that turned into a rather unconventional fan experience when it comes to historical depictions of characters, differences between powerlifter and body builder physiques, and the actual purpose of fat. | |
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Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard covers Norse Mythology. | |
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As for the four Tasty Planet games, they feature not only a wide variety of biological subjects such as flora and fauna, they also feature various units of length (including astronomical units and parsecs), things that would be surprising for 8-year-olds (and up)note what the games are allegedly targeted at to learn. | |
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The Gundam franchise leans into fairly hard science fiction, with space colonies based on real concepts of producing Artificial Gravity through cylindrical rotation and using large mirrors for energy and light. They also, on occasion, include references to Lagrange Points where such colonies would naturally be deployed. | |
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NCIS has been called educational about the American justice system by showing an otherwise obscure government entity that is part of the morass that is the American Political System and how it interacts with that system. It still has to deal with police investigations, due process, search warrants, Miranda Rights, and the like. It was a particularly good primer for people in totalitarian regimes to see what the government should really look like. On a totally different tangent, it also teaches viewers about classic films because of Di Nozzo's constant references to them. | |
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The Lion King The franchise as a whole likely introduced a generation of children to many species of African wildlife such as hornbills, meerkats, warthogs, wildebeest and hyenas. This is particularly true with the Circle of Life segment. On a meta level, the original introduced to children the plot structure of Hamlet. |
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On a meta level, the original introduced to children the plot structure of Hamlet. | |
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In a similar vein as Watchmen, The Gilded Age—otherwise a fluffy period drama about the machinations of New York high-society ladies in the 1880s—includes a surprisingly detailed look at the well-off Black bourgeoisie that developed after Emancipation. | |
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Race for the Iron Throne by Steven Attewell is one of the most visited and popular fansites devoted to A Song of Ice and Fire. It is especially noted for its chapter-by-chapter commentary that provides a detailed and knowledgeable insight into the many Allohistorical Allusions, Fantasy Counterpart Cultures, and other meta-historical commentary used in the books, since the author is a policy historian who studied history in college. | |
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The series realized its full potential as a teaching tool somewhere around 2017, and fully embraced it; instead of just offering the text-based databanks of the previous games, Originsnote Set in Ancient Egypt, Odysseynote Set in Ancient Greece, and Valhallanote Set in Norway and England in the dark ages feature an entire new gamemode - "Discovery Tour" - that disables all combat and instead offers virtual tours about the settings' culture, architecture, mythology, noteworthy people and other relevant stuff. "Discovery tours" are outright marketed for the history buffs, and have even been used in academic settings by teachers. | |
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The riffing in Mystery Science Theater 3000 is packed with popular culture references, stagecraft notes, and trope deconstructions that can result in hours of research. The broader your frame of reference, the more rewarding the humor becomes, and the more you research their jokes, the broader your frame of reference will become. | |
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Extra Credits had an episode on "tangential learning" on the topic of how video games, rather than being the brain-rotting evil incarnate the Moral Guardians claimed, were in fact an easy way to learn various facts about many things depending on the plot in question. It didn't even need to be exact or in-depth to work, as, for example, God of War, despite its inconsistencies with actual Greek Mythology, could encourage someone to go and read about it, or Mass Effect could encourage someone to go and read a book about Dark Matter or the Galactic Core. | |
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The Good Place discusses multiple philosophical questions and introduces the viewer to many concepts in philosophy. In particular, T.M. Scanlon's What We Owe to Each Other experienced a large spike in searches and purchases, as the philosophy of contractualism is a running theme in the show. | |
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The Craft debunks a lot of misconceptions about witchcraft — the girls don't worship the devil, they worship nature, spells are more like prayer, they believe in the threefold lawnote Whatever spell you cast on someone else, you get back times three, and each coven has its own rules which are forbidden to outsiders. Of course, there's still a lot of Urban Fantasy in there, because it's more exciting. | |
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morphE happens to be set in the Mage: The Awakening universe. Reading through will give the audience a large amount of information required to be able to swiftly transition into the game proper. Spells, realms, and species are explained fairly well, and the comment section is always full of people explaining what had happened in the update and what different game mechanics could be applied. | |
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One Piece isn't even going to pretend to give you any massive insight into the real-world history of piracy, but it does make a lot of references to that history. Its allusions to both well-known and obscure real-life pirates makes the series a fairly comprehensive "who's-who", especially with regard to Blackbeard and the people associated with him — everything from his various aliases to the legend of the man who captured him having freakish invulnerability. It also takes the time to teach the viewer about deep sea currents as the Straw Hats approach Fish-Man Island. |
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Pokémon: Pokémon teaches you math. If your normal-type mon just used a base power 30 water-type attack on a foe Venusaur chopping 1/6 of its health, and you have another mon that outspeeds Venusaur but can be two-hit-KOed by it, and that mon is a fire-type with about the same special attack stat as your first mon and has a base power 30 fire-type attack, should you switch it in? (Answer: yes, because barring a miracle, you'll get to one-hit KO it.) But wait, what if your opponent knows all of that and will switch Venusaur out? Pokémon teaches you game theory. Due to the franchise's unique status as a text-based Eastern RPG aimed at children and the highest-grossing media franchise of all time, some studies have shown that playing the games improves literacy in young children. The 3rd-generation games teach visual braille while the player tries to unlock a set of Legendary Pokémon. However this doubles as a Guide Dang It! as players were unable to actually translate said braille without the use of either the box inserts or the Internet. Pokémon X and Y have a simulated photography minigame at certain landmarks, which teaches the player some of the basics about camera aperture width, focus length, and shutter speed. After all, if you're going to take a photo with the Ultimate Weapon mere moments before it's fired, you want to make sure it's a good one, right? |
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Futurama sometimes uses real-world scientific debates as the basis of its science fiction premises, which can introduce them to fans less familiar with the sciences. The episode "A Clockwork Origin", which satirizes the debate between creationism and evolution, includes quite a bit of information on Darwin's theory of evolution, with one scene taking the time to dispel the "missing link" argument in surprising detail. "The Prisoner of Benda" provides an actual mathematical theorem to resolve its body-switching plot. Episode writer and mathematician Ken Keeler included this theorem, dubbed "The Futurama Theorem," to help get young television viewers more interested in math. "All the Way Down" provides an entry-level explanation of the simulation hypothesis, with the crew drawing comparisons to the necessary restrictions on Farnsworth's simulation and the restrictive laws of physics. |
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Ms. Marvel features a Pakistani-American Muslim and her family and community, and focuses on The Partition of India as part of her family history. As one character states, "Every Pakistani family has a Partition story, and none of them are good"; but many Western / non-South Asian diaspora viewers admitted that this was the first time they had even heard of the Partition. | |
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The West Wing has this in spades for the political system and U.S. history. Not only have people have learned all sorts of obscure things about how the Presidency and government works by watching the show, but it has itself turned more than a few of its fans into real-life government nerds. | |
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NUMB3RS discusses math in every episode. | |
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Despite its cartoonish look and its reduced scale of the Solar System, Kerbal Space Program uses relatively accurate physics, giving players a basic overall knowledge of orbital mechanics. | |
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Daimos: Kyoshiro frequently quotes famous philosphers and authors, including Nietszche, Marx, Goethe, Shakespeare and Descartes, amongst others. Episode 27 has Dr. Izumi explain Tachyons to the viewer and try to prove that they exist. | |
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Nightwish has a few songs about evolutionary biology, starting with Return to the Sea on their first album to Procession on their eighth. | |
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From Hell is an exhaustively detailed look at late Victorian London, and thanks to the extensive footnotes of the complete edition, it often serves as a complete primer about Jack the Ripper and an introduction to psychogeography and fractal maths. | |
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Killing Bites' plot concerning half-human half-animal hybrids mainly serves as fuel for flashy, blood-soaked fights and Fanservice, but that doesn't take away from the fact that many of the attacks, skills, and even character personalities on display actually have a basis in zoology, with the show regularly cutting away from a fight to explain how a fighter's behavior or actions relates to the actual animal. | |
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My Dress-Up Darling ends up being this trope twice over: once for the intricacies, emotions, and struggles surrounding the growing Cosplay culture; and then (to a smaller yet equally-significant extent) towards the profession of making Hina Dolls. | |
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Robot Romance Trilogy: Voltes V: In some episodes, the characters go into detail about concepts such as Warp Theory, broken down in the simplest of terms for their target demographic of young children. The anime is also chock-full of references to the French Revolution. Daimos: Kyoshiro frequently quotes famous philosphers and authors, including Nietszche, Marx, Goethe, Shakespeare and Descartes, amongst others. Episode 27 has Dr. Izumi explain Tachyons to the viewer and try to prove that they exist. |
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is essentially the coolest literature major course you always wanted to attend. | |
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If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device is a very light-hearted and comedic take on Warhammer 40,000, but it does do a very good job of explaining the incredibly in-depth lore of the franchise. | |
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To save money, the original The Lone Ranger radio series used music in the public domain for its soundtrack. This meant that a generation of young children were introduced to classical music (especially the William Tell Overture) from listening to the adventures of their favorite hero. | |
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80 Days is based on Around the World in Eighty Days and requires the player to figure out how to tour a Steampunk version of the original novel's setting in eighty days. Do you know which city of Tehran, Kabul and Herat is the farthest to the east? If you don't, you'll be potentially wasting precious conversation time with a fellow traveler who will only be willing to tell you about so many travel routes before ending the discussion; the three are on the same train line in the game and which is asked about can affect how far the first trip on that train can take the player. | |
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Dodger by Terry Pratchett had a non-fiction spin-off called Dodger's Guide to London. But the novel itself is a pretty good guide to Victorian London. | |
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Spice and Wolf wasn't intended as edutainment about economics: that's purely Author Appeal. Doesn't change the fact that you'll still learn a lot the subject thanks to Hasekura's detailed depictions and discussions about medieval economy. | |
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Hamilton is essentially a biography of Alexander Hamilton in the form of a hip-hop musical and soundtrack. Its plot also covers numerous lesser-known events from the early history of the United States, like the Compromise of 1790 and the passage of the 12th Amendment. | |
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In a meta-context, the differences between the theatrical cut released in 2017 and the 2021 "Snyder Cut" of the Justice League movie (and the long road it took for the latter's release) served as this for people with regards to the ins and outs of the post-production process for movies, such as the differences between the "first cut", director's cut, assembly cut, and rough cut (all of which are entirely different things), as well as the weird world of Executive Meddling and how decisions in a studio's chain of command can shape, harm, or cancel film projects, and so on. In short, the movie had a notoriously Troubled Production, during which director Zack Snyder left shortly after post-production started due to a personal tragedy and Joss Whedon was brought on to finish the movie with reshot and rewritten scenes that even casual fans were able to identify (half of the footage shown in the trailers was not in the movie). Post-release, the "Snyder Cut" became a magnet for examinations in how small changes can snowball into significant alterations in the way scenes play out and the emotional impact when it comes to the order of events. While there were entire subplots, missing shots and deleted roles reinstated, the scenes that did play relatively similar to the theatrical release gave rise to numerous frame-by-frame comparisons. | |
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It'll be interesting to see how many Europeans learnt where countries were and their flags from watching the Eurovision Song Contest, and especially those since 1998, where each country was shown on a map before they voted. Similarly, people can learn about foreign countries from international competitions such as Miss World or the Olympics. |
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Several animated shows have taught children how to perform the Heimlich Maneuver, which is not only useful but potentially life-saving. Kids have saved lives from seeing the technique on SpongeBob SquarePants, Pair of Kings, and Hey Arnold!note In the latter's case, the girl who performed it and the friend she saved both got invited to tour Nickelodeon studios. In one particularly interesting instance, The Simpsons episode "Homer at the Bat" saved at least two lives with its depiction of the Heimlich maneuver. | |
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Animal Crossing. Blathers, if you listen to him, can become a wellspring of knowledge concerning certain fish, insects, fossils, and in future games, even art that you bring to him. All this in a game meant for children? | |
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Automation is intended to be an automobile company tycoon game, but the game has such detailed modeling of car design that the in-game tutorials are basically just really good educational videos. | |
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Therion has a lot of concept albums about ancient mythology, as well as one about the history of astronomy focused around the time of Copernicus/Galilei. | |
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The Total War series can teach a gamer quite a lot about the different periods of history, despite various inaccuracies. Some mods like Europa Barbarorum (for Rome: Total War) have been created with the help of university professors and the like, thus going so far as to teach the audience about economics, politics, and even languages of the ancient world. | |
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Minecraft is basically a treatise on the location and allocation of natural resources disguised as a video game. Learning how to use redstone is a good way to learn boolean algebra. If you have enough time and patience, you can create a calculator or even a computer (if a basic one) out of blocks and redstone. | |
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The episode "The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000" of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic teaches quite a lot about economics: public relations, supply and demand, quality control, artificial scarcity, and the effect of competition on markets are just a few of the things you'll learn here that you'll only revisit in high school. | |
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Todd in the Shadows' Trainwreckords series looks at albums that absolutely flopped, generally ones that killed or had a hand in killing the creators' careers. However, Todd doesn't just look at the music, he adds in a ton of background information about the musicians, their careers, the music scene at the time and so on. As a result, watching his videos will give you a decent amount of knowledge about the artists, including a lot of stuff that has nothing to do with the album the video's about. | |
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Ellen Brock is a YouTuber with lots of helpful advice for aspiring authors in how to edit their work themselves, what to put in an email to agents and publishers and what mistakes to avoid. | |
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Despite his channel being dedicated to counting kills in horror movies, James A. Janisse of The Kill Count also takes the time to talk about how the director achieved certain effects using and combination of makeup, practical effects, and CGI | |
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The Wire demonstrated, in one episode, that gambling can be used to teach probability math. In fact, if The Drunkard's Walk is to be believed, gambling is probably the only reason probability math was invented. It also offers some excellent advice on how to avoid electronic surveillance and self-incrimination when you get arrested, and police departments have complained about this before. | |
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Fort Minor's song "Remember the Name" no doubt caused many 2000s children and teenagers to remember their percentages. | |
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While Dragon Ball does not even pretend to accurately portray martial arts, it does convey "achievement through effort" fairly well. Rigorous training is not only shown to be beneficial, but also repetitive, boring, frustrating, and incredibly time consuming. Achievement in one's field comes at the expense of other admirable life pursuits, and the unhealthiness of being too single-minded is explored. Finally, perseverance is shown to have diminishing returns without rest and recovery. Reading Dragon Ball doesn't teach self defense, but one can take lessons away from how to go about learning or improving in any number of pursuits. | |
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Some people credit their interest in mythology and historical figures entirely on the Nasuverse, specifically the Fate franchise. While there are inconsistencies with how each figure is portrayed, many people learn about international folklore and the heroic figures that come from them through the characters that show up as Heroic Spirits or Counter Guardians. | |
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The Jungle Book, in a similar fashion to The Lion King, informed Western audiences of many species of Indian wildlife such as sloth bears and Indian pythons. | |
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Cities: Skylines will teach you a lot about infrastructure planning, from healthcare and education provision, through urban development, to planning for the disposal of sewage and corpses. | |
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Iron Maiden would like to present an introductory lecture on the life and times of Alexander The Great. And for those who don't have time to read Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the band's got you covered with some awesome Cliff's Notes. | |
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Similarly, Smite introduced some gamers to some more obscure gods and other figures from different mythologies, because while the game has some (relatively) commonly known figures like Zeus, Thor, and Ra, it also has figures that are less well-known in some parts of the world, like Olorun, a Bake-Kujira, and Ah Muzen Cab. | |
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Iced Earth's epic Gettysburg Trilogy has quite a bit of information about the three days of battle, with each song focusing on one day. | |
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Serge Storms: Aside from the graphic bloodshed and sex, the series can act as a travelogue of sorts for people who want to learn more about Florida due to Serge and Coleman going on road trips across lesser-known parts of the state and observing the sights, landmarks, and people while Serge endlessly chats about Florida's history. | |
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Some Mirror's Edge players have taken to passively theorize freerunning routes. | |
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Arrival is quite possibly the most detailed primer on language ever put to film. It's also wildly entertaining. | |
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Both Age of Empires and Civilization are seen as a more interesting way of learning about history and technological developments. Civilization in particular is notable for its Civilopedia, from which you can learn a great deal. However, the Civilization series is often cited for creating and perpetuating the misconception that technological development is linear and various stages of it are inevitable logical conclusions, much to the chagrin of anyone even remotely familiar with anthropology and history. |
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Honoo no Alpen Rose is set in Switzerland before the outbreak of World War II and is a goldmine of Swiss culture and history — Henri Guisan was indeed a real person who opposed the Nazis, and the story correctly shows that they speak German and French there. If you were a kid in Italy/the Middle East during The '80s, this was probably your first introduction to Switzerland's role in the Second World War. The story also highlights the financers of the arms manufacturing during the war, and name-drops Basil Zaharoff. | |
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Some of the real world settings in the GURPS line are described in sourcebooks with a level of detail and accuracy comparable to that of a high school history textbook. Moreover, they're also good at explicitly separating myth and history. Moreover, source books like High/Low-Tech are great looks into the technology of a given era, and Space is practically an astrophysics primer. |
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While still a game, M.U.L.E. teaches a lot about economics, including supply and demand, what happens if someone controls a monopoly (especially on, say, Food), and shows the effects of certain crises (e.g. pirate ships, planetquakes, "Fire in Store") and the economics of such. It even teaches a bit on the Prisoner's Dilemma — for example, if every player decides to "defect" and backstab one another, or greedily hunt for Crystite, everyone loses. | |
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Ace Attorney is a weird case — while the law is frigging complicated, and it depicts a legal system that is very different from the American adversarial system commonly seen on TV, it is apparently a good crash course on the Japanese legal system and is a good enough primer on evidence law that law schools there (and in countries with similar systems) have been known to teach it. | |
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The Hey Arnold! episode "School Play", where Mr. Simmons' class puts on a production of Romeo and Juliet, puts a surprising amount of work into accurately depicting the plot and characters of the play, and likely served as an introduction to Shakespeare for many kids of the '90s. Notably, Mr. Simmons actually takes the time to teach the kids (and the audience) about some of the lesser-known aspects of the play, dispelling the popular notion that it's nothing but Romeo and Juliet exchanging sappy romantic banter with each other. | |
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In Uncle Albert's Adventures, putting an animal on the scanner reveals real life information about said animal that aren't useful for the games. Given that these games are marketed toward children, it may teach them alot about animal biology. | |
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Some historically based strategy board games can really help in history class, including Here I Stand (wars of the Reformation), Twilight Struggle (the Cold War), and World in Flames (World War II). | |
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From reading the Aubrey-Maturin books by Patrick O'Brian, you'd think they were written during the Age of Sail. They weren't — O'Brian just did that much research on the era. | |
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While MacGyver (1985) often beefed up the plot with different Artistic License and Rule of Cool (and censoring details on the more destructive ones), the general idea and basic science behind various gizmos and improvisations made by Mac always checked out. The real-life results might not be as impressive (as checked by listed above MythBusters), but they still end up happening. And even ignoring the solutions themselves, the series sure as hell promoted outside-of-box thinking and ad-hoc solutions to problems. | |
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Of The Camp Half-Blood Series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians covers Greek Mythology, while The Heroes of Olympus and The Trials of Apollo cover Greek and Roman mythology (along with Roman history) at the same time. | |
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Legion (2017), based on the Marvel comics, while surreal and very Mind Screwy at times, has a great deal of episodes that are basically lectures and studies in psychology and psychoanalysis, from the basics like depression to the most complicated, like actual personality disorders and mental health. | |
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The Sabrina the Teenage Witch episode "Sabrina The Teenage Writer" has a lot of useful advice for people who want to write fiction: Basing characters off real people is not a substitute for Character Development, don't force the ending, unexpected twists that make no sense aren't good writing, make sure the characters know why they're doing what they're doing, and making something more realistic for the sake of it doesn't automatically make things better. | |
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The Assassin's Creed series fit this nicely. The buildings you climb in particular are quite accurate to reality, and the menus usually include factual information about them. Basically everyone but the main protagonists are real people, although they're often highly fictionalised. This is handwaved within the series by saying the Templars wrote the history books (and encouraged people to learn about them too). Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag made many fans become revisionists of pirate history overnight, and its use of sea shanties as accompaniment also exposed many of tunes to non-folklore specialists. The series realized its full potential as a teaching tool somewhere around 2017, and fully embraced it; instead of just offering the text-based databanks of the previous games, Originsnote Set in Ancient Egypt, Odysseynote Set in Ancient Greece, and Valhallanote Set in Norway and England in the dark ages feature an entire new gamemode - "Discovery Tour" - that disables all combat and instead offers virtual tours about the settings' culture, architecture, mythology, noteworthy people and other relevant stuff. "Discovery tours" are outright marketed for the history buffs, and have even been used in academic settings by teachers. |
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Pokémon X and Y have a simulated photography minigame at certain landmarks, which teaches the player some of the basics about camera aperture width, focus length, and shutter speed. After all, if you're going to take a photo with the Ultimate Weapon mere moments before it's fired, you want to make sure it's a good one, right? | |
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The children's book series Horrible Harry is many young readers' first introduction to Korean culture. One of the main characters, Song Lee, is Korean-American, and many aspects of her culture are referenced in the books. They're also accurate and well-researched. | |
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WarioWare Gold: Discussed and exploited. With Fronk's nudging, 9-Volt finds he can answer his math homework questions easily by rewording them as RPG problems (for example: If you have 100 health and you get hit for 56 damage, how much health do you have left?) | |
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Voltes V: In some episodes, the characters go into detail about concepts such as Warp Theory, broken down in the simplest of terms for their target demographic of young children. The anime is also chock-full of references to the French Revolution. | |
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Medal of Honor and other First Person Shooters set in World War II can teach younger players about the time period, along with a few bits of questionable accuracy and a heavy dose of America Won World War II. World War II strategy games are also likely to get players interested in the facets of tactics and strategy within the war's history, especially if it's the kind of game to avert Easy Logistics. | |
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Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth is equally confusing but equally rewarding. Those who carefuly dissect it will find a highly detailed study on Jungian psyche (Emphasis on the Shadow), the holographic principle, Egyptian mythology, Tarot, paleochristianism or the Kabbalah. | |
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