Edutainment means shows that blend an entertaining story with educational material. For example, The Magic School Bus tells stories while also teaching about science.
There are educational shows for adults, they’re usually called documentaries. But any that blend educational material with fiction? I guess an argument can be made that biographical films fall into this category but they usually take creative liberties and aren’t fully historically accurate. An argument can also be made for medical dramas and legal dramas, but I’m not sure how accurate the medical and legal information in them is. Of course, The Magic School Bus also takes creative liberties and has inaccurate science, but there’s always a segment at the end explaining where they took creative liberties.
How I Met Your Mother kind of had the vibe of a kids show that teaches moral lessons, but for adults. Edit for clarity: the reason I bring this up is I consider “moral of the week” a genre closely related to edutainment but not quite the same thing
Edit: now that I’m thinking about it, I guess Jeopardy and other trivia based game shows could qualify as edutainment. They’re not fictional, but they do blend entertainment and education
It used to be exclusively what was on Discovery, History and TLC. Even when it was The Hitler Channel, at least they were still educating people on actual history.
Now they’re all crammed full of bullshit “reality” TV or pseudoscientific garbage. Ancient Aliens is what qualifies as adult edutainment now. Real history mixed with absolute marlarkay.
As fof “moral of the week” for adults, I immediately thought of Moral Orel from Adult Swim. But it’s not on the air anymore.
Not familiar with Moral Orel. Yeah Ancient Aliens is the worst. Their whole argument fir Ancient aliens is they think ancient humans were too stupid to do anything
Moral Orel is great. It’s a parody of Davey and Goliath but it’s dark and kinda fucked up. If you don’t know what Davey & Goliath was: Old claymation show about a boy and his dog that taught Christian values to children.
Sounds interesting