Moral of the story:

And the moral of this story is?

The moral of the story is this:

The moral of the story is...

Now, what is the moral of the story?

The moral of the story is... the adults always win.

Morals are like lessons, like the moral of a story.

Do you know the moral of that story?

Why not? It's the moral of this story:

Because Lionel and then Lex got the moral of the story wrong.