trite, feelgood, preachy, meretricious shit
I thought I liked XKCD for its wittiness. I think I still do. But here's something that managed to pull back some of the pretty dressing from XKCD :)
http://plover.net/~bonds/asdf.html
As always, the last word is in the tooltip! :))
PS: I have no idea what "meretricious" means.