The Best PSA's of All-Time!!!

[boogiemink]

This has got to be number one, but I'm sure you all have some good ones to share as well!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Elr5K2Vuo

[oldhousescott]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE7ukc7MV-k

[A-Bone]

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The funny thing is that these PSAs seem to have increased the frequency with which teens tried drugs. According to social science surveys done at the time, the D.A.R.E. program was a major contributing factor to a general uptick in experimentation with drugs among teens.

[boogiemink]

I stand corrected...this may take the cake. WTH?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK_jDA3qrUU

[A-Bone]

This was always one of my favorites:

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If drugs are not a part of his every day life, does that mean he reserves them for weekends, special occasions?

[JRC4558Dude]

http://confidencekillers.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/jacqui_poster1.jpg

[gag halfrunt]

The funny thing is that these PSAs seem to have increased the frequency with which teens tried drugs. According to social science surveys done at the time, the D.A.R.E. program was a major contributing factor to a general uptick in experimentation with drugs among teens.
This is completely untrue, and is another urban legend that continues to be repeated without any substantiation. Drug use increased in the 80s in spite of DARE, not because of it.

Isn't this the all-time. most memorable PSA?

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[Flyin' Brian]

http://confidencekillers.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/jacqui_poster1.jpg

If that doesn't make an impact on people, they're unconscious.

Frightening and sad.

[cram]

IF A GIRL CAN DO IT, A GUY CAN TOO... YOU CAN DO ANYTHING YOU WANT TO DO!!!!

- SHA NA NA.

I couldn't find the youtu be clip. I used to mock them as a child because they'd have some scene on the stoop -
"Hey JOEY!! Whatcha' doin over there with that stuff???"
"Aww guys, I'm just doing some Crochet work for this sweater."
"Isn't that GIRL'S stuff???"
"No man, I'm getting pretty good at doin' this and it's ok for me to do it."

Then they'd bust into the tag line for the psa..

[travisvwright]

If that doesn't make an impact on people, they're unconscious.

Frightening and sad.I'm struggling with the premise that dying and ending this girls life would have been a better outcome. Seems to completely discredit her worth as a person. "Short people got no reason to live" I guess.

[desceneisvals]

"Drugs is not a part of my every day routine..."

[pi22seven]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogEtfIdgjpY

[JRC4558Dude]

I'm struggling with the premise that dying and ending this girls life would have been a better outcome. Seems to completely discredit her worth as a person. "Short people got no reason to live" I guess.

I don't think the idea is that death would be a "better outcome," it's more that drunk driving accidents can cause terrible suffering for their victims.

[mcknigs]

I'm struggling with the premise that dying and ending this girls life would have been a better outcome. Seems to completely discredit her worth as a person. "Short people got no reason to live" I guess.

I don't think the point is supposed to be the value of that girl's life. The idea is to have the teenage audience (at which the ad is targetted) picture themselves in that situation. The premise of the ad is that teenagers have a tendency to think that drinking and driving crashes result in death for those involved and that, as bad as it may be to be killed, at least that would be the end of it and they wouldn't have to deal with the outcome. Perhaps considering the possibility of going through life looking like the girl in the poster will cause teens to modify their behavior.

[edit] put another way, the idea of "dying young and leaving a good-looking corpse" may hold a certain romantic appeal for some. This ad suggests that that's not necessarily going to be the outcome.

-Scott

[Bobby D]

one good reason not to drink:

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[The Last Rebel]

I stand corrected...this may take the cake. WTH?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK_jDA3qrUU
That commercial makes VD sound like fun!

[Frankee]

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[Frankee]

That commercial makes VD sound like fun!

Yeah, it does!

http://www.tonyrogers.com/humor/images/motivationalposters/hepatitis.jpg

[Jon Silberman]

This has got to be number one, but I'm sure you all have some good ones to share as well!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Elr5K2Vuo
It's scary how much the dad in that video looks like me (seriously - he could be my brother!).

[Frankee]

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[blood5150]

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Amazing.

[desceneisvals]

Amazing.

Wow.

[Peppy]

Isn't this the all-time. most memorable PSA?

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It is indeed.

[DetSlicker]

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When did Gary Bettman do a PSA?:D

[DaveF]

This has got to be number one, but I'm sure you all have some good ones to share as well!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Elr5K2Vuo

I used to say that to my dad all the time when he'd ask me questions. "I learned it from watching you". man did that piss him off.

Here's my favorite:

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[jscorno]

I'm afraid the Canadians have you all beat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwCyVku1HvI

[The Last Rebel]

I'm afraid the Canadians have you all beat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwCyVku1HvI
I'm just going to sit in my closet for the rest of my life.

[Guts]

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So my brain on drugs is delicious?

[Frankee]

I'm afraid the Canadians have you all beat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwCyVku1HvI

BS alert!

Everyone knows there's no black-guys in Canada.

[2leod]

BS alert!

Everyone knows there's no black-guys in Canada.

Well...


I guess not any more!

:)





I'm feeling all Cliff Claven like -


Black history in Canada (http://blackhistorycanada.ca/index.php?lang=en)

[gag halfrunt]

I'm afraid the Canadians have you all beat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwCyVku1HvI

Wow, those are pretty good.

[59Vampire]

one good reason not to drink:

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RIP King. Unfortunately he was probably strung out :(---On a side note the dudes from Ratt really let him die a lonely death. So my public announcement as an alcoholic is don't give up on your friends no matter how down and out they get.


Now, my favorite one as a child was from the Latter day saints with the grandp and the boy fishing and the boy saying something about Timmy, his Jewish friend. And the grandpa explaianing that people are the same no matter wht the beif system is or some stuff like that!

[iamdavea]

This hasn't been posted? So famous, it was the basis for a great wisecrack on MST3000:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmzDLzqQ-A0

[phoenix 7]

http://confidencekillers.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/jacqui_poster1.jpg

That's one of the most horrible things I've seen in a while.

Isn't this the all-time. most memorable PSA?

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Yup. I remember this from when I was a little kid. There was a scene of him walking in the forest - maybe rowing in a canoe? Then he comes out on a hilltop overlooking an interstate highway and someone throws a bag of fast food garbage out a car window. Then the close up with the tear. The guy who played the native American was actually Jewish. A powerful PSA nonetheless.

[CrazyYoshi73]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNaHUxi6H-U

[tone4days]

I used to say that to my dad all the time when he'd ask me questions. "I learned it from watching you". man did that piss him off.

Here's my favorite:

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hysterical, but a VERY NSFW warning wouldve been nice

[mcknigs]

This hasn't been posted? So famous, it was the basis for a great wisecrack on MST3000:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmzDLzqQ-A0

I almost posted that one myself. Actually I was looking for the one where the cigarette smoking cowboys come into a bar looking for a guy. One says "We figured (cough) you'd be here (cough, cough)" and they all start coughing from their cigarettes and are helpless as the guy they came for walks past them out the front doors. I would have thought it would be easy to find but no...

-Scott

[Peppy]

That's one of the most horrible things I've seen in a while.



Yup. I remember this from when I was a little kid. There was a scene of him walking in the forest - maybe rowing in a canoe? Then he comes out on a hilltop overlooking an interstate highway and someone throws a bag of fast food garbage out a car window. Then the close up with the tear. The guy who played the native American was actually Jewish. A powerful PSA nonetheless.

Italian. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Eyes_Cody The infamous "Iron Eyes Cody".

[SGNick]

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[cram]

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I can't figure whether it's a good thing to have a guy known for odd comedic delivery doing PSA's.. I mean, I was expecting him to throw something in there about how to survive a bear attack, but then again: maybe that's the reason the producer had him do it.

[mcknigs]

I can't figure whether it's a good thing to have a guy known for odd comedic delivery doing PSA's.. I mean, I was expecting him to throw something in there about how to survive a bear attack, but then again: maybe that's the reason the producer had him do it.

The cast of the office did a bunch of these PSAs that were intended as parodies of "The More You Know..." series. I belive this is one.

[The Last Rebel]

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Which bear is best?

[Shiny McShine]

I'm struggling with the premise that dying and ending this girls life would have been a better outcome. Seems to completely discredit her worth as a person. "Short people got no reason to live" I guess.

I wouldn't assume to make that choice for anyone else but if it were me, I'd ask for them to not make the effort to keep me alive. However, maybe she had kids and needed to stick around for them. In that sense, her life may be full and have purpose despite this horrific disfigurement.

[boogiemink]

Wow, I'm convinced...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIgZHZpiq1U&feature=related

[A-Bone]

This is completely untrue, and is another urban legend that continues to be repeated without any substantiation. Drug use increased in the 80s in spite of DARE, not because of it.

I am afraid not. At least according to some actual survey work done at the time by one of the most credible organizations tracking drug use among children. There a pronounced and otherwise unexplainable correlative relationship between D.A.R.E. kids and increased use of dugs. It is likely not the single cause, but what I reported is decidedly not "urban legend."

The following is an excerpt from Ryan Grim's new book, "This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America" (Wiley, 2009).

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"For most of American history, drug-use trends among younger and older people have moved roughly in harmony -- if not to the same degree, then at least in the same direction. The late sixties were an exception: use rose first among college students and then increased among high schoolers and the rest of the country. Since then, young people have been the leading indicator of drug trends.

The next deviation was in the nineties. In 1991, eighth-graders, according to their answers to the University of Michigan Monitoring the Future survey category concerning "any illicit drug," started getting high more often. But no other segment of the population did (emphasis added). The next year, eighth-, tenth-, and twelfth-graders all showed increases in use, while college-student and adult use remained largely flat. The trend continued over the next few years, as middle- and high-school students continued to show more drug use while older groups’ use remained steady.

By 1996, tenth-graders were doing more drugs than their adult counterparts. In 1997, their use equaled that of college students; by 1998, it had eclipsed college-age use. The wave broke that year, as eighth-graders finally reported a decline in drug use. As those younger kids grew up, they took their temperate ways with them, and at the very end of the decade, use among tenth- and twelfth-graders took a downturn. By 2004, tenth-graders were once again using drugs less often than college students and adults. The party didn’t completely die down, however: Twelfth-grade use, even while eighth- and tenth-grade use fell, stayed roughly constant.

The Michigan researchers who first noticed the trend call it a "cohort effect." The pattern is clearly visible moving through the charts over time. Take cocaine use: among eighth-graders, it rose from 1991 to 1998; among tenth- and twelfth-graders, from 1992 until 1999; among college students, beginning in 1994; and among young adults, starting in 1996. Clearly, these are the same people doing coke.

Understanding why begins with recognizing that the survey numbers are only a partial reflection of the reality of drug distribution and consumption.

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If the availability and price of a drug are constant yet its use goes up or down, it means that a couple of different things could be happening. Perhaps a new drug has hit the streets and has begun to corner the market on a particular kind of high. Or maybe the change isn’t economic but cultural, with changes in use reflecting new levels of approval or disapproval for a certain substance.

The forces that drive these phenomena can be captured only roughly by the Michigan survey, which asked kids about their personal disapproval of using a drug even once, and about the amount of perceived risk associated with taking a drug. If an antidrug campaign actually works, surveys should first show attitudes hardening against the drug, then a decline in its use. In a pro-drug environment, attitudes will soften -- users will see less risk in trying a drug once and will disapprove of it less -- and then, a few years later, use will predictably rise.

The survey also measures "perceived availability," which can affect drug trends as well. Many younger users, studies have shown, get their drugs from other casual users, rather than from a specific dealer. So when there are more casual users of a drug, there are more sources for other casual users. As use declines, those sources disappear and the trend feeds on itself, further bringing use down. When use of a drug goes down among a group of casual users, perceived availability follows it. However, if perceived availability declines at the same time as, or before, a registered drop in use, then the reduction is probably supply- rather than demand-driven.

In the early nineties, kids reported that the supply of their favorite drugs was steady. It was demand that was up.

In a span of five years in the early nineties, "personal disapproval" of marijuana fell by a fifth. Disapproval dropped first for eighth-graders, a year before their use increased, and the same pattern held for the older kids. The number of young people who thought that the drug is dangerous also dropped significantly. Both beliefs are leading indicators in the survey: when kids don’t disapprove and aren’t afraid of a given drug, a rise in use is on the way.

The high-school class of 1996 was the first one to increase its use of drugs since the across-the-boards decline of the eighties. That group of students had entered kindergarten around 1983, the same year that the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program, now D.A.R.E. America, was founded by Los Angeles Police Department chief Daryl Gates."

You can read more here: http://www.alternet.org/drugs/141104/this_is_your_country_on_drugs:_how_the_dare_genera tion_got_high/

[pokey]

Geddy Lee & Toboggan PSA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwpGXfHmY-A

[The Golden Boy]

Can't see the YouTubes right now- is the Steve Jones one somewhere in there?

[A-Bone]

Can't see the YouTubes right now- is the Steve Jones one somewhere in there?

"Drugs suck!"

I tried to find it on Youtube, but so far have not had any luck.

[Whiskeyrebel]

Please excuse me if this is a rehash, but the you tube embeds are blocked at work and I can't tell what videos have been posted.

I could swear that when I was a grade school kid in the 70s, this PSA that used to come on during Saturday cartoons:

A famous athlete is in a school gym with a whole bunch of grade school kids explaining the importance of a good breakfast. He talks about how skipping breakfast makes you "run out of gas" at which point he and all the kids flop on the floor. The tagline was "Running out of gas gets you nowhere fast".

Unless I'm suffering from a BooBerry hallucination, the athlete was OJ Simpson. But I can find exactly zero about that PSA anywhere on the web.

I also used to love the "time for Timer" nutrition cartoons. There was a couple full length specials with the Timer guy but they also seem to have vanished into the ether.

[dohootowl]

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Just a very nice one and apropo to TGP, I think.