Is everyone else cracking up at these anti-drug commercials as much as I am?
More info please… I’m not sure if I’ve seen the one you’re talking about. However I did use to lmao at an older one where two really cute high school girls where whining becuase nobody asked them out for the prom and the comercial made seem the reason why they didn’t get asked out was because they smoked pot.:rolleyes: Uh… yeah buddy thats how it works in the real world.
It makes you wonder if these f’rs even research wtf they are talking about.
I’m kinda laughing at them too, especially that one.
Only one really disturbs me and that’s the rape one…
I recall one that alternately made me chuckle and curse most foully, a whole bunch of years ago.
'Twas an anti-pot commercial, specifically. I recall only the very end of it, with the camera shooting from the POV of a patient on an operating table. The surgeon tokes a couple times on a little pin joint (the bit that made me chuckle) giggles, and says to the nurse, “Now let’s see if I can still make a straight incision.” The tagline after the screen fades to black: Still Think It’s Harmless Now?
Well, duh, you dipshit. I wouldn’t want a surgeon toking up right before my operation any more than I’d want him pounding down shots of bourbon, but that doesn’t make either one good or bad relative to the real world. Stupid.
Incidentally, what’s the meat of the one in the OP? Don’t think I’ve seen it.
If I recall correctly it’s a couple of guys sitting around smoking pot and talking about random things. The one guys sister wanders past and gives them a funny look before going on. The friend then says that line and he replies.
It’s been a bit since I saw that one so I could be mistaken. Lemme go google it to see.
I saw it for the first time today, it’s part of a new line that follow a pretty similar line of reasoning to the one you mention, Skeezix. The “Harmless?” tagline is the key. They all show a repeated sequence of a couple people smoking up and saying really dumb things before something bad happens at the end. The first one I saw was of two guys in a public restroom (school bathroom seemed to be implied) smoking a joint or something and saying stupid stuff. After about 5 repetitions the door slams open and a gruff voice says “freeze” or something. Then the typical fade-to-black and the word ‘Harmless?’ and an additional slogan like ‘marijuana can get you busted,’ I think it was.
Again, duh. Wow, smoking joints at school might not be the best idea. Story at 11.
The one from the OP is a shot of two early-teenage boys sitting in a nice den, one in an easy chair with his back to the camera holding a bong emitting a prodigious amount of smoke (upon a second viewing, this forever-flowing bong is almost as funny as the rest of the ad), and again the repetitious fade-ins to shots of the two kids saying stupid things. The penultimate exchange is captured in the threat title. In the last one, the kid in the chair behind the desk has a gun and the other kid (the one with the bong, who, incidentally, is never seen to release his stranglehold on it) says “cool… is that loaded?”
Whereupon the other kid says “no” and then accidentally shoots the first kid. Fade-to-black, “Harmless?” and “marijuana can cloud your judgement.”
It just cracks me up. Plus I keep thinking about what the implications would be if the gun never came up and the “Dude… your sister’s hot” was the last exchange before the moral is imparted. Say Nope To Dope! Your brain will Rot… and you’ll think your friend’s sister is Hot! Only losers use drugs. But it takes a real moron to get high and hit on his friend’s sister.
No, I think the OP’s talking about the one where the kids are hitting a bong in what looks like one of their parents’ home libraries. One’s sitting behind the desk, and they’re blearily talking. After the conversation about the aforementioned sister, the one behind the desk pulls out a gun and starts pointing it around.
“Watch where you’re waving that,” quoth Stoner #1.
“Oh, it’s unloa…” BAM
Yeah, it’s retarded.
Ahh yes those ones. There are so many that I see lately that I can’t keep track. Plus I mix up the anti-smoking ones with the anti-pot ones a little. (Well only one of them)
Like I said the rape one is the most disturbing for me, because they are supposedly on a couch in the middle of a party. I’m pretty sure someone else would notice something was up.
Thanks, y’all. I have actually seen that one, but I only remembered the final bit, with the loaded pistol.
The idea, of course, is that if these kids’ drug of choice was something legal, they’d never have access to it at that age, because no one under the legal age ever got their hands on a six pack, or a fifth. And no adult under the influence of a drug legal or illegal ever did anything stupid, either.
:rolleyes:
And of course, the only logical counter-arguement is to quickly make the stuff (pot, in this case) legal, so that these kids couldn’t lay hands on any. It’d all be reserved for the law-abinding, tax-and-tariff-paying responsible citiznes.
Yeesh.
OTOH, the commercial could be pointing out that guns are bad to have around, or ammunition for same. Or, if you’re such an idiot you leave a loaded weapon somewhere that anyone besides yourself can get at it with a minimum of fuss, you deserve to have your kid blow his best friend away.
But, gee, that’d be stupid.
Remember the “this is your brain” (egg), “this is your brain on drugs” (egg in frying pan) commercial?
Some of you are too young, of course (I think that one was from the mid-1980s), but it sounds like the level of intelligence of anti-drug messages hasn’t improved over time. Maybe they should have warning labels: “Being an anti-drug activist can be harmful to your brain.”
I remember those… along with some of the cheesier cartoons warning kids not to eat bad things
“Don’t you put it in your mouth Don’t you put it in your mouth Don’t stuff it in your face…” etc etc I could type up the whole song here I still remember it that well!
I had this as a great poster when I was a student, but with the addition of “this is your brain with a side order of bacon”.
The one that pisses me off the most is the one where the guy gets busted in the bathroom. The tagline, of course, is “Harmless?”
The thing is, everything that happens to him IS harmless. The only thing that isn’t harmless wasn’t caused by the pot, or his decisions, but by the law. By the same logic, I could outlaw carrots, show a bunch of guys eating carrots in a concert bathroom, and then show a CEA (Carrot Enforcement Agency) officer burst in and arrest him. All the ad would show is how stupid the law is, not how dangerous carrots are! I really don’t see what message they’re trying to get across.
[Mr T]
Don’t do school! Stay in drugs!
[/Mr T]
Then it would end with “Any questions?” The perfect opening for endless sarcasm.
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Yeah, can I get some some hash browns with that?
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Yeah, what the fuck are you trying to say, my brains are made of chicken eggs? Dude, are you high?
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Yeah, drugs actually apply heat to my cranium? Dude, are you high?
etc…
some 40 years ago I saw an anti-dope ad something like, “Dope is so good…don’t even try it once.” I thought it was effective, but I never saw it again.
A lot of people (including me) are bothered by the “pot leads to rape” PDA. Apparently, Partnership For A Drug-Free America has gotten so many emails about it they’ve gotten a line of canned responses to complaints. That bothers me even more. (But not as much as them showing these moronic things during Channel One which shouldn’t be an ad-based service but that’s a whole nother rant).
One LiveJournal community is encouraging its members to keep emailing PDFA and its sponsors to get them to take that ad off the air. They’ve posted a lot of links to the offenders in question.
Top Five Sponsors mit Links to Feedback Pages
On a related tangent, why hasn’t PDFA and other “Don’t do drugs, mmmkay?” organizations realized how truly idiotic their ads are? If I were younger and inclined to such things, those ads would make me want to do drugs.
- Who wants a raw egg?
The sheer stupidity of the anti-drug ads make me wonder if the people who made them were on drugs. 
(Nah…if they were, the ads would probably be more creative.)
The worst part about the rape one is that they say “Pot impairs your judgement.”
BUT you CLEARLY hear the girl saying “no…”
Who’s judgement is impaired? The guy? I think that goes a but beyond “impairment”.
Thank You! I saw that one and at first I laughed, then I got really pissed. That’s more of a “Hey, if she’s passed out and you have sex with her it’s called Rape” commercial or a “Hey, just because she’s intoxicated, doesn’t mean you should rape her” commercial, or a “Hey boys, see what just happened? Well, it may look like fun, but it’s called rape and it’s a bad thing!”
That little slime ball looks right into the camera, then proceeds to tell the girl to shut up while he fondles her. That’s not anti-marijuana it should be anti-rape.
You guys just don’t know how many girls I’ve spoken to who have told me a story about getting drunk and passing out only to have some creep think it’s ok to rape her because she’s too drunk to actually say no. That commercial just reinforces the “she made a bad decision so she basically deserves to be raped for letting her guard down” mentality.
And to the people who get really upset over these things… Sorry for all the “quotes”