You have the “any questions?” ad backward. The first shot is of an empty frying pan with sizzling cooking oil. “This is drugs.” An egg is opened into the pan and starts sizzling. “This is your brain on drugs.”
It always used to to bug me when people say the first line is “this is your brain”. I guess their memories are screwed up from taking too many drugs.
I remember being shown a film in high school that asserted that crack users instantly lose interest in sex and relationships, “because the experience that crack offers feels thousands of times better than sex.”
Wow. If I believed that, it would sure convince me not to try crack. Way better than sex, and available for pocket-change? Get it away from me!
Maybe advertisers should use this valuable technique: “Once people try Brillat Savarin, they invariably become dissatisfied with processed cheese in an aerosol can. Don’t go there! –A message from the Spray-Cheese Marketers’ Association of America”
I think there were two versions. One was the way you described it and in the other he held up the egg and said “This is your brain.”
the comercials that are based on “this is the house that jack built” are the ones that have my eyes rolling.
this is jack
this is the pot that jack smoked
this is the friend that sold the pot that jack smoked
this is the icky bad drug dealer that sold jack’s friend the pot that jack smoked…
…this is the family that was shot for getting in the way. WTF?
Notice how in all of those commercials the baddies tend to be gruff looking hispanics.
Exactly… that’s what so disturbs me… I won’t tell of my experience but lets just say it was like you described, only I was fairly awake and aware.
That commercial just pushes buttons that I’d rather not push. I leave the room whenever it comes on TV.
Somebody’s memory is screwed up, you’re right.
The first shot is the guy holding an egg in one hand. He held up the egg and said “this is your brain.” He pointed at the pan and says “this is drugs.” Then he cracked the egg, dropped it into the pan, and said “this is your brain on drugs. Any questions?”
There was a later, shortened version of the commercial without the opening scene. But quit mocking people for remembering a commercial that you forgot.
Somebody’s memory is screwed up, you’re right.
The first shot is the guy holding an egg in one hand. He held up the egg and said “this is your brain.” He pointed at the pan and says “this is drugs.” Then he cracked the egg, dropped it into the pan, and said “this is your brain on drugs. Any questions?”
There was a later, shortened version of the commercial without the opening scene. But quit mocking people for remembering a commercial that you forgot.
I think you’re both wrong 
The way I remember it, they showed the egg: “this is your brain”; then they showed the frying pan: “this is drugs”; then they showed the egg frying in the pan: “this is your brain on drugs”; then “any questions?”. “Yeah, can I have my brain on drugs over easy with sausage and toast and a cup of coffee please?”
I realized two seconds after I hit submit that I should have added the rest of the commercial. Still, I think I was doing pretty good remembering a commercial I last saw when I was seven.
Wasn’t there a poster based on this commercial with a final panel that said “This is your brain on drugs with a side of bacon”?
The best one is the one with Rachel Leigh Cook where she goes nuts and trashes the kitchen with a frying pan. The message teenagers took away from that one? Rachel Leigh Cook is hot, and it would be so awesome to trash a kitchen like that. I can’t even remember what drug it was supposed to be warning people not to use.
-fh
I saw the guy/girl on the couch commerical tonight and I agree - decidedly no good. I s’pose you could make a case for it imparing the guy’s judgement - but it really comes off as “if she hadn’t smoked pot he wouldn’t have raped her.”
And, to continue the hijack already in progress: a word from goats.
Bryan Ekers and Manduck are trippin’. “This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?” I saw it a million times.
Further reearch turns up varying accounts of how the commercial went. The version that played in Montreal was probably a shortened version of:
Narrator: This is your brain (holds up egg). This is drugs (shows frying pan with sizzling oil, then breaks egg into pan). This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?
The one I saw repeatedly was missing the first line. Actually, I think cutting the first line helps the commercial; makes it zippier and such.
The version you supposedly saw, would not have been shorter. I demand a cite if you’re going to persist in this nonsense. 
If they’d only cut the rest of the lines from it, they might be making some real progress.
I blame all of this squarely on Nancy Reagan. “Just Say No!”
Just STFU, Nance. All those commercials did was make the stoners want eggs instead of potato chips.
[sub]Or, for the serious 'heads, eggs over chips, with a side of Nestle Crunch bars, and a Bladder Buster of Dr. Pepper.[/sub]
Ignore what I said about which version is shorter. Now I see what you were saying.
A quick Google turns up:[ul][li]10 hits for “This is your brain. This is drugs. This is your brain on drugs.”[/li][li]19 hits for “This is drugs. This is your brain on drugs.”[/li][li]687 hits for “This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs.”[/ul][/li]
I saw an anti-cigarette ad a couple years ago. It went something like: Cool-looking kids are smoking cigs. A couple of dorks walk up. The cool kids offer the dorks cigs, and the dorks say cheerily, “No, we don’t smoke. Smoking is bad!” Clearly an effective ad for smoking. It was paid for from the tobacco companies from the state settlements.
I always enjoyed the “I learned it from YOU, ok?” one. I saw a great parody of this once with the Bushes.
Chuckle. During my check, I found far more sites ridiculing the frying-egg commercial than praising it. One site described another campaign that involved pencils with TOO COOL TO DO DRUGS inscribed on them and given to students. As the pencils were sharpened, the message was shortened to COOL TO DO DRUGS and ultimately DO DRUGS.
And I’m reminded of another campaign that involved giving out anti-smoking T-shirts. The kids thought it was cool to wear them with cigarette holes burned in them.
You guys should be watching less television and doing more drugs.
Nobody ever saw God on teevee.