# Finding your favorite 1980's PSA **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 8, 2004, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-favorite-1980s-psa/273574 "2004-11-08T02:43:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-favorite-1980s-psa/273574/21 "2004-11-09T06:44:20Z")
> [@Green Bean](#): > > I guess Busta and I have something in common. > > \*This is serious. > We could make you delirious… > I didn’t know that played only on Long Island. The rest of you missed out. That ad was awesome. I remember this, myself, so it must have played in Montreal (or maybe just on one of the upstate New York network affiliates, like WPTZ Plattsburg). ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-favorite-1980s-psa/273574/22 "2004-11-09T08:19:02Z")
Yakov Smirnov’s poignant and haunting vignettes about the horrors of the Soviet state, which were often run between saturday morning cartoons. (Right after the Honeycomb commercials.) _“Heh Heh Heh!”_ ::Sniff:: Such a brave, brave soul… After that, I suppose, I’ve always had a fond place in my heart for the public literacy ads that’d come on after some holiday specials. (Garfield, and the California Raisins, if I remember right. Maybe Charlie Brown, too.) Lorenzo Music…if you’re out there, somewhere, I _will_ visit my local public library! ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-favorite-1980s-psa/273574/23 "2004-11-09T10:02:22Z")
There was one that I would _love_ to see again about registering for the Selective Service (the Draft, if you didn’t know). All these hip (white) 80’s guys, dressed kind of like Michael Jackson, strut on down to the Post Office to register… and then celebrate their success by break dancing. Poifect. ---
**Author:** ![Anonymous\_Coward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@Anonymous\_Coward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anonymous_Coward)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-favorite-1980s-psa/273574/24 "2004-11-09T10:53:01Z")
_Drugs drugs drugs, some are good, some are bad. drugs drugs drugs, ask your mom or ask your dad!_ and not exactly a PSA, but a Church of Latter Day Saints ad about how lies snowball and turn into bigger lies. I can’t remember the tune for the life of me though. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-favorite-1980s-psa/273574/25 "2004-11-09T11:04:00Z")
> [@Green Bean](#): > > I guess Busta and I have something in common. > > \*This is serious. > We could make you delirious. > You should have a healthy fear of us. > Too much of us is dangerous. > > Doctors tell the pharmacy. > The kind of pills that you will need. > And they know the harm that we can be. > If we’re not taken carefully. > > We are not candy (you need us!) > Even though we look so fine and dandy. > When you’re sick we come in handy. > But–we’re not caaaaandy! (ohhh noooo!)\* Showed in CT and Pennsylvania as well… I don’t have time to search for it but my “We were children once and young” thread has a link to this commercial (and it really brings back memories). From memory. 🙂 I didn’t know that played only on Long Island. The rest of you missed out. That ad was awesome. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2004, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-favorite-1980s-psa/273574/26 "2004-11-09T14:00:51Z")
Heh. There was one I saw once about how you shouldn’t trash-talk your mother behind her back. “Treat your mother–treat your mother right.” There was another personal favorite that started out with a kid walking down the street. He fell down. Other kids laughed at him. Then it shows him walking down the street. He falls down again. He hides the trip by breakdancing. Everyone thinks he’s cool. Yeah, right. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-your-favorite-1980s-psa/273574.md?page=1)