# Public Service Information ads - esp from the 70 and 80s **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 3, 2019, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-service-information-ads-esp-from-the-70-and-80s/839610 "2019-09-03T00:59:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-service-information-ads-esp-from-the-70-and-80s/839610/21 "2019-09-04T00:51:50Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > “This is your brain on drugs.” Funniest series of commercials ever. i love fried eggs \>… ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-service-information-ads-esp-from-the-70-and-80s/839610/22 "2019-09-04T02:11:23Z")
This thread is full of cynics. Here. [Keep America Beautiful.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Suu84khNGY) ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-service-information-ads-esp-from-the-70-and-80s/839610/23 "2019-09-04T04:14:25Z")
Alright, I waited as long as I could hoping someone else would post it. Pee Wee Herman telling kids to stay away from crack cocaine. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-service-information-ads-esp-from-the-70-and-80s/839610/24 "2019-09-04T14:50:34Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > This thread is full of cynics. > > Here. [Keep America Beautiful.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Suu84khNGY) One version of that ad just mortified me, as a kid: A guy in the passenger seat of a sedan launches a huge bag of trash out the window; the smile on his face made me want to hunt him down and punch him. > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > This is a classic train safety PSA: [Dumb Ways to Die](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw) I _thought_ I’d heard [that song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPbVR6TgO28) before. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-service-information-ads-esp-from-the-70-and-80s/839610/25 "2019-09-20T05:16:53Z")
This one from Gronk (Rob Gronkowski, former New England Patriots tight end if you don’t follow sports) warning kids not to eat the Tide Pods. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beiHkynt3Tg) ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-service-information-ads-esp-from-the-70-and-80s/839610/26 "2019-09-20T14:00:56Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > “This is your brain on drugs.” Funniest series of commercials ever. I liked the one where the teenager tells his father, “you, all right? I learned it by watching you!” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Y-Elr5K2Vuo/hqdefault.jpg ""I Learned It By Watching You" Anti-Drug PSA") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Elr5K2Vuo) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-service-information-ads-esp-from-the-70-and-80s/839610/27 "2019-09-20T15:37:38Z")
[quote=“cochrane, post:25, topic:839610”] This one from Gronk (Rob Gronkowski, former New England Patriots tight end if you don’t follow sports) warning kids not to eat the Tide Pods. [/QUOTE] I found his message a bit confusing. Perhaps they should have made it easier to understand? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-service-information-ads-esp-from-the-70-and-80s/839610/28 "2019-09-20T15:40:25Z")
My favorite PSA: [Holy breaking and entering!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBaD51IxP7k) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-service-information-ads-esp-from-the-70-and-80s/839610/29 "2019-09-20T15:47:21Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > My favorite PSA: > [Holy breaking and entering!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBaD51IxP7k) [Mine, too! 😃](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21838805&postcount=14) ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-service-information-ads-esp-from-the-70-and-80s/839610/30 "2019-09-20T16:55:40Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > [Mine, too! 😃](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=21838805&postcount=14) Sorry! I hate to be “that guy”, but there it is, forever documented. JAQ, doesn’t read the thread before posting. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-service-information-ads-esp-from-the-70-and-80s/839610/31 "2019-09-20T19:51:30Z")
Apparently kids in the 70s and 80s didn’t know how to eat a delicious and nutritious snack, so they had a cartoon guy suggest we could [hanker for a hunk of cheese](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZA2A2zoz-A). Also, I’ve yet to be able to find it online, but there was one cartoon PSA that had maybe a mouse doctor and an elephant patient (or the other way around) and the doctor had to pull a bunch of stuff out of the patient’s ears, like a pumpkin. The doctor says “ **Never, never put anything in your EARS!** ” My brother and I loved it. ---
**Author:** ![bonzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@bonzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bonzer)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-service-information-ads-esp-from-the-70-and-80s/839610/32 "2019-09-20T23:03:19Z")
I’m still traumatised by the _[Charley Says](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charley_Says)_ animations. Seriously scary. Even just stylistically. ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2019, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-service-information-ads-esp-from-the-70-and-80s/839610/33 "2019-09-20T23:28:49Z")
In Pittsburgh we were traumatized by [Mr Yuk](https://youtu.be/wLsONa3gKIQ) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/public-service-information-ads-esp-from-the-70-and-80s/839610.md?page=1)