# Totally Stupid or Useless PSA's **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 18, 2013, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-stupid-or-useless-psas/653231 "2013-03-18T04:52:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-stupid-or-useless-psas/653231/61 "2013-03-21T00:09:26Z")
I remember the G.I. Joe PSAs. [I loved the parody ones as well.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogEtfIdgjpY) ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-stupid-or-useless-psas/653231/62 "2013-03-21T00:20:22Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > [Stop the Madness](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5zJvX3pIY4) feasted at the 80’s cliché table and vomitted itself into our wonderous eyes I’ll stop the madness as soon as I’ve done one sixteenth the drugs that any one person in the video has done. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2013, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-stupid-or-useless-psas/653231/63 "2013-03-21T04:26:26Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > On the other hand, I have a vivid memory of the 1950s-era film they showed us in driver ed, where Daddy is getting impatient while stuck on a two-lane road behind a couple of dawdling old ladies. When they start to turn off, he guns the accelerator in his haste to get by, they change their minds and cut back in - forcing him into the oncoming lane where he and his entire family get smeared into paste by a giant truck. As a kicker, the family’s possessions are auctioned off and the two old bags who caused the accident show up to buy their stuff. :eek: I saw that one in Drivers’ Ed. class. The little boy’s in a coma, and the father’s ghost comes back to apologize! ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-stupid-or-useless-psas/653231/64 "2013-03-22T18:36:55Z")
> [@MickNickMaggies](#): > > I had no idea this was for the LDS when I was a kid. It was just pure terror in a PSA. So maybe it was useful? > > Lying: [http://youtu.be/thyffmWejtM](http://youtu.be/thyffmWejtM) It was the Blue Boy episode of Dragnet that did it for me. If you’re around my age, you know which one I mean. ---
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2013, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-stupid-or-useless-psas/653231/65 "2013-03-22T18:37:06Z")
> [@MickNickMaggies](#): > > I had no idea this was for the LDS when I was a kid. It was just pure terror in a PSA. So maybe it was useful? > > Lying: [http://youtu.be/thyffmWejtM](http://youtu.be/thyffmWejtM) Damn you, that made me remember [this one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hirVM9dXeKA). A little girl comes home from a party, tries to tell various family members about what happened, and is roundly ignored. Dejected, she tells her story to _sniff_ the family dog. Voice over: “Children \*can \*go to the dogs when families don’t listen.” ---
**Author:** ![MickNickMaggies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@MickNickMaggies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MickNickMaggies)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-stupid-or-useless-psas/653231/66 "2013-03-24T21:40:09Z")
> [@PoorYorick](#): > > It was the Blue Boy episode of Dragnet that did it for me. If you’re around my age, you know which one I mean. While I know about the Dragnet episode…I was, in fact, referring to the Latter Day Saints (Mormons) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kaemicha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@kaemicha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaemicha)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2013, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-stupid-or-useless-psas/653231/67 "2013-03-24T21:47:26Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > “This is your brain on drugs”. Nope, it’s a fried egg, retard. That commercial was the worst but now, you’d be in trouble for saying ‘retard’, because it’s demeaning to the mentally challenged. Those ads are called anti-bullying, and I applaud them. I don’t mean to be harsh here, but I live in Portland and we are nauseatingly PC.:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![RachelChristine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@RachelChristine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RachelChristine)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-stupid-or-useless-psas/653231/68 "2013-03-25T01:00:35Z")
I may have posted this before, but we were in California back in 2000 and I saw a PSA that still jumps into my mind from time to time about not giving cigarettes to minors. There was a man standing there smoking, and young teenage girl comes up and asks him for a cigarette. I can’t remember exactly how it happened, but I feel like maybe it was a screen freeze as he was reaching her one. The voice-over comes on and says “She better be damn cute.” So what does that mean? If the young teenager is cute enough then it’s okay to give her a cigarette? And not just any kind of cute but “damn cute”? Maybe next up we should have a PSA about statutory rape? Just so weird. Also, my daughter got into He-Man and She-Ra last year on Netflix. One of the episodes ended with a PSA of the two of them talking about not letting anyone touch you inappropriately. I don’t remember the details or anything now, but I just felt skeevy watching He-Man and She-Ra talking about this in their little outfits right after an episode that had nothing actually close to that happen in it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-stupid-or-useless-psas/653231.md?page=3)