When did the “this is your brain on drugs” idea first appear? What are some of the earliest examples?
1987
Any idea who did the voiceover in the original? It always sounded like Richard Dean Anderson (Macgyver) to me, but I never saw the version that showed him on screen.
Here’s the first one
And here’s the second one.
The 80’s were so confusing. I used to tell people, “Just say no to fried eggs.”
Turns out I was kind of on the right track anyway, what with the movement against fried foods and warnings against cholesterol.
That commercial always gave me the munchies.
That other commercial used to always crack me up. Where the dude claims he’s not an alcoholic because he never drinks before 5 o’clock.
And then the one where the guy claims weed hasn’t affected him. Then in the back ground you could hear the mom or wife or whoever say “did ya’ look for a job today?”
“Um, uh, no.”
I swear, whoever wrote those commercials had to be on the stuff themselves. They were comedy gold.
Hey, at least the weed one made sense. “Pot makes you lazy” is at least pretty accurate. Compared to all the other “Pot kills” commercials anyway.
I’ll vouch for it making you lazy, at least temporarily anyway. Is there any evidence that smoking pot actually makes you a lazy human being, though?
My favorite: “I learned it from you, dad!” I still tell my dad that all the time.
They showed the Rachel Leigh Cook version on Channel One News (closed circuit video feeds aimed at high schools, filled with teen-oriented advertising… disgusting and exploitative, but that’s another thread) in 1998 and 1999, and you could practically hear the rustling pants caused by a dozen instant boners.
I always liked This one.