Worst Anti-Drug Commercial Ever?

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I vote for the one I just saw.

Scene: A party. Some kids are passing a cheap metal pipe around, smoking marijuana. A girl wanders into another room with the pipe, and passes it to a boy sitting on the couch. Both kids smoke a little. Boy proceeds to molest the girl, and it fades to black with her saying, "No... noooooo."

White letters on screen: Marijuana can impair judgement. Safe?

― Ian Johnson, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 00:43 (twenty-three years ago)

i dont like the one with the aphex twin music

― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 00:44 (twenty-three years ago)

LOL

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 00:54 (twenty-three years ago)

The kids at the drive-thru who run over the girl on the bike. Actually that's kind of funny in a morbid sense.

But I do hate the ones that talk about funding terrorism.

― That Girl (thatgirl), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 01:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Ian you forgot the part before he puts his hand in her blouse where she gets on the couch sort of head first and has her ass sticking up in the air. That part was kind of funny.

― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 01:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Come on... go with the classics.

This is your brain.

::crack egg on frying pan::

This is your brain on drugs.

Mmmm, my brain looks taaaasty!

― kate, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 01:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Why couldn't they have ever made an omelette with those eggs?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 01:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Some people put *actual brains* in omelettes, btw. Just thought I'd mention that.

― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 01:17 (twenty-three years ago)

There are a number of people whose brains would look fantastic in omelettes.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 01:19 (twenty-three years ago)

b-b-but if my brain is fried, then it can't hatch into a chicken :(

― Curtis Stephens, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 01:41 (twenty-three years ago)

keish

― naked as sin (naked as sin), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 01:53 (twenty-three years ago)

i dislike the other "safe?" one where the two dudes are having a bong-fest in the parent's library. the one where he shoots his buddy. although one part is funny: "dude, your sister is hott!" "THAT's NOT COOL!"

― ron (ron), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 01:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Why aren't they doing these commercials with alcohol? It has much more potential as a hallucinogen than marijuana.

― Curtis Stephens, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 01:58 (twenty-three years ago)

That one with the chic smashing up her whole kitchen really made me go, ooo ya, what's she on and where can I get some?

― , Wednesday, 8 January 2003 02:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Um there is a drug commercial that I actually thought was quite good but I have yet to see it aired (I saw it at a friends house when he was being interviewd by his friend about the effectiveness of commercials for a research paper).
The commercial was a typical rave/club scene. Not an entirely accurate portrayal fromm my perspective, but I could tell that the maker of the commercial had actually been to a party. A girl on the dancefloor started to feel unwell after popping a pill, and as she lurched around in search of help, others kept dancing, oblivious. Finally, she fell to the ground. The voice then said "Ecstasy. Where's the love?"
It was the only anti-drug commercial that has ever had any effect on my, and only because the critique of the scene was so accurate. I didn;t know the DEA was a the disgruntled raver inside of me! ;-)

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 02:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I like the one with Rachael Leigh Cook where she smashes the fuck out of the kitchen with the iron skillet.

Hot.

― jm (jtm), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 04:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Aaron: That commercial works so well because it starts out with her passed out on the floor desperately in need of help, then goes back and shows how she got there.

I like most of the repetition ads, actually, except for the one at the concert where the guys get busted in the bathroom. I mean, what's so catastrophic about getting busted for smoking pot? A $50 fine and a stern frown? I don't think so.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 04:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Why aren't they doing these commercials with alcohol? It has much more potential as a hallucinogen than marijuana.

Because the alcoholic beverage industry 1) sponsors many anti-illegal drug PSAs, and 2) sponsors many lobbyists and marketing specialists who do their utmost to keep alcohol from being associated with other drugs.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 04:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't understand why they don't just argue that.. a lot of drugs are boring, or make you boring, or annoying, or both.
May I suggest new PSA: Marijuana can make you a boring hippy like yr parents were.

― daria g, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 05:51 (twenty-three years ago)

There's a few anti-drinking ads here. My favourite ones are the ones where people vomit - that's always funny!

― toraneko (toraneko), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 05:58 (twenty-three years ago)

The RAD one with Lou Reed followed closely by the RAD one with Jon Bon Giovi

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 06:20 (twenty-three years ago)

The best one is the one Heroin chic one with Rachel Leigh Cook becuz she's all that.

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 06:20 (twenty-three years ago)

The most annoying thing is that in the ad where the kids get busted at the concert, the moral is "don't do drugs because you could get busted". I suppose it might be effective, but it doesn't give the justification for why you might be getting busted in the first place (though I suppose there's enough other ads for that purpose).

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 06:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I totally agree with daria. Like just do a flat forward shot of four stoners on a couch and enviorns saying really stupid shit with half-eaten stinky pizza and etc. around and make sure they're v. evidently stupid and then have the punchline:

"Stoners. They're dumb in a cute way, and sorta funny to laugh at. But you don't really want to be one of these pathetic losers, do you?"

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 07:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Paging Nabitsuh. They're doing it again.

― Dan I., Wednesday, 8 January 2003 07:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Canadian TV had some great booze ones - the old lady sitting on the bus shuddering when the wino sits next to her!
Whenever one of us used to light a cigarette somebody would always guffaw, "Hey - BREAK FREE! Ha ha ha ha ha!" Then we'd all chainsmoke.

― dave q, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 07:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Sterling: I remember seeing an anti-marijuana ad like that once, and I thought it was terribly effective. Two stoners in their twenties, talking about how they've never gotten sick or arrested, how they get high every day and nothing's ever happened. Then you hear mom's voice from downstairs asking if one of them's called about that job at the gas station, and they get paranoid and defensive -- the slogan was "NOTHING happens when you smoke pot."

Worst anti-drug advert ever: "YOU, all right? I learned it by watching YOU!"

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 09:44 (twenty-three years ago)

i haven't seen an anti-drug advert in yrs. i miss the laffs.

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 12:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I read a review in the NME (I think... or was it Melody Maker? It got hard to tell them apart near the end) that said that the entire career of the Dandy Warhols was the best anti-drug advertisement ever.

Errrrmmmmm... having sat through that excruciating show at the RFH where they played one long extended stoner-jam, uh, yeah, I see your point.

― kate, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 12:56 (twenty-three years ago)

There was this anti-alcohol commercial on Swedish TV, and they'd hired this really hip director to do it. The funny thing about it was that the director had collected a few dozens of kids and threwn them a party with large amounts of free alcohol and then filmed it all, so the kids in the commercial were actually drunk for real, having a blast. Caused some moral panic in the media.

― Hanna (Hanna), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 13:38 (twenty-three years ago)

there was a set running when i was in new england in the autumn that were a bit weird, they had a subtext of "if only weed was decriminalised then these bad things wouldn't happen" when what they were trying to say was "cos you bought an eighth, some innocent baby boy got shot, you evil drug user you, stop it this instant"

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 13:41 (twenty-three years ago)

There was this great school film in the seventies I saw called The Mountain which was an animated effort, using a dangerous mountain as a metaphor for drugs. Cleverly, the film wasn't about the evil mountain but about how the community tried and failed to prevent people from climbing it -- via heavy law enforcement, public service messages, etc. In a brilliant bit of self-reference, one example was about showing films in classes and how even that couldn't work! The ultimate message of the film was that, in the end, there are other things you can do with your time, and while it was dressed up in a post-hippie seventies 'yay love the world!' style, it's still the most effective thing I've ever seen on the subject for a young audience, I'd guess.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 15:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Are you joking? Theres an anti drug ad with Lou Reed?

If so:

1. Teens know/like The Reed?
2. HAHAAHAHAHAAA

― David Allen, Wednesday, 8 January 2003 16:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Look at me, busy as a bee, where'd I get all this en-er-gy? Oh meth, oooo-ooooh! I don't sleep, I don't eat, but I got the cleanest house on the street! Oh meth, ooo-oooooh!"

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 16:01 (twenty-three years ago)

that spiderman one in Marvel comics was pretty lame. and not very convincing.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 17:51 (twenty-three years ago)

The Lou Reed ad was during the eighties, around the time he was doing the motorcycle ads.

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 18:45 (twenty-three years ago)

slightly off topic but do you remember the H.E.A.R. commercials with Jeff SKUNK Baxter telling you to wear earplugs or something?

― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 18:52 (twenty-three years ago)

"Hey - BREAK FREE! Ha ha ha ha ha!"
Wasn't breaking free the only way to go or something? I still like the old one they brought out of retirement on tv where they place beer glasses infront of the camera until the car hits a bus.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:24 (twenty-three years ago)

"Who's the loser now? WHO'S THE LOSAH?!"

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 19:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Worst anti-drug advert ever: "YOU, all right? I learned it by watching YOU!"

Aggreed..Some of the biggest stoners I know started because their parents did it.

― brg30 (brg30), Wednesday, 8 January 2003 23:59 (twenty-three years ago)

GAH!

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Thursday, 9 January 2003 00:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Has anyone seen the one where the two kids are smoking marijuana, and then the one kid pulls out a gun and shoots the other one? It seemed like a bad Reefer Madness update.

― Nicole (Nicole), Thursday, 9 January 2003 00:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Nate, that is by far the COOLEST THING EVER.

But how can Alf and Garfield coexist???

― Curtis Stephens, Thursday, 9 January 2003 00:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue was a McDonald's-promoted special teaching kids the dangers of using illegal drugs.

Shhesh!! McDonald's food should be considered a Schedule I controlled substence !!

― brg30 (brg30), Thursday, 9 January 2003 00:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Just to be clear, brg: I was quoting an actual, infamous American PSA, not accusing my parents of making me a stoner. My parents are very nice people who worry about me when I have a second beer at dinner.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 9 January 2003 10:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I agree with Nicole. In fact, ALL these drug adds seem like really bad updates of Reefer Madness.

Except the 'meth' one...that one kinda worked.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 9 January 2003 14:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw the commerical this thread started with last night. WOO HOO! Hilarious!
I thought it was kind of sexy actually. A mini-romantic comedy.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 9 January 2003 14:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Rachel Leigh Cook smashing things, rarrr.

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 9 January 2003 15:03 (twenty-three years ago)

My parents are very nice people who worry about me when I have a second beer at dinner.

We all worry about you, Colin. It takes our minds off our own problems.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 January 2003 15:26 (twenty-three years ago)

It's your worry that's driving me to drink.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 9 January 2003 15:31 (twenty-three years ago)

*hic*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 January 2003 15:33 (twenty-three years ago)

it's not a drug, it's a drink

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 9 January 2003 15:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I enjoyed that Rachel L.C. commercial, Graham. I'm so excited b/c I was actually able to download Quicktime. My last company had a firewall up and I didn't have admin. priveleges. Woo hoo!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Thursday, 9 January 2003 15:37 (twenty-three years ago)

four years pass...

Ok that new one where the girl's dog starts talking to her and telling her not to smoke weed anymore freaks me the fuck out for some reason. I could not handle that shit if I was actually high.

― marmotwolof, Monday, 25 June 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

lol WHAT??

― Surmounter, Monday, 25 June 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

srsly they do that thing where the dog's mouth is computer animated and he's telling this hott girl that when she smokes "she's different, so please don't smoke any more because I miss my friend." It's FUCKING SCARY.

― marmotwolof, Monday, 25 June 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

YOU, ALRIGHT?! I LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING YOU!

― andrew m., Monday, 25 June 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

forgot about these two. that snake one! wow.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC4KJ9Nd3EQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSIZQRi4M6c

― andrew m., Monday, 25 June 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

Ok that new one where the girl's dog starts talking to her and telling her not to smoke weed anymore freaks me the fuck out for some reason. I could not handle that shit if I was actually high.
-- marmotwolof, Monday, June 25, 2007 9:36 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

YES! I saw that the other day and just cracked up because, I mean, c'mon! what the fuck!

― bernard snowy, Monday, 25 June 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

ca. 1970 "gather round kiddies the man w/the goodies is here..."

― m coleman, Monday, 25 June 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

IM NOT A CHICKEN YOU'RE A TURKEY

― latebloomer, Monday, 25 June 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5uDaT35TMqk

― latebloomer, Monday, 25 June 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

no hope with dope!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KO73-WlOHhM

― latebloomer, Monday, 25 June 2007 22:52 (eighteen years ago)

"I'd rather stick anchovies in my ears"

I think the one starring Penny from Pee-Wee's Playhouse was kind of charming in a lame way.. "Hamsters are good, birthday parties are REAL good, drugs are bad. I wouldn't do drugs."

― billstevejim, Monday, 25 June 2007 22:53 (eighteen years ago)

I actually really really really REALLY fucking HATE those "The truth" ads.. If there were ever a commercial that made me want to punch babies, dat be da one.

― billstevejim, Monday, 25 June 2007 22:54 (eighteen years ago)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YWQgktBR6-w

awesome!

― Kim, Monday, 25 June 2007 23:41 (eighteen years ago)

The new one with the kid role-playing anti-drug situations with his older brother.

― milo z, Monday, 25 June 2007 23:57 (eighteen years ago)

Rachael Leigh Cook smashing an egg: hotttttt

― milo z, Monday, 25 June 2007 23:58 (eighteen years ago)

There was this great school film in the seventies I saw called The Mountain which was an animated effort, using a dangerous mountain as a metaphor for drugs. Cleverly, the film wasn't about the evil mountain but about how the community tried and failed to prevent people from climbing it -- via heavy law enforcement, public service messages, etc. In a brilliant bit of self-reference, one example was about showing films in classes and how even that couldn't work! The ultimate message of the film was that, in the end, there are other things you can do with your time, and while it was dressed up in a post-hippie seventies 'yay love the world!' style, it's still the most effective thing I've ever seen on the subject for a young audience, I'd guess.

dude i totally remember that! we saw it in second grade. it always baffled me trying to remember it because i was like "a mountain? why were they trying to tell us not to climb mountains?"

― J.D., Tuesday, 26 June 2007 02:41 (eighteen years ago)

Oh god, that Saved by the Bell one is SO cringeworthy.

― Trayce, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 04:50 (eighteen years ago)

I never ever understood all those 80s dont do drugs ad campaigns. The US kind in particular. They were so dorky and embarrasing, they honesly just made me want to go out and try w33d just out of spite.

Some of the Aus ads from the past have been ok, but ours tend towards the morbid and graphic. Kids vomiting in toilets and waking up with strangers, car accident/drink driving ads with graphic shots of people being hit by cars and killed, etc.

― Trayce, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 04:52 (eighteen years ago)

they said we were high
but we were not high

― hstencil, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 04:56 (eighteen years ago)

i love how her reaction at the end is "omg sad that my dog hates me" and not WTF WHY IS MY DOG TALKING TO ME

― impudent harlot, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 05:03 (eighteen years ago)

Haha I think if my cat talked to me when stoned I would be all OMG I NEED THIS SHIT MORE OFTEN.

― Trayce, Tuesday, 26 June 2007 05:16 (eighteen years ago)

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