When and why did anti-drug PSAs stop being a thing in cartoons? They used to be everywhere.
When and why did anti-drug PSAs stop being a thing in cartoons? They used to be everywhere.
When and why did anti-drug PSAs stop being a thing in cartoons? They used to be everywhere.
because they made kids want to try drugs.
Something about not actually working for their intended purpose.
>PSAs over exaggerate the reality of doing drugs
>kid grows up and realize he has been lied to his entire time and feels no remorse in trying drugs because he knows shit like marijuana overdose is pure BS
basically this
Because everybody tried drugs and realized they're actually cool and good.
t. modern American
>t. newbie who doesn't know how the meme works
Because they were made by boomers, who are now retired. Generation X, Millenials and now Zoomers make cartoons now. And they mostly like drugs. Or at least weed. And know these situations in these old anti-drug cartoons are fake and lame as hell.
But boomers liked drugs too.
Because kids wanted to go to hell before they died.
I never understood how that got green lighten.
Because they aren't on public TV anymore and therefore don't have to comply with FCC rules.
The FCC mandated there be educational content, but it didn't force anyone to do PSAs specifically about drugs. Studios did it to pander to boomer parents who bought into the War on Drugs, and I'm sure that some of the writers and execs were also true believers with good intentions.
Because as time went on conservatives started to believe the government couldn't do anything right, so they stopped trying to have the government do anything.
The funny thing is that regarding D.A.R.E. they were correct. I really doubt a single anti-drug message kept any teen or adult from trying drugs.
because dare failed spectacularly
I remember this. The guy's sister was cute.
D.A.R.E failed as a concept. It didn't stop kids from drugs, if anything it made them more aware, it's like showing kids a porn movie and telling them not to do that as a form of abstinence.
Add to the fact that most people making cartoons are leftists, who make up the biggest group of people trying to get drugs legalized.
They realized that some mouth breathers are just destined to do drugs.
They got replaced with the far worse anti-racism PSAs
Those aren't actually that common.
In all seriousness, when's the last time a show did a non-parody anti-drug PSA?
Does it count if the episode's plot is one, or does it need to be seperate from the show?
I rented this a couple times because the box cover made a big deal about all the cartoon characters that would be in it and unfortunately its just kinda dull.
Kuwait is liberated. Iraq's army is defeated. Our military objectives are met. Kuwait is once more in the hands of Kuwaitis in control of their own destiny. We share in their joy, a joy tempered only by our compassion for their ordeal.
Tonight, the Kuwaiti flag once again flies above the capital of a free and sovereign nation, and the American flag flies above our embassy.
Seven months ago, America and the world drew a line in the sand. We declared that the aggression against Kuwait would not stand; and tonight America and the world have kept their word.
This is not a time of euphoria, certainly not a time to gloat, but it is a time of pride, pride in our troops, pride in the friends who stood with us in the crisis, pride in our nation and the people whose strength and resolve made victory quick, decisive, and just.
And soon we will open wide our arms to welcome back home to America our magnificent fighting forces. No one country can claim this victory as its own. It was not only a victory for Kuwait, but a victory for all the coalition partners. This is a victory for the United Nations, for all mankind, for the rule of law, and for what is right.
What's your favorite PSA episode? Mine is the Dinosaur show where the message wasn't that drugs where bad but that preachy anti drugs episodes where lame but as long as people kept doing drugs show would keep making them
So better stop doing drugs kids or tv will keep getting lamer.
i like the episode about vegetarians
Honestly we need one specifically for meth and opioids
Both are pretty great
Smoke was so hot
such wasted potential of a character
What
Streisand effect(sort of), their attempts had the opposite effect
Shows still have morals, but in your face PSAs are rarer.
Now we get PSAs about how great it is to be a homosexual
drugs won the war
Government mandates will do that.
Same reason D.A.R.E. was de-funded. Drug use went up during the life of the program. Funniest thing, turns out teaching children about drugs they've never even heard of before, the street names of the drugs, and the expected effects of the drugs, only made for more educated drug buyers by the time they hit high school and college. Whereas the hippy generation was well versed in weed, LSD, and shrooms, there wasn't a kid in the 90's who didn't know about cocaine, heroin, steroids, crystal meth, crack, PCP, and opiates. Most kids wouldn't see anything besides weed unless they went looking for it, and now they knew what to look for.
And all the stranger-danger warnings ensured children would stay close to home and known people, despite less than 10% of children are sexually abused by a stranger. Yay PSA's.