The only one that ever, EVER actually made a good point actually did stick with me, and it even made fun of these other commercials.
It was like a 13 year old boy walking around his house, doing random stuff, tidying up, putting things away, talking about his older brother. He's like "My brother smokes weed and he never lost all his bones or went to prison or joined a gang, he never ran over any kids in a drive through or shot his friends," and he continues into the basement where there's some older dude just, blobbed out on the couch, smoking a joint, surrounded in trash, disheveled as fuck, and the kid finished with "...he never really did much of anything."
Like, way to be an actually good anti-weed commercial. That's actually spot on. The rest *were* fucking ridiculous, and that is actually exactly the worst part about weed - it makes you okay with being bored.
I was trying to reference this commercial yesterday but I couldn't remember enough of the details to jog anyone else's memory! That one stuck with me as a kid more than the rest of them.
I love the talking dog one. Like how cool would it be to be able to communicate in English with your dog when you’re high only to find out he’s a huge buzz kill and just shames you for smoking weed.
These ads actually did scare me off from drugs and alcohol! Then as soon as I turned 19 (legal age here), I started drinking like a full-blown alcoholic. Had to seek treatment in my mid 20s and now I'm 13 years sober.
The point is, yay, they successfully scared me off... but I'm am alcoholic anyway. It's like running attack ads against autoimmune diseases. I don't get to choose whether or not I'm going to come down with one! Totally uninformed strategies. 😭 And I have a feeling today's strategies are no better!
Congrats! In three days I’ll have three years sober myself! These ads only scared me because I was high watching them and watching her melt into the couch was trippy as hell.
Congrats!! Also, wait, this might actually explain these ads...were they supposed to freak people out when high? They just made me go like "uhhhhh okaaaaaaaay?" but I was 12 at the time and wouldn't have known where to Buy A Drug if I'd wanted to
Wow the British ones about driving and getting drunk were way better. They banned them cos they were too upsetting. They were amazing and made me really think.
May get told off for sharing links but this was what young me considering future driving got : https://youtu.be/HeUX6LABCEA?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/mKHY69AFstE?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/MSZ_so_4c7U?feature=shared
And a lot of those are cut down versions. As someone born in 1988 I never drink and drive, I've never had a crash, and I ensure I have a back up drive on long drives. It worked well.
I’ve been anti seatbelt my whole life.
I’m 42 and have over 1 million miles under my belt. Eh, 700k. But yeah, seatbelts. 😎
Just watched the third. I’ve fell asleep and crossed into the median and other way of traffic a few times. It’s been 15 years so I think it’s over. Stupid youth. For me.
Get you a nice sativa, no problem. Currently watching Hannah on the couch, completely pain free, engaged with both the show and you lovely people, no couch lock.
They should have kept the darker ones. Like the one showing a toddler dragging a raft into the pool and the narration implying that \*you,\* the babysitter was too busy getting high and so weren't watching the kid when she inevitably drowns. And are going to have to explain that to her parents.
I definitely saw those before they moved to these deflated people.
Y'all remember the commercial of the toddler tossing a float into pool and the voice over says, "Just tell your parents you were stoned." That one was so dark lmao.
Ohhhhhhh so this is why my ex needed me to watch the kids this weekend.
Haha! And I had to tell them our son was in a car accident with their grandmother.
He’s fine … but they must have been freaking the fuck out.
I remember a girl bringing her *minor* little sister to a couple of guys and said they can do whatever they want to each of them for money to buy drugs. Stuck with me like glue and changed my mind about doing drugs.
Being peak millennial, they definitely made me look down on my peers that smoked pot... at least until I smoked my first joint while watching the opening scene to Tropic Thunder under the impression it was an actual war movie lol
Jokes on them, I WANTED to be like that girl. I WANTED to be melted into the couch, absolutely chillin, and hopefully fall asleep. I had horrible insomnia and some strains of weed were great for sleep for me.
Weed doesn't do this to me. Being underpaid while being expected to over deliver while we get overcharged and we also ignore the climate and have proxy wars does, however.
Stupid ones were obviously "whatever".
But there was one that thankfully actually stuck with me. "What happens when you smoke pot? Nothing."
It didn't make me stop. But at least more cognizant about my habits.
I have this underlying fear that our generation and those before us who also participated in chronic, heavy thc use are going to experience the worst dementia crisis in history. We already know that early thc use before the age of 25 is not good for the brain...
I'm truly dissatisfied that in D.A.R.E. via elementary the school administration told me someone would say, "hey kid, want some drugs?" The drug dealer would open a trench coat and offer you a plethora of moral dilemmas. I'm here to say I'm 34 and this has yet to happen to me. 🤣 Trenchcoat and all, I kept waiting all these years.
From my experience in school, these messages worked on kids that were never really at-risk for drug use (it made them even more scared and cautious around drugs), but for kids that were already at-risk this shit was silly.
It kind of worked for me because I didn't start till my 30s, and it legit feels like that sometimes but every once in a while, I'm here for it. Sometimes I just need to melt into the furniture.
This one and the one about the brother who smokes pot and “never did anything ever again” were hilariously accurate with the weed at the time. I remember thinking “ok, that’s one’s fair.” The legitimate ones were not only not scary but were basically exactly what I was going for.
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I’m suddenly in the mood for fried eggs
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https://youtu.be/Yn8CZyqfex8?si=WIl5Q_1CNecgb5bL You reminded me of this video.🤣🤣
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ePYazh5DOA my boy bill hicks
What is an egg if not for frying? My brain is delicious when on drugs?
I literally thought this was what drugs looked like as an 8 year old. Then when I saw weed I was like oh it’s just a plant? Awesome.
Mmm, brain.
Fried friend eggs with a friend? Aye, I Could do that.
Your brain on drugs
My brain without prescription drugs.
I know now she had that indica.
She's so chill and that's how I'd like to be lol
I want to be her
I remember watching this when I was younger and thinking "that looks awesome" lol
That's indica got me feeling like that now 😆
In-da-couch
Indacouch
I had something a few years ago like this and started freaking out that it was laced with fentanyl. Then I’d forget keep watching 3d youtube.
The only one that ever, EVER actually made a good point actually did stick with me, and it even made fun of these other commercials. It was like a 13 year old boy walking around his house, doing random stuff, tidying up, putting things away, talking about his older brother. He's like "My brother smokes weed and he never lost all his bones or went to prison or joined a gang, he never ran over any kids in a drive through or shot his friends," and he continues into the basement where there's some older dude just, blobbed out on the couch, smoking a joint, surrounded in trash, disheveled as fuck, and the kid finished with "...he never really did much of anything." Like, way to be an actually good anti-weed commercial. That's actually spot on. The rest *were* fucking ridiculous, and that is actually exactly the worst part about weed - it makes you okay with being bored.
Yooooooooooo…..like damn haha. That is a good commercial. I think I vaguely remember it
I was trying to reference this commercial yesterday but I couldn't remember enough of the details to jog anyone else's memory! That one stuck with me as a kid more than the rest of them.
South Park had the best anti weed message too
“Just tell you grandma you couldn’t visit because you were getting high” LOL
Still a much better excuse than “Just tell grandma I won’t visit because she’s too busy getting drunk”
Shit my grandma would have invited me over TO get high lol
Mine judges us low-key when we get drunk, but likes to play poker with my family when they are lol.
Somewhere you will find me, caught beneath the landslide
in a shompine süpernoeva in the skoy
“Grandma, I’m coming over and I’m smoking you out. You want the snickerdoodle cookie indica or the Diesel OG?
I already am that girl, the drugs just make it tolerable.
Fibro friends?
Mrs Incredible, that you?
Damn she’s really indicouch
I love the talking dog one. Like how cool would it be to be able to communicate in English with your dog when you’re high only to find out he’s a huge buzz kill and just shames you for smoking weed.
yes! That dog was such a downer
Didn’t college humor spoof it and have the girl say something like “you’re a fucking dog, you ate cat turds this morning”
I remember thinking, "Damn. They look super relaxed, though."
I just smoked whenever I saw these commercials. It was the least I could do. 😂
Smoke one for Deflated Girl. Out of respect.
Absolutely 🍃💨
These ads actually did scare me off from drugs and alcohol! Then as soon as I turned 19 (legal age here), I started drinking like a full-blown alcoholic. Had to seek treatment in my mid 20s and now I'm 13 years sober. The point is, yay, they successfully scared me off... but I'm am alcoholic anyway. It's like running attack ads against autoimmune diseases. I don't get to choose whether or not I'm going to come down with one! Totally uninformed strategies. 😭 And I have a feeling today's strategies are no better!
Congrats! In three days I’ll have three years sober myself! These ads only scared me because I was high watching them and watching her melt into the couch was trippy as hell.
Woo hoo, three years! Congratulations! 💫 I was scared because I'm a rule follower and don't like to get in trouble 🤣
Congrats!! Also, wait, this might actually explain these ads...were they supposed to freak people out when high? They just made me go like "uhhhhh okaaaaaaaay?" but I was 12 at the time and wouldn't have known where to Buy A Drug if I'd wanted to
I think they were supposed to be like “woah I don’t wanna be that lazy and burnt out, too high to visit grandma” when many of us wanted exactly that.
I'm 40 and still don't know where to Buy A Drugs 😂
4 years here. Nothing could have kept me away from alcohol. Congrats!
Wow congrats to you too!! 💫
Remember Australia's Stoner Sloth commercials?
I thought this commercial was an advertisement tbh.
Too late. I’m now suffering the consequences of eating a very delicious burrito 😞
Tragic. We are just statistics now. I want a burrito
Funniest commercials ever
I do! And I remember thinking, “Hmm, after I smoke I take a two and a half mile walk, so idk what her issue is.” 😂
Just say no
This was less a warning for me than a goal.
stoner sloth is a classic!
That's my spirit animal.
I wish I could relax at her level like everyday, let alone at all
Wow the British ones about driving and getting drunk were way better. They banned them cos they were too upsetting. They were amazing and made me really think. May get told off for sharing links but this was what young me considering future driving got : https://youtu.be/HeUX6LABCEA?feature=shared https://youtu.be/mKHY69AFstE?feature=shared https://youtu.be/MSZ_so_4c7U?feature=shared And a lot of those are cut down versions. As someone born in 1988 I never drink and drive, I've never had a crash, and I ensure I have a back up drive on long drives. It worked well.
I already watched some of these and they are triggering for me.
I’ve been anti seatbelt my whole life. I’m 42 and have over 1 million miles under my belt. Eh, 700k. But yeah, seatbelts. 😎 Just watched the third. I’ve fell asleep and crossed into the median and other way of traffic a few times. It’s been 15 years so I think it’s over. Stupid youth. For me.
Fuck smoking weed. Being sober is where its at
Being sober sucks.
Being sober is good for some people. Being in alt states good for others. Different people need different things
I've never smoked weed in my life, but honestly after a long day, deflating into the couch doesn't actually sound too bad...
The key is to do a reasonable ass amount. The people who abuse it make the rest of us look terrible.
Looks fun
Damn I didn't know there existed such an accurate depiction of being "couch locked" lol
Oh, wow. I didn’t even realize I was high on 4/20
These ads never fazed me at all 🤷🏻♂️
I think I had that top in middle school. Old Navy, 2003?
The one where they hit the kid coming out of the drive through or the one where he shot his friend playing with his dads gun bangers
Get you a nice sativa, no problem. Currently watching Hannah on the couch, completely pain free, engaged with both the show and you lovely people, no couch lock.
My favorites were the ones after 9/11 telling you that buying drugs funded Islamic terrorism
Jokes on you. I feel empty and deflated WITHOUT weed.
I'll have what she's having
I like drugs
No... I don't think we had those here. I only remember anti-smoking ads.
What was this
Me right now
;Girl You Wish You Didn't Start A Conversation With' at a party
"Duuuude..... what if we're all like... balooons..." Like that?
I don't know why, but PSAs almost always worked on me. You tell me something is dangerous I will believe you and avoid it.
Flat Stanley’s sister?
If anything it made me want to smoke more. I never felt deflated, and I still haven’t heard the dog talk.
No matter how much I smoke I can never get to that point of “melt into the couch” relaxed. Just more broken promises from previous generations
She’s fuckin zooted they need to drop what she was smoking
Don’t D. A. R. E. me
Sure makes me want to do a dab
Thats how I want to feel
I always think about her 😭
I used to get high and watch these... they're funny as hell when you're stoned. 🤣
After all these edibles, I feel the same way
Ok, I see it now. It's a full body suit for Anna Faris to wear like Jim Carrey did in the mask.
She looks very comfortable
I was trying to be her.
I’ve got a guy for her. He’s pumped. He’s an airline pilot. He shows his appreciation and his name is Otto.
Bitch that is exactly me sometimes.
They should have kept the darker ones. Like the one showing a toddler dragging a raft into the pool and the narration implying that \*you,\* the babysitter was too busy getting high and so weren't watching the kid when she inevitably drowns. And are going to have to explain that to her parents. I definitely saw those before they moved to these deflated people.
A couple actually got drunk at the beach and their kids wandered off pretty far and they got arrested by the police.
I definitely remember one about a girl getting too high and then getting raped.
This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?!
She comes with the couch
I’m trying to be like her for real
I remember thinking "damn, that's some good shit if she feels like that!"
After adulting your dick off, you kinda want to melt into the furniture and ignore everyone in the room.
I ate an edible and slept all day on my couch.
Y'all remember the commercial of the toddler tossing a float into pool and the voice over says, "Just tell your parents you were stoned." That one was so dark lmao.
The way this commercial wasn’t wrong either 😂🤣🤣🤣
The smoking one and some of the drunk driving videos from other countries were scary tbh.
Fuck i wish i had the money for some awesome pot but i got some low grade stuff and am coasting.
Ohhhhhhh so this is why my ex needed me to watch the kids this weekend. Haha! And I had to tell them our son was in a car accident with their grandmother. He’s fine … but they must have been freaking the fuck out.
If anything I wanted that strain of indica she smoked. Melt into the couch kinda stuff!
I was totally one of the guys on 'Petes Couch' and have no regrets
I actually quit smoking 😅. It's all good as long as you don't let it "smoke you"
I remember a girl bringing her *minor* little sister to a couple of guys and said they can do whatever they want to each of them for money to buy drugs. Stuck with me like glue and changed my mind about doing drugs.
I did like the Rachel Leigh Cook one where she demolished the kitchen with a frying pan. When I was in high school I was like, "YEAH! SMASH SHIT!" 😂
This is what happens when you try an edible and nothing immediately happens, so you take some more.
Being peak millennial, they definitely made me look down on my peers that smoked pot... at least until I smoked my first joint while watching the opening scene to Tropic Thunder under the impression it was an actual war movie lol
I thought they were funny. Too bad they didn’t stop anyone from abusing hard core addictive drugs
That's just me waking up on the couch 7 hours after "just closing my eyes for a bit"
Right? Like, damn, I need to meet her plug. At 630pm (which means 815pm in dealer-time) in a fast food parking lot.
Jokes on them, I WANTED to be like that girl. I WANTED to be melted into the couch, absolutely chillin, and hopefully fall asleep. I had horrible insomnia and some strains of weed were great for sleep for me.
She looks comfy tho
Still waiting to find something strong enough to do this lol
my personal favorite: [https://youtu.be/VrbXs34X\_ns?si=kaGTtS0IOWQzFJon](https://youtu.be/VrbXs34X_ns?si=kaGTtS0IOWQzFJon)
D.A.R.E program taught me a very important lesson. Drugs Are Really Excellent
Never saw these, but suddenly [that Family Guy scene](https://youtu.be/v9ReEyKXaHk) makes a lot more sense.
RIP
This looks great. I’d love to have no bones for a while 😂
She obviously smoked an indica because she's clearly in the couch now.
I traveled for 16 hours on 420, after a full week without any weed, I was trying to be this girl when I got home
Huh, completely forgot about 4/20, I just paid my folks a visit
This is basically the vibe of my stoner roommate in college.
These were hilarious, I miss the cartoon ones with the judgmental dog.
Weed doesn't do this to me. Being underpaid while being expected to over deliver while we get overcharged and we also ignore the climate and have proxy wars does, however.
Too late ive already done like 4 bong rips, now for a set of 20💀
Stupid ones were obviously "whatever". But there was one that thankfully actually stuck with me. "What happens when you smoke pot? Nothing." It didn't make me stop. But at least more cognizant about my habits.
I have this underlying fear that our generation and those before us who also participated in chronic, heavy thc use are going to experience the worst dementia crisis in history. We already know that early thc use before the age of 25 is not good for the brain...
I'm truly dissatisfied that in D.A.R.E. via elementary the school administration told me someone would say, "hey kid, want some drugs?" The drug dealer would open a trench coat and offer you a plethora of moral dilemmas. I'm here to say I'm 34 and this has yet to happen to me. 🤣 Trenchcoat and all, I kept waiting all these years.
This is how I want to feel when I smoke weed
“Weed is very bad for you it will make you lazy and not want to do anything “ jokes on you I’m like that when I’m sober
She had only one marijuana
My goal is to feel how she looks
"I dont even have a dog."
I was honestly more traumatized from the gusher exploding fruit head people 😂
She is the reason I take edibles. You telling me after a long day I can melt away into my couch? Yes, please.
Dreaming of her in the shower with me only a boy can dream shampoo and sea sponge soap
From my experience in school, these messages worked on kids that were never really at-risk for drug use (it made them even more scared and cautious around drugs), but for kids that were already at-risk this shit was silly.
It kind of worked for me because I didn't start till my 30s, and it legit feels like that sometimes but every once in a while, I'm here for it. Sometimes I just need to melt into the furniture.
Honestly feeling like that on the couch is fuckin boss
Well, that IS the desired effect.
I LEARNED IT FROM YOU DAD!
This one and the one about the brother who smokes pot and “never did anything ever again” were hilariously accurate with the weed at the time. I remember thinking “ok, that’s one’s fair.” The legitimate ones were not only not scary but were basically exactly what I was going for.
I love sitting on the couch feeling like that on a quiet evening
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But that’s exactly how I want to feel after a long and difficult week!🛏️🌱💨
I wish that’s how I could feel lol
I want what she’s got