The Nine Weirdest PSAs Ever Made (VIDEO)

There are many serious issues here and abroad that deserve more attention and non-profit advocates have taken to the airwaves to solicit contributions and raise awareness.

Unfortunately, some of them miss the mark and give us incredibly creepy videos that make us want to hide from the moving image forever, or create a cult classic that has lost its weight and power due to some unfortunate casting or strange music choices.

Of course there are also the kind of Public Service Announcements that start out normal, but end up taking their point to an illogical conclusion therefore making you think, "the anti-pot group must have been high when filming this."

Here are the nine weirdest, creepiest, funniest, or similarly bizarre PSAs available on the internet...




I'm not sure what this anti-drug ad is for, but regardless I think we can all agree they present some pretty impressive reasons for using cocaine.

I am a huge "Starship Troopers" fan, giant bugs being fought by pseudo-nazis and Doogie Houser? Amazing. But I don't know that I would have revived Casper Van Dien's career to help children in need. An anti-vermin PSA maybe, but this is too far of a leap.






Raise your hand if you would let this man in your house? No one? Oh, that's a surprise considering he's deeply creepy, an obvious liar and British. Too bad this lady knew all that and just kept giggling instead of screaming for help.






I really enjoy when people dress up like condoms. Usually I get my fix of this at the New York Halloween parade, but in this case an Indian PSA about safe sex that informs viewers "I come in different flavors and colors," will last me a lifetime.



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In this anti-child swinging PSA, we learn that child-swinging in general is a bad idea, but drunk child-swinging is a definite no-no. I wasn't even allowed to play with a basketball indoors, why do people allow this man to whip his child around like a lasso?






PeeWee says, "Don't do crack," and when Pee Wee speaks, everybody listens, especially when you're trapped in a dark room with him.






Did you know that mumps can make your testicles swell? If not this ad is for you.






Is it just me or does this ad make doing Meth look kind of awesome? My apartment is a mess and I don't have cheery music following me around during the day.



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Don't smoke pot before your big Karate show, ok? It's a really bad idea:





UPDATE:

Thanks to user mem16 for this hilarious British PSA about how fridges can kill children. It seems to good to be true, but the YouTube user who uploaded says she saw this on TV as a kid. Nuttiness:

Comments

[commentator101]

11:12 AM on 03/03/2009

Kids have actually died in fridges. I don't think the PSA is nutty. Ditto the one with the kid getting swung. i see how they may seem bizarre, but there are people who need to see this stuff.

[Churchi11]

09:38 PM on 02/28/2009

the 7 minute interview after the pee wee psa is pretty awesome, fwiw.

[wellingtonian]

10:13 PM on 02/27/2009

From my country that brought you anti child swinging aka 'Aeroplane Dad', I give you 'Dennis From Accounts!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKJIg3EXHOs

[seted]

01:57 AM on 02/26/2009

As far as the cocain video goes, the rat's got a freaking wire in his head! I'd do as much coke as i could get my hands on too.

[Charles Crosbie]

02:18 PM on 02/25/2009

Woot!

[Frankers]

02:00 PM on 02/25/2009

The Mumps commercial is amazing...speaks right to the generation it is targetting. Well done.

[1sparrow]

07:45 PM on 02/24/2009

this is your brain..... this is your brain on drugs......this is your smoke alarm going off cause of this stupid commercial.

[AlanSchiele]

05:03 PM on 02/24/2009

You missed a good one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BInol8NVwso

[Soundofthunder]

04:04 PM on 02/24/2009

High for a night, slow for a month? Bull for a lifetime. Leave it to government PSAs to lie, lie, lie to the public.

SOT

[festry548]

11:32 AM on 02/24/2009

The Nirodh commercial -- really a short film -- is priceless. Can you imagine American men and women standing in the background, with straight faces, no less! That's one catchy earworm that will be haunting me for days to come.

[SColbert]

05:32 PM on 02/24/2009

Its my favorite, so funny. That music is great, and the condoms dancing on the street! haha

[jan4insight]

02:29 AM on 03/03/2009

This video is a WIN!!!!!

Two thoughts:

~ I love Bollywood!!!!

~The condom dancers sort of reminded me of the California Raisins, and I hope they become just as classic (or even more so)

[fnnkybutt]

11:15 AM on 02/24/2009

The though of kids dying in refrigerators really isn't hilarious. This was a real problem back in the days when refrigerators had latches rather than the magnetic mechanisms they have now to hold them closed, but to this day many US communities have regulations that require the removal of the door when discarding a fridge.

[FearlessFreep]

08:24 PM on 02/24/2009

Wasn't there an ADAM-12 episode where a boy got locked in a fridge? (I seriously need a life.)

[Mannock]

11:09 AM on 02/24/2009

What in the name of hell is so hilarious about the fridge announcement? That comment was just ghoulish.

[knerd]

10:55 AM on 02/24/2009

"Nuttiness"? Old refrigerators ARE potentially deadly for small children. I thought the ad was well done....

[AthenaFromOhio]

10:46 AM on 02/24/2009

My all-time favorite is the Fonz teaching kids to honk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3C6PBlu1WA

I also love the Canadian PSAs about accident prevention that someone else mentioned:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwCyVku1HvI

And the Canadian PSAs about domestic violence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXxUSolUcdM

(I guess Canada has interesting PSAs)

[coolmaiden]

10:30 AM on 02/24/2009

It can't get any better than "oh meth!" The best PSA ever done. I sing it sometimes myself when I'm cleaning my apartment.