I remember seeing this ad as a kid and being spoked by it. "You should have a healthy fear of us." Yes, I had a fear of these puppet pills, an unhealthy fear.
And so are those fruit-flavored zinc gummies. Good thing I have self-control, or I woulda died from zinc poisoning. Why they gotta make them taste so delicious?! LoL
@@JL-sm6cg I remember that. Remember a diet supplement called AYDS? Leave it to a certain then-new and terrifying disease going around to kill that one! That's what happens when companies stubbornly refuse to change their product's name if it sounds stupid. Same thing happened with the ORIGINAL sandwich cookie...HYDROX! "Oreo" was actually the knockoff but they outdid Hydrox because... would you eat something called "Hydrox"? But rather than that cookie dump the name that sounds like a laundry detergent crossed with a furry rodent-like pachyderm critter, they stuck with the name and are now relegated to the same world of products that includes Moxie soda, Skybar candy bars and Lifebuoy soap.
@@SpukiTheLoveKitten75 i remember those as well. I also recall George Carlin mentioning that product names are important, like if Janitor in a Drum made a douche, who would buy it?
Lyrics: No, no, no, no! This is serious! (Serious!) We could make you delirious! (Delirious!) You should have a healthy fear of us! (Fear of us!) Too much of us is dangerous! No, no, no, no! Doctors tell the pharmacies (Pharmacies!) Types of pills that you will need! (You will need!) And he knows the harm that we can be... (We can be!) ...If we're not taken carefully. No, no, no, no! We're not candy! (Believe us!) Even though we look so fine and dandy, When you're sick we come in handy...BUT! WE'RE NOT CANDY! Oh.. no!
I watched this PSA as a toddler so it was etched in my brain, but I also forgot about it over time. Then a decade later, Busta Rhymes used some of the lyrics in his song 'Dangerous' and it unlocked the memory. Safety PSAs like this one and Mr. Yuk should make a comeback.
I was just trying to place the lyrics! Thank you! I remember that part of the song sounding familiar when I heard it in the 90s; probably because I watched that commercial as a kid
Is schizophrenia like taking @cid or something?, I imagine it is like a sort of drüg. Does it put you in a negative mood or positive, or somewhere in between?
Indeed; this one used to freak me out as a kid. I remember I love the 80's Strikes Back and it had a PSA segment on each episode and this one was on 1983's; it creeped me out bad when I first watched it as a kid. Every time it came on after I fast forwarded it. Now I just look at it and laugh. Bet this scared more kids back then than it helped sadly.
Hey, so, I found an old article on the Know Your Meme page for this that revealed the singing pills are actually a clip from a longer program. I was able to get in contact with one of the creators, Donna Guthrie, to see if the tapes of the full program are still accessible. Hoping she can upload them too so they’re saved from becoming lost media! The composer of the song, Nancy Ekberg, only recently passed away in January. Sending best wishes to her family. ❤ Update: all of the original Kids Corner videos are uploaded to RU-vid, including this short singing pills clip without the poison control center watermark or info.
@@poni_poki just saw it, definitely interesting. They just repeated the "we're not candy" verse twice, before and after the "doctors tell the pharmacy" verse, but the ending adds an extra layer of cuteness. It's also not pitched up
Pls detail how you got in touch with the creator, i found a Donna Guthrie from Colorado Springs CO (same location where Kids Corner was founded and mentioned in article) who has worked with childrens media and runs a blog, but the socials linked are different
I always hated this PSA when I was 10-11 years old and my fondness hasn't grown for it 30 years later. However, I did learn the word "delirious" and it's part of my vocabulary thanks to this PSA.
@@apopkastudiosag Feeling deeply ill mentally usually caused by physical pain. Mental disorientation combined with physiological sickness. The educational value of the PSA was typical of the time.
@@aliasella488 Busta Rhymes would use the chorus as the hook to his single "Dangerous" which would almost win a Grammy. Little blue pills are the nickname for Viagra.
Haven't Heard the Busta song in a long time , it came to me in a flash I've heard that phrase before! I used to hear it when I was a young boy in New York. Wow RU-vid 👌
@@sauluribe7082 Definitely not a coincidence as the lyrics are exactly the same for several lines, but it’s technically not sampled either… “re-interpolated” is probably a better description 😄
You probably just want to show them a few streets in San Francisco with all the junkies and homeless people crapping in the streets and say this happened because of pills. If they did that I'd never touch another pill ever.
@@pkendlers except that's playing off homeless people are bad or dangerous when in fact most homeless people and junkies aren't addicted until after they're on the streets.
@@jas.per.25 are you serious bro. You have a good argument but saying a hypothetical exaggerated ad could be sued is a bit much considering I’m pretty sure you couldn’t show homeless people crapping in the streets in the first place
Not going to lie this should probably be taught to kids more than it is. While it wasn't pills when I was a kid I always had to take an inhaler and one day I took 6 puffs straight for no reason cause I was an idiot and to this day I have no idea how I didn't experience a single side effect from it. I got lucky as hell lol
I used a rescue inhaler several time a day for a few weeks in the winter. The air was dry, and there was plenty of dust from the thermostats, so my asthma was flaring up pretty bad. I started having an irregular heart beat, and I was waking up during the night time in a panic. I went to the doctor a few times because I thought that it was sleep apnea and I couldn't get any rest. As it turns out though, after I stopped taking the rescue inhaler, my chest and sleep schedule went back to normal.
I love this puppetry so much. Also I like that the pills are actually concerned about kids eating, it drives home the point that it’s your own responsibility to make sure your kids can’t get their hands on medication
If only parents would do the same about RU-vid, but no, instead of monitoring what their kids watch and creating parental controls they whine about what people make until RU-vid punishes the creator instead of the parent that can’t act like a parent
Cutest PSA ever! These little guys are so sweet that the ad is counterproductive cuz I JUST WANNA EAT THEM UP WITH LOVE! Someone needs to make dolls of these little guys. It can be a fun pop-culture meme joke thing like those cute little C'thulhu dolls! I'd imagine the sewing pattern for these would be really easy. I swear, these guys are precious. I wanna talking pill-buddy of my very own. Thank you, little singing pills, for adding sunshine to my childhood Saturday mornings. Me, my jammies, a bowl of S'Mores Crunch (They gotta bring that cereal back, man!), some "Superfriends" or "Muppet Babies", and these little pill guys admonishing me not to eat them.
Idk how to to explain this, but it feels like to the pills are protecting us from some eerie danger. Like they're your stuffed animals saving you from the monster in your closet. It's wholesome and insanely terrifying.
fun fact: the line "this is serious (serious), we could make you delirious(delirious)" sounds very similar to a line in the song The Whole World and You by Tally Hall "This is serious, I'm not delirious".
Max from George Lopez accidentally ate some of Carmen's birth control pills because he thought they were candy. He said something like,"Those candies I ate from Carmen's room were VERY stale and my stomach feels bad." George and Angie were both concerned about Max's stomach ache and Carmen having birth control pills. A Critic said something like," Isn't Max a little too old to randomly be eating "candy," he found in Carmen's room? Max is around 10, not 4 and should have known better than to eat random "candy," he found in Carmen's room. "
I see some people saying how they remember this when it aired, but I first saw this like a month ago, and I am enamored. These pills live rent-free in my brain now, and I am sharing this video with all my friends
We need an updated version i was popping my grandads migrane meds in 2003 after my parents started hiding the aftershave I used to drink lol. Kids like me need ads like this
I remember this song! I was 5 when it came out! I particularly remember the words "serious" and "delirious", and I knew that those rhyme, and I also knew I didn't know what those words meant. :) Love it!
Video Script: Hey, what are we doing out of the bottle? This is dangerous! A little kid might come along and think we were candy! That would be awful, because we're medicine! They might even eat us! [Music begins to play and the pills sing the following song. Note that lyrics in apostrophes are echoed by the other pills) No, no, no, nooooo! This is serious! (serious!) We could make you delirious! (delirious!) You should have a healthy fear of us! (fear of us!) Because too much of us is dangerous! (Dangerous!) No, no, no, nooooo! Doctors tell the pharmacy (pharmacy) Write the pills that you will need (you will need) Any dose of harm that we can be (we can be) If we're not taken carefully! Oh, oh, oh, oooooh! we're not candy! (don't eat us!) even though we look so fine and dandy when you're sick we come in handy But: we are not candy! Oooooh no
I remember seeing messages like this a lot as a kid in the early 90s. Our teacher had some sort of framed display with a bunch of unlabelled pills, tic tacs, cough drops, candy, etc glued to it to show how similar they looked. I remember thinking the "cough drop" looked really tasty, then became afraid of cough drops. Lesson learned?
