Damn, some of these PSAs seem like really good advice for your local streamer. Don't stay up too late, eat healthy, don't get scammed, learn how to read
Maplestory 1 even had one that read: "Game Addiction is one of the Four Evils. It's serious. Think of your health, and limit yourself to no more than 18 hours a day."
@@Mario583aI'm playing video games 17 and a half hours of the day,that means i am not addicted and a healthy well adjusted human being. Thank you Maplestory,very cool!
"Have you been fingerprinted yet? It's fun, it's free and it will help the police identify your mangled corpse when they're scraping you off the train tracks." Thanks Mario 👍
Have you ever considered volunteering yourself into a police database? It's more fun to be a suspect in a thrilling mystery if that pesky fifth amendment isn't in the way! Plus if you go missing, your fingers will be crucial locate where you've been tied up. Thanks Mario 👍
There's a reason. His rival is named Dr. Quark, and he hates being called "Quack" both because no one knew what a quark was in 1993 and also because it implies he's just making things up.
Or just a bad trip. Or withdrawal. Or ending up broke, homeless, starving, etc. because all your money goes into fueling the addiction. It can apply to almost any aspect other than the high itself.
In hindsight, the War on Drugs was pretty fucking insane. Like could you imagine Joe Biden nowadays commissioning a 30 minute cartoon where Steven Universe, Spongebob, Amity Blight, and Twilight Sparkle talk about the evils of vaping?
I had no idea the "if you do drugs you go to hell before you die" line was an actual line and not just something Vinny made up. And he sounds so casual in his delivery when he says it.
It makes sense if you think about it: people addicted to drugs go through some really horrible stuff and die early, often as a result of said drug use. It’s a pretty powerful sentence that, admittedly, is tough to understand with how fast he says it.
32:15 - Meanwhile in the second Sonic movie, Tails did the following: - Stole a police car - Stole a PLANE - Committed two hit and runs - Flew without a license - Drove without a license I can't wait to see what other crimes he'll be committing in the third movie.
@@R-youdamantendo-R No it's not. That was the plane that flew over Rachel and Randall's 'wedding'. He hotwired the thing and attached machine guns to it.
“I feel like these PSAs were a way to appease parents.” They literally were just made for that purpose; parental concerns about cartoons at the time being nothing more than toy promotions eventually lead to televised animation legally requiring educational value to their audiences, which is the reason why so many 80’s-90’s shows had quick PSA segments bolted onto them at the end of each episode regardless to the relevance to the show itself or the contents of the episodes beforehand. In due time, these became obsolete as shows later incorporated such values and positive messages naturally through the stories and dialogue of certain episodes.
The Sonic PSAs going from stuff like “plant a tree” and “remember to feed your pets” to out of character moments like Sonic telling abused kids not to run away from their homes is wild 💀
Tails was kind of dumb in that show. There's an episode with a flashback that shows Sonic finding him as an orphaned baby, and I guess Sonic didn't do a very good job educating him.
@@eh5732 There ARE a couple episodes in the show that lean into the gearhead traits he's now well known for. Including one where he flies a plane like in Sonic 2
Sonic, always warning of strangers, yet never considers the possibility of danger coming from within a family. Never even once considered that Coconut's relationship with Robotnik is abusive... and then he tells others to not try to leave their abusive families.
"We should warn the kids about getting SAd! But not so much that their parents get offended at the idea that they unwittingly let a predator around their kids."
the stranger danger psas are always chock-full of irony, ESPECIALLY the sa ones like yeah sonic parents, teachers, or police officers will NEVER sa you and can ALWAYS be trusted, and theyll DEFINITELY trust you when you talk to them about it
That and him saying that we’re part of the pollution problem when corporations are most responsible 😭 Sonic needs to learn some stuff himself perchance.
To be fair, it's actually quite in-character for Sonic to promote planting trees in cities regardless of permission I mean, his whole thing was rebellion for the sake of the environment around the time AoStH was made/aired
that and freeing small woodland animals. although this was also around the time the comics began and unfortunately thats what i remember most of late 90s sonic. especially with all the exclusive and one off characters for the show and comics.
That actually came from the 1st game changing it's setting from a nightmare world plot to an environmentalist story during development, since Sega executives wanted to be relevant to the time
@@LuminousLead He absolutely planned this from the start. Just so he could teach that deadeyed squirrel a lesson, even though she already decided not to take them on her own
Damn... even if that messed up subtext wasn't there, leaving home and putting yourself out there is a difficult but necessary part of life later on, you don't want to paint the outside world in such a bad light to kids with lively curiosity and imagination
@@oddcrafter1270 I'm pretty sure they would have gotten in trouble if they had Robotnik treat a human kid that way. Plus, I don't think Sega wants any of the characters to have kids in any of the Sonic media. And I believe that even Paramount is under that restriction (one of the few they have for the movies).
I must admit that the one about having difficulty learning to read actually kinda got me a little. I am a literacy tutor, so helping such kids is what I do and I find it to be rewarding work
"But Mario, what about Toad?" "If he participated in a California Frog-Jumping Jubilee, then he cannot be eaten and *must be destroyed* as soon as possible!"
@@mostverticalproductions4808 Personally, I think anyone who successfully eats a hamburger while walking backwards, deserves the right to wear a hat while doing it, wherever they are.
Late 80s early 90s PSAs were extremely wild and meme worthy in YTPs. They were made with good intentions, yet as we got older we saw them as comedy gold.
@@disposable_income_andy funny how way after his retirement we'd have many more deaths from drug abuse, whether its overdose, heart failure or... double murder suicide
I like how some of the mario and sonic psa's go from "Don't steal or cross the street without looking" to "Hey do you know anyone with a gun or sharp knife? Watch out for strangers with them they can hurt you" "Don't do drugs"
That's right! You should always look first before you steal. Make sure the coast is clear, don't want somebody to see you! You can't run as fast as Sonic can!
It always kinda confused me how so many people don't seem to understand "you go to hell before you die", because when you see how people look after prolonged drug abuse with necrosis, teeth rotting and falling out, intense sickness... and then their behaviour through addiction and severe withdrawal symptoms... Yeah, that kinda seems like hell to me.
I'm pretty sure most adults understand what he's saying but little kids aren't going to know what "going to hell before you die" is supposed to mean other than literally going to hell
I find the Captain Lou PSA's so funny because in the context of the wrestling world, Captain Lou was a heel. And almost definitely did drugs and crimes at least once.
@@celestitecaroline That was his mom. The kid's a robot. I had to look that up because I'd forgotten that. But Robotnik did have a wife. And it's even more messed up than I originally thought.
Exactly I watched the whole movie after watching this VOD the first time over(same day as this VOD's upload) and I've been kinda hyperfocused on it since
I like how a bunch of times vinny talks over every line of dialogue in the PSA, then goes "what is this PSA about?" gee i dunno vinny, if only the characters on screen were saying things that might help you figure it out.
The effort in Sonic PSAs were pretty good considering some include the one-off side characters that appear in the main episode. That "Don't talk to strangers" PSA really is more relevant now with modern day scam calls/text messages.
as is the one about not zoning out listening to music while walking through traffic, considering how people stare at their phones while they cross the street. I was surprised that the "memorize your home phone number" is the only one that's completely obsolete. I would have thought more would be completely dated.
Some old bastard would probably say "Reading and using your imagination are good advice too, since all anyone does is look at their phones all day." I would be inclined to be that old bastard, but I also know it's not entirely true.
I remember that during the early 90s and pre 2006, there was a very big stigma around 'violence' in videogames in Chile, to the point of parents throwing trading cards and consoles to the trash... I had a friend who sadly got his Super Nintendo thrown away because he played Super Mario All-Stars and his mom was being told by a priest to throw them away... He didn't even show any sign of being violent whatsoever
There are areas where it's genuinely a problem, like the Mohave Desert and beaches. But there's basically no chance of dying. Funny thing is, I got stuck once, but it only got up to my ankles and the worst to come of it was having to buy a new pair of shoes because I couldn't wash them out well enough.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio Is it true that not a single human being has ever “drowned” in quicksand? And that most quicksand-related deaths are just attributable to dehydration (due to being stuck)?
i think that one was actually about learning things from other cultures, the way tails points out how weird they are before learning something from them? it's obscenely funny to me to imagine it's actually just a quicksand PSA though
wikipedia says it's about... sloths. which makes me think it could also be about taking life slowly. but honestly i don't care it's about quicksand now
@@WheresPoochie There may or may not be a few cases where someone overburdened while traveling through unfamiliar terrain wasn't able to get their backpack off quickly enough, but yeah, the number of cases of legitimate drowning is probably in the single digits. You CAN pull yourself further under if you flail too much because it will create pockets of suction, but you won't be able to keep it up long enough to be pulled fully under. And yes, the overwhelming majority of deaths as a result of quicksand were due to dehydration.
Some of the Sailor Moon Says segments showed clips from episodes that didn't even air on TV at all. I remember the one where Umino flipped a Teacher's dress up and it was on a Sailor Moon Says PSA about bad behavior in the classroom and why it isn't good. The episode where the clip came from never aired in the DIC version of Sailor Moon but it was there in Sailor Moon Says.
The aosth Sonic PSAs should be played in Times Square every like 30 min. Imagine randomly every advertisment turns into a random sonic PSA with loudspeakers.
That Captain N one is so much funnier premise-wise knowing that Captain N is, like, around 16-19 in the actual show, and yet he acts completely clueless in the parody like he didn't most likely already hear what Mario and "Luigi" said in school like 2 years before (Yes I have been cursed with the knowledge of Captain N lore, I did it for my old Twitter group chat's sake since Captain N Mega Man is the sorta 'mascot' for the thing)
That 'dont go with strangers" psa is pretty good because they were like, saying that someone you care about is in trouble. Because so much stranger danger stuff was about candy and crap, as a kid i didnt actually know they could use some other line like that. My mom taught me that they could bait me by saying a kitten or a friend is in trouble, but it wouldnt hurt to learn from a cartoon either. Good psa
The Sonic PSA about illiteracy actually kind of hits because I have a friend who can't read due to a really bad learning disability so it's like his brain can't keep the information. So oftentimes I help him out. He was very happy when he was able to fully read a Dr. Seuss book. I was very proud of him too.
It is my fervent wish that someone makes a site like that infinite sinefeild AI thing, but with this version of Mario infinitely spouting nonsensical laws
What gets me about the “Hell before you die” PSA is the hat. Man steps up announcing his full title of “Captain Lou Albano”, meaning that the hat is the only thing that makes this count as a Mario PSA.
Hey, kids, there's nothing more fun than eating Durian fruit with someone you like, but if someone tries to open a can of Surströmming in your backyard, that's no good!
The Mario "DO YOU KNOW ANYONE WHO OWNS A GUN!?" clip is perfect for the greenscreen meme format. The background around that weird mayor character could be greened out so he pulls Mario up over whatever video is played before it.