A List Of PSA’s That I Found!

 Hey Guys!, We Are Learning About A List Of PSA’s, Some Of Them Are Okay But Not Posting The Creepy Ones, They Are Scary!

• from Australia comes an ad, backed by a music video called It's A Beautiful Day For Cancer

A particularly notable case is the preventit.ca workplace safety PSAs. "I'm a trope with a lot of potential. But that's never going to happen because I'm going to be in a terrible "accident"... These grew progressively more tame and less terrifying.

• Subsequently, in 2009, they put out a notable one where a man walks through a construction site, talking about how you can make your workplace safer. As he turns his back to a window, zombies burst onto the site and begin to attack the workers
• A Radio PSA was made about young girls and their need for good role models. And to do that, the PSA was a "commercial" for an Entertainment Tonight-style tabloid where the major topics are about self destructive celebrities like Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.
• There was one PSA about food safety, comprising of nothing but watching sausages grill on a BBQ, while the song "When will I see you again?" plays in the background. The pay-off comes at the end of the PSA, when the screen fades to black and the words "A lot sooner than you think, if you don't cook it properly"
• On September 12, 2018, the Canadian animated show 6teen created a PSA called Vote, Dude It showed the main characters talking about the importance of voting. It was created as a way to try and get the show's American fans to vote in the mid-term election.
• From the same year, this ad compares life to a cinema billboard. 'Living' is aired on 'now showing'. The 'showing tomorrow' and 'next change' sections display logos of famous films like In the Line of Fire and True Lies along with burning cigarettes, one stick for each film. The real shock comes at the 'coming soon' section where the final film, Die Hard, is accompanied by three burning joss sticks.
  
  
  Tagline: Cherish tomorrow, refuse to smoke.
    
  
  
  A 1984 ad featuring a mock game of Monopoly. The first player works hard to earn a house for his family, a school (education) and a hospital (healthcare). The second player pays a huge sum (representing bribes) and takes away player 1's properties. Player 1 then picks up a Community Chest card bearing the ICAC's number and logo, and player 2 is sent to jail.
  
  
  
  
  From 1982, here's this ad. Hong Kong's society is represented as an apple, being the fruit of hard labour of everyone; and the corrupt are represented as worms, eating the apple until it's rotten
    
  
  
  • In 1982, the Urusei Yatsura gang appeared in PSAs for Kansai Electric (serving the cities of Osaka, Kyoto, and Kobe and surrounding areas) illustrating the dangers of flying kites and koinobori (carp streamers) too close to power lines.
  • "Good Thing Glasses" is a Japanese PSA about a boy who has a pair of pretend glasses that let him see the good deeds his friends are doing.
  The Three To Four O Clock Song" is a song about being safe when kids come home from school.
  
  
   
  • "The Magic of Greetings", better known as "Popopopo~n", is a song about aisatsu, or Japanese greetings, that makes puns on the greetings by combining them with animal names.
  • This PSA parodies grocery store sale commercials to alert the viewer about food waste. Notably, this ad has English subtitles at the bottom, a rarity for any Japanese commercial, and this is the way it is aired each time it comes on
  • This PSA focuses on recycling.
  • Some Japanese kids' DVDs open with a PSA telling the viewer how to properly watch the DVD, including those related to Doraemon, Hamtaro, And Anpanman.
  • Between the 1970s and 1980s, a series of posters featuring characters From Astro Boy, Black Jack, Kimba the White Lion, and Unico to raise awareness of fire safety in Japan.
  • Speaking of cliffs, here's a heartwarming 2017 public works campaign for slope safety. And here's the video.
  • Food variety is one of Malaysia's attractions, but food waste is also a problem in the country. What better way to send the message "don't waste food" than this ad which walks a fine line between Food and tragedy?
  • In The '90s, the Department of Health or DOH churned up a jingle about iodized salt called "Mag-Iodized Salt Tayo", and distributed free iodized salts with the then-president's first name. The jingle became a hit for Filipino schoolchildren and even parodied on occasion, and it was the brainchild of the then-Secretary Juan Flavier, who finished it by saying "Let's DOH it!" Needless to say, that Secretary was very popular at the time and later became a Senator, and was fondly remembered for being both fun and incorruptible, a rarity in Philippine politics.

  • Two rather hilarious anti-drink-driving campaigns:
  • A guy is going out, but he can't find his car keys. After searching through his house, he later takes the cab instead. Turns out his pet dog hid the keys.
  • A bunch of drinkers are cleaning their breath to avoid the breathalyser test: drinking water, coffee and tea; brushing their teeth; and even doing exercise at the carpark.
  • South Africa's Parents For Responsible Viewing released the Biggie Bear ads in 2004 to remind parents to control what their kids watch. They were infamous enough that there is an article for them! They feature the titular "Biggie Bear" doing seemingly child-friendly things as the PSA begins, only for each ad to take a dark and disturbing turn by the end, where Biggie proceeds to show his true colors
  • An ad shows a broken chair falling down, only to be miraculously put back together in one piece. This was during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, calling for unity and understanding during that crisis.
  • A cheery one from the DGT about alternative modes of transport. A man wakes up, goes to work, almost backs his car into an SUV, waits for an elderly to cross the road, finds himself stuck in traffic and gets the last parking space taken by a BMW. Rinse and repeat... until he sees another man riding to work on his bicycle.
  • In an amusing spoof of these, the Swedish bus company Väst Trafik features several of these being made fun of to fit with the message "take the bus" ("Sleep behind the wheel. Way behind the wheel", for example).
  • Swedish ads for paying your TV licence fees are... bizarre, to put it mildly. "Do you want a snail in your eye?" anyone? The newest one is more like "If you pay your licence fees the TV-people will stalk you and perform musical numbers."

  • The United Kingdom has a number of government information adverts that sound more like... well, threats. Specifically, those involving paying your car tax, only claiming the benefit money due to you and making sure your TV license payments are up to date.
  • A girl running around on a beach surrounded by a pastel-coloured aura,in the typically vague tradition of Drugs Are Bad, but don't expect this advert to explain why".
  • Another ad in the same campaign featured trippy visuals of a white dove vigorously flapping its wings and then suddenly falling to the ground and dying to illustrate the potential consequences of ecstasy
  •  a third one compared the effects of taking speed (or methamphetamine) to a giant hourglass exploding and leaking blood.
  • A parody of music videos with three Britney-esque girls singing about how the smell of their cigarette smoke scares all their boyfriends away. The ad became so popular that it led to an official chart release of the song.
  • One PIF where a man rushes into water to help someone who is drowning, but discovers when he pulls them out that the drowning man is himself. The voiceover talks about how people don't help themselves by trying to reduce their risk of cancer, strokes and heart disease.
  • Foreigners enthusiastically talking about how wonderful and welcoming Scotland is, juxtaposed with images of white Scottish people being racist in some way.
  • On the other hand, there's these rather adorable adverts about crossing the street, all under the name of the "Think!" campaign.
  • A misguided, but not creepy example is the UK government's adverts for their car scrappage scheme, where you trade in your old car for a more eco-friendly one (or less eco-damaging to be more exact), and get a discount from the government. The message starts, after some examples of 90's culture, "Wouldn't it be great if we could get rid of everything over 10 years old?" 
  • This British anti-drug PSA about the dark side of cocaine and the helpline called Talk to FRANK, voiced by David Mitchell as a dog.
  • Charley Says" is simply disturbing. That cat became an icon years later when his yowling was sampled for dance music.
  • Transport for London and Cabwise have been putting out new posters and commercials about illegal cabs. Here's the video and here's one of the posters

  • Tufty Squirrel was the mascot of a road safety campaign during the 1970s, beloved to people who grew up as kids during that time. He appeared in a series of films that showed children, in highly Anvilicious fashion, why they shouldn't run out into the road - Tufty's friend "Willy Weasel" was usually the Butt-Monkey who would get run over. There was also a "Tufty Club" for young children to join.
  • Also worth seeing is the hilariously demented adult-themed spoof. (warning: major childhood violation)
  • One Tufty Club book included a strip in which Tufty broke a number of safety rules, and then got out of being punished by bribing the grownups with invites to his birthday party.
  • This tremendously moving and effective "Embrace Life" seatbelt PSA from the Sussex Safer Roads Partnership. So many elements are just pitch-perfect: the simple music and dreamlike quality of the visuals grab your attention amidst the din of shouty advertising, the performances of all three actors are spot on (the grimace from the father as he faces the inevitable, the hope from the little girl, and the quiet determination from the mother), the fairy wings on the little girl giving her an angel-like quality, and the sudden violence of the impact shown by the table launching across the room. Unsurprisingly, it's gone viral.
  • An equally striking, but less successful follow-up about motorbike safety showed a child playing in the garage, pretending to ride a motorbike like his dad. It ends with the father coming home safely and Meeting His Son
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  • A cinema/poster/radio campaign showed kids who would have grown up to be famous pop stars, movie stars, supermodels, athletes, dancers or game designers, but were hit by cars  when they were young. Apparently, the lure of becoming a scientist or something wasn't enough ...
  • NBC did a series of these, featuring celebrities speaking earnestly into the camera on various topics, titled "The More You Know, They still do TMYK spots, and thethree other networks have done their own TMYK-esque spots as well. The Late Late Show's Craig Ferguson routinely mocks the "CBS Cares" bits. His show's on CBS. In the mid-80's, NBC had "One To Grow On," which was the same format but directed at children and broadcast on Saturday morning.
  • "Take a bite out of crime!" says McGruff the Crime Dog.
    • There was a musical PSA featuring McGruff from the mid-1980's which goes: "Users are losers and losers are users/So don't use drugs, don't use drugs!" Watch it here
    • Scruff, McGruff, Chicago Illinois, Six-oh-Six Five Two!
  • The United Negro College Fund's "A mind is a terrible thing to waste" is so memorable that it's often parodied.
  • This Dove Self-Esteem Project ad features Amethyst and Jasper from Steven Universe Talking About  a message about the effects of Bullying Someone Else About Their Looks
  • A health Campaign implicitly compares having a stroke to being savagely beaten by Michael Clarke Duncan.
  • The Crash Dummies Vince and Larry were the stars of a series of PSAs about road safety, created by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. It was their job to promote car safety and ensure people buckled their safety belts.
  • In 2004, there was an anti-Ecstasy spot Made to look like a prescription drug ad, complete with list of side effects and the concluding voice-over "Ask your doctor why Ecstasy is not right for you." Another one, created by Mad TV in 2009, parodied the 'Sad Bean' commercials for Zoloft
  • South Dakota themselves made an anti-meth campaign featuring average citizens with the slogan, "Meth. We're On It." Not helping the ridicule was that the print ads somewhat resemble those of medicine print ads often found in magazines.
  • Smokey Bear reminds American campers that "Only you can prevent forest fires." (The slogan changed the last two words to "wildfires" in 2001.)
  • Also: the Careless Bears.
  • Rita the Raccoon once filled in for Smokey when he was on vacation.
  • The 'bubble' PSA was a pretty famous one in California - basically, instead of smoking, people went around blowing bubbles, and the camera followed the bubbles, to illustrate the dangers of secondhand smoke.
  • Operation Lifesaver's PSAs, like one for hunters, one about distracted driving, one featuring Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, their versions of the Highways or Dieways ads, and of course, Sly Fox and Birdie.
  • Dudley The Dinosaur, the American Dental Association's mascot for PSAs.
  • The Pennsylvania Department of Revenue aired, earlier in 2010, a rather creepy, paranoia-inducing PSA notifying taxpayers of a deadline for paying back taxes without penalty. Because, Tom, we do know who you are.
  • The 1960's "Give A Damn" campaign by the New York Urban Coalition had some notable ads, along with its famous song by Spanky and Our Gang:
    • One ad in the series inspired the setting for Sesame Street. Specifically, one that parodied vacation ads - "Send your children to the ghetto this summer!" After listing off "amenities" (including "field trips" - to trash-strewn vacant lots), the actor playing the pitchman declared, "Don't want your kids playing here? Don't expect our kids to." On seeing the PSA, Jon Stone, one of the producers in charge of designing Sesame Street, concluded that setting the show on an inner-city street would be the best way to get inner-city kids to watch it (since they were the target audience).
    • This one gives a first person view of a run down New York apartment, including a broken toilet, while the landlord talks about the place and the single mom who previously owned it. Towards the end the landlord asks someone if they want the place or not. The ad is then revealed to take place from the POV of a black man, who tells the landlord, "I'll take it." The point of the ad was to inform viewers of how dire the situation is for non-whites to find an apartment
    • As of 2014, Houston has one called "RUN. HIDE. FIGHT." about how to protect yourself from an active shooter in your workplace.
    • "Give a hoot! Don't pollute!" says Woodsy Owl.
    • This PSA from Coral Ridge Ministries Encourages People to walk away from homosexuality.
    • From Hart of Dixie: This PSA says "Give a shirt for climate change".
    • This catchy PSA made by Baltimore Gas and Electric to remind kids not to go near downed electrical wires.
    • An unusual example: This 1997 Ford Windstar commercial has an end tag with Big Bird and a small group of children:
      
      
      Big Bird: "Remember, kids in the back seat!"
      Kids: "And buckle up!"
      
      
      
      
      Similarly, in NYC there was the "Celebrity Talking Taxi" program where celebrities recorded reminders for passengers to buckle up and take receipts for the rides, to play in all of New York's taxis. The program lasted from 1997 until 2003, when it was discontinued due to lack of interest from the public. Among those who contributed to the campaign were Dick Clark, Joan Rivers, Chris Rock and Elmo, whose involvement was lampshaded in a TV special where he gets into a time-traveling taxi helmed by Grover and a recording of his own voice tells them to buckle up
      
      
      • From Idaho, there was Teen Mommy Darci and Action Teen Father, which attempt to present the perils of teen parenting by disguising themselves as doll/action-figure commercials, respectively.(Action Teen Father also seems to imply that "Taking responsibility for your child is for losers.")
      • A series of blood donation PSAs portrayed situations where people had tried to do something about a social problem, only to end up making things worse. (E.g. a man begins a letter-writing campaign against a company that uses sweatshop labor, only to find out that his efforts have led to more child labor - and deforestation from all the wasted paper.) The PSAs then give a message that donating blood is an easier way to save the world - implying "don't try to help anyone via activism, you'll only cause more problems."
      • Energy Upgrade California has run various PSAs on preserving energy:
        • A well repeated PSA has an offscreen narrator give various things to citizens of California, before finally giving California’s "39 Million Heirs" the state's beauty, as long as they preserve it in all its glory.
        • This one has various people doing smart energy conserving decisions, but everything is dimly lit. In the end, it explains that darker screens use 20% less energy, and thus, it saved you energy.
        • Another one has various famous structures represented by less energy consumption (An unplugged cable represents the long winding roads, a stack of plates represents the Capitol Records Building, and a ladder in a garage with the lights off casts a Golden Gate Bridge shadow), which represents Energy Upgrade's new incentive to lower energy consumption from 4PM to 9PM, as less clean energy is used at this time.
        • A rather interesting one in the form of a McDonald's billboard. In the day, it's a normal McDonald's chicken billboard, but at night, instead of the billboard lights turning on, a glow in the dark message reveals McDonald's Partership with Energy Upgrade, and calls the billboard an "energy saving billboard."
      
      
      • Metro Manners is a series of PSAs for the Los Angeles Metro that make heavy use of Magical Girl and Henshin Hero tropes to promote good behavior on public transportation.
      • In the early 2000s, PSAs with animated characters from Disney were popular, such as one with characters from The Little Mermaid About ocean pollution, one with Cinderella about booster seat safety (which makes no sense, because Cinderella was too old to use booster seats in her carriage), ones with Bambi and Sleeping Beauty about wildfires (the Sleeping Beauty one featured the scene where Maleficent turns into a dragon). An anti-smoking ad in the same campaign featured footage from Pinocchio
      • Focus on the Positive" is a 2002 anti-smoking PSA by the Government of Florida where a group of teenagers questions the head of an unspecified tobacco company about the Bad effects of cigarettes, only for him and everyone else to break into a Musical number focusing on tobacco's (non-existent) good points while cheerfully ignoring the complications and deaths it actually causes. This is to inform about supposedly anti-smoking campaigns from major tobacco industries and how they gloss over many details.
      • Zack of all Trades was a set from the 80's featuring Luther Vandross teaching older kids about using their talents and interests to think ahead and plan their adult careers.
      • Many anti-drunk driving ads use this premise. Home movie footage is shown of a person who died in an accident caused by drunk driving
      • The second promo is about a family of animated talking flowers encountering  female videocassettes, before the flowers cower as bullets fly (with gunshots heard) while the animated videocassettes run in fear. Then the flowers teleport out of the broken videocassettes and it is was revealed that the things that happened to them were just inside the broken and counterfeit videocassettes.
      • A rather sweet ad about child safety showed a couple who are careful to protect their toddler from dangers and not let him fall over or injure himself. He is then shown as an adult many years later, returning the favour by checking his now-elderly parents' home for dangers and giving them a rubber safety mat to use in the bathroom
      • "Disaster Prevention Walk" is a song about making sure everyone in the family knows where to go if a natural disaster strikes.

      
      

      
      

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