they say that if it comes from the
ground it’s probably sound these PSAs
not so much welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top 10 worst anti-drug commercials
for this list we’re considering only
commercials and advertisements which
means we’re excluding anti-drug PSA
movies and propaganda films like reefer
madness I thought you were sport hey
number 10
ignoring a friend’s problem so is the
message here don’t use drugs or a small
monster will attach itself to your leg
maybe or maybe not but it’s kind of hard
to tell one of the main rules of making
a successful commercial is being able to
get the intended message across to the
audience somebody SS is over whether
this ad brought to you by the non profit
partnership for drug-free kids is
seriously misguided or just really weird
it clearly doesn’t do a good job of
presenting its message to TV viewers
number nine straight up you don’t need
all the gold in the diamond race here
you make around a money and your make it
faster you get busted straight to it
maybe this PSA by partnership for a
drug-free America was pretty cool back
in the day when will smith ruled the
small screen as The Fresh Prince of
bel-air during the 90s but we kind of
doubt it now this is a story all about
how my life got flipped turned upside
down and I’d like to take a minute just
sit right there I’ll tell you how I
became the Prince of a town called
bel-air anyway in their Fresh Prince
style take on using music to discourage
drug use with these jewels these
performers in trying to put the straight
into straight-up just ended up with an
ad that’s straight-up corny we had at
the supper number eight I learned it by
watching you sure yeah I mother said she
found it in your closet this was one of
the more well-known anti-drug ads during
the 1980s while it reached a large
audience and boasted a memorable
catchphrase parents who use drugs have
children who use drugs
this particular PSA may have been more
effective at inspiring scores of
hilarious parodies than in keeping kids
off drugs but dad is where did you get
it dad answer me who taught you how to
do this stuff with overacting that
brings to mind an after-school special
this commercial has made the transition
from punchline to relic and it’s
hopelessly stuck in the era of just
saying no and big hair you all right I
learned it by watching you parents who
use drugs have children who use drugs
number seven it’s like putting a gun in
your mouth more like a brief and
painfully slow lecture than an ad that’s
meant to attract the viewers attention
this is crack this PSA features a tiny
bit of information about crack and then
concludes with the statement that
smoking crack is like putting a gun in
your mouth and pulling the trigger
smoking crack it’s like
putting a gun in your mouth and pulling
the trigger a more relevant ending might
have involved asking if anyone was still
watching the spot gets its point across
but the absence of any visual or musical
extras prevent it from selling its
position usually a requirement in
effective advertising boy all right so
Bourne wanna kill myself
number six this is your brain on drugs
this is drugs this is your brain on
drugs
this ad featured a frying egg and was
supposed to be a warning about what
viewers could expect to happen to their
brains from drug use sir brain this is
your brain on drugs while it was not
intended to remind viewers that they
needed to buy eggs or inspire an
unshakable urge to visit the nearest
diner that serves breakfast all day
these were common results this is what
happens to your brain after starting
heroin a more effective but less well
known and less appetizing sequel from
the late 90s featured actress Rachel
Leigh cook demolishing a kitchen with a
frying pan in order to represent the
brain on heroin this is what your family
goes through
number five it’s the money you tell me
where most of the world saw tragedy in
the events of 9/11 the folks that create
anti-drug ad saw something different
opportunity here’s the bomb house go to
school what did that have shoes me you
got drunks that seems to be where this
PSA came from and why it stops just
short of calling potheads terrorists
though it doesn’t specifically reference
any particular drug
considering the fairly high percentage
of people who seem to buy their weed
from high school dropouts who’ve turned
a bedroom closet or spare bathroom into
a makeshift greenhouse the connection to
terrorist organizations here is likely
overestimated do I have to do this they
were drug dealers fighting about money
number four this is crack you don’t want
to get mixed up with a guy like me I’m a
longer daddy rebel poor pee-wee Herman
while his later arrests for enjoying
himself a little too much during an
x-rated movie made him infamous and
derailed his career for the better part
of two decades I think the question
everybody was asking at the time as we
what were you thinking his arrest for
marijuana merely resulted in a bad
anti-drug PSA
this is crack rock cocaine it isn’t
glamorous or cool for kid stuff from the
weird lighting to Paul Reubens deadpan
delivery a more effective message may be
that crack is bad because it makes a
person boring look everybody wants to be
cool but doing it with crack isn’t just
wrong it could be dead wrong now if only
peewee had been required to make a PSA
for that movie theater incident number
three
snake Hey Dude see your mom and daddy
out of the room we ever been around a
really bad person who suddenly morphed
into a snake
didn’t think so but life must be
different for the people who create
anti-drug ads this spot is based on the
concept of a drug dealer turning into a
dangerous albeit well-dressed Viper you
know why my snake Dylan and weed coke
crack your choice take one hit and
you’ll do anything the table for this
particular PSA was probably much more
effective for would-be drug users who
were afraid of snakes than for those who
had pet Boas though now some folks will
tell you that I’m dealing in poison but
hey do I look like the kind of guy that
would do that to a kid like you yes
number two
I’m not a chicken you’re a turkey I’ve
got some stuff you just got a try what
is it pop it’s understandable that an
anti-drug PSA would want to show kids
that they can stand up to anyone who
tries to pressure them into using drugs
but this ad unjustly maligns innocent
parties in the process chicken dissing
poultry in order to get an anti-drug
message across to the grade school set
is simply uncalled for
what should he do okay excellent get a
pizza
Kent real in fact when we watch this
commercial we feel like asking the
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles what our
fine feathered friends ever did to them
I’m not chicken your turkey
he’s right drug-dealers your dorks don’t
even talk to him cowabunga before we
reveal our number one pick here are some
honorable mentions the slow it’s been
said she started smoking pot she’s all
lazy and boring you know a bad idea when
you see one live above we live above the
influence hello my name is penny I think
people should do drugs they can make you
forget things I could Inez ham and
strikes oops what’s wrong with you
tonsillitis appendicitis yeah number one
drug abuse is the new slavery almost 400
years ago african-americans were brought
to this continent and change this
cringe-worthy anti-drug ad attempted to
address the african-american community
specifically by comparing drug use to
slavery don’t dishonor them by becoming
a slave to heroin cocaine and crack the
spot is complete with change people on
ships tribal sounding background music
and cruel whip-wielding overseers that
bring to mind a Civil War documentary
rather than a reminder to stay away from
drugs make no mistake bro the deal is
the new movie when the glib phrasing new
slavery that’s normally used to refer to
fashion is considered it further
contributes to the ads insulting nature
that’s this racism
do you agree with our list you got it
let’s see if Joey’s that smart what do
you think is the worst anti-drug ad out
there
for more fascinating top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com any questions
ground it’s probably sound these PSAs
not so much welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’re counting down our picks for
the top 10 worst anti-drug commercials
for this list we’re considering only
commercials and advertisements which
means we’re excluding anti-drug PSA
movies and propaganda films like reefer
madness I thought you were sport hey
number 10
ignoring a friend’s problem so is the
message here don’t use drugs or a small
monster will attach itself to your leg
maybe or maybe not but it’s kind of hard
to tell one of the main rules of making
a successful commercial is being able to
get the intended message across to the
audience somebody SS is over whether
this ad brought to you by the non profit
partnership for drug-free kids is
seriously misguided or just really weird
it clearly doesn’t do a good job of
presenting its message to TV viewers
number nine straight up you don’t need
all the gold in the diamond race here
you make around a money and your make it
faster you get busted straight to it
maybe this PSA by partnership for a
drug-free America was pretty cool back
in the day when will smith ruled the
small screen as The Fresh Prince of
bel-air during the 90s but we kind of
doubt it now this is a story all about
how my life got flipped turned upside
down and I’d like to take a minute just
sit right there I’ll tell you how I
became the Prince of a town called
bel-air anyway in their Fresh Prince
style take on using music to discourage
drug use with these jewels these
performers in trying to put the straight
into straight-up just ended up with an
ad that’s straight-up corny we had at
the supper number eight I learned it by
watching you sure yeah I mother said she
found it in your closet this was one of
the more well-known anti-drug ads during
the 1980s while it reached a large
audience and boasted a memorable
catchphrase parents who use drugs have
children who use drugs
this particular PSA may have been more
effective at inspiring scores of
hilarious parodies than in keeping kids
off drugs but dad is where did you get
it dad answer me who taught you how to
do this stuff with overacting that
brings to mind an after-school special
this commercial has made the transition
from punchline to relic and it’s
hopelessly stuck in the era of just
saying no and big hair you all right I
learned it by watching you parents who
use drugs have children who use drugs
number seven it’s like putting a gun in
your mouth more like a brief and
painfully slow lecture than an ad that’s
meant to attract the viewers attention
this is crack this PSA features a tiny
bit of information about crack and then
concludes with the statement that
smoking crack is like putting a gun in
your mouth and pulling the trigger
smoking crack it’s like
putting a gun in your mouth and pulling
the trigger a more relevant ending might
have involved asking if anyone was still
watching the spot gets its point across
but the absence of any visual or musical
extras prevent it from selling its
position usually a requirement in
effective advertising boy all right so
Bourne wanna kill myself
number six this is your brain on drugs
this is drugs this is your brain on
drugs
this ad featured a frying egg and was
supposed to be a warning about what
viewers could expect to happen to their
brains from drug use sir brain this is
your brain on drugs while it was not
intended to remind viewers that they
needed to buy eggs or inspire an
unshakable urge to visit the nearest
diner that serves breakfast all day
these were common results this is what
happens to your brain after starting
heroin a more effective but less well
known and less appetizing sequel from
the late 90s featured actress Rachel
Leigh cook demolishing a kitchen with a
frying pan in order to represent the
brain on heroin this is what your family
goes through
number five it’s the money you tell me
where most of the world saw tragedy in
the events of 9/11 the folks that create
anti-drug ad saw something different
opportunity here’s the bomb house go to
school what did that have shoes me you
got drunks that seems to be where this
PSA came from and why it stops just
short of calling potheads terrorists
though it doesn’t specifically reference
any particular drug
considering the fairly high percentage
of people who seem to buy their weed
from high school dropouts who’ve turned
a bedroom closet or spare bathroom into
a makeshift greenhouse the connection to
terrorist organizations here is likely
overestimated do I have to do this they
were drug dealers fighting about money
number four this is crack you don’t want
to get mixed up with a guy like me I’m a
longer daddy rebel poor pee-wee Herman
while his later arrests for enjoying
himself a little too much during an
x-rated movie made him infamous and
derailed his career for the better part
of two decades I think the question
everybody was asking at the time as we
what were you thinking his arrest for
marijuana merely resulted in a bad
anti-drug PSA
this is crack rock cocaine it isn’t
glamorous or cool for kid stuff from the
weird lighting to Paul Reubens deadpan
delivery a more effective message may be
that crack is bad because it makes a
person boring look everybody wants to be
cool but doing it with crack isn’t just
wrong it could be dead wrong now if only
peewee had been required to make a PSA
for that movie theater incident number
three
snake Hey Dude see your mom and daddy
out of the room we ever been around a
really bad person who suddenly morphed
into a snake
didn’t think so but life must be
different for the people who create
anti-drug ads this spot is based on the
concept of a drug dealer turning into a
dangerous albeit well-dressed Viper you
know why my snake Dylan and weed coke
crack your choice take one hit and
you’ll do anything the table for this
particular PSA was probably much more
effective for would-be drug users who
were afraid of snakes than for those who
had pet Boas though now some folks will
tell you that I’m dealing in poison but
hey do I look like the kind of guy that
would do that to a kid like you yes
number two
I’m not a chicken you’re a turkey I’ve
got some stuff you just got a try what
is it pop it’s understandable that an
anti-drug PSA would want to show kids
that they can stand up to anyone who
tries to pressure them into using drugs
but this ad unjustly maligns innocent
parties in the process chicken dissing
poultry in order to get an anti-drug
message across to the grade school set
is simply uncalled for
what should he do okay excellent get a
pizza
Kent real in fact when we watch this
commercial we feel like asking the
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles what our
fine feathered friends ever did to them
I’m not chicken your turkey
he’s right drug-dealers your dorks don’t
even talk to him cowabunga before we
reveal our number one pick here are some
honorable mentions the slow it’s been
said she started smoking pot she’s all
lazy and boring you know a bad idea when
you see one live above we live above the
influence hello my name is penny I think
people should do drugs they can make you
forget things I could Inez ham and
strikes oops what’s wrong with you
tonsillitis appendicitis yeah number one
drug abuse is the new slavery almost 400
years ago african-americans were brought
to this continent and change this
cringe-worthy anti-drug ad attempted to
address the african-american community
specifically by comparing drug use to
slavery don’t dishonor them by becoming
a slave to heroin cocaine and crack the
spot is complete with change people on
ships tribal sounding background music
and cruel whip-wielding overseers that
bring to mind a Civil War documentary
rather than a reminder to stay away from
drugs make no mistake bro the deal is
the new movie when the glib phrasing new
slavery that’s normally used to refer to
fashion is considered it further
contributes to the ads insulting nature
that’s this racism
do you agree with our list you got it
let’s see if Joey’s that smart what do
you think is the worst anti-drug ad out
there
for more fascinating top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com any questions
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