A Public Service Annoucement From Cats
If cats were people, they would make PSAs like this: with cold, hard stares stating their intentions to pee all over your shit and their desire to kill you.
Absurd PSA of Moms With Machine Guns to Curb Child Abductions
Props to the AmberWatch organization for not taking the easy way out and showing a bunch of kids getting kidnapped for their PSA. Instead they went with moms shooting off machine guns. Here's hoping this doesn't promote violence among mothers?
Crazy Kelly Bensimon Creates Important PSA in Her Living Room
Bensimon, a Real Housewife of New York City who is not dead, has been acting a bit kooky this season, and she's now created a homemade after school special-style PSA to explain it all away. See, she was bullied!
Mysterious West Village Animal Activist Hates Mean Dog Walker, the English Language
This hilariously-misworded but well-intentioned sign, which a tipster found on Bank Street yesterday, warns area residents about a dog walker who yanks the pets when they try to "pipi." The signmaker can't spell, but he uses three different font colors!
Susan Powter Grows Hair and Delivers Fruit PSA
Twenty years after convincing the world to banish fat from things like butter and ice cream, Susan "stop the the insanity" Powter has reemerged and this time there's a new culprit: packaged fruit.
The Bristol Palin Abstinence PSA Strategy: Do as I Say, Not as I Do
America's most famous teenage mother has a new commercial denouncing pre-marital sex. The message of the spot is basically, "If Sarah Palin is not your mother, don't have a baby as a teen." There's also a Levi Johnston guest spot!
Binge Drinking PSAs Make College Kids Binge Drink More
A new study throws every single PSA that relies on shame into jeopardy, because when youth see images of humiliated people covered in their own vomit, they don't see warnings. They see inspiration. [AdAge]
The Mockable Truth About 'Stranger Danger'
Remember when you were a kid and parents and teachers would terrify you out of talking to strangers? Did you take candy from them anyway? These kids, exploited interviewed for a documentary on "raising street-smart children," probably did!
We Know Him Well
Manic, floating disembodied eyeball in dark alley teaches kids about drugs. As always!
The Campy Swine Flu Ads that Saved America
Basic message: Anything sign of happiness in your attitude will cause you to die, followed by your loved ones.
But hey, I like the pep!
Anti-Smoking Ad Far More Annoying Than Smokers
Just because you digitally insert little asterisks over the heads of the shoppers you just totally pissed off does not mean that they're really on your side, smoke Nazis. Messing with people's Gummi Bears like that is just dangerous.
Buy Coke And We'll Kill This Dog
You cokeheads just don't listen to reason. So the government tried metaphors. Remember when they cracked an egg, representing your brain, into a sizzling frying pan, representing drugs, to indicate that drugs will "fry" your brain? Years after that, it turns out that people are still doing drugs! Now the UK government…
8 Dos and Donts For Making the Perfect Celebrity PSA
We're 15 days away from arguably the most culturally charged election of the last 50 years, and it's not just David Letterman's outrage or Sarah Palin's SNL cameos moving the needle. In fact, the celebrity PSA crop of 2008 is as ripe as it's ever been — literally so, in fact, with every encouraging offering on the air…
That's Sexual Harassment and Matthew Broderick Does Not Have To Take It
[Sarah Jessica Parker and son James out for a stroll in New York yesterday; image via INF] (Bizarre reference point.)
The Return Of The Bareback Top
Everyone's least favorite yet most intriguing blogger retired in late February. And now he's back! Keep your eyes on the skies, and the Craigslists and the Manhunts. And beware, future rapees of New York.
Isaiah Washington Brings Messages Of Gay-Loving Peace
Potty-mouthed actor Isaiah Washington currently awaits a call from his agent that will determine whether or not he will continue to show up to the Grey's Anatomy set every day, carrying a warm smile and a box of Sprinkles cupcakes for his co-workers. (It's a small, peacemaking gesture, meant to say, "How could I…
