History Film / TrickyPeople

Tricky People is a 40-minute PaedoHunt / TooSmartForStrangers PublicServiceAnnouncement written/directed by [[Series/BarneyAndFriends Fred Holmes]] and produced/distributed by [[WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess Nest Family Entertainment]] in 1998. The PSA is based on Jan Wagner's book "Raising Safe Kids in an Unsafe World" and features an introduction by Wagner and the PSA's mascot character Yello Dyno.

!! Tricky People contains examples of:

* MoodWhiplash: No one would blame you if you came to the conclusion that the scenes with Yello Dyno and the scenes with Reginald Charming were directed by separate people.
** Hell, the scenes with Reginald by himself and the scenes with him and Wendell feel like they were directed by separate people.

* BrokenAesop: Yello Dyno's advice is to simply "take three steps back" and "run like the wind", but when Lyric tries it on Reginald Charming, he either frightens her into submission or overpowers her physically. She's only saved from a horrible fate by Yello Dyno himself.

* PapaWolf: Yello Dyno is clearly meant to be this toward kids in general, though his [[TotallyRadical mannerisms and speech patterns]] can make it [[IncrediblyLamePun tricky]] to take him seriously.

Tricky People is a 40-minute PaedoHunt / TooSmartForStrangers PublicServiceAnnouncement written/directed by [[Series/BarneyAndFriends Fred Holmes]] and produced/distributed by [[WesternAnimation/TheSwanPrincess Nest Family Entertainment]] in 1998. The PSA is based on Jan Wagner's book "Raising Safe Kids in an Unsafe World" and features an introduction by Wagner and the PSA's mascot character Yello Dyno. The story of the PSA centers on a girl named Lyric who falls prey to professional [[UnusualEuphemism "tricky person"]] Reginald Charming. The PSA prides itself on its "startling and accurate" portrayal of tricky people and was created to educate its viewers on recognizing the traits of a tricky person.

* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Reginald photo shoots with Carmen (in flashback) and Lyric (in the climax) are treated like this.

* TotallyRadical: Yello Dyno. His radicalness is dated even by the standards of the time the show came out, seing as he makes references to Al Jolson and Ethel Merman.

* TotallyRadical: Yello Dyno. So dated is his radicalness that he makes pop-culture references to Ethel Merman and Al Jolson.

* BrokenAesop: Yello Dyno's advice is to simply "take three steps back" and "run like the wind", but when Lyric tries it on Reginald Charming, RealityEnsues and he either frightens her into submission or overpowers her physically. She's only saved from a horrible fate by Yello Dyno himself.

* HarsherInHindsight: The fact that the main villain is a successful music producer and executive was meant to make it more surprising he was a predator. Given the litany of real-life sex scandals involving the likes of Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein, however, it almost feels like the film itself was warning us.