YMMV / Partnership to End Addiction

• Do Not Do This Cool Thing: Meth is certainly something NO ONE should do. However, the famous "Meth Cleaner Girl" ad also tells us that doing it will not only give you energy to immaculately clean your home but also allow you to lose a lot of weight. And it has a catchy tune to it.
  I don't sleep, and I don't eat, but I got the cleanest house on the street! Ahh, meth! Ooh, meth!
• Fridge Horror: As one person pointed out, in the quartet of ads with babies attempting to open pill bottles, the bottles actually have the pills inside of them. One has to wonder what might have happened had the bottles not had childproof caps on them.
• Narm:
  • "This is Your Brain on Drugs" has been parodied to death because of its failure to illustrate its message. It's been mocked by The Nostalgia Critic, parodied by MTV and PBS Kids^note yes, really; here it is, and spawned several trope names. Even other PSAs got in on the act.
    • Its 1998 follow-up starring Rachael Leigh Cook also spawned a parody sketch on Robot Chicken and a sequel/parody PSA from the Drug Policy Alliance, both also starring Cook.
  • "I Learned It From Watching You" has been similarly mocked for its overly hammy acting.
  • One 80s ad featured the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which is awesome, but the ad fell into infamy for the comically-weak insult "I'm not a chicken, you're a turkey!", as well as Michelangelo himself not even taking things seriously and just suggesting getting a pizza as a way to deal with being offered drugs.
• Nightmare Fuel: So much that they have their own folder on the Health section for Nightmare Fuel in Public Service Announcements.
• Retroactive Recognition: Jesse Corti, who appeared in a 1990 PSA, would go on to voice Lefou in the first Disney adaptation of Beauty and the Beast.
• Tear Jerker:
  • The father grieving the loss of his son to drug abuse in "Graveyard".
  • Susie's parents cared about their daughter very much...but for all their love, they forgot one very important lesson; Drugs Are Bad. For this, their poor Susie had to learn one last lesson all by herself.
  • The 1987 Maryland train wreck between an Amtrak train and a freight train caused by the engineer of the latter smoking marijuana while on duty is tragic enough, but the 1990 PSA in which Jesse Corti tells the audience about it makes it even sadder with this last line:
    Jesse: They say marijuana doesn't hurt anybody, but this time 16 people died... and among them was Laura Corti, my wife.

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