History Funny / PublicServiceAnnouncement

* A spoof episode of Canada's "Hinterland Who's Who", which focuses on a specific animal in order to learn more about them, covers the effects of drugs on how the wood spider makes webs. Its whole premise is satire, but the moment all sanity goes out the window is when one spider, which had been administered alcohol, gets ''a tiny restraining order,'' and it only gets more unhinged from there. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2HipedgM3I You can watch it here]].

** Another [[https://youtu.be/BhH7ZeHUVPg anti-gambling ad from Singapore]] shows a man named Kelvin thinking about stopping his friend Ben from making gambling a problem but he resists as he wonders [[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong what's the worst it can happen.]] [[ImagineSpot Cue the exaggerated scenarios of Ben getting expelled from school and his home, then Kelvin taking care of him while lending money from him, starts to steal his credit card for illegal online gambling, and then the SWAT team raiding his flat and falsly arresting Kelvin.]] After Kelvin realized it can go really wrong, he decided to take action immediately.

* Though the Advertising/PartnershipToEndAddiction [=PSAs=] are best known for terrifying young children, one [='80s=] ad was rather amusing. A 30-something man and his friend are seen smoking pot and laughing at another PDFA ad in the background talking about the negative side affects of marijuana. "We've been getting high for what, fifteen years? Nothing's ever happened," he says. "I'm exactly the same as when I smoked my first joint." Cue the voice of his mother from another room asking if he bothered looking for a job today.
** The same organization later made a similar anti-marijuana ad in the [=2000s=]. In this ad, a teenager uses weed to construct a cocoon in his bedroom, eventually closing himself in it. He emerges as a middle-aged man with a receding hairline still living with his parents.

** An 80's [[https://youtu.be/b8FLbwjyTo8 ad]] featuring the WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 has the turtles teaching a class of children on what Joey should do if a drug dealer offered him drugs. When Joey was taunted by the drug dealer if he's a chicken for declining his offer of drugs, he comes up with a comeback to him
---> "I'm not a chicken, you're a turkey."

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBxdhgTcFiE "Slab"]] from Transport Accident Commission Victoria should be your usual [[NightmareFuel/PublicServiceAnnouncement terrifying]] traffic [=PSA=], as two dead teenagers are wheeled in to an autopsy room, not realising they're dead, but a healthy dose of NightmareRetardant comes in when the first teen sounds [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction more annoyed than in pain]] when the technician comes over to cut open his skull. The technician then begins ''rapping and dancing'', mocking the two dead guys for the idiocy that resulted in them ending up there while riding around on a table. A trio of doctors wheeling another dead guy carry out an interlude, then upon arrival at the autopsy room, the dead guy ''himself'' begins singing!

* While the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1n9Jly3CQ8 I Saw Your Willy]] PSA does get kind of creepy near the end with the stranger messaging Alex, his bully's "UR WILLY IS RUBBISH!" is pretty hillarious.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTnc8h85beo This late 1980s fireworks safety PIF]] is one of the most hilarious [=PIFs=] (though meant to frighten viewers) ever made due to an child yelling "DON'T BE A DUMMY, DON'T THROW FIREWORKS!!" which annoys viewers. It shows that being annoying can make the message effective.

** [[https://twitter.com/Conaw/status/1681508606557188097 still another]] Thai PSA shows a man humorously ends his drinking habit in front of his family and starts becoming a more productive member of society.

---> "Four birds brought together by fate to protect people by delivering important safety messages. Bird Ben Franklin - the actual Ben Franklin turned into a bird after an experiment gone wrong and gifted a hat by Abraham Lincoln. Stacy! - Excited to be here. Looking sharp. Thinking sharp. Ready to lead. Reggye the Wise - named for a high performing CPSC Office of Communications intern. Queen. Ruler of all they see. Handsome Ron. European immigrant. Proud naturalized American citizen. Magical hat changes color and form depending on the season. Very handsome."

'''Man 2:''' Forget the car. Here comes a yak.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRz1ara-SEU This 2003 speeding PSA from Czechia]] shows a group of people at a funeral, with a brass band playing sombre music and the pallbearers getting ready to lower the coffin. Suddenly, another group of people shows up, playing a fast upbeat tune as they start running and bumping into other people and destroying property that stood in their way. In the end, the pallbearers throw the coffin as it roughly falls into the grave.

** [[https://youtu.be/h4AnOrGOPdE This PSA]], about [[spoiler:the dangers of eating pesticide-given seasonal vegetables]], is the most popular one so far, as it exceeded expectations when it comes to Thai-style comedy, while still getting the message across.
** [[https://youtu.be/4Mwl-uE2EzE Another one]] example of a Thai PSA, which is about safe driving. Unlike above, [[spoiler:the ending, a.k.a reality, is shown brutally.]]

* In response to the French nuclear tests in the 1990s, a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqPpCXHWM2o 1995 Greenpeace PSA]] utilises the baby basinette analogy. The father comes down with a bad case of PottyEmergency, and [[spoiler:proceeds to, in nuclear fashion, crap the bassinet. It turns out the father was an analogy for France, and the basinette the Pacific.]]

* These [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5e/f1/57/5ef157c299192b68a2a8d65fba79db26.jpg poster]] [[https://media.itsnicethat.com/images/52650ae65c3e3c4188001608.width-1440_qUD5QMMLMSeMH2qM.jpg ads]] from Childline UK compares and contrasts awkward situations, like accidentally calling your teacher 'mum', to talking to Childline.

* In the 1980s and 1990s there were the "Vince and Larry" [=PSAs=], featuring Vince and Larry, two crash test dummies who often complain about their job. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8Ct5hjs0Jw This one]] has Vince complaining about having to "eat steering wheel," complete with a blink-and-miss-it moment of sprinkling some salt on the steering wheel. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKYgbgxqxa8 Another]] parodies the infamous "this is your brain on drugs" PSA.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmWyMnQTQQo This anti-piracy PSA]] from the Philippines starring comedians, Jose and Wally.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRValgHDvxE The "kick the habit" ad]] from Singapore.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyrg90y0qJI This 1990 fireworks safety PIF]] is one of the most hilarious [=PIFs=] (though meant to frighten viewers) ever made due to an child yelling "DON'T BE A DUMMY, DON'T THROW FIREWORKS!!" which annoys viewers. It shows that being annoying can make the message effective.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRz1ara-SEU This 2003 speeding PSA from Czechia]] shows a group of people at a funeral, with a brass band playing sombre music and the pallbearers getting ready to lower the coffin. Suddenly, the music turns into a fast upbeat tune as they start running and bumping into other people. In the end, the pallbearers throw the coffin as it roughly falls into the grave.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie6loUZC_o8 This unintentionally hilarious PIF from NSPCC]]. It depicts a DrillSergeantNasty in full regalia making childish demands to a woman, much to the latter's dismay who [[WouldHurtAChild eventually gets up to hit the actual child]] [[MoodWhiplash while screaming "I'VE HAD ENOUGH!"]] Even the picture shows him demanding her to read a children's story. It's revealed that it was a toddler making those demands to the said woman turning out to be his mother. While the message is very important, in that children naturally ask questions and requests almost incessantly, and it's important to seek help if you're suffering from anger issues before you take it out on them, the whole thing comes off as hilariously {{Narm}}y in practice.

* Talk To [=FRANK=], the UK's leading drug education hotline, released a series of PIFs entitled ''Pablo, the Drug Mule Dog''. In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo5g6rgfghA best known]] entry in the series, we see our hero rather [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction nonchalantly react to waking up after being cut open and stitched back together to have his cargo removed]], interview some headache pills, a [[ItMakesSenseInContext casanova dime bag of coke]] and a rolled up 20 pound note, remind a woman at a party that he can't give her money for coke because he's just a dog, then witnesses an addict's nostrils arguing with each other.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie6loUZC_o8 This unintentionally hilarious PIF from NSPCC]]. It depicts a DrillSergeantNasty in full regalia making childish demands to a woman, much to the latter's dismay who [[MoodWhiplash eventually gets up to hit the actual child while screaming "I'VE HAD ENOUGH!"]] Even the picture shows him demanding her to read a children's story. It's revealed that it was a toddler making those demands to the said woman turning out to be his mother. While the message is very important, in that children naturally ask questions and requests almost incessantly, and it's important to seek help if you're suffering from anger issues before you take it out on them, the whole thing comes off as hilariously {{Narm}}y in practice.

** [[https://youtu.be/YPFGoYigaKE In another amusing ad]] from the organization, a home shopping channel is selling surfing monkey coin banks. A stoned guy buys ''fifteen'' of them. [[https://dangerousminds.net/comments/doped_up_hopheads_buy_15_surfing_monkeys What makes it funnier]] is that it was [[BasedOnATrueStory based on something that happened to the producer's friend]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie6loUZC_o8 This unintentionally hilarious PIF from NSPCC]]. It depicts a DrillSergeantNasty making childish demands to a woman, much to the latter's dismay. Even the picture shows him demanding her to read a children's story. It's revealed that it was a toddler making those demands to the said woman turning to to be his mother.

* [[http://www.ichannel.icac.hk/player/html5.html?s=icac&v=en/ichannel/api/2012_voice.mp4 This 2012 ad about the evils of electoral bribery]] from Hong Kong's sole anti-corruption agency, the ICAC.

** [[https://youtu.be/YPFGoYigaKE In another amusing ad]] from the organization, a home shopping channel is selling a surfing monkey coin bank. A stoned guy buys ''fifteen'' of them. [[https://dangerousminds.net/comments/doped_up_hopheads_buy_15_surfing_monkeys What makes it funnier]] is that it was [[BasedOnATrueStory based on something that happened to the producer's friend]].