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It was [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes unavailable in English for many years]] until late 2018, when it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjPXb6Eqxi4 resurfaced on YouTube]].

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It stars Creator/PamelaAdlon, Creator/GregBurson, Creator/DanaHill, Creator/RobinetteLloyd, and Creator/TheresaSmythe. It was [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes unavailable in English for many years]] until late 2018, when it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjPXb6Eqxi4 resurfaced on YouTube]].
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* KeystoneArmy: When the kids pull the giant "Power" plug at the end, all of the anthropomorphic drugs are defeated: the joint is ReducedToDust, the alcohol bottles all shatter, the cigarettes are stamped out in a giant ashtray, and a wall falls and crushes the pills, needle, and LSD stamp.

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* KeystoneArmy: When the kids pull [[spoiler:pull the giant "Power" plug at the end, all of the anthropomorphic drugs are defeated: the joint is ReducedToDust, the alcohol bottles all shatter, the cigarettes are stamped out in a giant ashtray, and a wall falls and crushes the pills, needle, and LSD stamp.]]



* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The kids pull the giant "Power" plug, and all of the {{Anthropomorphic Vice}}s are destroyed. The video then cuts to the kids presenting their D.A.R.E. report in class, then it cuts to credits. We never learn what becomes of Iggy.

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The [[spoiler:The kids pull the giant "Power" plug, and all of the {{Anthropomorphic Vice}}s are destroyed. The video then cuts to the kids presenting their D.A.R.E. report in class, then it cuts to credits. We never learn what becomes of Iggy.]]

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* AnthropomorphicVice: Most of the drugs depicted -- cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, glue, LSD, heroin, uppers, downers -- are anthropomorphized.

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* AnthropomorphicVice: Most of the drugs depicted -- cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, glue, LSD, heroin, uppers, downers downers, pills -- are anthropomorphized.


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* KeystoneArmy: When the kids pull the giant "Power" plug at the end, all of the anthropomorphic drugs are defeated: the joint is ReducedToDust, the alcohol bottles all shatter, the cigarettes are stamped out in a giant ashtray, and a wall falls and crushes the pills, needle, and LSD stamp.


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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The kids pull the giant "Power" plug, and all of the {{Anthropomorphic Vice}}s are destroyed. The video then cuts to the kids presenting their D.A.R.E. report in class, then it cuts to credits. We never learn what becomes of Iggy.
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* SmokingIsCool: Iggy tries to present this to the kids, featuring smoking characters like "[[PunnyName Nicotina]]" (a beautiful woman smoking from a long cigarette holder), "Smokin' Jim" (an {{Expy}} of the Marlboro Man) and "Cool Rex" (a cigarette-smoking dinosaur who is apparently an Expy of Joe Camel). But when Nicotina gets close and speaks, she suddenly gets hideous-looking, and Tommy considers trying a cigarette until his friend discourages him and explains the truth and dangers of tobacco, and even Benny starts to realize that SmokingIsNotCool.

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* SmokingIsCool: Iggy tries to present this to the kids, featuring smoking characters like "[[PunnyName Nicotina]]" (a beautiful woman smoking from a long cigarette holder), "Smokin' Jim" (an {{Expy}} of the Marlboro Man) and "Cool Rex" (a cigarette-smoking dinosaur who is apparently an Expy of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Camel Joe Camel).Camel]]). But when Nicotina gets close and speaks, she suddenly gets hideous-looking, and Tommy considers trying a cigarette until his friend discourages him and explains the truth and dangers of tobacco, and even Benny starts to realize that SmokingIsNotCool.

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* AnthropomorphicVice: Most of the drugs depicted -- cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, glue, LSD, heroin, uppers, downers -- are anthropomorphized.



* SmokingIsCool: Iggy tries to present this to the kids, featuring smoking characters like "[[PunnyName Nicotina]]" (a beautiful woman smoking from a long cigarette holder), "Smokin' Jim" (an {{Expy}} of the Marlboro Man) and "Cool Rex" (a cigarette-smoking dinosaur). But when Nicotina gets close and speaks, she suddenly gets hideous-looking, and Tommy considers trying a cigarette until his friend discourages him and explains the truth and dangers of tobacco, and even Benny starts to realize that SmokingIsNotCool.

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* SmokingIsCool: Iggy tries to present this to the kids, featuring smoking characters like "[[PunnyName Nicotina]]" (a beautiful woman smoking from a long cigarette holder), "Smokin' Jim" (an {{Expy}} of the Marlboro Man) and "Cool Rex" (a cigarette-smoking dinosaur).dinosaur who is apparently an Expy of Joe Camel). But when Nicotina gets close and speaks, she suddenly gets hideous-looking, and Tommy considers trying a cigarette until his friend discourages him and explains the truth and dangers of tobacco, and even Benny starts to realize that SmokingIsNotCool.

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* BlackBestFriend: The unnamed male friend to Tommy.



* NoNameGiven: We never learn the names of the male BlackBestFriend to Tommy, or the girl with the brown hair. Only Tommy (the Asian boy with the bowl cut) and Lisa (the girl with blonde pigtails) are given names out of the group of kids, alongside Iggy (the drug dealer) and Benny (his kid assistant.)

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* NoNameGiven: We never learn the names of the male BlackBestFriend black friend to Tommy, or the girl with the brown hair. Only Tommy (the Asian boy with the bowl cut) and Lisa (the girl with blonde pigtails) are given names out of the group of kids, alongside Iggy (the drug dealer) and Benny (his kid assistant.)



* SmokingIsCool: Iggy tries to present this to the kids, featuring smoking characters like "[[PunnyName Nicotina]]" (a beautiful woman smoking from a long cigarette holder), "Smokin' Jim" (an {{Expy}} of the Marlboro Man) and "Cool Rex" (a cigarette-smoking dinosaur). But when Nicotina gets close and speaks, she suddenly gets hideous-looking, and Tommy considers trying a cigarette until his BlackBestFriend discourages him and explains the truth and dangers of tobacco, and even Benny starts to realize that SmokingIsNotCool.

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* SmokingIsCool: Iggy tries to present this to the kids, featuring smoking characters like "[[PunnyName Nicotina]]" (a beautiful woman smoking from a long cigarette holder), "Smokin' Jim" (an {{Expy}} of the Marlboro Man) and "Cool Rex" (a cigarette-smoking dinosaur). But when Nicotina gets close and speaks, she suddenly gets hideous-looking, and Tommy considers trying a cigarette until his BlackBestFriend friend discourages him and explains the truth and dangers of tobacco, and even Benny starts to realize that SmokingIsNotCool.
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* AnimateInanimateObject: The Land of Decisions and Choices is also the home of large anthropomorphic cigarettes, beer and liquor bottles, an [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid Ursula]]-esque joint, a glue tube (for sniffing glue), a postage stamp (when referencing acid/LSD), and a heroin needle. It's quite surreal.

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* AnimateInanimateObject: The Land of Decisions and Choices is also the home of large anthropomorphic cigarettes, beer and liquor bottles, an [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Ursula]]-esque joint, a glue tube (for sniffing glue), a postage stamp (when referencing acid/LSD), and a heroin needle. It's quite surreal.



* TheStoner: A giant talking anthropomorphic joint reminiscent of [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid Ursula]] fills this role, initially saying nonsense that doesn't answer the kids' questions if she's seen the puppy go by.

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* TheStoner: A giant talking anthropomorphic joint reminiscent of [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Ursula]] fills this role, initially saying nonsense that doesn't answer the kids' questions if she's seen the puppy go by.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Yes, it's just as bizarre as it looks.]]
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''The D.A.R.E. Report: The Land of Decisions and Choices'' is 1993 drug abuse educational animated video produced by D.A.R.E.[[note]]Drug Abuse Resistance and Education.[[/note]] It features four pre-teen kids that are working on a report about drug abuse and resistance for the D.A.R.E. program. But things go awry on the way to school when [[ADogAteMyHomework Officer D.A.R.E.'s puppy swipes the backpack containing said report]], and the kids end up chasing him into the titular (and ''very'' surreal) Land of Decisions and Choices, where a drug dealer named Iggy and his kid BumblingSidekick Benny attempt to push drugs like cigarettes, alcoholic beverages, marijuana and cocaine to the four preteens while [[ItMakesSenseInContext dressed like a rabbit and a bee, respectively]]. It is here that the kids' learned knowledge about drugs is put to the test...

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''The D.A.R.E. Report: The Land of Decisions and Choices'' is a 1993 drug abuse educational animated video produced by D.A.R.E.[[note]]Drug Abuse Resistance and Education.[[/note]] It features four pre-teen kids that are working on a report about drug abuse and resistance for the D.A.R.E. program. But things go awry on the way to school when [[ADogAteMyHomework Officer D.A.R.E.'s puppy swipes the backpack containing said report]], and the kids end up chasing him into the titular (and ''very'' surreal) Land of Decisions and Choices, where a drug dealer named Iggy and his kid BumblingSidekick Benny attempt to push drugs like cigarettes, alcoholic beverages, marijuana and cocaine to the four preteens while [[ItMakesSenseInContext dressed like a rabbit and a bee, respectively]]. It is here that the kids' learned knowledge about drugs is put to the test...

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"Face" is good; "Heel" is bad.


* BumblingSidekick: Benny is this to Iggy through and through. It also leads to [[spoiler:Benny [[FaceHeelTurn turning against Iggy and joining the good kids]].]]

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* BumblingSidekick: Benny is this to Iggy through and through. It also leads to [[spoiler:Benny [[FaceHeelTurn [[HeelFaceTurn turning against Iggy and joining the good kids]].]]



* FullBodyDisguise / LatexPerfection: Iggy's full-body rabbit costume that completely covers him from head to toe. After he puts it on after his introduction, Iggy doesn't take it off until near his defeat when he removes the attached mask. Benny's bee costume however shows his true face and arms.

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* FullBodyDisguise / LatexPerfection: FullBodyDisguise: Iggy's full-body rabbit costume that completely covers him from head to toe. After he puts it on after his introduction, Iggy doesn't take it off until near his defeat when he removes the attached mask. Benny's bee costume however costume, however, shows his true face and arms.



* SmokingIsCool: Iggy tries to present this to the kids, featuring smoking characters like "[[PunnyName Nicotina]]" (a beautiful woman smoking from a long cigarette holder), "Smokin' Jim" (an {{Expy}} of the Marlboro Man) and "Cool Rex" (a cigarette-smoking dinosaur.) But when Nicotina gets close and speaks, she suddenly gets hideous-looking, and Tommy considers trying a cigarette until his BlackBestFriend discourages him and explains the truth and dangers of tobacco, and even Benny starts to realize that SmokingIsNotCool.
* TheStoner: A giant talking anthropomorphic joint reminiscent of [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid Ursula]] fills this role, initially saying FridgeBrilliance nonsense that doesn't answer the kids' questions if she's seen the puppy go by.

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* SmokingIsCool: Iggy tries to present this to the kids, featuring smoking characters like "[[PunnyName Nicotina]]" (a beautiful woman smoking from a long cigarette holder), "Smokin' Jim" (an {{Expy}} of the Marlboro Man) and "Cool Rex" (a cigarette-smoking dinosaur.) dinosaur). But when Nicotina gets close and speaks, she suddenly gets hideous-looking, and Tommy considers trying a cigarette until his BlackBestFriend discourages him and explains the truth and dangers of tobacco, and even Benny starts to realize that SmokingIsNotCool.
* TheStoner: A giant talking anthropomorphic joint reminiscent of [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid Ursula]] fills this role, initially saying FridgeBrilliance nonsense that doesn't answer the kids' questions if she's seen the puppy go by.by.
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* ADogAteMyHomework: The plot, as is, gets underway when Officer D.A.R.E.'s hyperactive puppy steals Tommy's backpack containing their drug report and the kids must go after him.

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* ADogAteMyHomework: The plot, TheAggressiveDrugDealer: Iggy starts out as is, gets underway an aversion to this, acting really friendly to the kids, until near the end when Officer D.A.R.E.'s hyperactive puppy steals Tommy's backpack containing their drug report he begins to get like this, especially when he begins to advance on Benny and the other kids must go after him.in an alleyway with living anthropomorphic hard drugs.
* AlcoholicParent: Lisa has an alcoholic father, and it helps her out for her part of the drug abuse report about the dangers of alcohol.
* AnimateInanimateObject: The Land of Decisions and Choices is also the home of large anthropomorphic cigarettes, beer and liquor bottles, an [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid Ursula]]-esque joint, a glue tube (for sniffing glue), a postage stamp (when referencing acid/LSD), and a heroin needle. It's quite surreal.
* BlackBestFriend: The unnamed male friend to Tommy.



* DescentIntoAddiction: Iggy begins to show traits of this after the kids refuse his offer to try sniffing cocaine. When a gust of wind blows the coke away, Iggy panics and lights up a crack pipe in desperation.
* ADogAteMyHomework: The plot, as is, gets underway when Officer D.A.R.E.'s hyperactive puppy steals Tommy's backpack containing their drug report and the kids must go after him.
* DrugsAreBad: Well, this ''is'' a drug abuse education video. The four "good" kids even write a report for school about this subject.



* NoNameGiven: We never learn the names of the male BlackBestFriend to Tommy, or the girl with the brown hair. Only Tommy (the Asian boy with the bowl cut) and Lisa (the girl with blonde pigtails) are given names out of the group of kids, alongside Iggy (the drug dealer) and Benny (his kid assistant.)

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* NoMoreForMe: Benny as he keeps hearing from the "good kids" how bad drugs can be.
* NoNameGiven: We never learn the names of the male BlackBestFriend to Tommy, or the girl with the brown hair. Only Tommy (the Asian boy with the bowl cut) and Lisa (the girl with blonde pigtails) are given names out of the group of kids, alongside Iggy (the drug dealer) and Benny (his kid assistant.))
* ReducedToDust: Happens to [[spoiler:the giant anthropomorphic joint after the good kids cut off the drugs' power. A bolt of lightning zaps the joint and reduces her to ashes.]]
* ARoundOfDrinksForTheHouse: Iggy presents this when he attempts to persuade the "good" kids to start drinking alcohol, accompanied by large anthropomorphic beer bottles.
* SmokingIsCool: Iggy tries to present this to the kids, featuring smoking characters like "[[PunnyName Nicotina]]" (a beautiful woman smoking from a long cigarette holder), "Smokin' Jim" (an {{Expy}} of the Marlboro Man) and "Cool Rex" (a cigarette-smoking dinosaur.) But when Nicotina gets close and speaks, she suddenly gets hideous-looking, and Tommy considers trying a cigarette until his BlackBestFriend discourages him and explains the truth and dangers of tobacco, and even Benny starts to realize that SmokingIsNotCool.
* TheStoner: A giant talking anthropomorphic joint reminiscent of [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid Ursula]] fills this role, initially saying FridgeBrilliance nonsense that doesn't answer the kids' questions if she's seen the puppy go by.
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''The D.A.R.E. Report: The Land of Decisions and Choices'' is 1993 drug abuse educational animated video produced by D.A.R.E.[[note]]Drug Abuse Resistance and Education.[[/note]] It features four pre-teen kids that are working on a report about drug abuse and resistance for the D.A.R.E. program. But things go awry on the way to school when [[ADogAteMyHomework Officer D.A.R.E.'s puppy swipes the backpack containing said report]], and the kids end up chasing him into the titular (and ''very'' surreal) Land of Decisions and Choices, where a drug dealer named Iggy and his kid BumblingSidekick Benny attempt to push drugs like cigarettes, alcoholic beverages, marijuana and cocaine to the four preteens while [[ItMakesSenseInContext dressed like a rabbit and a bee, respectively]]. It is here that the kids' learned knowledge about drugs is put to the test...

It was [[KeepCirculatingTheTapes unavailable in English for many years]] until late 2018, when it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjPXb6Eqxi4 resurfaced on YouTube]].

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!! This drug video provides examples of:
* ADogAteMyHomework: The plot, as is, gets underway when Officer D.A.R.E.'s hyperactive puppy steals Tommy's backpack containing their drug report and the kids must go after him.
* BumblingSidekick: Benny is this to Iggy through and through. It also leads to [[spoiler:Benny [[FaceHeelTurn turning against Iggy and joining the good kids]].]]
* DerangedAnimation: VERY prominent throughout the video. At times it feels similar to something Creator/KlaskyCsupo would make, and had a few of the same artists.
* ExpressiveMask: The attached mask on Iggy's rabbit costume is very expressive with Iggy's real face, complete with moving mouth and eyelids, and even has similar facial features to Iggy's true face, at least if he really were a rabbit. It even gives Iggy ''buck teeth''. Though this may be due to the DerangedAnimation throughout the video.
* FullBodyDisguise / LatexPerfection: Iggy's full-body rabbit costume that completely covers him from head to toe. After he puts it on after his introduction, Iggy doesn't take it off until near his defeat when he removes the attached mask. Benny's bee costume however shows his true face and arms.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Benny eventually realizes how bad drugs can be, and decides to leave Iggy and join up with the "good" pre-teens and eventually becomes one of them.]]
* NoNameGiven: We never learn the names of the male BlackBestFriend to Tommy, or the girl with the brown hair. Only Tommy (the Asian boy with the bowl cut) and Lisa (the girl with blonde pigtails) are given names out of the group of kids, alongside Iggy (the drug dealer) and Benny (his kid assistant.)

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