YMMV / Companies Committed to Kids

• Broken Aesop: Ice Scream encourage kids to stay healthy and fit... So they can chase and catch an ice cream truck.
• Misaimed Fandom: The beloved House Hippo PSA is done in the style of a nature documentary explaining the house hippo's habits, followed by a voice pointing out that although it seems "really... real", the house hippo obviously doesn't exist, and the same can be said about a lot of what's shown on TV. It was meant to teach kids critical thinking and to not blindly trust everything they see on television, but some younger viewers who were captivated by the fun "documentary" part stopped paying attention once it got to the boring part explaining the message, and completely missed the point of the PSA as a result. Many Canadian kids grew up actually believing house hippos were real because of this, with some of them even staying up late to look for them or leaving offerings of peanut butter toast and bits of string.
• Missing Episode: A number of ads—"Elevator" and "Cocaine" among them—have never been posted online.
• Memetic Mutation: Almost all Canadians of a certain generation can sing "Don't You Put It in Your Mouth" from memory. One enterprising writer created a new version in 2020 to encourage parents and grandparents to stay at home at the beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
• Unintentional Period Piece:
  • The uniformly Drugs Are Bad messaging of the early ads hasn't aged well now that recreational marijuana use is legal in Canada. The organization's director said in 2016 that the topic "isn't something that's in our wheelhouse anymore."
  • The only illegal drugs the ads refer to by name are crack and cocaine, placing them squarely in the middle of the 1980s crack epidemic.
  • The ads from the early to mid-90s have a very 90s shooting style, with lots of Dutch angles, rapid cuts, and oversaturated colors.
  • The fashions in "Boutique" immediately place the ad at its production date in 1998.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The "House Hippo" ad, as the narrator at the end says, looks "really... real." So much so that it caused a Misaimed Fandom in some viewers, who ended up not believing said narration when it says the house hippo doesn't exist, because to a kid in the '90s/early 2000s, it looked too lifelike to be fake.

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