youtube.com —In 1988, all four networks aired this special starring The Smurfs, Alvin & the Chipmunks, Garfield, Bugs Bunny, and ALF, as a super crime-fighting team getting kids off drugs.
I remember this in grade school and begging the teachers to let us watch this. They usually let us because it was a half hour break for them and radical for us.
God does this bring back memories. My brother and I still find way's to insert Simon's line of "My guess is Mara-juana..." into our lives any time the subject pops up.
I like the idea, but the execution is a little off.
Most people who drink booze don't rob their little sister to get money for it. Same with most weed smokers.
Heroin etc are a little different as they are seriously addictive but why did they not point out the kid had needle scars or other physical problems related to the drug rather than saying drugs will make him do things he didn't want to do?
This moral absolutism is the reason most kids reject the anti drugs tirade. They try weed, wonder why the ***** they were ever scared of it and then don't listen to warnings about harder drugs. The government is crying wolf too often for its own good and seriously sabotaging legitimate anti drug campaigns.
I don't know. If I was getting high and could hang out with Alf, the Smurfs and stuff that would be rad.From that kids point of view drugs are totally awesome. Smoke a joint, talk to the TMNT, life seems good.
So smoking pot and taking drugs makes you able to hang out with all the popular cartoon characters from your childhood? Oh boy, gotta try that stuff now.
When michaelangelo of the teenage mutant ninja turtles television cartoon traps you in the sewers pulls out a giant plug and warps you into some transcendental journey into a theme park of the mind led by a baby miss piggy and kermit. Go along with them on the ride. What could it hurt?
What is wrong with weed!? Half the politicians and people advocating against it, are those closet alcoholics, who eventually kill someone driving drunk (many politicians have been caught DUI). They have to know weed does nothing compared to alcohol.
Thank God I watched that. Never again will I use the illegal substance marijuana to get "artificially high."
Why people just talk to people about drugs, alcohol, and tobacco for what they really are? We don't need to lie. We don't have to pretend that marijuana will make you steal, buy crack, cause physical harm to your family, etc.
holy crap, this made my day. i've been (lazily...) looking for this thing for years. digg just tossed it in my lap. NICE. (now they just have to post the full/tv version of 'muppet family christmas' and my childhoods complete).
Does this ever happen to people? Are people ever REALLY peer-pressured into smoking? I mean, nobody has ever been upset when I turn it down. Just more for them!
The irony here is that drugs were probably employed in the creative process to develop most of these iconic cartoon characters. I mean, really, a sarcastic alien who looks like a cross between a dog and bigfoot and has a taste for "Weekend At Bernie's" Hawaiian tees? A talking cat who's two favorite pass-times are sleeping all day and gorging on lasagna? Tiny blue creatures that wear tighty-whities, live inside of mushrooms and share one mother-smurfin' vagina between every smurf in town? Sounds like reefer madness to me.