YouTub: What color today, Sarah?

I hate to begin with another chat log but I figured I should provide entirely authentic proof that I actually asked my mom what to post:
pat0354: I value pedantry, condescension, and lecturing tones
pat0354: how about public service announcements
sometimesphylan: yo brb

You would think that PSAs would be a straightforward search, but you'd then quickly be disappointed to learn that many YouTube users have also posted their self-made, mostly unfunny PSA "parodies," and even some serious submissions that were made for classes (why why why). There are still plenty to be had, though.

Be warned, the local pederast movie theater employee is obsessively monitoring your poorly designed MySpace page:

The only way to make public service announcements more melodramatic and self-satirizing is to have David Lynch direct them (no, really):

Whenever I watch 1950s PSAs I like to try and guess which subset of the population will be demonized within the first five seconds. Play along:

This is pretty much what my workplace is like:

I do find, though, that the paperweight is more effective in those kinds of delicate managerial situations.

And although this isn't a PSA, and more of a commercial, it's too incredible to worry about relevance - John Basedow has a goddamned MySpace.

 

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Comments

[The Mayor]

Back in February I spent an hour and half watching English PSAs from the late 1940s. They were glorious. One PSA advised that children be fed a "colorful" diet, filled with brown meat and white potatoes. There was also an entire 15 minute piece on how not to be an ahole to the women in the secretary pool hired to take dictation.

[Inactive account]

I have enjoyed watching British public information films. Talk about scary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmNrsqE9wVE

[KELLYq]

Ah, yes! The return of the full-assed post! Glorious, indeed!