the fear anti-smoking PSAs instilled in me as a child was so strong that every time i walked past someone smoking on the street (or my grandparents' house) i would hold my breath and then fucking pray
@@sunanimoon BRUH, THAT OLD LADY WITH A HOLE IN HER NECK WHO TALKED LIKE T-800?? THAT STUCK WITH ME AS A CHILDHOOD MEMORY 😭😭😭 Also I still hold my breath walking past smokers in fear :)
honestly getting jumpscared by: “guy gets buttcrack surgically removed because he’s scared of any kind of crack now” is funnier than any sketch that could’ve been made from that lol
My wife was so enamored with the concept of little house hippos that I bought a few dozen little plastic hippos at a toy shop and hid them around the house. Peeking from behind books, on top of shelves, from under the dresser. For about two weeks I got to hear a little shriek of delight every time she found one.
Not Canadian, but I remember a PSA in an assembly where a girl named Crystal went to every kid in the neighborhood and asked if they wanted to play and every kid slammed the door in her face and I remember feeling SO BAD for her. Then the video revealed that her full name was crystal meth and you should never play with crystal meth. I don’t. I don’t why they thought getting a bunch of 9 year olds to sympathize with crystal meth was a good idea.
Dude. When I was really little I watched the Lion King on VHS like every day. One day I had the BRILLIANT idea that I could go hang out with Simba and all my favorite characters....if I just had a hammer to open up the TV (duh). To this day I'm so glad I never found a hammer, and yes I looked around the house. So if you see a kid toddling around the house with an agenda they may just be on a death mission they think is genius. Kids are so dumb lol
Honestly the anti-smoking PSAs in Australia were so effective on me that the first time I met a smoker, they were a friend of my grandmother and they started to smoke, I ran away crying an hid in the bathroom until she left. I will never smoke a cigarette to this day.
YES! Aussie anti-smoking psa's are on another level. My sister is so scarred by them she cannot be around people smoking, she holds her breath and runs away.
Those ads are effective as all hell, but also traumatising as hell. You'd go into woolies with your mum, and as you were leaving and exiting, you'd see those awful pictures of disfigured toes and an eye pried open with metal. They are single-handedly the reason that I will never smoke a cigarette in my life.
I almost cried when Kurtis said that he believed Michael Jackson would stay in the TV and perform "Will You Be There" for him and him only whenever he'd watch Free Willy as a kid, that's literally the funniest shit I've ever heard
I understand most youtubers don't actually use the sponsors they advertise and they just read out the ad copy for the sponsorship, but its honestly really funny to me to have Kurtis be advertising Current, an online banking service only available in the USA he can't even use, on a video about such a painfully Canadian topic.
The non-smoking PSAs were the creepiest. I distinctly remember one where somebody was smoking in the living room and laughing at TV and the smoke went down the hall into the baby's room and suffocated them
You should check out the British psa's from the early 2000's. They were like short horror movies, very graphic deaths. There was one about a little girl that gets hit by a car, it's about reducing speed and it sort of rewinds time and all her bones unbreak. It's really haunted me since I saw it as a kid...
Reminds me of a bullying psa we were shown in 6th grade in class where this little boy gets dropped on a toilet after some kids try to give him a swirlie and his skull cracks open and he dies. They don't show any actual gore, but they show this like watered down "blood" and it made me so horrified, I'll remember it for the rest of my life even with my bad memory
i genuinely remember being a child and watching hannah montana being like “yknow if she wanted to keep such a big secret you’d think she wouldn’t make a tv show about it”
Dude I thought during commercials animators drew the next part of the show really fast and that's why they needed ads, so the animators could take a break. I thought that for reruns too and I was always like "I wonder if the animators get tired of drawing the same episode again."
I thought the same thing about cartoons when I learned that voice actors are the ones who make the voices lol, I literally thought that every time I wanted to watch Cars that Larry the Cable Guy would show up inside my tv and voice Mater at the exact time the movie is playing
A PSA that always bummed me out as a kid- was that smoke PSA where this person is like "smoking makes you sexy and mysterious" but at the end you hear the heart monitor and see a patient in a wheelchair like "but also gives you cancer" and I was like. " o k...."
Bro, I remember that one! It was like "They say smoking will make you attractive, the say it will make you happy, etc. But the truth is (cut to scene of old lady on oxygen) you could end up like me." Always made me feel sad, man.
@@phillysmallz that's what they were trying to do, show the actual effects of smoking and addiction so children don't want to smoke bc who wants to live with cancer
little lungs in a great big world traumatized me as a kid istg 😭 everytime i saw them start i would run to my room and hide so i wouldn’t have to see them
One of the most hard hitting PSA ads I ever remember was an ad for the speed limit, I think. In the UK in the mid to late 2000s there was an ad where it would show this child, dead on the road, bones all fucked up and there would be a voice over of the child saying "if you hit me at 40 there's an 80% chance I'll die, hit me at 30 and there's an 80% chance I'll live" and then the kids bones all crack into place, the blood goes back into the body and they wake up. It was fucked.
There was this one Canadian PSA about workplace safety where there is this chef or someone like that holding a vat of oil and slips on a stain making the oil go all over her. The screams sounds so realistic it stuck with me for a week or two.
@@owie8212 I'm so sick of seeing them everywhere bruh.. everytime I come across them (which is every two minutes) I get the urge to bang my head against the wall😭
When I was a kid there was this one PSA with a woman dressed in white and she said stuff like "my name is cocaine, I can make you feel amazing" and as it went on, she started rotting and becoming this zombie creature, it was horrific and probably the main reason why I never did drugs.
when i would watch sitcoms as a kid, i remember thinking that wherever the actors looked, there would be a teleprompter there with the script. like if they looked up, there was one on the ceiling, if they looked down, there was one on the floor. i could not fathom the idea that they memorized their lines
You know they kind of do it for some of the more braindead actors that get cast mostly for looks. I´m not going to mention names out of respect but we all can think of at least two immediately I bet.
As a previous little girl, I can say I spent most of my time acting out the most dramatic stories I could dream up with my Barbie/American girl dolls. Death, injury, crazy storms, heartbreak, etc. I also like pretending I had to survive in the wilderness in the backyard
@@COMBATANT_LYNX my LPS went through so much trauma, i specifically remember that i had made up a story where one got in a crash and LOST AN EYE? like girl…
Same! I remember I had Polly Pockets that I played with in the bathtub. I tied them up in hair clips and ritually drowned them, and I acted out the terror and futile escape attempts the remaining Polly Pockets went through when they saw their friends dying horribly. Their misery and fear only increased the closer they got to the edge, looking down on their friends limp corpses at the bottom of the tub, begging for help from an unforgiving universe. Their god was a 5 year old who did not care for their happiness.
When I was a kid, a friend of my dad's was in a refrigerator commercial. When I met the guy in real life for the first time, I was so shocked because I recognized him from the ad, and I asked him how he got out of the tv because I thought he lived in there, just like all the other tv people.
It’s shocking me how many people thought like people lived in the tv or they performed everything live for them when they watched tv. I did think tv shows and movies were real as a kid but I didn’t think people lived in my tv or that everything was broadcasted live. I wish I did think they lived in my tv because then I wouldn’t of been terrified of being murdered by a cyberman from doctor who in my sleep.
It’s okay man I thought people lived in my moms phone , we’d call my grandparents and I’d shake the phone and then get terrified and ask if they were okay , and I’d show them things around my house thinking that they could see it and the family would be so confused
this reminds me of when i was little & would get sad when i would stay up watching Disney & apologize out loud to the tv bc i thought selena & miley had to work overtime to perform live over & over 😭
No longer a girl, but as an autistic child I read about girls “chasing boys” during recess, and I took that literally. Wanting to be a Normal Girl, I chose a boy pretty much at random and chased him down every day at recess. No one stopped me, and I have no idea what I planned to do if I ever caught him. I kind of knew that would never happen
Okay I’m an autist lesbian and I would follow my friend around while she was chasing a boy. Idk what was going on but I remember the chase was fun (i met the guy at a gay event years later and it was one of his formative gay experiences 😅)
same, but one day I realized I was running faster than him and didn’t know what to do so I just ran past him, decided that the entire time it had been a race with no track and I finally won
don't worry kurtis, i also thought house hippos were real. i always thought the only reason i never saw one was bc my bedtime was 8:30 (i did not know that i had free will and could stay up to catch one if i wanted to)
Fun thing about Goosebumps! I read somewhere that R.L. Stine avoided anything bad in his stories that was real - stuff like broken homes or abuse - because he wanted to make sure that the kids knew it was all fake and that they were safe from the stuff in his books. Plus he kept humor very prevalent in his books so that it wasn't too scary! Take this with a grain of salt, I remember reading it but honestly it could have been a load of house hippos, lol.
Even though I knew it was all fake, I was still so scared of everything in Goosebumps. But I'm also a scaredy-cat, like, to this day I'm still scared of things in Goosebumps regardless of knowing it's 100% fake amd there's a 0% chance of it happening.
As a kid who was going through a lot, goosebumps was my safe space fr. I wrote the guy a letter in crayon when I was like 7 (Disclaimer it was unreadable and my mom had to rewrite it)
@@mystqicc3901 same here, but ya know what i was scared of the most when it came to goosebumps? That part of the intro when that billboard changed. Idk why but part always disturbs me. 💀🤣
I loved goosebumps but the shrunken head cover did haunt me for a little while lmao. I quite literally thought I had seen it floating at me once in the dark and I was scarred. Moral of the story, my brain has been working against me since day one.
Didn't he write a Tales to Give You Goosebumps story where an older brother took pictures of his younger sister in her underwear and threatened to post them at her school?
The house hippo commercial fooled me as a kid, I kept leaving out toast and peanut butter and my mom told me to stop. When I told her I wanted to attract a house hippo, she said they didn't live in Saskatchewan. I'm still not totally convinced they aren't real.
they're absolutely real now. lots of people who go thrift shopping for fun collect them and they'll have tons of little house hippos around their houses and share pics of them amongst each other in their thrifting fb groups lmao
That´s the genius behind it, so kids enjoy them and remember them and show their friends. In Germany PSAs are about as entertaining or gripping as peeling potatoes. They go more for the very depressing and seem to be tailored more for the parents, like "Don´t let your children do X or Y" "Every year, X children die from X". Then some slow-mo grey and white footage of a kid doing something stupid. Sometimes a hospital bed with a kid full of tubes or even a child´s coffin back in the day. I guess the assumption is that children don´t watch unsupervised TV. Which happens to also be a PSA.
Haha I remember watching Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium and was blown away that he actually had to die for the movie when they showed his grave. I asked my dad did he actually die and I guess my dad thought I was talking about the character because he said yeah he did die.
@@kayakat1869 100% believed that. Feared for my life jaws would come snatch me like all the people in the movie 💀 I didn’t live anywhere near the ocean tho just dumb
I remember a german anti-piracy ad that they would play in front of every movie where a mother and a bunch of kids were singing "happy birthday" under a PRISON window and at the end the mother would say "just four more times singing until daddy gets home :(" it was wild. It's called "Noch viermal singen" on youtube incase you wanna look it up lol
which is very funny because Happy Birthday is a copyrighted song (until very recently), which you couldn't perform in movies/tv/anywhere public without paying the licensing so it could have been a very meta commentary about IP theft/music licensing
I think the PSA that got me the most as a kid was the one with the crack smuggling dog 😭 i was so traumatized by the idea of people smuggling drugs INSIDE dogs, I was so suspicious of every dog I met for years after lol
Here in NZ we have a pretty intense drinking culture and so we had accordingly intense drinking PSAs. The one that messed with me the most was a guy who was drunk at a family gathering and spun a kid around by the arms as a 'helicopter ride' and slammed her into a bookcase. I would swap channels every time it came on, I couldn't stand it
That lowkey happened to me- when we were kids my brother was swinging me around by my ankles for a helicopter ride & my head hit the leg of our couch & I had to get stitches at the hospital LOL
The thought of startling random children on the street had me in tears. Also I was at a rave last night and there was a girl with a Fushigi, I thought she was a witch
I was too young to understand the meaning so i thought they were real for the longest time and i was jealous bc i thought other people really had house hippos
In Argentina in the early 2000s there was a PSA about road safety that started with people being asked why they don't wear seatbelt, the tone of the psa seemed lighthearted at first, like they were going to be asking around the whole time ( one of the answers was "Because it wrinkles my clothes") Then, there is a sudden tone shift were they show mannequins for crash tests being ABSOLUTE FUCKING WRECKED and then and ACTUAL PERSON (I tought that at the time ) being SMASHED through the WINDSHIELD and a close up of their dead eyes and then a dry cut saying "Lets fight for our lives". I still think about it sometimes lol
When I was a kid I thought I wasn't Native "because I have hair and not feathers!" lmao. Like thanks to media I thought "real" Native people actually grew feathers out of their heads, because the ones in media are never seen without feathers in their hair. My dad still brings it up lol.
That reminds me of the fact that up until I was 10 I thought there were no black people in Britain... then I saw a British black man outside mcdonalds say "pass the chips." Fucking turned my world upside down. I was not a bright child.
The Fushigi ball is technically something called a “contact juggling” ball, and the Fushigi itself is like the most hated brand of contact juggling ball by contact jugglers because it was just a cash grab to sell to children, and not a serious contact juggling prop. There are some great places to buy them and people can do some amazing tricks with them, but Fushigi is like the “we have contact juggling ball at home” ball when you ask people who are deep into the hobby
A person of culture I see, it's kinda strange to me people don't associate any crystal ball to contact juggling. But I guess as a juggler I live in a bubble that's far away from common sense.
@@onelastch4nce557 nah, went to his shows and he admitted that he doesn’t smoke weed as much. He’s done it before but he said it generally gave him anxiety so he doesn’t do it as much Just taking the info I heard from him. I could be wrong and he changed tho. It was from last year
13:53 Coraline and Dont Hug Me Im Scared(kinda, its really gorey, and covers adult topics but looks like a kids show, so think it counts. plus it was my cildhood show.)
There were some old English PSAs about burning yourself on sparklers and drinking chemicals. The sound of the screams the little girl makes after ingesting the chemicals has been seared into my brain. Genuinely haunting.
@@genericyoutubehandle. Omg there was a game about road safety too that we all played in like primary and it was so scary like the kids all looked half dead with their eyes and like there was one part with a kid getting hit by a car and breaking his arm. Haunting.
I’m pretty sure that was from like a whole psa movie where each kid dies a horrible death from something that could’ve been easily prevented if their parents just taught them Like a girl drinks random chemicals and dies from her insides melting basically, another kid gets ran over I think.. I find psa’s interesting so I watched it and the little girls screams also stuck with me.. I’ll say those kids were great actors at least
the English ones are fucking terrifying! Meanwhile here in Australia we got the Grim Reaper AIDS ad which I saw something like 20 years after the AIDS crisis and I laugh every time the people get hit with the bowling ball and fly everywhere. Cracks me up no end but apparently it scared the shit out of people at the time (really though, people were already scared of AIDS - why scare them more? There's a message at the end that says always use condoms but that's about it in terms of helpful information.)
dude i remember BEGGING my dad for one and when i got it i was soooo disappointed that it wasn’t a floating magic ball and just a heavy sphere that I hurt myself with after dropping it on my foot 😐
When I heard concerned children's advertisers, my IMMEDIATE thought was the boy getting chased by a bunch of girls (and the house hippo). I'm so glad to know that these weren't all fever dreams you have when you watched YTV while home during a school day.
I remember those anti-smoking commercials of someone with a throat port talking and they sound horrifying and you can literally see them breathing through the port and it scarred me
the message seems clearer in that one compared to the older one that had these two girls going through this nightmare makeup building, that one used to freak me out and I don't think I ever realized what it was even supposed to be telling me lol
I was an extremely dumb child and seriously misunderstood the point of that PSA, to the opposite effect it was intended to have. I remember hearing "you don't need a media monkey telling you what to do" and seeing that the monkey was trying to stop the girl, so I thought the point was don't side with the monkey - it's important to watch your weight and not let other people convince you otherwise
Whenever Kurtis explains a joke, it's actually a joke itself. The punchline is that explaining jokes usually ruin them, so as a professional comedian, he's constantly ruining his jokes in an ironic way. Because it's ironic, the joke is not actually ruined, but instead trumped by the joke of explaining it.
I'd say you ruined the joke by explaining it but "because it's ironic, the joke is not actually ruined, but instead trumped by the joke of explaining it."
I have vivid memories of this one that was about a girl trying various drugs and spiralling all along to: 1, 2, skipped some school. 3, 4, snort some more. 5, 6, need my fix. 7, 8, feels too late. And that one fucked me up, it started so chill and ended with her overdosing in a bathroom or some shit iirc? Fucked me up, man, truly did its job.
Last week my boyfriend and I watched a TH-cam playlist of those Heritage Minutes videos and I was surprised by the unlocked memories - they were just lurking in there!
@@klaythoring1326 The one Canadian Heritage Moment that stuck with me the most was actually a skit. Windy the Pooh. It was so stupid, it was hilarious.
as far as scaring children into not doing bad things goes, my favorite has got to be this one illustrated german book, Struwwelpeter. It's from 1845. Some guy was annoyed that there were no good books to gift to his 3y/o son, so he decided to make one. All the stories are like "this little girl thought matches were super cool and wanted to play with them, but her mother told her not to, because she could get hurt. later on, the girl's parents went somewhere and left the girl home alone, so she decided to play with matches and literally burned to death, her cats cried over the little pile of ash that was left of her", "this boy kept sucking on his thumbs even though his parents told him not to. one day, a random tailor came along and cut off the boy's thumbs with his big scissors", "this boy did not want to eat his soup. over the next five days, he wasted away and died from hunger". fantastic stuff, i'm sure his 3y/o son loved that.
I remember there was also the story of a boy who used an umbrella outside and then got carried away by the wind and was never seen again and that terrified me as a kid, I never used umbrellas when it was windy outside
I was born and raised in the USA. Even still, I had heard the rumors of house hippos and thought they were real for YEARS. Thanks for shedding some light, Kurtis.
House hippos became the go-to excuse for leaving crumbs everywhere and I unironically had "don't put it in your mouth" on my iPod shuffle back in the day. Thank you, company's name that I completely missed and didn't go back to find for this comment. My childhood was better, if not safer, because of you.
One of my teachers had a little daughter who misunderstood the cracked eggs in the frying pan PSA. She though when they said, this is your brain on drugs, that they meant eggs are drugs. so she wouldn't eat eggs.
Honestly? She’s not wrong for it, that ad made no sense 😭 they shouldve showed it to a group of elementary schoolers before airing and seen if they could understand it lmaoo
They showed us the house hippo psa in school during a lesson on media literacy. I remember being so bummed out that house hippos don’t exist. In my heart, I still believe.
no because as a child i used to think that musicians would perform their songs on the radio everyday everytime i heard them on the radio. it was extremely perplexing to me that green day and beyonce would just stay at the stations all day everyday
During my Driver’s Ed class they just showed us a bunch of highly dramatized videos of car crashes. Extremely bloody and hyper realistic. Even years later I’m terrified of driving and try hard not to blink because I am too scared to close my eyes even for a second.
They showed us a doc series called red asphalt here in Iowa for high school drivers ed. It had real car crashes and uncensored dead bodies. Like peoples brains out and shit, It was literally just LiveLeak. I think I have an undiagnosed anxiety disorder because of it lol
In my Driver's Ed class they literally had a family come on to describe in detail how their daughter died in a drunk driving incident. I can't remember anything else from driver's ed because every time I think back to it I remember that one class and stop there.
Best part is that the PSA's where so focused on regular cigarettes that they got a whole generation that hated cigarettes, but thought VAPING was the shit 💀
It’s so funny that I think we - as a collective of Canadian children - all had the exact same experience with that house hippo ad. The last part of it was just wah-wah-wah-wah from Charlie Brown and the first bit was pure, bona fide FACT. I genuinely don’t even remember hearing the wrap up. It did not exist. 😴
I honestly (as a kid) thought the wrap up was a different commercial so I always ignored it 😆 but I did always want a house hippo, and still do to this day.
Every time I would see the ad I would be so excited and then I would see the wrap up and be disappointed. And then I’d see the ad later and the cycle would repeat lmao
I no joke used to believe in house hippos. At my school, every Thursday they’d have us watch a random old PSA in the morning, and one day this was the one my teacher picked. The minute we saw the hippos, we lost our minds and the whole thing went right over our heads😭 I remember getting one of those little bug catching kits to go house hippo hunting, and it got to the point where I wasn’t sleeping properly because of these damn hippos😩 my parents eventually told me they were only in Canada and I got really sad
My bio teacher in grade twelve gave us an assignment on house hippos, we had to plot their population in a house based on how many rooms were in it and how much peanut butter and stuff they had. Very intricate, so I'm convinced they're real and Mr. Trudeau is hiding them from us...
Listening to kurtis talk about house hippos unlocked memories that I forgot entirely. I used to get super excited when I saw the house hippo ads because I wanted one 😂 ah to be a child again
I'm American but my father was originally from Québec. I saw the house hippo PSA so many times growing up, but in French, so I *really* didn't know what was happening in them but still thought it was possible to get a tiny hippo like that.
I saw the commercials for the fushigi ball and begged my parents for it until they finally got it for me for my birthday. My disappointment when it wasn't an actual magic ball that literally levitates in your hands was astronomical. Please make a video about that tiny sphere of lies
As a kid, i thought a similar thing to the Michael Jackson thing. Whenever I watched an animated movie, I thought the voice actors personally got together to put on a performance just for me. So like I had enough world knowledge to know that the characters on the screen weren't real and voiced by different people, but I was still stupid enough to think they were forced to do their job at my bidding
I thought Michael Jackson was a little man trapped in my Michael Jackson dvd and when i would play the dvd i thought i set Michael free from the dvd. 💀
Kurtis saying he wasn’t “cosplaying” a British person as if we don’t actually exist outside of movies/tv shows 💀 Edit: Kurtis was totally right. My arms have started disintegrating, I think I’m returning back into the digital realm. I guess British people really don’t exist.
When I was younger I thought that the reason certain songs played on the radio was because that’s who was at the radio station, like 100s of artists giving live shows everyday at a radio station
You're right that being scared sticks with you. I sucked my thumb until I was 4, and I remember the dentist showing my parents a transitional appliance to help kids wean off thumb-sucking if they were getting to an age where it could affect their development. Well our family was at a wedding, and there was a guy there who had one of his thumbs amputated. My dad told him to tell me it was because he sucked it too much. I stopped cold turkey.
Lmao, that's more extreme than my experience. My mother had threatened to put some spicy condiment under my nail since I absolutely hated spicy things, and that was enough to make me stop
I was such a sucker for commercials when I was younger. Such a sucker that I would sit around and seriously think about which insurance company I would use when I was older and how hard of a decision it would be because I liked the AllState, Progressive and Geico commercials while knowing nothing about the actual quality of the insurance that they provided. I was legitimately thinking that I would have such a hard time choosing when I got older because I would be making my decision based on the commercials.
When I was younger I had a little notebook where I wrote down all the of the phone numbers of things I wanted to buy when I turned 18 Toys, house hold appliances, everything
i remember i asked my dad which of those insurance companies we had and he said “none” and i said why and he told me the insurance company we have doesn’t spend our money on commercials 🤯 blew my fricken 8 year old mind hahaha
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Would 100% love a video on Fushigi Balls. I had one growing up, they're way heavier than they seemed. Dropped them on so many things. No damage to the ball, absolutely obliterated whatever it landed on. Loved 'em.
My parents actually *did* buy me a fushigi ball for christmas one year, one of the only products from an ad they ever went along with (besides pillow pets). I can wholely confirm that they were just ...... a metal ball. that was too heavy for my child hands. loved that thing though, thanks dad
It’s not metal :) it’s plastic. It’s plastic ball with a foil covered plastic ball inside to make it mirror its surroundings making it look like it’s not moving. A REAL contact juggling “ball” is usually acrylic and produces the same effect :)
The house hippo one was weird because while I don't think I ever believed it, I had no idea what it was actually going for. I didn't even remember it being a PSA until about a year or two ago when I sat there wondering "wtf was that commercial trying to sell" and looked it up. I'm also surprised you didn't mention the anti drug one where the lady smashes a whole kitchen, that one was... very effective.
@@genericname2747idk if it was a psa but I think I remember seeing something like that but with an egg? Like “this is your brain (normal egg)” then “this is your brain on drugs (they crack the egg and fry it)” but I’m not sure.
Lol my brother made a vid where he played an anti-drug ad and played the thing at the end of the house hippo commercial: "That looked really real. But you knew it couldn't be true, didn't you? That's why it's good to think about what you're watching on TV and ask questions."
I totally agree with the idea that the most memorable psa ads to be directed towards kids are the scarier ones. I don tlive in Canada so I didn't get these but I remember I used to ALWAYS see those anti-smoking ads that depicted like the intense negative physical effects of smoking cigarettes with people with like holes in their necks and literally on deaths door on a hospital bed. those used to scare the shit out of me but honestly its probably one of the main reasons I have no desire to smoke other than the occasional weed with my friends and stuff
Same here! They'd show like the stories of people having to sell they're jewelry n stuff to afford treatment and also show the really disgusting holes n stuff I think they still do too
yeah, same. where i am, there's always something on the back of cigarette boxes talking about negative effects of smoking, with a picture representing it. i think that seeing pictures of things like human hearts stuffed with cigarettes or a girl crying because she lost her dad or something was pretty effective
Growing up in a rural area the thing I feared most was farm safety day. They used to put us in a room while someone showed us farm safety videos that would get really graphic at times. Shit had me traumatized and afraid to visit my grandparent's farm. The one that fucked me up most was when this kid drowns in a slough and his mother is screaming when she finds his hat in the water.
I've seen the House Hippo phenomenon Kurtis described. When one of my nephews was little, he had a book about dragons done in the style of an animal facts book for children. The introduction said they're not real and the book is imagining what it would be like if they were. But he was way too young for something that meta. He was certain dragons were real, because here was a whole book about them that looks just like the ones for lions and bears. So, the disclaimer in the beginning made so little sense that's what he dismissed.
@@h.r.9563 Exactly. Humans work on heuristics. Big book of facts looks plausible. Disclaimer is small, confusing and incongruous. Guess which one gets yeeted.
As a child I had extreme anxiety about being abandoned from my parents dying. The MADD Canada ad of the baby crying alone in her crib with the message that "Emily's mother was killed by a drunk driver" instilled a trauma in me so intense that it still rocks me to this day.
when i was a kid (like 6ish) i accidentally woke up too early for school and turned on PBS while they were airing a 20 minute long PSA for parents about sudden infant death syndrome. i was VERY concerned about somehow getting SIDS for a long time after that even though i knew it only affected infants
I always turned the channel when this came on because I _could not stand_ the sound of the baby crying. It was actual torture having that ad play to it’s conclusion. It’s probably the reason I never had any kids.
I remember looking in mine and my Nan's closet for evidence of house hippos, ended up finding a mouse nest and leaving chips and then a few days later the mouse was on our bedroom floor and my sibling freaked and I was disappointed it wasn't a house hippo
there were a few of those puppet drug psa ads, they freaked me the hell out as a kid but weirdly fascinated me. but now as an adult who LOVES Muppets and creepy things they're my favorite ones to think on. my least favorite were the live action ones like the doctor in the morgue, or a girl having a giant breakdown and trashing her room and yelling about how drugs affect you.
these PSAs are so cute i wish canada was real
yea
Yes
me too
yes i’m so sad that it’s just pure fiction.
I know right? There’s this hypothetical syrup, the Maple syrup. I wish that existed as well.
the fear anti-smoking PSAs instilled in me as a child was so strong that every time i walked past someone smoking on the street (or my grandparents' house) i would hold my breath and then fucking pray
thought i was gonna get the hole in my neck from second-hand smoke
I remember the one where he yanks his teeth out at the convenience store counter 😭
im 24 and i still do this XD just in case
dude the photos on the back of some cigarette boxes scared the absolute crap out of me i didn't even wanna consider smoking when i'm older
@@sunanimoon BRUH, THAT OLD LADY WITH A HOLE IN HER NECK WHO TALKED LIKE T-800?? THAT STUCK WITH ME AS A CHILDHOOD MEMORY 😭😭😭
Also I still hold my breath walking past smokers in fear :)
honestly getting jumpscared by: “guy gets buttcrack surgically removed because he’s scared of any kind of crack now” is funnier than any sketch that could’ve been made from that lol
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ok but kurtis had to photoshop. he sacrifices so much for his videos and I respect that
@@QiotiCoyote yes. bless
James Charles crackles bbl pic
My wife was so enamored with the concept of little house hippos that I bought a few dozen little plastic hippos at a toy shop and hid them around the house. Peeking from behind books, on top of shelves, from under the dresser. For about two weeks I got to hear a little shriek of delight every time she found one.
That is the cutest thing I've ever heard
I love you Bob & I could only imagine how much more your wife loves you :’) this is the sweetest
you are a pure, sweet soul, sir. thank you from all women for making her so happy.
That’s really wholesome, well done.
..y'know, maybe humanity isn't that bad
Kurtis hating himself for literally being a literal child with an imagination is top tier
He’s so real for that
Not Canadian, but I remember a PSA in an assembly where a girl named Crystal went to every kid in the neighborhood and asked if they wanted to play and every kid slammed the door in her face and I remember feeling SO BAD for her. Then the video revealed that her full name was crystal meth and you should never play with crystal meth.
I don’t. I don’t why they thought getting a bunch of 9 year olds to sympathize with crystal meth was a good idea.
Looool what the fuck
WHAT- This should be in the top 10 greatest anime betrayals I did not expect that-
Honestly that,would make me wanna do Crystal meth i feel bad for her
why did they think that was a good idea. now i will feel bad for crystal meth since i have learned that it's a person with feelings.
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Kurtis thinking he got a private michael jackson concert everyday is the funniest shit
Funny thing is when I was a kid I used to think similar things like if people don't get tired of acting the commercials 😆🤣🤣!!
In my head every day, at least I had the Rose parade to go by lol
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Dude. When I was really little I watched the Lion King on VHS like every day. One day I had the BRILLIANT idea that I could go hang out with Simba and all my favorite characters....if I just had a hammer to open up the TV (duh). To this day I'm so glad I never found a hammer, and yes I looked around the house. So if you see a kid toddling around the house with an agenda they may just be on a death mission they think is genius. Kids are so dumb lol
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Honestly the anti-smoking PSAs in Australia were so effective on me that the first time I met a smoker, they were a friend of my grandmother and they started to smoke, I ran away crying an hid in the bathroom until she left. I will never smoke a cigarette to this day.
YES! Aussie anti-smoking psa's are on another level. My sister is so scarred by them she cannot be around people smoking, she holds her breath and runs away.
Those ads are effective as all hell, but also traumatising as hell. You'd go into woolies with your mum, and as you were leaving and exiting, you'd see those awful pictures of disfigured toes and an eye pried open with metal. They are single-handedly the reason that I will never smoke a cigarette in my life.
@@willjenkin1023 holy shit yes especially the eye pried open with the metal that scarred me I will never touch a cigarette in my life now
the one i remember most is the surgeon milking those organs and tubes for fatty tar and shit. He was squeezing them like a toothpaste tube
Holy shit yeah those PSAs are so graphic 😭
I almost cried when Kurtis said that he believed Michael Jackson would stay in the TV and perform "Will You Be There" for him and him only whenever he'd watch Free Willy as a kid, that's literally the funniest shit I've ever heard
I understand most youtubers don't actually use the sponsors they advertise and they just read out the ad copy for the sponsorship, but its honestly really funny to me to have Kurtis be advertising Current, an online banking service only available in the USA he can't even use, on a video about such a painfully Canadian topic.
Lmaoo, he gotta do what he gotta do to get that bag 😂
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maybe it's easier to get paid when he's in the states?
Lol that’s hilarious. He didn’t really think this one through
kurtis cobain owned with facts and logic
The moral: Every character in a Kurtis sketch is allergic to peanuts until proven otherwise.
I'm starting to think he actually is allergic to peanuts
@Тhе Gаmе Shorts 🅥 the fact my comment got so popular it got botted is really quite the compliment.
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@@Saltier the bots are coming. oh no. anyways good job on getting bot comments, ur famous now
Here it’s finally (insert random suspicious link)
The non-smoking PSAs were the creepiest. I distinctly remember one where somebody was smoking in the living room and laughing at TV and the smoke went down the hall into the baby's room and suffocated them
uh w h a t
holy shit- that’s scary as hell for a toddler
I remember the one where it shows the smoke going into the girls body and fucking it all up. It was creepy as shit!
Oh god the negative-nostalgia that just washed over me
Also that one where the person buys a pack and instead of using money they pull out their teeth
You should check out the British psa's from the early 2000's. They were like short horror movies, very graphic deaths. There was one about a little girl that gets hit by a car, it's about reducing speed and it sort of rewinds time and all her bones unbreak. It's really haunted me since I saw it as a kid...
Reminds me of a bullying psa we were shown in 6th grade in class where this little boy gets dropped on a toilet after some kids try to give him a swirlie and his skull cracks open and he dies. They don't show any actual gore, but they show this like watered down "blood" and it made me so horrified, I'll remember it for the rest of my life even with my bad memory
There was one for fireworks that fucked me up. It was like this charred face covered in flames 😂 shit was weird
i genuinely remember being a child and watching hannah montana being like “yknow if she wanted to keep such a big secret you’d think she wouldn’t make a tv show about it”
and it didn't help that miley cyrus name in the show is miley stewart 💀 i thought it was a documentary show HAHA
@@meganb3448 AND BILLY RAY?! safe to say that i was confused asf
lmao but thats actually so cuteee
No cause your right
ME TOO OH MY GOD I WAS SO CONFUSEd WHEN SHE RELEASED HANNA MONTANA ALBUMS AND MILEY ALBUMS
Dude I thought during commercials animators drew the next part of the show really fast and that's why they needed ads, so the animators could take a break. I thought that for reruns too and I was always like "I wonder if the animators get tired of drawing the same episode again."
Yo- 💀. Honestly, I'd believe that as a kid too.
i thought the same exact thing but with live action shows! like they had to act the episodes at the exact time i was watching them
I thought the same thing about cartoons when I learned that voice actors are the ones who make the voices lol, I literally thought that every time I wanted to watch Cars that Larry the Cable Guy would show up inside my tv and voice Mater at the exact time the movie is playing
this comment made me remember things about kid me i wish would stay buried
This is adorable
A PSA that always bummed me out as a kid- was that smoke PSA where this person is like "smoking makes you sexy and mysterious" but at the end you hear the heart monitor and see a patient in a wheelchair like "but also gives you cancer" and I was like.
" o k...."
Bro, I remember that one! It was like "They say smoking will make you attractive, the say it will make you happy, etc. But the truth is (cut to scene of old lady on oxygen) you could end up like me." Always made me feel sad, man.
I remember being frozen to my bed after seeing that PSA. Soo unnerving as a kid. I feel like it came on before some movies 🙃☠️
What was that psa called
@@LaterRadiatior icons
@@phillysmallz that's what they were trying to do, show the actual effects of smoking and addiction so children don't want to smoke bc who wants to live with cancer
The ones that really scared me were the "The Real Cost" lung cancer ones. Those little lungs in a great big world freakin' scared me.
Oh my god same
aw dude I forgot about those
little lungs in a great big world traumatized me as a kid istg 😭 everytime i saw them start i would run to my room and hide so i wouldn’t have to see them
I was trying to remember any psa’s from america and I was like “maybe we just didn’t have them” AND THEN I SAW THIS COMMENT AND REMEMBERED OMG
THE PACKAGE WITH THE ROTTEN TEETH
One of the most hard hitting PSA ads I ever remember was an ad for the speed limit, I think. In the UK in the mid to late 2000s there was an ad where it would show this child, dead on the road, bones all fucked up and there would be a voice over of the child saying "if you hit me at 40 there's an 80% chance I'll die, hit me at 30 and there's an 80% chance I'll live" and then the kids bones all crack into place, the blood goes back into the body and they wake up. It was fucked.
I saw this in my driving class!
There was this one Canadian PSA about workplace safety where there is this chef or someone like that holding a vat of oil and slips on a stain making the oil go all over her. The screams sounds so realistic it stuck with me for a week or two.
holy hell
You just unlocked a memory I didn't know I had
@@princessofhell4639 Congrats, you leveled up your hive mind skill
“I can’t watch anything on Netflix these days, there’s just no commercials.”
Don’t worry Kurtis, Netflix heard you.
Finally it's here! More ads :))
@@owie8212 I'm so sick of seeing them everywhere bruh.. everytime I come across them (which is every two minutes) I get the urge to bang my head against the wall😭
@@owie8212 exactly what we needed :)))
@Türkiyeyi seviyorum idk about yall but i think pizza might be on 10,000 matches
@@josus4115 well I’m thinking that’s it’s finally here
When I was a kid there was this one PSA with a woman dressed in white and she said stuff like "my name is cocaine, I can make you feel amazing" and as it went on, she started rotting and becoming this zombie creature, it was horrific and probably the main reason why I never did drugs.
did her job
sounds more effective than the just say no thing lol
when i would watch sitcoms as a kid, i remember thinking that wherever the actors looked, there would be a teleprompter there with the script. like if they looked up, there was one on the ceiling, if they looked down, there was one on the floor. i could not fathom the idea that they memorized their lines
You know they kind of do it for some of the more braindead actors that get cast mostly for looks. I´m not going to mention names out of respect but we all can think of at least two immediately I bet.
Like who? drop some names
@@goobermcfee8869 specifically full house. i watched so much damn full house.
@@KnolchI cant lmao, drop some names
danny is going to be so mad when he finds out you weren’t thinking critically
Lol nice one
Woah there bot magnet 😏
It’ll make him go “Kurtissss 😊 GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE 😡
Beautiful comment
I love how niche this joke is.
the “little lungs in a great big world” for anti smoking was so terrifying. it was so realistic and it was so creepy and like meaty
and bloody
@@lostavenue4819 excuse me??? did you say you wrote fanfiction around the lung from the smoking advert???
You thought it was scary?
@@lostavenue4819 THIS IS LITERALLY SO FUNNY
@@emmyarmstrong1540 I wish I was joking 😭
I grew up with all of these. House hippos live rent free in my brain. Canadian treasure and an actually great PSA about misinformation
As a previous little girl, I can say I spent most of my time acting out the most dramatic stories I could dream up with my Barbie/American girl dolls. Death, injury, crazy storms, heartbreak, etc. I also like pretending I had to survive in the wilderness in the backyard
i did the same thing but with my LPS! i remember me and my cousin would play with LPS and make crazy scenarios everytime we hung out xD
@@COMBATANT_LYNX my LPS went through so much trauma, i specifically remember that i had made up a story where one got in a crash and LOST AN EYE? like girl…
My monster highs and barbies kissed and drowned each other. Yeah...
WHAT IS IT WITH YOUNG LITTLE GIRLS AND RECREATING THE EVOLUTION OF MAN
Same! I remember I had Polly Pockets that I played with in the bathtub. I tied them up in hair clips and ritually drowned them, and I acted out the terror and futile escape attempts the remaining Polly Pockets went through when they saw their friends dying horribly. Their misery and fear only increased the closer they got to the edge, looking down on their friends limp corpses at the bottom of the tub, begging for help from an unforgiving universe. Their god was a 5 year old who did not care for their happiness.
When I was a kid, a friend of my dad's was in a refrigerator commercial. When I met the guy in real life for the first time, I was so shocked because I recognized him from the ad, and I asked him how he got out of the tv because I thought he lived in there, just like all the other tv people.
It’s shocking me how many people thought like people lived in the tv or they performed everything live for them when they watched tv. I did think tv shows and movies were real as a kid but I didn’t think people lived in my tv or that everything was broadcasted live. I wish I did think they lived in my tv because then I wouldn’t of been terrified of being murdered by a cyberman from doctor who in my sleep.
It’s okay man I thought people lived in my moms phone , we’d call my grandparents and I’d shake the phone and then get terrified and ask if they were okay , and I’d show them things around my house thinking that they could see it and the family would be so confused
@annika m I don’t know if I’m just really tired or if the story really is this intriguing, but could you elaborate on that story?
@@rachelcookie321 Lmao
this reminds me of when i was little & would get sad when i would stay up watching Disney & apologize out loud to the tv bc i thought selena & miley had to work overtime to perform live over & over 😭
No longer a girl, but as an autistic child I read about girls “chasing boys” during recess, and I took that literally. Wanting to be a Normal Girl, I chose a boy pretty much at random and chased him down every day at recess. No one stopped me, and I have no idea what I planned to do if I ever caught him. I kind of knew that would never happen
Omg same. I love the internet, reminds me that I’m not alone 😅
This made me laugh so hard
Okay I’m an autist lesbian and I would follow my friend around while she was chasing a boy. Idk what was going on but I remember the chase was fun (i met the guy at a gay event years later and it was one of his formative gay experiences 😅)
same, but one day I realized I was running faster than him and didn’t know what to do so I just ran past him, decided that the entire time it had been a race with no track and I finally won
@tracychallice I love that plot twist you created
don't worry kurtis, i also thought house hippos were real. i always thought the only reason i never saw one was bc my bedtime was 8:30 (i did not know that i had free will and could stay up to catch one if i wanted to)
Fun thing about Goosebumps! I read somewhere that R.L. Stine avoided anything bad in his stories that was real - stuff like broken homes or abuse - because he wanted to make sure that the kids knew it was all fake and that they were safe from the stuff in his books. Plus he kept humor very prevalent in his books so that it wasn't too scary! Take this with a grain of salt, I remember reading it but honestly it could have been a load of house hippos, lol.
Even though I knew it was all fake, I was still so scared of everything in Goosebumps.
But I'm also a scaredy-cat, like, to this day I'm still scared of things in Goosebumps regardless of knowing it's 100% fake amd there's a 0% chance of it happening.
As a kid who was going through a lot, goosebumps was my safe space fr. I wrote the guy a letter in crayon when I was like 7
(Disclaimer it was unreadable and my mom had to rewrite it)
@@mystqicc3901 same here, but ya know what i was scared of the most when it came to goosebumps? That part of the intro when that billboard changed. Idk why but part always disturbs me. 💀🤣
I loved goosebumps but the shrunken head cover did haunt me for a little while lmao. I quite literally thought I had seen it floating at me once in the dark and I was scarred. Moral of the story, my brain has been working against me since day one.
Didn't he write a Tales to Give You Goosebumps story where an older brother took pictures of his younger sister in her underwear and threatened to post them at her school?
The house hippo commercial fooled me as a kid, I kept leaving out toast and peanut butter and my mom told me to stop. When I told her I wanted to attract a house hippo, she said they didn't live in Saskatchewan. I'm still not totally convinced they aren't real.
me too but my mom wanted one too
th-cam.com/video/5R_tOSRynZU/w-d-xo.html newer house hippo:) probably already seen it lol
they're absolutely real now. lots of people who go thrift shopping for fun collect them and they'll have tons of little house hippos around their houses and share pics of them amongst each other in their thrifting fb groups lmao
@@ziggylegion1604 okay wow, i need to come out from under my rock and join this movement!
That's the thing. They don't live in Saskatchewan, they're native to another country
the last psa was actually horrifying solely because of the puppets they’re horrendous oh my god
I know they reminded me of the mr.meaty puppets 😩
Yeah why does one have a tiny sausage for a mouth
look up tipi tales
lmao I didn't watch the full video and already knew what you meant
@@smileypedestrian4123 NO WE DON'T TALK ABOUT TIPI TALES
Honestly, as a canadian kid growing up in the 90s / early 2000s, I loved our PSA's. They were so weird or funny they made me watch and pay attention.
That´s the genius behind it, so kids enjoy them and remember them and show their friends.
In Germany PSAs are about as entertaining or gripping as peeling potatoes. They go more for the very depressing and seem to be tailored more for the parents, like "Don´t let your children do X or Y" "Every year, X children die from X". Then some slow-mo grey and white footage of a kid doing something stupid. Sometimes a hospital bed with a kid full of tubes or even a child´s coffin back in the day. I guess the assumption is that children don´t watch unsupervised TV. Which happens to also be a PSA.
“Not every joke needs a green-screen sketch.”
Proceeds to almost immediately do a green-screen sketch.
He did wink
th-cam.com/video/93Fyv4XAr-A/w-d-xo.html Finally it's here.
As a kid for far too long I thought actors dying or getting hurt was real. I was so blown away by the commitment to make just a movie.
Haha I remember watching Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium and was blown away that he actually had to die for the movie when they showed his grave. I asked my dad did he actually die and I guess my dad thought I was talking about the character because he said yeah he did die.
So you thought all of those movies were basically snuff films? That's really funny. Kids are crazy.
@@kayakat1869 100% believed that. Feared for my life jaws would come snatch me like all the people in the movie 💀 I didn’t live anywhere near the ocean tho just dumb
Yes!! And that couples in tv were actually together. I also thought that singers had to be in the studio every time a song was playing!
Im a caregiver and my 49 year old patient believes this
I remember a german anti-piracy ad that they would play in front of every movie where a mother and a bunch of kids were singing "happy birthday" under a PRISON window and at the end the mother would say "just four more times singing until daddy gets home :(" it was wild.
It's called "Noch viermal singen" on youtube incase you wanna look it up lol
holy shit i remember watching that with my younger sisters and our dad had to explain what it meant…
lmao wtf
Ironic as nobody really does anything to people who pirate movies, it’s essentially normal to pirate stuff nowadays
which is very funny because Happy Birthday is a copyrighted song (until very recently), which you couldn't perform in movies/tv/anywhere public without paying the licensing so it could have been a very meta commentary about IP theft/music licensing
"Raubkopierer sind Verbrecher"👹👹
I think the PSA that got me the most as a kid was the one with the crack smuggling dog 😭 i was so traumatized by the idea of people smuggling drugs INSIDE dogs, I was so suspicious of every dog I met for years after lol
Here in NZ we have a pretty intense drinking culture and so we had accordingly intense drinking PSAs. The one that messed with me the most was a guy who was drunk at a family gathering and spun a kid around by the arms as a 'helicopter ride' and slammed her into a bookcase. I would swap channels every time it came on, I couldn't stand it
looking for the nz comment . the psa's there are wild . love them .
Imnotlaughingimnotlaughingimnotlaughing
@@elliottmcpeek7443 Good because that kid never laughed again either
There was one in the UK where a guy hit a kid when drink driving and he saw the corpse next to his bed every night. That messed me up
That lowkey happened to me- when we were kids my brother was swinging me around by my ankles for a helicopter ride & my head hit the leg of our couch & I had to get stitches at the hospital LOL
I think KurtisTown needs its own PSA.
I vote for Barbie saying “Balls”
Other options are;
Bratz doll saying “ew”
The weasel moaning
i second that vote
I third that vote
that with the bratz doll saying ew
um yes please
Im with this
as a young Canadian i truly believed house hippos existed and was CRUSHED when my mom told me they were in fact fake
I _refuse_ to believe House Hippos don’t exist.
SAME
im not even Canadian but IM crushed knowing house hippos don't exist.
Nah they exist, the government is hiding their existence 🤫
I’m an American and I’m crushed as well 😞
"There's just no comercials in Netflix!" Top ten photos taken only moments before disaster
I have, “we are girls and we will do what’s right for us.” Absolutely STAMPED into my memory.
For me it’s MOOOOOM, AIDAN CUT ME IN HALF AGAIN
It never leaves me.
For me it’s “Don’t you put in your mouth. Don’t you stuff it in your face!”
kurtis saying “cosplaying” a british person instead of “impersonating” is so funny to me. how do you even cosplay as a british person lol
U just rip ur upper lip off and there u go
They're larping lol
Monocle, wavy mustache, rounded top hat and a cane.
@@asadbrick9071 A "Cheerio!" and your cosplay is complete.
Well Britain is fictional💀
The thought of startling random children on the street had me in tears. Also I was at a rave last night and there was a girl with a Fushigi, I thought she was a witch
She was definitely a witch
why was a little girl at a rave 😭
@@garfield_tv didn't say little
It’d be funny if on the way home from the club that girl used the Fushigi to startle children on the street lol
12:19 this would honestly make a killer animation for an industrial music video like nine inch nails or the prodigy
I remember that house hippo psa very vividly because I was ENRAGED that house hippos were not real as a child. I definitely cried about it
my mom told me i cried a lot as a toddler bc i was upset i couldn’t be maleficent
The house hippo PSA was one of my absolute faves as a kid. Same with the don't put it in your mouth song PSA lmao
oh man, I forgot about "don't put it in your mouth " one lol, but it's now in my head again
He did those in his Las video
I was too young to understand the meaning so i thought they were real for the longest time and i was jealous bc i thought other people really had house hippos
I've had a house hippo nest with 2 plastic hippos for almost 20 years. That's how much I love that PSA.
House hippo, my beloved
In Argentina in the early 2000s there was a PSA about road safety that started with people being asked why they don't wear seatbelt, the tone of the psa seemed lighthearted at first, like they were going to be asking around the whole time ( one of the answers was "Because it wrinkles my clothes") Then, there is a sudden tone shift were they show mannequins for crash tests being ABSOLUTE FUCKING WRECKED and then and ACTUAL PERSON (I tought that at the time ) being SMASHED through the WINDSHIELD and a close up of their dead eyes and then a dry cut saying "Lets fight for our lives". I still think about it sometimes lol
what the fuck is it on youtube????
@@dzeni7605 here it is th-cam.com/video/I0F5k7N4j9k/w-d-xo.html
Y no nos olvidemos del "drogas, para qué?"
AND THE MUSIC AFTERWARDS?? it was like super happy and nice after all of that lmaooo that's all i thought about throughout this whole video
That unlocked some repressed memories lmao
I think my driving anxiety started there
17:10 as somebody whose gonna become an pharmacist, I can confidently say thats what we do :)
When I was a kid I thought I wasn't Native "because I have hair and not feathers!" lmao. Like thanks to media I thought "real" Native people actually grew feathers out of their heads, because the ones in media are never seen without feathers in their hair. My dad still brings it up lol.
That reminds me of the fact that up until I was 10 I thought there were no black people in Britain... then I saw a British black man outside mcdonalds say "pass the chips." Fucking turned my world upside down. I was not a bright child.
as an american glad i’m not alone in this 😭😭
I mean this in the nicest way possible. But that sounds more like a problem with your intelligence as a child than with the media.
@@jacobhargiss3839 well yeah, children are pretty dumb lol
OOF
The Fushigi ball is technically something called a “contact juggling” ball, and the Fushigi itself is like the most hated brand of contact juggling ball by contact jugglers because it was just a cash grab to sell to children, and not a serious contact juggling prop. There are some great places to buy them and people can do some amazing tricks with them, but Fushigi is like the “we have contact juggling ball at home” ball when you ask people who are deep into the hobby
A person of culture I see, it's kinda strange to me people don't associate any crystal ball to contact juggling. But I guess as a juggler I live in a bubble that's far away from common sense.
@@pedrochagas9903 Hahahah 😂 I’m a flow artist so I’m around quite a few jugglers
I had no idea this was a thing
@@kristel9558 the more you nose
Things are heating up in the juggling ball fandom I see /lh
He finally did it. With the beanie he’s completed his stereotypical stoner cosplay
The cool stoner uncle
Funniest and confirmed fact, he’s not even a stoner
*touque
@@KiingBiing he is
@@onelastch4nce557 nah, went to his shows and he admitted that he doesn’t smoke weed as much. He’s done it before but he said it generally gave him anxiety so he doesn’t do it as much
Just taking the info I heard from him. I could be wrong and he changed tho. It was from last year
13:53 Coraline and Dont Hug Me Im Scared(kinda, its really gorey, and covers adult topics but looks like a kids show, so think it counts. plus it was my cildhood show.)
There were some old English PSAs about burning yourself on sparklers and drinking chemicals. The sound of the screams the little girl makes after ingesting the chemicals has been seared into my brain. Genuinely haunting.
You just reminded me of those animated girl ones for road safety where they're like "look left and right or BE ALL BEAT UP LIKE THIS LITTLE GIRL"
@@genericyoutubehandle. Omg there was a game about road safety too that we all played in like primary and it was so scary like the kids all looked half dead with their eyes and like there was one part with a kid getting hit by a car and breaking his arm. Haunting.
I’m pretty sure that was from like a whole psa movie where each kid dies a horrible death from something that could’ve been easily prevented if their parents just taught them
Like a girl drinks random chemicals and dies from her insides melting basically, another kid gets ran over I think.. I find psa’s interesting so I watched it and the little girls screams also stuck with me.. I’ll say those kids were great actors at least
the English ones are fucking terrifying! Meanwhile here in Australia we got the Grim Reaper AIDS ad which I saw something like 20 years after the AIDS crisis and I laugh every time the people get hit with the bowling ball and fly everywhere. Cracks me up no end but apparently it scared the shit out of people at the time (really though, people were already scared of AIDS - why scare them more? There's a message at the end that says always use condoms but that's about it in terms of helpful information.)
@@KingOfGaymes The PSA movie is like 30 minutes long and is called Apaches. Nobody warned those kids about the dangers of cultural appropriation.
I had a fushigi ball as a kid-extremely disappointed that it wasn’t ACTUALLY magic
Dude my dad had one and I remember playing with it sometimes and I had no idea what it was until now
dude i remember BEGGING my dad for one and when i got it i was soooo disappointed that it wasn’t a floating magic ball and just a heavy sphere that I hurt myself with after dropping it on my foot 😐
I am literally just now finding out its not magic, wow big sad 😢
...maybe
You’re saying it wasn’t magic?
When I heard concerned children's advertisers, my IMMEDIATE thought was the boy getting chased by a bunch of girls (and the house hippo). I'm so glad to know that these weren't all fever dreams you have when you watched YTV while home during a school day.
Amen,buddy,amen..amen.
YTV was my go to channel as a kid.
YES! Also the "MOOOOM Billy's trying to saw me in half again!" one, idk if anyone remembers that but me but it's burned in my memory lol
4:46 I freaking love it when kurtis waggles his finger accusingly at the viewer lmfao
I remember those anti-smoking commercials of someone with a throat port talking and they sound horrifying and you can literally see them breathing through the port and it scarred me
SAME. I would literally leave the room when they would start to come on. I couldn’t handle it. Definitely worked on me. I’ve never touched a cigarette
Dude same
Omg yeah "I'm Terry an I used to be a smoker"
It works because it's obvious in its messaging. If it were too subtle, people would think they're glorifying smoking.
Using disabled people as a scary PSA is so fucked up
Okay but the monkey “you don’t have to lose weight” one genuinely helped me as a little girl lmao😭
the message seems clearer in that one compared to the older one that had these two girls going through this nightmare makeup building, that one used to freak me out and I don't think I ever realized what it was even supposed to be telling me lol
same!
@@johnfreeman9349 man i remember that one, it was so fuckin weird. tbh im still not 100% sure what that one is about
I was an extremely dumb child and seriously misunderstood the point of that PSA, to the opposite effect it was intended to have. I remember hearing "you don't need a media monkey telling you what to do" and seeing that the monkey was trying to stop the girl, so I thought the point was don't side with the monkey - it's important to watch your weight and not let other people convince you otherwise
@@bnashee Stay fit
Whenever Kurtis explains a joke, it's actually a joke itself. The punchline is that explaining jokes usually ruin them, so as a professional comedian, he's constantly ruining his jokes in an ironic way. Because it's ironic, the joke is not actually ruined, but instead trumped by the joke of explaining it.
Hilarious!
I'd say you ruined the joke by explaining it but "because it's ironic, the joke is not actually ruined, but instead trumped by the joke of explaining it."
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hes a funny man
0:42 wtf Kurtis. You made Netflix put ads on the platform
I have vivid memories of this one that was about a girl trying various drugs and spiralling all along to: 1, 2, skipped some school. 3, 4, snort some more. 5, 6, need my fix. 7, 8, feels too late. And that one fucked me up, it started so chill and ended with her overdosing in a bathroom or some shit iirc? Fucked me up, man, truly did its job.
I forgot about that one!
WOAH you just unlocked a memory! Holyyy heck
Last week my boyfriend and I watched a TH-cam playlist of those Heritage Minutes videos and I was surprised by the unlocked memories - they were just lurking in there!
@@klaythoring1326 The one Canadian Heritage Moment that stuck with me the most was actually a skit. Windy the Pooh. It was so stupid, it was hilarious.
wow i completely forgot about that. what a throwback.
as far as scaring children into not doing bad things goes, my favorite has got to be this one illustrated german book, Struwwelpeter. It's from 1845. Some guy was annoyed that there were no good books to gift to his 3y/o son, so he decided to make one. All the stories are like "this little girl thought matches were super cool and wanted to play with them, but her mother told her not to, because she could get hurt. later on, the girl's parents went somewhere and left the girl home alone, so she decided to play with matches and literally burned to death, her cats cried over the little pile of ash that was left of her", "this boy kept sucking on his thumbs even though his parents told him not to. one day, a random tailor came along and cut off the boy's thumbs with his big scissors", "this boy did not want to eat his soup. over the next five days, he wasted away and died from hunger". fantastic stuff, i'm sure his 3y/o son loved that.
thank you dwight
I remember there was also the story of a boy who used an umbrella outside and then got carried away by the wind and was never seen again and that terrified me as a kid, I never used umbrellas when it was windy outside
I just googled it and I love it so much. It's incredible nightmare fuel, I can't wait to read it to my kids when I get some.
@@sepsysmurf6982 the phrase “when i get some” referring to kids is way too unnerving
@@ava8340 There’s a random chance that they mean having children of their own, or just picking some up while on their way from work
I was born and raised in the USA. Even still, I had heard the rumors of house hippos and thought they were real for YEARS. Thanks for shedding some light, Kurtis.
im swedish and my parents used to tell me about the Canadian house hippos
House hippos became the go-to excuse for leaving crumbs everywhere and I unironically had "don't put it in your mouth" on my iPod shuffle back in the day. Thank you, company's name that I completely missed and didn't go back to find for this comment. My childhood was better, if not safer, because of you.
One of my teachers had a little daughter who misunderstood the cracked eggs in the frying pan PSA. She though when they said, this is your brain on drugs, that they meant eggs are drugs. so she wouldn't eat eggs.
This is my newest favourite thing, bless her lil heart (((':
Honestly? She’s not wrong for it, that ad made no sense 😭 they shouldve showed it to a group of elementary schoolers before airing and seen if they could understand it lmaoo
the choke hold house hippos had on us all was so insane that they made an updated version
They showed us the house hippo psa in school during a lesson on media literacy. I remember being so bummed out that house hippos don’t exist. In my heart, I still believe.
Aaauuuggggghhhhh
@@Bravebaker so true
Every child that saw that ad including me. Lmao. I should've left out some peanut butter on toast.
they look so cute
no because as a child i used to think that musicians would perform their songs on the radio everyday everytime i heard them on the radio. it was extremely perplexing to me that green day and beyonce would just stay at the stations all day everyday
During my Driver’s Ed class they just showed us a bunch of highly dramatized videos of car crashes. Extremely bloody and hyper realistic. Even years later I’m terrified of driving and try hard not to blink because I am too scared to close my eyes even for a second.
They showed us a doc series called red asphalt here in Iowa for high school drivers ed. It had real car crashes and uncensored dead bodies. Like peoples brains out and shit, It was literally just LiveLeak. I think I have an undiagnosed anxiety disorder because of it lol
NO SAME I completed my drive times and drivers ed, and then never drove again 😭 literally not once. I’m 21 now 😭
@@moss_piglet I remember I literally got my mom to sign a form so I didn't have to watch that in class.
In my Driver's Ed class they literally had a family come on to describe in detail how their daughter died in a drunk driving incident. I can't remember anything else from driver's ed because every time I think back to it I remember that one class and stop there.
@@moss_piglet Red Asphalt is infamous in my family since everyone of my siblings and myself was traumatized in Driver's Ed watching it
Best part is that the PSA's where so focused on regular cigarettes that they got a whole generation that hated cigarettes, but thought VAPING was the shit 💀
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honestly tho😭
I can’t think of anything more lame than vaping tbfh 💀
It’s true, but vaping is delightful haha
to be fair, cigarettes dont taste like candy
It’s so funny that I think we - as a collective of Canadian children - all had the exact same experience with that house hippo ad. The last part of it was just wah-wah-wah-wah from Charlie Brown and the first bit was pure, bona fide FACT. I genuinely don’t even remember hearing the wrap up. It did not exist. 😴
As an American, I love discovering nuggets of Canadiana. It's always either unexplainable or just really cool.
I honestly (as a kid) thought the wrap up was a different commercial so I always ignored it 😆 but I did always want a house hippo, and still do to this day.
i literally only remember seeing the beginning n i was like seems legit its basically rat sized hippos so they must exist
House Hippo are reall dammit xD
Every time I would see the ad I would be so excited and then I would see the wrap up and be disappointed. And then I’d see the ad later and the cycle would repeat lmao
I no joke used to believe in house hippos. At my school, every Thursday they’d have us watch a random old PSA in the morning, and one day this was the one my teacher picked. The minute we saw the hippos, we lost our minds and the whole thing went right over our heads😭 I remember getting one of those little bug catching kits to go house hippo hunting, and it got to the point where I wasn’t sleeping properly because of these damn hippos😩 my parents eventually told me they were only in Canada and I got really sad
My bio teacher in grade twelve gave us an assignment on house hippos, we had to plot their population in a house based on how many rooms were in it and how much peanut butter and stuff they had. Very intricate, so I'm convinced they're real and Mr. Trudeau is hiding them from us...
Listening to kurtis talk about house hippos unlocked memories that I forgot entirely. I used to get super excited when I saw the house hippo ads because I wanted one 😂 ah to be a child again
Jokes on you robot man, I can also put my leg back on. I won’t play safe.
Me too lets go😎
Damm straight Jo!
_"Footless Jo - Amputation and beyond!"_ Well played. You win this time.
@@Dirk_Strider ahah that's awesome
I’m sorry, I’m going to hell for bursting out laughing at that…
I'm American but my father was originally from Québec. I saw the house hippo PSA so many times growing up, but in French, so I *really* didn't know what was happening in them but still thought it was possible to get a tiny hippo like that.
Same here except I live in Quebec
Man, as a fellow Canadian boi around the same age range as you, this whole video was pure nostalgia of memories o forgot I even had. Thank you
I saw the commercials for the fushigi ball and begged my parents for it until they finally got it for me for my birthday. My disappointment when it wasn't an actual magic ball that literally levitates in your hands was astronomical. Please make a video about that tiny sphere of lies
TINY SPHERE OF LIES! Love how this sounds! ❤️
My parents bought me one too and those things are HEAVY, the lack of magic was disappointing 😥
Dude you literally predicted the future omfg
@@hotsexyangel dUDe, hE liTeRalLy sAiD iN tHiS viDeO tHaT hE wAS gOnE maKe a viDeO aBouT iT
SAME ITS A TINY SPHERE OF LIES
As a kid, i thought a similar thing to the Michael Jackson thing. Whenever I watched an animated movie, I thought the voice actors personally got together to put on a performance just for me. So like I had enough world knowledge to know that the characters on the screen weren't real and voiced by different people, but I was still stupid enough to think they were forced to do their job at my bidding
Thats so funny😂
I thought Michael Jackson was a little man trapped in my Michael Jackson dvd and when i would play the dvd i thought i set Michael free from the dvd. 💀
@@tyka.f I remember thinking this while listening to my CDs and the radio. 💀💀💀
I'm pretty sure I used to think that there was a little band in the radio when I was around 4 (could just be remembering wrong though)
@@tyka.f LMAOOO
Kurtis saying he wasn’t “cosplaying” a British person as if we don’t actually exist outside of movies/tv shows 💀
Edit: Kurtis was totally right. My arms have started disintegrating, I think I’m returning back into the digital realm. I guess British people really don’t exist.
💀💀💀
What time stamp is this?
Back to the Harry Potter universe
@@thelilppthatcould dude “Tom Holland” isn’t real remember? He’s “British”
*sigh* Let's go back into the television, we have to do another show on there. Surprised we all aren't tired yet of being on there all the time.
When I was younger I thought that the reason certain songs played on the radio was because that’s who was at the radio station, like 100s of artists giving live shows everyday at a radio station
as an irish person, i am traumatised from watching telly at night as a child. things can get scary
RSA ads were fucking freaky sometimes
i just got a flashback of those childer in the forest D:
When I was in drivers ed they showed us Irish PSAs about wearing seatbelts and safe driving and they were literally scarring
Watching Podge and Rodge yeh? Very scary
Podge and Rodge man
You're right that being scared sticks with you. I sucked my thumb until I was 4, and I remember the dentist showing my parents a transitional appliance to help kids wean off thumb-sucking if they were getting to an age where it could affect their development. Well our family was at a wedding, and there was a guy there who had one of his thumbs amputated. My dad told him to tell me it was because he sucked it too much. I stopped cold turkey.
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Lmao, that's more extreme than my experience. My mother had threatened to put some spicy condiment under my nail since I absolutely hated spicy things, and that was enough to make me stop
That
Is hilarious
Congrats on your thumb sucking sobriety 😊
I have a good 32 years under my belt
Gets easier with time
That's can cause long term harm for random
There was a kid in my class who got bullied for sucking his thumb until high school (American) you're lucky you stopped man
I was such a sucker for commercials when I was younger. Such a sucker that I would sit around and seriously think about which insurance company I would use when I was older and how hard of a decision it would be because I liked the AllState, Progressive and Geico commercials while knowing nothing about the actual quality of the insurance that they provided. I was legitimately thinking that I would have such a hard time choosing when I got older because I would be making my decision based on the commercials.
When I was younger I had a little notebook where I wrote down all the of the phone numbers of things I wanted to buy when I turned 18
Toys, house hold appliances, everything
i remember i asked my dad which of those insurance companies we had and he said “none” and i said why and he told me the insurance company we have doesn’t spend our money on commercials 🤯 blew my fricken 8 year old mind hahaha
That's hillarious 🤣
the cat screaming from the pharmacist woke my cat up and he was not happy lmao
I had a fushigi, most memorable part was that the instructions came with a warning that if dropped the fushigi may chip or crack wood or tile floors
I may be misremembering but I swear it also came with a DVD tutorial 🤣
@@sarahlapointe856 it did! I watch it with my dad when I got mine and then cried when I found out I'd have to practice to make it look cool
@@macaronii220 oh my god if that’s not the most relatable thing I’ve ever heard
@@macaronii220 MEEEEE I WAS SO DISAPPOINTED
@@sarahlapointe856 yes it did lol, and that dvd is definitely still floating around my dads house somewhere
kurt’s sketches about nut allergies always end by realizing both characters are allergic
th-cam.com/video/TFP-wGwG7MI/w-d-xo.html 6:47 not always, unfortunately
IS THAT A PEANUT?? ARE YOU ABOUY TO EAT A PEANUT?? GET THAT OUT OF MY FACE!!!
i was terrified of house hippos as a kid
i thought they were so cute.
I wanted one very badly
I wanted one so bad as a kid lol
especially because they make the same sound as my dad snoring
I have one, he lives in one of my spider plants
The worst part of the House Hippo PSA is that my dad would just lie. He'd just tell me they were real. It was funny as fuck.
"you might even die tonight if Alan takes my shift and there isn't any traffic" one of my favourite sketches of yours so far tbh
Agreed and same, that was a great bit, lmao! 😂
"YOU WILL TURN INTO A GOOMBA
Thank you Kurtis, we know how tiring it is being in this little box performing videos for us every day 😔🙏🏻
WOAH WOAH WOAH!!! Let me get this perfectly straight: You comment something that is completely unrelated to the fact that I have two HAZARDOUSLY HANDSOME girlfriends? Considering that I am the unprettiest TH-camr worldwide, it is really incredible. Yet you did not mention it at all. I am VERY disappointed, dear bd0
this was so confusing seeing this before I watched the video
@@AxxLAfriku At least you’re right about being ugly💀
Would 100% love a video on Fushigi Balls. I had one growing up, they're way heavier than they seemed. Dropped them on so many things. No damage to the ball, absolutely obliterated whatever it landed on. Loved 'em.
one thing about Kurtis' sketches is that they progressively get more insane as the video continues.
never let them know your next move.
My parents actually *did* buy me a fushigi ball for christmas one year, one of the only products from an ad they ever went along with (besides pillow pets). I can wholely confirm that they were just ...... a metal ball. that was too heavy for my child hands. loved that thing though, thanks dad
It’s not metal :) it’s plastic. It’s plastic ball with a foil covered plastic ball inside to make it mirror its surroundings making it look like it’s not moving. A REAL contact juggling “ball” is usually acrylic and produces the same effect :)
My dad got one for Christmas one year and he was so excited to learn all the tricks, but I don't think he ever did lol
The house hippo one was weird because while I don't think I ever believed it, I had no idea what it was actually going for. I didn't even remember it being a PSA until about a year or two ago when I sat there wondering "wtf was that commercial trying to sell" and looked it up.
I'm also surprised you didn't mention the anti drug one where the lady smashes a whole kitchen, that one was... very effective.
I think I know the PSA you're talking about. She says the classic "this is your brain on drugs" line and then starts smashing things?
@@genericname2747idk if it was a psa but I think I remember seeing something like that but with an egg? Like “this is your brain (normal egg)” then “this is your brain on drugs (they crack the egg and fry it)” but I’m not sure.
@@juliabrown39 Yeah, that's a classic. The PSA I'm talking about is actually inspired by that one!
Lol my brother made a vid where he played an anti-drug ad and played the thing at the end of the house hippo commercial: "That looked really real. But you knew it couldn't be true, didn't you? That's why it's good to think about what you're watching on TV and ask questions."
I totally agree with the idea that the most memorable psa ads to be directed towards kids are the scarier ones. I don tlive in Canada so I didn't get these but I remember I used to ALWAYS see those anti-smoking ads that depicted like the intense negative physical effects of smoking cigarettes with people with like holes in their necks and literally on deaths door on a hospital bed. those used to scare the shit out of me but honestly its probably one of the main reasons I have no desire to smoke other than the occasional weed with my friends and stuff
Same here! They'd show like the stories of people having to sell they're jewelry n stuff to afford treatment and also show the really disgusting holes n stuff I think they still do too
yeah, same. where i am, there's always something on the back of cigarette boxes talking about negative effects of smoking, with a picture representing it. i think that seeing pictures of things like human hearts stuffed with cigarettes or a girl crying because she lost her dad or something was pretty effective
Fr those and the ones where they’d peel their skin off to pay for smokes/drgs would freak me out
@@kero6298 ugh those were disgusting! I changed the channel whenever they came on
Growing up in a rural area the thing I feared most was farm safety day. They used to put us in a room while someone showed us farm safety videos that would get really graphic at times. Shit had me traumatized and afraid to visit my grandparent's farm.
The one that fucked me up most was when this kid drowns in a slough and his mother is screaming when she finds his hat in the water.
I've seen the House Hippo phenomenon Kurtis described. When one of my nephews was little, he had a book about dragons done in the style of an animal facts book for children. The introduction said they're not real and the book is imagining what it would be like if they were. But he was way too young for something that meta. He was certain dragons were real, because here was a whole book about them that looks just like the ones for lions and bears. So, the disclaimer in the beginning made so little sense that's what he dismissed.
Duuuuude I had that too!!
This tiny little disclaimer? But there is a whole ass book of details and everything!!
@@h.r.9563 Exactly. Humans work on heuristics. Big book of facts looks plausible. Disclaimer is small, confusing and incongruous. Guess which one gets yeeted.
If it's the one with the red dragon on the cover, I still have that
I did the same thing with a dragon mockumentary
As a child I had extreme anxiety about being abandoned from my parents dying. The MADD Canada ad of the baby crying alone in her crib with the message that "Emily's mother was killed by a drunk driver" instilled a trauma in me so intense that it still rocks me to this day.
when i was a kid (like 6ish) i accidentally woke up too early for school and turned on PBS while they were airing a 20 minute long PSA for parents about sudden infant death syndrome. i was VERY concerned about somehow getting SIDS for a long time after that even though i knew it only affected infants
I always turned the channel when this came on because I _could not stand_ the sound of the baby crying. It was actual torture having that ad play to it’s conclusion. It’s probably the reason I never had any kids.
@@Thurston86 the crying felt like it lasted FOREVER
Oh. My. God.
@@seraphimxiii To be fair, you are a former infant... So can't be too safe ig 🤷🏽♀️
I remember looking in mine and my Nan's closet for evidence of house hippos, ended up finding a mouse nest and leaving chips and then a few days later the mouse was on our bedroom floor and my sibling freaked and I was disappointed it wasn't a house hippo
this made me laugh so hard omf 😭😭😭
A mouse nest? Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’m fairly certain mice aren’t a type of bird.
@@rachelcookie321 mice make something that is essentially a nest out soft materials they can find is houses
😭😭😭 WHAT?!
@@rachelcookie321 they can still make nests in your house.
there were a few of those puppet drug psa ads, they freaked me the hell out as a kid but weirdly fascinated me. but now as an adult who LOVES Muppets and creepy things they're my favorite ones to think on.
my least favorite were the live action ones like the doctor in the morgue, or a girl having a giant breakdown and trashing her room and yelling about how drugs affect you.