I had a house hippo, but one night, while I was sleeping, I heard these loud noises in my living room. I rushed out, with a book for defence, and found the hippo, dead on the floor, and all my dust bunnies partying in victory! 🙁🙁🙁 Stay safe, stay sane, stay strong Ukraine 🇺🇦
One PSA that I still remember to this day is a War Amps PSA. It's a robot on the planet Astar that gets caught in a piece of machinery. Like the mouse PSA, it has a similar message of don't touch things that you don't know what they do. The robot's message to kids was "I can put my arms back on, you can't. Stay safe."
If i recall it right, it also was so 'awesome' because he was having a great fun time, until it went terribly wrong...just like dangerous things are wont to do. That sudden shift made it more memorable than just the cgi being so novel.
I started to read the comments to see if anyone had mentioned this one. I'm glad im not the only one with that song permanently etched into my brain. Someone should send it to him so he can be one of us. 😅
Kids were ripping their closets apart looking for house hippos. The ones not shown that I liked were the ones of the boy being chased by girls and he runs out of breath. The girls swarm and kiss him. It cautions kids to keep in shape.
Stay in shape, cause you never know. There was a same type commercial but the boy got a rare Pokemon card and it got blown out of his hand from the wind. He couldn't catch up to it...
"moooommm Aiden cut me in half again" has seriously stuck in my brain to the point that when my kids say "moooommm" in my head I add "Aiden cut me in half again" 😂
Being older than dirt, I do remember these PSAs sponsored by Health Canada, and I also remember that they stopped when another federal political party came to power. While said latter party ruled, many innovative initiatives like this (as well as much scientific research) were cut. The former party returned to power a few years ago & similar promotions targeting self-esteem, bullying, drug abuse, etc. can be seen in different venues such as social media and podcasts.
I have to agree, but at least they destroyed rivers and ran an election championing clothing bans and snitch lines to report your non-white neighbour. He’s buddies with Victor Orban now.
Yeah the conservative party cut damn near all the funding for the national film board of Canada and tried to kill off the CBC Harper sold off tons of properties buildings equipment media rights from the CBC........Harper filled all 12 of the board of directors positions with 12 conservatives that he appointed himself A few of the board members tried to cripple the CBC so bad that it would have to shut down by selling off so much of the assets and diverted funding into conservative coffers and tried to set Rupert Murdoch up with a sweet deal and start Fox news Canada courtesy of the CRTC controlled all by conservatives and a spot for a director from Fox news
@@justkevinthings8052 and with Trudeau, do you see any of them? I certainly do not see any white boys in anything, as well of ANY WHITE en in anything or in any programs, boys are specifically EXCLUDED from ANY PROGRAM by the Trudeau government and their sexist laws make sure that ANY WHITE MAN is excluded from any promotion. Canada is one of the worst countries on earth right now because of overt discrimination. I fear our children will be very sorry that our once magnificent country succumbed to such NASTY paedophiles and hateful lesbians.
@@justkevinthings8052 BTW Harper had nothing to do with PRIVATE ADVERTIZERS wanting to MAKE MONEY FROM ADVERTS. this program was paid by advertizers, idiot!
The House Hippo one has always stuck strong in my mind, there's a Canadian crafty company that makes house hippo kits to sew together that's high on my to do list. They've also recently redone the house hippo ad for today's age.
Pretty sure I saw a furniture company a few years ago (maybe in Winnipeg?) that was doing hippo footstools for less-crafty fans of 'Hippopotamus domesticus canadensis'...
Without these PSA's I truly don't know what my childhood would have been like. The messages from these PSA's absolutely have stuck with me for life since growing up in the 90's when all of them were new. Sure was a blast from the past seeing a quick clip from Reboot in the Talking TV Ad. Kids loved that specific sketch a lot, it still made me chuckle with the almost New Yorker accent of the TV saying "Can someone get this cat off my head?"
Oh, that hat line was hilarious back in the day. I'm doing a watch party thing and we're a bit more than halfway through ReBoot. If you can tell me your internet culture history, then I can see if you'd be a good fit for the group. We have a lot of fandom music, and dip into impolite humour at times.
We were really lucky that in Canada we had these commercials when we were kids. They didn’t try to get us to buy stuff like normal ones. They showed concern and advice to direct kids to answers they might not normally find. Also they were divided up into certain age group demographics .Young children had the more cartoonish, or animal ones. (Although the House Hippo was loved by all ages.) middle school and Jr high had the bulling ,and be yourself ones, or anti drug ones.They also spoke to the parents about child abuse, and how to talk to their kids. I would see them a lot in the afternoon, watching after school programs. I still remember them today, and can sing along to some of the tunes.
8:29 The TV shows a clip of "ReBoot" a classic Canadian-produced animated series which was the world's first full-length, fully CGI animated series. It not only set the stage for Pixar and all of today's animated movies, but was also just tremendously well written.
too bad the reboot of reboot was absolute garbage. and only shows original 1.0 bob a few times, completely ignoring all the growth the character had, when he was finally introduced. dont blame my kid for not liking the very weird live action reboot. same goes for Megabyte and hexadecimal. she was a good guy in the end, but in the reboot, nope not anymore.
I refused to watch the new Reboot. It is not Reboot. As soon as I found out it won't be a continuation of the original series and that it was going to be part live action I was NOPE, I am out. I am still waiting for the original series to be finished off since it was left at a cliff hanger 20 years ago.
I love the "Nobody is good at everything... but everyone is good at something." one. Great little message, and it's probably the most well-produced/edited one, IMO. I always remembered the guy making the T-rex noise.
Mert comin' in hot and unlocking hidden memories. Thanks my dude. Does anyone else remember a drunk driving commercial where it was a 1st person view driving down a highway and pint glasses kept getting placed in your view. I don't know if it was M.A.D.D or the old Arrive Alive program that made it. That one stuck with me.
I was a couple years too old for a lot of these, but I definitely remember the mouse and cheese ad and the anti-drugs ones. The one that is etched in my memory is one with an egg: “This is your brain,” and then the egg cracked in a frying pan, “and this is your brain on drugs.”
That's not gonna happen, unfortunately too many Canadians have their heads up their ass and are absolutely clueless to the corruption and lying coming from the Liberals and the mainstream media!! After what happened last February in Ottawa, the outright lies that were told by politicians, media, and police!!! There were no fuqn Nazis there, there was one good carrying that flag and the protesters, not the police got rid of that fool! Then the media told these lies, telling people the protesters were strapping gas cans to kids backs and millions of stupid fuqn Canadians believed EVERY WORD!! Then they call a state of emergency, and use riot police and horses, tear gas on innocent LEGAL protests!!! It's the capital of the country, where the fuq else are people supposed to protest! That entire incident, as well as the pathetic left wing agenda, violating people's free speech, because some fuqn snowflake might get their fuqn feelings hurt, the whole pro trans LGBTQABCDEFG movement has completely divided the country, and it's not gonna get better it's gonna get worse, so don't expect Canadians to be uniting on ANYTHING in the near future, you can expect the division to get much worse, ALOT of people of fuqn fed right up with everyone's bitchin n whinin about absolutely fuqn everything, and they're not gonna tolerate this bullshit for too much longer, up until now most folks have kept their true feelings inside because they're afraid to speak up, they're worried about being "cancelled" or called a bigot or a racist, but people have had just about enough of keeping their mouths shut, and they gonna start speaking up, and ALOT of people are going to get angry or offended, but oh well tough shit, enough is enough!
Canada used to rock, but now it is getting horrible in every possible way, In the 90"s people were still humans, but now the WOKE are the nastiest and they destroyed everything, starting from the prime Minister, he is a fascist! Canada WAS the best country, and now it is one of the worst. Getting arrested for not wanting the NAZI in charge? come on!
Won't happen in a vilify and occupy atmosphere we have on the right theyre as wacky as the Republicans these days.sepratism being nonchalantly thrown oround by Alberta's pricier for example an American tool of the munroe doctrine of the usa
soon as the very divisive trudeau is out of politics, i can see that happening. but im still doubtful. especially with the animosity between western Canada and Ontario/Quebec
I am in my 70s and I fondly remember house hippos. Years ago, when I bought first home, I went out and bought a house hippo. She is great but doesn't seem to be interested in either tiny bits of peanut butter on toast crumbs and in spite of being old enough to breed, has not managed to find a worthy man although she does chase my ginger cat who is male.
I remember one Canadian safety commercial with an android swinging around a dangerous looking metal factory area with saws and things everywhere. Near the end his arm gets cut completely off and he just re-attaches it and says "I can put my arm back on, but you can't, so play safe." It was strange but wholesome at the same time.
War Amps, Astar The Robot. There was one made in the 80's, and a remake for the 90s. The 90s one is absolutely terrible, and removes all impact the original had
I am so glad that I found this video. As a Canadian that grew up in the 90's / early 2000's, these commercials sure do bring back some good memories. Shame they aren't on tv anymore..
I believe you would enjoy Canadian Heritage Minute(s)! They are reenactments of events from Canadian history. One features Dan Ackroyd, about the Avro Arrow jet plane. It was later made into a CBC TV movie about the Arrow where he played the lead role.
I grew up watching the (NFBC) National film board of Canada and the (CBC) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation vignettes of the early 70's.......My Son grew up seeing the 90's short films and the house hippo (PSA) by environment Canada Another good collection of short public service announcements by Environment Canada and the National film board of Canada was the Hinterland Who's Who series about wildlife in Canada
9:16 of all the ads I remember, this one lives in my brain forever. The sounds used paired with how many times I'd seen it has me hearing it so clearly. I miss the old PSA's, they don't make them anymore.
I remember all of these old PSA's, they are very memorable. I don't think they are on tv anymore which is a shame since many of them can help kids today. It's funny that you said you now want a house hippo because many Cdn kids wanted them too. In fact, I still believe in them.
House hippo still holds up today. The fact that it was able to make the point to older kids but also the parents whose kids started hunting for house hippos I think is understated. Very good job. Actually most all of them hold up without looking too dated. I wish there was an easy way to bring them back but we don’t really use TV anymore
Oh my god, you have NO IDEA how much we're attached to the House Hippos. This is beautiful. PnCBio nailed it. These were so influential to me. The LEGENDARY What's Your Thing? ad! Oh man, T-Rex Kid. You rule so hard. No "Don't You Put It In Your Mouth"? OUTRAGEOUS. How could this compilation not include that? That and the "Drugs Drugs Drugs" song not being in are big absences.
That was my reaction to the house hippo Mert! I still want one! I'm 62 so the PSA's from the 70's are my favourites. They were animations done by the NFB (National Film Board of Canada)
"There was an old woman who loved in a shoe... When it came to Fire Safety, she knew just what to do." (Animation) " Hi, I'm 'Walter Safety'.... Think, don't Sink ....Stay Alive!" (Canadian Red Cross Water Safety PSA)
A long, long time ago, there used to be a National Film Board (NFB) that put out “Canadiana,” like a huge favourite called “The Logdriver,” about men who used to work😅 sending logs which had just been cut, downriver. I think it might have been verrrrrrry dangerous. Search it , it’s very cute.
Lucky you, they forgot the nightmare fuel that was the 'Doncha put it in your mouth' campaign xD I love showing buddies a lot of the old commercials like these since they're just so uniquely Canadian. Another really good old one was kids going into a plastic surgeon looking horror shop and the tag line of 'why be you, when you could be me?' with these young women walking out looking all the same. Made it much easier to want to be a little different growing up lol
"Doncha put it in your mouth," is still mentioned today between my siblings and I. Mostly because one of the times we heard it my sister was in the kitchen making up a new applesauce recipe while my brother and I were coming up with new, funnier lyrics for the song in that PSA. "Don't ya put it in your mouth. Don't ya stick it up your nose. Don't ya stick in your bum--" and just as we finished the last line, my sister walked into the room and said, "it's rather tasty" and my brother and I burst into helpless laughter as my sister looked at us completely confused until we recovered enough to tell her what she had just said would be "rather tasty."🤣 Ahh, the good ol' days 🥲😆
Yep, everyone remembers the House Hippo ad... and yeah we all wanted one. I recall most of these... the detached head ones not as much. Concerned Children's Advertising was a big source of PSA messages in my youth. The style may be dated... but the messages are fairly timeless.
I neve realized the impat these had on me growing up until I saw this vidwo. I can assure you as a Canadian during this time that these commercials had an effect on me. Brilliant!
One of the most impactful PSAs was from MADD. It had no words but it was a driver on the highway and more and more beers were put in the path of the driver until the driver eventually crashed. The driver couldn’t see through all the beer glasses, being you can’t see with beer glasses to drive.
These PSAs were so ahead of their time, thinking about the problems kids have today. I remember about 90% of these. Good opening with the house hippo, still trying to find mine
In the '90s I only lived in Canada for 1 - 2 months per year (somewhere between the start of June and end of August)...and yet I *still* remember most of these ads. So they must have been broadcast fairly frequently!
You need to watch “Don’t put it in your mouth”.. another Canadian PSA haha.. its fairly creepy watching it now but it’s forever engrained in any 90s kid’s brain !
Oh man, this is nostalgic. I remember watching almost every single one of these commercials, and multiple times throughout the years too. Never thought much about the messages when I was little, but they were always fun and catchy. That said, I could definitely see these having an impact on my subconscious thought, as I definitely was a more cautious person about the messages discussed in the commercials themselves. Overall, I enjoyed these commercials when I was younger, and still appreciate both their production quality and messages to this day.
90s baby Canadian here, I remember and loved all of these. Kids really did love them, all Canadian children at that time wanted a house hippo lol we all yelled Mom, Aidan cut me in half again! At the tv with the girl. The mouse one was one of my favorites. They really did help children, they helped me. I can't believe they didn't put the most famous of all concerned children's advertiser's commercials. Don't you put it in your mouth song lol 😂
Man I miss the Concerned Children's Advertisers commercials, I remember almost all of these. They were so good and they were so fun to watch, I remember getting so excited when these commercials came on. They need to bring these back, they used to play on PBS Kids, which I don't think is even a thing anymore unfortunately.
The travesty that the Don't You Put It In Your Mouth commercial was not in here, or any of the War Amps ones. Some of these I actually don't remember ever seeing, like the ones with the kid losing his head, but the house hippo stays with you forever
OMG!!! The house hippos one was my favorite for years!!! There was a robot that gets a limb cut off or something like that and it used to scare the crap out of me when I was little
Love your videos, particularly the Glasgow accent! I'm Canadian but my best mate is from Glasgow and I've spent a lot of time there. These PSAs and your national heritage moment videos brought back a lot of memories for me! A lot of them have stayed with me, don't you put it in your mouth, I smell burnt toast, etc.!! Keep up the good work!
They kept using these well into the 2000s. The House Hippo is fried so deeply into my brain. Still think about it every time I have peanut butter on toast.
you instantly read the first severed head ad as "Eat when you're hungry" more than anything to do with nutrition, and then they had the same actor do the "Move for at least 30 minutes a day" spot. Body Electricity is not only an earworm that will stay with you but it's got the message of the previous two mixed together, with a focus on nutrition but also telling you to eat when you're hungry and to move around so the food can do its work. the sleeveless shirt kid who played the bully in the Walk Away Tell Someone series seems like he really had fun with the role. Words Hurt could air today and its message would still be relevant. i think the "I'm just a TV!" was made by REBOOT studios when they were at their peak of power at YTV. it could have been part of the training arc between Season 2 and Season 3 of Reboot that made the Renegade arc so much more visually appealing but the Young Guardian arc looked really good too and i think everything after Bob disappeared was Reboot III and the new art style with the updated software and a bunch of new computers paid for by the Canadian Government. if i'm remembering the musical correctly, the Web Riders arc starts when Enzo and AndrAia and Frisket get trapped in the games but turn themselves into NPCs to trick the game so they can travel through the games and then i think they end up in different systems cities and peoples until they find themselves in this place: Mainframe
its a long series and the animation in the early episodes is rough but they're not afraid to experiment and they do some pretty good storytelling. starting with season 3 they end the season with a musical that tells you all the events so you're not lost to the tune of I am the very image of a corporal and master general
I was born in '95 and I recognize half, or close-to half of these. What a throwback.. To be reminded of something from 25 years ago (can't imagine memory sticks earlier than 4y.o.) that I haven't thought even a second about since is such a feeling... So many "OH YEAH!!" moments!
Thanks for this, brought back some memories. I do remember seeing the House Hippo on TV, I remember asking my parents if I could have one. CCA had a lot of great messages, mostly positive, as a child I remember the ones with songs/melodies more, but that's me...Don't You Put It In Your Mouth sung by the blue puppets is a great one.
I was in Canada when these came out, but I was an adult. I don't remember any of them. I do, however, remember when the topic of schoolyard bullying started to hit the media in the late 90s, early 2000s. I was shocked that bullying was only ever described as words, taunts, teasing, insults, name calling, etc. I'd grown up in a rural, redneck, Canadian town where bullying was a lot more than words. I was regularly punched, kicked, slapped, shoved, thrown down, grabbed, stuck with needles, hit with rocks, etc. If it was a boy doing it, and I told an adult, they'd say, "Oh, he likes you but just doesn't know how to show it. Be nice to him." If it was a girl or girls, adults would say, "Girls are just like that. They're so mean." These PSAs saying "just walk away," or "tell an adult" seem hopelessly naïve to me.
Mert I appreciate your comments about Canada. I guess we get the word "aboot" from Scotland! One of my favorite shows is Still Game...have you watched it? Hey for an amazing Canadian story, watch Alone Across the Arctic. You'll gain a real admiration for a tough young man and the geography of Northern Canada.
House hippos are now collected all over the English speaking world thanks to thrifters and antiquers who share their finds online in spaces like WEIRD AND WONDERFUL SECOND HAND FINDS on Facebook. Finding your own house hippo in the “wild” is a thing. That’s how much staying power that brilliant PSA had. I really enjoy your intelligent take on things to do with my home. You almost seem Canadian yourself ;0)
Wayyyy back, I think it was produced by the MTO / Ministry of Transportation Ontario; in winter they would trot out an animated message about how drivers should respect snow plows and salt trucks, and especially to keep the proper distance behind them. The hook at the end was the narrator asks, "What do we have to do? Put in a tail gunner?" And the animation would present a truck's tail gate, then a figure popping up from the top of the truck's rear, aiming an old style machine gun at the viewers. That's as best as I can remember it.
I've never forgotten the "House Hippo" one. When I saw the "Words Hurt" one, I definitely remember seeing that one as a kid. And the CGI TV I remember but I don't know if it was from this commercial or another one.
I remember every single one of these psa’s. Also the Log Rider’s Waltz, the Cat came back and the early Wayne Lytle Animusic clips that were aired in place of ads.
I haven't watched broadcast television for about 40 years, so I rarely see commercials or PSA's anymore, but I do remember when we found the house hippo nest in my bedroom closet. I call it a nest, but it was an entire eco-system and there must have been 100 house hippos in there. My roommate laid traps, and that was the end of that. (you wouldn't believe how much house hippos poop! Took weeks to clean it all up). Distincltively Canadian messaging. I can't imagine American PSA's telling kids to be whoever they are inside. That would be considered communist subversion! Amrican Children have to be told who they are!! What if they turn out to be drag queens or worse, Socialists !?!?!?! Thank you for continuing to entertain and tickle the patriotic pride in me. You make me more proud of being me (a french-heritage Canadian) than all the Heritage Minutes and Canadian House Hippos combined.
Almost 26 and I remember all of these from early 2000's TV, as well as 2 that weren't featured here about getting fit. "The Chase" & "Blown away" are both uploaded by "ccacanada" on youtube. They are about staying active as a kid, and are still prominent in my memory. I will say one of them for sure has not aged well with the times
Being a 90's kid I remember all of these! Today I'd say they put these messages into kids tv shows more than ads. But as a parent a lot of this is up to us to make them understand, which is fine by me...though I have used the house hippo one so my boys don't believe everything they hear 😅😂
I remember the house hippos, I haven't finished the video yet... but if it's on there... there was NFB's Blackfly song that played on TV a lot. As well there was NFB's The Cat Came Back. If you want to check those they're cartoon folk music songs er w/e
These were the PSA's from the late 80's and 90's... the ones from earlier (the 70's - the ones GenX watched) were terrifying, scary, drug pushing puppets with needles and bloodshot eyes....lol.. Plus the egg cracking into a frypan... these are your brain on drugs ads...There's a reason they call GenX the feral generation.. even our PSA's gave nightmares.
I loved all of those growing up. The Everybody is good at something line was a good one. The war amps had a good ad back then and the heritage moments were always good. Pretty sure the inukshuk became an easily identifiable feature to a whole generation of kids that sadly didn't see enough of that culture but will always know "The people will know we were here".
We do different things for bullying now. There is a program called Roots of Empathy that involves bringing babies into Kindergarten classrooms. A lot of anti-bullying programs used to have the opposite effect, so instead of teaching them to not be bullies, we teach them how to be kind.
unfortunately, the ONLY ones being left out are boys, especially white boys, not one single school or organisation even knows or cares what they are, the boys are hurting, but since women are in charge, they do not give an F$ck about boys or men for that matter! just looking at these ADS from the 90s we can see that today none of them would dare to include white boys in any of them.
I remember almost all of these. The House Hippo one is considered a classic and pretty much every Canadian is familiar with it. Something else you might like to react to is Heritage Moments
i remember all of them haven't seen them in a long time, but the moment i started seeing them it was all coming back to me, the ones i remember the most were the house hippo and morning timmy and food and activity song saw those 3 alot when i was going to school.
my favourite memory from the "Balance food and activity" PSA is when they accidentally played the song over a fruit loops commercial (I believe it was during a sort of alice in wonderland promo they were doing at the time.) side note I think thanks to the first psa my sister was scared of house hippos when she was young.
I remember the house hippo psa and I knew it couldn't be true, but the ad was similar to some wildlife ones that we have in Canada and so I couldn't help but sit there and stare, shaking my head in amazement. If only!
The house hippo PSA! I loved that one, and I also wanted one lol Some were a little unhinged, but somehow more in tune with issues that we still have today. And yeah, that weird and grungy 90s' vibe is definitely dating those in a visual sense lol I kind of miss that weirdness of it all...
It's synchronicity that I was just speaking to a friend about the old PSAs and how we really should have them back again to educate people, young and old about a variety of social issues. Really, those things never go out of fashion as you said, they are all still difficulties people young and old have today. In Ontario, CANADA, we had the "house hippo" PSA on tv all the time. I'd never seen the one about the little boy being hungry or exercising. The "body electricity" PSA was also, on tv all the time. The bullying PSAs and the girl calling nasty names were also on tv a lot. Yes to the overbearing mom and the hobbies PSA. Yes to the child abuse PSA. The mouse and cheese safety PSA was on a lot esp. during breakfast, lunch, after school and all cartoons shown on TV. I certainly don't remember them extending into the '90's in my province. Well no, that's not entirely true. The body image PSA's did continue now that I'm thinking of it. There were also a LOT of milk PSA's talking about vitamins, minerals, health, growth etc. Yes, the milk PSA's did go on longer. You're so right. These type of PSA's should be put back on television in Canada and around the world really. But no, these aren't on tv any longer, not for a long time. The last time I remember PSA's like this was the mid to late 1980's for the most part and a few like the body image and milk PSAs went on into the 90's but not as often as in the 70's and 80's. By the end of the 90's they were pretty much gone.
HAHAHA you had the exact same reaction to those "house hippos" as i did when i first (and i guess to this day) saw that psa! totally ahead of it's time!
Bert and Gert from Partipaction shown in class and the Don't You Put It In Your Mouth Song sure left a dent as well. Plus those lovely Heritage Minutes and their spoofs. There was a song taught about how some drugs are good and safe but some are bad so ask your mom or ask your dad. I was always confused by that song. Mom was a pharmaceutical technician and I'd have no business asking anyone else. Ah, ASD early on.
I grew up one these playing all the time especially on Saturday morning during cartoons and 40+ years later and all the messages are very relevant and important today.
I recall most of those from my youth, but I didn't see my favourite one there. Astar from the Planet Danger was produced by the War Amps and has some incredible 80's high quality production. It's a mini sci-fi epic that rivaled Star Wars in my mind as a kid
Omg. I remember all of these PSA’s. Some of them I forgot about until I started seeing them again. I almost didn’t remember the brain one at the end until they started clipping the wires. When I think back on these videos I usually feel pretty happy. There were people who thought about us and wanted to do whatever they could to make sure we grew up alright. It’s really heartwarming (and hella nostalgic). Sadly… I don’t really see these anymore… but it has been a while since I was on the kid channels. Nowadays everyone uses internet streaming, Netflix, Disney+, etc. kinda sad…
I remember the house hippo liking toast crumbs with peanut butter a quarter century later and the post hippo breakdown so I guess it stuck in my head pretty well.
The house hippo one needs to come back. It’s literally about fake news and “alternative facts”. The house hippo has never been needed more than today!
Right.
It has. I saw a new house hippo campaign a few weeks ago warning against believing everything you read on the internet.
@@jennyrengood9875 I (suspect) I see what you did there 🤣
Trudeau's PSA be like:
"You don't believe in house hippos?! YOU MISOGYNISTIC BIGOT !"
@@themore-you-know Jesus, what is wrong with you?
We ALL wanted a house hippo back then 🤗
I had a house hippo, but one night, while I was sleeping, I heard these loud noises in my living room. I rushed out, with a book for defence, and found the hippo, dead on the floor, and all my dust bunnies partying in victory!
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Stay safe, stay sane, stay strong Ukraine 🇺🇦
This.
Yes! I wanted to get into biology to see about making that a thing.
Still do
I still do 😢
One PSA that I still remember to this day is a War Amps PSA. It's a robot on the planet Astar that gets caught in a piece of machinery. Like the mouse PSA, it has a similar message of don't touch things that you don't know what they do. The robot's message to kids was "I can put my arms back on, you can't. Stay safe."
That ad creeped me out as a kid, but i couldn't help it, i had to watch it!
I was hoping he would have this one on the video! That, and the two muppets singing 'Don't you put it in your mouth!'
If i recall it right, it also was so 'awesome' because he was having a great fun time, until it went terribly wrong...just like dangerous things are wont to do. That sudden shift made it more memorable than just the cgi being so novel.
@@diedrichbuck6975I still can sing that song
I just thought about that one. I remember it as clear as day even today.
Also the don't put it in your mouth song with the singing monsters.
80s & 90s Canadian PSAs are pretty special
House Hippo is the best PSA ever.
I loved Body Break with Hal Johnson and Joanne Mcleod.
@@jamieking8011 Participaction!
I loved heritage minutes
And Hinterland Who’s Who taught us about our natural environment. I never realized how lucky we were/are.
The king of the Canadian PSAs is "Don't You Put it in Your Mouth " it's a classic, but damned if you aren't getting that jingle out of your head 😅
OMG I was singing this as I saw Your comment!!! XooX
my only problem with it was the damn lie it told. Making me think beets were good to eat I call liar on them :D
@@sandrasnow-balvert7766 I was this days old when I learned it was 'beet' and not 'treat'. I guess I just couldn't understand someone liking... beets.
I will remember that song until I die
I started to read the comments to see if anyone had mentioned this one. I'm glad im not the only one with that song permanently etched into my brain. Someone should send it to him so he can be one of us. 😅
Kids were ripping their closets apart looking for house hippos. The ones not shown that I liked were the ones of the boy being chased by girls and he runs out of breath. The girls swarm and kiss him. It cautions kids to keep in shape.
Cardio. Double tap to the head, don't be a hero. I remember some of the rules
Stay in shape, cause you never know. There was a same type commercial but the boy got a rare Pokemon card and it got blown out of his hand from the wind. He couldn't catch up to it...
I recall that one too - very cute and very effective.
@@vladtepes97 no, no, no. " --don't-- be a hero"
The kissing one was adorable
"moooommm Aiden cut me in half again" has seriously stuck in my brain to the point that when my kids say "moooommm" in my head I add "Aiden cut me in half again" 😂
If you find anyone in the world who doesn't want a House Hippo it's only because they don't know what it is. :P
do you want a house hippo?🤣
@@raven4k998well duh who wouldn't!
Being older than dirt, I do remember these PSAs sponsored by Health Canada, and I also remember that they stopped when another federal political party came to power. While said latter party ruled, many innovative initiatives like this (as well as much scientific research) were cut. The former party returned to power a few years ago & similar promotions targeting self-esteem, bullying, drug abuse, etc. can be seen in different venues such as social media and podcasts.
Another thing Harper ruined
I have to agree, but at least they destroyed rivers and ran an election championing clothing bans and snitch lines to report your non-white neighbour. He’s buddies with Victor Orban now.
Yeah the conservative party cut damn near all the funding for the national film board of Canada and tried to kill off the CBC
Harper sold off tons of properties buildings equipment media rights from the CBC........Harper filled all 12 of the board of directors positions with 12 conservatives that he appointed himself
A few of the board members tried to cripple the CBC so bad that it would have to shut down by selling off so much of the assets and diverted funding into conservative coffers and tried to set Rupert Murdoch up with a sweet deal and start Fox news Canada courtesy of the CRTC controlled all by conservatives and a spot for a director from Fox news
@@justkevinthings8052 and with Trudeau, do you see any of them? I certainly do not see any white boys in anything, as well of ANY WHITE en in anything or in any programs, boys are specifically EXCLUDED from ANY PROGRAM by the Trudeau government and their sexist laws make sure that ANY WHITE MAN is excluded from any promotion. Canada is one of the worst countries on earth right now because of overt discrimination. I fear our children will be very sorry that our once magnificent country succumbed to such NASTY paedophiles and hateful lesbians.
@@justkevinthings8052 BTW Harper had nothing to do with PRIVATE ADVERTIZERS wanting to MAKE MONEY FROM ADVERTS. this program was paid by advertizers, idiot!
House Hippos were beloved in Canada. It was my favorite PSA!!!🥰
Breaks my heart they never migrated out more from eastern Canada, hahaha
@TJRune they're actually found throughout Canada, and the eastern United states
The House Hippo one has always stuck strong in my mind, there's a Canadian crafty company that makes house hippo kits to sew together that's high on my to do list. They've also recently redone the house hippo ad for today's age.
There's a company that does WHAT?? Omg. I've never heard about that before.
I’m pretty sure I saw it on Facebook
Please share that link!!
Pretty sure I saw a furniture company a few years ago (maybe in Winnipeg?) that was doing hippo footstools for less-crafty fans of 'Hippopotamus domesticus canadensis'...
@@SPierre-dm4wo Etsy has kits for sale to sew.
Without these PSA's I truly don't know what my childhood would have been like. The messages from these PSA's absolutely have stuck with me for life since growing up in the 90's when all of them were new. Sure was a blast from the past seeing a quick clip from Reboot in the Talking TV Ad. Kids loved that specific sketch a lot, it still made me chuckle with the almost New Yorker accent of the TV saying "Can someone get this cat off my head?"
They would have ReBoot on there, the ad was made by MainFrame Entertainment. They were also responsible for Dire Straits video "Money for Nothing"
dont ya put it in your mouth
Oh, that hat line was hilarious back in the day.
I'm doing a watch party thing and we're a bit more than halfway through ReBoot. If you can tell me your internet culture history, then I can see if you'd be a good fit for the group. We have a lot of fandom music, and dip into impolite humour at times.
We were really lucky that in Canada we had these commercials when we were kids. They didn’t try to get us to buy stuff like normal ones. They showed concern and advice to direct kids to answers they might not normally find. Also they were divided up into certain age group demographics .Young children had the more cartoonish, or animal ones. (Although the House Hippo was loved by all ages.) middle school and Jr high had the bulling ,and be yourself ones, or anti drug ones.They also spoke to the parents about child abuse, and how to talk to their kids. I would see them a lot in the afternoon, watching after school programs. I still remember them today, and can sing along to some of the tunes.
8:29 The TV shows a clip of "ReBoot" a classic Canadian-produced animated series which was the world's first full-length, fully CGI animated series. It not only set the stage for Pixar and all of today's animated movies, but was also just tremendously well written.
too bad the reboot of reboot was absolute garbage. and only shows original 1.0 bob a few times, completely ignoring all the growth the character had, when he was finally introduced. dont blame my kid for not liking the very weird live action reboot. same goes for Megabyte and hexadecimal. she was a good guy in the end, but in the reboot, nope not anymore.
@@dustinherk8124 Just as ReBoot was the precursor of Pixar, ReBoot 2.0 was the precursor of modern Disney movie sequels.
@@dustinherk8124 Yes, that Netflix version seemed to have been made by someone who had barely taken a casual glance at the original.
I refused to watch the new Reboot. It is not Reboot. As soon as I found out it won't be a continuation of the original series and that it was going to be part live action I was NOPE, I am out.
I am still waiting for the original series to be finished off since it was left at a cliff hanger 20 years ago.
I miss ReBoot
I love the "Nobody is good at everything... but everyone is good at something." one. Great little message, and it's probably the most well-produced/edited one, IMO. I always remembered the guy making the T-rex noise.
I'm so happy you have finally met the house hippo!!
Mert comin' in hot and unlocking hidden memories. Thanks my dude.
Does anyone else remember a drunk driving commercial where it was a 1st person view driving down a highway and pint glasses kept getting placed in your view. I don't know if it was M.A.D.D or the old Arrive Alive program that made it. That one stuck with me.
Yes. I hated it because of the ending with the horn not stopping.
I believe that it played during hockey night in Canada.
It was by MADD.
I was a couple years too old for a lot of these, but I definitely remember the mouse and cheese ad and the anti-drugs ones. The one that is etched in my memory is one with an egg: “This is your brain,” and then the egg cracked in a frying pan, “and this is your brain on drugs.”
I remember that as being an American psa
That was 🇺🇸, but it certainly stuck.
I remember that one!
"Any questions?"
"I learned it from you Dad!"
The house hippo solved the mystery of socks going missing. We always blamed the house hippo.
😂 so true!
These were my childhood. The nostalgia is strong. Haven't seen these in years and I still remember them so clearly.
I can’t believe the “DRUGS DRUGS DRUGS, SOME ARE GOOD SOME ARE BAD” one wasn’t on here. It still gets stuck in my head sometimes lol
Canada rocks in so many ways. I wish Canadians would come together again and see how awesome we are when we work together.
That's not gonna happen, unfortunately too many Canadians have their heads up their ass and are absolutely clueless to the corruption and lying coming from the Liberals and the mainstream media!! After what happened last February in Ottawa, the outright lies that were told by politicians, media, and police!!! There were no fuqn Nazis there, there was one good carrying that flag and the protesters, not the police got rid of that fool! Then the media told these lies, telling people the protesters were strapping gas cans to kids backs and millions of stupid fuqn Canadians believed EVERY WORD!! Then they call a state of emergency, and use riot police and horses, tear gas on innocent LEGAL protests!!! It's the capital of the country, where the fuq else are people supposed to protest! That entire incident, as well as the pathetic left wing agenda, violating people's free speech, because some fuqn snowflake might get their fuqn feelings hurt, the whole pro trans LGBTQABCDEFG movement has completely divided the country, and it's not gonna get better it's gonna get worse, so don't expect Canadians to be uniting on ANYTHING in the near future, you can expect the division to get much worse, ALOT of people of fuqn fed right up with everyone's bitchin n whinin about absolutely fuqn everything, and they're not gonna tolerate this bullshit for too much longer, up until now most folks have kept their true feelings inside because they're afraid to speak up, they're worried about being "cancelled" or called a bigot or a racist, but people have had just about enough of keeping their mouths shut, and they gonna start speaking up, and ALOT of people are going to get angry or offended, but oh well tough shit, enough is enough!
Canada used to rock, but now it is getting horrible in every possible way, In the 90"s people were still humans, but now the WOKE are the nastiest and they destroyed everything, starting from the prime Minister, he is a fascist! Canada WAS the best country, and now it is one of the worst. Getting arrested for not wanting the NAZI in charge? come on!
If we ever move past capitalism, I’d agree.
Won't happen in a vilify and occupy atmosphere we have on the right theyre as wacky as the Republicans these days.sepratism being nonchalantly thrown oround by Alberta's pricier for example an American tool of the munroe doctrine of the usa
soon as the very divisive trudeau is out of politics, i can see that happening. but im still doubtful. especially with the animosity between western Canada and Ontario/Quebec
I am in my 70s and I fondly remember house hippos. Years ago, when I bought first home, I went out and bought a house hippo. She is great but doesn't seem to be interested in either tiny bits of peanut butter on toast crumbs and in spite of being old enough to breed, has not managed to find a worthy man although she does chase my ginger cat who is male.
I love your sense of humor. ✌😄
I remember one Canadian safety commercial with an android swinging around a dangerous looking metal factory area with saws and things everywhere. Near the end his arm gets cut completely off and he just re-attaches it and says "I can put my arm back on, but you can't, so play safe." It was strange but wholesome at the same time.
I remember that one...I think it was a War Amps PSA.
War Amps, Astar The Robot. There was one made in the 80's, and a remake for the 90s. The 90s one is absolutely terrible, and removes all impact the original had
I am so glad that I found this video. As a Canadian that grew up in the 90's / early 2000's, these commercials sure do bring back some good memories.
Shame they aren't on tv anymore..
I believe you would enjoy Canadian Heritage Minute(s)! They are reenactments of events from Canadian history. One features Dan Ackroyd, about the Avro Arrow jet plane. It was later made into a CBC TV movie about the Arrow where he played the lead role.
If you go back a few months, they have been reviewed.
my friend's coworkers have a small plastic hippo that gets hidden around their work to be found. it's inspired by the house hippo
I grew up watching the (NFBC) National film board of Canada and the (CBC) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation vignettes of the early 70's.......My Son grew up seeing the 90's short films and the house hippo (PSA) by environment Canada
Another good collection of short public service announcements by Environment Canada and the National film board of Canada was the Hinterland Who's Who series about wildlife in Canada
9:16 of all the ads I remember, this one lives in my brain forever. The sounds used paired with how many times I'd seen it has me hearing it so clearly. I miss the old PSA's, they don't make them anymore.
I remember all of these old PSA's, they are very memorable. I don't think they are on tv anymore which is a shame since many of them can help kids today. It's funny that you said you now want a house hippo because many Cdn kids wanted them too. In fact, I still believe in them.
House hippo still holds up today. The fact that it was able to make the point to older kids but also the parents whose kids started hunting for house hippos I think is understated. Very good job.
Actually most all of them hold up without looking too dated. I wish there was an easy way to bring them back but we don’t really use TV anymore
We don't use t.v. anymore? Since what year?
Oh my god, you have NO IDEA how much we're attached to the House Hippos. This is beautiful. PnCBio nailed it. These were so influential to me.
The LEGENDARY What's Your Thing? ad! Oh man, T-Rex Kid. You rule so hard.
No "Don't You Put It In Your Mouth"? OUTRAGEOUS. How could this compilation not include that? That and the "Drugs Drugs Drugs" song not being in are big absences.
OMG, Drugs Drugs Drugs is a serious oversight. 🎶Some are good, some are bad.🎶
Omg, I forgot drugs, drugs, drugs!
That was my reaction to the house hippo Mert! I still want one! I'm 62 so the PSA's from the 70's are my favourites. They were animations done by the NFB (National Film Board of Canada)
Oh my heart is bursting!!!! The house hippo!!!!
"There was an old woman who loved in a shoe...
When it came to Fire Safety, she knew just what to do." (Animation)
" Hi, I'm 'Walter Safety'....
Think, don't Sink ....Stay Alive!"
(Canadian Red Cross Water Safety PSA)
A long, long time ago, there used to be a National Film Board (NFB) that put out “Canadiana,” like a huge favourite called
“The Logdriver,” about men who used to work😅 sending logs which had just been cut, downriver. I think it might have been verrrrrrry dangerous. Search it , it’s very cute.
@@drunkvegangal8089 the NFB is truly a national treasure ❤️
Log Driver's Waltz sung by Kate & Anna McGarrigle; The Cat Came Back; both and much more on You Tube. NFB is wonderful!
Lucky you, they forgot the nightmare fuel that was the 'Doncha put it in your mouth' campaign xD I love showing buddies a lot of the old commercials like these since they're just so uniquely Canadian. Another really good old one was kids going into a plastic surgeon looking horror shop and the tag line of 'why be you, when you could be me?' with these young women walking out looking all the same. Made it much easier to want to be a little different growing up lol
I was waiting for it! XooX
"Doncha put it in your mouth," is still mentioned today between my siblings and I. Mostly because one of the times we heard it my sister was in the kitchen making up a new applesauce recipe while my brother and I were coming up with new, funnier lyrics for the song in that PSA.
"Don't ya put it in your mouth. Don't ya stick it up your nose. Don't ya stick in your bum--" and just as we finished the last line, my sister walked into the room and said, "it's rather tasty" and my brother and I burst into helpless laughter as my sister looked at us completely confused until we recovered enough to tell her what she had just said would be "rather tasty."🤣
Ahh, the good ol' days 🥲😆
Yep, everyone remembers the House Hippo ad... and yeah we all wanted one.
I recall most of these... the detached head ones not as much. Concerned Children's Advertising was a big source of PSA messages in my youth.
The style may be dated... but the messages are fairly timeless.
I neve realized the impat these had on me growing up until I saw this vidwo. I can assure you as a Canadian during this time that these commercials had an effect on me. Brilliant!
One of my favorite ones was the jingle "Don't you put it in your mouth" with these blue fuzzy puppets.
One of the most impactful PSAs was from MADD. It had no words but it was a driver on the highway and more and more beers were put in the path of the driver until the driver eventually crashed. The driver couldn’t see through all the beer glasses, being you can’t see with beer glasses to drive.
Yes. That was a good one. It illustrated what drinking and driving changed your senses.
These PSAs were so ahead of their time, thinking about the problems kids have today. I remember about 90% of these. Good opening with the house hippo, still trying to find mine
In the '90s I only lived in Canada for 1 - 2 months per year (somewhere between the start of June and end of August)...and yet I *still* remember most of these ads. So they must have been broadcast fairly frequently!
You need to watch “Don’t put it in your mouth”.. another Canadian PSA haha.. its fairly creepy watching it now but it’s forever engrained in any 90s kid’s brain !
Or parent of those kids..ick!XooX
Oh man, this is nostalgic.
I remember watching almost every single one of these commercials, and multiple times throughout the years too.
Never thought much about the messages when I was little, but they were always fun and catchy.
That said, I could definitely see these having an impact on my subconscious thought, as I definitely was a more cautious person about the messages discussed in the commercials themselves.
Overall, I enjoyed these commercials when I was younger, and still appreciate both their production quality and messages to this day.
90s baby Canadian here, I remember and loved all of these. Kids really did love them, all Canadian children at that time wanted a house hippo lol we all yelled Mom, Aidan cut me in half again! At the tv with the girl. The mouse one was one of my favorites. They really did help children, they helped me. I can't believe they didn't put the most famous of all concerned children's advertiser's commercials. Don't you put it in your mouth song lol 😂
Man I miss the Concerned Children's Advertisers commercials, I remember almost all of these. They were so good and they were so fun to watch, I remember getting so excited when these commercials came on. They need to bring these back, they used to play on PBS Kids, which I don't think is even a thing anymore unfortunately.
Lol! Aiden was in my daughters class. He really was a magician! Such fond memories! I actually have an 8 inch tall, ceramic hippo at my front door. ❤️
The travesty that the Don't You Put It In Your Mouth commercial was not in here, or any of the War Amps ones. Some of these I actually don't remember ever seeing, like the ones with the kid losing his head, but the house hippo stays with you forever
OMG!!! The house hippos one was my favorite for years!!! There was a robot that gets a limb cut off or something like that and it used to scare the crap out of me when I was little
I also loved "Dontcha put it in your mouth" and the Waramps psa with the robot.
Love your videos, particularly the Glasgow accent! I'm Canadian but my best mate is from Glasgow and I've spent a lot of time there. These PSAs and your national heritage moment videos brought back a lot of memories for me! A lot of them have stayed with me, don't you put it in your mouth, I smell burnt toast, etc.!! Keep up the good work!
They kept using these well into the 2000s. The House Hippo is fried so deeply into my brain. Still think about it every time I have peanut butter on toast.
I'm old enough to remember each of these. Yeah, I watched way too much TV back then.
you instantly read the first severed head ad as "Eat when you're hungry" more than anything to do with nutrition, and then they had the same actor do the "Move for at least 30 minutes a day" spot. Body Electricity is not only an earworm that will stay with you but it's got the message of the previous two mixed together, with a focus on nutrition but also telling you to eat when you're hungry and to move around so the food can do its work. the sleeveless shirt kid who played the bully in the Walk Away Tell Someone series seems like he really had fun with the role. Words Hurt could air today and its message would still be relevant. i think the "I'm just a TV!" was made by REBOOT studios when they were at their peak of power at YTV. it could have been part of the training arc between Season 2 and Season 3 of Reboot that made the Renegade arc so much more visually appealing but the Young Guardian arc looked really good too and i think everything after Bob disappeared was Reboot III and the new art style with the updated software and a bunch of new computers paid for by the Canadian Government. if i'm remembering the musical correctly, the Web Riders arc starts when Enzo and AndrAia and Frisket get trapped in the games but turn themselves into NPCs to trick the game so they can travel through the games and then i think they end up in different systems cities and peoples until they find themselves in this place: Mainframe
its a long series and the animation in the early episodes is rough but they're not afraid to experiment and they do some pretty good storytelling. starting with season 3 they end the season with a musical that tells you all the events so you're not lost to the tune of I am the very image of a corporal and master general
I was born in '95 and I recognize half, or close-to half of these. What a throwback.. To be reminded of something from 25 years ago (can't imagine memory sticks earlier than 4y.o.) that I haven't thought even a second about since is such a feeling... So many "OH YEAH!!" moments!
Thanks for this, brought back some memories. I do remember seeing the House Hippo on TV, I remember asking my parents if I could have one. CCA had a lot of great messages, mostly positive, as a child I remember the ones with songs/melodies more, but that's me...Don't You Put It In Your Mouth sung by the blue puppets is a great one.
I've seen every single one of those commercials and boy those bring back some memories. Thanks for the vid!
I was in Canada when these came out, but I was an adult. I don't remember any of them. I do, however, remember when the topic of schoolyard bullying started to hit the media in the late 90s, early 2000s. I was shocked that bullying was only ever described as words, taunts, teasing, insults, name calling, etc. I'd grown up in a rural, redneck, Canadian town where bullying was a lot more than words. I was regularly punched, kicked, slapped, shoved, thrown down, grabbed, stuck with needles, hit with rocks, etc. If it was a boy doing it, and I told an adult, they'd say, "Oh, he likes you but just doesn't know how to show it. Be nice to him." If it was a girl or girls, adults would say, "Girls are just like that. They're so mean." These PSAs saying "just walk away," or "tell an adult" seem hopelessly naïve to me.
Also, it's long past time you start watching Body Break with Hal Johnson and Joanne McLeod.
Mert I appreciate your comments about Canada. I guess we get the word "aboot" from Scotland! One of my favorite shows is Still Game...have you watched it? Hey for an amazing Canadian story, watch Alone Across the Arctic. You'll gain a real admiration for a tough young man and the geography of Northern Canada.
yea anyone born 90 s and under remember these very well, taught us more than school and were just special.
House hippos are now collected all over the English speaking world thanks to thrifters and antiquers who share their finds online in spaces like WEIRD AND WONDERFUL SECOND HAND FINDS on Facebook. Finding your own house hippo in the “wild” is a thing. That’s how much staying power that brilliant PSA had.
I really enjoy your intelligent take on things to do with my home. You almost seem Canadian yourself ;0)
I Rais a house hippos farm 😊yapp 🚜🚜🚜
There is also the Canada Heritage moments series of commercials - I believe they were 90's as well. very well done
I remember these so well, I realize now that I think I learned some good lessons from them that still stick with me today.
Everyone in Canada wanted a house Hippo or two. I still do😅.
Wayyyy back, I think it was produced by the MTO / Ministry of Transportation Ontario; in winter they would trot out an animated message about how drivers should respect snow plows and salt trucks, and especially to keep the proper distance behind them. The hook at the end was the narrator asks, "What do we have to do? Put in a tail gunner?" And the animation would present a truck's tail gate, then a figure popping up from the top of the truck's rear, aiming an old style machine gun at the viewers. That's as best as I can remember it.
I've never forgotten the "House Hippo" one. When I saw the "Words Hurt" one, I definitely remember seeing that one as a kid. And the CGI TV I remember but I don't know if it was from this commercial or another one.
I still want a house hippo, these PSAs were a part of my world at the time and I miss them
I remember every single one of these psa’s. Also the Log Rider’s Waltz, the Cat came back and the early Wayne Lytle Animusic clips that were aired in place of ads.
I haven't watched broadcast television for about 40 years, so I rarely see commercials or PSA's anymore, but I do remember when we found the house hippo nest in my bedroom closet. I call it a nest, but it was an entire eco-system and there must have been 100 house hippos in there. My roommate laid traps, and that was the end of that. (you wouldn't believe how much house hippos poop! Took weeks to clean it all up).
Distincltively Canadian messaging. I can't imagine American PSA's telling kids to be whoever they are inside. That would be considered communist subversion! Amrican Children have to be told who they are!! What if they turn out to be drag queens or worse, Socialists !?!?!?!
Thank you for continuing to entertain and tickle the patriotic pride in me. You make me more proud of being me (a french-heritage Canadian) than all the Heritage Minutes and Canadian House Hippos combined.
Almost 26 and I remember all of these from early 2000's TV, as well as 2 that weren't featured here about getting fit.
"The Chase" & "Blown away" are both uploaded by "ccacanada" on youtube. They are about staying active as a kid, and are still prominent in my memory. I will say one of them for sure has not aged well with the times
Being a 90's kid I remember all of these! Today I'd say they put these messages into kids tv shows more than ads. But as a parent a lot of this is up to us to make them understand, which is fine by me...though I have used the house hippo one so my boys don't believe everything they hear 😅😂
I remember the house hippos, I haven't finished the video yet... but if it's on there... there was NFB's Blackfly song that played on TV a lot. As well there was NFB's The Cat Came Back. If you want to check those they're cartoon folk music songs er w/e
These were the PSA's from the late 80's and 90's... the ones from earlier (the 70's - the ones GenX watched) were terrifying, scary, drug pushing puppets with needles and bloodshot eyes....lol.. Plus the egg cracking into a frypan... these are your brain on drugs ads...There's a reason they call GenX the feral generation.. even our PSA's gave nightmares.
I loved all of those growing up. The Everybody is good at something line was a good one. The war amps had a good ad back then and the heritage moments were always good. Pretty sure the inukshuk became an easily identifiable feature to a whole generation of kids that sadly didn't see enough of that culture but will always know "The people will know we were here".
my kids are in their late thirties now and they STILL want a house hippo. That OSA is brilliant. Nobody ever forgets it.
We do different things for bullying now. There is a program called Roots of Empathy that involves bringing babies into Kindergarten classrooms. A lot of anti-bullying programs used to have the opposite effect, so instead of teaching them to not be bullies, we teach them how to be kind.
unfortunately, the ONLY ones being left out are boys, especially white boys, not one single school or organisation even knows or cares what they are, the boys are hurting, but since women are in charge, they do not give an F$ck about boys or men for that matter! just looking at these ADS from the 90s we can see that today none of them would dare to include white boys in any of them.
And classrooms can have … not sure what it’s called… a student who has the role of nurturing friendships and solving disputes.
@@deborahbarry8458 Mediator? I wouldn't want to make those kinds of demands on a kid.
I remember almost all of these. The House Hippo one is considered a classic and pretty much every Canadian is familiar with it.
Something else you might like to react to is Heritage Moments
i remember all of them haven't seen them in a long time, but the moment i started seeing them it was all coming back to me, the ones i remember the most were the house hippo and morning timmy and food and activity song saw those 3 alot when i was going to school.
Everyone wanted a house hippo lol
my favourite memory from the "Balance food and activity" PSA is when they accidentally played the song over a fruit loops commercial (I believe it was during a sort of alice in wonderland promo they were doing at the time.) side note I think thanks to the first psa my sister was scared of house hippos when she was young.
I remember the house hippo psa and I knew it couldn't be true, but the ad was similar to some wildlife ones that we have in Canada and so I couldn't help but sit there and stare, shaking my head in amazement. If only!
The house hippo PSA! I loved that one, and I also wanted one lol Some were a little unhinged, but somehow more in tune with issues that we still have today. And yeah, that weird and grungy 90s' vibe is definitely dating those in a visual sense lol I kind of miss that weirdness of it all...
I was hoping the war amps commercial about Astro was here. I can put my arm back on but you cant so play safe, will forever be etched in my brain lol
It's synchronicity that I was just speaking to a friend about the old PSAs and how we really should have them back again to educate people, young and old about a variety of social issues. Really, those things never go out of fashion as you said, they are all still difficulties people young and old have today.
In Ontario, CANADA, we had the "house hippo" PSA on tv all the time. I'd never seen the one about the little boy being hungry or exercising. The "body electricity" PSA was also, on tv all the time. The bullying PSAs and the girl calling nasty names were also on tv a lot. Yes to the overbearing mom and the hobbies PSA. Yes to the child abuse PSA. The mouse and cheese safety PSA was on a lot esp. during breakfast, lunch, after school and all cartoons shown on TV.
I certainly don't remember them extending into the '90's in my province. Well no, that's not entirely true. The body image PSA's did continue now that I'm thinking of it. There were also a LOT of milk PSA's talking about vitamins, minerals, health, growth etc. Yes, the milk PSA's did go on longer.
You're so right. These type of PSA's should be put back on television in Canada and around the world really. But no, these aren't on tv any longer, not for a long time. The last time I remember PSA's like this was the mid to late 1980's for the most part and a few like the body image and milk PSAs went on into the 90's but not as often as in the 70's and 80's. By the end of the 90's they were pretty much gone.
HAHAHA you had the exact same reaction to those "house hippos" as i did when i first (and i guess to this day) saw that psa! totally ahead of it's time!
Bert and Gert from Partipaction shown in class and the Don't You Put It In Your Mouth Song sure left a dent as well. Plus those lovely Heritage Minutes and their spoofs.
There was a song taught about how some drugs are good and safe but some are bad so ask your mom or ask your dad. I was always confused by that song. Mom was a pharmaceutical technician and I'd have no business asking anyone else. Ah, ASD early on.
Crow! My son wanted a house hippo the first time he saw this commercial. I think every kid did back then. lol
I remember all of those ads. In fact they recently revived the house hippo ads with a 2000s spin on it.
The house hippo should be played more today. I m 60 in Canada and don t remember that one.
I love the house hippo! I still call my fat dilute calico cat my house hippo! Lol
My little brother cried when he found out house hippos werent real
You where starting to bite, just ,that little bit.The North American House Hippo :)
I grew up one these playing all the time especially on Saturday morning during cartoons and 40+ years later and all the messages are very relevant and important today.
I LOVED the house hippo ...
I recall most of those from my youth, but I didn't see my favourite one there. Astar from the Planet Danger was produced by the War Amps and has some incredible 80's high quality production. It's a mini sci-fi epic that rivaled Star Wars in my mind as a kid
I remember that one very well. Excellent PSA.
Omg. I remember all of these PSA’s. Some of them I forgot about until I started seeing them again. I almost didn’t remember the brain one at the end until they started clipping the wires. When I think back on these videos I usually feel pretty happy. There were people who thought about us and wanted to do whatever they could to make sure we grew up alright. It’s really heartwarming (and hella nostalgic). Sadly… I don’t really see these anymore… but it has been a while since I was on the kid channels. Nowadays everyone uses internet streaming, Netflix, Disney+, etc. kinda sad…
I loved the house hippo one. It was such fun to watch. I remember all these.
I remember the house hippo liking toast crumbs with peanut butter a quarter century later and the post hippo breakdown so I guess it stuck in my head pretty well.