Because he feels an immense amount of guilt while under the influence. Funnily enough, I’ve felt similar guilt while (legally) high. Only because my main form of consumption is smoking and I feel bad for fucking up my lungs. But I mostly felt concern when high
Something similar happened to me. One time I got too high before school(Learned my lesson for sure haha)and then Alice Cooper, Gene Simmons, Ozzy Osbourne, Rob Zombie and all my favorite rockstars appeared in class. Some of them were yelling at me and some of them were just laughing at my predicament.
Fun fact: Originally Winnie the Pooh also had lines directly talking about drugs and their dangers similar Simon and Bugs Bunny, but Jim Cummings successfully lobbied for them to be removed on the basis that it was out of character for the silly old bear.
...You know what, that is actually a fair point. I can get why Simon would be a bit of a dweeb about the stuff, but having Bugs Bunny act like such a narc really bugged me.
tbh i just find it funny that there using pot of all things to show how bad drugs are no bitch pot is not fucking crack that sayd even if pot is non addictive that do not = you cant be addicted it means you yourself are addicted to wanting it ( like tobacco forces withdrawls if you stop smoking )
Thing I realized as an adult: Simon knew how to identify Marijuana by smell. I mean, not as eyebrow raising as if Garfield could immediately identify human flesh by taste, but still…
I watched some of those old anti drug PSAs and they really targeted the wrong children. In those PSAs the kid usually had a good grades, nice friends, a supportive family life and sometimes a partner....just to lose all of that step by step Problem is that people who fall into the addiction trap usually are the ones who struggle and need drugs to escape even for a bit. You won't appeal to those kids of they have none of those things to lose in the first place
The demonization of drug users also falls into that trap! Instead of teaching kids risk factors that could lead to drug abuse, they just paint everyone who uses them (including people who are legitimately struggling) as evil, borderline-braindead criminals.
That's intentional- they don't care about kids from bad backgrounds/abuse who fall into drug use. They only care about the 'good' or 'valuable' kids to society
Yeah. And that's the case for all sorts of addictions. In Japan its incredibly hard to get drugs so people who would have fallen into drug addiction in western countries turns into coomers and hikikomori otakus. That's probably related to how intense, fetishistic and weird that side of their culture is. Chasing the Scream is like one of my bibles when it comes to the war on drugs. And it argues very well for how the psychological and social dimension of drug addiction is systematically ignored in mainstream discourse.
This is insane because some of my instructors in college worked on these animated movies from like the 70s-90s and I wouldn't be surprised if someone was smokin a joint while drawing this 💀💀💀
10:46 Imagine if it went like "You're not a cop." "Yeah, you win." *takes off cop hat, fireman hat underneath* "I'm a fireman!" "Not that either!" "True! I'm a paramedic!"
These shorts are so 90's I can't help but love it. Like- yes it's horrifically tone deaf and them ignoring cigarettes despite being far more prominent than weed is alarming but the character choices more than make up for it because are you seriously telling me, that Bugs Bunny doesn't smoke a fat one on the occasion? And the tumblr sexyman purple guy smoke man villain? Love how deliciously corny this is
I adore how Alf drinks and Garfield, well to quote Here Comes Garfield 1982, 'He likes his catnip' but both are still involved. Like yea the canonical beer drinker and the catnip smoking, pipe stealer, are telling me that weed bad.
@@SunnLikesStuff that and Bugs both canonicaly eats carrots, which are like candy to irl rabbits and thusly they can't eat too many AND he has been depicted smoking cigars I'm pretty sure Half of this cast would be so down to a dream blunt rotation lmao 😭
@KiboSanti I am of the Bugs Bunny buys hash for him and Daffy agenda. They're both basically old funky men in retirement, no better way to do in retirement than pass a joint.
Love that the cartoon characters 1) prevented Mikey from getting his wallet back after it was stolen 2) didn't do anything to help the other drug addicted kids 🤷♂
Just realized that this is one of the few official times you see Disney and Warner Bros. characters on screen at the same time. The only other example that springs to mind for me is Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
7:42 ✨marijuana✨ 11:16 the best line in the whole special 19:56 C R A C K 23:26 “what’s happening?” “🐸drug🐸” 26:51 ALF BREAKING DOWN THE FUCKING BERLIN WALL 30:08 an actual alf jumpscare 33:31 YEAT THE BEAR
@@HVVVVVVVV I still enjoyed it as a kid. I didn't care that it was an anti-drug special, I was just happy to see many of my favorite cartoon characters in one movie.
Awww a true classic if there ever was one, With Jeff Bergman’s first lines as the new permanent voice of Bugs was saying joint, and then literally a day later would talk about the environment in another mega crossover special. Man 1990 times were weird.
I dunno what's weirder. The fact that this came out a few years after Roger Rabbit, or the fact that THAT was a better anti-substance abuse PSA than this. We actually see why Eddie became a monster-alcoholic and see how it ruined his life. The film empathizes with his bitterness, and while Roger does gaslight him a little, he still asks why he became the way he is, and understands him better when Eddie tells him about Teddy being killed by a toon. Roger even says he'd hate toons too if one killed his brother. And, ultimately, it's Eddie that makes the decision to turn over a new leaf.
"Cartoon All Stars" is a very unique animated film, It's very interesting to see all of those classic cartoon characters coming together to teach a kid about the dangers of illegal drug consumption and what kind of life it could lead to.
12:00 The voice of Bugs Bunny was Jeff Bergman, this was the first project that he got to do the voice, the next week, his second time was the Earth Day special. The voice of the villain was George C Scott, you can really hear his McLeach voice in it since this was probably recorded when he was working on that film since this was a Disney production
I am not sure if it's 100% true but apparently Wang Films who did the animation used Garfield without permission since they worked on Garfield and Friends and had all the assets ready to put him inside. A lot of these characters were from projects they worked on at the time ( Tiny Toons, New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, the later seasons of DuckTales, TMNT etc)
Unironically a Magic Schoolbus ep about each drug would be much better. Kids would actually understand why kids shouldn't have drugs, and how dangerous many of them are.
Instead of the Muppet babies, they should've had Ms. Frizzle explaining what happens to your brain and your body when you do hard drugs.... the problem is that they tried to make it seem like Marijuana was going to turn you into a rotting corpse after one hit (and yes ik technically the magic schoolers came out a couple years later this is just in theory)
I remember watching this in health class back in the early 2000s so characters such as Slimer, Alf, and the Muppet Babies just went over my head since they were before my time.
What isn't is this convicted drug dealer named Nerdtronic using Fandom as a means to get the same fix as his old job. So the lessons taught here still ring true today.
To be fair, when I saw this as a child, I didn't know who tf Alf was so it didn't occur to me that the dark joke with Garfield in the beginning was supposed to be funny. I was mostly excited to see the Chipmunks b/c we were into the TV show at the time.
3:21 Pretty clever how the Chipmunks come out of a music record, because they were originally the "singers" of the famous "Chipmunk Song". Just like how earlier the Smurfs emerged from a comic book (because they started as comic characters in Belgium).🤔
In the 90s they did a story about Cap joining the war on drugs. He ends up inhaling a warehouse's worth of crack/meth which reacts with the serum in his blood to make him permanently high. He still continues the fight but as a drugged out mad man
I can confirm, as a kid I had zero idea what this special was trying to impart to me. I guess I knew not to listen to clouds of smoke voiced by George C. Scotf, but that's about it.
One of my first gym teachers thought it’d be a good idea to show this to kindergartners. I know the movie’s supposed to scare kids away from drugs, but it just scared kid me in general without really understanding what they were trying to say. The scene where the kid flies directly into that demon statue’s hyper realistic innards feels like someone’s poorly disguised fetish in retrospect.
I remember when this came out. I recall the ads being very vague about the plot of this and just focused on all the cartoon characters meeting so when I finally got to watch it and it turned out to be a big drug PSA, I remember being kind of irritated. But it’s such a time capsule of my childhood I can’t help but be kind of amused by it now
I think the blue "ocarina" is actually a glass pipe. they come in literally any shape you can imagine because it's blown glass art. If you google "sun teartrop glass pipe" the first images are of a pipe in that exact shape. It looks like a tear shaped pipe and the circle is the bowl of the pipe, and the weird line going down the center is the interior surface of the inhalation outlet that you inhale through. They're trying to make it look transparent so that's why the interior surface is visible but made to look slightly off because the line is refracted by the glass. Like the back line at the bottom of a glass cup when you draw a 3D cup, the rear curve is visible but slightly lighter to indicate that it's being seen through glass. I feel like the scene where it looks like dots or holes is because of attempts to make the line break and look inconsistent, because of the glass refracting vision. As someone who draws, that's how I would draw it to make it look transparent, so that stood out to me.
It felt like they were high on drugs when making Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue, quite the irony indeed. Also, Michael was voiced by Jason Marsden. He is known for portraying Max Goof in Goof Troop/A Goofy Movie duology, Chester in Fairly Oddparents, the title character of Jake Long American Dragon, and Noel in Final Fantasy XIII-2/XIII: Lightning Returns. Interesting trivia, don't you think?
I am of an age that I was the target demographic when this first aired and my mom tape recorded it on the VCR for further viewings. Yes, we were completely stoked to see this epic level of cartoon character crossover. But when it came to teaching us to say no to drugs, it was a massive fail. Heck, seeing Bugs Bunny talk about "joints" as a little kid just confused me because at that age, a joint was something like your elbow or knee. I had no idea what he was talking about for years!
I feel like this whole PSA was made on drugs, ironically. Also, everyone besides Tigger, Pooh, and the Muppet Babies would so smoke weed. Especially Garfield and Bugs. The Smurfs are also constantly inhaling shroom fumes. You can't convince me otherwise. They're Mario levels high.
Fun Fact: That song about all the ways to say no to drugs?...it was written by ALAN MENKEN AND HOWARD ASHMAN. Y'KNOW, the guys that revitalized Disney from The Little Mermaid to Aladdin with their iconic MUSIC???
I don’t know if anyone in the chat mentioned it, but the song, believe it or not, was written by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, who were fresh off of their success for writing the songs for the Little Mermaid and would go on to write the songs for Beauty and the Beast. Sadly, Howard Ashman lost a battle to aids before Beauty and the Beast was released, but he legacy lives on in the hearts of the people who knew him, and in those who have loved his songs. Alan Menken would later go on to continue being a successful composer for many Disney films, and recently in the past couple of years, he became an EGOT. So these were incredible talented musicians, but yeah, the song in this is not one of their finest.
Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue is a retelling of Dickens A Christmas Carol and to add an layer of meta to it the smoky guy in the Zoot suit is George C. Scott who played Scrooge in the 80's in a Christmas Carol.
Bugs Bunny is played by Jeff Bergman who was the earliest replacement for Mel Blac (who passed away the year before this was made). Billy West only did Bugs for a few shorts, the Nike Commericals with Jordan and of course, SPACE JAM.
Fun fact. Mickey Donald and Goofy were supposed to be in this special but Disney saw the script and said there was no way the 3 main Disney stars would be in this crap but they were contractually obligated to have some Disney characters so Disney sent in the z squad of Hewie Dewie and Louie
The only big problem with captain planet giving one like that if you look into fully is it would be completely out of character for him to care about people smoking weed.
My parents owned the VHS copy of Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue, and I loved watching it when I was growing up in the mid-late 2000s. However, it wasn't because of the fact that it was a drug PSA, but rather, it was the first official multi-cartoon crossover I'd ever seen; I didn't even know or care about what drugs were or how they were dangerous to the human body and how doing them at all is a big no-no. All I cared about back then were the characters themselves and how, despite being different in various ways, they were all interacting with each other on-screen as if they all co-existed in the same universe or even on the same planet. (That and the song "Wonderful Ways to Say No," part of which is currently stuck in my head as I'm writing this) It was also my first introduction to most of the cartoons and their then-current iterations featured in this thirty-minute special. The only exceptions (that I can recall) were Winnie The Pooh and Michelangelo. My parents owned home video releases of various episodes from The New Adventures of Winnie The Pooh (though I don't remember if it was on VHS, DVD, or both.) And I had met Mikey and the rest of the TMNT through the live-action movie trilogy from the '90s and the toy line that my mom and her two half-brothers (my uncles) owned when they were kids and teenagers growing up in the '80s. Sorry for the long rant. I decided to write this comment before watching the video because, again, I loved this special growing up, and watching people revisit it after many years of not seeing it or even watching it for the very first time makes me feel nostalgic.
I like how for the most part all the characters look like they came straight out of their respective shows. Also, it is funny for them to have a ninja turtle in this and the one that most likely would do drugs, Bugs Bunny probably would've as well.
No matter how cheesy it is, or perhaps because of it, this special will always hold a special place in my heart. I could probably source it as one of the reasons I've loved crossover content since I was a kid. Seeing so many different characters and franchises you knew or liked together in one video? Who wouldn't love that?
Also I feel like the guy character is not just dealing with drugs but probably dealing with something in his life I mean seriously marijuana doesn't make you this aggressive
Yah. Thats one thing people talk about, i have never takes marijuana but from what i understand it mellows people out not riles them up. He would be too lazy to steal it.
Speaking of indie animation, animation fans and creators alike, did a collab project based on this. Every scene redone, but each animator did a few seconds each. Some art styles, more recognizable than others. I recommend checking it out. It should still be on TH-cam.
The easiest way to get kids to do something is to forbid them to do it. Having cool cartoon characters joining the chorus is merely the icing on the cake. 1:42 Subliminal peanus.
If anything, this special stuck out in my memories as that one time all my favorite cartoon characters were weirdly knowledgeable about drugs. I also remember it as not being a fun thing to watch. I wanted more of the characters and less of the kid dealing with this over the top drug trip. But, thanks to it, we got that amazing re-animated 30+ years later, which made it worth it.
“Remember kids don’t do drugs” otherwise you’ll literally go for a ride, cool how they got all these cartoon characters together to send the message to kids.
Speaking of Pink Floyd's the Wall I think this PSA could have used a trippy courtroom scene like Floyd's Trial music video. Perhaps have the trial set in the future segment with Michael in the public gallery viewing his future self on trial as criminal proceedings are a realistic consequence of partaking in drugs.
9:22 Funny enough that's George C. Scott is playing a Smoker behind the teenager and I have to say… it's cool to bring Scott as the smoking voice if would've have Bryan Cranston as a cartoon meth smoker. This was released before playing a villain in “The Rescuers Down Under.”
29:15 Listen kid, you talked back to Pooh bear like that, you’ll be death bed along with the dark killer Winnie-the-Pooh from Blood and Honey and will slice down with his slashing cutter with honey!
I was a child when this first aired with all the lies and marketing pumping it up. We were all so damn angry but also stoked to see all the cartoons together...except Alf
I feel like a Magic School Bus episode about drugs would actually work. I'm sure Mrs. Frizzle can explain how addictive substances work in a child-friendly manner _and_ without the use of scare tactics. Since, you know, that's actually the point of the show, teaching kids how things work.
I would guess that Alf got a cartoon because the voice actor / puppeteer owned the character and wanted more media saturation and money. The Winnie the Pooh / Jim Cummings comment makes me think of "Comic book, the Movie" where Jim is at a Con after party talking about absinth and seeing the green fairy and being in the place where Poe was.
The Amazing Digital Circus would need to be one of the others. Caine: And that's why you should never, ever do drugs. Isn't that right, Pomni? Pomni: (Stares silently at nothing, pupils reduced to tiny squiggles) Angeldust: Well, there's your proof right there, kid. Remind me not to take whatever she's having.
Seeing people learn the difference between (regular?) cocaine and crack cocaine in real time while watching this classic was a treat, thank you. I think the weird little object around 38:40 is supposed to be a spoon for cookin', if you catch my drift. Edit: On a more serious note... I've long wondered what the most effective way to teach kids about substance abuse is. Even as a kid, I found things like this special, D.A.R.E., and "Just Say No" to be heavy-handed, lame, more likely to foment curiosity than aversion, and-yes-tone-deaf. I knew I was being bullshitted.
Well, one of the Tiny Toons Adventures half-episode PSA did the opposite of that showing examples of *WHY* it is suppose to be bad in the first place and it was effective. Therefore, resulting it in being banned. Compare that to the other "PSAs" (including this special) and let that sink in for a bit.
Had this on VHS recorded when it first aired. As a kid I had NO idea what drugs were, but loved seeing all the cartoon characters together, never saw anything like it.
My fun fact is that I went to school post-Dare, but they still showed us this special in one of my classes. However, this being 2005, most of us didn’t even recognize half the characters (Bush included)
27:07 Yes. That was the Berlin wall reference. Considering the fact that this special came out in 1990, in the Berlin wall fell the year before, in 1989.😊
As a kid, I saw this on the Saturday Morning it aired, but they also had a "disclaimer" saying BEETLEJUICE WILL BE BACK NEXT WEEKEND SO WE CAN............... Halfway through this special, I was suddenly like, "...........Why isn't BeetleJuice in this too?" (like they had everything ELSE I watched on Saturday Morning; it didn't make sense NOT to include BeetleJuice).
Everyone keeps dissing on the PSA. Alright, listen, they never meant for it to be bad. The intent was to teach kids that drugs are bad. Besides, they thought having multiple characters would at least keep kids engaged. Is it too much at times? Obviously, but this thing was made a long time ago.
@Yorkshire42069 Again, this was made several decades ago. Of course, the quality aged like soy milk, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
If seeing a Smurf and Kermit the frog talking to you doesn’t convince you that you need to stop doing drugs I don’t know what will.
If anything, I want those drugs. They sound awesome.
Muppets babies is supposed to be a preschool show why are the in this cartoon☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
"Now I'm seeing ducks!? I need to get off of these drugs..."
@@grammyshazammyThey weren’t in the 80s. It was just an animated spin-off inspired by a sequence from Muppets Take Manhattan.
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!! that's good zaza
Plot twist: this whole movie is just Michael in his room on a drug trip watching cartoons thinking they are lecturing him
Because he feels an immense amount of guilt while under the influence.
Funnily enough, I’ve felt similar guilt while (legally) high. Only because my main form of consumption is smoking and I feel bad for fucking up my lungs. But I mostly felt concern when high
You called the feds?? How could you do this to me Adrianna??!!
@@strxwbxrry_420did you hallucinate fictional characters taking you on a Christmas Carol style intervention?
Something similar happened to me. One time I got too high before school(Learned my lesson for sure haha)and then Alice Cooper, Gene Simmons, Ozzy Osbourne, Rob Zombie and all my favorite rockstars appeared in class. Some of them were yelling at me and some of them were just laughing at my predicament.
Perhaps his weed was laced with pcp?
Fun fact: Originally Winnie the Pooh also had lines directly talking about drugs and their dangers similar Simon and Bugs Bunny, but Jim Cummings successfully lobbied for them to be removed on the basis that it was out of character for the silly old bear.
Holy shit that's awesome
Thank you, Jim.
...You know what, that is actually a fair point.
I can get why Simon would be a bit of a dweeb about the stuff, but having Bugs Bunny act like such a narc really bugged me.
@@GraphiteShoresit really… “bugged” me
@@dorothyallspice1862 eeeeyy
We all know Bugs Bunny would do anti drugs ads and then use the paycheck to get him and Daffy joints.
1000%
Bugs would *totally* do this. 😂
"Ain't I a stinker?"
"No, but you sure smell like one! Woo hoo~ Woo hoo~"
@@BachenaugenThat's a genius line tbh. I can easily imagine the circle closing on the end of the episode after Daffy says that.
No That Would Be Shaggy & Scooby.
Hearing Simon say 'marijuana" is so jarring
and hilarious XD
MGG!Simon would.
That and hearing Theodore say 'drugs'😭
He knew from just a whiff
Imagine how parents would react to their kids watching old kids cartoons with the characters talking about drugs today ☠️
Bugs Bunny saying "what's this, a joint?" Lives rent free in my head always
tbh i just find it funny that there using pot of all things to show how bad drugs are no bitch pot is not fucking crack that sayd even if pot is non addictive that do not = you cant be addicted it means you yourself are addicted to wanting it ( like tobacco forces withdrawls if you stop smoking )
Thing I realized as an adult: Simon knew how to identify Marijuana by smell.
I mean, not as eyebrow raising as if Garfield could immediately identify human flesh by taste, but still…
Simon is a rock star, anyways 😅 of course he knows
But I doubt his dad would let him have it
( I can't remember the name at the moment)
I mean it has a pretty identifiable smell even if you don’t smoke
He's a musician, every venue ever smells like weed.
@@mintychustarclan7381 His name's Dave
I watched some of those old anti drug PSAs and they really targeted the wrong children.
In those PSAs the kid usually had a good grades, nice friends, a supportive family life and sometimes a partner....just to lose all of that step by step
Problem is that people who fall into the addiction trap usually are the ones who struggle and need drugs to escape even for a bit. You won't appeal to those kids of they have none of those things to lose in the first place
The demonization of drug users also falls into that trap! Instead of teaching kids risk factors that could lead to drug abuse, they just paint everyone who uses them (including people who are legitimately struggling) as evil, borderline-braindead criminals.
Agreed. Not to mention kids who struggle with untreated mental illnesses and use substances to self-medicate. And that subset can be any type of kid.
That's intentional- they don't care about kids from bad backgrounds/abuse who fall into drug use. They only care about the 'good' or 'valuable' kids to society
@@valkyriedarquese not even realizing that those kids might drag the good ones down with them
weakest link and all that
Yeah. And that's the case for all sorts of addictions. In Japan its incredibly hard to get drugs so people who would have fallen into drug addiction in western countries turns into coomers and hikikomori otakus. That's probably related to how intense, fetishistic and weird that side of their culture is. Chasing the Scream is like one of my bibles when it comes to the war on drugs. And it argues very well for how the psychological and social dimension of drug addiction is systematically ignored in mainstream discourse.
This is insane because some of my instructors in college worked on these animated movies from like the 70s-90s and I wouldn't be surprised if someone was smokin a joint while drawing this 💀💀💀
10:46
Imagine if it went like
"You're not a cop."
"Yeah, you win." *takes off cop hat, fireman hat underneath* "I'm a fireman!"
"Not that either!"
"True! I'm a paramedic!"
That feels more like a Bugs Bunny bit.
Then he sees the talking smoke and blasts him away with a fire hose
These shorts are so 90's I can't help but love it. Like- yes it's horrifically tone deaf and them ignoring cigarettes despite being far more prominent than weed is alarming but the character choices more than make up for it because are you seriously telling me, that Bugs Bunny doesn't smoke a fat one on the occasion? And the tumblr sexyman purple guy smoke man villain?
Love how deliciously corny this is
There was a Tumblr post about Bugs Bunny spending the money he made on the anti-weed advert, on as much weed as he could get. 😂
@@KiboSanti LMAO HE TOTALLY WOULD
I adore how Alf drinks and Garfield, well to quote Here Comes Garfield 1982, 'He likes his catnip' but both are still involved. Like yea the canonical beer drinker and the catnip smoking, pipe stealer, are telling me that weed bad.
@@SunnLikesStuff that and Bugs both canonicaly eats carrots, which are like candy to irl rabbits and thusly they can't eat too many AND he has been depicted smoking cigars I'm pretty sure
Half of this cast would be so down to a dream blunt rotation lmao 😭
@KiboSanti I am of the Bugs Bunny buys hash for him and Daffy agenda. They're both basically old funky men in retirement, no better way to do in retirement than pass a joint.
Love that the cartoon characters 1) prevented Mikey from getting his wallet back after it was stolen
2) didn't do anything to help the other drug addicted kids 🤷♂
The first one has been one of my main thoughts anytime I've seen a review of this
Just realized that this is one of the few official times you see Disney and Warner Bros. characters on screen at the same time. The only other example that springs to mind for me is Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
7:42 ✨marijuana✨
11:16 the best line in the whole special
19:56 C R A C K
23:26 “what’s happening?” “🐸drug🐸”
26:51 ALF BREAKING DOWN THE FUCKING BERLIN WALL
30:08 an actual alf jumpscare
33:31 YEAT THE BEAR
The amount of times Ive clicked between these and cracked up! Thank you for your service! 🤣 Drugs!🐸
21:44 Mikey upskirt.
1990 be like:
This needs to be the highlighted comment.
37:36 This is my future? IT IS IF YOU DON’T GET OFF THOSE D R U G S
My headcannon is that this entire thing is the kid being on a trip, seeing talking cartoon characters taking him through hell.
So if I do drugs, I get to see my favorite cartoon characters? I thought this was an ANTI-drug psa.
"You know what, the Quack Pack and Baby Muppets have a point. I probably shouldn't have done those drugs."
What a theory
The coolest idea for a crossover and it’s a Drug PSA.
Whatever next
Imagine the disappointment thousands of kids must have had when this aired.
The one thing that unites us all, drugs!
@@HVVVVVVVV I still enjoyed it as a kid. I didn't care that it was an anti-drug special, I was just happy to see many of my favorite cartoon characters in one movie.
@@Ability-King-KK So was I.
Awww a true classic if there ever was one, With Jeff Bergman’s first lines as the new permanent voice of Bugs was saying joint, and then literally a day later would talk about the environment in another mega crossover special. Man 1990 times were weird.
the brooklyn accent makes him saying “joint” 10x funnier
@@sageslittlechannel 100% Agreed
Better times than today’s.
@@adampellett4917 yeah your right 2020 times are Scccaaaaarrryyy.
@@VidtopiaEntertainment Jontron reference?
I dunno what's weirder. The fact that this came out a few years after Roger Rabbit, or the fact that THAT was a better anti-substance abuse PSA than this. We actually see why Eddie became a monster-alcoholic and see how it ruined his life. The film empathizes with his bitterness, and while Roger does gaslight him a little, he still asks why he became the way he is, and understands him better when Eddie tells him about Teddy being killed by a toon. Roger even says he'd hate toons too if one killed his brother. And, ultimately, it's Eddie that makes the decision to turn over a new leaf.
"Cartoon All Stars" is a very unique animated film, It's very interesting to see all of those classic cartoon characters coming together to teach a kid about the dangers of illegal drug consumption and what kind of life it could lead to.
I for one enjoyed it. They don't make special crossover movies like this anymore. It would be nice if they did.
12:00 The voice of Bugs Bunny was Jeff Bergman, this was the first project that he got to do the voice, the next week, his second time was the Earth Day special. The voice of the villain was George C Scott, you can really hear his McLeach voice in it since this was probably recorded when he was working on that film since this was a Disney production
I am not sure if it's 100% true but apparently Wang Films who did the animation used Garfield without permission since they worked on Garfield and Friends and had all the assets ready to put him inside. A lot of these characters were from projects they worked on at the time ( Tiny Toons, New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, the later seasons of DuckTales, TMNT etc)
Funny since this and The Rescuers Down Under both came out the same year
To think one of his first lines as Bugs Bunny was “What’s this, a joint?”
Unironically a Magic Schoolbus ep about each drug would be much better. Kids would actually understand why kids shouldn't have drugs, and how dangerous many of them are.
It would go so hard! Like, I can actually seeit!
Instead of the Muppet babies, they should've had Ms. Frizzle explaining what happens to your brain and your body when you do hard drugs.... the problem is that they tried to make it seem like Marijuana was going to turn you into a rotting corpse after one hit (and yes ik technically the magic schoolers came out a couple years later this is just in theory)
Just glossing over Alf threatening to eat Garfield.
I'm more of a an Odie fan, but yeah, that's not cool, Alf. XD
Well tbf Alf does eat cats
Ah yes. The show that taught us all that if we want to meet all our cartoon friends, we just need to do drugs.
My D.A.R.E officer got arrested for a DUI so it looks like it's a common thing
Mine got busted for snorting coke in the girl’s bathroom
Mine got arrested for something much worse.
@Hughes81 Murder or pedophilia?
@@one-onessadhalf3393 Pedo and attempted murder.
I remember watching this in health class back in the early 2000s so characters such as Slimer, Alf, and the Muppet Babies just went over my head since they were before my time.
What isn't is this convicted drug dealer named Nerdtronic using Fandom as a means to get the same fix as his old job. So the lessons taught here still ring true today.
I recognized Slimer as I had seen the movie a few times as a kid.
To be fair, when I saw this as a child, I didn't know who tf Alf was so it didn't occur to me that the dark joke with Garfield in the beginning was supposed to be funny. I was mostly excited to see the Chipmunks b/c we were into the TV show at the time.
@@SplashSurfer216Same. I even watched the cartoon.
3:21 Pretty clever how the Chipmunks come out of a music record, because they were originally the "singers" of the famous "Chipmunk Song". Just like how earlier the Smurfs emerged from a comic book (because they started as comic characters in Belgium).🤔
And then Captain America comes in like: "AND YOU'LL FEEL LIKE A GOD!!!!!"
Solidjj?
"double fist that shit!"
- Captain America, 1963
In the 90s they did a story about Cap joining the war on drugs. He ends up inhaling a warehouse's worth of crack/meth which reacts with the serum in his blood to make him permanently high.
He still continues the fight but as a drugged out mad man
"You'll go to hell before you die"- mario
"drugs are bad mkay"
Mr. Makey
I can confirm, as a kid I had zero idea what this special was trying to impart to me. I guess I knew not to listen to clouds of smoke voiced by George C. Scotf, but that's about it.
One of my first gym teachers thought it’d be a good idea to show this to kindergartners. I know the movie’s supposed to scare kids away from drugs, but it just scared kid me in general without really understanding what they were trying to say. The scene where the kid flies directly into that demon statue’s hyper realistic innards feels like someone’s poorly disguised fetish in retrospect.
Feels like Garfield’s internal monologue is carrying this psa
Absolutely, he even has plausible deniability for being a part of it because if he didn’t tag along he was gonna get eaten
I mean, if taking drugs gets me to see all my favorite cartoon characters (and ALF), then I'm gonna be taking drugs.
I would too if I could hang with Garfield
I remember when this came out. I recall the ads being very vague about the plot of this and just focused on all the cartoon characters meeting so when I finally got to watch it and it turned out to be a big drug PSA, I remember being kind of irritated. But it’s such a time capsule of my childhood I can’t help but be kind of amused by it now
I think the blue "ocarina" is actually a glass pipe. they come in literally any shape you can imagine because it's blown glass art. If you google "sun teartrop glass pipe" the first images are of a pipe in that exact shape. It looks like a tear shaped pipe and the circle is the bowl of the pipe, and the weird line going down the center is the interior surface of the inhalation outlet that you inhale through. They're trying to make it look transparent so that's why the interior surface is visible but made to look slightly off because the line is refracted by the glass. Like the back line at the bottom of a glass cup when you draw a 3D cup, the rear curve is visible but slightly lighter to indicate that it's being seen through glass. I feel like the scene where it looks like dots or holes is because of attempts to make the line break and look inconsistent, because of the glass refracting vision. As someone who draws, that's how I would draw it to make it look transparent, so that stood out to me.
They usually look so nice but they're such a pain in the ass to smoke out of.
@@dustbunny6381or clean
I've definitely seen an image of an ocarina shaped ...device..., but I haven't seen one in person
So basically an ocarina-shaped bong. Heh! I have seen weirder…
It felt like they were high on drugs when making Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue, quite the irony indeed.
Also, Michael was voiced by Jason Marsden. He is known for portraying Max Goof in Goof Troop/A Goofy Movie duology, Chester in Fairly Oddparents, the title character of Jake Long American Dragon, and Noel in Final Fantasy XIII-2/XIII: Lightning Returns. Interesting trivia, don't you think?
Jason didn’t voice Jake Long, that was Dante Basco
HE PLAYED NOEL????
LMAO, I have a difficult time believing JM did not smoke up during his Eerie, Indiana stint.
I never noticed that but, now I can't unhear it
I mean he was young lad at the time
Hearing Bugs Bunny say "a joint?" is so hilarious 😂😂
Fun fact: The redhead drug dealer was the same VA as Wheeler from Captain Planet (I tell you this bc that’s all I hear now)
What I'm taking from this is that Captain Planet was just one big drug trip he hallucinated, then? Eh, makes as much sense as anything on that show.
That Hank Hill impression made me absolutely break. I cannot stop laughing
I am of an age that I was the target demographic when this first aired and my mom tape recorded it on the VCR for further viewings. Yes, we were completely stoked to see this epic level of cartoon character crossover. But when it came to teaching us to say no to drugs, it was a massive fail. Heck, seeing Bugs Bunny talk about "joints" as a little kid just confused me because at that age, a joint was something like your elbow or knee. I had no idea what he was talking about for years!
The Irony of all this is now most of the people watching this are smoking a blunt and laughing
Ah yes, every little girl back then couldn't live without a framed picture of A.L.F. on their night stand
I feel like this whole PSA was made on drugs, ironically. Also, everyone besides Tigger, Pooh, and the Muppet Babies would so smoke weed. Especially Garfield and Bugs. The Smurfs are also constantly inhaling shroom fumes. You can't convince me otherwise. They're Mario levels high.
Bugs has been shown to be high on substances many time, granted most of them were second hand by accident.
@@mlpfanboy1701WHAT!?
I love how baby Kermit can barely form sentences but somehow knows about the dangers of marijuana
"Mike must really be on an acid trip to see those cartoon characters"
Re-imagining artists: Hold my beer...
I lost it at "TELL POOH TO EAT SHIT!" xD
Was that in the actual film 😭
dude, this scared me as a kid, especially the look at his future
Fun fact: vivziepop have once made a reanimate of cartoons all stars to the rescue
I remember that, and it still holds up very well.
Fun Fact: That song about all the ways to say no to drugs?...it was written by ALAN MENKEN AND HOWARD ASHMAN. Y'KNOW, the guys that revitalized Disney from The Little Mermaid to Aladdin with their iconic MUSIC???
Little Shop Of Horrors also.
ALf is now owned by Shout Factory and both Garfield and the TMNT are now owned by Viacom.
I don’t know if anyone in the chat mentioned it, but the song, believe it or not, was written by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, who were fresh off of their success for writing the songs for the Little Mermaid and would go on to write the songs for Beauty and the Beast. Sadly, Howard Ashman lost a battle to aids before Beauty and the Beast was released, but he legacy lives on in the hearts of the people who knew him, and in those who have loved his songs. Alan Menken would later go on to continue being a successful composer for many Disney films, and recently in the past couple of years, he became an EGOT. So these were incredible talented musicians, but yeah, the song in this is not one of their finest.
i remember watching this in elementary school. i distinctly remember the smell of the room we watched it in, but it wasn't of drugs.
I Remember Watching This In Senior Year Of High School & I Remember My Teacher Said They Didn't Do It For Any Money.
I remember my mom getting this for me and having me turn if off 5 minutes in because she thought the villain was too scary
Fun fact: This special was only animated in 6 weeks
wait what
Wow, that is rough
If that's true, the artists deserve applause
Almost makes you think the artists may have needed something to keep them going through long hours
You cannot convince me that everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, wasn't getting high behind the scenes.
Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue is a retelling of Dickens A Christmas Carol and to add an layer of meta to it the smoky guy in the Zoot suit is George C. Scott who played Scrooge in the 80's in a Christmas Carol.
PSA aside, as a kid I loved this special so much for the solo reason of it being the single BIGGER crossover in cartoons I could have ever hoped for.
And they say Infinity War was most ambitious crossover in history
This needed like half a dozen different companies to lend their property rights
Was infinity war even a crossover? It’s all marvel stuff
Wait, is _this_ why Pumpkin suddenly exploded into my Shorts feed out of nowhere?
Bugs Bunny is played by Jeff Bergman who was the earliest replacement for Mel Blac (who passed away the year before this was made). Billy West only did Bugs for a few shorts, the Nike Commericals with Jordan and of course, SPACE JAM.
Fun fact. Mickey Donald and Goofy were supposed to be in this special but Disney saw the script and said there was no way the 3 main Disney stars would be in this crap but they were contractually obligated to have some Disney characters so Disney sent in the z squad of Hewie Dewie and Louie
The voice of Michael is Jason Christopher Marsden, the voice of Mac Goof & Haru in Spirited Away
When this came out I hadn't even heard of pot yet until Simon the chipmunk explained it
I’m actually surprised Captain Planet wasn’t a part of this. But I guess he was busy doing his own drug PSA.
FR! Missed opportunity imo
I think this was slightly before Captain planet
The only big problem with captain planet giving one like that if you look into fully is it would be completely out of character for him to care about people smoking weed.
Dude I remember seeing someone talk about how this was “one of the weirdest cartoon crossovers ever” but I’ve never actually seen it.
My parents owned the VHS copy of Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue, and I loved watching it when I was growing up in the mid-late 2000s. However, it wasn't because of the fact that it was a drug PSA, but rather, it was the first official multi-cartoon crossover I'd ever seen; I didn't even know or care about what drugs were or how they were dangerous to the human body and how doing them at all is a big no-no. All I cared about back then were the characters themselves and how, despite being different in various ways, they were all interacting with each other on-screen as if they all co-existed in the same universe or even on the same planet. (That and the song "Wonderful Ways to Say No," part of which is currently stuck in my head as I'm writing this)
It was also my first introduction to most of the cartoons and their then-current iterations featured in this thirty-minute special. The only exceptions (that I can recall) were Winnie The Pooh and Michelangelo. My parents owned home video releases of various episodes from The New Adventures of Winnie The Pooh (though I don't remember if it was on VHS, DVD, or both.) And I had met Mikey and the rest of the TMNT through the live-action movie trilogy from the '90s and the toy line that my mom and her two half-brothers (my uncles) owned when they were kids and teenagers growing up in the '80s.
Sorry for the long rant. I decided to write this comment before watching the video because, again, I loved this special growing up, and watching people revisit it after many years of not seeing it or even watching it for the very first time makes me feel nostalgic.
I like how for the most part all the characters look like they came straight out of their respective shows. Also, it is funny for them to have a ninja turtle in this and the one that most likely would do drugs, Bugs Bunny probably would've as well.
Everybody here besides Pooh, Tigger, and the Muppet Babies would totally do drugs at some point. XD
The voice of the smoke guy is George C Scott the guy who played McKlish from The Rescuers Down Under
No matter how cheesy it is, or perhaps because of it, this special will always hold a special place in my heart. I could probably source it as one of the reasons I've loved crossover content since I was a kid. Seeing so many different characters and franchises you knew or liked together in one video? Who wouldn't love that?
Same here. 😊
Also I feel like the guy character is not just dealing with drugs but probably dealing with something in his life I mean seriously marijuana doesn't make you this aggressive
Yah. Thats one thing people talk about, i have never takes marijuana but from what i understand it mellows people out not riles them up. He would be too lazy to steal it.
Speaking of indie animation, animation fans and creators alike, did a collab project based on this. Every scene redone, but each animator did a few seconds each. Some art styles, more recognizable than others. I recommend checking it out. It should still be on TH-cam.
The easiest way to get kids to do something is to forbid them to do it. Having cool cartoon characters joining the chorus is merely the icing on the cake.
1:42 Subliminal peanus.
i watched this with my cousin one time, we had to rewind it multiple times because we could not believe what we were seeing
If anything, this special stuck out in my memories as that one time all my favorite cartoon characters were weirdly knowledgeable about drugs. I also remember it as not being a fun thing to watch. I wanted more of the characters and less of the kid dealing with this over the top drug trip.
But, thanks to it, we got that amazing re-animated 30+ years later, which made it worth it.
“Remember kids don’t do drugs” otherwise you’ll literally go for a ride, cool how they got all these cartoon characters together to send the message to kids.
Lorenzo Music is the voice I hear when I think garfield
This was one of Jason Marsden’s early voice roles. It was five years before he voiced Max in A Goofy Movie.
Speaking of Pink Floyd's the Wall I think this PSA could have used a trippy courtroom scene like Floyd's Trial music video. Perhaps have the trial set in the future segment with Michael in the public gallery viewing his future self on trial as criminal proceedings are a realistic consequence of partaking in drugs.
9:22 Funny enough that's George C. Scott is playing a Smoker behind the teenager and I have to say… it's cool to bring Scott as the smoking voice if would've have Bryan Cranston as a cartoon meth smoker.
This was released before playing a villain in “The Rescuers Down Under.”
29:15 Listen kid, you talked back to Pooh bear like that, you’ll be death bed along with the dark killer Winnie-the-Pooh from Blood and Honey and will slice down with his slashing cutter with honey!
This is my childhood! I use to have this on vhs and I watched it a lot! I honestly thought it was some kind of bootleg or something as a kid
I was a child when this first aired with all the lies and marketing pumping it up. We were all so damn angry but also stoked to see all the cartoons together...except Alf
I feel like a Magic School Bus episode about drugs would actually work. I'm sure Mrs. Frizzle can explain how addictive substances work in a child-friendly manner _and_ without the use of scare tactics. Since, you know, that's actually the point of the show, teaching kids how things work.
I remember finding out George C. Scott played the smoke and in full confidence I gotta say: *GEORGE C. SCOTT HAS A SEXY VOICE.*
I would guess that Alf got a cartoon because the voice actor / puppeteer owned the character and wanted more media saturation and money.
The Winnie the Pooh / Jim Cummings comment makes me think of "Comic book, the Movie" where Jim is at a Con after party talking about absinth and seeing the green fairy and being in the place where Poe was.
The saddest part, the chipmunks to Garfield and the Smurfs all got the live action treatment years later
Hazbin Hotel characters appearing in a modern version of this (like Saberspark and crew mentioned) would be both dope and ironic as hell.
The Amazing Digital Circus would need to be one of the others.
Caine: And that's why you should never, ever do drugs. Isn't that right, Pomni?
Pomni: (Stares silently at nothing, pupils reduced to tiny squiggles)
Angeldust: Well, there's your proof right there, kid. Remind me not to take whatever she's having.
All the drugs are censored with the big black Caine face censor bar.
Seeing people learn the difference between (regular?) cocaine and crack cocaine in real time while watching this classic was a treat, thank you. I think the weird little object around 38:40 is supposed to be a spoon for cookin', if you catch my drift.
Edit: On a more serious note... I've long wondered what the most effective way to teach kids about substance abuse is. Even as a kid, I found things like this special, D.A.R.E., and "Just Say No" to be heavy-handed, lame, more likely to foment curiosity than aversion, and-yes-tone-deaf. I knew I was being bullshitted.
Well, one of the Tiny Toons Adventures half-episode PSA did the opposite of that showing examples of *WHY* it is suppose to be bad in the first place and it was effective. Therefore, resulting it in being banned. Compare that to the other "PSAs" (including this special) and let that sink in for a bit.
Had this on VHS recorded when it first aired. As a kid I had NO idea what drugs were, but loved seeing all the cartoon characters together, never saw anything like it.
The voice of Smoke is George C. Scott. Famous for his role as General George S. Patton in Patton.
Only took you [looks at watch] 34 years?!?!! Oh god I’m old!!
My fun fact is that I went to school post-Dare, but they still showed us this special in one of my classes. However, this being 2005, most of us didn’t even recognize half the characters (Bush included)
i love the mystery skulls animated reference anthony did there hehehe my fave 👻 46:44
8:42 Agreed. He's literally the most innocent cartoon character ever.😅🧸
A pill is solid. A capsule is a shell with stuff inside
27:07
Yes. That was the Berlin wall reference. Considering the fact that this special came out in 1990, in the Berlin wall fell the year before, in 1989.😊
As a kid, I saw this on the Saturday Morning it aired, but they also had a "disclaimer" saying BEETLEJUICE WILL BE BACK NEXT WEEKEND SO WE CAN...............
Halfway through this special, I was suddenly like, "...........Why isn't BeetleJuice in this too?" (like they had everything ELSE I watched on Saturday Morning; it didn't make sense NOT to include BeetleJuice).
Bugs Bunny: (Sounds nothing like Billy West)
Saberspark: "That sounds like Billy West."
For some reason, these weird 90s cartoons make me miss the days of being a kid.
Everyone keeps dissing on the PSA. Alright, listen, they never meant for it to be bad. The intent was to teach kids that drugs are bad. Besides, they thought having multiple characters would at least keep kids engaged. Is it too much at times? Obviously, but this thing was made a long time ago.
But it is bad lol
@Yorkshire42069 Again, this was made several decades ago. Of course, the quality aged like soy milk, but the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
@@revaslatts4301 there’s nothing good about terrorizing kids with propaganda, except for how funny and out of touch it is
@@Yorkshire42069 Okay, you have a point there, but would you rather tell kids it's okay to take drugs? I don't think so.
Did sonic ever have a sonic says that tells people not to do drugs because I feel like that would be more effective than this 😂
I think I remember seeing sonic sez doing one for smoking and one for alcohol. They might have done some for other stuff too though