It’s April 20th, which means that plenty of idiots are out there saying, “Huh huh huh… 4/20, dude.” I’ve got nothing against marijuana use, and I’m all for its legalization, but I’m a little too old to get excited about an arrangement of numbers on the calendar. It’s like Pi Day: no one but mathletes should make a big deal out of it.
However, since this is the Internet, I don’t stem the tides, I swim with them. So here’s a PSA from the ’90s in which the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles help young children say no to fourth-grade drug dealers. This is how ALL young people are introduced to marijuana, of course: confronted at their locker by older kids who dare them to try a joint in the hallway between classes. It’s almost TOO subtle.
[via BuzzFeed's collection of anti-drug PSAs. YOU ALL RIGHT! I LEARNED IT BY WATCHING YOU!]
![[avatar]](http://p.uproxxcdn.com/photo/226/thumb)
![[image]](http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/thumbnails/130/110/2013/06/survey-says-no-one-listens-to-music-at-music-festivals-because-everyones-doing-drugs-uproxx-150x150.jpg)
![[image]](http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/thumbnails/130/110/2013/06/AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-150x150.png)
![[image]](http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/thumbnails/130/110/2013/06/ricky-psa-150x150.jpg)
![[image]](http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/thumbnails/130/110/2013/06/gammasquadtmntshadows8-150x150.jpg)
What is never talked about is how the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ “No to Drugs, Yes to Pizza” campaign is responsible for the explosion in childhood obesity.
I get excited about 4/20 because it’s Hitler’s birthday.
mmmmmturkey
Pizza? Chicken? Turkey? All this talk is making me hungry. Because I’m high you see.
mmmmm… Pi Day.
Lost in all of this is the fact that the “bully” learned the importance of sharing from the last PSA. Where’s his attaboy?
Ironically for me, pizza and weed go hand in hand. Like hookers and blow for Charlie Sheen. Or like racist/homophobic rants and loofahs are for Bill O’Reily.
@UU, too soon…
I don’t remember this one but do remember that half hour special featuring every character under the sun of the late 80s/early 90s.
Did someone say pie?
If Danger wrote this post, we would’ve gotten this PSA…or probably just the first 2 seconds.
[m.youtube.com]
I love the closing line: “Drug Dealers are Dorks, Don’t Even Talk to Them.”
I believe that one narrowly edged out “Weed is for Fags!”
@ La Schmoove – While that is awesome, I probably would have just posted this video every hour on the hour from 10-5.
Yeesh. This video – [www.youtube.com]
And knowing is…. half of… something. *puff*
I’m 22 days alcohol-free, so now pretty much every day is 4/20.
Johnny Dakota is early nineties personified. And probably finger-blasted Kelly. Sorry Danger, but its true.
Nice find, DG.
I’m surprised NBC let Screech wear that shirt in the ad, though. There’s no way anyone who wasn’t stoned off their ass would wear that thing.
You Yanks! It’s 20/4.
/Adjusts jodhpurs whilst making wanking motion.
20Apr11. MilSpec.
I wonder what the pizza companies paying for the advertising on TMNT thought about this at the time, knowing full well that roughly half of their audience was teenage to college-aged stoners who were high and more susceptible to the impulse purchase of a pizza than 6-year-olds who did not smoke marijuana?