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** Yeah, like the cops wouldn't find it AT ALL suspicious if you were driving a car around at night in sunglasses. Jeez.
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*** By "The BBC", you here clearly mean an uninspired stand-up comedian with a show on that channel (probably BBC3), and by "has shown" you obviously mean "told an unfunny joke about".

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIvo-tPKYTw This]] PSA about the drug "Ice". Seriously, the girl picking at her skin.

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIvo-tPKYTw This]] PSA about the drug "Ice". Seriously, the girl picking at her skin. skin.
** The ice ad is possibly the only effective ad in the history of australian drug PSAs. The marijuana ad has people looking slightly tired and a kid who cant catch a ball...[[SarcasmMode That'll make me think twice!]]
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** [[IncrediblyLamePun What a]] [[CatchPhrase dumbass.]]
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*** Among its many [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]], [[VideoGames/ScottPilgrim Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game]] reminds you that [[SeriousBusiness "Winners Don't]] [[Veganopia Eat Meat."]]

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*** Among its many [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]], [[VideoGames/ScottPilgrim Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game]] reminds you that [[SeriousBusiness "Winners Don't]] [[Veganopia Don't Eat Meat."]]
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*** Among its many [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]], [[VideoGames/ScottPilgrim Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game]] reminds you that [[SeriousBusiness "Winners Don't]] [[SeriousBusiness Eat Meat."]]

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*** Among its many [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]], [[VideoGames/ScottPilgrim Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game]] reminds you that [[SeriousBusiness "Winners Don't]] [[SeriousBusiness [[Veganopia Eat Meat."]]
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*** Among its many [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]], [[VideoGames/ScottPilgrim Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game]] reminds you that [[SeriousBusiness "Winners Don't Eat]] [[Veganopia Meat."]]

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*** Among its many [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]], [[VideoGames/ScottPilgrim Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game]] reminds you that [[SeriousBusiness "Winners Don't Eat]] [[Veganopia Don't]] [[SeriousBusiness Eat Meat."]]
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*** Among its many [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]], [[VideoGames/ScottPilgrim Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game]] reminds you that [[SeriousBusiness "Winners Don't Eat]] [[Veganopia Meat."]]
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** Also shows a huge DoubleStandard. The guy's fate is being hit by a car and possibly killed. The girl's fate is having drunken sex and having it recorded on a mobile phone.
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** ...[[PoesLaw Those have to be parodies...right?]]
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*[[http://www.in.gov/dcs/files/Clip2(1).wmv A PSA by the Indiana Department of Child Services]] starts as a home video made by a dad of his wife and baby asleep on the couch. They try to get the baby's attention... only to realize she's [[KilledOffForReal not breathing]]. It then tells you that you should absolutely never sleep with a baby, even for a minute. This Troper's reactions range between laughing and treating it as NightmareFuel, sometimes doing both simultaneously.
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** TopGear did a PSA on the dangers of trying to run railway crossings in your car. The best ways to avoid getting hit by the train were to not be an [[AcceptableTargets elderly driver]] and to [[SpoofAesop always wear your high-visibility jacket.]] Needless to say, they received some complaints.
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*** The TV Licensing department later followed this up with the aggressive and bullying slogan, "pay now or you'll pay later". It sounds like a protection racket...
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** Uses "Man of the World" by Fleetwood Mac too. MASSIVE TearJerker.
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** Watch one [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myp1M8bwWlg here.]] Mmmmm, delicious paint.
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** Also from Cracked, [[http://www.cracked.com/video_17304_the-most-terrifying-sexual-harassment-psa-ever.html The Most Terrifying Sexual Harassment PSA Ever]].

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** Also from Cracked, And also Cracked's own [[http://www.cracked.com/video_17304_the-most-terrifying-sexual-harassment-psa-ever.html The Most Terrifying Sexual Harassment PSA Ever]].
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** Also from Cracked, [[http://www.cracked.com/video_17304_the-most-terrifying-sexual-harassment-psa-ever.html The Most Terrifying Sexual Harassment PSA Ever]].

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** A parody of music videos with three Britney-esque girls singing about how the smell of their cigarette smoke scares all their boyfriends away.
*** The song was so popular that it actually got into the top 20 as a single.
**** Proof or it didn't happen.

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** A parody of music videos with three Britney-esque girls singing about how the smell of their cigarette smoke scares all their boyfriends away.
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away. The song was ad became so popular that it an official chart release of the song was actually got into the top 20 as a single.
**** Proof or it didn't happen.
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*** The problem is, of course, that the man has no idea what religion his kidnappers are. So there was kinda a two-out-of-three chances that he'd end up in the ditch. Basically the Aesop seems to be "Everyone is screwed in a civil war".
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* My high school has a mandatory assembly for seniors right before prom to warn about drunk driving. It takes place out on the track field and starts with a tape recording of a group of friends at an after prom party drinking, then getting into a car. When the sound of a crash plays to cars that looked like they had been in a head on collision are revealed (they have been under tarps up to this point). From then on it's basically a play with students. There's the group and the person in the car they hit. For added realism the near by hospital lends the school some paramedics and their helicopter! There's also some officers there. The whole thing is frightening realistic. So much so that despite being mandatory, sensitive students may leave if it becomes to much for them.

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* My high school has a mandatory assembly for seniors right before prom to warn about drunk driving. It takes place out on the track field and starts with a tape recording of a group of friends at an after prom party drinking, then getting into a car. When the sound of a crash plays to cars that looked like they had been in a head on collision are revealed (they have been under tarps up to this point). From then on it's basically a play with students. There's the group and the person in the car they hit. For added realism the near by hospital lends the school some paramedics and their helicopter! There's also some officers there. The whole thing is frightening realistic. So much so that despite being mandatory, sensitive students may leave if it becomes to much for them.
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*** [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses The Nostalgia Critic]], when he did his Top 11 Drug [=PSAs=], applauded the ad for its longevity, but he said everyone he knew always had a witty follow-up question to counter it.

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*** [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses The Nostalgia Critic]], TheNostalgiaCritic, when he did his Top 11 Drug [=PSAs=], applauded the ad for its longevity, but he said everyone he knew always had a witty follow-up question to counter it.

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* The crash test dummies want you to buckle up because "You can learn a lot from a Dummy."

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* The crash test dummies want you to buckle up because Thank you, Larry and Vince. "You can learn a lot from a Dummy."Dummy. Buckle your safety belt."
** The costumes are in the Smithsonian now as tribute to how well the campaign worked not only at its intended purpose but becoming an icon immortalized in pop culture around the whole world.
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** He mentions in the ad that he had his ears cut off while in prison, but doesn't point out (as he has in his memoirs) that he had another convict do it for him so he would be able to leave prison temporarily! SoYeah ...

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** He mentions in the ad that he had his ears cut off while in prison, but doesn't point out (as he has in his memoirs) that he had another convict do it for him so he would be able to leave prison temporarily! SoYeah ...temporarily!
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-8PBx7isoM&feature=player_embedded This]] tremendously moving and effective "Embrace Life" seatbelt PSA from the Sussex Safer Roads Partnership. So many elements are just pitch-perfect: the simple music and dreamlike quality of the visuals grab your attention amidst the din of shouty advertising, the performances of all three actors are spot on (the grimace from the father as he faces the inevitable, the hope from the little girl, and the quiet determination from the mother), the fairy wings on the little girl giving her an angel-like quality, and the sudden violence of the impact shown by the table launching across the room. Unsurprisingly, it's gone viral.
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXKB2tFRNpw This public health advertisement]] implicitly compares having a stroke to being savagely beaten by [[ScaryBlackMan Michael Clarke Duncan]].

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXKB2tFRNpw This A public health advertisement]] advertisement implicitly compares having a stroke to being savagely beaten by [[ScaryBlackMan Michael Clarke Duncan]].
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*** These notoriously grisly adverts made this troper completely forget about [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18km8VA-U5U&feature=related these]] rather adorable adverts about crossing the street, all under the name of the "Think!" campaign.
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->''My doc, he showed me a picture of a smokers lung. Ahh, it was gross and disgusting. Then he showed me a picture of a healthy guys lung. Ahh, it was gross and disgusting.''

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->''My doc, he showed me a picture of a smokers smoker's lung. Ahh, it was gross and disgusting. Then he showed me a picture of a healthy guys guy's lung. Ahh, it was gross and disgusting.''

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* A man is beating the shit out of his girlfriend, and the guy in the apartment next door decides this is the last straw. He [[BigDamnHeroes picks up a baseball bat and knocks on the couple's door...]] [[AvertedTrope so that he could give the bat to the man]] [[MoralEventHorizon so that he can finish his girlfriend off more easily.]] Cue tagline stating that this is pretty much what it's like if you hear/see scenes of domestic violence and don't report it to the cops.
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* The Georgia Meth Project has started showing commercials in Georgia that are VERY SCARY. Watch the most scary ones [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDK9q3SMeMU here]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkSYCe98lMg&feature=channel here.]]

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* The Georgia Meth Project has started showing commercials in Georgia that are VERY SCARY. Watch the most scary ones [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDK9q3SMeMU here]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkSYCe98lMg&feature=channel here.]]

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