![]() ![]() ![]() Bugs Bunny easily identifies a joint, which isn't too far a stretch given his drinking and smoking cigarettes for decades in the Looney Tunes universe watching a much more innocent Simon (of the Chipmunks) identify marijuana on sight and describe the effects is a bit jarring. Many of the cartoon characters are hip to drug slang.This is the product of Michael being an asshole. Michael steals from his baby sister's piggy bank to score money for pot.That in mind, some of the bullshit awkwardly forced through the mouthpieces of beloved children's cartoons is too egregious to let pass by unchallenged. Even less so when this is all taking place in the same "don't blame me" epoch that brought us zero tolerance school district policies and "three strike" legal system punishments. Should we expect government and corporate sponsored mission-based programming to delve into the nuance of what contributes to drug use and addiction? Of course not, when the medium is a half-hour animation spot aimed at elementary school kids. Scott!) into a garbage truck, and goes to ask his parents for help battling his pot addiction. Michael apologizes to his sister, throws the anthropomorphic James Woods-ish pot smoke baddie (voiced by George C. ![]() The gang rescues Michael, A Christmas Carol-style, by showing him his grim future as a ghoulish heroin junkie/crackhead. Corey, fears for her brother's life, so she enlists the help of all our favorite Saturday-morning cartoon heroes like Garfield, Bugs Bunny, Baby Kermit the Frog, and ALF, the sitcom puppet who was ostensibly rendered into a children's cartoon. ![]() The cartoon was released on VHS after the initial airing and most of the uploads of this feature contain all the charming A/V distortions of the medium.įor those without 27 minutes to kill, here's the basic rundown: The year is 1990 and our protagonist Michael is a wayward teen, whose experimentation with marijuana raises the concern of his little sister, Corey. and First Lady Barbara Bush at the video's intro.įor the uninitiated, a YouTube stream is available here, and yes, that is as HD as it gets. This monumental anti-drug (and, to a lesser extent, anti-alcohol) collaboration came at the acme of Nancy Reagan's "just say no!" era, the message promulgated by then-sitting President George H. Today marks the 25-year anniversary of the largest anti-drug PSA effort in history: the Saturday morning simulcast of Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue broadcast on the ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox networks respectively. ![]()
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