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Nine Weird PSAs (video)

Xeni Jardin at 9:02 am Mon, Feb 23, 2009

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The Huffington Post has a funny roundup of the 9 purportedly weirdest/funniest PSA tv ads of all time. I am fond of the potsmoking karate guy above. The Nine Weirdest PSAs Ever Made (Thanks, Alex Leo)

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • the_dannobot

    the most brutal psa i ever seen:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNoo9ZekHbs

    you’ll laugh your ass off

  • malex

    It’s kinda too bad that they didn’t include Rachel Leigh Cook’s frying-pan-is-drugs PSA.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kci12O2EI8I

    Not because it’s all that strange of an ad, I just always remember her being really, really hot.

  • Mycroft

    The best PSA has to be Raisin Brahms. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKgBdrsqvjs

    Guten taaaaaag!

  • AlanSchiele

    This is a really good PSA about how LAZINESS CAN KILL:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BInol8NVwso

  • error404

    aye right!

  • error404

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsvgiCivLZM

    it is ones like this that really mark out the UK as a strange strange place.

  • sswaan

    #3: What IS he doing with those candlesticks??

  • Lane

    Heinously omitted: David Lynch’s “Clean Up New York” PSA – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSWv90msTUc

  • Oren Beck

    And we do go forward into the past of the future for:

    http://www.aural-innovations.com/robertcalvert/hawkwind/calhw.htm

    Think only of yourself…