Saturday, February 8, 2020

Saturday Morning PSA of The Week: Let's give a shout-out to whooping cough



Today's public service announcements are all information and no imagination--but yesteryear's? Those were full of drama, plot lines, and cameos from B-grade celebrities, all wedged into one minute of absolute fantasticness.

Consider this a trip back in time to when PSAs were sometimes worth watching more than the Saturday morning cartoons.


Today:  May the immunizations be with you.




Random Thoughts and Questions:
1.)  Wait--whooping cough? Whooping cough?? Whooping cough was the go-to illness R2 thought he had?
2.)  The fact R2-D2 doesn't even know droids can't get diseases immediately makes his intelligence suspect. I don't want him working on my space ship. Kill someone else, buddy.
3.)  C-3PO is the real Debbie Downer here. He just skips right ahead to inevitable horrors for children, including brain damage and death. But, hey, back to your Saturday morning cartoons!
4.)  This PSA is 40-years old. Anti-vaxxers were pulling their shenanigans early.
5.)  What, no address? You just send stuff off to Pueblo, Colorado, and the postal carrier knows where it goes? You just "write" them? What do you write? Recipes? Casual advice?



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