PSAs

[TikvaBall]

PSAs, or public service announcements, are a type of commercial, but instead of selling a product, they're trying to raise awareness of an issue. They have PSAs to try to stop people from doing drugs or smoking, or PSAs to get people to wear their seatbelts. The UK has some of the most well known ones, but they call them PIFs or public information films. I like them scary, although I do enjoy the funny ones.

 

[GrownupGirl]

We've had some pretty disturbing PSAS in Canada, but they're still a far cry from some the nightmare fuel and gore I've seen in PSAS from the UK and Australia. But I think the one PSA that I found the most disturbing was one by Unicef that showed the Smurfs all getting killed by bombs and their village being set aflame. It starts off like a typical Smurfs cartoon, with the little blue people happily la-la-la-ing like usual and then... good lord!

I get it, bombing a real village is just as evil and pointless as bombing a fictional one. But that was like my whole childhood brutally murdered in front of me.

 

[Judge]

We get them all the time based on hazardous weather conditions, which may or may not actually apply depending on where you live. And you cannot circumvent them. You just have to wait until they conclude themselves and go back to your regular programming.

Sometimes they can be scary, whether talking about golf ball-sized hail or flooding, dry-lightning strikes or wind gusts in excess of 74mph.

 

[GrownupGirl]

I really liked the "Dumb Ways To Die" PSA about train safety.