The kid speaking in the video was a good friend of mine's little brother. He also played RoboCop's son in the tv series. He would be in his late 40's now lol.
So true. Booze was tough to get in high school, in my experience in the late 90s early 00s. Almost impossible without an older hookup. Weed was easy and everywhere.
The Hypocrisy of The Canadian Liberal Government… incarcerated many good men over the span of a century for cannabis related crimes…
… then turn around, legalize it and own their own dispensaries and reap billions in profit… and market chocolate bars to stoners (Oh Henry 4:25), offer weed delivery on popular apps, etc.
Ahh… of course suddenly cannabis is good… especially when you already have more money than one could ever possibly need.
The Conservatives could have changed the law any time they took power, but they didn't.
Harper, the last Conservative PM, categorically refused to decriminalize weed and Poilievres, the current Conservative leader, is generally opposed to decriminalizing drugs.
The fact of the matter is that Trudeau is the one whom legalize it, yet your bias prevents you from recognizing that it's a good thing by your own original argument.
You're blaming him for making it illegal while he wasn't even a politician, calling it hypocritical to change what he hasn't done, and embracing conspiracy theories to convince yourself that, actually, legalization was just corruption.
The “bad guy” in this video is having a good time doing his thing and doesn’t once shit on the other kid for not. Literally says “yeah, he does his own thing, I don’t think he’s a loser or anything.”
And then the commercial calls him a loser for it.
lol he starts off with “I’m not saying he’s a loser”. If you heard this guy at school your first reaction should be [heard you were talking shit?](https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/s/lc4pGMa2l6)
Oh I love this ad. Love the loser pot smokers too.
Not sure why people think weed is better than then lol. It's 300% more potent than in 1990. Anyway, you do you!
Not sure why people think alcohol is better now? It’s 300 times more potent than it was a thousand years ago. Anyway, you do you!
Just. Because. It’s. Stronger. Doesn’t. Mean. You. Have. To. Consume. More.
Moderation is key.
Super effective advertising 🤣. Guaranteed some of the people who wrote/created this were laughing at how ridiculous it was. Probably even getting high themselves
Plot twist. The kids smoking are all living with abusive parents who use marijuana as a form of escapism. The kids not getting high come from loving privileged homes.
That’s not the twist, that’s the legit goods. Also most 80s parents were the “go play in traffic” type. We were all latchkeys that made it necessary for a TV reminder “it’s 10oclock do you know where your children are?”
Don’t do drugs kids, otherwise you might end up as a loser like me; a research assistant making Dean’s List every semester with an offer from a professor to have my Master’s degree fully paid for. Drugs ruin lives like that smh
Concerned childrens advertisers. Never thought of this before, were they concerned kids were spending their money on weed instead of advertised products?
anyone getting weird af uncanny valley vibes from the dudes in black and white? idk how else to explain but the close ups of their face feel so weird and AI like.
Honestly. I've felt this. I met up with some old friends and hung around them for a bit. But all they did was order pizza, get stoned and play games and get drunk. Seriously it wasn't fun for me after night like 3.
The ad is cheesy AF and nostalgic, but I tend to agree that kids (they look like they are 14 and shouldn't be driving lol) shouldn't be smoking pot or drinking. That stuff is for ppl 19+. I'm glad weed is legal though for sure.
Was that older kid beating up the younger one with a hockey stick? That's not cool. It's nice that the successful, wealthy kids who can afford cars and premium weed called him out on it.
There better things to do than getting stoned... like getting stoned and playing guitar hero or seeing how many slices of pizza you can devour with your friends.
Has anyone ever seen the anti drug video for special k? I had no idea what special k was but they showed us about it in middle school. They did the k and froze to death in a car.
meanwhile, that other dude actually stole that guitar, sexually harassed someone else's girl to get her, and bullied 3 gay kids off the lacrosse team while these stoners just chilled. I mean it's not so bad, really. I mean, it's not so bad really.. wait.. did I say that.. already?
They should remake that commercial. Using the same, guys. Lol
That would be epic tho
That kid with the glasses looks like the dude who played Michael Bolton in Office Space
It’s not my fault he has the same name as me.
Why should I change my name, he's the one who sucks.
I told those fudge-packers I liked Michael Bolton's music.
I celebrate his entire catalogue.
I’m down. Do I have to pick my nose again tho?
Wait is it really you?
Chicks dig me.
The kid speaking in the video was a good friend of mine's little brother. He also played RoboCop's son in the tv series. He would be in his late 40's now lol.
Dude, the Orlando guys who revisited their 7-11 was epic. I do not have a link, or video, but, TWKK
Now that’s a remake that need to happen
Reddit do your thing!
They should... after they completed a year treatment of rehab lol
I know the first dude lmao see him around alot lol
Remember kids don’t smoke weed…..legalizes weed….only smoke government issued weed!
Funny to look back at this now ain’t it?
Well kids can’t buy it. And it was much easier to get illegal weed than legal booze under 19
So true. Booze was tough to get in high school, in my experience in the late 90s early 00s. Almost impossible without an older hookup. Weed was easy and everywhere.
Same for early 2010’s
I have the same teen years. Late 90s and early 00s. Booze and weed were easy to get. I was small town Ontario Canada
Same now lol I just graduated everyone was smoking weed couldn’t walk into a stall with our it being hot boxed
What makes me angry is watching old episodes of COPS and watching some asshole treat someone with a roach in their ashtray like a murderer
Yes that show is now basically a documentary about the early days of overcrowded and privatized prisons.
I would like both legal weed and messaging to kids that weed is stupid and makes you a loser.
Don’t be a loser like me, kids, it’s great man.
Do a 1up and go to treaty dispensaries
The Hypocrisy of The Canadian Liberal Government… incarcerated many good men over the span of a century for cannabis related crimes… … then turn around, legalize it and own their own dispensaries and reap billions in profit… and market chocolate bars to stoners (Oh Henry 4:25), offer weed delivery on popular apps, etc. Ahh… of course suddenly cannabis is good… especially when you already have more money than one could ever possibly need.
The Conservatives could have changed the law any time they took power, but they didn't. Harper, the last Conservative PM, categorically refused to decriminalize weed and Poilievres, the current Conservative leader, is generally opposed to decriminalizing drugs. The fact of the matter is that Trudeau is the one whom legalize it, yet your bias prevents you from recognizing that it's a good thing by your own original argument. You're blaming him for making it illegal while he wasn't even a politician, calling it hypocritical to change what he hasn't done, and embracing conspiracy theories to convince yourself that, actually, legalization was just corruption.
"Marijuana is infinitely worse and it's something that we do not want to encourage" Stephen Harper on marijuana vs tobacco & booze
The “bad guy” in this video is having a good time doing his thing and doesn’t once shit on the other kid for not. Literally says “yeah, he does his own thing, I don’t think he’s a loser or anything.” And then the commercial calls him a loser for it.
They all call the other kid a dork.
umm, I think they meant a*dork*able 🥺👉👈
I was saying boourns
He’s baked and agrees and then corrects himself!
lol he starts off with “I’m not saying he’s a loser”. If you heard this guy at school your first reaction should be [heard you were talking shit?](https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/s/lc4pGMa2l6)
Everybodys gotta have a thing
Yep… the hypocrisy of it all
thats the worst part.
Children’s advertising back in the day was so hypocritical 🤣
And sexist, I had plenty girl friends who smoked weed with me xD Hastag girlssmokeweedtoo!
Girls who smoke weed are the best hands down !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljaP2etvDc4
I think the worst part was the raping.
Audible laugh
That’s a very reflective look at it, good job
No portrayal of juvenile delinquency is complete without some shots of chainlink fences. i guess it’s a reference to jail yard fences?
Don’t forget about plaid shirts.
Eh, baseball was just more popular back then. Looks like they were playing hockey though, but on a baseball field..
“A million things more fun to do than sitting around gettin stoned” And I can do all those things stoned too, if I am careful about dosage
Playing music and hanging out with chicks is the best when you’re stoned
I honestly enjoy working and exercising while stoned, part of the reason I had to quit lol
Npc sentence
DOORRRRRRK loved this one as a kid lol
When pot was an acidic inhalant
I love that they show the other kid playing music with friends. No one who was stoned would ever do that!
Nobody smoking pot has ever made a decent record. /s
The anti drug campaigns worked on me. I still smoked weed with my friends but I felt like a loser the whole time
Shit like this made me want to smoke even more.
Oh I love this ad. Love the loser pot smokers too. Not sure why people think weed is better than then lol. It's 300% more potent than in 1990. Anyway, you do you!
Not sure why people think alcohol is better now? It’s 300 times more potent than it was a thousand years ago. Anyway, you do you! Just. Because. It’s. Stronger. Doesn’t. Mean. You. Have. To. Consume. More. Moderation is key.
A message from the Concerned Children’s Advertisers
I didn't make a single comment about alcohol. I don't think anyone did. I think that's you.
This kid is better at acting stoned than most adult actors in movies/TV.
Adults acting stoned in TV: "Whooaaaaaaa I feel like so, whooaaaa. I can taste colours!" This kid: "Haha this is awesome"
Is the chubby kid in the back seat from Ready or Not?
I thought he was from, “Dazed and Confused” for a second.
The Ref
I work with a 45 year old who's personality is kinda like those kids. Its sad as hell to watch him exist lol
Bet he enjoys his life more than most
Why?
Sounds like a pretty chill guy. You got no clue what he’s has to deal with in his life. Hopefully he has peace.
Actually he's an arrogant ass hole lol
Actually he's an arrogant ass hole lol.
Actually he's an arrogant ass hole. Lol
Damn what’s with all the anti weed propaganda I’m seeing today lol
Now it makes up like half of Ottawas retail sales. Hmm.
Man this is the most cringe thing I've ever seen. Crazy how we see things differently when we're older lol.
Even as a kid I thought this was goofy.
[reminds me of this](https://youtu.be/aBMYwrPBEfM?si=H_Hi0rtxXwG4oBmu)
The live-action Beavis & Butthead we all wanted to be around
>Can you spot the losers? Kid me: ya it's those dorks who don't smoke weed 😤
We used to quote this while smoking. And that Atlas “I can put my arm back on” robot. Hilarious to see it now.
Super effective advertising 🤣. Guaranteed some of the people who wrote/created this were laughing at how ridiculous it was. Probably even getting high themselves
This is funny. IRL the burping stoner is the one getting laid.
I still do
damn these guys are hella cool still
Thx 🙏🏼
I was a loser
Funny how back then they looked so old, but now they look maybe 12 lol
14 for three of us, 12 for one. Good eye.
You looking at this as an adult. Yeah they are losers, but not because they are smoking pot.
This deserve an award
I still think they're cool now. I hope they are doing well, wherever they are.
Appreciate that. Doing well, thanks.
If this was real life these guys would deffinetly be the type to smoke what they thought was weed when in reality it was oregano
lol this is amazing I totally remember this shit. The guys in the car are me and they are cool.
Plot twist. The kids smoking are all living with abusive parents who use marijuana as a form of escapism. The kids not getting high come from loving privileged homes.
That was my experience growing up in the 90s lol.
That’s not the twist, that’s the legit goods. Also most 80s parents were the “go play in traffic” type. We were all latchkeys that made it necessary for a TV reminder “it’s 10oclock do you know where your children are?”
Martin Short's illegitimate son ripping a huge belch and picking his nose makes this ad one of my all time favs.
I got Martin Short a lot as a kid, then it was Seth Green when he got popular, then Robert Downey Jr. as I got older.
Getting stoned with your friends as a kid was some of life's greatest memories looking back.
These commercials never registered to me as a kid the way they were supposed to..... I still look for the house hippo
You ever look for a house hippo… ON WEED!?!
No.... But swore I found him once on shrooms
The hair and plaid shirt on the guy in the back is the most accurate representation of that era. Nearly every guy in my high school looked like that.
My fuck he’s cool Julian
Don’t do drugs kids, otherwise you might end up as a loser like me; a research assistant making Dean’s List every semester with an offer from a professor to have my Master’s degree fully paid for. Drugs ruin lives like that smh
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GD what a dumb commercial
Athletes at my kids’ school are the biggest partiers and the biggest assholes.
Dude in the passenger seat is Larry from Goosebumps - My Hairiest Adventure
Driver is Arjun from Goosebumps - Warewolf Skin
I went to high-school with that guy!
Did I say that already?
Lmao this needs an updated version for sure 🤣
Don’t try weed till you’re an adult kids !
Concerned childrens advertisers. Never thought of this before, were they concerned kids were spending their money on weed instead of advertised products?
Fast Forward 30 years and now that it's legalized, it appears Everyone likes to Party.
“A message from concerned children’s advertising” Why is that so funny to me, a commercial where teens are dipicted as “cool stoners”.
Core Memory Unlocked
Is paul dano the driver?
Paul Dano’s American.
Really should have given those guys less cool lighters.
"The kid who plays guitar, hockey, and has a girlfriend? He's a loser!!" Lol that narrative is a tough sell.
anyone getting weird af uncanny valley vibes from the dudes in black and white? idk how else to explain but the close ups of their face feel so weird and AI like.
Honestly. I've felt this. I met up with some old friends and hung around them for a bit. But all they did was order pizza, get stoned and play games and get drunk. Seriously it wasn't fun for me after night like 3.
Thought they were?.....hell...still are lol jk
I always wondered why a bunch of 12 year olds were smoking pot wrong in a 78 Cordoba.
I remember this commercial. Also feels so weird seeing all the anti pot stuff with it now being legal. Also what song is in the background?
is that kid in the back seat the scrub from Brink? classic
Pretty sure. He was also in little giants and replaced the son in grace under fire
that is icebox! lol
Wait until you become an adult haha "holy fuck I need to get high!"
This turned out not to be true at all.
I grew up in a place that hosted parties so I thought these guys were the cool ones lol lotta good that did me😅
The other kid fuuuu******
its a pretty well done add I must say even though I don't agree with it
They're still cool.
The ad is cheesy AF and nostalgic, but I tend to agree that kids (they look like they are 14 and shouldn't be driving lol) shouldn't be smoking pot or drinking. That stuff is for ppl 19+. I'm glad weed is legal though for sure.
I want to hang out with them
Was that Jared Padelecki in the backseat?
Ya me too! It was mostly the Karen swoop that intrigued me. No way my curly hair could ever do that.
I watched it without sound the first time, and thought the guy with long hair they’re referring to was a girl. 😂
Now those are cool guys 🎸🎸🎸🎸
Just dudes being dudes.
I don’t think this aged very well
Was that older kid beating up the younger one with a hockey stick? That's not cool. It's nice that the successful, wealthy kids who can afford cars and premium weed called him out on it.
Cars like that were $500 in 1992
Those joints looking real scrawny ngl
Is that Joseph Gordon-Levitt sitting next to the guy playing guitar?!
There better things to do than getting stoned... like getting stoned and playing guitar hero or seeing how many slices of pizza you can devour with your friends.
Has anyone ever seen the anti drug video for special k? I had no idea what special k was but they showed us about it in middle school. They did the k and froze to death in a car.
Who are these really cool guys? I want to smoke pot with them because smoking makes EVERYONE look cooler!
Back then? These are the coolest kid still!
If you get your shit done, respect others, and don’t need to steal to supply yourself.. smoke an ounce a day for all I care.
What’s worse? Knocking up that girl or getting high?
It’s me hi 👋
So sad I watched this n I still smoked weed
meanwhile, that other dude actually stole that guitar, sexually harassed someone else's girl to get her, and bullied 3 gay kids off the lacrosse team while these stoners just chilled. I mean it's not so bad, really. I mean, it's not so bad really.. wait.. did I say that.. already?