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Hanna-Barbera Anti-Drug PSA
August 3, 2008 6:39 pm


When Scooby-Doo met Peter Max…

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Charlie says:
08/3/08  6:49pm

I wish when I smoked weed crazy stuff like that would happen. All I get is kinda hungry and the urge to watch Venture Brothers.

 
Saturnome says:
08/3/08  7:20pm

If only drugs were that groovy!

 
Celia says:
08/3/08  7:29pm

I wonder how many “scooby snacks” were consumed for the making of that PSA?

 
Tissa Tack says:
08/3/08  7:44pm

What the….? ….. I don’t know if the Scooby Doo music made this hilarious or even more terrifying…

 
Gerard de Souza says:
08/3/08  9:06pm

That running scramble before he gets pulled in reminds me of Ryan Larkin’s Walking; the foreshortening and the drawing.

 
Matthew Hunter says:
08/3/08  9:13pm
 
diegogue says:
08/3/08  9:17pm

The walk Cycle in 0:25 is terrible, probably the animator didn’t believe in what he drew

 
Ivan G says:
08/3/08  9:22pm

“I would have had a great trip, too–if it wasn’t for you meddling kids…”

 
J.G. Franklin says:
08/3/08  10:00pm

I’ll bet Robert “Tiger” West did the xerography on this thing.

 
Fausto says:
08/3/08  10:24pm

Wow, that’s one trippy PSA

 
Michael Burton says:
08/3/08  11:33pm

I would think that would be a very effective anti-drug ad — Hanna-Barbera makes taking drugs look really, really boring.

 
Carlos says:
08/3/08  11:54pm

Some cool animation there. Reminds me of the Cartoon All-Stars from years back. So many characters saying words I never thought they’d say…
Weren’t they working on a newer version?

 
Richard says:
08/4/08  12:20am

Scooby “Doobie” Doo!

(I know, it’s not original – but it sorta works)!

 
dan says:
08/4/08  8:47am

Man, now I want to spark up after watching that.

 
Stan says:
08/4/08  8:50am

It was curious how Disney’s creative overseer of the day hired a talented artist who was known to have dropped a little acid to storyboard the ’stoned’ sequence of “Cartoon All Stars to the Rescue”, which, as everyone knows, completely eradicated street drugs of every kind on earth.

 
red pill junkie says:
08/4/08  9:43am

Alas, this never convinced Shaggy to quit his vice

 
butmess says:
08/5/08  9:16pm

I have seen worse.

Does anybody remember the
“Why do you think they call
it dope” animated tv spots?

 
Douglas A. Puthoff says:
08/6/08  1:01pm

butmess–

I remember those “Dope” spots. They look as if Filmation had made them.

The H-B one seems to have a subtext of “If you do drugs, you’ll turn into a ‘Scooby-Doo’ villain.”

Don’t do drugs, just spent all day watching TV and eating Corn Curls.

 
Josh Zapin says:
08/6/08  1:42pm

Amazing. It’s some of the best animation I’ve ever seen from Hanna Barbera (which is typically really choppy).

Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

JZ
Josh Zapin
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A.J. says:
07/17/09  12:42pm

whats hilarious is, that this is a masterpiece compared to hanna barbera television at the time XD

 
The BRAIN says:
11/17/09  4:41pm

It looks too SATANIC to be a Hanna-Barbera production

 
The BRAIN says:
11/17/09  4:49pm

Ah… and I also wonder if this ad really inspired the video-hoax “Obey Da Walrus”. The characters and the contain of the PSA are so terrifying like the Goddess Bunny’s tap dance in ODW.

 
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