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A public service announcement (PSA) is a message in the public interest disseminated by the media without charge to raise public awareness and change behavior. Oftentimes these messages feature unsettling imagery, ideas or behaviors that are designed to startle or even scare the viewer into understanding the consequences of undergoing a particular harmful action or inaction (such as pictures ...
"Back-To-School Essentials" is a 2019 public service announcement (PSA) by American 501(c)(3) non-profit organization Sandy Hook Promise. [1] [2] Created as a shock piece, the PSA presents American students showing various back-to-school items, with the PSA becoming progressively disturbing to the viewer as the events of a school shooting unfolds.
The campaign has been widely parodied, with references in Will & Grace, 30 Rock, American Dad!, Family Guy, [6] Drawn Together, Scrubs, recurring parodies on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, a running segment on The Daily Show called "The Less You Know", and an April 2006 series of NBC-produced mock PSAs starring the cast of The Office.
Dallas Cowboys quarterback teamed up with Ryan Reynolds’ company Lead From Behind to make a funny PSA for colon cancer awareness.
A Long Island middle school teacher is under fire for allegedly asking her students to "write something funny" underneath images of slaves. Last Friday, Darlene McCurty took to Facebook to ...
The company gained a reputation in 2003 for a series of short films which parodied the public service announcement (PSA) safety messages used at the end of every episode of the 1980s G.I. Joe animated series, based on Hasbro's toy line. [2]
Time for Timer is a series of seven short public service announcements broadcast on Saturday mornings on the ABC television network starting in 1975. The animated spots feature Timer, a tiny cartoon character who is an anthropomorphic circadian rhythm, the self-proclaimed "keeper of body time."
The 1997 version of the PSA stars Rachael Leigh Cook (pictured in 2024), a role she would later parody on the animated series Robot Chicken. The second PSA, from 1997, [3] featured 18-year-old actress Rachael Leigh Cook, who, as before, holds up an egg and says, "this is your brain", before lifting up a frying pan with the words, "and this is heroin", after which she places the egg on a ...