Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:50 am Post subject: 1960s Bicycle safety (PSA meets The Twilight Zone)
You know, I was afraid of Gremlins when I was a kid, but this would have royally fucked me up if I had seen it in grade school! Methinks the people who made this were on some serious acid...
_________________ "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." ---- Groucho Marx
I only got three minutes in, but as soon as I saw the monkey faces... yea, it's a bit disturbing. Did they mean this to be some sort of Planet of the Apes spin-off?
Nooo... it really is an honest-to-God bicycle safety film geared towards kids. My dad saw it when he was in junior high school. Here's the Wikipedia article on it. _________________ "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." ---- Groucho Marx
What the fuck?! Sick! Disturbing! No! No! It's a good thing that kids were taught to keep safe in trafic, but giving them frickin' nightmares in the process? Those children would've given me nightmares...
Your cry of horror echoed across the Atlantic, Walker! I think the most disturbing "lesson" was the one with the steam roller.... CRRRRUUUNNNCH..... _________________ "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." ---- Groucho Marx
Location: El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles del Río de Porciúncula
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:49 pm Post subject:
Speaking of safety PSAs, were any of you subjected to those horrific Drivers Ed videos called Red Asphalt, or is this strictly a California thing? Good God those gave me the heebies!
I haven't seen any of the newer ones, but I saw Red Asphalt 2 by accident when I was 8 or 9 years old (I think my neighbor's kid stole it from his driver's ed classroom.) Blood, guts, and twisted metal, man! Sounds cool, right? Naw, son! It gave poor lil me nightmares for like two weeks straight! _________________ "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies." ---- Groucho Marx
Location: El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles del Río de Porciúncula
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:54 am Post subject:
Joanne wrote:
I haven't seen any of the newer ones, but I saw Red Asphalt 2 by accident when I was 8 or 9 years old (I think my neighbor's kid stole it from his driver's ed classroom.) Blood, guts, and twisted metal, man! Sounds cool, right? Naw, son! It gave poor lil me nightmares for like two weeks straight!
I don't know what chapter the one I saw was, all I remember is that some car crash victim's face had been torn off and it gave me nightmares for weeks! And I was 15 at the time.
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Methinks the people who made this were on some serious acid...
Your cry of horror echoed across the Atlantic, Walker! I think the most disturbing "lesson" was the one with the steam roller.... CRRRRUUUNNNCH..... 
