Community Service Announcements from the 70s/80s: Monsters

November 26, 2023 2:31 PM

Channel 9 Perth Community Service Announcements from the 1970s/1980s: Monsters.
posted by chariot pulled by cassowaries (7 comments total)

What I want to know is why videos like this don't become net-wide memes. I guess because they weren't passed around Something Awful back in its heyday?
posted by JHarris at 2:38 PM on November 26, 2023 [2 favorites]

That's hilarious! But I wonder how many kids were scared away from things later in life, completely unaware of why?
posted by dg at 3:18 PM on November 26, 2023 [1 favorite]

Great music and voices.
posted by doctornemo at 3:27 PM on November 26, 2023

What I want to know is why videos like this don't become net-wide memes.

The UK-equivalent public information films have definitely had a rich internet afterlife, both on YouTube and as an inspiration to online projects like Scarfolk that riff on the atmosphere of drab, Helvetica-labeled dread they now conjure.

Probably my favorite current call back is in print - Stephen Brotherstone and Dave Lawrence's Scarred for Life, a big fat book about the terrors of growing up in the British 70s. It features a still from "Lonely Water" on the cover and a ~100 page chapter on the genre.
posted by ryanshepard at 3:50 PM on November 26, 2023 [1 favorite]

I feel that child was extremely optimistic and overconfident. I bet a monster that didn’t sing got them in the end.
posted by GenjiandProust at 4:14 PM on November 26, 2023 [2 favorites]

Mr. Yuk scared the shit out of me for so long I didn’t watch this clip again until I was 43.
posted by infinitewindow at 5:50 PM on November 26, 2023 [2 favorites]

The American version had Bugs Bunny trying to scare us safe.
posted by NoxAeternum at 6:35 PM on November 26, 2023 [1 favorite]