Sometimes adverts just totally miss the point.
Take this little doozy for example: a woefully misguided anti-drugs PSA in which a talking dog decides to harrass a teenage girl about her drug use.
So – what has she been doing? Snorting three lines of coke over breakfast every morning? Jacking up a speedball during SAT revision? Rubbing blotter paper soaked in acid against her cherubic face? No. She’s … well … been smoking the odd joint. Seriously. Smoking weed. That’s it.
All of which is very ironic, because if the events in this commercial happened to us, we’d either:
a) Scream ‘Jesus Christ, a talking dog’, and immediately run to the nearest heroin dealer in order to get so dosed up we forgot this nightmare/
b) Give him a slap and shout ‘shut the fuck up, you furry little bastard! Might I remind you whose house this is? I’ll lie on the sofa all day smoking bongs if I want to, thank you very much, you condescending shitwad. Any more of this nonsense and you might find your next bowl of Winalot laced with arsenic. Clear?’
Anyway. See what you think.
toolahroolahroolah says
Weed so fine that your dog starts conversing with you?
I will take as much of that greenbud as anyone is willing to sell me.
Spike Lee says
The Office of National Drug Control Policy made a clip about drugs that ran for more than 30 seconds total, and there was not one negro actor on the screen.