I live in Japan. I got a pamphlet handed to me last week. It was a 3 panel manga: 1) Nice boy. 2) Nice boy smokes pot. 3) Former nice boy turns green and beats grandma to death with her own stick. Reefer madness is alive and well guys.
Hey, gotta come up with a reason to beat-up the disenfranchised and racialized groups somehow (literally the purpose of the War on Drugs, FYI; Nixon's architect was very frank about it. "Can't just beat up Blacks, Mexicans, and Jews without people getting mad anymore, so just say you're after cocaine and weed instead").
I feel like that pamphlet cut out a lot of frames that should have been between 2 and 3. Namely the ones where either a sex demon or a demon form of Lord Nobunaga influences the nice boy to turn to murder.
I hear Japan takes drugs, even something as simple as weed, SUPER serious. Like, you get a whole year of jail just for a little reefer. People think America's bad when it comes to exaggerating marijuana's effects and using it as an excuse to punish people, but other countries really take the cake when waging war on drugs... I at least understand treating stuff like coke and/or meth super serious, but why weed and/or shrooms? Especially when nicotine and alcohol are perfectly legal and worse than those latter two...
@@sirhenrymorgan1187 Yeah, Japan (and Asia in general) are super dumb about drugs. They over-simplify and bunch everything together into one big “drugs bad” category. It makes legislation simple, I suppose. But as you say, booze and cigarettes are by far the bigger evil, and the government isn’t against people killing themselves with those.
I think one of the reasons they said pot is worse than herion is because opiates were not well understood for many years. Hell, heroin was sold over the counter when you still needed a prescription for asprin.
Don't forget the reason behind the anti-cannabis madness was money. Hemp was set to replace many industrial materials, much like it is today, and that made rich people mad.
I'll add Rockefeller needing to get rid of his countless barrels of diesel that would turn sour if not used quickly enough (yes, that's EXACTLY why the strain got it's name ). Gasoline was primarily used as a cleaning solvent in factories back then. Hemp oil and soybean oil were primarily used in automobile engines. There was also another tycoon whose name I can't recall at the moment, he had lumber companies that were in direct competition with the more versatile crop of hemp. One more thing I need to add. Reefer Madness was also made to discourage white women from smoking around the black musicians that were performing in many clubs at that time. It's amazing how many industries can be rendered obsolete if hemp was used to its full potential. I almost forgot to mention that the pharma industry was started using oil based ingredients at the same time. They made people stop using natural medicines and called it "quackery" in order to make people switch to the expensive and harmful pharmaceutical products we have to this day.
It was also the end of Prohibition, and the guy in charge of alcohol enforcement realized he needed a new gig. Pot was popular with Latinos and other minorities, so it made the perfect way to keep him employed and be a racist.
@@terrnadoThat other tycoon may have been the DuPont family of Foxcatcher fame. IDK about the lumber industry, but I know the DuPonts wanted hemp made illegal because they were about to introduce nylon to the market.
I'm an old man now but I remember trying marijuana back in the mid 60's but had I never tried it for myself I might have believed ridiculous movies/PSA's like this. It never made me a maniacal lunatic the way they represented it in this film. This movie was a complete and total fabrication of the truth, as marijuana never had ANY of the effects on me the way they claim it does. I like watching Brandon's take on this every so often just to remind me how stupid these clowns were.
@@WelshWidgetMan2O1O I think junior here was just trying to insult him and that was the only thing he could think of so he could use the pathetically lame 'ok boomer' phrase kids today are so proud of. The truly funny part of this is how these little kiddies seem to think it's a derogatory term when it isn't. The phrase itself is rather benign in nature and, if anything, I tend to laugh when I see it used because it sounds utterly ridiculous and only makes the one using it sound really dumb!
80s kid here who grew up watching all the ridiculous "Just Say No" era PSAs and DARE classes that did nothing to deter us from trying drugs when we became teens because we *knew* it was total bullshit. My favorite to this day is the post 9/11 one where they try to claim pot users are complicit in terrorism. We all laughed at that.
Im sixty six years old, when I was eighteen alot of kids I knew were trying pot and a girl who I thought I was in love with dumped me because I was to square and uncool. I decided by gooly I'll show her, I am cool . So I arranged to get some pot thru a black girl I worked with. . So in the Garage of may parents I rolled what I thought was a joint , despite my lack of rolling skills ,I fired up. Long story short when the pot hit me I knew I liked this.. Never got back with the girl but I've always somked pot., never did thank her. On a serious note if our goverment would not overreacted to pot, a lot of people may not have died of coke and smack. Sixty six still smoking just not as much.
6:08 Heaping teaspoon joke explained: You can only have heaping spoonfuls of dry ingredients, i.e. flour, baking powder, instant coffee. He said his mother's gravy needed heaping teaspoons of olive oil. It's clever for it's day, and for a cooking joke, if there ARE cooking jokes.
My high school film teacher, and P.E. coach showed my class this film, and the other one, "Marijuana, the Assassin of Youth". We all laughed so hard. It became known later that he smoke weed which made it even more hilarious. There were insane people in my little town that wanted him fired, but he persisted, and ignored them. He later took the whole class on a school bus (an 800 mile trip) to Hollywood--- best fun I ever had in high school.
For anyone who doesn't know where the scene of Helen Hunt jumping out of window came from: it is a clip from 1982 made-for-TV movie "Desperate Lives" that many of IMDB reviewers call it in general the movie more or less in similar vein to Reefer Madness but with less trashy feel to it. Helen Hunt (who cast as "Sandy" in the movie) jumps out of the building after ingesting angel dust made by her (thuggish to the eyes of targeted viewers) boyfriend in... school chemistry lab. She's taken care of by an guidance counselor (equivalent to the principal in Reefer Madness) later who "sends a message to the children out there".
@@mrcrowley8889 Not really. The way alcohol affects people differs a lot depending on how much they just had. Sure, if you drink enough it works as a downer but in the beginning it works as an upper. Pot works as a downer all the way.
What's this 'getting out of a chair' you speak of? I was under the impression that one side-effect of pot was becoming fused with your seating apparatus while shoveling snacks into your mouth at warp speed :=)
I'm sure the fact that anti-weed programs were specifically created as an excuse to harass Mexican labourers who might be getting uppity ideas about "having any rights" and that the horror comics Wertham targeted promoted progressive ideas like "maybe Black people aren't inherently monsters" are totally unrelated.
So wait... All this time "Reefer Madness" was an exploitation film and not a psa? It is a reskinned psa marketed as an exploitation film? Fucking incredible...
Yeah, I was thinking that, too. Too bad for the students that wasn't him, otherwise they could have learned a lot about the Old Ones and how (according to the version of Lovecraft in Warren Elly's Planetary) black people reproduce by laying demon black eggs.
If you aren't already, you may like to be aware this was remade into a musical parody of itself back in 2005. It is titled Reefer Madness The Movie Musical. I enjoyed it.
10:55 If people in the 30's thought swing was really the devils music, I wonder how they would've reacted to electro swing. That would probably be the 1930's equivalent of death metal.
This film is one of my favs. I love the script and the way it was parodied in the last scene of Amazon Women on the Moon with Carrie Fisher playing the Mary part.
oh God I remember that psa. i went back and watched it out of curiosity about year or so back on here. On one hand it was kind of funny to think about what ever this guy was using he's hallucinating fictional characters giving him advice but on the other hand they are giving him good advice which is kind of scary what kind of drug makes you hallucinate giving yourself good advice? I could've sworn there was a 1960s antidrug movie called reefer madness that was done in color and it was even more dreadful than this film. One of the more memorable scenes was a guy driving his car he sees his friends and immediately swings the door open and gets out of the car while it's still in drive and it just subsequently drives away down the road crashing into something several of the people in that film supposedly part of the film's warning was they died from using marijuana if I are member the film correctly. Now that the stuff is legal here in Canada it makes those films that we were forced to watch in school that much more funny.
Actually, during the time this was shot Rootbeer was not a soda. It was being made via the original recipe which involved boiling the ingredients in a pot, then a very short period of fermentation to achieve the carbonation. Therefore, Rootbeer was actually an extremely low percentage alcoholic beverage, similar to kavass or kambucha. It wasn't classified as "carbonated water" aka soda due to containing something like 2% alcohol by volume. Because it was more than 0.5% ABV, it cannot be classed as a soft drink and thus cannot be a soda.
Did you know the entire impetus for vilifying _weed_ was because people were using it as a legal alternative to alcohol during Prohibition? 6:46 “OHH! _Did I do that?!”_
From my understanding of the production history, it was originally made to be a propaganda film about marijuana being the root of all evil, but ended up being bought by a production company that kind of turned it into a parody. honestly, when you watch the end cliff, where they explain that everything you saw was a dramatization of what could happen, so you need to make sure your children stay off drugs, I thought that was the way of establishing the entire film as a straw man...
For those who may not know, "Heroin" got its name from being a branded product made by Bayer. The name was a play on "heroine", because the product was marketed as a "heroic" replacement for morphine on the basis that, and I'm not kidding, heroin was promoted by Bayer as non-addictive. I'm sure that'll never happen again. Oxycontin? Purdue? Sacklers? Never heard of them. 6:43 It's interesting that the movie unintentionally goes out-of-its-way to make its hero look like an idiot. What was Bill backing towards when he fell into the fountain? Looks like a solid wall. 10:00 Did Charlie Kaufman have a hand in writing this film? 16:34 "The idea that a heretofore innocent and all-American high-school kid might have been insane when he murdered his sister for no reason while high on drugs is ludicrous! However, the idea that a hardened criminal with a long history of violence who killed a young girl he was trying to rape might be non compos mentis is obviously correct!" Man, 85 years on and anything by Cab Calloway is still a bop.
" Can we hurry up and corrupt these kids to make it interesting?" Lol You are right on bud, these nerds are even worse than me and thats saying something! Lol
Or better yet here's 2 others, Hong Kong '97 which has Richard Patrick the T-1000 guy from Terminator 2 and Pulgasari the infamous North Korean Godzilla where it's said the director of it was kidnapped by Kim Jong Il father of Kim Jong Un in order to make it.
Well back when Root Beer was invented it was actually alcoholic. The recipe was later changed to be non-alcoholic and was thus not considered to be a soda for a couple of years.
Erm, yes and no? If you're thinking of Ginger Beer, which is similar to Root Beer, it could be slightly alcoholic due to fermentation, but not to any particularly-relevant level. Root Beer was an Indigenous concoction involving fermentation of the sassafras root (as opposed to the ginger root), but was also usually negligible in terms of alcoholic content. What did change the recipe was the banning of safrole in the '60s, due to its carcinogenic properties.
Jacob Smith Speaking of Romeo and Juliet a lot of shit could’ve easily been avoided The bullshit in the second act was basically friar Laurence’s fault but that’s only brought up once throughout the whole damn thing But nobody here cares about that
@@theoneandonlymichaelmccormick That’s not the problem I have The problem is that Friar Laurence’s plan aggravated the conflict and he never has to face that fact Give your characters flaws make them horrible human fucking beings, but if they aren’t the villain then they need to face these flaws at some point during the story
All I could think was "Noooo! You don't just blow it out! You gotta hold that hit in!" I also wondered just how much crack cocaine was laced into those joints...
Are there any prints of the original "Tell Your Children" film? As you said, it's over-the-top without the exploitation, but I'm curious to see what the original message was.
You’re amazing like a walking “Trivial Pursuit” game. You come up with references I live through. You look like you’re in your 20s but maybe by some old dude with eidetic memory possessed you? I say that because I am impressed with your video and in the 1970s we would get toasted and watch “Reefer Madness”. We didn’t get the go-crazy and wild sex drugs until the cocaine blizzards of the 1980s. I worked with an old Polish lady in the 1970s and as kids and adults her mother and she would pick wild marijuana along the railroad tracks and use it as medicine for headaches, the vapors, calm the brat down etc.
Didn't Mary ever wonder why that cigarette tasted funny? If somebody offered me a cigarette and it turned out to be something else I would ask "Hey! What the HELL is this shit!??"
Thank you for another exciting adventure. I was just talking to the Lost Skeleton of Cadavra about excessive marihuana use in my home state.... oh wait is that a Dorito......
I remember this drivel in high school, as a joke shown to laugh at it, as it was totally ridiculous and it was the 80s when everyone was on something. Now California has legal weed too. Ha. Pot does not make you act insane and speed and do crazy stuff, so I'm told. It makes you slow and forgetful, like watching TV news. It can make you laugh.
Nearly all the horror-stories about LSD were openly fabricated, as well, and by people in prominent positions of authority. For example, the "stared at the Sun til they went blind" urban myth? Made-up by an Ivy League prof out of whole cloth. Snopes has the newspaper article in which he admitted as much, IIRC. And the shameful details behind the "acid flashbacks/jumping from a window thinking you can fly" myth have to be read to be believed.
I wish you'd do Esper's other marijuana film, just called MARIHUANA. It sort of stops trying to be a pot scare film along the way, and starts to get wild in other directions.
There's a field they show that was in New York City at one time and had been growing for decades. Every time the police burned it(yeah that's smart) someone would come back and re-plant it. It was there into the 80's. I saw this in high school and the stoner kids laughed harder than anyone in the class. Yeah, a Catholic high school teacher showed this to a class full of juniors. Private school was awesome.
The funniest part of this movie is how people are smoking the joints like train smokestacks. People don't puff cigarettes with that much vehemence. Like train smokestacks, these yo-yos.
😂 if was smoking some cripto this would make perfect nonsense just like it already does 🤷🏼♂️ oh I hit a Guy that was 10 feet away from me 😂 Brandon tenold you lunk head 💯👍👍👍👍🤠🪓 can't believe I haven't watched this episode yet because it's hilarious 🎉😂
No. It is great for __consuming__ the art, but writing still gotta be properly structured. You can write (or better record) short prompts to sort them out later.
I live in Japan.
I got a pamphlet handed to me last week.
It was a 3 panel manga:
1) Nice boy.
2) Nice boy smokes pot.
3) Former nice boy turns green and beats grandma to death with her own stick.
Reefer madness is alive and well guys.
@Black Boy King TV What "world gov" are you talking about?
Hey, gotta come up with a reason to beat-up the disenfranchised and racialized groups somehow (literally the purpose of the War on Drugs, FYI; Nixon's architect was very frank about it. "Can't just beat up Blacks, Mexicans, and Jews without people getting mad anymore, so just say you're after cocaine and weed instead").
I feel like that pamphlet cut out a lot of frames that should have been between 2 and 3. Namely the ones where either a sex demon or a demon form of Lord Nobunaga influences the nice boy to turn to murder.
I hear Japan takes drugs, even something as simple as weed, SUPER serious. Like, you get a whole year of jail just for a little reefer. People think America's bad when it comes to exaggerating marijuana's effects and using it as an excuse to punish people, but other countries really take the cake when waging war on drugs...
I at least understand treating stuff like coke and/or meth super serious, but why weed and/or shrooms? Especially when nicotine and alcohol are perfectly legal and worse than those latter two...
@@sirhenrymorgan1187 Yeah, Japan (and Asia in general) are super dumb about drugs. They over-simplify and bunch everything together into one big “drugs bad” category. It makes legislation simple, I suppose.
But as you say, booze and cigarettes are by far the bigger evil, and the government isn’t against people killing themselves with those.
Swing is a dangerous gateway drug, it leads to harder stuff like bebop and avant-garde.
spot on, brother!)
Lol!
rick classik And then there's the truly dangerous stuff, like Trigun and Outlaw Star
Then, you'll move to the really hard stuff: the mashed potato, jitterbug...and even...yes....the twist !!!
Dean Domino, King of Swing.
Okay; the review is over. I'm gonna go drop some QPX.
Back in the days still hearing hypocritical bullshit about PSA
I think one of the reasons they said pot is worse than herion is because opiates were not well understood for many years. Hell, heroin was sold over the counter when you still needed a prescription for asprin.
This movie taught me that drugs are the coolest thing ever and get nerds who wear sweater vests laid.
Yes, it was remarkably educational, wasn't it?!!!
@The Wandering Fool You are so square man
Don't forget the reason behind the anti-cannabis madness was money.
Hemp was set to replace many industrial materials, much like it is today, and that made rich people mad.
Aswell as the pharmaceutical industry wanting to push prescription medications and a failing cotton industry.
I'll add Rockefeller needing to get rid of his countless barrels of diesel that would turn sour if not used quickly enough (yes, that's EXACTLY why the strain got it's name ). Gasoline was primarily used as a cleaning solvent in factories back then. Hemp oil and soybean oil were primarily used in automobile engines. There was also another tycoon whose name I can't recall at the moment, he had lumber companies that were in direct competition with the more versatile crop of hemp.
One more thing I need to add. Reefer Madness was also made to discourage white women from smoking around the black musicians that were performing in many clubs at that time.
It's amazing how many industries can be rendered obsolete if hemp was used to its full potential.
I almost forgot to mention that the pharma industry was started using oil based ingredients at the same time. They made people stop using natural medicines and called it "quackery" in order to make people switch to the expensive and harmful pharmaceutical products we have to this day.
It was also the end of Prohibition, and the guy in charge of alcohol enforcement realized he needed a new gig. Pot was popular with Latinos and other minorities, so it made the perfect way to keep him employed and be a racist.
@@terrnadoThat other tycoon may have been the DuPont family of Foxcatcher fame. IDK about the lumber industry, but I know the DuPonts wanted hemp made illegal because they were about to introduce nylon to the market.
Yup
I doubt big tobacco liked it either
I'm an old man now but I remember trying marijuana back in the mid 60's but had I never tried it for myself I might have believed ridiculous movies/PSA's like this. It never made me a maniacal lunatic the way they represented it in this film. This movie was a complete and total fabrication of the truth, as marijuana never had ANY of the effects on me the way they claim it does. I like watching Brandon's take on this every so often just to remind me how stupid these clowns were.
Ok druggie boomer
@@freebird0147 I'm not sure trying pot a HALF CENTURY ago qualifies him as a druggie... lol
@@WelshWidgetMan2O1O I think junior here was just trying to insult him and that was the only thing he could think of so he could use the pathetically lame 'ok boomer' phrase kids today are so proud of. The truly funny part of this is how these little kiddies seem to think it's a derogatory term when it isn't. The phrase itself is rather benign in nature and, if anything, I tend to laugh when I see it used because it sounds utterly ridiculous and only makes the one using it sound really dumb!
80s kid here who grew up watching all the ridiculous "Just Say No" era PSAs and DARE classes that did nothing to deter us from trying drugs when we became teens because we *knew* it was total bullshit. My favorite to this day is the post 9/11 one where they try to claim pot users are complicit in terrorism. We all laughed at that.
Im sixty six years old, when I was eighteen alot of kids I knew were trying pot and a girl who I thought I was in love with dumped me because I was to square and uncool. I decided by gooly I'll show her, I am cool . So I arranged to get some pot thru a black girl I worked with. . So in the Garage of may parents I rolled what I thought was a joint , despite my lack of rolling skills ,I fired up. Long story short when the pot hit me I knew I liked this.. Never got back with the girl but I've always somked pot., never did thank her. On a serious note if our goverment would not overreacted to pot, a lot of people may not have died of coke and smack. Sixty six still smoking just not as much.
6:08 Heaping teaspoon joke explained: You can only have heaping spoonfuls of dry ingredients, i.e. flour, baking powder, instant coffee. He said his mother's gravy needed heaping teaspoons of olive oil. It's clever for it's day, and for a cooking joke, if there ARE cooking jokes.
My father always said, "If you have to explain a joke it's not funny."
@TimelordPrime Its more a case of "Know your audience." Even the funniest joke in the world goes over the heads of monkeys.
Huh, I thought the joke was the gravy was dry. Still not funny though
The old adage, "Time plus tragedy equals comedy", disproved. I guess it doesn't add up if the tragedy part is after the joke.
@@TimelordPrime if you have to explain a joke, you seriously overestimated the intelligence of the audience. Dumbasses.
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Maybe he was just shooting wildly in an irresponsible manner...sorry...taking POT SHOTS...aaaand I'm leaving.
Next: Turkish Reefer Madness. With Doug McClure as the headmaster.
Oh that one. The one which is shorter and they get stoned... to death.
@@darksideofthemoon488 ... with brothel visits inbetween.
Nah, it got flagged by Toho :=)
My high school film teacher, and P.E. coach showed my class this film, and the other one, "Marijuana, the Assassin of Youth". We all laughed so hard. It became known later that he smoke weed which made it even more hilarious. There were insane people in my little town that wanted him fired, but he persisted, and ignored them. He later took the whole class on a school bus (an 800 mile trip) to Hollywood--- best fun I ever had in high school.
Best teacher ever
For anyone who doesn't know where the scene of Helen Hunt jumping out of window came from: it is a clip from 1982 made-for-TV movie "Desperate Lives" that many of IMDB reviewers call it in general the movie more or less in similar vein to Reefer Madness but with less trashy feel to it. Helen Hunt (who cast as "Sandy" in the movie) jumps out of the building after ingesting angel dust made by her (thuggish to the eyes of targeted viewers) boyfriend in... school chemistry lab. She's taken care of by an guidance counselor (equivalent to the principal in Reefer Madness) later who "sends a message to the children out there".
Thanks! Was wondering where that random scene came from :=)
"if youre from colorodo just relax..."
of course theyre relaxed, weeds legal
Plus they already forgot about the insult.
Great video, I'm gonna avoid root beer from now on. It only leads to the harder stuff, like a scoop of ice cream IN the root beer...
Excuse me while I drool and get the shakes. Gimme!!! :=)
Oh yeah, that's the great stuff, screw Prohibition.
Lol
@dbootlelggers also sold weedinorocker8647
QPX is a helluva drug.
Get the quote right. It's Kokane is a helluva drug.
All the potheads I've known have a hard time getting out of a chair, let alone swing an axe.
Same could be said with alcoholics
@@mrcrowley8889 Not really. The way alcohol affects people differs a lot depending on how much they just had. Sure, if you drink enough it works as a downer but in the beginning it works as an upper. Pot works as a downer all the way.
What's this 'getting out of a chair' you speak of? I was under the impression that one side-effect of pot was becoming fused with your seating apparatus while shoveling snacks into your mouth at warp speed :=)
🙏👍🤣🤣🤣get this person a drink on us🤣🤣
Well yeah. How else do we play video games?
Should have used the colorized version; the smoke from the reefers is different colors.
I believe that this movie is the source of everything Jeff Sessions knows about weed.
Yet he didn't "recaw" seeing it.
Lystra: SHUT UP SHUT UP
Brandon: he needs mollo out anyone had some pot
Clotho: i do
Probably lmao. He with the drug czars of past seem like they get their info from a 1938 movie.
Jeff Sessions.. Typical Bama boy. Weed bad.. High school girls.. Acceptable
I figured he found out about it when he was a worker at the Keebler tree.
Before he turned his sights to horror comics, Doc Wertham really had it in for the devil's lettuce, huh?
I'm sure the fact that anti-weed programs were specifically created as an excuse to harass Mexican labourers who might be getting uppity ideas about "having any rights" and that the horror comics Wertham targeted promoted progressive ideas like "maybe Black people aren't inherently monsters" are totally unrelated.
And Batman
Oh I like devils lettuce, me, always will be Adirondack hippie hay. Thanks for this laughter
Wertham needed to get a life.
So wait... All this time "Reefer Madness" was an exploitation film and not a psa? It is a reskinned psa marketed as an exploitation film? Fucking incredible...
"Whe're not living in sin I sweaaar!"
What? No reference to the musical which amps up the satire? Also... when did HP Lovecraft become a high school principal?
I'm glad I wasn't the only one to think he looked like H.P. Lovecraft!
Lol I thought exactly the same thing
Yeah, I was thinking that, too. Too bad for the students that wasn't him, otherwise they could have learned a lot about the Old Ones and how (according to the version of Lovecraft in Warren Elly's Planetary) black people reproduce by laying demon black eggs.
@@sgpproductions9016 Dude, he totally did!
I don't remember Lovecraft being afraid of italian immigrants.
If you aren't already, you may like to be aware this was remade into a musical parody of itself back in 2005. It is titled Reefer Madness The Movie Musical. I enjoyed it.
Dick Tracy mentioned in this movie is a crack up.
10:55 If people in the 30's thought swing was really the devils music, I wonder how they would've reacted to electro swing. That would probably be the 1930's equivalent of death metal.
I highly recommend Reefer Madness The Musical.
He should review it, then review the 1960 Little Shop of Horrors.
Cab Calloway was cool as hell.....and years later he deserved a Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Blues Brothers
The real controversial question is whether to buy the Live Rifftrax to this film or the studio version
Tareltonlives why not both?
Cybermat47 I read that in "Dr." Zoidberg's voice.
@@TheJenSolo Yay, people are paying attention to me!
This film is one of my favs. I love the script and the way it was parodied in the last scene of Amazon Women on the Moon with Carrie Fisher playing the Mary part.
The kid in this movie makes Peter Parker look manly as shit.
We cant sell pot to those kids some of them are as young as 27
Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue is a better anti drug PSA. At least that one has a Ninja Turtle in it.
oh God I remember that psa. i went back and watched it out of curiosity about year or so back on here. On one hand it was kind of funny to think about what ever this guy was using he's hallucinating fictional characters giving him advice but on the other hand they are giving him good advice which is kind of scary what kind of drug makes you hallucinate giving yourself good advice? I could've sworn there was a 1960s antidrug movie called reefer madness that was done in color and it was even more dreadful than this film. One of the more memorable scenes was a guy driving his car he sees his friends and immediately swings the door open and gets out of the car while it's still in drive and it just subsequently drives away down the road crashing into something several of the people in that film supposedly part of the film's warning was they died from using marijuana if I are member the film correctly. Now that the stuff is legal here in Canada it makes those films that we were forced to watch in school that much more funny.
And George C. Scott.
Yeah, Mikey of ALL the Turtles telling you not ot get high.
one of the funniest and intelligent reviews ive heard! as always nice job, im a big fan! keep it up.
Actually, during the time this was shot Rootbeer was not a soda. It was being made via the original recipe which involved boiling the ingredients in a pot, then a very short period of fermentation to achieve the carbonation. Therefore, Rootbeer was actually an extremely low percentage alcoholic beverage, similar to kavass or kambucha. It wasn't classified as "carbonated water" aka soda due to containing something like 2% alcohol by volume. Because it was more than 0.5% ABV, it cannot be classed as a soft drink and thus cannot be a soda.
The word "marijuana" came from Mexican Spanish, and was originally spelled "marihuana", it's still spelled this way in Mexican Spanish.
It's is spelled that way in U.S. Federal law, too.
So that was the one thing this film got right
... and?
In a time when they'd teach you enough chemistry to make drugs yourself, and you could buy the base chemicals and equipment as well.
Hope the newspaper headlines about the film were entitled "Weed all about it!"
Did you know the entire impetus for vilifying _weed_ was because people were using it as a legal alternative to alcohol during Prohibition?
6:46 “OHH! _Did I do that?!”_
“Tell your children”
Never it’s my weed
6:47 close your eyes and hit play it just hits different
5:55 "After that sex we had yesterday I went home and told mother..."
Did I hear that right? Because I don't think I heard that right.
Session
I heard it too! I wasn't the only one!
That would make the olive oil joke make a lot more sense... But nope. Still don't get it.
That's what I heard 2
13:18
it's in america
i'm surprised they didn't blame the shooting on violent board games
HAHAHAHA 😂😂😂😂
It was then that canasta... got out of hand!
@@user-yv2cz8oj1k I blame Clue
Definitely one of my favorite reviews you’ve covered!
From my understanding of the production history, it was originally made to be a propaganda film about marijuana being the root of all evil, but ended up being bought by a production company that kind of turned it into a parody. honestly, when you watch the end cliff, where they explain that everything you saw was a dramatization of what could happen, so you need to make sure your children stay off drugs, I thought that was the way of establishing the entire film as a straw man...
Watching in 2019. My home state of Illinois legalized sticky icky this year.
For those who may not know, "Heroin" got its name from being a branded product made by Bayer. The name was a play on "heroine", because the product was marketed as a "heroic" replacement for morphine on the basis that, and I'm not kidding, heroin was promoted by Bayer as non-addictive.
I'm sure that'll never happen again. Oxycontin? Purdue? Sacklers? Never heard of them.
6:43 It's interesting that the movie unintentionally goes out-of-its-way to make its hero look like an idiot. What was Bill backing towards when he fell into the fountain? Looks like a solid wall.
10:00 Did Charlie Kaufman have a hand in writing this film?
16:34 "The idea that a heretofore innocent and all-American high-school kid might have been insane when he murdered his sister for no reason while high on drugs is ludicrous! However, the idea that a hardened criminal with a long history of violence who killed a young girl he was trying to rape might be non compos mentis is obviously correct!"
Man, 85 years on and anything by Cab Calloway is still a bop.
Hey Brandon, you ever heard of the 2005 musical parody-remake with Kristen Bell?
" Can we hurry up and corrupt these kids to make it interesting?" Lol
You are right on bud, these nerds are even worse than me and thats saying something! Lol
8:03
THE ZAAA!
Reefer Madness (1936) was featured in A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988).
yeah you should review The Room
Anyway, how is your sex life?
Or better yet here's 2 others, Hong Kong '97 which has Richard Patrick the T-1000 guy from Terminator 2 and Pulgasari the infamous North Korean Godzilla where it's said the director of it was kidnapped by Kim Jong Il father of Kim Jong Un in order to make it.
I think he should also review the 1960 Little Shop of Horrors, D-War, Garuda, Frog-g-g-g!, and Howl from Beyond the Fog.
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Oh gee whilikers Jimmy, not the jitterbug!
D.A.R.E. didn't even tell us what Mj was supposed to do, just said "Drugs are bad, M'kay..."
There's so many better pot movies....Assassin of Youth, Marihuana The Devil's Weed, Girl Gang, The Devil's Harvest....all being ignored.
I don't drink soda I only drink root beer 😂
3:04 Now that was funny! LOL
You know when you were doing that misspelling thing I would've put LSD like this
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This is perhaps, your greatest work.
Well back when Root Beer was invented it was actually alcoholic. The recipe was later changed to be non-alcoholic and was thus not considered to be a soda for a couple of years.
Erm, yes and no? If you're thinking of Ginger Beer, which is similar to Root Beer, it could be slightly alcoholic due to fermentation, but not to any particularly-relevant level. Root Beer was an Indigenous concoction involving fermentation of the sassafras root (as opposed to the ginger root), but was also usually negligible in terms of alcoholic content.
What did change the recipe was the banning of safrole in the '60s, due to its carcinogenic properties.
1:42...hehehe...pot pies...
It's 4:20 just as I'm watching this, ironically I have no weed.😢
Disclaimer: getting high wont cause the events in this movie to happen and will cause you to chill😂
Admittedly, every time I read Romeo and Juliet I can't help but laugh, and I've never even been near drugs. Heck, I have problems swallowing Tylenol.
You don't swallow Tylenol it is a suppository.
Tigerfire75 * joke goes swoosh *
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Speaking of Romeo and Juliet a lot of shit could’ve easily been avoided
The bullshit in the second act was basically friar Laurence’s fault but that’s only brought up once throughout the whole damn thing
But nobody here cares about that
@@sdm47 So you’re saying that the TRAGEDY could have easily been avoided if not for the flaws of its characters? You’re blowing my mind.
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That’s not the problem I have
The problem is that Friar Laurence’s plan aggravated the conflict and he never has to face that fact
Give your characters flaws make them horrible human fucking beings, but if they aren’t the villain then they need to face these flaws at some point during the story
13:16 Pot doesn't kill people, guns do.
All I could think was "Noooo! You don't just blow it out! You gotta hold that hit in!" I also wondered just how much crack cocaine was laced into those joints...
Who else is rewatching this classic episode on 4/20?
I was hoping you'd note that the judge that appears in this classic was also in the Three Stooges "Disorder in the Court" - another classic!
Are there any prints of the original "Tell Your Children" film? As you said, it's over-the-top without the exploitation, but I'm curious to see what the original message was.
Any chance of doing the 2005 Movie Musical Brandon?
I now need to know what happened in Delaware
3:00 Willy Tanner from ALF ?
You’re amazing like a walking “Trivial Pursuit” game. You come up with references I live through. You look like you’re in your 20s but maybe by some old dude with eidetic memory possessed you? I say that because I am impressed with your video and in the 1970s we would get toasted and watch “Reefer Madness”.
We didn’t get the go-crazy and wild sex drugs until the cocaine blizzards of the 1980s. I worked with an old Polish lady in the 1970s and as kids and adults her mother and she would pick wild marijuana along the railroad tracks and use it as medicine for headaches, the vapors, calm the brat down etc.
Faster! Faster! Review the movie faster! Lol. Love the review.
Its really hard to just enjoy the video you have made (you make great videos BTW) and not be consumed by rage of these idiots.
13:10 you sure you're still talking about weed and not something like scopolomine? No?? Ok then, continue...
How the hell can you have a heaping tablespoon of olive oil?
Didn't Mary ever wonder why that cigarette tasted funny? If somebody offered me a cigarette and it turned out to be something else I would ask "Hey! What the HELL is this shit!??"
Thank you for another exciting adventure. I was just talking to the Lost Skeleton of Cadavra about excessive marihuana use in my home state.... oh wait is that a Dorito......
I remember this drivel in high school, as a joke shown to laugh at it, as it was totally ridiculous and it was the 80s when everyone was on something. Now California has legal weed too. Ha.
Pot does not make you act insane and speed and do crazy stuff, so I'm told. It makes you slow and forgetful, like watching TV news. It can make you laugh.
Nearly all the horror-stories about LSD were openly fabricated, as well, and by people in prominent positions of authority. For example, the "stared at the Sun til they went blind" urban myth? Made-up by an Ivy League prof out of whole cloth. Snopes has the newspaper article in which he admitted as much, IIRC. And the shameful details behind the "acid flashbacks/jumping from a window thinking you can fly" myth have to be read to be believed.
did someone say a "heaping" spoon of olive oil ??? wtf
I wish you'd do Esper's other marijuana film, just called MARIHUANA. It sort of stops trying to be a pot scare film along the way, and starts to get wild in other directions.
Mmm tasty dose of QPX
Weed wasn't illegal because it a drug but it threatens the the textile industry
With Prohibition no longer a thing by the time this movie came out, figures they'd just demonize something else.
I wonder why they didn't make an educational movie about krack, and I don't mean "NewJack City" lol
7:39 research matters. Root Beer was bottled, soda was a fountain drink. They were not the same thing at the time.
you should look for the colorized version; it makes the smoke different colors! Hilarious.
There's a field they show that was in New York City at one time and had been growing for decades. Every time the police burned it(yeah that's smart) someone would come back and re-plant it. It was there into the 80's. I saw this in high school and the stoner kids laughed harder than anyone in the class. Yeah, a Catholic high school teacher showed this to a class full of juniors. Private school was awesome.
Hard to believe how naive people were back then.
The funniest part of this movie is how people are smoking the joints like train smokestacks. People don't puff cigarettes with that much vehemence. Like train smokestacks, these yo-yos.
11:03 on repeat for ten hours epete
Most of the movies from this time were overly melodramatic.
That's why they're a joy to watch. Never a dull moment, although you may raise your eyebrows often.
8:25 oh my god, who HASN"T seen someone like that? fricking classic,spot on man!
😂 if was smoking some cripto this would make perfect nonsense just like it already does 🤷🏼♂️ oh I hit a Guy that was 10 feet away from me 😂 Brandon tenold you lunk head 💯👍👍👍👍🤠🪓 can't believe I haven't watched this episode yet because it's hilarious 🎉😂
I live in the state of Georgia. How do I get this _Marihuana_?
Fun fact most jazz is about weed and being high af
5 years later I'm still waiting for Wisconsin to legalize pot. I hear it's great for writing and other arts.
No. It is great for __consuming__ the art, but writing still gotta be properly structured. You can write (or better record) short prompts to sort them out later.
11:39 No! Not... A SOCIAL DISEASE!!!
Well, selling a Barratt house is worse ..
their is a Colorized version of this movie.
I'm just waiting for marijuana to be legal in Texas.
I'm from Texas, and I'm sad to we'll be one of the last states to do so.
Same here brov
A State of Bibles and guns... What could possibly go wrong. 🤣
@@user-yv2cz8oj1k I love both of those, but why can't we have the sweet leaf?
@@andriki88 That's highly likely. No pun intended.
Chase the dragon? I'd read her ride the dragon called Jacob socknes ! Oh my