@@HylianFox3, yeah, assess amount of injury first, and then decide how to respond. Also if they've already deeply traumatized themselves, it seems like you being upset about it isn't going to make them less likely to do it in future.
Ooh, can I come over, Amy? Um, I like good drugz and (we all know “drugs are like that...ha ha!” says a narrator when a kid is possibly GRAVELY INJURED!)
Not to mention drugs are like enchiladas, alligators, coffee mugs, Mylar, the ark of the covenant, meatloaf, and those little blood stains you find on motel bedsheets.
You really hit the nail on the head with the Telly Savalas thing. I've been saying that for years. And now that I think about it the head of a nail is like drugs too.
Or maybe they are now the Strom Thurmond age biting his nails, pulling her hair, and having stimulating conversations that consist of "What?" "What's that?" and "What do you mean?"
@@WobblesandBean You know what's more annoying than people who quote directly from the video? People who bitch about people who quote directly from the video.
I love how the mom just taps her foot at seeing her kid on the ground crying surrounded by broken pieces instead of making sure she was alright. “Oh you got hurt doing something you weren’t supposed to do? I hope you get brain damage.”
Absolutel, they need to see you break up at predicament and cry louder than they do. Then, promise them they'll never fall again and make sure they can stuff their fat bellies with all the cookies they want on their road to diabetes. Then promis that nothing bad will happen to them for the rest of their lives while living with you until they have someone else or government program to mooch off of. Eternal victimhood!
Drugs are also like Moorhouse College, Faberge Eggs, thatching, elbow pasta, forklifts, handheld radios, Warren J. Harding, durians, engine manifolds and the 2013 census of Alpha, Wisconsin.
It turned out to be a confusing mess because they failed to tackle the actual subject of drugs and how dangerous they are. Instead kids came away equating illegal drug use to toddlers eating cookies and babies with a binkey
This is the result of the production company being told "Make an anti-drug film for kids, but we don't want to upset the parents so don't actually talk about drugs or portray drug use in any way."
"Also its the 1970s, too. So try to do it in an auterish way like a big budget Hollywood production like the Godfather or Deer Hunter. But we don't have anyway near that much money to afford that, so just hire a recent film school grad to direct, and make the film drip with pretentiousness and unintended irony."
It also feels like they really don't want to tell kids to not do drugs. It's less "just say no" and more "look, just make sure you get clean needles and you'll be okay".
So to recap, drugs are like the following; a baby's dependency on a pacifier, a silly kids game that's habit forming, absently making yourself dizzy, sneaking into a cookie jar without permission or approval, a lake that's not all it seems, and making a slight alteration to a mechanism just to see what'll happen. Good job, PBS and Lego. Good job.
If as an adult I had trouble figuring out where they were going with this shit, kids had no chance. If you really want to break it down, they were actually teaching moderation. Its not like they were saying swimming, eating cookies, and playing sidewalk games is inherently dangerous.
So for the "change one little thing" part, they ignored the many relevant gears the motion depends on which would actually make the machine stop working, and instead removed the gear that's purely decorative so they had to make a silly effect to fake the machine failing.
Since when were things like a game of “step on the crack” and spinning on a swing addictive like drugs? Also, if those kids kept saying, “What do you mean?” to each other, it could literally go on forever.
Step on a crack is no joke, it's a gateway drug to more serious addictions like spinning or Persian poetry. I should know. I used to do that as a kid all the time and now I inject five marijuanas and smoke a beer every day.
"ok, ok, Funs over guys, give me my nook. come on guys, i really need that nook! im getting the shakes, ok This isnt funny anymore, give me my nook! oh god im dying here, here comes the DTs, Spiders! SPIDERS!!!! ERRGGGGHHH"
@@WobblesandBean This is a RUclips comment section. It's either this or rampant real racism and rampant "funny ironic" racism. Given the choice, I guess I'll take the people quoting their favorite joke.
If anyone wanted the lyrics to the theme song, here you go: Once you start some things, you just can't stop And drugs are like that too You pick it up and it's hard to drop And drugs are like that too Like a baby going through a phase And like a player playing in a daze, yeah yeah You break a rule and you have to pay It may not hurt, but then again it may Drugs are like that too, you know Drugs are like that too, I know Drugs are like that too
Originally saw this way, way back in 2nd grade. Until seeing it here, I only had vague memories of the class cracking up at 'step-on-a-crack' business guy, and I'm pretty sure that was the only part that held any interest to our sugar-addled, 8-year-old brains.
"Drugs are like your toys! They're like your toys!" and "Put drugs in cereal to start your day!" have lived in my head, rent-controlled, since this first came out.
Same. lol I find that a lot with the musical bits in Rifftrax and MST3K. Another example in this short for me is "rissleti rossleti meow meow meow." I have no idea what that's from or what it means, but I find myself singing it for no reason often.
14:31 Narrator: "Some of the things might look great... Kevin: "Like stealing James Bond's Aston Martin for a joy ride." Narrator: "and turn out to be terrible." Mike: "Like dead guys." *Bill: "Or homosexuality, or the juice of fruits besides oranges."* Bill's riff makes a lot more sense when you realize the narrator is Anita Bryant, the staunchly anti-gay conservative who was the spokesperson for the Florida Citrus Commission (side note: this short was made in Florida). Anita Bryant also appears (and sings, ugh) in the 'Wonderful World of Tupperware' short.
No way are two kids gonna dump a big box of Lego on the floor and then proceed to sort all the pieces by shape and color without being on some kind of upper.
As someone who began their education in Florida in 1969, I saw the fuck out of this movie all the way through elementary school and even on TV a few times.
@@maxxam3590 I mean they make the basic blocks in those colors but I haven't seen any gears or engines that you can use to violate the laws of thermodynamics.
The opinions of Anita Bryant on *any* topic are not necessarily well-considered or fully-formed, nor necessarily contain any amount of trenchant insight or cogently expressed, retainable knowledge. Drugs are like Anita Bryant, too. And they're like the United Nations parking lot, facecloths you can't wash the sour stink out of, desserts where you can tell with one bite contain rhubarb, Mirko "CroCop" Filipovic, ants with cordyceps fungi growing in and controlling them, that N&A Productions goofball who sounds like Balki and acts like he's on bad ketamine, the "Laugh-In" wannabe TV show "Turn-On" that so offended viewers and network affiliates, its premiere episode was yanked off-air halfway through its half-hour slot, tempura-battered and quick-fried oxygen nuggets, the entire population of Medicine Hat, Alberta, and a shiny pebble on the sidewalk. Drugs are all like that.
Had Anita Bryant made any statements even slightly controversial regarding racial issues 50 years ago, you better believe that Lego would still make a statement in current year, distancing themselves from her once some smart aleck brought up this short to the lego corporation. Distancing themselves from statements made 50 years ago, that's current year in a nutshell.
All jokes aside, its funny how at no point in the actual short do they ever actually name a single drug or illicit substance, nor any of their actual side effects. They just flash some nondescript pills and needles on screen in between their asinine, half-baked metaphors.
So many laughs in this one. Gotta say, in Miami-Dade in the early 70s - where and when this short was produced - they didn't seem to take drugs all that seriously. I've seen, via Rifftrax/MST3K, more alarming safety films about bicycle-riding.
@14:39 The narrator is singer and notorious anti-gay spokesderp Anita Bryant. She ran the "Save the Children" campaign, which fought for the right to discriminate against the queer community in regards to housing and employment, under the guise of protecting children (a manipulative tactic used for so many things. ) She claimed the passing of an anti- discrimination bill discriminated against her right to teach the Bible to children. She was also the spokeswoman for Florida orange juice, hence the orange juice comment made by Bill Corbett toward the end.
@@christopherwall2121 What an idiotic statement. As if the majority of people in DARE, a program mostly done in inner cities and public schools, wasn't largely aimed at keeping black children away from drugs, as they were the most at risk. It was created with good intentions.
Yes! I asked them to pretty please add this full short on Twitter the other day. I didn't know I had this much power! 🤣 And you're welcome everyone else who loves this one and wants to make all your friends and family watch it. 😂
@@pavo1394 oh yeah. Damn. Thank you. I almost forgot today what Catholic school was like with their God-sanctioned mission of undoing God's work in avoiding the very things that make us human through habit-inducing punishments and the myriad ways of fear-mongering with just the right dose of negative feedback to further recede any self-esteem you may have acquired during the summer. Perplexing to say the least. Drugs are like that.
This was my favorite RiffTrax short for the longest time! This, One Got Fat, and Kitty Cleans Up! I’m so glad y’all are releasing these on RUclips for everyone!!!
Legos are like drugs...but more expensive.
Videos like this are the reason that drugs won the war on drugs
Remember, whenever you're precariously reaching for the cookie jar, you're shaking hands with danger.
_(guitar sting)_
So Danger and Drugs are the same thing?
Not the same, but like that.
Bahh dadididah doooo!
A what???
Now that little girl with the cookie jar will need opiates for her back pain after falling. Drugs are like that.
I like how the mother is more annoyed than "omfg my kid just split her head open"
@@HylianFox3, yeah, assess amount of injury first, and then decide how to respond. Also if they've already deeply traumatized themselves, it seems like you being upset about it isn't going to make them less likely to do it in future.
"I want my lawyer"
Sugar is the gateway drug...
She now lives on skid row
"Well?"
"What?"
"Who?"
"Whadya mean?"
Drugs are like that.
I honestly don't know why this is funny.. but phuck if it didn't make me chuckle🤣💯💯💯.
this short truly does simulate the tedium of trying to tell your sibling a boring story that neither of you care about
Drugs are like that.
Whaat?
@@planescaped Who?
@@mikem2849
McCloud??
What do you mean?
The gear the girl swapped around literally played no role in the workings of the machine.
Drugs are like that
Drugs are like pointless gears.
Habits are hard to break, like spending all day watching RiffTrax. Drugs are like that.
I CAN QUIT ANYTIME I WANT!
You just made a better analogy than this short! 👏
My therapist recommends heavy doses...
NOOOOOOO
@@stuckn.derplahoma562 of what?
First Riff is free man.
Drugs are like that.
But seriously, thanks for the free stuff!
Thanks for the what?
In cooperation with the corporation, man
@@DemonWarp65 The free stuff! Drugs are like that, too.
I hope they’re getting ad revenue
@@AlcoholicBoredom getting what?
That kid put together a complex technica-Lego kit without looking at the instruction leaflet.... drugs are like that
and like toenails and cereal.
I love how they shifted a piece that had nothing to do with the main structure, and it frakin explodes and smokes. Drug are like that too
@@tgiacin435 I just put an m80 in your lego thing for kicks
These kids have short term memory loss. Drugs are like that, too.
If I had a dime for every narrator in a short who gloated when a kid was hurt or miserable, I could... uh, afford some *really* good drugs!
Drugs are like a narrator gloating over the torment of a child.
Drugs are like that
Ooh, can I come over, Amy? Um, I like good drugz and (we all know “drugs are like that...ha ha!” says a narrator when a kid is possibly GRAVELY INJURED!)
@@Zara-Bari Hahaha! Then I need to get me some!
If I had a dime for every narrator who sounded like they were on drugs...
Drugs are also like pipe wrenches, free range chickens, Telly Savalas, line division, and the DC-10 engine assembly mount.
Not to mention drugs are like enchiladas, alligators, coffee mugs, Mylar, the ark of the covenant, meatloaf, and those little blood stains you find on motel bedsheets.
Strangely enough, the one thing that drugs are NOT like is drugs.
Like what?!
You really hit the nail on the head with the Telly Savalas thing. I've been saying that for years. And now that I think about it the head of a nail is like drugs too.
@@Dirt_Master
Screws are like drugs, too.
Grass is like corn. The lawn is also like corn. Therefore Mowing is drugs.
THE WHOLE DAMN YARD IS ON A COBB!
I'M FREAKING OUT, MAN!!
Wait, is corn grass?
Hehehehe
Drugs are also like old parmesan grated cheese on the rug.
~Some Important guy's son
Lead poisoning in the 70's was no joke, those poor kids :(
Yeah they should have shut down the whole country.
I heard that the average IQ in the country went up about 20 points once they got rid of leaded gas.
The shooting range should be DOWN HILL from the berry farm
Drugs are like that
Or maybe they are now the Strom Thurmond age biting his nails, pulling her hair, and having stimulating conversations that consist of "What?" "What's that?" and "What do you mean?"
Short: “This is a baby.”
Mike: “Is this an instruction manual for martians?”
Yes. We all heard him say that. Very good.
@@WobblesandBean And no one asked for your childish whining.
"Ba-by. Ba-by. Yip, yip yip yip, yip, yip!"
@@WobblesandBean You know what's more annoying than people who quote directly from the video? People who bitch about people who quote directly from the video.
No, it's a center for ants.
I love how the mom just taps her foot at seeing her kid on the ground crying surrounded by broken pieces instead of making sure she was alright. “Oh you got hurt doing something you weren’t supposed to do? I hope you get brain damage.”
Drugs are like that.
@@robokill387 Drugs are also like parent of the year.
Gotta toughen them up.
1970s parenting. If there is no visible arterial blood or protruding bones, then quit whining.
Absolutel, they need to see you break up at predicament and cry louder than they do. Then, promise them they'll never fall again and make sure they can stuff their fat bellies with all the cookies they want on their road to diabetes. Then promis that nothing bad will happen to them for the rest of their lives while living with you until they have someone else or government program to mooch off of. Eternal victimhood!
Spending all day watching Rifftrax and MST3K? Drugs are like that.
What? They help take the edge off after a hard day, okay?
I learned it from watching YOU, Dad!
Nothing says the seventies like an educational drug film where the creators really go out of their way to never tell kids to not do drugs.
So...everything is like drugs? Quit living life. Just do drugs and cut out the middle man. Solid message writers.
The kids conversation is like a bad Abbot and Costello routine, spoken by one person
Drugs are also like Moorhouse College, Faberge Eggs, thatching, elbow pasta, forklifts, handheld radios, Warren J. Harding, durians, engine manifolds and the 2013 census of Alpha, Wisconsin.
Don't forget the entirety of the Trump administration. Drugs are like that too
@@louismonnichii7619 Very much so.
@@louismonnichii7619 What if I DO want to forget that? Can drugs help?
"Samuel Beckett wrote this, right?" "Yes, if by Samuel Beckett you mean Scott Bakula in that episode of Quantum Leap where he was a chimp."
"It was the best of times, it was the BLERST OF TIMES!?!? OH, YOU STUPID MONKEY!!!"
...Drugs are like that too
I'm 100% on team "Mike is frustrated with these dang kids"
The director on this meant to make a cohesive story with dazzling visuals and riveting dialogue but instead he made this.
Drugs are like that. 😉👌
You _said_ it, Mr. B-Flat!
It turned out to be a confusing mess because they failed to tackle the actual subject of drugs and how dangerous they are.
Instead kids came away equating illegal drug use to toddlers eating cookies and babies with a binkey
This is the result of the production company being told "Make an anti-drug film for kids, but we don't want to upset the parents so don't actually talk about drugs or portray drug use in any way."
"Also its the 1970s, too. So try to do it in an auterish way like a big budget Hollywood production like the Godfather or Deer Hunter. But we don't have anyway near that much money to afford that, so just hire a recent film school grad to direct, and make the film drip with pretentiousness and unintended irony."
Just like teaching sex Ed.
It also feels like they really don't want to tell kids to not do drugs. It's less "just say no" and more "look, just make sure you get clean needles and you'll be okay".
Sounds perfect for the new Florida educational standards!
"But DO show a totalled car with the driver's dead body spilling out onto the highway. Because drugs are like THAT too."
"Aahh, you stupid children! Stupid! Stupid!"
And thus Mike gains a deeper understanding of and empathy for the aliens of Plan 9 from Outer Space.
"Your STUPID HUMAN MINDS!!! *STUPID!!! STUUUUUPIIIDDDD!!!!"*
"You mean funny ha-ha, or Dane Cook funny?"
(I can't breathe!)😂
Drugs are like that too😂
The fact this had ads for THC gummies makes this riff perfection.
So to recap, drugs are like the following; a baby's dependency on a pacifier, a silly kids game that's habit forming, absently making yourself dizzy, sneaking into a cookie jar without permission or approval, a lake that's not all it seems, and making a slight alteration to a mechanism just to see what'll happen. Good job, PBS and Lego. Good job.
This short actually caused thousands of kids to start doing drugs due to the traumatic levels of confusion
What the heck happened in that lake? Why did the guy just drown all of a sudden?
Thanks! You just explained the metaphors than the short itself! NOW I (think) I get it! 👍
All we remembered was the drugs, and the legos
@@daffers2345 I think the swim was too far/ too long and he tired out. That's my guess anyway.
This short taught me that grown men get addicted to Step on A Crack.
Especially if they resemble Sorrell Booke or Allan Sherman.
Drugs are like that, too.
Back at it like a crack addict.
"What are drugs like?"
"Yes."
Also, there's no way these kids don't know what drugs are like. They sound like they're on something.
When you are "high on life", but it's 70's suburbia.
@@builderdex
Misspelling the '70s? Drugs are like that.
@@pryingeyes1551 I was speaking of a very specific suburbia that happens to be owned by my good friend 70.
I've heard it so many times, but I still get frustrated hearing the goldfish twins reset their conversation over and over.
Who? What?
Honestly, drugs would do those kids a world of good.
A _whaaat?!_
@@Popebug Sounded to me like they were already very familiar with drug consumption.
"the goldfish twins" lmao!
>inb4 "Actually, the notion that goldfish have poor memories is apocryphal."
It's amazing how much it didn't say about what drugs are actually like
This made me feel like I was on drugs just from watching. The creators were on lsd for sure.
Drugs are like THAT. What more do you need to know?
Drugs are like that
It be like that sometimes
If as an adult I had trouble figuring out where they were going with this shit, kids had no chance. If you really want to break it down, they were actually teaching moderation. Its not like they were saying swimming, eating cookies, and playing sidewalk games is inherently dangerous.
What are drugs like? Watching this short. I feel high af.
"Put drugs in cereal to start your day!"
My favorite part, works so well.
So for the "change one little thing" part, they ignored the many relevant gears the motion depends on which would actually make the machine stop working, and instead removed the gear that's purely decorative so they had to make a silly effect to fake the machine failing.
I was wondering why it magically started smoking :B
Drugs are like that.
@@daffers2345 drugs are like that.
Not to mention adding Moog computer noises you would NEVER hear from a Lego set.
LEGO machine destruction sequence written by someone on drugs.
I get it. The twist is that the boy with Legos has been stoned this whole time.
This feels like the lesser known prequel to "Skinamarink"
This video can be summed up in one word:
"WHAT???!!!"
Drugs are like that.
What do you mean?
What video?
what drugs?
Thousands died that day, and all around the world people asked the same questions: "Huh?" "What's that?" "What lady?"
Since when were things like a game of “step on the crack” and spinning on a swing addictive like drugs?
Also, if those kids kept saying, “What do you mean?” to each other, it could literally go on forever.
Step on a crack is no joke, it's a gateway drug to more serious addictions like spinning or Persian poetry.
I should know. I used to do that as a kid all the time and now I inject five marijuanas and smoke a beer every day.
@Hooman M I really, really hope that the "Persian poetry" comment is a reference to The Music Man. If so, that just made my week.
“It’s the Lego William Burroughs starter kit” had me pause the video to laugh for a whole five minutes! 👍
That one flew over my head, until I got up to get a drink, and saw my copy of Naked Lunch on my dresser.
@@judgem0rt1s23 It shot a glass off my head.
It was the "hair" -oin joke that did it for me. The listless way Kevin said it...
"ok, ok, Funs over guys, give me my nook. come on guys, i really need that nook! im getting the shakes, ok This isnt funny anymore, give me my nook! oh god im dying here, here comes the DTs, Spiders! SPIDERS!!!! ERRGGGGHHH"
Remember when people had independent thoughts, instead of just directly quoting other people word for word and expecting attention for
@@WobblesandBean Drugs are like that.
@@WobblesandBean This is a RUclips comment section. It's either this or rampant real racism and rampant "funny ironic" racism. Given the choice, I guess I'll take the people quoting their favorite joke.
@@Kirkklan So drugs are like quoting jokes from a film short and complaining about those jokes being quoted.
@@dynamicsketch :)
If anyone wanted the lyrics to the theme song, here you go:
Once you start some things, you just can't stop
And drugs are like that too
You pick it up and it's hard to drop
And drugs are like that too
Like a baby going through a phase
And like a player playing in a daze, yeah yeah
You break a rule and you have to pay
It may not hurt, but then again it may
Drugs are like that too, you know
Drugs are like that too, I know
Drugs are like that too
I wonder if Anita Bryant was one of the singers?She WAS the narrator 😂 She’s in the credits.
Originally saw this way, way back in 2nd grade. Until seeing it here, I only had vague memories of the class cracking up at 'step-on-a-crack' business guy, and I'm pretty sure that was the only part that held any interest to our sugar-addled, 8-year-old brains.
Did you notice the narrator? Anita Bryant, the singer turned mouth-foaming holy rolling anti-gay rights activist who was famously pied on television.
@@icemachine79 The narrator was _her?!_
@@srbrant5391 Indeed.
No, Miss Anita Bryant. Not, Ms. Anti-Bryant. She probably just had lunch with Phyllis Schafley.
@@icemachine79 Anita Bryant rules.
This so-called educational film makes "Jus say no!" seem like a stroke of genius.
Thank you, "my boys." And thank you for being my main sanity stabilizer for 20-plus years. I truly dont know what I'd do without you. ❤
drugs are like that
@@danielboone8435 you beat me there
Me too
They’re my Laughter Angels. 😊
Same
Lol at the Moog synthesizer joke.
"Drugs are like your toys! They're like your toys!" and "Put drugs in cereal to start your day!" have lived in my head, rent-controlled, since this first came out.
Same. lol I find that a lot with the musical bits in Rifftrax and MST3K. Another example in this short for me is "rissleti rossleti meow meow meow." I have no idea what that's from or what it means, but I find myself singing it for no reason often.
@@Schornforce Alfred Hotchcock's the birds. Those school were singing it
@@Jude300c Oh wow! Thanks, June300c! :)
Replace every " What?" With a LiL Jon " WhAaaT?!"
OkaaaAAAaaayyyyyy!!!
@@straker454 "ye!hhhhhhahhhh!!"
in Lil Jon voice: "OKAY!"
"She's not supposed to go for the COOKIES!" ["So her guardian angel tries to KILL HER!!!"]
“We’ll give you methadone instead.”
drugs are like a confusing overelaborate metaphor for drugs
That Phil Spector joke was some vintage MST3K shit.
14:31
Narrator: "Some of the things might look great...
Kevin: "Like stealing James Bond's Aston Martin for a joy ride."
Narrator: "and turn out to be terrible."
Mike: "Like dead guys."
*Bill: "Or homosexuality, or the juice of fruits besides oranges."*
Bill's riff makes a lot more sense when you realize the narrator is Anita Bryant, the staunchly anti-gay conservative who was the spokesperson for the Florida Citrus Commission (side note: this short was made in Florida). Anita Bryant also appears (and sings, ugh) in the 'Wonderful World of Tupperware' short.
Wow that one went WAY over my head. These guys really do their research.
Aaah, thanks, I was confused by that. Makes much more sense now, and is funny in lieu of being mean. :)
Anita Bryant also had a string of hit pop singles from 1959-1961. If you've never heard them, you're luckier than I am.
Yeah, I was wondering where that swerve came from and then I saw her name in the credits. Makes total sense.
@@psycher7same! 😂
No way are two kids gonna dump a big box of Lego on the floor and then proceed to sort all the pieces by shape and color without being on some kind of upper.
I can stop RiffTrax any time I want!
😂
Narrator: "Never mind what they look like they'll do it's what they might do you have to worry about."
Kevin: "Diagram that sentence, I dare you."
It ends on a preposition! NOOOO
My old english teacher would be livid it she her that
1) Missing a period in there.
2) Even so, what a _bad_ pair of sentences.
"If we learn to care for others to respect others we'll learn how to care for to respect our country." -- Bob Crane
PBS was involved in this?
I'm giving back my tote bag.
As someone who began their education in Florida in 1969, I saw the fuck out of this movie all the way through elementary school and even on TV a few times.
"Eye on Pensacola" gets me every time
Are you sure it's not "High on Pepsi Cola"?
It's Kevin's giggle that really makes it
Never seen a guy in a business suit playing dont step on a crack.
But, if i do i will ask to share his drugs.
4:54 The Ministry of Silly Habits
Just in time for Sir Ringo's 81st birthday!
Dude, that LEGO set ... lovin' those old-school pieces!
I don't know much 'bout LEGO. They don't make those pieces no more?
@@maxxam3590 They haven't for YEARS. They make all licensed stuff now, with very specific pieces that are different colors.
@@maxxam3590 I mean they make the basic blocks in those colors but I haven't seen any gears or engines that you can use to violate the laws of thermodynamics.
11:47 That's an argument against doing ANYTHING! "It might look like a good idea, but what if it's NOT?!"
Fun fact: I actually found Legos in a box of drugs
I was addicted to inapt analogies, once. I was referred to a metaphor clinic, and now I’m right as rain. I mean fit as a fiddle! Oh, no… oh, god…
"It's the Lego William Burroughs starter kit." Love it!
Constantly and flatly asking for clarification on what they were just talking about?
Drugs are like that, too.
What?!
Who?
I've seen many ineffectual PIFs about drugs (a lot of them from PDFA), but this one really takes the cake.
The opinions of Anita Bryant on topics other than drugs do not necessarily represent those of the Lego Company.
The opinions of Anita Bryant on *any* topic are not necessarily well-considered or fully-formed, nor necessarily contain any amount of trenchant insight or cogently expressed, retainable knowledge.
Drugs are like Anita Bryant, too. And they're like the United Nations parking lot, facecloths you can't wash the sour stink out of, desserts where you can tell with one bite contain rhubarb, Mirko "CroCop" Filipovic, ants with cordyceps fungi growing in and controlling them, that N&A Productions goofball who sounds like Balki and acts like he's on bad ketamine, the "Laugh-In" wannabe TV show "Turn-On" that so offended viewers and network affiliates, its premiere episode was yanked off-air halfway through its half-hour slot, tempura-battered and quick-fried oxygen nuggets, the entire population of Medicine Hat, Alberta, and a shiny pebble on the sidewalk.
Drugs are all like that.
@@seanwilkinson8696 It’s also like fuel-injectors, Steak-Ums, Brian Regan and carpet under-padding.
@@srbrant5391 What carpet?
@@donkrouskop1743 you know... the carpet
Had Anita Bryant made any statements even slightly controversial regarding racial issues 50 years ago, you better believe that Lego would still make a statement in current year, distancing themselves from her once some smart aleck brought up this short to the lego corporation. Distancing themselves from statements made 50 years ago, that's current year in a nutshell.
Ironical how every other commercial on tv tells you, got a problem? Got a drug for that.
All jokes aside, its funny how at no point in the actual short do they ever actually name a single drug or illicit substance, nor any of their actual side effects. They just flash some nondescript pills and needles on screen in between their asinine, half-baked metaphors.
Drugs are like a box of candy.
3:50 wonder what he said, ha ha ha
Rifftrax: You get a riff! You get a riff! Everyone gets a riff!
A what?? (Lol)
What are Drugs like again? I forgot.
So many laughs in this one. Gotta say, in Miami-Dade in the early 70s - where and when this short was produced - they didn't seem to take drugs all that seriously. I've seen, via Rifftrax/MST3K, more alarming safety films about bicycle-riding.
Possibly my favorite of all their shorts.
Mine too.👍
It's my first time seeing it, and you know what, I agree, this is brilliant 😂
mine too and it's the one that introduced me to rifftrax
At this point, I'm surprised they didn't show a baby drown while trying to get into a cookie jar. Drugs are like that.
@14:39 The narrator is singer and notorious anti-gay spokesderp Anita Bryant. She ran the "Save the Children" campaign, which fought for the right to discriminate against the queer community in regards to housing and employment, under the guise of protecting children (a manipulative tactic used for so many things. )
She claimed the passing of an anti- discrimination bill discriminated against her right to teach the Bible to children.
She was also the spokeswoman for Florida orange juice, hence the orange juice comment made by Bill Corbett toward the end.
And I thought D.A.R.E was an epic anti-drug fail...
It was when it started, at least.
Well, drug use did go down a lot in the late 80's and early 90's, so people were listening to the anti-drug crowd.
Why not both?
DARE was never meant to stop drug use, it was to get kids afraid of cities and black people.
@@christopherwall2121 What an idiotic statement. As if the majority of people in DARE, a program mostly done in inner cities and public schools, wasn't largely aimed at keeping black children away from drugs, as they were the most at risk. It was created with good intentions.
Not sure who’s dumber. Rod from Birdemic or the adult dying from stepping over cracks.
🎵Put drugs in cereal to start your day!🎵 😂
Yes! I asked them to pretty please add this full short on Twitter the other day. I didn't know I had this much power! 🤣 And you're welcome everyone else who loves this one and wants to make all your friends and family watch it. 😂
All I can think about is how that Lego set would probably cost $5000 today
I'm thinking the same thing. It's gorgeous!
Drugs are like that
@@pong86r I wish that I had only spent that much on drugs!
You would STILL cost that much today. Legos are one of the few things that have stayed a stable price for many years.
My favorite short. Actually saw this as a kid in school in the 70s.
Did you laugh at it then, too?
Probably did
@@daelen.cclark It was Catholic school, so no laughing allowed.
@@pavo1394 oh yeah. Damn. Thank you. I almost forgot today what Catholic school was like with their God-sanctioned mission of undoing God's work in avoiding the very things that make us human through habit-inducing punishments and the myriad ways of fear-mongering with just the right dose of negative feedback to further recede any self-esteem you may have acquired during the summer.
Perplexing to say the least.
Drugs are like that.
@@mario0318 So just quit touching yourself. Problem solved.
One of my favorites! Right up there with "Good Eating Habits" and "One Got Fat"!
Have done drugs, can confirm, drugs are in fact NOT like that. LOL
Drugs are like that too.
you know, when you jokingly screamed out "what in god's name is a baby?!", I didn't expect the short to answer you
“Original music, by Charles Manson” 😂🤣
Me smoking a Spliff for this Riff? Drugs are like that
Drugs ARE like that!
As a source material for a riff this is a greatest of all time contender.
"Rifftrax is like drugs"
"Gloria Steinem! Janet Reno! Strom Thurmond!"
This would be funny except I'm genuinely addicted to Riff Trax
This was my favorite RiffTrax short for the longest time! This, One Got Fat, and Kitty Cleans Up! I’m so glad y’all are releasing these on RUclips for everyone!!!