+Merrsharr No cell phones, no parents, not adult supervision at all. When you walked back through the door your parents were like "So, did you have fun with your friends? Where did you go?"
yup.. It was the decade with so many "two-earner" households, single moms and divorced families that "latchkey kids" did all sorts of stupid crap lik... light the bathroom sink on fire with lighter fluid since youbfigure the water tap is right there so you can douse the flame. instead, it splashed lit lighter fluid out onto the towels. let's play with this fire extinguished we found in the alley. so what the handle is rusted.. oh crap, you cut your finger? I'm gettin out of here.. bike helmets? I'm not doing tricks just riding down the road.. etc.. us genxers grew up fast.
Um, Channel Federator. It was the *_80's._* I was there. *None* of us were supervised. There was no such thing as 'helicopter parenting'. I would frequently ride my bike 10-miles from home and return after dark. If you are old enough to remember the 80's you already _know_ all this.
@@lesgrossman96 I'm not sure if you know what a millennial is, it's basically the generation born betwen 1981-1996. Don't join the ranks of ignorant morons who think it is today's teens.
I'm guessing you were not alive in the 80's. Unsupervised children were common and encouraged. Go out and play but be home by dark was the common rule in the suburbs where I grew up. That's why movies like the Goonies were believable. Also if you never used a wooden plank to cross a ditch or tried to build a tree house/fort with your friends I'm sorry for you. You had a dull childhood.
this channel usually provides to 10-15 year olds, there are a few exeptions of course. the whole point of this is to apeal to that audience also im 21 and i kinda belived these were true scince i never had watched G.I. Joe coz i was always watching transformers or sailor moon
True, I'm 44 and anyone who was a kid then like 8-12 this was just good advice, I first knew about not staying in the water during a storm from this and yes we all played unsupervised then, times were simpler and different then, and yes be back for lunch or before that Street light comes on, I went out after dark at 8 and my dad happened to come home and see me in the yard looking for my toys, he whooped my behind for not telling anybody I was out and being out by myself, this why 20 something year olds shouldn't critique 80s stuff like this, this cartoon is a classic and always will be
At the time. 911 wasn't universal. It was a fledgling service, extended to mostly just major cities. My area didn't get 911 service until the early 1990s. Until then, you had to have the numbers for each service listed individually, or use this thing called the blue pages of the phone book, which was printed on actual paper.
I honestly don't get the hatred so many people have for these cartoon PSA's. They were mostly good advice and a great way to help kids learn important lessons. Sure when I was a kid my mother taught me all that stuff but a little reinforcement never hurts.
I don't think they meant a literal half of the battle, it's more a turn of phrase. Way to nitpick the '80s and what kids used to do when they weren't glued to a screen every minute they're not sleeping or being forced to sit through yet another worthless standardized test.
Kalhenwrath1 what would you expect with the kids of today that stay inside way more than we did as kids....at least our cartoons gave a damn about us...this guy is a damn douce
You make some good points, but these PSA's were for a different time when kids played outside without being supervised. If they had told the audience something like "Make sure to ask an adult before wiping your ass" parents would've resented what amounted to a "you're a bad parent" lecture, and that would have been the end of their child watching the show.
The reason behind the PSAs on GI Joe and Transformers can be traced back to controversy of Masters of the Universe where all three shows were considered nothing more than 30 minute toy commercials and in order to keep from being yanked off the air they had to throw in some educational content, hence the PSA, but then you have the opposite direction such as Captain Planet which was nothing more than 30 minute PSA.
***** Its nothing really it was how was during the 80s. You had parent groups running who want animated television to be watered down, sanitized and educational; most toy company wanted sell their product and you have writers in middle who wanted half-decent stories being run rough-shod by the Broadcast practices and standard dept who had a cadre of child psychologists in their employ.
@@Pegas105 Anyone ever watch GI Joe Resolute? This is what GI Joe would have been without S&P getting in the way. Here's the Teaser: ruclips.net/video/32KbJwPRJz0/видео.html
Just to note, most cities didn't have 911 when the PSA came out, and even if they did it wasn't well known. I remember the episodes and my parents putting a sticker on the fridge that had the numbers for Fire, Police, and Ambulance. Also, he fainted in the mall, they would have had to use a pay-phone and I know this sounds weird, fainting wouldn't have immediately resulted as a pay-phone call then. Basically people use to wait a bit to make sure it was needed for several reasons, it costs money, LOTS of money so you were afraid for the person to have debt, people expected other people to know where the pay phone was, and finally if you called the Operator (because no 911) they would have had to look up the local number for an ambulance. This all sounds crazy now, but it wasn't uncommon until the mid 80's and later with the mass introduction of cellphones.
Yes! I cannot watch these without thinking of those. I don't hear fire safety, I hear "porkchop sandwhiches" followed by kids getting yelled at. And I smile.
Clearly you didn't grow up in the 1980's. Bicycle helmets did sort of exist back then but nobody I knew wore them. You can even see that in the media at the time. Eliot wasn't wearing a helmet when he his bike in E.T.. That's like saying people in the 1950's shouldn't have smoked in hospitals and should've worn seatbelts.
4:30 When I was a kid in the early 90’s, I built 2 treehouses with friends, plus a fort in the woods that didn’t actually go into the trees but used them for support. By that age, most kids I was friends with knew basic carpentry, knot tying, climbing, and other basics. Some of us learned it through Cub Scouts, some learned it from our parents, some just figured it out.
When I was growing up in the '80s I don't remember having a bike with reflectors. Some simply didn't come with them. Other bikes came in a kit (which you assembled with Mom and Dad's help), and we didn't attach them.
The swimming PSA showed me how to swim. And was the reason I became a life gard. I've gone on to save the life of three people. (Negative word) you Tim!
With the treading water/ rescue swimming one, Torpedo was waiting for him to drown, as all rescue swimmers are taught if the person you are trying to save is panicking and you have no flotation device to give to them. People can be resuscitated pretty easily if gotten to fast enough. So, you let them drown, haul them to safety and resuscitate. Guess he thought, "while I'm waiting, let me try to teach him something, if he fails no big deal."
Imagine if you ever get trapped in burning building and a guy just shows up at the exit and starts monologing while preventing you to exit the building
FWIW in the 80s, handling hardware unsupervised, building unsafe treehouses (and vehicles), and trespassing around construction sites were all encouraged to some degree. Parents preferred that kids do things outdoors rather than sit around the house watching 30 minute to commercials. Bike helmets existed in sanctioned BMX competition but almost never on the streets. Bikes had reflectors, but jumping dirt hills and half finished construction sites, we tended to break them off easily, and who bothered replacing those things?
Speaking as a firefighter, the reason to use the back of your hand to check the door temperature is the back of your hand is more sensitive. A heavy or insulated door might stay safe to touch even with heavy smoke and fire outside it. And get out the window, don't take the time to stuff a shirt under the door. Only do that if you can't get out. It's best to get out fast and warn others. Don't ever go back in and contact the Fire Department from a neighbors.
'Knowing is Half the battle' is a great phrase. You learned something but you are not done until you act on it. This is encouraging kids to think smart. It's way better than doing everything based on one's feelings: right, wrong, your gender, whether it is okay to shut down anyone who disagrees with me. I am sorry dude but your arguements just fall flat when you think about the common sense, diversity, courage, strength, and morality this teaches kids. It's like complaining about the Scout oath and Scout Law.
Wow it's interesting how coddled and un-self reliant a millennial sounds reviewing 80s PSAs. Access to instant communications like a cell phones or even a landline within minutes was rare in many cases. This means PSAs at the time focused on what YOU could do in the first few minutes not how to get help to take care of it for you, and kids did spend a lot of time doing things unsupervised. There just wasn't that much to do in the house back then, and a lot fewer manufactured experiences like video games and interactive toys. It means we spent more time doing things we came up with ourselves. Thing not really reviewed for safety and child welfare by a department of adults. You had to judge risk for yourself. They didn't even trust you guys with a merry go round.
@@mrminecraftcubeable basically the oldest millenial born in 1981 would have been at least 8 years old by the end of the 80s which is old enough to remember their time in the 80s. This person probably thinks millenials are 17 year olds struggling to pay rent
No. I would say there is a lot of jealousy going on here. If these shows were so bad why are they still recycling "1980s" in the year 2019????? It is like people of the last 20-30 years until today do not know how to create anything from scratch anymore. Just: recycle, recycle, recycle and then mock what they stole from out of guilt.
The one water one with the JOE saving the kids from swimming in a pond before a lightning strike has a really creepy aspect. Its a pond with no other way to get in and once the lightning comes he just walks out. He was just watching the children swimming from below.
I have to disagree with you. Here is the deal, you can tell the creators were trying to create a simple safety message that kids could remember and do in any situation. I have watched a compilation of only the safety messages and you can see the repetitiveness of each one. With kids it needs to be simple and to the point depending on the edge. When using spray paint make sure there is fresh air, lightning - get put of the water, don't press the fire alarm for a joke - you could cost lives, show me any cartoon today that can do the same in a short easy video that kids would watch?
I'm not too sure about your view on the "tree house cartoon". These 80's shows for kids were all about giving kids reassurance, making them believe in themselves, a "yes, you can" type of message. The idea behind that episode was that kids, as little adults in the making they are, *can* do stuff if they put their minds to work and do it efficiently. To simply reduce the episode's lesson to "just don't try anything at all. You kids can't handle tools. Leave it to grown ups" would be anything but empowering. I must admit that i also prefer the "yes you can" (as long as there's a solid plan) lesson to the "you can't, so just quit it".
Case in point there was no law yet on mandating reflectors. Ironically enough these PSA were made to teach kids who's parents were working and the TV was acting as the baby sitter. And or to make up for the lack of good schooling. But I still think this is a nicely done video, thank you.
6:05 In all fairness that lesson or the way the situation was handled was spot on. Calm the victim down before attempting the rescue. Like you said yourself, a flailing person in the water has a high chance of drowning the person attempting the rescue. Always use that 5th principle of patrolling.
The reason why they had to add morals/PSA's in these 80s cartoons are because they're the only way to add in violence, and conflicts in their shows, because the parents groups of the late 60s and 70s were still in power with regulating strict rules with animation.
To be fair with the treading water psa unless you have something for them to hold onto the drowning person is likely to grab onto you and pull you under.
You gotta realize, they torpedo was equipped with diving gear, and the kid had his shirt on, which would make it easy for him to be dragged from behind
Fun fact. We don't even check for pulse anymore, just for signs of breathing. If they're breathing, they have a pulse. If they're not breathing, have someone call 911 while you start reanimation procedures. We had a good conversation.
+ChannelFrederator As Someone who was born in the early 1970s I can confirm that Bicycle helmets were NOT a thing widely commercially available, they were mostly worn by athletes (Such as people competing in the Tour De France.) Also It was NOT uncommon at the time to teach a child to swim by tossing them in the water and instructing them while they flailed about.(Most parents who instructed this way were even already in the water with the child as well. Confident that they could easily rescue the child if he didn't get his feet under him quickly enough.) This may seem barbaric and ludicrous by today's standards, but remember this was an age where Chemistry sets, complete with the chemicals necessary ot make gun powder and other explosives, lawn darts, BB Guns, Shrinky Dinks and Easy Bake ovens were common toys of the time. Now you know, and knowing is at least 1/8th to 1/2 of the battle, apparently.
8:04 That's fairly realistic. It's called the "Bystander Effect". The more people witness an emergency that doesn't put them in immediate danger, the less likely any of them are going to bother with the hassle of dialing 911. There have been cases of people witnessing a brutal murder and not calling the police.
I can honestly say a lot of safety items and practices were not common place back in the 80s. It was PSA's like these that eventually made them common place now.
In my honest and humble opinion, one of the worst crimes with the G.I.JOE PSAs was that they never did a PSA with my favorite Joe Duke!! Flint was in 3 of them. Roadblock and Shipwreck were in 2 of them each. Surely Duke could have done one of them. Even his superior General Hawk was in one. Now I can understand Snake Eyes not being in one since he doesn't talk, but then again, he could have been in a PSA with a fellow Joe. If Beach Head and Cross Country could do it, so could Snake Eyes and another Joe, like Duke. Now I can understand why Bazooka never did a PSA since he was portrayed as a little slow witted. But just like Snake Eyes, he could have done a PSA with another Joe. Bazooka could rescue the child and the other Joe could have explained the lesson. But in the final analysis, Duke was my all time favorite Joe and I would have given anything to have heard Michael Bell in his Duke voice saying And knowing is half the battle.
We never got the "lay them flat" when dealing with unconscious people. On their side, with one hand over their head, make sure the airways are open, was how I learned it.
Let's just be thankful for the following. At least back then they made honest to goodness attempts to teach kids very valuable lessons. In today's children shows they almost never teach them anything valuable because they think kids are wild and stupid anyway, and it's not worth their time and effort.
I was just thinking during the Barbeque clip about how you need to use the back of your hand. I was also told as a kid that your palm could be melted to the doorknob if you touch with the front of your hand (I guess there is more surface area or something)
5:21 you know, i actually read an aesop fable about that kinda stuff, a boy was drowning and an idiot of a man started scolding him while he was still drowning and the then the boy scolded the man for scolding him too soon and the moral at the end was something along the lines of "advice without help is pointless"
We didn't need constant supervision back then. Bicycle helmets were unheard of until the early 90s, & even then only certain kids had them. Loved this show & it's PSAs back then.
What you need to understand is that phrasing is an important marketing angle. "Knowing is half the battle" is more catchy than "Knowing is a good starting point." Also, am I the only one who was too distracted thinking about the Robot Chicken G.I. Joe parody where G.I. Joe is defeated by the Taliban (and Cobra is simultaneously annihilated by Seal Team 6) while watching this?
As someone who has passed out due to dehydration and over heating inside a crowded mall i can confirm that no one at all will try to catch you and jeep you from hitting the jewelry racks behind you. And as an Eagle Scout i wish the bystanders there knew to elevate the legs and loosen clothing probably would’ve come to faster and with more color in my face and i wouldn’t have spent as long with the space whales i saw
the passing out one calling 911 specifically would not have done anything untill 20 years from the time the show was airing and the very next psa you talk about you bring up the fact that its the 80s and bike reflectors may not matter yet proving it wasnt a mindless mistake either it was just lazy writing or lazy editing but all in all i love this channel it just stuck out to me guess knowing wasnt half the battle after all
I want to clarify that if someone passes out you shouldn't just lay them flat. For example, if they start to build foam in their mouth, laying them flat may cause them to choke on it.
I like how they complete their hero's sentences, and then claim "Now we know" ... when they clearly already knew before, and then the hero is daft enough to believe that "knowing is half the battle".
if you're on a road in the us, you drive on the right side. that's also legally required for bikes. you don't really need indication for which way traffic goes
believe it or not, 911 was not completely nationwide yet when GI Joe: RAH first started. Although they could still just dial the operator and ask for help.
The greatest inspirstional qoute i got from a cartoon is: "Deep down. l know that l wasn't built for fighting. But that doesn't mean that l can't draw my sword and FIGHT!"
How about instead of putting reflectors on your bike, you... look both ways before crossing the street? One is practically pointless, the other is common sense.
No, reflectors did not come standard on bikes and were not required at the time. And I don't think I ever saw a bicycle helmet until I saw footage of the Tour de France in the early '90s. My playground had asphalt.
Actually putting someone's who's passed out on their back isn't a good idea at all, they might throw up and choke. Putting them on their side allows their airway to stay clear if this happens, which is the most important thing to do. So maybe Air Tight should've gotten about 1/10th
as someone who grew up in the 80's reflectors and helmets were not required and did not come with bikes, now you want a PSA that is full of crap check out "sonic says" from the adventures of sonic the hedgehog
Back in the 80s children went unsupervised
That used to be normal until TV news scared everyone
+Merrsharr No cell phones, no parents, not adult supervision at all. When you walked back through the door your parents were like "So, did you have fun with your friends? Where did you go?"
Exactly. I was thinking that for the tree house one... in the 80s kids werent little bitches who couldnt use tool like today.
yup.. It was the decade with so many "two-earner" households, single moms and divorced families that "latchkey kids" did all sorts of stupid crap lik...
light the bathroom sink on fire with lighter fluid since youbfigure the water tap is right there so you can douse the flame. instead, it splashed lit lighter fluid out onto the towels.
let's play with this fire extinguished we found in the alley. so what the handle is rusted.. oh crap, you cut your finger? I'm gettin out of here..
bike helmets? I'm not doing tricks just riding down the road.. etc..
us genxers grew up fast.
Whoa, that makes a lot of sense.
Not even 80s, I was a kid in the late 90s early 2000s, my parents left me and my sisters alone as they went to the town to do things
Um, Channel Federator. It was the *_80's._* I was there. *None* of us were supervised. There was no such thing as 'helicopter parenting'. I would frequently ride my bike 10-miles from home and return after dark. If you are old enough to remember the 80's you already _know_ all this.
We weren't even allowed to come home until after dark.
JamieJamez
Totally! I remember so many times where my friend's moms would say, "I'm locking the door until sundown!"
Millennials think the world is supposed to be nerfed
@@lesgrossman96 Millenials were there in the 80s
@@lesgrossman96 I'm not sure if you know what a millennial is, it's basically the generation born betwen 1981-1996. Don't join the ranks of ignorant morons who think it is today's teens.
I'm guessing you were not alive in the 80's. Unsupervised children were common and encouraged. Go out and play but be home by dark was the common rule in the suburbs where I grew up. That's why movies like the Goonies were believable. Also if you never used a wooden plank to cross a ditch or tried to build a tree house/fort with your friends I'm sorry for you. You had a dull childhood.
this channel usually provides to 10-15 year olds, there are a few exeptions of course. the whole point of this is to apeal to that audience also im 21 and i kinda belived these were true scince i never had watched G.I. Joe coz i was always watching transformers or sailor moon
Shawn only because people who grew up having a fun childhood decided to helicopter parent when they grew up.
True, I'm 44 and anyone who was a kid then like 8-12 this was just good advice, I first knew about not staying in the water during a storm from this and yes we all played unsupervised then, times were simpler and different then, and yes be back for lunch or before that Street light comes on, I went out after dark at 8 and my dad happened to come home and see me in the yard looking for my toys, he whooped my behind for not telling anybody I was out and being out by myself, this why 20 something year olds shouldn't critique 80s stuff like this, this cartoon is a classic and always will be
At the time. 911 wasn't universal. It was a fledgling service, extended to mostly just major cities. My area didn't get 911 service until the early 1990s. Until then, you had to have the numbers for each service listed individually, or use this thing called the blue pages of the phone book, which was printed on actual paper.
Hey I remember phone books! 😃
Rasta Lion now you know
“And knowing is half the battle”
G.I JOE!
Where did you live? North of Hudson Bay?
Every area that didn’t had the emergency number written on the phone. Just adding to your retrospective
My god that’s horrifying 😳😨
I honestly don't get the hatred so many people have for these cartoon PSA's. They were mostly good advice and a great way to help kids learn important lessons. Sure when I was a kid my mother taught me all that stuff but a little reinforcement never hurts.
I don't think they meant a literal half of the battle, it's more a turn of phrase. Way to nitpick the '80s and what kids used to do when they weren't glued to a screen every minute they're not sleeping or being forced to sit through yet another worthless standardized test.
Kalhenwrath1 what would you expect with the kids of today that stay inside way more than we did as kids....at least our cartoons gave a damn about us...this guy is a damn douce
I did want to mention as a child in the 80's, helmets and reflectors weren't mandatory yet.
WHere I live helmets are still not mandatory and most likely never will be.
My dad and I wore helmets whenever we went on the motorcycle. And helmets weren't mandatory at the time.
You make some good points, but these PSA's were for a different time when kids played outside without being supervised. If they had told the audience something like "Make sure to ask an adult before wiping your ass" parents would've resented what amounted to a "you're a bad parent" lecture, and that would have been the end of their child watching the show.
Also give them the stick. DON'T GIVE HIM THE STICK!!
U-Oooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
You're not my dad!
The reason behind the PSAs on GI Joe and Transformers can be traced back to controversy of Masters of the Universe where all three shows were considered nothing more than 30 minute toy commercials and in order to keep from being yanked off the air they had to throw in some educational content, hence the PSA, but then you have the opposite direction such as Captain Planet which was nothing more than 30 minute PSA.
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Its nothing really it was how was during the 80s. You had parent groups running who want animated television to be watered down, sanitized and educational; most toy company wanted sell their product and you have writers in middle who wanted half-decent stories being run rough-shod by the Broadcast practices and standard dept who had a cadre of child psychologists in their employ.
@@Pegas105 Anyone ever watch GI Joe Resolute? This is what GI Joe would have been without S&P getting in the way. Here's the Teaser: ruclips.net/video/32KbJwPRJz0/видео.html
Just to note, most cities didn't have 911 when the PSA came out, and even if they did it wasn't well known. I remember the episodes and my parents putting a sticker on the fridge that had the numbers for Fire, Police, and Ambulance. Also, he fainted in the mall, they would have had to use a pay-phone and I know this sounds weird, fainting wouldn't have immediately resulted as a pay-phone call then. Basically people use to wait a bit to make sure it was needed for several reasons, it costs money, LOTS of money so you were afraid for the person to have debt, people expected other people to know where the pay phone was, and finally if you called the Operator (because no 911) they would have had to look up the local number for an ambulance. This all sounds crazy now, but it wasn't uncommon until the mid 80's and later with the mass introduction of cellphones.
Don't call the fire department from a burning house. Instead, make PORKCHOP SANDWICHES!!!
Being a kid in the 80's was a sink or swim experience :)
yep!
Is no one going to address Shipwreck's question on whether Johnny's mother still hangs out at dockside bars?
Oh wait, wrong PSA.
Porkchop sandwiches!
+crazyinsane500 Body massage machine.... GO
ChannelFrederator Senpai, whyz you notice me?
+ChannelFrederator 107 facts on Alvin and the chipmunks
Time to watch Fensler Films again!
Yes! I cannot watch these without thinking of those. I don't hear fire safety, I hear "porkchop sandwhiches" followed by kids getting yelled at. And I smile.
Clearly you didn't grow up in the 1980's. Bicycle helmets did sort of exist back then but nobody I knew wore them. You can even see that in the media at the time. Eliot wasn't wearing a helmet when he his bike in E.T.. That's like saying people in the 1950's shouldn't have smoked in hospitals and should've worn seatbelts.
4:30 When I was a kid in the early 90’s, I built 2 treehouses with friends, plus a fort in the woods that didn’t actually go into the trees but used them for support.
By that age, most kids I was friends with knew basic carpentry, knot tying, climbing, and other basics. Some of us learned it through Cub Scouts, some learned it from our parents, some just figured it out.
6:00 Torpedo was teaching the lesson of not saving a drowning victim when they have enough energy to drown you.
I still find it hilarious that these highly trained army experts are just always conveniently around to help unsupervised kids with life lessons!
When I was growing up in the '80s I don't remember having a bike with reflectors. Some simply didn't come with them. Other bikes came in a kit (which you assembled with Mom and Dad's help), and we didn't attach them.
Blue Laser Beams: 25%
Red Lasers Beams: 25%
Knowing: 50%
:)
"and knowing is half the battle"
G.I.JOOOOEEE!!!
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"Wanna buy some drugs?"
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Really? Something like this was in american dad? I only remember a family guy joke with a mexican G.I.Joe who wanted to sell junk
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Oh this one, yeah remember this one. XD
The swimming PSA showed me how to swim. And was the reason I became a life gard. I've gone on to save the life of three people. (Negative word) you Tim!
*guard
willdoseago *lives
With the treading water/ rescue swimming one, Torpedo was waiting for him to drown, as all rescue swimmers are taught if the person you are trying to save is panicking and you have no flotation device to give to them. People can be resuscitated pretty easily if gotten to fast enough. So, you let them drown, haul them to safety and resuscitate. Guess he thought, "while I'm waiting, let me try to teach him something, if he fails no big deal."
Imagine if you ever get trapped in burning building and a guy just shows up at the exit and starts monologing while preventing you to exit the building
FWIW in the 80s, handling hardware unsupervised, building unsafe treehouses (and vehicles), and trespassing around construction sites were all encouraged to some degree. Parents preferred that kids do things outdoors rather than sit around the house watching 30 minute to commercials.
Bike helmets existed in sanctioned BMX competition but almost never on the streets. Bikes had reflectors, but jumping dirt hills and half finished construction sites, we tended to break them off easily, and who bothered replacing those things?
Average kid of the 80's sees the PSA and say "Yeah yeah whatever. Get to the next cartoon".
Speaking as a firefighter, the reason to use the back of your hand to check the door temperature is the back of your hand is more sensitive. A heavy or insulated door might stay safe to touch even with heavy smoke and fire outside it. And get out the window, don't take the time to stuff a shirt under the door. Only do that if you can't get out. It's best to get out fast and warn others. Don't ever go back in and contact the Fire Department from a neighbors.
'Knowing is Half the battle' is a great phrase. You learned something but you are not done until you act on it. This is encouraging kids to think smart. It's way better than doing everything based on one's feelings: right, wrong, your gender, whether it is okay to shut down anyone who disagrees with me. I am sorry dude but your arguements just fall flat when you think about the common sense, diversity, courage, strength, and morality this teaches kids. It's like complaining about the Scout oath and Scout Law.
No one in the 80"s ever wore bike helmets. We were not wimps.
nah yall just didn't have any damn sense
wimps real men and girls ride the bikes and crack our skulls open! (sarcasm)
Only half of us from the ‘70’s made it.
And now children eat me! I have a new flavor. Who's hungry?
"Look at all your different colored hats"
Wow it's interesting how coddled and un-self reliant a millennial sounds reviewing 80s PSAs. Access to instant communications like a cell phones or even a landline within minutes was rare in many cases. This means PSAs at the time focused on what YOU could do in the first few minutes not how to get help to take care of it for you, and kids did spend a lot of time doing things unsupervised.
There just wasn't that much to do in the house back then, and a lot fewer manufactured experiences like video games and interactive toys. It means we spent more time doing things we came up with ourselves. Thing not really reviewed for safety and child welfare by a department of adults. You had to judge risk for yourself. They didn't even trust you guys with a merry go round.
millennial started in 81
@@mrminecraftcubeable basically the oldest millenial born in 1981 would have been at least 8 years old by the end of the 80s which is old enough to remember their time in the 80s. This person probably thinks millenials are 17 year olds struggling to pay rent
" HOW OLD IS THIS CHILD?!?!" That made me laugh so hard
Is it at least 1/4 the battle? My childhood... :(
+CV Anims The jury's still out on that one :(
+ChannelFrederator great video!!!!
+ChannelFrederator i think that guy who fainted was famous so thats why they crowded around him
Is it wrong that I actually love the original Transformers and GI Joe shows?
+Luke Williams I would take the 80s Transformers over the Transformer movies any day
Agreed!
Of course not! The voice talent on both shows are amazing.
No. I would say there is a lot of jealousy going on here. If these shows were so bad why are they still recycling "1980s" in the year 2019????? It is like people of the last 20-30 years until today do not know how to create anything from scratch anymore. Just: recycle, recycle, recycle and then mock what they stole from out of guilt.
Nope
The one water one with the JOE saving the kids from swimming in a pond before a lightning strike has a really creepy aspect. Its a pond with no other way to get in and once the lightning comes he just walks out. He was just watching the children swimming from below.
I have to disagree with you. Here is the deal, you can tell the creators were trying to create a simple safety message that kids could remember and do in any situation. I have watched a compilation of only the safety messages and you can see the repetitiveness of each one. With kids it needs to be simple and to the point depending on the edge. When using spray paint make sure there is fresh air, lightning - get put of the water, don't press the fire alarm for a joke - you could cost lives, show me any cartoon today that can do the same in a short easy video that kids would watch?
I'm not too sure about your view on the "tree house cartoon". These 80's shows for kids were all about giving kids reassurance, making them believe in themselves, a "yes, you can" type of message. The idea behind that episode was that kids, as little adults in the making they are, *can* do stuff if they put their minds to work and do it efficiently. To simply reduce the episode's lesson to "just don't try anything at all. You kids can't handle tools. Leave it to grown ups" would be anything but empowering. I must admit that i also prefer the "yes you can" (as long as there's a solid plan) lesson to the "you can't, so just quit it".
Case in point there was no law yet on mandating reflectors. Ironically enough these PSA were made to teach kids who's parents were working and the TV was acting as the baby sitter. And or to make up for the lack of good schooling.
But I still think this is a nicely done video, thank you.
Remember kids brush your toe nails two times a day(:
+EpicFace4Life remember to brush your teeth before crossing the street !!
+marcy维福 Now I know! and knowing is half the battle.
G.I.Schmoe~
+marcy维福 it rhymes, so it must be true. :D
I toothbrush my ears every so often, does that still count?
This.....made me want to binge watch those funny PSA's
People approach Larry Hama and tell him "Knowing is Half the Battle," all the time, he didn't know what it meant for a couple decades.
6:05 In all fairness that lesson or the way the situation was handled was spot on. Calm the victim down before attempting the rescue. Like you said yourself, a flailing person in the water has a high chance of drowning the person attempting the rescue.
Always use that 5th principle of patrolling.
The reason why they had to add morals/PSA's in these 80s cartoons are because they're the only way to add in violence, and conflicts in their shows, because the parents groups of the late 60s and 70s were still in power with regulating strict rules with animation.
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How about the Captain Planet lessons? Some of those are pretty weird.
Some? The giant freak smurf in spandex wasn't wierd enough? And exactly which agency promoted that freak to the rank of Captain?
As a kid of the 80's, I gotta say that these kids dressed very maturely for their age.
And not a single mohawk or mullet to be seen
PORK CHOP SANDWICHES
+zolkable I have a feeling thats a reference from somewhere.
Your mellenialism is showing
To be fair with the treading water psa unless you have something for them to hold onto the drowning person is likely to grab onto you and pull you under.
#facepalm
You gotta realize, they torpedo was equipped with diving gear, and the kid had his shirt on, which would make it easy for him to be dragged from behind
So, nothing to complain about....I'll complain anyway!
Fun fact.
We don't even check for pulse anymore, just for signs of breathing.
If they're breathing, they have a pulse.
If they're not breathing, have someone call 911 while you start reanimation procedures.
We had a good conversation.
What's the worst advice you've gotten from a cartoon?
being happy makes friends 😑
if someone touch you on place that makes you feel uncomfortable that's no good
"Crying solves your problems after all"
Loving people is hating them to 😑
+ChannelFrederator As Someone who was born in the early 1970s I can confirm that Bicycle helmets were NOT a thing widely commercially available, they were mostly worn by athletes (Such as people competing in the Tour De France.) Also It was NOT uncommon at the time to teach a child to swim by tossing them in the water and instructing them while they flailed about.(Most parents who instructed this way were even already in the water with the child as well. Confident that they could easily rescue the child if he didn't get his feet under him quickly enough.)
This may seem barbaric and ludicrous by today's standards, but remember this was an age where Chemistry sets, complete with the chemicals necessary ot make gun powder and other explosives, lawn darts, BB Guns, Shrinky Dinks and Easy Bake ovens were common toys of the time. Now you know, and knowing is at least 1/8th to 1/2 of the battle, apparently.
8:04 That's fairly realistic. It's called the "Bystander Effect". The more people witness an emergency that doesn't put them in immediate danger, the less likely any of them are going to bother with the hassle of dialing 911. There have been cases of people witnessing a brutal murder and not calling the police.
I can honestly say a lot of safety items and practices were not common place back in the 80s. It was PSA's like these that eventually made them common place now.
In my honest and humble opinion, one of the worst crimes with the G.I.JOE PSAs was that they never did a PSA with my favorite Joe
Duke!! Flint was in 3 of them. Roadblock and Shipwreck were in 2 of them each. Surely Duke could have done one of them. Even his superior General Hawk was in one. Now I can understand Snake Eyes not being in one since he doesn't talk, but then again, he could have been in a PSA with a fellow Joe. If Beach Head and Cross Country could do it, so could Snake Eyes and another Joe, like Duke.
Now I can understand why Bazooka never did a PSA since he was portrayed as a little slow witted. But just like Snake Eyes, he could have done a PSA with another Joe. Bazooka could rescue the child and the other Joe could have explained the lesson. But in the final analysis, Duke was my all time favorite Joe and I would have given anything to have heard Michael Bell in his Duke voice saying And knowing is half the battle.
Also in the how to tread water PSA the kid would probably be unconscious because falling from that height into water is like hitting concrete
We never got the "lay them flat" when dealing with unconscious people. On their side, with one hand over their head, make sure the airways are open, was how I learned it.
The water one seems hilarious as I'm a lifeguard darn I wish I could just yell "swim" . Make my job a whole lot easier.
Of coursing knowing is half the battle. Those that fail to plan are planning to fail after all
Porkchop sandwiches.
Let's just be thankful for the following. At least back then they made honest to goodness attempts to teach kids very valuable lessons. In today's children shows they almost never teach them anything valuable because they think kids are wild and stupid anyway, and it's not worth their time and effort.
I was just thinking during the Barbeque clip about how you need to use the back of your hand. I was also told as a kid that your palm could be melted to the doorknob if you touch with the front of your hand (I guess there is more surface area or something)
5:21 you know, i actually read an aesop fable about that kinda stuff, a boy was drowning and an idiot of a man started scolding him while he was still drowning and the then the boy scolded the man for scolding him too soon and the moral at the end was something along the lines of "advice without help is pointless"
We eighties babies did not helmets because we are not millennial wussies.
We didn't need constant supervision back then. Bicycle helmets were unheard of until the early 90s, & even then only certain kids had them. Loved this show & it's PSAs back then.
Actualy in the 80s we didn't have laws about helmets or reflectors and bikes didn't usually come with them.
As a kid in the 1980s my parents wouldn't allow me to ride my bike after dark.
LOL!!! Great stuff! I will say the treading water PSA actually did help me avoid drowning when I didn't know how to swim, though.
What you need to understand is that phrasing is an important marketing angle. "Knowing is half the battle" is more catchy than "Knowing is a good starting point."
Also, am I the only one who was too distracted thinking about the Robot Chicken G.I. Joe parody where G.I. Joe is defeated by the Taliban (and Cobra is simultaneously annihilated by Seal Team 6) while watching this?
Count Duckula told me to invest in Enron and sell when it got to 78. Then he left. Good advice, though.
As someone who has passed out due to dehydration and over heating inside a crowded mall i can confirm that no one at all will try to catch you and jeep you from hitting the jewelry racks behind you. And as an Eagle Scout i wish the bystanders there knew to elevate the legs and loosen clothing probably would’ve come to faster and with more color in my face and i wouldn’t have spent as long with the space whales i saw
the passing out one calling 911 specifically would not have done anything untill 20 years from the time the show was airing and the very next psa you talk about you bring up the fact that its the 80s and bike reflectors may not matter yet proving it wasnt a mindless mistake either it was just lazy writing or lazy editing but all in all i love this channel it just stuck out to me guess knowing wasnt half the battle after all
at some point the girl had time to change her shorts to pants before she crossed the plank, maybe she knows a secret way out
The 80's were a different time. We actually had real friends and spent hours outside without supervision. Y'all millennials are too coddled and scary.
80s kids are millennials.
I want to clarify that if someone passes out you shouldn't just lay them flat. For example, if they start to build foam in their mouth, laying them flat may cause them to choke on it.
Exactly! I was taught to lay them on their side
+Hailey T Unless you are going to perform CPR. All in all you need to analyse the situation first.
Scientea well yeah, but cpr is mainly for if someone had drowned, while the thing I'm mentioning is if someone passed out.
0:35 Hah! It's like everyone wants to forget GIJoe: Retaliation even exists.
Now I know!
And knowing is half the battle.
Eh, I always prefered Transformers anyway. Giant alien robots FTW!
+Jovan Mitrić The Transformers cartoons had the same PSAs just with Autobots instead of Joes.
Of all the over analysis on the Internet, this is among the pinnacle; the over-est! I love it! Well done. 👍🏽
7:00 In the actual PSA Lady Jane is looking for her purse. GI-JOEEEEEE
Ya know a lot of the things that you said weren't even thought about in the 80's. I'm surprised someone cared enough back then to make PSA at all.
Tim hosting an episode of ToonedUp? Awesome!
Best PSA from a paramilitary organization come on lol
I like how they complete their hero's sentences, and then claim "Now we know" ... when they clearly already knew before, and then the hero is daft enough to believe that "knowing is half the battle".
will this reminded me of commenty! Thanks fedorater for giving me someting to do over the week end! :)
if you're on a road in the us, you drive on the right side. that's also legally required for bikes. you don't really need indication for which way traffic goes
and knowing this is only half the battle
Knowing is half the battle was also used by Transformers PSAs
I actually thought three eighths just before he said it. Coincidences are fun.
believe it or not, 911 was not completely nationwide yet when GI Joe: RAH first started. Although they could still just dial the operator and ask for help.
The greatest inspirstional qoute i got from a cartoon is:
"Deep down. l know that l wasn't built for fighting. But that doesn't mean that l can't draw my sword and FIGHT!"
excuse you! It is not "better" to eat more than "none at all" when it comes to cookies. I need my dopamine~!
How about instead of putting reflectors on your bike, you... look both ways before crossing the street? One is practically pointless, the other is common sense.
No, reflectors did not come standard on bikes and were not required at the time. And I don't think I ever saw a bicycle helmet until I saw footage of the Tour de France in the early '90s. My playground had asphalt.
this was freaking hilarious.
Actually putting someone's who's passed out on their back isn't a good idea at all, they might throw up and choke. Putting them on their side allows their airway to stay clear if this happens, which is the most important thing to do. So maybe Air Tight should've gotten about 1/10th
Learning fire safety from Blowtorch and Barbeque? That's like learning road safety from Wildrider and Breakdown.
Got to love those crazy Stunticons
EXACTLY😂😂😂😂
One time Death Bringer and Brain Disintegrator taught me about how bad it is to injure others.
Their names are funny!
I once learned table manners from a guy named Pissonthetable.
Characterwise, Barbecue is the more appropriate character to use here since he is a fire fighter. Blowtorch carries a flamethrower.
Wow. Looks like the same exact thing as Rescue Heroes.
as someone who grew up in the 80's reflectors and helmets were not required and did not come with bikes, now you want a PSA that is full of crap check out "sonic says" from the adventures of sonic the hedgehog
The GI Joe PSA's were funnier than the re-dubs.