I enjoyed how grim this PSA is, as well as its uneasy, Jaws-like tension build. Philadelphia Electric Company: Don’t Put Your Life on the Line If you’re wondering which of the four major sports feature the biggest dorks, please look at the haircuts of the players in this PSA. Football and basketball are easy, but Mike Schmidt is forced to say “putting together a drive to the pennant.” Not bad, and better than Zezel, who didn’t even get one. I love how it shoehorns the “drive” pun into baseball, a sport that traditionally does not feature drives. This PSA definitely dates from the mid-1980s - the late Peter Zezel first played for the Flyers in 1984 - which would probably make it in response to Philadelphia Flyers goalie Pelle Lindbergh’s 1985 drunk driving death. Philadelphia Athletes: Good Sports Drive Straight! I really hope people didn’t have to be told to not store gasoline right in their bedroom closets, but I guess they did. I’m going to be extra careful to stay away from fire. This also added to the Philadelphia rap beef between Meek Mill and Cassidy last year, when Mill called it “the worst song in rap history.” Eh, as PSA raps go, it’s better than Don’t Copy That Floppy. Still, the best part comes at the 2:20 mark, when three producers in the studio look at each other and nod approvingly for their hard work of taking a beat from the most popular song of 2012. Great goal, sure, but one that probably didn’t need a full song. Instead, we got a straight public service announcement about wearing condoms. When I first saw the title of this song, I expected a corny parody sex jam. Last year, propelled by a catchy beat and its universal message of “rich people are hilariously tacky,” PSY’s “ Gangnam Style” shot up the charts across the world, shattered YouTube records and made him a household name.Īlso in 2012? Philadelphia rapper Cassidy released “Condom Style.” I did like the part when the cartoon dog low-fived the woman in the wheelchair. “In certain parts of Philadelphia, things were, uh, ruff.” Jesus. McGruff the Crime Dog – The Philadelphia Story This tops the Mike Schmidt PSA of a similar style because of its admission that “we need to come up with a solution.” Also, because it’s delivered by Beanie Sigel’s disembodied head. We’re losing our youth at a rapid pace.”) don’t rhyme, but they’d fit in any song. Sigel’s first three lines (“There’s a black cloud over our city. I like when rappers talk and their voices still sound awesome. As such, this is a PSA worthy of Big Al of “ Do Hugs Not Drugs” fame. That could be a good thing, actually the only PSAs I remember from my youth are the ones that were unbelievably weird or silly. Ah, did they have to position the camera so close to your face, though? It makes it weird. I agree, Mike Schmidt! Cocaine is no way to believe in yourself.
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