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these PSAs are so cute i wish canada was real
yea
Yes
me too
yes i’m so sad that it’s just pure fiction.
I know right? There’s this hypothetical syrup, the Maple syrup. I wish that existed as well.
My wife was so enamored with the concept of little house hippos that I bought a few dozen little plastic hippos at a toy shop and hid them around the house. Peeking from behind books, on top of shelves, from under the dresser. For about two weeks I got to hear a little shriek of delight every time she found one.
That is the cutest thing I've ever heard
I love you Bob & I could only imagine how much more your wife loves you :’) this is the sweetest
you are a pure, sweet soul, sir. thank you from all women for making her so happy.
That’s really wholesome, well done.
..y'know, maybe humanity isn't that bad
Kurtis thinking he got a private michael jackson concert everyday is the funniest shit
Funny thing is when I was a kid I used to think similar things like if people don't get tired of acting the commercials 😆🤣🤣!!
In my head every day, at least I had the Rose parade to go by lol
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Dude. When I was really little I watched the Lion King on VHS like every day. One day I had the BRILLIANT idea that I could go hang out with Simba and all my favorite characters....if I just had a hammer to open up the TV (duh). To this day I'm so glad I never found a hammer, and yes I looked around the house. So if you see a kid toddling around the house with an agenda they may just be on a death mission they think is genius. Kids are so dumb lol
All these bots in the reply section
Kurtis hating himself for literally being a literal child with an imagination is top tier
He’s so real for that
As a previous little girl, I can say I spent most of my time acting out the most dramatic stories I could dream up with my Barbie/American girl dolls. Death, injury, crazy storms, heartbreak, etc. I also like pretending I had to survive in the wilderness in the backyard
i did the same thing but with my LPS! i remember me and my cousin would play with LPS and make crazy scenarios everytime we hung out xD
@@WandererBasil my LPS went through so much trauma, i specifically remember that i had made up a story where one got in a crash and LOST AN EYE? like girl…
My monster highs and barbies kissed and drowned each other. Yeah...
WHAT IS IT WITH YOUNG LITTLE GIRLS AND RECREATING THE EVOLUTION OF MAN
Same! I remember I had Polly Pockets that I played with in the bathtub. I tied them up in hair clips and ritually drowned them, and I acted out the terror and futile escape attempts the remaining Polly Pockets went through when they saw their friends dying horribly. Their misery and fear only increased the closer they got to the edge, looking down on their friends limp corpses at the bottom of the tub, begging for help from an unforgiving universe. Their god was a 5 year old who did not care for their happiness.
Not Canadian, but I remember a PSA in an assembly where a girl named Crystal went to every kid in the neighborhood and asked if they wanted to play and every kid slammed the door in her face and I remember feeling SO BAD for her. Then the video revealed that her full name was crystal meth and you should never play with crystal meth.
I don’t. I don’t why they thought getting a bunch of 9 year olds to sympathize with crystal meth was a good idea.
Looool what the fuck
WHAT- This should be in the top 10 greatest anime betrayals I did not expect that-
Honestly that,would make me wanna do Crystal meth i feel bad for her
why did they think that was a good idea. now i will feel bad for crystal meth since i have learned that it's a person with feelings.
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
honestly getting jumpscared by: “guy gets buttcrack surgically removed because he’s scared of any kind of crack now” is funnier than any sketch that could’ve been made from that lol
Timestamp??
@@krustygureum 14:44
ok but kurtis had to photoshop. he sacrifices so much for his videos and I respect that
@@QiotiCoyote yes. bless
James Charles crackles bbl pic
I almost cried when Kurtis said that he believed Michael Jackson would stay in the TV and perform "Will You Be There" for him and him only whenever he'd watch Free Willy as a kid, that's literally the funniest shit I've ever heard
The ones that really scared me were the "The Real Cost" lung cancer ones. Those little lungs in a great big world freakin' scared me.
Oh my god same
aw dude I forgot about those
little lungs in a great big world traumatized me as a kid istg 😭 everytime i saw them start i would run to my room and hide so i wouldn’t have to see them
I was trying to remember any psa’s from america and I was like “maybe we just didn’t have them” AND THEN I SAW THIS COMMENT AND REMEMBERED OMG
The moral: Every character in a Kurtis sketch is allergic to peanuts until proven otherwise.
I'm starting to think he actually is allergic to peanuts
@Тhе Gаmе Shorts 🅥 the fact my comment got so popular it got botted is really quite the compliment.
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@@Saltier the bots are coming. oh no. anyways good job on getting bot comments, ur famous now
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Lol nice one
Woah there bot magnet 😏
It’ll make him go “Kurtissss 😊 GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE 😡
Beautiful comment
I love how niche this joke is.
You should check out the British psa's from the early 2000's. They were like short horror movies, very graphic deaths. There was one about a little girl that gets hit by a car, it's about reducing speed and it sort of rewinds time and all her bones unbreak. It's really haunted me since I saw it as a kid...
Reminds me of a bullying psa we were shown in 6th grade in class where this little boy gets dropped on a toilet after some kids try to give him a swirlie and his skull cracks open and he dies. They don't show any actual gore, but they show this like watered down "blood" and it made me so horrified, I'll remember it for the rest of my life even with my bad memory
There was one for fireworks that fucked me up. It was like this charred face covered in flames 😂 shit was weird
when i would watch sitcoms as a kid, i remember thinking that wherever the actors looked, there would be a teleprompter there with the script. like if they looked up, there was one on the ceiling, if they looked down, there was one on the floor. i could not fathom the idea that they memorized their lines
You know they kind of do it for some of the more braindead actors that get cast mostly for looks. I´m not going to mention names out of respect but we all can think of at least two immediately I bet.
Like who? drop some names
@@goobermcfee8869 specifically full house. i watched so much damn full house.
@@KnolchI cant lmao, drop some names
“I can’t watch anything on Netflix these days, there’s just no commercials.”
Don’t worry Kurtis, Netflix heard you.
Finally it's here! More ads :))
@@owie8212 I'm so sick of seeing them everywhere bruh.. everytime I come across them (which is every two minutes) I get the urge to bang my head against the wall😭
@@owie8212 exactly what we needed :)))
@Türkiyeyi seviyorum idk about yall but i think pizza might be on 10,000 matches
@@josus4115 well I’m thinking that’s it’s finally here
I grew up with all of these. House hippos live rent free in my brain. Canadian treasure and an actually great PSA about misinformation
don't worry kurtis, i also thought house hippos were real. i always thought the only reason i never saw one was bc my bedtime was 8:30 (i did not know that i had free will and could stay up to catch one if i wanted to)
I think KurtisTown needs its own PSA.
I vote for Barbie saying “Balls”
Other options are;
Bratz doll saying “ew”
The weasel moaning
i second that vote
I third that vote
that with the bratz doll saying ew
um yes please
Im with this
i genuinely remember being a child and watching hannah montana being like “yknow if she wanted to keep such a big secret you’d think she wouldn’t make a tv show about it”
and it didn't help that miley cyrus name in the show is miley stewart 💀 i thought it was a documentary show HAHA
@@meganb3448 AND BILLY RAY?! safe to say that i was confused asf
lmao but thats actually so cuteee
No cause your right
ME TOO OH MY GOD I WAS SO CONFUSEd WHEN SHE RELEASED HANNA MONTANA ALBUMS AND MILEY ALBUMS
When I was younger, I asked my dad when things stopped being black and white for him. He was so confused and asked what I meant. I continued with, "Yeah, did you just wake up one day and things were colorful?" It took him up until that point to realize I was referring to old black and white tv programs vs colored tv, and thinking the transition happened in real life like that, too. 🤦♀🤦♀(also funnier when you consider I had accidentally under-handedly called my dad old af, too 😂)
"There's just no comercials in Netflix!" Top ten photos taken only moments before disaster
No longer a girl, but as an autistic child I read about girls “chasing boys” during recess, and I took that literally. Wanting to be a Normal Girl, I chose a boy pretty much at random and chased him down every day at recess. No one stopped me, and I have no idea what I planned to do if I ever caught him. I kind of knew that would never happen
Omg same. I love the internet, reminds me that I’m not alone 😅
This made me laugh so hard
Okay I’m an autist lesbian and I would follow my friend around while she was chasing a boy. Idk what was going on but I remember the chase was fun (i met the guy at a gay event years later and it was one of his formative gay experiences 😅)
same, but one day I realized I was running faster than him and didn’t know what to do so I just ran past him, decided that the entire time it had been a race with no track and I finally won
@tracychallice I love that plot twist you created
kurtis saying “cosplaying” a british person instead of “impersonating” is so funny to me. how do you even cosplay as a british person lol
U just rip ur upper lip off and there u go
They're larping lol
Monocle, wavy mustache, rounded top hat and a cane.
@@asadbrick9071 A "Cheerio!" and your cosplay is complete.
Well Britain is fictional💀
6:59 holy shit just the two seconds of "Usain Bolt is really fast" and the video cutting back like nothing happened was so much funnier than any joke he could have told there
Yeah no, I was a dumbass kid and thought house hippos were real and my grandma fed into it by letting me leave out a piece of toast with peanut butter at night that she would take bites out of and create tiny footprints with a toy cow. I remember all these PSA's it is like a blast of nostalgia.
W grandma
the fear anti-smoking PSAs instilled in me as a child was so strong that every time i walked past someone smoking on the street (or my grandparents' house) i would hold my breath and then fucking pray
thought i was gonna get the hole in my neck from second-hand smoke
I remember the one where he yanks his teeth out at the convenience store counter 😭
im 24 and i still do this XD just in case
dude the photos on the back of some cigarette boxes scared the absolute crap out of me i didn't even wanna consider smoking when i'm older
@@sunanimoon BRUH, THAT OLD LADY WITH A HOLE IN HER NECK WHO TALKED LIKE T-800?? THAT STUCK WITH ME AS A CHILDHOOD MEMORY 😭😭😭
Also I still hold my breath walking past smokers in fear :)
The non-smoking PSAs were the creepiest. I distinctly remember one where somebody was smoking in the living room and laughing at TV and the smoke went down the hall into the baby's room and suffocated them
uh w h a t
holy shit- that’s scary as hell for a toddler
I remember the one where it shows the smoke going into the girls body and fucking it all up. It was creepy as shit!
Oh god the negative-nostalgia that just washed over me
Also that one where the person buys a pack and instead of using money they pull out their teeth
I think the PSA that got me the most as a kid was the one with the crack smuggling dog 😭 i was so traumatized by the idea of people smuggling drugs INSIDE dogs, I was so suspicious of every dog I met for years after lol
Honestly, as a canadian kid growing up in the 90s / early 2000s, I loved our PSA's. They were so weird or funny they made me watch and pay attention.
That´s the genius behind it, so kids enjoy them and remember them and show their friends.
In Germany PSAs are about as entertaining or gripping as peeling potatoes. They go more for the very depressing and seem to be tailored more for the parents, like "Don´t let your children do X or Y" "Every year, X children die from X". Then some slow-mo grey and white footage of a kid doing something stupid. Sometimes a hospital bed with a kid full of tubes or even a child´s coffin back in the day. I guess the assumption is that children don´t watch unsupervised TV. Which happens to also be a PSA.
Dude I thought during commercials animators drew the next part of the show really fast and that's why they needed ads, so the animators could take a break. I thought that for reruns too and I was always like "I wonder if the animators get tired of drawing the same episode again."
Yo- 💀. Honestly, I'd believe that as a kid too.
i thought the same exact thing but with live action shows! like they had to act the episodes at the exact time i was watching them
I thought the same thing about cartoons when I learned that voice actors are the ones who make the voices lol, I literally thought that every time I wanted to watch Cars that Larry the Cable Guy would show up inside my tv and voice Mater at the exact time the movie is playing
this comment made me remember things about kid me i wish would stay buried
This is adorable
He finally did it. With the beanie he’s completed his stereotypical stoner cosplay
The cool stoner uncle
Funniest and confirmed fact, he’s not even a stoner
*touque
@@KiingBiing he is
@@onelastch4nce557 nah, went to his shows and he admitted that he doesn’t smoke weed as much. He’s done it before but he said it generally gave him anxiety so he doesn’t do it as much
Just taking the info I heard from him. I could be wrong and he changed tho. It was from last year
the cat screaming from the pharmacist woke my cat up and he was not happy lmao
as a child i remember thinking smoking was the most explicit thing ever, to the point where if someone was smoking i would immediately avert my eyes and walk away as fast as possible. one week in 8th grade, we had to watch these videos on how smoking was bad (they were all basically psas) and i literally couldn’t watch them as they made me so uncomfortable. to this day smoking still makes me very uncomfortable lol
I had a fushigi ball as a kid-extremely disappointed that it wasn’t ACTUALLY magic
Dude my dad had one and I remember playing with it sometimes and I had no idea what it was until now
dude i remember BEGGING my dad for one and when i got it i was soooo disappointed that it wasn’t a floating magic ball and just a heavy sphere that I hurt myself with after dropping it on my foot 😐
I am literally just now finding out its not magic, wow big sad 😢
...maybe
You’re saying it wasn’t magic?
A PSA that always bummed me out as a kid- was that smoke PSA where this person is like "smoking makes you sexy and mysterious" but at the end you hear the heart monitor and see a patient in a wheelchair like "but also gives you cancer" and I was like.
" o k...."
Bro, I remember that one! It was like "They say smoking will make you attractive, the say it will make you happy, etc. But the truth is (cut to scene of old lady on oxygen) you could end up like me." Always made me feel sad, man.
I remember being frozen to my bed after seeing that PSA. Soo unnerving as a kid. I feel like it came on before some movies 🙃☠️
What was that psa called
@@LaterRadiatior icons
@@phillysmallz that's what they were trying to do, show the actual effects of smoking and addiction so children don't want to smoke bc who wants to live with cancer
8:11
To be fair in some degree, the former was about actually more important and managable factors- while the other was about fitness, it was focused on appearances etc. Being fit is pretty all around an admirable goal, and much more approachable and achievable than being slim and muscled etc.
17:10 as somebody whose gonna become an pharmacist, I can confidently say thats what we do :)
Honestly the anti-smoking PSAs in Australia were so effective on me that the first time I met a smoker, they were a friend of my grandmother and they started to smoke, I ran away crying an hid in the bathroom until she left. I will never smoke a cigarette to this day.
YES! Aussie anti-smoking psa's are on another level. My sister is so scarred by them she cannot be around people smoking, she holds her breath and runs away.
Those ads are effective as all hell, but also traumatising as hell. You'd go into woolies with your mum, and as you were leaving and exiting, you'd see those awful pictures of disfigured toes and an eye pried open with metal. They are single-handedly the reason that I will never smoke a cigarette in my life.
@@willjenkin1023 holy shit yes especially the eye pried open with the metal that scarred me I will never touch a cigarette in my life now
the one i remember most is the surgeon milking those organs and tubes for fatty tar and shit. He was squeezing them like a toothpaste tube
Holy shit yeah those PSAs are so graphic 😭
Kurtis saying he wasn’t “cosplaying” a British person as if we don’t actually exist outside of movies/tv shows 💀
Edit: Kurtis was totally right. My arms have started disintegrating, I think I’m returning back into the digital realm. I guess British people really don’t exist.
💀💀💀
What time stamp is this?
Back to the Harry Potter universe
@Neena Gabriel dude “Tom Holland” isn’t real remember? He’s “British”
*sigh* Let's go back into the television, we have to do another show on there. Surprised we all aren't tired yet of being on there all the time.
4:46 I freaking love it when kurtis waggles his finger accusingly at the viewer lmfao
I remember that when I was a kid I used to think that every CZcams video was a live stream and if I played the game that the CZcamsr was playing and got lucky I would be in the video.
I thought the same thing too! I would try to never pause the video cuz I thought I would be behind and not be able to see them in the game. Im glad I'm not that crazy
Fun thing about Goosebumps! I read somewhere that R.L. Stine avoided anything bad in his stories that was real - stuff like broken homes or abuse - because he wanted to make sure that the kids knew it was all fake and that they were safe from the stuff in his books. Plus he kept humor very prevalent in his books so that it wasn't too scary! Take this with a grain of salt, I remember reading it but honestly it could have been a load of house hippos, lol.
Even though I knew it was all fake, I was still so scared of everything in Goosebumps.
But I'm also a scaredy-cat, like, to this day I'm still scared of things in Goosebumps regardless of knowing it's 100% fake amd there's a 0% chance of it happening.
As a kid who was going through a lot, goosebumps was my safe space fr. I wrote the guy a letter in crayon when I was like 7
(Disclaimer it was unreadable and my mom had to rewrite it)
@@mystqicc3901 same here, but ya know what i was scared of the most when it came to goosebumps? That part of the intro when that billboard changed. Idk why but part always disturbs me. 💀🤣
I loved goosebumps but the shrunken head cover did haunt me for a little while lmao. I quite literally thought I had seen it floating at me once in the dark and I was scarred. Moral of the story, my brain has been working against me since day one.
Didn't he write a Tales to Give You Goosebumps story where an older brother took pictures of his younger sister in her underwear and threatened to post them at her school?
I understand most youtubers don't actually use the sponsors they advertise and they just read out the ad copy for the sponsorship, but its honestly really funny to me to have Kurtis be advertising Current, an online banking service only available in the USA he can't even use, on a video about such a painfully Canadian topic.
Lmaoo, he gotta do what he gotta do to get that bag 😂
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maybe it's easier to get paid when he's in the states?
Lol that’s hilarious. He didn’t really think this one through
House hippos became the go-to excuse for leaving crumbs everywhere and I unironically had "don't put it in your mouth" on my iPod shuffle back in the day. Thank you, company's name that I completely missed and didn't go back to find for this comment. My childhood was better, if not safer, because of you.
13:53 Coraline and Dont Hug Me Im Scared(kinda, its really gorey, and covers adult topics but looks like a kids show, so think it counts. plus it was my cildhood show.)
the last psa was actually horrifying solely because of the puppets they’re horrendous oh my god
I know they reminded me of the mr.meaty puppets 😩
Yeah why does one have a tiny sausage for a mouth
look up tipi tales
lmao I didn't watch the full video and already knew what you meant
@@smileypedestrian4123 NO WE DON'T TALK ABOUT TIPI TALES
“Not every joke needs a green-screen sketch.”
Proceeds to almost immediately do a green-screen sketch.
He did wink
czcams.com/video/93Fyv4XAr-A/video.html Finally it's here.
no because as a child i used to think that musicians would perform their songs on the radio everyday everytime i heard them on the radio. it was extremely perplexing to me that green day and beyonce would just stay at the stations all day everyday
My favourite Canadian commercial was for marine land I think specifically the 2013 one 😂😂 you know “EVERYONE LOVES MARINELAND”
the “little lungs in a great big world” for anti smoking was so terrifying. it was so realistic and it was so creepy and like meaty
and bloody
@@lostavenue4819 excuse me??? did you say you wrote fanfiction around the lung from the smoking advert???
You thought it was scary?
@@lostavenue4819 THIS IS LITERALLY SO FUNNY
@@emmyarmstrong1540 I wish I was joking 😭
Whenever Kurtis explains a joke, it's actually a joke itself. The punchline is that explaining jokes usually ruin them, so as a professional comedian, he's constantly ruining his jokes in an ironic way. Because it's ironic, the joke is not actually ruined, but instead trumped by the joke of explaining it.
Hilarious!
I'd say you ruined the joke by explaining it but "because it's ironic, the joke is not actually ruined, but instead trumped by the joke of explaining it."
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as soon as i saw that dimly lit kitchen pure joy flooded through me. I used to make little beds for house hippos in my closet in hopes of seeing one
I remember this like “The first naturally born smoker” PSA and it was terrifying
It was from the UK in 1985, its in this futuristic place and an alien like guy smokes.
When I was a kid there was this one PSA with a woman dressed in white and she said stuff like "my name is cocaine, I can make you feel amazing" and as it went on, she started rotting and becoming this zombie creature, it was horrific and probably the main reason why I never did drugs.
did her job
sounds more effective than the just say no thing lol
Okay but the monkey “you don’t have to lose weight” one genuinely helped me as a little girl lmao😭
the message seems clearer in that one compared to the older one that had these two girls going through this nightmare makeup building, that one used to freak me out and I don't think I ever realized what it was even supposed to be telling me lol
same!
@@johnfreeman9349 man i remember that one, it was so fuckin weird. tbh im still not 100% sure what that one is about
I was an extremely dumb child and seriously misunderstood the point of that PSA, to the opposite effect it was intended to have. I remember hearing "you don't need a media monkey telling you what to do" and seeing that the monkey was trying to stop the girl, so I thought the point was don't side with the monkey - it's important to watch your weight and not let other people convince you otherwise
@@bnashee Stay fit
Yo that plot twist tho at 10:50 got me good 😂
16:27 will traumatize me foor the rest of my life
Best part is that the PSA's where so focused on regular cigarettes that they got a whole generation that hated cigarettes, but thought VAPING was the shit 💀
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honestly tho😭
I can’t think of anything more lame than vaping tbfh 💀
It’s true, but vaping is delightful haha
to be fair, cigarettes dont taste like candy
When I was a kid, a friend of my dad's was in a refrigerator commercial. When I met the guy in real life for the first time, I was so shocked because I recognized him from the ad, and I asked him how he got out of the tv because I thought he lived in there, just like all the other tv people.
It’s shocking me how many people thought like people lived in the tv or they performed everything live for them when they watched tv. I did think tv shows and movies were real as a kid but I didn’t think people lived in my tv or that everything was broadcasted live. I wish I did think they lived in my tv because then I wouldn’t of been terrified of being murdered by a cyberman from doctor who in my sleep.
It’s okay man I thought people lived in my moms phone , we’d call my grandparents and I’d shake the phone and then get terrified and ask if they were okay , and I’d show them things around my house thinking that they could see it and the family would be so confused
@annika m I don’t know if I’m just really tired or if the story really is this intriguing, but could you elaborate on that story?
@@rachelcookie321 Lmao
this reminds me of when i was little & would get sad when i would stay up watching Disney & apologize out loud to the tv bc i thought selena & miley had to work overtime to perform live over & over 😭
one thing about Kurtis' sketches is that they progressively get more insane as the video continues.
never let them know your next move.
Growing up in a rural area the thing I feared most was farm safety day. They used to put us in a room while someone showed us farm safety videos that would get really graphic at times. Shit had me traumatized and afraid to visit my grandparent's farm.
The one that fucked me up most was when this kid drowns in a slough and his mother is screaming when she finds his hat in the water.
Jokes on you robot man, I can also put my leg back on. I won’t play safe.
Me too lets go😎
Damm straight Jo!
_"Footless Jo - Amputation and beyond!"_ Well played. You win this time.
@@Dirk_Strider ahah that's awesome
The Fushigi ball is technically something called a “contact juggling” ball, and the Fushigi itself is like the most hated brand of contact juggling ball by contact jugglers because it was just a cash grab to sell to children, and not a serious contact juggling prop. There are some great places to buy them and people can do some amazing tricks with them, but Fushigi is like the “we have contact juggling ball at home” ball when you ask people who are deep into the hobby
A person of culture I see, it's kinda strange to me people don't associate any crystal ball to contact juggling. But I guess as a juggler I live in a bubble that's far away from common sense.
@@pedrochagas9903 Hahahah 😂 I’m a flow artist so I’m around quite a few jugglers
I had no idea this was a thing
@@kristel9558 the more you nose
Things are heating up in the juggling ball fandom I see /lh
When I was younger I thought that the reason certain songs played on the radio was because that’s who was at the radio station, like 100s of artists giving live shows everyday at a radio station
In Mexico we had two PSAs that were… weird one was this flower singing about not doing dr ugs and an addict but it was like if u were hallucinating, the other one was one of this men that dresses as a child (Chabelo) that said something about if someone touched you or something you had to be very careful and tell an adult, but it was weird that a man-child said that
When I was a kid I thought I wasn't Native "because I have hair and not feathers!" lmao. Like thanks to media I thought "real" Native people actually grew feathers out of their heads, because the ones in media are never seen without feathers in their hair. My dad still brings it up lol.
That reminds me of the fact that up until I was 10 I thought there were no black people in Britain... then I saw a British black man outside mcdonalds say "pass the chips." Fucking turned my world upside down. I was not a bright child.
as an american glad i’m not alone in this 😭😭
I mean this in the nicest way possible. But that sounds more like a problem with your intelligence as a child than with the media.
@@jacobhargiss3839 well yeah, children are pretty dumb lol
OOF
The house hippo commercial fooled me as a kid, I kept leaving out toast and peanut butter and my mom told me to stop. When I told her I wanted to attract a house hippo, she said they didn't live in Saskatchewan. I'm still not totally convinced they aren't real.
me too but my mom wanted one too
czcams.com/video/5R_tOSRynZU/video.html newer house hippo:) probably already seen it lol
they're absolutely real now. lots of people who go thrift shopping for fun collect them and they'll have tons of little house hippos around their houses and share pics of them amongst each other in their thrifting fb groups lmao
@@ziggylegion1604 okay wow, i need to come out from under my rock and join this movement!
That's the thing. They don't live in Saskatchewan, they're native to another country
I’m so late watching this video but I relate to your Michael Jackson thought so much! When I was a kid (and honestly early teens cause I refused to ask anyone) I was CONVINCED that when I listened to CDs on my Walkman that the band was tiny and playing the songs so I wouldn’t repeat a song more than once cause I thought they would get tired playing the same song over and over! also thought this exact thought about the radio and cassette tapes 😂
Man, as a fellow Canadian boi around the same age range as you, this whole video was pure nostalgia of memories o forgot I even had. Thank you
The house hippo PSA was one of my absolute faves as a kid. Same with the don't put it in your mouth song PSA lmao
oh man, I forgot about "don't put it in your mouth " one lol, but it's now in my head again
He did those in his Las video
I was too young to understand the meaning so i thought they were real for the longest time and i was jealous bc i thought other people really had house hippos
I've had a house hippo nest with 2 plastic hippos for almost 20 years. That's how much I love that PSA.
House hippo, my beloved
As a kid for far too long I thought actors dying or getting hurt was real. I was so blown away by the commitment to make just a movie.
Haha I remember watching Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium and was blown away that he actually had to die for the movie when they showed his grave. I asked my dad did he actually die and I guess my dad thought I was talking about the character because he said yeah he did die.
So you thought all of those movies were basically snuff films? That's really funny. Kids are crazy.
@@kayakat1869 100% believed that. Feared for my life jaws would come snatch me like all the people in the movie 💀 I didn’t live anywhere near the ocean tho just dumb
Yes!! And that couples in tv were actually together. I also thought that singers had to be in the studio every time a song was playing!
Im a caregiver and my 49 year old patient believes this
*kid making dinosaur noises* *kid tap dancing in a deli* "moooom Jason cut me in half again!" Those psas are still burnt into my head, and the wild house hippo ad, classic.
This reminds me of when I was a kid and after Sunday school I asked my parents what it was like for them when they left Egypt for the promised land 😂😂😂
One of the most hard hitting PSA ads I ever remember was an ad for the speed limit, I think. In the UK in the mid to late 2000s there was an ad where it would show this child, dead on the road, bones all fucked up and there would be a voice over of the child saying "if you hit me at 40 there's an 80% chance I'll die, hit me at 30 and there's an 80% chance I'll live" and then the kids bones all crack into place, the blood goes back into the body and they wake up. It was fucked.
I saw this in my driving class!
There was this one Canadian PSA about workplace safety where there is this chef or someone like that holding a vat of oil and slips on a stain making the oil go all over her. The screams sounds so realistic it stuck with me for a week or two.
holy hell
You just unlocked a memory I didn't know I had
@@princessofhell4639 Congrats, you leveled up your hive mind skill
as a young Canadian i truly believed house hippos existed and was CRUSHED when my mom told me they were in fact fake
I _refuse_ to believe House Hippos don’t exist.
SAME
im not even Canadian but IM crushed knowing house hippos don't exist.
Nah they exist, the government is hiding their existence 🤫
I’m an American and I’m crushed as well 😞
I’m so Canadian I noticed that the first PSA used different music than the original
Concerned children's advertising made me the man I am today. Truly masterpieces.
Bring them back immediately. Don't make new ones. Just put these ones on the air again
One of my teachers had a little daughter who misunderstood the cracked eggs in the frying pan PSA. She though when they said, this is your brain on drugs, that they meant eggs are drugs. so she wouldn't eat eggs.
This is my newest favourite thing, bless her lil heart (((':
Honestly? She’s not wrong for it, that ad made no sense 😭 they shouldve showed it to a group of elementary schoolers before airing and seen if they could understand it lmaoo
I remember a german anti-piracy ad that they would play in front of every movie where a mother and a bunch of kids were singing "happy birthday" under a PRISON window and at the end the mother would say "just four more times singing until daddy gets home :(" it was wild.
It's called "Noch viermal singen" on youtube incase you wanna look it up lol
holy shit i remember watching that with my younger sisters and our dad had to explain what it meant…
lmao wtf
Ironic as nobody really does anything to people who pirate movies, it’s essentially normal to pirate stuff nowadays
which is very funny because Happy Birthday is a copyrighted song (until very recently), which you couldn't perform in movies/tv/anywhere public without paying the licensing so it could have been a very meta commentary about IP theft/music licensing
"Raubkopierer sind Verbrecher"👹👹
I remember the lalaloopsy loopy hair commercial and I begged my mom for that doll for Christmas and she went to 6 different stores to find it only for my to play with it for 2 months till I got bored
I was wondering where the “House Hippo” thing came from. It’s been living rent free in my head since, I don’t know, 2006? Maybe? Never knew what it was, and though I didn’t think house hippos were real, I am more amazed it has been a core memory even though I saw it exactly once during the late hours of the night.
After that, it mysteriously vanished from the lineup of Betty Crocker commercials, cleaning product infomercials and adverts for toys that sounded so much cooler than they actually were. Haven’t seen it since. At least not til this video dug it up for me, apparently.
I have, “we are girls and we will do what’s right for us.” Absolutely STAMPED into my memory.
For me it’s MOOOOOM, AIDAN CUT ME IN HALF AGAIN
It never leaves me.
For me it’s “Don’t you put in your mouth. Don’t you stuff it in your face!”
It’s so funny that I think we - as a collective of Canadian children - all had the exact same experience with that house hippo ad. The last part of it was just wah-wah-wah-wah from Charlie Brown and the first bit was pure, bona fide FACT. I genuinely don’t even remember hearing the wrap up. It did not exist. 😴
As an American, I love discovering nuggets of Canadiana. It's always either unexplainable or just really cool.
I honestly (as a kid) thought the wrap up was a different commercial so I always ignored it 😆 but I did always want a house hippo, and still do to this day.
i literally only remember seeing the beginning n i was like seems legit its basically rat sized hippos so they must exist
House Hippo are reall dammit xD
Every time I would see the ad I would be so excited and then I would see the wrap up and be disappointed. And then I’d see the ad later and the cycle would repeat lmao
Lil Kurtis believing Michael Jackson was living in the tv and doing a performance for him every time before the movie is the most wholesome and silly thing I ever heard 🙏
The house hippo PSA genuinely and unironically lives rent-free in my brain. Might be in the top 10 of all media that exists.
Here in NZ we have a pretty intense drinking culture and so we had accordingly intense drinking PSAs. The one that messed with me the most was a guy who was drunk at a family gathering and spun a kid around by the arms as a 'helicopter ride' and slammed her into a bookcase. I would swap channels every time it came on, I couldn't stand it
looking for the nz comment . the psa's there are wild . love them .
Imnotlaughingimnotlaughingimnotlaughing
@@elliottmcpeek7443 Good because that kid never laughed again either
There was one in the UK where a guy hit a kid when drink driving and he saw the corpse next to his bed every night. That messed me up
That lowkey happened to me- when we were kids my brother was swinging me around by my ankles for a helicopter ride & my head hit the leg of our couch & I had to get stitches at the hospital LOL
kurt’s sketches about nut allergies always end by realizing both characters are allergic
czcams.com/video/TFP-wGwG7MI/video.html 6:47 not always, unfortunately
IS THAT A PEANUT?? ARE YOU ABOUY TO EAT A PEANUT?? GET THAT OUT OF MY FACE!!!
Been going through some weird and painful transitions in life and your videos have allowed me to laugh obnoxiously like I haven't been able to do in my day to day. Thanks for making these videos, have a great day if you see this!
there were a few of those puppet drug psa ads, they freaked me the hell out as a kid but weirdly fascinated me. but now as an adult who LOVES Muppets and creepy things they're my favorite ones to think on.
my least favorite were the live action ones like the doctor in the morgue, or a girl having a giant breakdown and trashing her room and yelling about how drugs affect you.
Thank you Kurtis, we know how tiring it is being in this little box performing videos for us every day 😔🙏🏻
WOAH WOAH WOAH!!! Let me get this perfectly straight: You comment something that is completely unrelated to the fact that I have two HAZARDOUSLY HANDSOME girlfriends? Considering that I am the unprettiest CZcamsr worldwide, it is really incredible. Yet you did not mention it at all. I am VERY disappointed, dear bd0
this was so confusing seeing this before I watched the video
@@AxxLAfriku At least you’re right about being ugly💀
I remember that house hippo psa very vividly because I was ENRAGED that house hippos were not real as a child. I definitely cried about it
my mom told me i cried a lot as a toddler bc i was upset i couldn’t be maleficent
I was an insecure young/pre teen with asthma when I saw those first PSAs... so that was great.
This dude is really unlocking some core canadian memories here
i was terrified of house hippos as a kid
i thought they were so cute.
I wanted one very badly
I wanted one so bad as a kid lol
especially because they make the same sound as my dad snoring
I have one, he lives in one of my spider plants
13:38 i can't remember if it was goosebumps or not but it was this movie or episode whatever where this girl had this life sized doll of herself (first of all, that's weird as fuck) and it started going against her and trying to kill her or turn her in to a doll i guess and it wasn't even scary but i was so young when i saw it that it kinda scarred me and has stuck with me to this day
edit: i googled it, it's from the rl stine series 'the haunting hour' and it's called 'really you'
This wasn’t a psa but once I saw an ad where some guy was having hallucinations and he saw his dead wife or something and she was transparent and for some reason it traumatized me so bad that I just wouldn’t watch the commercials on tv anymore for a while because I was afraid of the ad coming back on.
In Argentina in the early 2000s there was a PSA about road safety that started with people being asked why they don't wear seatbelt, the tone of the psa seemed lighthearted at first, like they were going to be asking around the whole time ( one of the answers was "Because it wrinkles my clothes") Then, there is a sudden tone shift were they show mannequins for crash tests being ABSOLUTE FUCKING WRECKED and then and ACTUAL PERSON (I tought that at the time ) being SMASHED through the WINDSHIELD and a close up of their dead eyes and then a dry cut saying "Lets fight for our lives". I still think about it sometimes lol
what the fuck is it on youtube????
@@dzeni7605 here it is czcams.com/video/I0F5k7N4j9k/video.html
Y no nos olvidemos del "drogas, para qué?"
AND THE MUSIC AFTERWARDS?? it was like super happy and nice after all of that lmaooo that's all i thought about throughout this whole video
That unlocked some repressed memories lmao
I think my driving anxiety started there
as far as scaring children into not doing bad things goes, my favorite has got to be this one illustrated german book, Struwwelpeter. It's from 1845. Some guy was annoyed that there were no good books to gift to his 3y/o son, so he decided to make one. All the stories are like "this little girl thought matches were super cool and wanted to play with them, but her mother told her not to, because she could get hurt. later on, the girl's parents went somewhere and left the girl home alone, so she decided to play with matches and literally burned to death, her cats cried over the little pile of ash that was left of her", "this boy kept sucking on his thumbs even though his parents told him not to. one day, a random tailor came along and cut off the boy's thumbs with his big scissors", "this boy did not want to eat his soup. over the next five days, he wasted away and died from hunger". fantastic stuff, i'm sure his 3y/o son loved that.
thank you dwight
I remember there was also the story of a boy who used an umbrella outside and then got carried away by the wind and was never seen again and that terrified me as a kid, I never used umbrellas when it was windy outside
I just googled it and I love it so much. It's incredible nightmare fuel, I can't wait to read it to my kids when I get some.
@@sepsysmurf6982 the phrase “when i get some” referring to kids is way too unnerving
@@ava8340 There’s a random chance that they mean having children of their own, or just picking some up while on their way from work
I just realized I never watched this one video for some reason and it’s making me very nostalgic, I still get random songs from these PSAs get stuck in my head like the Italian one in the stay fit ad lol.
Why is it that whenever I imagine Kurtis as a kid it’s just adult Kurtis but two feet tall
The thought of startling random children on the street had me in tears. Also I was at a rave last night and there was a girl with a Fushigi, I thought she was a witch
She was definitely a witch
why was a little girl at a rave 😭
@@garfield_tv didn't say little
It’d be funny if on the way home from the club that girl used the Fushigi to startle children on the street lol