Awesome Video Of The Day
Who Knew That Canadians Make The Sweetest PSAs EVER?
Usually when I pick out a video to post for my Nooner, I’ll watch it over and over and over again, picking out every possible nuance that could possibly be used to comedic effect. I scour each and every frame for subtle facial expressions, looking for a glimpse beneath the surface, trying to figure out what it MEANS. Then I make a dick joke and go play video games.
Today is different, though, because I refuse to watch this video more than the half dozen times I just did. It’s pretty grim, but it’s also a highly effective PSA: the next time I’m a hot, upwardly-mobile, about-to-be-married Canadian chick carrying an enormous pot of boiling hot water, I’m going to be very careful.
Maybe our Canadian readers can clear something up for me: Are you guys constantly slipping on grease and suffering third-degree burns up there? Is this such a problem in Canada that it actually requires its own PSA? Here in the States we have PSAs for stuff like meth and teen pregnancy and domestic violence and stuff, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen one addressing the importance of CLEANING UP AFTER YOURSELF. Do you guys live in some sort of utopian wonderland where the biggest problem you have to worry about is slipping and falling? Does universal health care make everyone totally reckless or something? What’s going on up there?!
Also: How’s hockey going? No, really. I’m not making a joke here - I actually want to know. Please tell me how hockey’s going.
With Winter just around the corner, it’s time to make preparations for the cold months ahead. You’re going to want to load up on batteries and canned food and have an emergency plan for your family and all that, but more importantly, you’d better figure out what you’re going to wear. Navigating the gauntlet that is Men’s Fashion can be scary, but don’t worry: I’ve done all the homework for you, and this week on the Cracked Blog I’ll be bringing you my five top picks for the season.
The Cracked Guide To Men’s Winter Fashion
Label: Duckie Brown
Materials: Cotton, Wool, Underpants
Message It Sends To The World: “Shit - I forgot to put on pants.”
Features
Price: $178,000,000 (everything pictured included1)
1 Except pants, which are NOT PICTURED BECAUSE THIS OUTFIT HAS NO FUCKING PANTS.
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April 12th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
“I haven’t been this scared since I saw those Volkswagen ads that convinced me that people who drive Volkswagens always get in car wrecks.”
Those things just make me feel bad. I was watching Family Guy and I couldn’t laugh for the last ten minutes of the show because of that. Or Scrubs. Or… anything.
January 11th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
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January 7th, 2008 at 10:12 am
I knew a guys who slipped at work and plunged his whole hand in a deep fryer. When he got to the hospital he had to wait 6 hours to get in because he didnt have insurance and workers comp wouldnt approve his claim because he was walking to go to break. America blows….it blows ronald reageans cold rotting testes…
i wish i could live in canada….i would feel tan all the time.
December 2nd, 2007 at 8:18 pm
But for sheer, mindblowing terror that sent a generation of little kids into therapy, you can’t beat the classic early-1970s PSA featuring the thing that was supposed to replace the traditional skull-&-crossbones on bottles of poison: the dreaded MR. YUK!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wLsONa3gKIQ
December 1st, 2007 at 5:19 pm
It’s not the first year of that PSA campaign… apparently workplace accidents and death have gone up quite a bit, and this is a response to them. I guess we don’t have as many people making meth in their bathtubs as we do getting hurt in the workplace.
November 30th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
I haven’t been this scared since I saw those Volkswagen ads that convinced me that people who drive Volkswagens always get in car wrecks.
November 30th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Check out the newest PSA in that ad campaign. Guy gets blown up then his lifeless corpse falls a couple stories and slams into the ground. It’s awesome.
November 30th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uriWMw-1esw
Now THIS is hilarious
November 30th, 2007 at 11:24 am
I know that chick! Now I know why they call her Toady! Her ex-fiancee, who ran for his life when he saw her, agrees.
November 30th, 2007 at 8:25 am
See, RW, what I figured was if I learn some cool magic tricks and performed them while DANCING I’d have a career to fall back on when I get fired from my systems engineer job for spending to much time at this website.
November 30th, 2007 at 4:21 am
Also…
If you didn’t find this humorous, you should get yourself checked out for Down Syndrome.
I hear the common symptoms are under-developed ears, small hands, and the lack of a sense of humor.
November 30th, 2007 at 4:15 am
I’ve seen this PSA about 10 times, and it gets FUNNIER EVERY FREAKIN’ TIME!
Also…
Check out the Canadian PSA’s about spousal abuse. PURE FUCKIN’ GOLD!
November 30th, 2007 at 1:30 am
Gentlemen, i’ll see your Canadian PSA, and raise you….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS5f73EHRhA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsHL30Z60kg&feature=related
Two rather terrifying British road safety PSAs.
I think that it’s impossible to give British filmmakers a camera and not expect them to make something gritty.
November 30th, 2007 at 1:24 am
I saw this video for the first time on TV on Saturday while I was, yes, watching Hockey Night In Canad with friends. I was half-drunk, and so when I see that last image of the poor woman’s face burnt off I THOUGHT I HAD FUCKING HALLUCINATED. I looked around terrified, and asked everyone “Did you just see that?” It was not a dream, it was real.
Then they replayed it ten minutes later and I couldn’t stop laughing. Amazing.
Then I fell out of my chair laughing and broke my arm. I waited for three days to see a doctor, who tied my arm to a stick and gave me my socialist pill that prevents me from having free thoughts.
November 29th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
This PSA is vital to us Canucks. During our harsh winters vats of boiling grease seem inviting and warm.
Hockey is going good. The NHL just approved a new season schedule that takes it away from it’s crappy failure of a curent schedule, the Nashville Predators got sold, Toronto Maple Leafs are sucking (as a note to the Yanks: making fun of the Leafs is Canada’s second national pastime), Ottawa Senators are doing good on the ice while their counterparts are failing in the Senate, naked photos of a Leafs player popped up on the internet, a Leaf was diagnosed with cancer, Philidelphia has had three illegal headshots and like 50 games lost to suspension so far in the year, and it’s damn cold in Canada.
November 29th, 2007 at 11:41 pm
Oh my god, I just watched that video, that’s fucking hilarious.
This is the North American philosophy isn’t it? We’ve got a problem. I know, SCARE CAMPAIGN! I really think people will pay more attention to occupational health and safety if they were SCARED SHITLESS ABOUT ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING!
Talking about being engaged and promoted makes you twice as likely to suffer a life threatening injury. It’s called ‘hubris’ people, the Greeks invented in to scare the shit out of over-achievers.
November 29th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
Nothing’s more fun then international pissing matches.
Now, if you’ll excuse me I’m going to go take my low income tax, my non-existent property tax, my big pile of American guns, and my bulbus American penis and go make love to a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader.
And then I’m going to hi five John Wayne.
November 29th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
Sam, Im afraid I strongly disagree with your statement, you dirty Mexico toucher.
Wait times are hardly a problem anymore, and, no matter what,you can go to a hospital and get treated for your illness, without worrying about if it is gonna break you or not.
The reason they are putting those ads on TV is because rather than going though a ressesion, like the States, most of Canada is going through a boom period, and workplace safety is starting to fall by the wayside due to a rush to get people on the job. So, Is it bad for the government to take note of this and put out a PSO? I think not. Enjoy your subpar dollar.
November 29th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
^ I’m sure my fellow Canadians will get a laugh out of this.
November 29th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Dariuss– Unless of course you actually get sick and then you have to wait in line for 6 months, or come to the US.
The reason for that PSA is that Universal Health Care is so pathetic that they need to make sure to put out PSAs telling people not to fuck up, because if you fuck up, then all of your fellow citizens pay for it with their taxes. In the US, they show car accidents and the insurance companies come on and say “Its cool, you’ve got insurance.” Not scary at all.
November 29th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
Oh, man. The person who dressed that man up as a pantsless smurf deserves to have scalding water poured over their face.
November 29th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
Nick: Would I be correct to assume, based on your 2nd video link, that you are trying to teach yourself magic? Neat! MAGIC!
As for the pants fiasco, I’m pretty sure that’s just what the outfit is supposed to be (although I wouldn’t put it past a male model to forget to put on a pair of pants before hitting the runway).
November 29th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
I see no video…
Do you think he was meant to walk out without pants, or simply forgot them and just thought ‘go with it’.
November 29th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
Quote: Do you guys live in some sort of utopian wonderland where the biggest problem you have to worry about is slipping and falling? Does universal health care make everyone totally reckless or something? What’s going on up there?!
Reply: Well, yah, we do pretty much
/points and laughs at neighbors to the south
Ever see that episode of Friends where joey loses his health care, but then he gets it back at the end so he puts on a helmet and Phoebe starts whacking him with a bat?
It’s like that Every. Frickin. Day.
PS.
Hockey in Vancouver = Awesome, Fans planning Stanley Cup parade.
Hockey in Toronto = UnAwesome, Fans planning to hang themselves.
Hockey in Florida = Average, Fans shocked to learn there are 2 hockey teams in Florida.
November 29th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Wait,
you don’t get funny out of that clip just before she falls?! Sure, bad news if it was real, but just knowing that the greasy floor is going to upend about 10 gallons of scalding hot liquid fills me with anticipation.
And, it’s funny cause she’s narrating her terrible accident. Listen to yourself lady! You’re about to fall.
on the upside, all that hot liquid cleaned that floor right up.
November 29th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Becuase I’m so disappointed I’m going to post another “awesome” video of the day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dK53NMpmjQ&NR=1
Not funny in and of itself… just a magic trick tutorial, but at 3:55 he’s flicking you off for about 10 seconds.
November 29th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
I couldn’t watch that more than twice. Not because it’s kinda disturbing, but because it’s not funny. Definitely doesn’t qualify as an “awesome” movie of the day…. more like just a “random movie of the day.”
You disappoint me today Wolinsky. I come here to take a break from work and you make me feel bad for the canadian chick who won’t be getting married now. Shame on you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BThfABSFfU is much better.
November 29th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
I loved the blog entry.
FYI: The Canadian PSA is part of a long series dedicated to the premise that “there are no accidents”. Most of them are pretty cool (how could a gruesome accident not be). Check them out.
Ordinarily, we canadians rely on american PSAs to tell us how to live. For some reason, the US has yet to provide a PSA exposing the dangers of doing a half-assed job (not counting the Daily Show). You forced our hand, basically.