Through the wonderful thing that is social networking, I just saw a hilarious clip a friend of mine posted on Facebook called “Don’t Drown Your Food…”

So I started looking, and I found SO many of these little public service announcements! What a trip! I am old enough to remember most of these, yet I don’t. Obviously, they were all wildly successful. Right.

Chew, Chew, Chew Your Food Slow

You are what you eat!

The Timer:
According to the individual who posted some of these on youtube, this is “one of the ABC-TV nutrition spots featuring Timer, the character introduced by DePatie-Freleng in the 1973 Afterschool Special, ‘The Incredible, Indelible, Magical, Physical Mystery Trip.’ ”

Time for Breakfast!

(here’s an ABC PSA, not featuring Timer)

Time for a Nutritious Snack!

 

And speaking of snacking… some more gems:

 

This one’s for the moms in our audience. It doesn’t look like it worked 20 years ago, but maybe it could prove to be a little more successful 20 years later?

 

Wow… Holy crap. I just spent close to 45 minutes surfing youtube to make this little compilation. I haven’t been watching Saturday morning cartoons over the past 15 years or so, but it makes me wonder what kind of public service announcements today’s generations have been exposed to, since obviously, these from about 20 years ago made such a huge impact.

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