"Make a Saturdae" old PSA

[JamiJR]

I remember this. And thinking that it looked absolutely disgusting. But apparently people made their own versions in other countries. If you go to AwfulLibraryBooks(dot)net and look for the book Be Bold With Bananas you'll see a variation of this with lettuce.

[Exzesion]

How do you keep a grape on top of a banana?

[TaTgurl1003]

I know it's wrong, but i don't want that. I want a sundae!

[BathingApeCOD]

Best public service announcement /watch?v=LOV9ONBi08o

[scottbaino]

This promo was definitely on in the early '80s, not 1988.

[ntheory]

@scottbaino Is it that hard to accept that a psa aired in the early 80s would be rebroadcast in the later 80s? 

[scottbaino]

@ntheory Yes

[plojka1]

How do you get a grape to stay on top of a banana???

[brianb9532]

that needs some hot fudge

[Darkheart101]

omg banana if only you knew your fate! D=

[Tylerwaffleblue]

0:17  <===3 0_0

[Albylion]

A banana through a pineapple ring with whipped cream all around? This is a PSA about safe sex?

[vinylsoda892]

i think i'll just wait for sunday....thanks though.

[hollywoodjokerpicalo]

how is this a psa.

[ntheory]

@hollywoodjokerpicalo From Wikipedia: "A public service announcement (PSA) or public service ad is a type of advertisement featured on television, radio, print or other media. Whereas the objective of a standard advertisement is to market a product, a PSA is intended to change the public interest, by raising awareness of an issue, affecting public attitudes, and potentially stimulating action."

What is it if it isn't a PSA?

[philiptwood]

@ntheory The dude is probably a youngster. I grew up this stuff.

[kv195]

if my banana on my staurdae came to life at 0:19, i would be kinda creeped out, and if it started eating my icecream at 0:28, i would kill it. Nah jk, this is a cool commercial. :)

[smittykins]

Needs chocolate syrup.

[MrRentcontrol]

it looks like a dick

[MrFloydianSlip]

This is much older than 1988....I remember this as a kid...Probably 1978.

[Justs0MEGUY11]

could never keep the grape on top of that banana.

[voltaman33]

It looked like a dick. LOL!

[lamplight5]

Makes it worse with the grape on it's head.AND it's cannibalising itself

[Aeolis7]

"When you're feeling down, no need to frown, make a phallic shaped treat!"

[TheLovelylove]

I always hated the health/exercise PSA's.Yeah,the drugs and alcohol ones had me running out the room from fear,but these were always just boring.

[GhostAvenger620]

I always thought that looked like a penis.

[DaveTheUseless]

@GhostAvenger620 I was thinking the same thing

[MrBahhh31]

GHAK THAT'S A SUNDAY???!!!

[beerfish55]

Put half a banana in a pineapple ring... OK I think I've heard enough D:

[Duvmasta]

Yeah, that's a good idea. Kill time by eating stuff.

[TheTrusouldj]

Never wanted to make this. The banana spoiled.

[mphello]

Anthropomorphic bananas ALWAYS come across as phallic. They just can't help it.

[A4moondoggy]

no wonder our parent's are ape-shit insane

[A4moondoggy]

saterdae huh? looks more like a penis

[GarlandFraser]

IT's A MUTHA FUCKIN SUNDAY BITCH!

[MrThecarebear]

@GarlandFraser

Sorry, but after seeing this on a David Walliams show on Channel 4 recently, I can't see this without thinking "No, it looks like a penis".

[ElectricIndica420]

now thats fucked up

[Threetails]

Oh wow... I had an extremely vague memory of a banana saying something about saturdays but nobody I talked to could place it.

This was most definitely the source. Did they run these in the late 80s or early 90s? My memory can't be from much earlier than 1987.

[ntheory]

@Threetails This was recorded around 1988

[cdfisk]

@Threetails well my banana told me saturday's were the time of the week to play with it. :P

[GarlandFraser]

@Threetails You can call me the Nannerpuss Nannerpuss!

[CO9207]

Shouldn't it be spelled "Saturdae"?!?

[ntheory]

@CO9207 Yeah, probably

[TheCaptainSlappy]

I forgot this one too! Kids nowadays make meth in their kitchens, not cool stuff like that.

[SuperCartiel]

All of these comments are just great. Hilarious.

Now I know what to get from WAL-MART today. Thanks.

[whoo689]

That sure is one phallic snack! Cum, shaft and head included

[brackish60518]

"That's a Saturday!" I think it's a Sunday, "That's a Saturday!" Could you stop saying that, voice in my head, because I'm pretty sure that-- "That's a Saturday!" It's a F-ING SUNDAY!

[puccaperson]

This kid looks like he was on the USA cartoon express All aboard bumper!

[puccaperson]

these guys look like they were on the USA cartoon express All aboard bumper!

[glennorange]

:09 I remember being a little kid and not understanding why his mouth was moving when he was done talking...

[datothachic]

@ all the negative comments about this old school PSA youre taking the fun out of what use to be something for kids who grew up in the 80s like me into something that so far off base its pathetic.You can tell by some of the posts there are some people who really apreciate a childhood memory.....

[MrTommychong]

Eww that yougurt looked chunky =P

[people287]

@MrTommychong thats because its real yogurt and will curdle unlike that unhealthy shit they sell these days

[5ivepdx]

If there's no chocolate, I'm not interested. :)

[Futura390]

@nathanjamesbaker 

Toothpick

[brianbeercan]

Why a grape? It's not like a cherry is any less healthy.

[slydawg221]

can anyone else hear that? because my volume is turned up as high as it'll go and i can't.

[tmwnat]

Yeah...that "Saturday" concept reeeaaalllyy caught fire .....hahahahaha. Next time, try to come up with something that doesnt look like an erect penis with gray pubes around it....Hey, I know...lets try splitting a cantaloupe in half and putting a Baby Ruth Bar sticking out the middle .....call it the "morning deuce" ...ya know...cause of the two halves of the cantaloupe

[scorpaz11]

@tmwnat Hahahahaahaha. Great idea.  Why not add a few corn nuggets? For vitamin reasons, I might add.

[3DPlanets]

That kid's gotta be gay if he's eating a dick.

[darthspeaks]

How to make a dick in a bowl!

[countsmegula]

@darthspeaks Step 1: Cut a Hole in the Bowl...

Yes, I went there...

[spites1]

that actually doesn't sound too bad

[battybuddy]

Banana: AAARRRGHH STOP EATING ME!!

[OneThousandHomoDJs]

this is a terrible idea. making something that looks like it's supposed to be good but really isn't (pineapple? Who likes that?) and then pretending it's Just As Good as what it looks like is just depressing. It's like pretending that bagels are just as good as donuts -- don't lie to yourselves, kids. Have some cereal, or just nothing. Eating nothing is better than eating a make-believe treat. :)

[ATY9Productions]

make a penis..i mean... saturday

[rdmb57]

That's one happy banana

[afistfulofclips]

that very last scene is about the only depiction i've seen of autocannibalism, aside from a dalí painting

[lamplight5]

I wouldnt want my saturday to srping to life like that

[girlstorm09]

That looks like a real boring snack.....I rather stick with the one scoop of icecream instead of 2 idea instead.... Lol

[Ianprower]

0:07 NO, IT'S A SATURDAY YOU DUMB FUCK!

[MrTommychong]

How poor is this kid that he's forced to wear the same clothes every day of the week

[singinglawnchair]

Did that banana really need to stick up like that? Why not cut the banana up in order to make it not look like a penis?

BTW, the Saturday (saturdae?) looks like something your mom would make if you were begging her to buy you ice cream. Kinda like in Eddie Murphy's "Raw" when his mom made him the "welfare green pepper burger". =P

[chemistryguy]

@singinglawnchair

Yes, it is absolutely phallic. Never saw that through the innocence of childhood.

What always struck me was the banana eating some of the yogurt. I'd think something like "enjoy that now, because I'll be eating you soon along with everything you've ingested."

[10Tuxedo]

OK, We have this song we wrote for you that we'd like you to sing on national television.

[MrTommychong]

Monday always sucks :[

[10Tuxedo]

@MrTommychong Not if you are eating a Saturday.

[10Tuxedo]

Freeze the vid at :11 seconds

[TheBigBuzzBee]

Why is that banana so happy? Doesn't he know he's about to get eaten?

[PufferBluntman]

@TheBigBuzzBee he got into a pineapple ring and that's all that matters.

[MrTommychong]

They banana pretty much canibalised himself at the end.

[BADBOYCH]

That is why I stuck to sundays. Although I would have been less fat had I has a saturday instead.

[supermoocow2]

they should've put a red grape on top.. that would've made it WAAAYYY worse.. but funnier

[lamplight5]

that looks like a dick. I wonder why kids watched this 0_0

[GlobalsoftPirka]

The worst part is that there are SO many ways they could have made this NOT sexual...even just taking the grape off would do a lot of good! But nooooooo xD

[Frostman9000]

that looks like santas cock dont put that in ur mouth or u will get magic STDs

[lakebay972]

wow, Santa's not circumsized

[nerdglassesx0]

@Frostman9000 you. win.

[Se7enBeatleofDoom]

were is mr yuck when we need him? lol

[lumpyroc]

What's the banana smiling about the kids gonna eat him!

[AngryDeli]

That banana looks like a penis

[Immortal1000]

Pause this at 0:24 and it looks the kid hates what he's eating.

[Mystrymeat]

They could have put the banana sideways but noooo

[de132]

extremely sexual.

I'm eating saturdays on saturday

[13milwc]

That just makes me want to vomit...

[321erup123]

Wow, you couldn't show this to a classroom of student nowadays(without having them burst out laughing)

[Lotusia]

I love all of these 80's commercial. Seriously, I wish they would bring it back. Kids commercial now are horrible.

[TurtleDove81]

Ok that banana isn't going to be smiling when the kid eats him

[superleviathan]

This isn't even a PSA at all. This is basically an advertisement for a DIY snack.

They don't even explain that a Saturday is healthier than other snack alternatives (aside from that fact that it even really isn't)

[ntheory]

Hey, you're right. I guess I just assumed that was the point, but the message doesn't even imply any reasonable advantage over other daes of the week, except the boy's yummy noise , but even that doesn't make sense.

Hypothesis: There's either some hidden agenda or just incompetence and bureaucracy..

[SerjHasEmerged]

@ntheory It's called a Saturday because it's kind of like a "sundae" an Ice cream sundae...get it? Geez. And "daes" is spelled days. Only when in the word for an ice cream treat is it spelled daes, such as "sundae".

[Miracle490d]

@ntheory I thought it was pretty obvious. A SATURDAY is a healthy alternative to a SUNDAE as in icecream slopped with sweets and syrup.

[GrandpaTakesOver]

@ntheory I believe, this was part of the "Bod Squad" series of PSA's, and PSA's from that series were generally supposed to be assumed to be health related, by young viewers of that era. They set this permise up with additional PSA's that explained what the "Bod Squad" was. I think this PSA is older than 1987, since I remember it from school.

[ntheory]

@GrandpaTakesOver Thanks for the info, Grandpa. Wikipedia says they first aired in the late 70s.

[spankheather]

@ntheory That sounds about right actually. I would have placed it late 70s to very early 80s.

[ycdtotv]

@superleviathan LOL, a pineapple ring (coated in sugary goo) and a cup of yougurt (full of sugary goo) is about as healthy as your average Hershey bar. But hey, I guess it's something to do on a rainy day.

[audgeyp]

Geez, not everybody sees something sexual out of this! It's just a dessert. Seriously, if you see something other than that, YOU'RE the sick one.

[Iamafishproductions]

Let's see, you take half a banana with a grape on the tip, shove it inside a pineapple ring and cover it with whipped cream. Seriously, 80's? Seriously?

I'm pretty sure this was made by a few college guys in the 80's who wanted to see how many cock jokes they could get away with in a PSA without anyone noticing. Judging by what I'm seeing now, they got away with A LOT.

[Precipitation]

I'd like to see anyone balance a grape on top of that banana!

[Star13570]

lol I know really

[xxswedexx]

thats extremely falic ha.

and why did that banana look so damn happy...he was about to be demolished by that kid...

[comedaman1234]

OK:

1. WTF?!

2. No wonder people are going gay.

3. The banana make have been bad, but whipped cream?

4. That snack looked happy when devoured.

5. Gay snack.

6. Seriously, WTF?!?!?!

[yis2]

@comedaman1234 More like NIGGER snack ;) than gay

[Matrix29bear]

It's your very own EXTREMELY PHALLIC delicious desert.

[jackelboy]

So whats a Monday? Crap?

[tatertotter808]

The same thing but the banana goes up your ass.

[jackelboy]

eww, the 80s were weird

[toxlox]

1 thick pineapple ring (or two thin): 44 calories

Yogurt (plain non fat, 1 cup) 154

1/2 large banana (4") 60

Grape (1 grape) 2 calories:

Total:

260 calories.

Yeah... just have a candybar.

[Star13570]

XD true that but thn again you get more vitamins out of this lol,

[drflubert]

fuckin black kids

[MrChuckles35]

OK, the inventors seem to have neglected basic principles of physics when designing the "Saturday."

1. How are you supposed to balance a grape on top of a banana?

2. A banana will not fit into a pineapple ring -- it will tip over.

I wonder how many kids saw this 25-30 years ago and were traumatized because their "Saturday" didnt turn out right???

[Princessabbyi]

@MrChuckles35 for question number 2, it says HALF a banana.

[MrTommychong]

That bannana canibalised itself at the end

and we all know what that treat looked like

[dementedkirby]

That's not yogurt, as far as I can tell.

[graphixeduc8or]

Thank you to every person who commented on this. I haven't laughed so hard in a long, LONG time.

[Bertonator]

I think with vanilla yogurt this would be pretty good. And a cherry instead of a grape.

[zishmusic]

It always creeped me out when the dessert started eating itself.

[hoodrichGMP]

WORD ! i swear 2 god i thought i was the only kid who thought that when i was little .

[afinlarc]

I remember this PSA. But I was never fooled! I lived for ice cream when I was a kid. Fruit and veggies were the enemy! Lol...

[MarbleScratch]

dsadadasd

[loneshewolf74]

People have such dirty minds today. I saw this commercial back in the 80's, and all I saw was a banana. Now you can't eat popsicles, corndogs, Sugar Crisp (because people say it looks like little vaginas) lollypops, or anything even remotely coincedently shaped like a sex organ without people getting totally Fruedian! Life. Get one. Perverts!!

[gschjetne]

Vulva, not vagina. Huge difference.

[BoiWonder69]

ROFLMAO!! Oh my GOD!! I NEVER noticed that thing about Sugar Crisp!!! NOW I'm going to think of that CONSTANTLY! I can NEVER eat that cereal again without laughing my ass off until it hurts... LOL!!! Holy crap... that's hilarious!

[ExplodingTurtle]

lmao omg same here. XD

[battybuddy]

@loneshewolf74 Yeah, sad part is a lot of times people are willing to go for real long shots to get their childish private parts jokes. I'd go more for the joke that the kids eating a banana that suddenly has a face and hands.

[SuperCartiel]

@loneshewolf74 I'm not like that. I just like H Manga (it's a lot more honest).

[HomeoftheGoodGuys]

After all these years on Saturday mornings, this PSA had gone way too far due to the infamous dessert that is truly offensive to kids, because it looks like a penis or something. Saturdae was a weird and controversal desert.

[HomeoftheGoodGuys]

I remember that commercial since I was a kid, but I've never ate it. Saturdae has got to be one of the most controversal PSA's I've ever seen until now. Just add a pineapple ring and place a banana on top of the pineapple, add some yogurt and stick a grape on top, and what do you get? A Saturdae.

[gommiebears]

I remember this playing well into the 80s.

[mikemanners11]

Yes.....I remember this in the 70's. We were well indocrinated werent we

[CreepyPeeper]

A fuckin grape!?!

lmao

[IvanaToke]

eee their talkin shit !

They better add a damn watermelon on top for me.

lmao

[MercMaster101]

that was great

[IvanaToke]

I forgot all about this video.

Thanx alot for giving me the munchies...again.

lol

It does look yummy !

[comedaman1234]

seriously???

[Guitcad1]

Did anybody ever actually make one of these? I never did. In fact having seen this a gazillion times in the 80s, I don't think it ever even occurred to me to make one. Maybe I just assumed it was a black thing. ... No, the music was way too lame for that.

[Precipitation]

This, my friends, is the origin of American obesity. The message of this PSA is clearly that eating is the solution for being bored or upset. I rest my case.

[ttipoopreturns]

The banana was eating the yogurt, NOT himself!

Geez, what a bunch of idiots you are.

[OctoberWytche]

All it needed was two walnuts on either side.

[dandruff71]

Looks like a Sybian.

[Precipitation]

Hahahahahaha!

[Endocrom]

I can't ever remember having every item on that list at the same time when I was growing up.

At least they didn't recommend cottage cheese in place of the yogurt.

[geekneek]

the banana ate its self LL

[moxie96]

Aaaah! self canabalism!!!

And I guess I'm not the only one who remembers this and had grown up with a dirty mind, I forgot about the pineapple. The banana is obvious. Too many ways to see this in the wrong light apart from tasting very gnarly, the presentation will get you kicked outta baking school and a wedding as a caterer in a snap!

[kelseyisherex]

the banana takes a bite of himself!!!

[daeviant]

The banana looks pretty happy considering he's about to get eaten.

[arvilino]

Imagine how much that would cost. A bunch of Banana's, a pineapple, cream and a bunch of grapes of which you only use 1.

You'd have to make and eat 2 every day(since you only use half a banana) or you just wasted money.

[arvilino]

Thats one Phalic Desert.

[Crackers78]

A grape would never balance on the tip of a banana like that...

[SiHy]

Ha ha! Totally. Didn't even occur to me till I read your comment.

[BigBlueBeast]

It looked disgusting even when I was 7 years old!

[BaubleRob]

Yoghurt and pineapple?? Shittest food combination ever. That would taste like sweaty love sacks.

[curlytoes79]

All you need to add is a couple of small tangerines to the base of it and, well...

[Tsubahi]

I used to watch that during Saturday morning cartoons and it NEVER struck me as anything gross or suggestive.

Just an exotic snack, nothing more.

[Crabola437]

Looks like a cock with whipped cream

[amy027]

am i the only one who cant hear it?

[SouthSdChi]

That aint no Damn SUNDAE!!!

[mastmedia]

As a child, I never realized how disgusting that looked.

Maybe I did; which was why I never make it.?

[crazyshellbullet]

What a stupid banana, you'd think he'd be scared out of his mind becoming dessert, instead of trying to escape he takes the spoon and starts to eats himself.

[alexvlk]

Is anyone else upset that he is making a penis?

...& that he's black?

Aw, I'm jus' kiddin', get outa' he'e!