peter kay public information films funny

[klisher]

jimmy nooo!!!

[matelot95]

The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water was the scariest PIF ever.

[azzaboi93]

@matelot95 Look up "Apaches"

[matelot95]

@azzaboi93 Apaches was scary..I saw it at school in the 70's. It was scary in a different way. The Spirit of Lonely Water was plain unsettling.

[pudseypumper]

You must be out of your tiny minds.

[zakalon123]

I would disagree with Peter. These so-called PIFS were a form of child abuse.

A childs psyche is very fragile. Yet the authorities had no problem showing macabre adverts to kids. Morbid PIFS for me would always ruin any show that I happened to watching as a child. Although the ones I hated most were the AIDS " adverts" that they made in the late 80's especially 1988.

And from what I hear they are probably going to do another sinister advertising

" campaign" You can make PIFS fun.

[itskirstybetchx]

@zakalon123 Maybe that's why they did it, because they know it would make children listen to them. I remember watching electricity safety videos at school. They were very scary as a child, but they'll stick with me forever and those and others like it have made me a very sensible person.

[zakalon123]

@itskirstybetchx do you ever notice now, that they don't have so many of these gruesome " PIFS" because the authorities realized that a lot of these " PIFS" were too extreme for the public ; never mind children.

The adverts were far too extreme for daytime viewing, yet in the 70's& 80's they put on during the daytime!!!!?

Most of it is common sense anyway.

They go on about violence & sex on tv for kids( and they are right) yet for yrs they could bombard the public with grisly, inhuman.etc

[Voxac100b]

Donald Pleasance....voice

[TaTgurl1003]

funny video

[LuvvyDuck]

This was pretty cool. I'd liked to have known what Peter thought about some of those REALLY freaky films, like "Apaches" or "Play Safe" (starring Jimmy The Human French Fry).

[TheTmny876able]

It is funny how charlie the cat is about 4 feet tall !.

[gbooth4]

Do you know what the show is that this clip is from?

[mrmister102]

these were the days,when the adverts came on and one of these would be thrown in,i remember the dont talk to strangers one,the guy in the car went on to be kevin the teenagers dad in harry enfield and chums that one was very sinister

[MickeyLove01]

you must be outta your tiny minds...

[hellonpluto]

clunk click every trip! I still say that!!

[Stereolabdream]

David Prowse...he must have kicked off, cos he were in Star Wars....

genius

[dougiewhite778]

I dont know how peter kay can remember these films as alot were from 1970s one that stickes out to me was a vicious mantrap warning us not to put rugs on polished floors, it was so terrorizing and another with a kid going to collect a frizby from an electricity pylon then getting fried ending with his sister screaming JIMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEE i think its on here called dangers of sub stations

[cottonwhiskersuk]

I remember an animated one whereby a mother and son visit a toy shop, the boy picks out a kite, the mother buys it for him and they leave. A moment later, the mother is laying face down in the road still clutching the toy box. So very sinister and depressing.

[mistofoles]

@cottonwhiskersuk Yes, I seem to remember that one was accompanied by a rap song, "Johnny was a fool, he didn't act cool, don't step out when you're close to the edge...." or maybe not

[spy4863]

trying to convince people not to smoke or do drugs or to buckle up or drive safely, or prevent forest fires, or give to some charity, or whatever the cause is. European PIFs are gritty, down-to-earth, and take a no-nonsense approach that makes them, in my opinion, more believeable. Scary, yes, but in many cases that's good-maybe that'll scare people into listening to them! If you smoke or do drugs, this is what will happen to your body. If you don't buckle up, or drive safely, you could die!

[spy4863]

This was really cool! I'm from The United States, and here we call them "Public Service Announcements" or "PSAs". I love watching European PIFs on Youtube. i also love watching American PSAs, but there's something more graphic about European PIFs that I think makes them more interesting and scary, and perhaps more effective. European PIFs don't seem to fool around with

silly cartoons and costumed characters and young, wholesome, well-dressed middle -class kids singing and dancing while

[themachman19691]

thanks.they dont make them anymore but i remember when i was a kid watching them and some of them scared the shit out of me....so in fact they did work

[Birdman283]

@themachman19691 We do still have them. There are the "Think" PIFs. There are quite a few nowadays that are car related. The really harrowing one is of the girl texting whilst driving. The one with the person sitting behind you is going to kill you if they don't wear a seatbelt always makes me check that the person behind me does have their seatbelt on.

[Birdman283]

@themachman19691 Joe and Petunia have returned with "dial 999 for the coastguard". You still see Francis the Firefly now and then. During the time before bonfire night there are the PIFs that accompany that. There are ones getting people to give blood. Ones warning off the dangers of not washing your hands on using different cutlery when preparing food. Ones getting people to join the organ donor register. There are loads but they have changed how they get the message across.

[Birdman283]

@themachman19691 Some more are; "Talk to Frank", enabling disabled people to work, warning against not having health insurance abroad, bullying advice, getting your five a day, warning against identity fraud, climate change, threatening benefit cheats. The "Fire Kills" PIFs are disturbing. The car related ones are still the most disturbing. "If you hit me at 40 mph .....", the internal view of the man's heart hitting his rib cage and the man seeing a dead child everywhere he goes are nasty.

[hotelmario510]

@spy4863 Some PSAs make me laugh, particularly ones of the Nuclear Era. 'Tidy up your house and paint it, then perhaps you'll survive the intense heat of a nuclear bomb hitting! :D'

[dfarmbrough]

@spy4863 Yes, well of course in England, PSA is Prostate Specific Antigen, so we couldn't use that! Seen plenty of English ones, but never any European ones - will look out for them!

[PezTing]

Thanks for posting!

[GNeuman]

Awesome!!