Seat belt PSA (Ad Council) - Early '70s

By request: "What's Your Excuse?" ... with some very creepy video/sound effects. Voiced by Jack Webb (not Scott Muni as I previously thought).

Watch, but don't wrinkle your dress.

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Entertainment

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• ad
• council
• PSA
• seat
• belts
• excuse
• jack
• webb

[MightySaturn5]

Seatbelts?...man, those things are for squares

[rwells2265]

Better a breathing square than a circle splattered all over the pavement. :-)

[bagnumberthree]

I don't care what people against seatbelts have to say. If my mother and sister weren't wearing them when they were in a car accident earlier this year, who knows what might have happened to them? Yeah, you all just got lucky when you're not wearing one. Wait until you get in an accident that YOU didn't start.

[WhatsAYak]

Definitely creepy, but it gets the point across, much like the "Ten Little Indians" anti-drug PSA from around the same time (which I have on my channel), or that shockingly graphic anti-texting and driving spot from the UK that made headlines last year.

[billwesleman]

I'm with everyone who used to lunge for the tv to change the channel (no remote control in those days!) or run from the room when this psa came on.

[firereed4]

I fell in love with that woman at 0:27. She's so cute

[vitoduval]

0:44 he didn't get drafted to go to Vietnam

[savoy99]

This vid used to FREAK me and my siblings out when we were kids. Had to run from the room. We'd make that bizarre sound and freak each other out.

[Sirdanforteque2231]

Im going to have nightmares

[TaTgurl1003]

wow, scary

[Juliaflo]

@iswc27 For the record, I read that at the time Princess Diana died in her accident, she was not wearing a seat belt, and nor was Princess Grace.

Seat belts might have saved them both.

[zeepman]

@sr71ablackbird I have never worn a turtleneck sweater yet I doubt they endanger lives. By your logic anything I haven't worn is lethal.