LEGO: Drugs are Like That

This anti-drug educational film was created in the late 1970's and narrated by famous straight-arrow Anita Bryant. Two school aged children discuss what they know about drugs while putting together a monstrous LEGO creation which ultimately functions as a motorized metaphor for the evils of tinkering with your physcial and mental health by experimenting with dangerous and illegal chemicals. Also serves as a warning to the many people who are actually addicted - not to any pharmaceutical - but to little bits of interlocking plastic. When they say "drugs are like THAT" they're talking about the LEGO. You've been warned.

This version of "Drugs are Like That" has been edited to removed the various PSA's that were originally inserted throughout the film and illustrated the various points about drugs the kids were making in their conversation. The full length version of this film in all it's mind-numbing riotously funny glory can be found at the Prelinger Archives (www.archive.org) by way of the A/V Geeks (www.avgeeks.com)

P.S. Be sure to watch the credits that have been uploaded as a separate file.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• LEGO
• Drugs
• Propaganda
• Educational
• Prelinger
• A/V
• Geeks

[LadyBGreen87]

A source I have says this was made in 1970... the date is wrong on Prelinger too.

[TubeVisionDotCom]

@LadyBGreen87 - Thanks for this information - I think you and your source are correct. I looked at a database of LEGO sets at the LUGNET site and the one in the video clearly looks more like the kind of packaging used in 1970 than what is found with sets released in 1979. I couldn't identify an exact set from ones in LUGNET's database - there's actually one from 1971 that has a motor and gears in it and is fairly large. Definitely something to think about.

[sobriquet75]

The most drugged out anti-drug ad ever...

[RobotwarsKing]

It IS the 70's Right down to the stupidly high socks and flared trousers!

[CrystalJupiter]

Drugs are like ball-peen hammers and fondue...

[SocietiesMistake]

I LOVE THIS. THEY MAKE ME WANT TO GO OUT AND DO DRUGS !!!!

[L0UDBOT]

What?

Huh?

[Gmancrap]

Like a Neon Indian video.

[gothicslytherinchic]

These kids have to be on drugs. The fact that the kids forget what the hell they are talking about is a clear sign that they are on something.

[misschii86]

Thanks LEGO for showing that drugs are fun!!!!

[3642130]

i hear the blocks calling me man , click, click. i wasted months on end in the 70s with my lego problem. then they came out with the really good space legos in the late 70s, ever since i've been spaced out. not even the micronaughts could save me.

i thought it was the drugs ,but evidently biting my nails rapidly aged me.

[BrianMaki2005]

I have to agree with most of the other posters here.This has got to be the most boring,pointless anti-drug Film I have ever seen.Did anybody else lose track of what they were talking about after the first 2 minutes?

[oHelmslyo]

It sounds like a parody of a PSA made by hippies for proto-hipster irony!