Bug Bunny, Garfield, Alf, and the Muppets team up to harsh your mellow, man.
Do you remember when Alvin & the Chipmunks, Bugs Bunny, Winnie the Pooh, Garfield, and about a dozen other cartoon stars teamed up to stop adolescent drug use? Back in 1990, nearly every essential television network joined forces with McDonald’s and The Wonderful World of Disney to present an anti-drug PSA titled Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue, and the end result was...well...somehow even more bizarre than you might think.
Meanwhile, joined by an anthropomorphic cloud of pot smoke aptly named Smoke , Michael takes his freshly-stolen bounty to the arcade to score some weed and smoke it with his friends. They offer him some harder drugs. He’s reluctant, but he gives it some consideration. Smoke, playing the role of Michael’s shoulder devil, whispers encouragement into his ear.
After getting swept away by some mysterious liquid, Michael escapes to a tent where Daffy Duck promises to show the boy his future. The image shown in Daffy’s crystal ball? Michael, as that same ghoul-like being, his face sunken-in and his skin practically peeling from the bone, lays dead or dying on what looks like a sacrificial altar. He weakly clenches an empty syringe in one hand.
The little musical number at the center of the PSA, written by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken , has about a dozen of the animated characters trading bars about why saying no to drugs is the only lifestyle for them. “When your pals say, ‘let’s get wrecked’/muster up your self-respect/go on, push eject/protect yourself, get up & go!” is just some of what the Baby Muppets, Michaelangelo, and Huey, Dewey, and Louie all sing in “Wonderful Ways to Say No.
The Message of ‘Cartoon-All Stars to the Rescue’ Is Comically Preachy In a way, Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue serves as a perfect encapsulation of the manipulative nature of the War on Drugs and its ambition to terrify children into obedience through hyperbole and hearsay rather than transparency, honesty, and understanding.
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