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|keywords="Monkey on Their Backs, Monkey Screamer PSA, PSA Monkey on Their Backs, Monkey on Their Backs screamer, Monkey on Their Backs National Clearing House" | |keywords="Monkey on Their Backs, Monkey Screamer PSA, PSA Monkey on Their Backs, Monkey on Their Backs screamer, Monkey on Their Backs National Clearing House" | ||
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{{Infobox Commercial | {{Infobox Commercial | ||
|title = | |title = | ||
| | |image = Monkey.gif | ||
| | |imagecaption = Ladies and Gentlemen, the world's first screamer. | ||
| | |company = National Clearinghouse | ||
| | |type = Commercial | ||
| | |aired in = 1970 | ||
|banned advert = No | |||
| | |country = United States | ||
| | |to advertise = The Awareness of Heroin | ||
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}} | }} | ||
'''Monkey on Their Backs''' is an anti-heroin PSA created by National Clearinghouse for Drug Abuse Information (part of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, which is now called as National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information) in the early | '''Monkey on Their Backs''' is an anti-heroin PSA created by National Clearinghouse for Drug Abuse Information (Which is part of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, which is now called as National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information) in the early [[:Category:1970s|1970s]]. | ||
It | It starts with a wind-up monkey toy crashing its cymbals as a little girl's voice says, "''They say, people addicted to heroin have a monkey on their back. Isn't that cute?''". Suddenly, the wind-up monkey stops playing as the camera zooms in on the monkey's face, which suddenly switches to a still image of a real-life monkey screaming at the viewer, accompanied by a loud primate scream. White text appears reading ''"Why do you think they call it '''DOPE?'''"''. This is generally considered to be the very first video ever made which can be called a [[screamer]] as we know it today, even though the term wasn't coined until the 2000's when online pranks like [[Kikia]] and [[What's Wrong?|What's Wrong]] became popular. | ||
==Links== | ==Links== | ||
<u>NOTE</u>: The following | <u>NOTE</u>: The following video contains a [[screamer]]! | ||
* | *youtube.com/watch?v=AegsJYtwccw | ||
*'''16mm version: youtube.com/watch?v=ai3RvxSoCdk | *:'''Permalink''': video.watchmask.com/AegsJYtwccw | ||
*'''16mm version''': youtube.com/watch?v=ai3RvxSoCdk | |||
{{RetroScreamers}} | |||
[[Category:Other scary images]] | [[Category:Other scary images]] | ||
[[Category:Commercials]] | [[Category:Commercials]] | ||
