Cats PSA - Your Child's Life is in Your Hands - Child Car Seats - US Dept Of Transportation - 1984

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  • The cast of "Cats" reminds you to buckle your child into a car seat. "Cats have nine lives, children only one." "No one wants a child to become a memory."
    Public Service Announcement by the U.S. Department of Transportation and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
    From Focus Delaware 12/06/1984. Hosted by Bob Weiner and Peggy Maher.
    "Focus Delaware" aired on Rollins Cablevision & WNS-TV Channel 2 and WTGI Channel 61 from 1980 to 1987.
    More info here: www.focusdelaware.com/
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  • @MichaelRaabeMusic
    @MichaelRaabeMusic 4 роки тому +210

    This PSA absolutely haunted my childhood. I still remember it word for word. I've searched for it for years!!! Thanks for the upload!

    • @AgentAlmost
      @AgentAlmost 4 роки тому +12

      Same. This one and the smoking one. I was young enough that they felt like fever dreams, that I wasn't sure actually existed, or I somehow manufactured a false memory of, until they finally popped up online.

    • @kateAkaGunner
      @kateAkaGunner 4 роки тому +1

      @@AgentAlmost Michael Raabe they gave me nightmares...I had begun to think I imagined it because no one else remembered it

  • @perriwenplays9215
    @perriwenplays9215 4 роки тому +499

    "The humans had an accident!" "Ok, so. Which one of you ran into the road and forced them to swerve?" "....let's not discuss this."

  • @theworldwins
    @theworldwins 2 роки тому +53

    “There is only one thing worse than an accident…”
    “A CHILD”

  • @RacingSnails64
    @RacingSnails64 2 роки тому +189

    As a life long Cats fan, I had no idea these existed.
    "No one wants a child to become a memory." My jaw is dropped.

    • @steelionx9255
      @steelionx9255 2 роки тому

      Well, except some idiot in Uvalde.

    • @rudolphgonzalezjr.6640
      @rudolphgonzalezjr.6640 Рік тому +2

      You should watch the smoking psa

    • @rudolphgonzalezjr.6640
      @rudolphgonzalezjr.6640 Рік тому +2

      You should watch the smoking PSA that they did, I think you'll like that one

    • @twilightman2816
      @twilightman2816 9 місяців тому +3

      Yes, the smoking one is even better, because in that one,
      they actually rhyme while telling you not to smoke.
      I'm sure you have seen it by now, but still, it's definitely worth watching.

    • @TheLewistownTrainspotter8102
      @TheLewistownTrainspotter8102 4 місяці тому

      Long way to go for a song pun.
      By the way, the child in this? Probably dead. Let's see if Mr. Mistoffelees can magic him back to life! 😁

  • @rjwatson4205
    @rjwatson4205 4 роки тому +292

    Thank you Lindsay Ellis

    • @kevinj4002
      @kevinj4002 3 роки тому +1

      Thats how i found my way here

  • @jakethespoopycat
    @jakethespoopycat 4 роки тому +291

    I died when they played memory at the end 🤣🤣🤣

    • @SachaMullin
      @SachaMullin 4 роки тому +21

      Jake Of DA many sinksnakes So did the child! 😬

    • @anagasteyerchicagoera8216
      @anagasteyerchicagoera8216 3 роки тому +5

      SAME AND IT WAS LITERALLY A LIVE VERSION BY LAURIE BEECHMAN TOO 😭😭

    • @venangoproductions
      @venangoproductions 3 роки тому +1

      @@SachaMullin You stole what I was about to say

    • @kevinj4002
      @kevinj4002 3 роки тому +6

      So did that kid

    • @finleyforevermore
      @finleyforevermore 3 роки тому

      I know! It feels so out of place and forced, but that's what's funny about it!

  • @jjju3
    @jjju3 2 роки тому +52

    the transition STRAIGHT into memory is so fucking funny.

  • @LGDevilsFan
    @LGDevilsFan 3 роки тому +110

    “Let’s see if Mr. Mistoffelees can magic him back to life”

    • @luisandreman
      @luisandreman 3 роки тому +7

      I just got done watching the NC review 😂

    • @Memelord2020
      @Memelord2020 3 роки тому +17

      🎵 Oh, well, never was there ev- 🎵
      Oh no, I can’t do that. Too much of him is separated from the rest. That’s... that’s a puzzle I can’t complete.

    • @andrewtodaro2874
      @andrewtodaro2874 7 місяців тому +1

      That’s a job for Jesus Christ Superstar! 😊

  • @HiLectric
    @HiLectric 4 роки тому +82

    This short PSA was already 10 times better than the movie.

  • @Brad4Ellis
    @Brad4Ellis 4 роки тому +163

    Oh, my - that’s my friend and colleague, Calvin Remsberg as Old Deuteronomy starring in this spot! One of the greatest voices, and voice teachers of Broadway history! Now he teaches in Palm Springs...

    • @kodiibearv
      @kodiibearv 4 роки тому +3

      Brad4Ellis awwh thats amazing!!!!

    • @brittany6781000
      @brittany6781000 3 роки тому +2

      Did he also do the anti-smoking commercial that the broadway cast did in 1986?

    • @marilyn6979
      @marilyn6979 3 роки тому +1

      that is so cool..thx for sharing

    • @DiamorphineDeath
      @DiamorphineDeath 9 місяців тому

      Not surprising…

    • @smurf902
      @smurf902 2 місяці тому

      He was a PHENOMENAL Beadle in Sweeney as well. The best voice that's ever done the part. Ever. Even better than the original Broadway one.

  • @randomusername3388
    @randomusername3388 4 роки тому +75

    “A child”
    “No-“

  • @emilydas
    @emilydas Рік тому +10

    the transition into memory floored me

  • @videogamenostalgia
    @videogamenostalgia 4 роки тому +65

    The moral of the story is that if you start acting and dancing and singing like a jellicle cat you can get into 8 car accidents without any problems.

  • @effanineffables
    @effanineffables 4 роки тому +52

    Came here from watching Cats (2019) and listening to The Flop House talking about it.
    This is truly haunting

    • @kateAkaGunner
      @kateAkaGunner 4 роки тому +2

      Gave me nightmares back in the day

    • @mohmohthesmog7179
      @mohmohthesmog7179 4 роки тому +1

      Zack Antony I came from Lindsey elis and yeah I get you

  • @marcuscarana9240
    @marcuscarana9240 4 місяці тому +4

    Them being so concerned for the child who probably already died was so sad to watch though.

  • @casperrabbit7254
    @casperrabbit7254 Рік тому +6

    "No one wants a child to become a memory" God I wish our road safety ads were this unintentionally hilarious >:(

  • @DistantCousin
    @DistantCousin 4 роки тому +120

    It's vaguely acceptable (for the time) up until the part about a child becoming a "Memory" - now that's crass!!

    • @gambitschema
      @gambitschema 4 роки тому +15

      hey man at least we're gonna remember it

    • @kateAkaGunner
      @kateAkaGunner 4 роки тому +4

      @@gambitschema Remember it because it gave you nightmares...I'd have rather not had the nightmares about becoming a memory...hell I was like 4 or 5 at the time

    • @SF-os4cq
      @SF-os4cq 4 роки тому +2

      No not te sad kitty song

    • @andrewtodaro2874
      @andrewtodaro2874 3 роки тому +1

      Yeah! So buckle your seat belt, or Cats the movie will get A SEQUEL! 8O

    • @DeathnoteBB
      @DeathnoteBB 3 роки тому

      It’s a PSA

  • @CherryHavoc
    @CherryHavoc 2 роки тому +11

    This is just... perfect. Nothing will ever top this.

  • @ElRook
    @ElRook Рік тому +4

    Darn it, Grizabella, read the room!

  • @bwd527
    @bwd527 Рік тому +8

    This commercial scared the s*** out of me as a child

  • @reid3031
    @reid3031 4 роки тому +15

    I hear this version of "Memory" in my wildest nightmares

  • @LillyLaRose
    @LillyLaRose 4 роки тому +17

    This cast was from the Los Angeles production that ran at the Shubert Theater. I saw them before they closed in 1987. I had a friend who was major friends with the whole cast. He gave me lots of cool stories about their time in LA. Calvin Remsberg was one of my most favorite Old D's. After Ken Page, of course!

    • @CaseyBlizzard
      @CaseyBlizzard 4 роки тому +1

      That's so awesome. This is actually from the first national tour. Charlotte d'Amboise as Cassandra and Kelli Ann McNally as Rumple, not sure of the others.

  • @kodiibearv
    @kodiibearv 4 роки тому +79

    well this isn’t the worst topic cats could’ve covered in the 80’s

    • @littlesongbird1
      @littlesongbird1 4 роки тому +6

      I remember a smoking PSA from around this time as well.

    • @splooie02
      @splooie02 4 роки тому +21

      fellas, keep yourself safe! wrap up your rum tum tugger!

    • @kodiibearv
      @kodiibearv 4 роки тому +2

      littlesongbird1 wait you mean cats talking about smoking??? are you shitting me????

    • @heatherzwicker8031
      @heatherzwicker8031 2 роки тому +2

      @@kodiibearv ua-cam.com/video/opYvwo0ID5g/v-deo.html I love this. Especially since people smoked around me at the time, I was 3 and getting headaches from it. (Migraine trigger)

    • @UglyBabyFunny
      @UglyBabyFunny 9 місяців тому +1

      ​@@splooie02so today's the day i realize that basically all the cats names could be used as a euphemism for genitals

  • @paulkelley8699
    @paulkelley8699 Рік тому +5

    Every single time I drive past an accident I recite this word for word. My wife and kids never believed this was a PSA from Saturday morning cartoons.

  • @pellelindbergh7483
    @pellelindbergh7483 4 роки тому +20

    Thank you for scratching the itch in my brain that would not rest until I saw this again! This used to come on while I was watching cartoons in the afternoon. Saw it so many times that I can still recite it 35 yrs later!

  • @onlykafei
    @onlykafei 4 роки тому +13

    They look better here than in the movie

  • @crazycaucasian9342
    @crazycaucasian9342 4 роки тому +147

    This doesn't seem very jellicle to me.

    • @LittleJoeTheMoonlightCat
      @LittleJoeTheMoonlightCat 4 роки тому +3

      JELLICLE CATS have 9 Lives, YOU NINGENS HAVE 1, That's why at the Jellicle Ball we have alot of fun and Raise a Voice to the JELLICLE CHOICE.

    • @raydgreenwald7788
      @raydgreenwald7788 4 роки тому +5

      The smoking one feels more jellicle

  • @MrMuppetLover
    @MrMuppetLover 3 роки тому +8

    0:22 - "Wow, long way to go for a song pun."

    • @TheLewistownTrainspotter8102
      @TheLewistownTrainspotter8102 Рік тому

      By the way, the child in this? Probably dead. Let's see if Mr. Mistoffelees can magic him back to life! 😁

  • @KnaveMurdok
    @KnaveMurdok 4 роки тому +20

    i want this to be in the movie somehow

  • @Dim4323
    @Dim4323 3 роки тому +3

    What a way to shove that iconic song memory at the end

  • @CanOfMinus
    @CanOfMinus Рік тому +4

    I was 6 when this came out, must have played for a few years because I remember it so vividly. For years I had no idea why these people were dressed like cats.

  • @rat7323
    @rat7323 2 роки тому +3

    Everytime I'm sad I just come back to watch this video

  • @GuyIncognito-pm4cp
    @GuyIncognito-pm4cp 3 місяці тому +1

    “The humans had an accident?”
    “Sweet! Free food!”

  • @myleslacey3475
    @myleslacey3475 4 роки тому +14

    Damn you, Lindsay Ellis

  • @montecristo1845
    @montecristo1845 4 роки тому +17

    Who else came here after hearing about the abomination on film, followed by UA-cam reviews, then said, wait-wasn’t there a public service announcement on TV back in the eighties with the Broadway cast?
    Anyone?
    Okay, I’m old.

  • @littlesongbird1
    @littlesongbird1 4 роки тому +13

    A little morbid but you have to realize that this was when the baby boomers were becoming parents and they grew up in a time when many cars didn't have seat belts let alone car seats so reminding parents to use car seats was a good idea as it was still a relatively new concept at the time.

  • @ChuckD79
    @ChuckD79 3 роки тому +2

    They played it in theaters, as well...I distinctly remember my local one showing it during the late 80s.

  • @kateAkaGunner
    @kateAkaGunner 4 роки тому +4

    Imagine seeing it on TV when you were a child...stupid commercial gave me nightmares in the 80s when I was a kid...they aired it a lot in Connecticut...didn't have cable it came over our big a** antenna...imagine watching Mr. Rogers then BAM this hits ya

  • @TheLewistownTrainspotter8102
    @TheLewistownTrainspotter8102 3 роки тому +16

    0:25 Wow. Long way to go for a song pun. By the way, the child in this? Probably dead. Let's see if Mr. Mistoffelees can magic him back to life!

    • @Memelord2020
      @Memelord2020 3 роки тому +5

      🎵 Oh, well, never was there ev- 🎵
      Oh no, I can’t do that. Too much of him is separated from the rest. That’s... that’s a puzzle I can’t complete.

  • @Heyimconnor
    @Heyimconnor 6 місяців тому +1

    Every time they play memory in this psa I crack up laughing

  • @mst3kanita
    @mst3kanita 4 роки тому +6

    YES! I've been looking for this. Thank you so much!

  • @andrewtodaro2874
    @andrewtodaro2874 3 роки тому

    I haven't seen this in decades! Thanks for uploading!

  • @MilesLougheed
    @MilesLougheed 4 роки тому +10

    This is better than the Cats movie.

  • @LordShadrach
    @LordShadrach 3 місяці тому

    This is lovely!

  • @smurf902
    @smurf902 2 місяці тому

    Diane Fratantoni as Grizabella, Calvin Remsberg as Old Deut and it MIGHT be Charlotte d'Amboise as Cassandra (she did move to the Bway company in 1984 same year)

  • @Frenchman27801
    @Frenchman27801 4 місяці тому

    This commercial creeped me out when I was a kid.

  • @dawnchorus8556
    @dawnchorus8556 4 місяці тому

    masterpiece

  • @Dim4323
    @Dim4323 3 місяці тому

    Now, if Dame Judi dench was in that ad, you will listen to what she said.

  • @LadyEvilest
    @LadyEvilest 4 роки тому +9

    Thank you! I thought maybe I hallucinated this!

  • @NemesisTWarlock
    @NemesisTWarlock 4 роки тому +6

    Damnit Lindsay..!

  • @danshull1331
    @danshull1331 4 роки тому +2

    Dammit Macavity!

  • @txwtw
    @txwtw 4 місяці тому

    This is how the cats should have looked in the 2019 movie.

  • @theaterpup3466
    @theaterpup3466 3 роки тому +1

    Oh wow I remembered the anti smoking one but never saw this. Cool!

  • @happyorsadkey
    @happyorsadkey 12 годин тому

    They need to do the psa with phantom of the opera

  • @warfez5768
    @warfez5768 4 роки тому +2

    Huh, took 300 psychic damage for 31 seconds. Gotta love UA-cam.

  • @Ayden_B
    @Ayden_B 4 роки тому

    I just realized the guy who’s Old Deuteronomy in this commercial is the same guy who played Beadle Bamford in the taped Sweeney Todd from 82😂😂

  • @savannahgoogle9367
    @savannahgoogle9367 4 роки тому +4

    "What's the only thing worse than a rapist? Boom."
    0:10
    "No..."

  • @user-yv6fj5ec7h
    @user-yv6fj5ec7h 3 місяці тому

    I'd rather have Danielle as a memory

  • @robercik101
    @robercik101 4 роки тому

    You destroyed my favourite subject and one of my favourites musicals. Thanks Dep of Transport

  • @FilmmakeroftheFuture
    @FilmmakeroftheFuture 3 роки тому +1

    Thank you Nostalgia Critic!

  • @ThereIsNoEasyMode
    @ThereIsNoEasyMode 3 роки тому +3

    What is the name of that big ol' cat that says no child wants to become a memory? Is that Old Deuteronomy
    ?

    • @mikegallant811
      @mikegallant811 2 роки тому +1

      Yes , that is indeed Old Deuteronomy.

  • @medix1203
    @medix1203 3 місяці тому +1

    They are only concerned because if they died in the car, whos coming home to feed them?

  • @PlebeianGoth
    @PlebeianGoth 4 роки тому +8

    Still better than the movie

  • @ryanharrell9607
    @ryanharrell9607 10 місяців тому +1

    lives ten cats

  • @RancidGravy
    @RancidGravy 4 місяці тому

    Wow

  • @GabrielaMorales-gm2oo
    @GabrielaMorales-gm2oo 3 роки тому

    I only know this commercial because nostalgic critic Doug

  • @chemistryguy
    @chemistryguy Рік тому +3

    What if they're a jellicle child?

  • @conorgrier2286
    @conorgrier2286 2 роки тому

    I’m from Delaware

  • @NoButIGotCheezWhiz
    @NoButIGotCheezWhiz 9 місяців тому +1

    It was buffering at the start for me, so by the first frame alone, I had to think about the possibility that the Church of Latter Day Saints made this ad.

    • @FocusDelaware
      @FocusDelaware  9 місяців тому

      There was a LDS commercial on the tape before the Cats PSA.

    • @NoButIGotCheezWhiz
      @NoButIGotCheezWhiz 9 місяців тому

      @@FocusDelaware I realized that, I just thought the possibility was funny😂

  • @srbarkerchan
    @srbarkerchan 3 роки тому +1

    Thanks, Nostalgia Critic.

  • @JMFabiano
    @JMFabiano 3 роки тому +2

    An accident! Yep that describes Cats 2019.

  • @mkaplan1383
    @mkaplan1383 2 роки тому +1

    And I thought the 2019 film was creepy....

  • @Hacylum4791
    @Hacylum4791 4 місяці тому

    😭

  • @inhanhta8403
    @inhanhta8403 2 роки тому

    The Cats in the video looks same like the tigers

  • @MadameCorgi
    @MadameCorgi 2 роки тому

    What is this fever dream?

  • @sanctacaecilia11
    @sanctacaecilia11 2 місяці тому

    PSAs really aren’t what they used to be, eh?

  • @anthonydevito
    @anthonydevito 4 роки тому

    Jane Krakowski at :11?

  • @JMFabiano
    @JMFabiano 3 роки тому +1

    Sup, Nostalgia Criric?

  • @LittleJoeTheMoonlightCat
    @LittleJoeTheMoonlightCat 4 роки тому +1

    Was that Loni Ackerman as Grizabella Singing Memory.

    • @LittleJoeTheMoonlightCat
      @LittleJoeTheMoonlightCat 4 роки тому +1

      @@emilialeonetti4728, Okay if you Say so, I never Saw it on Broadway, but I was in it when they did the Anti Smoking P.S.A, In Red Lodge, MT

    • @smurf902
      @smurf902 2 місяці тому

      No it's Betty. They used the original cast album.

  • @rudolphgonzalezjr.6640
    @rudolphgonzalezjr.6640 Рік тому +1

    The smoking PSA was better

  • @JordanVanRyn
    @JordanVanRyn 11 місяців тому

    For a PSA about car accidents done by the cast of a family-friendly musical, this is disturbing.

  • @kevinj4002
    @kevinj4002 3 роки тому

    Does it bother anyone else that when memories starts grisabella isnt singing and the lyrics are wrong?

    • @smurf902
      @smurf902 2 місяці тому

      It's not the wrong lyrics, it's starting at the second time she sings Memory in the second verse. Go and take a look at the lyrics.

  • @mavemave1174
    @mavemave1174 2 роки тому

    I'm a foreigner, could you transcribe what they say?

  • @pumpkinpatch5
    @pumpkinpatch5 4 роки тому +1

    A child! 😂

  • @aplsed
    @aplsed 2 роки тому

    Fitting how the first frame of the video was from another commercial from The Church of Jesus Christ

  • @mazzoir
    @mazzoir 3 роки тому

    Another thank you to Lindsay Ellis.

  • @Dim4323
    @Dim4323 3 місяці тому

    Also what a way use memory in song idiots.

  • @isthatng6051
    @isthatng6051 3 роки тому +1

    I was a 0:03

  • @tifff_fanny2419
    @tifff_fanny2419 2 роки тому

    This is so camp

  • @agrippa.the.cosmonaut-wiz
    @agrippa.the.cosmonaut-wiz 4 роки тому +1

    WTF

  • @fjz10706
    @fjz10706 4 роки тому +1

    the fuck is THIS

  • @cat-xj4yc
    @cat-xj4yc Рік тому

    im sorry

  • @majogonzalez184
    @majogonzalez184 2 роки тому

    ¿A CHILD?

  • @makerofwar21
    @makerofwar21 4 роки тому

    cring

  • @lastswordfighter
    @lastswordfighter 2 місяці тому

    This is why you don't use furry trash musicals for psas.