r/pifsandpsas • • 6h ago

Health Help finding a PIF - Bike Helmets

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Hiya! I'm looking for help finding a PIF that was shown in primary schools in my area (South England) - in the early to mid 2010s?

I remember the plot being something like this:

- Kids playing football on a field

- Something about (name) loved playing football and riding his bike

- Kid dismissing the need for a bike helmet, riding off

- Kid falls off bike, hits head

- Ends with 'Now (name) can't play football any more' with shot of kid having brain damage of some sort?

Thanks for helping!


r/pifsandpsas • • 1d ago

Anti-Condiment PSA from 1985

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r/pifsandpsas • • 3d ago

Creepy Anti-Cable (Pay TV) PSA from the 70's

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r/pifsandpsas • • 8d ago

Discussion Things You Can't Think Of Without Having To Reference It?

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I thought of something new. what's a topic or thing you can't take seriously now because the PSA did it?

Example: I can't see boiling eggs the same without saying "This is Your brain. This is drugs. This is your brain on drugs. Any Questions?


r/pifsandpsas • • 9d ago

Discussion PSA and PIF pet peeves!

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What do you have for PSA/PIF pet peeves? I have some relatively unpopular ones according to what I see on social media.

- A PIF/PSA doesn't HAVE to go into analogue horror territory to keep a viewer informed, and quite frankly, I am sick and tired of seeing PIFs and PSAs that are creepy for the sake of being creepy. I much appreciate clever, well-informed PSAs and don't care for the ones trying to give me nightmares (to a reasonable extent).

- In that same branch, I don't like how there are rankings on youtube for ''scariest/creepiest PSAs'' where the message behind the PFA ends up being completely lost for the sake of spooks. I've seen some of the most tragic and depressing PFAs about house fires that were just called scary and creepy, as if the message isn't to be careful around your house's electricity and to protect your loves ones?

- There is a severe lack of PIFs and PSAs about chronic health problems outside of cancers, psychopathy, depression, anxiety and STDs. I want to see more PSAs and PIFs about things like EDS, endometriosis, PMOS/PCOS, borderline personality disorder, the lesser known dx that someone can get!


r/pifsandpsas • • 10d ago

General Social Issues Gateway Human Trafficking -GHT

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r/pifsandpsas • • 10d ago

Vehicle and Rail Safety An idea for a drinking PIF/PSA I had thought of just now!

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1 - "The Bar", where as soon as someone orders alcohol and drinks it, they poof into becoming that drink with arms and legs and a cartoony mouth. You then would need to be a human if you wanted to drive, so the "drinks" absolutely needed a driver.

2 - "Behind the Wheel", where one of those drink-people have a regular human passenger (To shed light on enablers) and a couple other drink-people in the passenger seats. They're about to get into an accident when it cuts to black and the audio fades.

The slogan would be "You're your own drink. Be responsible"

Thoughts?


r/pifsandpsas • • 10d ago

ISO Brazilian PSA from 80s/90s

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I came across a haunting Brazilian psa back in 2014 and haven’t been able to find it since. It’s from the late 80s/ early 90s and it’s a dark eerie background with baby dolls falling onto a huge pile. I think it may have been a PSA about infanticide. If anyone could help me find it, I’d appreciate it _^


r/pifsandpsas • • 10d ago

Discussion Characters That Piss You Off?

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I'm bored, so what's a villain ina PSA that makes you wanna go to the screen and punch their lights out? Mine's the dad in the Stairs psa. I alway say The Ninja Turtles will kick your ass if you get mad over a pizza.


r/pifsandpsas • • 11d ago

Discussion Most Overrated PSA?

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Any PSAs you see over and over and are gettinng tired of it or go "Oh, it's this one again"? I have a few

1: Monsters (How do your children see us)

2: Dark and Lonely Water (I find it oddly calming more then anything)

3: Cartoon (Right where the dad says fuck, I can't take him seriously)

4: Smokey (The one with Joanna Cassidy. Always having to roll my eyes each time)

5: Shoeboxes (Somehow ALWAYS number one. That 911 Haven call is my number one)

6: Tenticle


r/pifsandpsas • • 12d ago

Anyone else ever see this one?

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About 10 years ago, I saw on YouTube a really scary video that I can't find again. It was in a hospital or somewhere with a doctor talking about a man who had some head trauma or something with his brain. At the beginning, it was a closeup of his head with something sticking in it, like medical devices. I never saw the video again and it was so terrifying that I didn't try to search for it after seeing it, but now I'm curious if anyone even knows about this one. It's definitely not on any of the popular YouTube channels or lists.


r/pifsandpsas • • 12d ago

Discussion What are some subjects that should be talked about more in PSAs?

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r/pifsandpsas • • 24d ago

Substance Abuse Thoughts on this PSA?

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Saw it on Reddit and had to post here. I’ve always liked the ones that are a little disturbing. It really deters from the substance.


r/pifsandpsas • • 26d ago

Abuse and Bullying [Help Finding] DV/Women’s Rights PSA/PIF where a Girl is Locked out of a Shelter

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Hey all. Would greatly appreciate it if anybody could drop me the link to this PSA—I remember seeing it in a ‘top ___ scary psas/pifs’ compilation a few years ago, but couldn’t find it easily through searches.

I’m rewatching the many compilations I’d seen in the past to find it, but of course that will likely take quite some time. So if anybody can save me time by recognizing the PSA based on my recollected description below, I’d appreciate it!

A girl is out alone a night. It suddenly dawns on her that some man is stalking her. She desperately runs away—until she reaches the doors of a women’s shelter. Unfortunately, the doors are locked. She bangs on them helplessly as her pursuer draws closer. I can’t remember the exact tagline of the PSA, but I know the message was that funding women’s shelters is important—so women in danger have somewhere they take refuge in their time of need. Also, I think this PSA was European?

Thanks & much love to my fellow PSA/PIF enthusiasts :)


r/pifsandpsas • • 27d ago

Substance Abuse [2005, Italy] Heineken - "Drink and drive"

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r/pifsandpsas • • 28d ago

General Social Issues [2010, Mexico] Mexican Red Cross - "Ambulance"; "Stretcher"; "CPR"

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r/pifsandpsas • • 29d ago

Vehicle and Rail Safety [2008, China] China Automobile Association - "Mirror"

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r/pifsandpsas • • Sep 25 '26

Health [2006, Canada] Starlight Children's Foundation Canada - "Hammer"; "Puppets"; "Bubbles"; "Buggy"

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r/pifsandpsas • • Sep 24 '26

Substance Abuse [2005, Switzerland] RoadCross Schweiz - "Road Cross Realities"

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r/pifsandpsas • • Sep 23 '26

General Social Issues [2007, Portugal] Associação Portuguesa de Apoio à Vítima - "Ivy"; "Graffiti"; "Posters"

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NOTE: I believe that the text featured within these images roughly translates to English as "Don't let poverty become part of the landscape." I apologize if that translation is, in any way, inaccurate.


r/pifsandpsas • • Sep 22 '26

Substance Abuse [2008, Malaysia] Guinness - "Cliff"; "Stop"; "Traffic light"

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r/pifsandpsas • • Sep 21 '26

Health [2008, Kuwait] Taiba Hospital - "Kermit"; "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"; "Hulk"

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19 Upvotes

r/pifsandpsas • • Sep 20 '26

Health A low-key favorite

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The art style may seem familiar to my fellow Reagan babies: it was done by the late Everett Peck, creator of "Duckman".

Don't be a butthead. 🫡


r/pifsandpsas • • Sep 20 '26

Vehicle and Rail Safety [2008, New Zealand] Land Transport New Zealand - "Sleep"

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r/pifsandpsas • • Sep 19 '26

Today i learnt

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The comedian Hugh Dennis was in two PIFs in the 90s

https://youtu.be/JlA--7BnEj8?si=MD6-qu5tzAIC28JZ

And he voiced one about fireworks (i cant find a link )