Monday PSA: What’s Wrong with These Pictures?

September 22nd, 2008

Filed under: Comics

What's Wrong with These Pictures? Click for the full page.Today’s Public Service Ad features a quiz about good behavior, so let’s see what you’ve learned from all the past PSAs I’ve featured here. (Hint: Try thinking like you were born in 1950.)

Click on the image to the right for the full ad, quiz, and answers.

The quiz has the answers printed upside down, but if that’s too difficult for you, here they are, printed right-side up (but no peeking until you’ve taken the quiz).

Just like last week, this PSA was written by Jack Schiff with art by Bernard Baily. It was popular enough to be printed twice, first in the DC Comics of May 1960, then again five years later in May 1965. This particular PSA was scanned from Action Comics #264.

Not satisfied with the official answers? Me neither. Here’s some alternative answers that I came up with:

  1. The man in the gabardine suit is a spy. Be careful, his bow tie is really a camera.
  2. The boys have strayed too close to the old Johnson place. Don’t they know it’s haunted? Run away!
  3. A good getaway driver never leaves until all his accomplices are safely in the car.
  4. Those candy bars are nothing but empty calories.
  5. The Batusi is a more appropriate dance for the school hallways

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7 Responses to “ Monday PSA: What’s Wrong with These Pictures? ”

  1. Sable Hope
    September 23rd, 2008 at 1:17 am

    Better Batusi :P
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eL-Wd5JkCE&feature=related

  2. Eric Henry
    September 23rd, 2008 at 3:01 am

    That kid on the stairs in the M sweater seems to be checking out the butt the girl ahead of him.

  3. Karl Withakay
    September 23rd, 2008 at 10:55 am

    1 I think that old man is getting ready to hijack the bus

    2 The zombies have broken through the hedge row, RUN!

    3 Obviously that kid is trying to get the attention of the driver to let them know their car needs an emissions tune-up.

    4 Someone has failed to empty the trash can forcing those kids to throw their messy candy wrappers on the ground to keep their clothes clean for mom.

    5 That kid is having a panic attack because he has Autism Spectrum Disorder and the kid behind him accidentally touched him.

  4. Nekolux
    September 23rd, 2008 at 11:07 am

    ^ lol yeah eric i was just gonna say. ” Checking out that hot cheerleader from the class next door is BAD … for kids … “

  5. Keith
    September 23rd, 2008 at 12:14 pm

    1 The man standing in the front is obviously Jewish…Jews were not allowed to ride public transport in the USA until 1973

    2 Hokey-pokey failure: The boy to the far right does not have his “left-foot out.”

    3 The runner in the picture is offside

    4 The boy on the left has just stepped into a manhole; say ’sayonara’, Jimbo

    5 Whitey don’t dance like that

  6. Mr. B
    September 23rd, 2008 at 12:18 pm

    A good getaway driver never leaves until all his accomplices are safely in the car. LMAO (I couldn’t of thought of a better caption, if I’d had a gun to my head.)

    ———————————————————
    Karl’s comment is priceless.
    2 The zombies have broken through the hedge row, RUN!

    I now keep thinking the Tarman from Return from the Living Dead is chasing those lads.

    For anyone who doesn’t know who the Tarman is:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV1FKU9Oihw
    “Best of tarman – return of the living dead”

  7. mike.
    September 23rd, 2008 at 1:22 pm

    1) Nobody is reading the copious ads for liquor and cigarettes. These ads don’t read themselves, people!

    2) One should always let the kid with no hands and one leg win the race.

    3) The driver could have EASILY picked up 10 points right there. Fail.

    4) If kids can’t read, blame the educators and the parents, not the kids themselves.

    5) No idea. Someone “left” their razor blades on the bannister, perhaps?

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