#dare program

[imthefailedartist]

This show dumb as hell, but I love every second of it.

[melinoelabs]

Public Service Announcement: If the Goo's Alight, It's Not Alright!

Since this continues to be an ongoing problem, we did what all reputable scientists do: we glanced at our WWHD* bracelets, looked back at how we staved off handled this issue in the 1980s, then broke for lunch.

So get ready for your sense-memory of that weird pea-and-salisbury-steak aroma to come flooding back, because we found an old copy of our PSA from the S.W.E.L.L. program! So get your puffy vest, don your giant hair, and remember...

If the Goo's alight, it's not alright!

Lyrics under the fold

*What Would Hasbro Do? **Scientific Waste Evasion Literacy Lessons

Stay away from the glow it's a wicked sight, Kids and teens Listen up Be smart and stay clear Glowing ooze ain't a drink It's something to fear Don't let curiosity bring you near

Don't want that goo in a drink, it's something to fear Don't let curiosity bring you near

Don't drink the goo It's not that cool 9 outta ten it'll make a monster outta you gettin' powers isn't realistic don't be another mutation statistic If the goo's alight It's not alright, If the goo's alight It's not alright,

9 out of 10 (it's not alright)

If the goo's alight, it's not alright (it's not alright)

It's not alright. It's not alright. It's not alright. It's not alright.

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Song made with Suno.AI, lyrics by S. Trent Troop.

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

Pt I wash it down but i've never watched it... and neither have you.

Well, hello there, remember when you guys tried to explain Goncharov to me and I said I wanted to create a fake movie/show? Have it, beautiful maggots. Wash It Down the TV show, mostly accurately explained. Kind of. You know me by now.

Everything is a metaphor, except for the things that are subtext.

The rich blonde girl Carla turns into a deranged psychopath, but in a way that is vaguely inspiring. In the year of our lord and damner 2024, any kind of character development is vaguely inspiring. Especially when it's done by Saoirse Ronan.

Purple hearts this RWRB that, you guys are SLEEPING on Nicholas Galitzine's role in Wash It Down. Which is mostly being disappointingly straight, until he isn't, and inspiringly revolutionary, until he isn't. Dan is honestly just a whole neurotic mess, and we at tumblr do love us a good neurotic mess.

It's a tale as old as time, really. Girl meets boy, girl falls for boy, girl meets girl, boy betrays girl, girl falls for girl, boy falls for girl. Just your average love story.

American cops being shits, just another day on planet earth. The DARE program failing miserably, just another day on planet earth.

Yasmin Finney the gorgeous as Talitha, who is very gay, very angry, and disturbingly obsessed with making paper dolls. Which I'm sure will not come into play later in the s--nvm it's another metaphor for the paper-thin veneer of civilised society in a world on fire with rage.

There is a lot of alcohol. Mostly wine. White wine. Which isn't significant, until it is because it is now also a metaphor.

Inappropriately timed renditions of the Mary Poppins 1964 soundtrack, that are guaranteed to slowly ruin your childhood until the word sugar inspires the inner arsonist in all of us.

First-Twilight-movie-levels of intense blue saturation of, well, everything. It's for the metaphor, guys, I'm sure the filmmakers knew what they were doing.

Carla and Dan are absolute OTP, until they aren't, and Carla and Talitha are absolute OTP, until Carla pulls a gun on Talitha and sings a lullaby to her. I am no longer sure the filmmakers knew what they were doing.

The world is Bad Bad Very Bad. Which I'm sure none of us can relate to.

Love is complicated and unstable, but like, in a shippy way. Mostly.

An oddly specific ring of imagery that becomes so convoluted that it starts to parody itself until the show is a metaphor for the show itself and even Christopher Nolan is raising his glass in reluctant admiration.

Senseless cliffhangers that are an interesting directing choice for sure. Bold, but interesting.

More Mary Poppins. Your childhood is entirely ruined. You become an arsonist.

The paper dolls catch fire. You are now part of the metaphor.

Very cute romance with a lot of attempted murder and societal rebellion thrown in. Hallmark is shaking.

Accurate? Who knows. Not you. Not me. Not anyone... yet.

@queermarzipan @madfangirlontheloose tagged for no suspicious reason.

[doomsday-apparatus]

Fanfiction is better than drugs

[blujaishah]

I think "pink out" might be specific to my school but it's basically a huge fair/football game where everyone wears pink and all the guys wear skirts and bows and it's all a fundraiser for breast cancer aid

And DARE i'm pretty sure all American high schools have but if you aren't in America it stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education and they make super silly plays that are supposed to teach kids not to do drugs

[bonedaddi3]

get high on horror AND drugs

[puzzled-pegasus]

the D.A.R.E. program didn't keep us away from drugs but man it sure made us into furries

[lasvegastrillgod]

Friendly reminder

[binarybitex]

"D.A.R.E. is an education program that tries to prevent use of controlled drugs, membership in gangs, and violent behavior."

[thebiballerina]

That is not even "lying hypocrite" territory; that is just the average effectiveness of the DARE program.

(Are people unironically using "DARE" as an antonym for stoner? I don't have any stake in this particular debate, but I have to ask, because your DARE Robin could do drugs gleefully and I wouldn't even register that as odd. I'd find it weirder if he was regularly drinking alcohol.)

Also, the other things DARE addressed besides (illicit) substance use were gang membership, violent behavior, and other "associated" petty crimes among teens. Maybe you've already failed DARE if your main extracurricular is partaking in an underground operation that engages in extralegal violence in response to your city's problems. Just saying.

tim: sweet dog you got there. gordon: yes, this is our new drug-sniffing dog. tim: still training huh? gordon: red robin.. what do you mean? tim: ... tim: nevermind...

[imthefailedartist]

We're 30 years old, why are you trying to peer pressure or bully me with drinking and smoking?

I get it. You're cool, I'm not. There, I said it now will you please leave me the fuck alone!

The joke was funny one time when we were all minors. Now it's just making me think y'all have dependency issues and mad I don't.

It's like they watched those Anti-substance abuse videos and seminars in D.A.R.E class and thought that guy asking little Bobby to drink repeatedly was the hero.

[zsaaaaszhoney]

It's crazy how something that actually has nothing to do with you can still affect you so much.

In 5th grade when I was 11 years old our D.A.R.E. officer made us watch a documentary about Columbine and I legit had nightmares over it.

I am now 28 years old working in an office and my coworker casually mentioned it on the phone and now I'm in the bathroom sick to my stomach and shaking because of how fucking traumatizing that documentary was.

[teaboot]

what is a “dare kid” exactly? i’ve never heard of it before but i assume it has something to do with drinking based on your post?

The DARE "against drugs and violence" program was an educational program that was supposed to educate kids in grade 5 north American public school about the dangers of drugs, smoking, and alcohol through the late 80's-early 2000's.

If I remember correctly, it was a big booklet we had to read that described various substances in a vague, hand-wavy way, gave a list of all the terrible things these drugs did to your body, and then a cheesy example of someone trying to give you free drugs where you had to decline using one of the described techniques to theoretically train you against peer pressure.

Then at the end a cop would show up and talk about how drugs were bad, and you'd have to sign a contract promising to never use drugs, and they'd make you pay $25 for a T-Shirt declaring you were a DARE kid.

Sometimes you'd get a visit from a guy in a Darren the DARE Lion fursuit and you could get your picture taken giving him a hug while he handed you a certificate. (I declined the hug.)

The program is now defunct for many reasons, but primarily because it was later found to have increased substance abuse in minors, presumably because kids who had never previously heard of the recreational effects of these things were now aware that, one: drugs feel good, and two: apparently everyone is doing them all the time, and they're probably willing to share.

TL/DR: IMO, The DARE program was a preventative education program for kids that was essentially the substance abuse equivalent of handing out Purity Rings at a sex shop

[zevvin]

what would this even be called. apronshipping?

[shittysawtraps]

on halloween some trick or treaters accidentally wander into the trap warehouse. thankfully, the kids assume its some sort of haunted house, and are given werther’s by a very confused john