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Dangers of Social Media

So as it turns out, a bunch of kids were doing TikTok challenges that were landing them in the emergency room. But how do you get kids to watch PSAs about safety? Our solution: make a bunch of gross-out cartoons featuring vomit-soaked lungs and eyeballs covered in pus. Who are somehow still kind of cute and lovable.

In which two damaged lungs have second thoughts about getting blackout drunk and drowning in their own vomit.

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Cloud of Poison Gas

In which two sickly eyeballs look back with regret creating a deadly cloud of deadly posion gas by mixing household chemicals.

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Medication

In which a heart and a brain discuss the idea that maybe overdose, cardiac arrest, and coma aren't actually all that fun after all.

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Case Study

In which we explain the strategy behind using gross-out cartoons to keep kids from hurting themselves by doing dumb stuff they saw on the internet.

Credits

EP — PJ Koll

Director — Brian L. Perkins

HOP — Amy Russo

Producer — Mike Schultz

AD/Illustrator — Jason Warne

Editor — Jonathan Flookes

Assistant Editor — Tricia Heath

2D Animation — Jake Pryor

Audio Mix — Handsome Sound, Christopher Forrest

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