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TIL in 1990 there was an anti-drug PSA called Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue, about Bugs Bunny, Kermit the Frog, Slimer, Garfield, the Chipmunks, Michelangelo from TMNT, ALF, and other cartoons scaring the hell out of a 14-year-old marijuana addict. It aired all around the globe.

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