Garfield’s Halloween Safety Tips!

Some of the videos I’ll be featuring on After Dark this season won’t be especially long, but I think that’s fine? I mean, most of you can’t devote that much time to weird movies on weeknights anyway. Working in some quicker hits makes sense.

With that in mind, here’s another great suggestion from LibraryLeia. Can’t believe I’ve never seen this before! Get a load of Garfield’s Halloween Safety Tips, a Green Cross PSA from way back in ‘85.

(…which means that it debuted the same year as Garfield’s Halloween Adventure, even if the Garfield in this PSA look much more “vintage.”)

LibraryLeia adds: “Everything was so much ‘scarier’ in the ’80’s. There was Satanic Panic, the potential for drugs and razor blades in our Halloween candy, stranger danger and drug dealers around every corner. (Or at least it seemed that way at the time.) I guess that’s why we had so many safety videos. Good thing Gar-Halloween-field was there to help us out!”

Such a cool find!

PS: I’ve been working on a video all day, which is why there was no main page update. I’d hoped to get it done and published in the same day, but damn, even the simpler videos can take serious time! It’ll be up tomorrow, though, so look for it then.