Plot twist: this whole movie is just Michael in his room on a drug trip watching cartoons thinking they are lecturing him

If seeing a Smurf and Kermit the frog talking to you doesn’t convince you that you need to stop doing drugs I don’t know what will.

Fun fact: Originally Winnie the Pooh also had lines directly talking about drugs and their dangers similar Simon and Bugs Bunny, but Jim Cummings successfully lobbied for them to be removed on the basis that it was out of character for the silly old bear.

Hearing Simon say 'marijuana" is so jarring

Bugs Bunny saying "what's this, a joint?" Lives rent free in my head always

We all know Bugs Bunny would do anti drugs ads and then use the paycheck to get him and Daffy joints.

Thing I realized as an adult: Simon knew how to identify Marijuana by smell. I mean, not as eyebrow raising as if Garfield could immediately identify human flesh by taste, but still…

This is insane because some of my instructors in college worked on these animated movies from like the 70s-90s and I wouldn't be surprised if someone was smokin a joint while drawing this 💀💀💀

10:46 Imagine if it went like "You're not a cop." "Yeah, you win." *takes off cop hat, fireman hat underneath* "I'm a fireman!" "Not that either!" "True! I'm a paramedic!"

I watched some of those old anti drug PSAs and they really targeted the wrong children. In those PSAs the kid usually had a good grades, nice friends, a supportive family life and sometimes a partner....just to lose all of that step by step Problem is that people who fall into the addiction trap usually are the ones who struggle and need drugs to escape even for a bit. You won't appeal to those kids of they have none of those things to lose in the first place

Love that the cartoon characters 1) prevented Mikey from getting his wallet back after it was stolen 2) didn't do anything to help the other drug addicted kids 🤷‍♂

These shorts are so 90's I can't help but love it. Like- yes it's horrifically tone deaf and them ignoring cigarettes despite being far more prominent than weed is alarming but the character choices more than make up for it because are you seriously telling me, that Bugs Bunny doesn't smoke a fat one on the occasion? And the tumblr sexyman purple guy smoke man villain? Love how deliciously corny this is

The coolest idea for a crossover and it’s a Drug PSA.

7:42 ✨marijuana✨ 11:16 the best line in the whole special 19:56 C R A C K 23:26 “what’s happening?” “🐸drug🐸” 26:51 ALF BREAKING DOWN THE FUCKING BERLIN WALL 30:08 an actual alf jumpscare 33:31 YEAT THE BEAR

Awww a true classic if there ever was one, With Jeff Bergman’s first lines as the new permanent voice of Bugs was saying joint, and then literally a day later would talk about the environment in another mega crossover special. Man 1990 times were weird.

"Cartoon All Stars" is a very unique animated film, It's very interesting to see all of those classic cartoon characters coming together to teach a kid about the dangers of illegal drug consumption and what kind of life it could lead to.

Ah yes. The show that taught us all that if we want to meet all our cartoon friends, we just need to do drugs.

I can confirm, as a kid I had zero idea what this special was trying to impart to me. I guess I knew not to listen to clouds of smoke voiced by George C. Scotf, but that's about it.

That Hank Hill impression made me absolutely break. I cannot stop laughing

I dunno what's weirder. The fact that this came out a few years after Roger Rabbit, or the fact that THAT was a better anti-substance abuse PSA than this. We actually see why Eddie became a monster-alcoholic and see how it ruined his life. The film empathizes with his bitterness, and while Roger does gaslight him a little, he still asks why he became the way he is, and understands him better when Eddie tells him about Teddy being killed by a toon. Roger even says he'd hate toons too if one killed his brother. And, ultimately, it's Eddie that makes the decision to turn over a new leaf.

12:00 The voice of Bugs Bunny was Jeff Bergman, this was the first project that he got to do the voice, the next week, his second time was the Earth Day special. The voice of the villain was George C Scott, you can really hear his McLeach voice in it since this was probably recorded when he was working on that film since this was a Disney production

Unironically a Magic Schoolbus ep about each drug would be much better. Kids would actually understand why kids shouldn't have drugs, and how dangerous many of them are.

I remember watching this in health class back in the early 2000s so characters such as Slimer, Alf, and the Muppet Babies just went over my head since they were before my time.

Hearing Bugs Bunny say "a joint?" is so hilarious 😂😂

I lost it at "TELL POOH TO EAT SHIT!" xD

I remember when this came out. I recall the ads being very vague about the plot of this and just focused on all the cartoon characters meeting so when I finally got to watch it and it turned out to be a big drug PSA, I remember being kind of irritated. But it’s such a time capsule of my childhood I can’t help but be kind of amused by it now

It felt like they were high on drugs when making Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue, quite the irony indeed. Also, Michael was voiced by Jason Marsden. He is known for portraying Max Goof in Goof Troop/A Goofy Movie duology, Chester in Fairly Oddparents, the title character of Jake Long American Dragon, and Noel in Final Fantasy XIII-2/XIII: Lightning Returns. Interesting trivia, don't you think?

I am of an age that I was the target demographic when this first aired and my mom tape recorded it on the VCR for further viewings. Yes, we were completely stoked to see this epic level of cartoon character crossover. But when it came to teaching us to say no to drugs, it was a massive fail. Heck, seeing Bugs Bunny talk about "joints" as a little kid just confused me because at that age, a joint was something like your elbow or knee. I had no idea what he was talking about for years!

I mean, if taking drugs gets me to see all my favorite cartoon characters (and ALF), then I'm gonna be taking drugs.

One of my first gym teachers thought it’d be a good idea to show this to kindergartners. I know the movie’s supposed to scare kids away from drugs, but it just scared kid me in general without really understanding what they were trying to say. The scene where the kid flies directly into that demon statue’s hyper realistic innards feels like someone’s poorly disguised fetish in retrospect.

My D.A.R.E officer got arrested for a DUI so it looks like it's a common thing

Just glossing over Alf threatening to eat Garfield.

And then Captain America comes in like: "AND YOU'LL FEEL LIKE A GOD!!!!!"

Just realized that this is one of the few official times you see Disney and Warner Bros. characters on screen at the same time. The only other example that springs to mind for me is Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

I think the blue "ocarina" is actually a glass pipe. they come in literally any shape you can imagine because it's blown glass art. If you google "sun teartrop glass pipe" the first images are of a pipe in that exact shape. It looks like a tear shaped pipe and the circle is the bowl of the pipe, and the weird line going down the center is the interior surface of the inhalation outlet that you inhale through. They're trying to make it look transparent so that's why the interior surface is visible but made to look slightly off because the line is refracted by the glass. Like the back line at the bottom of a glass cup when you draw a 3D cup, the rear curve is visible but slightly lighter to indicate that it's being seen through glass. I feel like the scene where it looks like dots or holes is because of attempts to make the line break and look inconsistent, because of the glass refracting vision. As someone who draws, that's how I would draw it to make it look transparent, so that stood out to me.

I Remember Watching This In Senior Year Of High School & I Remember My Teacher Said They Didn't Do It For Any Money.

My headcannon is that this entire thing is the kid being on a trip, seeing talking cartoon characters taking him through hell.

Fun fact: The redhead drug dealer was the same VA as Wheeler from Captain Planet (I tell you this bc that’s all I hear now)

Ah yes, every little girl back then couldn't live without a framed picture of A.L.F. on their night stand

Bugs Bunny is played by Jeff Bergman who was the earliest replacement for Mel Blac (who passed away the year before this was made). Billy West only did Bugs for a few shorts, the Nike Commericals with Jordan and of course, SPACE JAM.

Feels like Garfield’s internal monologue is carrying this psa

The Irony of all this is now most of the people watching this are smoking a blunt and laughing

Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue is a retelling of Dickens A Christmas Carol and to add an layer of meta to it the smoky guy in the Zoot suit is George C. Scott who played Scrooge in the 80's in a Christmas Carol.

ALf is now owned by Shout Factory and both Garfield and the TMNT are now owned by Viacom.

PSA aside, as a kid I loved this special so much for the solo reason of it being the single BIGGER crossover in cartoons I could have ever hoped for.

And they say Infinity War was most ambitious crossover in history

I remember my mom getting this for me and having me turn if off 5 minutes in because she thought the villain was too scary

"Mike must really be on an acid trip to see those cartoon characters" Re-imagining artists: Hold my beer...

I love how baby Kermit can barely form sentences but somehow knows about the dangers of marijuana

I don’t know if anyone in the chat mentioned it, but the song, believe it or not, was written by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, who were fresh off of their success for writing the songs for the Little Mermaid and would go on to write the songs for Beauty and the Beast. Sadly, Howard Ashman lost a battle to aids before Beauty and the Beast was released, but he legacy lives on in the hearts of the people who knew him, and in those who have loved his songs. Alan Menken would later go on to continue being a successful composer for many Disney films, and recently in the past couple of years, he became an EGOT. So these were incredible talented musicians, but yeah, the song in this is not one of their finest.

Fun Fact: That song about all the ways to say no to drugs?...it was written by ALAN MENKEN AND HOWARD ASHMAN. Y'KNOW, the guys that revitalized Disney from The Little Mermaid to Aladdin with their iconic MUSIC???

3:21 Pretty clever how the Chipmunks come out of a music record, because they were originally the "singers" of the famous "Chipmunk Song". Just like how earlier the Smurfs emerged from a comic book (because they started as comic characters in Belgium).🤔

I like how for the most part all the characters look like they came straight out of their respective shows. Also, it is funny for them to have a ninja turtle in this and the one that most likely would do drugs, Bugs Bunny probably would've as well.

I feel like this whole PSA was made on drugs, ironically. Also, everyone besides Tigger, Pooh, and the Muppet Babies would so smoke weed. Especially Garfield and Bugs. The Smurfs are also constantly inhaling shroom fumes. You can't convince me otherwise. They're Mario levels high.

Fun fact: vivziepop have once made a reanimate of cartoons all stars to the rescue

Wait, is _this_ why Pumpkin suddenly exploded into my Shorts feed out of nowhere?

Fun fact: This special was only animated in 6 weeks

No matter how cheesy it is, or perhaps because of it, this special will always hold a special place in my heart. I could probably source it as one of the reasons I've loved crossover content since I was a kid. Seeing so many different characters and franchises you knew or liked together in one video? Who wouldn't love that?

My parents owned the VHS copy of Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue, and I loved watching it when I was growing up in the mid-late 2000s. However, it wasn't because of the fact that it was a drug PSA, but rather, it was the first official multi-cartoon crossover I'd ever seen; I didn't even know or care about what drugs were or how they were dangerous to the human body and how doing them at all is a big no-no. All I cared about back then were the characters themselves and how, despite being different in various ways, they were all interacting with each other on-screen as if they all co-existed in the same universe or even on the same planet. (That and the song "Wonderful Ways to Say No," part of which is currently stuck in my head as I'm writing this) It was also my first introduction to most of the cartoons and their then-current iterations featured in this thirty-minute special. The only exceptions (that I can recall) were Winnie The Pooh and Michelangelo. My parents owned home video releases of various episodes from The New Adventures of Winnie The Pooh (though I don't remember if it was on VHS, DVD, or both.) And I had met Mikey and the rest of the TMNT through the live-action movie trilogy from the '90s and the toy line that my mom and her two half-brothers (my uncles) owned when they were kids and teenagers growing up in the '80s. Sorry for the long rant. I decided to write this comment before watching the video because, again, I loved this special growing up, and watching people revisit it after many years of not seeing it or even watching it for the very first time makes me feel nostalgic.

"You know what, the Quack Pack and Baby Muppets have a point. I probably shouldn't have done those drugs."

If anything, this special stuck out in my memories as that one time all my favorite cartoon characters were weirdly knowledgeable about drugs. I also remember it as not being a fun thing to watch. I wanted more of the characters and less of the kid dealing with this over the top drug trip. But, thanks to it, we got that amazing re-animated 30+ years later, which made it worth it.

Dude I remember seeing someone talk about how this was “one of the weirdest cartoon crossovers ever” but I’ve never actually seen it.

The easiest way to get kids to do something is to forbid them to do it. Having cool cartoon characters joining the chorus is merely the icing on the cake. 1:42 Subliminal peanus.

i remember watching this in elementary school. i distinctly remember the smell of the room we watched it in, but it wasn't of drugs.

i watched this with my cousin one time, we had to rewind it multiple times because we could not believe what we were seeing

Everyone keeps dissing on the PSA. Alright, listen, they never meant for it to be bad. The intent was to teach kids that drugs are bad. Besides, they thought having multiple characters would at least keep kids engaged. Is it too much at times? Obviously, but this thing was made a long time ago.

“Remember kids don’t do drugs” otherwise you’ll literally go for a ride, cool how they got all these cartoon characters together to send the message to kids.

Also I feel like the guy character is not just dealing with drugs but probably dealing with something in his life I mean seriously marijuana doesn't make you this aggressive

When this came out I hadn't even heard of pot yet until Simon the chipmunk explained it

This is my childhood! I use to have this on vhs and I watched it a lot! I honestly thought it was some kind of bootleg or something as a kid

I’m actually surprised Captain Planet wasn’t a part of this. But I guess he was busy doing his own drug PSA.

9:22 Funny enough that's George C. Scott is playing a Smoker behind the teenager and I have to say… it's cool to bring Scott as the smoking voice if would've have Bryan Cranston as a cartoon meth smoker. This was released before playing a villain in “The Rescuers Down Under.”

29:15 Listen kid, you talked back to Pooh bear like that, you’ll be death bed along with the dark killer Winnie-the-Pooh from Blood and Honey and will slice down with his slashing cutter with honey!

This was one of Jason Marsden’s early voice roles. It was five years before he voiced Max in A Goofy Movie.

Speaking of Pink Floyd's the Wall I think this PSA could have used a trippy courtroom scene like Floyd's Trial music video. Perhaps have the trial set in the future segment with Michael in the public gallery viewing his future self on trial as criminal proceedings are a realistic consequence of partaking in drugs.

Speaking of indie animation, animation fans and creators alike, did a collab project based on this. Every scene redone, but each animator did a few seconds each. Some art styles, more recognizable than others. I recommend checking it out. It should still be on KZfaq.

Hazbin Hotel characters appearing in a modern version of this (like Saberspark and crew mentioned) would be both dope and ironic as hell.

The voice of the smoke guy is George C Scott the guy who played McKlish from The Rescuers Down Under

I would guess that Alf got a cartoon because the voice actor / puppeteer owned the character and wanted more media saturation and money. The Winnie the Pooh / Jim Cummings comment makes me think of "Comic book, the Movie" where Jim is at a Con after party talking about absinth and seeing the green fairy and being in the place where Poe was.

Did sonic ever have a sonic says that tells people not to do drugs because I feel like that would be more effective than this 😂

Lorenzo Music is the voice I hear when I think garfield

Seeing people learn the difference between (regular?) cocaine and crack cocaine in real time while watching this classic was a treat, thank you. I think the weird little object around 38:40 is supposed to be a spoon for cookin', if you catch my drift. Edit: On a more serious note... I've long wondered what the most effective way to teach kids about substance abuse is. Even as a kid, I found things like this special, D.A.R.E., and "Just Say No" to be heavy-handed, lame, more likely to foment curiosity than aversion, and-yes-tone-deaf. I knew I was being bullshitted.

The voice of Smoke is George C. Scott. Famous for his role as General George S. Patton in Patton.

Only took you [looks at watch] 34 years?!?!! Oh god I’m old!!

For some reason, these weird 90s cartoons make me miss the days of being a kid.

I remember finding out George C. Scott played the smoke and in full confidence I gotta say: *GEORGE C. SCOTT HAS A SEXY VOICE.*

Bugs Bunny: (Sounds nothing like Billy West) Saberspark: "That sounds like Billy West."

7:40 Pee-Wee Herman: “Hey Kids, this is Meth.” 26:14 Also like people acted like it was a big deal for Roger Rabbit to have WB and Disney characters together… but this had like characters from severe different studios and companies put together; sure some of them might have been subsidiaries of Disney or WB but still I imagine it was a logistics pin in the ass to get it altogether. And has there ever been another big crossover thing PSA or otherwise like this since Cartoon All Stars? Can’t think of one of there has tbh. 35:51 BIG LIPPED ALLIGATOR MOMENT! 39:02 Also I know this meant for kids, but withdrawal IS A THING. I mean you can’t just cold turkey drop any kind of addiction of bad habit. And then drug use shows up in blood tests for jobs and schools too… sooo… not really a happy ending if you think about 😅

I feel like a Magic School Bus episode about drugs would actually work. I'm sure Mrs. Frizzle can explain how addictive substances work in a child-friendly manner _and_ without the use of scare tactics. Since, you know, that's actually the point of the show, teaching kids how things work.

Funny, i watched it just yesterday! Such a great cartoon crossover, and to think George HW and Barbara Bush were presenting it at the beginning!

"George C Scott, the bad Guy from Rescuers Down Under" - Tombstone writing Dude is rolling in his grave at that lol

The voice of Michael is Jason Christopher Marsden, the voice of Mac Goof & Haru in Spirited Away

As a kid, I saw this on the Saturday Morning it aired, but they also had a "disclaimer" saying BEETLEJUICE WILL BE BACK NEXT WEEKEND SO WE CAN............... Halfway through this special, I was suddenly like, "...........Why isn't BeetleJuice in this too?" (like they had everything ELSE I watched on Saturday Morning; it didn't make sense NOT to include BeetleJuice).

Cartoon all star to the rescue is a classic masterpiece

You’re 18 days early, but regardless: Thank you!

7:10 those aren’t joints there blunts. Joints are made from a clear thin paper made of rice or hemp, blunts are made from Tabacco leaves

my favorite detail about this is that Slimer begins the short as a real, actual ghost but ends it having been sealed away in the poster

"Here, lemme pack you a lil' Scooby Snack..."

if you want to explain the effects of dopamine on the brain have Dr. Venkman explain it as he is a psychologist

What i understand from this special: If you take drugs, cartoons characters will go in your room and help you... sing you an annoying song about '' Saying no! '' too. Sounds more cool and fun than dangerous 😄 Not sure i was supposed to get this message.