I learned it by watching you
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I learned it by watching you! was a large-scale US anti-narcotics campaign by Partnership for a Drug-Free America (PDFA) launched in 1987, that used a televised public service announcement.
The PSA features a father confronting his son in his bedroom after finding a box containing an unspecified controlled substance. After his father angrily asks him how he learned to use drugs, the son shouts "I learned it by watching you!" The narrator then voices-over "Parents who use drugs have children who use drugs."
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This clip and the phrase, "I learned it by watching you", was quickly satirized by teenagers and young adults during the period that these PSAs were broadcast, which has even continued through to references in the 2000s.
- The clip was featured in VH1's I Love the 80s.
- In the Clone High episode "Raisin the Stakes: A Rock Opera in Three Acts", Abe is confronted by his parents about smoking Raisins, and he replies with "I learned it from watching you!".
- A possible reference appears in the Family Guy episode 'Wasted Talent'.
- In a Scrubs episode, JD talks about his coffee addiction and imagines his son also "experimenting" with it when Imaginary JD walks in on his son with a coffee maker.
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[edit] External links
- The original PSA as rebroadcast in I Love the 80s.
- Official PDFA website
