- Her mom's trying to get her to be a ho, low key.
- Kids must have been dicks back then, you know?
- I can not believe this was a PSA.
♪ (rock intro) ♪
- (FBE) So today, we are gonna show you some videos
that were sometimes played in high schools as PSAs
around life issues. - Ooh, this is gonna be fun.
- Why? I'm in summer break.
I don't need to see this.
- (FBE) All these played in high schools back
in the '50s and '60s. - Oh my gosh,
this is gonna be problematic.
- I think of that old school traditional "Guys, make sure
you hold the door open and ladies, make sure
you curtsy."
- I'm scared these are gonna be super corny
and I'm just gonna be laughing.
- Times have changed so much. I'm just so excited to see
what they were talking about.
- (narrator) How do you choose a date?
One thing you can consider is looks.
- What the [bleep]?
- (narrator) Woody thought of Janice and how good looking
she was.
- That's not a good way to start it.
- (narrator) Well, it's too bad Janice always acts so superior
and bored. She'd make a fellow feel
awkward and inferior. - Oh my--
- Starting off with a bang.
- (narrator) What about Ann? She knows how to have
a good time and how to make the fellow with her relax.
- Oh my God, I hate this.
- (narrator) That's what a boy likes.
He wants to know he's appreciated.
- That's just so dumb.
- (narrator) How do you ask for a date?
What about this? - I love the announcer
in the back.
- (Woody) Ann, well how about a date?
- I can't take this seriously.
- (Ann) Oh really? No thanks, Woody.
- Ooh, you tell him, girl.
- (narrator) Well, suppose he did it this way.
- (Woody) This is Woody. Well, I have a ticket for...
- Oh my God. The acting is so bad.
- (Woody) Would you like to go?
- Aw, that's cute.
- Yeah, that just seems more formal.
Sort of confident, you know?
- (Ann) But I think I can go. That'll be fun.
- Jesus, the acting back then was horrible.
- (narrator) How do you say goodnight?
Perhaps... - No, you don't, no.
- Yeah, that's not a very good idea.
- No, no, no, no, no.
- (narrator) One more way.
- (Woody) Well, it's getting late. - (Ann) Yes, it is.
I'd ask you in for a bite to eat if it weren't so late.
- Why is it so awkward?
- (Ann) Let's try and get home in time for
a sandwich or something. - The acting is so bad.
- (Ann) Goodnight, Woody. - Oh, no kiss goodnight?
- Good thing there's a second date.
I'm proud of my man. If he was here,
I'd give him a high five.
- I just didn't expect that to be something that
high schoolers would see from school.
- I can not believe this was a PSA.
I can't even imagine that today.
That would just be so weird.
- (FBE) So, why do you think there was a need to make
something like this back in the day?
- I don't know. Was not having a girlfriend
a really big issue?
- I feel like it was very unnecessary back then.
It was very just, "Boys do boy stuff,
girls do girl stuff, so how do boys and girls
do boys and girls stuff?"
- I feel like they were just socially awkward
more back then and just so isolated because
there's no social media. People just have balls now.
They're just like, "All right, I like her.
She's hot."
- Now we watch videos about babies being born
and it's so weird to see back then it's like,
"Well, this is how you get a date."
And now it's like, "Well, this is what
happens at the end." And then poof,
hairy baby. - (voices) Ew!
- "Going steady." No one calls it that any more.
- (woman) I do wish you'd try going out with some
of the other boys as well as Jeff.
- Her mom's trying to get her to be a ho, low key.
- (woman) I know, dear. I like him too.
- Props to you, Jeff.
- (woman) After all, there are other boys
in the world. - What?
- (girl) I guess I have been going steady with Jeff.
- Okay, what exactly does she mean by "going steady?"
- (girl) We never talked about it. - Doesn't really sound like
they're going steady if they never talked about it.
- (man) You haven't dated anyone else for quite a while.
- (boy) But we haven't agreed on anything.
I mean, we haven't even talked about going steady.
- What does that even mean?
- (woman) You'll likely go steady with several
different girls. - (laughs)
- (woman) Seriously about marriage.
- It's so weird how much they say "going steady."
I feel like that's not really a term that's used
very often anymore.
- At first, I was like, oh wait, this is horrible.
What is he doing? Before, dating meant
going out with different people and seeing who you liked
and then ending up with that person,
but now if you do that, you're a thot.
- I don't think I'd have that conversation with my mom.
I don't think she'd be encouraging me to go out
with more guys. Definitely, you can tell
this is from a different time period.
- It's just weird to me that they had these to show
at school. I just think it's funny
how they needed that back in the day.
- (FBE) So, before World War 2, the term "going steady"
was a stage that young people took only if they
were serious and thinking about marriage.
Over time, the meaning changed and a couple
going steady was simply a couple that dated
each other exclusively. - That's so weird.
Nowadays, people just date just to date.
- That makes more sense then, because the advice that
the mom was giving the little girl was kind of like,
"There's plenty of other boys." But I was like,
if she's with him, she's with him, but I guess back then,
she kinda wanted to make sure that she knew
that he was the one.
- (FBE) If they did play this today, how do you think that students
would react and do you think that students back then
felt the same way? - I feel like they'd
take it as a joke in a way because people nowadays
are like, "Long term relationships? Psh."
- This would not go over well. People in my high school,
they stay with some for three days, say that
they love them, and then break up.
- I know a lot of people that are like, "Oh, I'm young.
I don't have to go steady. I'm in high school.
These relationships aren't gonna last anyway."
So I think a lot of people would laugh about it
compared to back then, a lot of people probably
took this very seriously.
- (boy) I don't have any fun at parties.
- What the heck is this?
- (boy) Kids just aren't friendly. - (Narrator) Oh Bill,
that might be your fault. - Tell him flat out.
- (narrator) Maybe it's just that you don't know how
to use social courtesy. - That's true.
- (boy) What's so special about this?
I don't have to be courteous just to call for my date, do I?
- Who is he talking to?
- Wow, I love the shirt.
- (girl) I'm nearly ready. Do you wanna come in
for a minute? - (boy) Nearly, huh?
- Whoa.
- (boy) I'll wait out here. - Are you serious?
- (boy) Don't take all night.
- What the heck?
- (narrator) Maybe you'd better try to be more friendly
this time. - This is just how not
to be a jerk.
- (girl) That's quite a costume. I'm nearly ready.
Do you wanna come in for a minute?
- What a model student.
- (boy) I'm sorry, Jill. - Bill's being polite.
Oh my gosh.
- (boy) I'll get you some more. - He didn't even have to
tell him what to do this time.
- That's just manners, though.
- (narrator) What do you think of social courtesy now?
- (boy) I guess it makes being with people a lot more enjoyable.
- Kids must have been dicks back then, you know?
- (narrator) And more enjoyable for them, too.
- This is just common sense that they're making into videos.
- Was this something that the kids needed?
Were they having a hard time trying to interact
with other people?
- (FBE) So, after watching all these videos today,
how would you describe them and compare them to today?
- They are just not good.
- They definitely still apply. For me, by now it's
common knowledge, but for other people,
it might be different, so they need to be taught
that kind of stuff.
- The first two were super cringe,
but the third one, it's something that should
be common knowledge, but it isn't.
Now it's about sexual reproduction and more
of anatomy and actual detailed science.
- I think they're relevant just 'cause the topics are--
everyone needs to know how to date,
everyone needs to know how to be nice to other people,
but the way in which the videos are made currently
won't go over so well.
- (FBE) So, as we mentioned earlier, all those PSAs
were from the '50s and '60s. - Yes, they were.
I would never see anything like this any time ever.
The PSAs we watch are more practical
and scientific and actually educational
rather than this common sense.
- (FBE) So, several of the videos presented
different social scenarios that a teen would go through
in the '50s and '60s. After watching this,
production value and cringe factor aside,
would any of these videos be helpful to teens today
if they were just presented in a different way?
- No. With teens today,
they would think it's cheesy.
They wouldn't want to listen to it.
- There's so many other people that have gone
through stuff already that you can just easily go to them
instead of watching those PSAs.
- I can't even think of another way to address
the situation, so I guess a video is nice,
but I just don't think that would work.
- Maybe some people needed this type of advice.
Now they kind of-- their main focus is
cyber bullying.
- If we made other videos that were kinda like that,
but way less cringey and more relatable,
then I feel like that might be helpful.
- I think they would, 'cause I think teens
need to learn about manners a little bit more.
I think that would be great if it was remade into
a social version of it as far as social media.
- I'm gonna compare it to the texting and driving
PSAs because those, they really hit home.
So, I really feel like that's kind of how we'd
have to go about it today.
- (FBE) So finally, after seeing all these videos,
do you think that showcasing these to modern students
as discussion points on what has changed in the world
might be more beneficial than the actual PSAs?
- I think these could be still beneficial because while
they're a little funny and a little cringey,
the intentions are there and if you look past
the laughs, there's actually good messages in there
about being polite and the right and wrong way
to do things.
- I like seeing how the world has changed and evolved
from what it was 20 years ago, 50 years ago.
- I think we still need to watch these,
because now I feel like we skip those steps
because we feel like they're obviously the simple stuff
and we think that people automatically know.
We need to show the whole process and teach everyone
the whole process again because we need to revamp
this thing. Everyone's dicks nowadays.
- Watching these videos was definitely a wake up call.
Dang, we were really that different. Showing these videos
to teens nowadays would be helpful for people
to just remember "Don't be a jerk."
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