From the vault: Pee-wee’s anti-crack ad

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Crack cocaine can make you cool, as in cool to the touch, as in rigor-mortis cool. Take it from Pee-wee Herman—the warning, not the vial of crack he’s holding in this PSA from 20 years ago. In the boyish voice that made him famous, Pee-wee intones: “Look, everybody wants to be cool. But doing it with crack isn’t just wrong. It could be dead wrong.” A classic of the genre.

—Posted by Richard Williamson

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