THE APPLE gives you SPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!

Menaham Golan's 1980 musical epic THE APPLE is one of the most dazzlingly bizarre musicals ever made.  The tale of a Carpenters-esque pop duo in the futuristic year of 1994 that runs afoul of a diabolical music mogul named Mr. Boogaloo is a religious allegory, a disco spectacle, and an unstoppable juggernaut of absurdly flashy sequences that will make you wonder how the hell it got made.  It's also impossible to forget.  Here is star Catherine Mary Stewart belting out (with the help of singing voice Mary Hylan) singing a very subtle song.

Watch This Thing - Teen Titans Anti-Drug Commercial footage from 1984

In 1984, the George Perez era Teen Titans comic book was at the top of the comic book food chain, and there were plans to turn it into an animated series -- however, an apparently-lost animated commercial for drug awareness is the closest they got.  This internal marketing video shows off a bit of that commercial, along with selling the DC Comics roster as reliable figures for a drug-free message.  (Roy Harper does not appear.)

Watch This Thing - Future director Nicole Holofcener in the 1982 drug hysteria parody short ROLLERCOASTER TO HELL

Phillip R. Ford may be best known as the director of the drag sci-fi classic VEGAS IN SPACE, but he got that gig in part due to his 1982 short film, a deadpan parody of drug hysteria flicks. With future director Nicole Holofcener (PLEASE GIVE, LOVELY AND AMAZING).