TEENS REACT TO DATING (OLD PSAs)

- 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
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