Episode 242: McGruff the Crime Dog

Sinisterhood

Audioboom Studios

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Starting in the 80s, kids were given a directive by a rumple-coated anthropomorphic canine: Take a bite out of crime! This ad campaign permeated schools and television commercials in an effort to reduce crimes against kids. Its status as an advertising icon is legendary, but its efficacy as a crime prevention tool is questionable. This month’s minisode is McGruff the Crime Dog.

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0:00.0	Starting in the 80s, kids were given a directive by a rumple coded anthropomorphic canine.
0:05.3	Take a bite out of crime.
0:07.1	This ad campaign permeated schools and television commercials in an effort to reduce crime against kids.
0:13.1	It's status as an advertising icon is legendary, but its efficacy as a crime prevention tool is questionable.
0:19.5	This week's episode is McGruff the Crime Dog.
0:22.8	A Bump in the Lights and your heart fills the dread.
0:32.1	Probably a murder of who wants you dead.
0:35.7	It could be a ghost, a demon or worse.
0:39.2	Perhaps you're the victim of a witch's curse.
0:42.8	It's hopeless, you're doomed.
0:44.3	You'd call a priest if you could.
0:46.4	You'd rather just listen to who.
0:49.7	Sinister who?
0:57.9	I'm going to kill you.
0:59.6	Well hello.
1:00.5	I'm coming to you live from the closet under blankets.
1:04.2	You look like the kid in the earning story in the library or in the attic where every finds the book
1:11.3	just reading it enters blanket.
1:13.2	Yes.
1:13.8	I'm bashed in and I'm going to go out and find Falcourt.
1:16.0	I'm coming to you live from Florida.
1:18.0	I'm then Fort Walton Beach with my nieces.
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