Law For Kids Parodies (2003)

Background

Lawforkids.org is America’s first stand alone web site dedicated to teaching children about the law. The Site was created by the Arizona Foundation for Legal Services and Education with the specific goal of educating Arizona’s youth, their parents, communities and schools to increase their knowledge about youth laws and to encourage law-abiding behavior.

LFK is made possible through funding from the Arizona Supreme Court’s Juvenile Crime Reduction Fund, composed of surcharges on fines paid by those convicted of breaking the law.

That’s how the Lawforkids.org site describes itself.

The site was was created September 19 1997. It hosts a wide range of activities for children such as games, stories and of course, toons.

Let’s take a look at some of their comic strips shall we? This one’s called “Joyriding”.

Notable comments on this comic’s page

On 08/27/07
from Othr said:
lol isnt that guy the cop from yogi bear

On 09/20/05
mercedes from AZ said:
don’t drive past curfue or if passenger knows he will get in trouble don’t be scared to say no if you have any doughts about the person you are driving with ,just say no and leave (ignor)think about the consiquenses before you act on them.

On 07/14/05
Fabio from Othr said:
Bee keepers don’t take crap from nobody.

This one is called “Fighting”

Some notable comments from this comic’s page

On 04/07/09
JEFF from AL said:
Yo man this comic saved my life I was gonna get in a fight with this mean bully but I told him no and the next day he got suspended for bringing a katana i could of died thanks alot.

On 10/19/07
from AL said:
Moral of the story: when a guy with a mullet yells “fight” a guy with a tuft of green hair is going to get his dome rocked.

On 07/25/05
Cheese Boy from AL said:
I like paste

As you can see this stuff is crying out to be parodied.

Spread

The earliest website found parodying lawforkids.org was humor website I-Mockery.com in 2003.

They held a contest to see who could come up with the funniest parody of the strip as well. You can see the results here.

The fun didn’t stop there though.

Making fun of lawforkids.org strips can be found on the Ultimate Guitar forums, Facepunch forums twice, an archived 4chan thread there are even some YTMNDs.

The site found it’s way to digg in 2006 and reddit in 2008. The site appeared on metafilter on December 14th 2003.

There is also a website for these parodies created in 2006 called lawlforkids.com

[[The bottom 14 pictures are the original comics]]