Law For Kids PSA

Law For Kids PSA

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About

Law for Kids parodies (a.k.a. "Lawl for Kids") are a series of exploitable comics based off of an educational website for kids. The original site, Law For Kids, was a web site dedicated to teaching children about the laws in Arizona. Due to its campy "youth-in-trouble" scenarios, highly predictable moral lessons and simple art, Law for Kids comics have become a popular subject of parodies and satires on the web.

Origin

The website Lawsforkids.org[1] was created in September 1997 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." The site hosts a wide range of activities for the youths and children, such as video games[2], stories[3] and cartoons[4]. This one, shown below, is a cartoon strip titled "Driving Drunk"[5]:


向 EXPIRES 2010 CLASS SEXM RENOED 2/20%

This one is called "Fighting"[6]:


FIGHYI 3 YOU ARE BOTH SUSPENDED

Spread

The earliest known parodies of Law for Kids comics were posted on internet humor website i-Mockery[7] in 2003, when a site-wide contest[8] was held to see who could come up with the funniest remix of the strip. The site also appeared on Metafilter on December 14th, 2003. Law for Kids parodies have been also seen elsewhere like Ultimate Guitar forums[9] and FacePunch forums[10] as well as on 4chan[11] and YTMND[12]. Law for Kids parodies eventually found its way to Digg[13] in 2006 and Reddit[14] in 2008.

In 2006, a blog styled website named "Lawl for Kids" was launched to collect and curate parodies of Law for Kids comic strips. Eventually, this website stopped updating and went down. However, some participants in the parodies archived what was there[15]. Some small communities still create new parodies passively.

Notable Examples


FIGHYI FOOL YOU WISH TO BE PULVERISED BY MY MUSCLE STUDENT DRIVER MVD ta, MV in 1S YEARS AND 7 MONTHS DRIVING TEST WANT TO SEE SOMETHING FUNNY? SOMEONE'S GOING TO DIE AT SCHOOL TODAY THAT WASN'T FUNNY! TOMMY, THAT WAS HILARIOUS! YOU ARE NOW THE NEW PRINCIPAL IT WAS TOMMY WHO CALLED IN THE THREAT L) LJ PRINCIPAL PRINGIPAL PRINCIPAL
STOPI HAMMER TIME! HEY, MARCO PUT OUT THAT C--. THAT'S MY NEIGHBOR, HE'S A COP HI MR, SMITH Fi I'M SORRY, THIS IS A DEAD END WANT TO SEE SOMETHING FUNNY? NOT REALLY. NO

Search Interest

Current Site

Some of the cartoon strips can still be found on the original site today and are animated now.

External References

[1] LawforKids.org – About LFK

[2] LawforKids.org – Games

[3] LawforKids.org – Stories fn3. and of course,

[4] LawforKids.org – Toons.

[5] LawforKids.org – Joyriding

[6] LawforKids.org – Fighting

[7] i-Mockery.com – Law for Kids

[8] i-Mockery.com – Contest Results

[9] Ultimate Guitar forums – Lawl For Kids

[10] FacePunch forums – Law for kids.org V2

[11] 4chanarchives – Lawls for Kids (NSFW)

[12] YTMND – Law for Kids Headshot

[13] Digg – Law for Kids: Comic Strips

[14] Reddit – LawforKids.org

[15] PhotoBucket – Archived Law for Kids parodies

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