This page showcases media in which female characters from the 1997 This Is Your Brain on Drugs PSA are both portrayed villainously and also used unofficially in parodies or fan creations.
Robot Chicken[]
Rachel Leigh Cook was the titular villainess of Rachel Leigh Cook PSA, a skit from "Junk in the Trunk", the first episode of Robot Chicken (airdate February 20, 2005). The segment served as a parody of Cook's well-known anti-drug PSA, which has her smashing an egg with a frying pan to symbolize heroin's effects on the brain.
However, after she uses her frying pan to destroy a set of dishes as she does in the original ad, Rachael turned heel by using the pan to strike and kill a cat. The evil Rachael also used her makeshift weapon to (presumably) fatally strike her grandmother in the head, indicating as she did that she'd used the money her grandmother made from a bake sale to feed her drug addiction. As Rachael left the house and continue using her frying pan to destroy various objects, she also revealed that as a result of her addiction, her boyfriend gave her Herpes Simplex A and she mistakenly got a unicorn tattoo rather than the firebird tattoo she'd wanted.
After using the pan to send a puppy dog flying over a house, Rachael found herself surrounded by three police officers, who attempted to dissuage her from continuing her destructive actions. Instead, Rachel used her weapon to knock the main officer to the ground, and later using it to escape when the other officers tried to tackle her while claiming it symbolized what heroin did to "family values". After that, the psychotic villainess was shown on a building ledge, hanging from a window and striking the side of the building as she claimed it represented what heroin did to the "pollen count", all while a group of shocked onlookers watched. After asking the onlookers twice if they had any questions (another nod to the original PSA), Rachael struck herself in the head with the frying pan, presumably sending herself falling to her death as the segment ended.
Trivia[]
- Rachael Leigh Cook is notable for being the first villainess of the Robot Chicken series.
- Cook also acted as villainess in the 2001 thriller Startup (also known as Conspiracy).
