Editing Slip-Slop-Slap (section)

{{Short description|Australian and New Zealand campaign to reduce unhealthy sun exposure along with a mnemonic slogan}}
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[[File:Slipslopslap.jpg|thumb|Sid the Seagull, mascot character for the campaign.]]
[[File:“A beautiful day for the beach Slip, Slop, Slap” at Mooloolaba Beach, Queensland, 2020 cropped.jpg|thumb|“A beautiful day for the beach Slip, Slop, Slap” slogan at [[Mooloolaba Beach]], Queensland, 2020]]

'''''Slip-Slop-Slap''''' (originally '''''Slip! Slop! Drop!''''') is a [[mnemonic]] [[slogan]] for reducing [[Health effects of sunlight exposure|unhealthy sun exposure]] by ''slipping'' on a shirt or [[rash guard]], ''slopping'' on [[sunscreen]], and ''slapping'' on a [[sun hat]]. It was prominent in [[Australia]] and [[New Zealand]] during the 1980s, originating as the [[jingle]] in a televised [[public service announcement]] in which an [[Anthropomorphism|anthropomorphic]] mascot named Sid the Seagull would sing and dance to the phrase.<ref name="LunnAustralian">{{cite web |url= http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23015412-23289,00.html |archive-url= https://archive.today/20121215165045/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23015412-23289,00.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 15 December 2012 |title= Sun worshippers need a slap of reality |author= Stephen Lunn |work= [[The Australian]] |date= 7 January 2008 }}</ref> 

The campaign, originally funded by public donations, was launched by [[Cancer Council Victoria]] in 1981 to combat high rates of [[skin cancer in Australia]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sunsmart.com.au/tools/videos/past-tv-campaigns |title=Past TV campaigns |publisher=SunSmart}}</ref> and achieved high nationwide [[awareness raising|awareness]] over its original run. It was briefly and less successfully revived in 2010, with Sid the Seagull singing to a revised jingle "Slip, Slop, Slap, Seek and Slide", adding ''seeking'' [[Shade (shadow)|shade]] and ''sliding'' on [[wraparound sunglasses]] to the advice. An alternate version known as "Slip, Slop, Slap and Wrap" was used in New Zealand,<ref>{{cite news| url= http://www.3news.co.nz/Outdoor-workers-shun-sun-protection/tabid/423/articleID/295262/Default.aspx|work=3 News NZ |title= Outdoor workers shun sun protection| date=April 23, 2013}}</ref> where the mascot was a [[tiger prawn]] named Tiger, voiced by Anthony Samuels from ''[[What Now (TV programme)|What Now]]''. Some Canadian cities have also started their own Slip-Slop-Slap campaigns. In Britain, it was featured in a ''[[BBC Breakfast]]'' report on 27 June 2011.

In November 2023, the ''[[National Film and Sound Archive]]'' added the ''Slip! Slop! Slap! Jingle'' performed by [[Peter Best (composer)|Peter Best]] and [[Phillip Adams (writer)|Phillip Adams]] to the ''[[Sounds of Australia]]'' register for songs of "cultural, historical and aesthetic significance and relevance".<ref name="o980">{{cite web | title=National Film and Sound Archive of Australia | website=NFSA Sounds of Australia | url=https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sounds-of-australia | access-date=2024-07-20}}</ref>