Private Snafu Fighting Tools

[acla9000]

3:46: Stan Laurel must have been so proud!

[israybil32980]

@ 1:58 that is how you butt slap an enemy soldier....

[israybil32980]

The coughing and gasping machine gun makes me laugh every single time.

[sgtpeppers291]

I'm Melting I'm Melting I'm Melting at 2:28

[JRodHacker]

Suddenly, I want to play Wolfenstien!

[Augie1945]

they don't make 'em like this anymore...



[Emanuelmartins69]

Situation

Normal...

All

Fuc*ed

Up

[Stevezom]

@Pikazilla actaully German POW camps treated American and British troops. It was the Rusdians who had it bad. oh and japanese camps forget about it.

[Stevezom]

is it just me, or is that german Bluto?

[pistolman49]

Hey jackass, built in the USA is what stopped the axis. Also it prevented are history from getting you in the hitler youth. This why we are in a recession. Not enough people are buying American.

[crazycrows1]

@pistolman49 Think of this then, when have Chrysler, GMC, or Ford ever made cars as reliable as Hondas or Toyotas?

[crazycrows1]

That just goes to show, "built in U.S.A." really means "steaming turd pile, do not buy."

[ChannelBluesy]

1:55 When out of ammo, use your gun like a club. Thanks for the lesson, Snafu!

2:48 Not his nose!

3:27 If only they had Fallout 3 back then. Fire away Snafu, it's like a Rock-It Launcher!

[AustinLikesPepsi]

3:13 It's musty and rusty and mighty damn rusty!

XD

[Pikazilla]

nazi prison camps... we didn't know how harsh they were back then so we made fun of it

[ChannelBluesy]

@Pikazilla I feel bad enough that Snafu ended up in Nazi prison with no clothes, so thanks for making it sadder with reality :(

[MrSomaliasomalia]

i alawys clean my gun

[ya0ish3lly]

I should sing that song the next time I play nazi zombies

[1Nbielinski]

when all else fails...use heavy artilery from 2 ft away

[davefox72]

@1Nbielinski Why not? Works in my garden!!

[morbidangelofdeath1]

kinda not true. all weapons will fail if not cleaned,but generally german guns could take alot more punishment compared to say the m1 garand,carbine,thompsons etc.

[BenHutchinson1]

2:17 You ideot you'll overheat the gun like that! Stop firing! (Even in Mechwarrior your guns can overheat).

[MrBryBZ]

SNAFU = Situation Normal, All Fucked Up.

[bebeldan]

does anyone have a script of this cartoon?

[GhettoKarter1992]

Clampett made okay SNAFU cartoons but GODAWFUL looney tunes cartoons

[mf1932]

Is it wrong that I have a bunch of the Snafu cartoons memorized? Line for line?

Hey, Dr. Seuss wrote them. They're catchy, haha.

[davefox72]

@mf1932 Wrong? no, it's not wrong. Sick, perhaps, monumentally depraved, maybe, a symptom of a diseased mind and endless childhood trauma, maybe so, but not wrong. Never wrong. Them Nazi's will learn what l mean-o!

[GhettoKarter1992]

Chuck Jones or Bob Clampett

[JoseMendola]

This is easily the best Snafu that was animated... very catchy. It;s almost a shame we do not train our ADD-addled troops with short cartoons any more....

[davefox72]

@JoseMendola indeed it is catchy,,,it's too bad we don't train students with songs. l don't know if this, or "The Goldbrick" is my favorite Snafu.

[ChannelBluesy]

@davefox72 my favorite Snafu toons have to be anything that has the Technical Fairy, I love that guy!

[TheXenomorph1]

That's TOO FUNNEH!

[xscoot]

It's funny; the german weapons were heavily superior to their American counterparts. Propaganda at its finest.

[aYankee102587]

Not really. The German Mauser Kar 98 was inferior to the M1 Garand (featured here), and true counterparts to it and the bazooka were rare.

Of course, peopele usually look at the powerful German heavy tanks, but those were also rare and dealt with when the Sherman was up-gunned.

[xscoot]

You're right about the Garand, and the bazooka (I think), but the MP40 was an absolutely superior SMG to the Thompson, as well as the STG44.

I think their deployable MG was also slightly better.

[aYankee102587]

The STG 44 was revolutionary, but it was also fielded in relatively small numbers. The FG 42, Gewehr 41, and Gewehr 43 were also excellent German weapons that never replaced the Kar 98.

The MG 42 was a beast of a machine gun, but it required a lot of spare barrels and ammo, which plagued the German's overly-stretched logistics.

[SailorCallie]

What I like about these SNAFU cartoons is that they teach you both what to do and what NOT to do during wartime and such. This episode, for example, shows that you need to keep your weapons clean and in combat condition.

[Pinokio131]

Who's side were they on anyway? =D

I know Snafu represents what the american soldier is not supposed to be, but in virtually every episode he gets clobbered by a nazi!

[Gaffenheimer]

Actually, it's often a Jap. Or himself.

[TOAOSpot]

Seriously?

Okay, these are training films. Light-hearted and silly but still training films. Watching SNAFU screw up and die not only was funny but it let the troops learn from his screw-ups.

HTH

[davefox72]

@Pinokio131 No, Sometimes he gets clobbered by booby traps, malaria, rumors and the clap. o.k. maybe not the clap.

[aYankee102587]

@davefox72 Don't forget the Japs.

[Quasimodo1957]

and the bird that comes out of the cannon and says "Rhalley dhaling" is a play on Katherine Hepburn with her Connecticut accent.

[Quasimodo1957]

Besides...the whole idea behind this was "we have superior weapons. Maintain them and you'll win".

[Quasimodo1957]

The Garand rifle. Best weapon at the time during WW2. Especially since at the time the Germans were so much more advanced. The German assault rifle was the precursor to the AK47.

But this rifle was the state of the art in weaponry as the Germans had the bolt action rifle in use.

Only problem with this weapon...both the Germans and the Japanese listened for the "ping" when the magazine emptied.

Then it was time to advance.

[Gaffenheimer]

Though there was really nothing special about the browning machine gun shown.

[doctorwholordotime]

yes you are correct in the term that the ping would kill us but we would shoot of a few rounds than trow down an empty clip than once they stood up we shot at em

[doctorwholordotime]

off and throw

[SUPERSIXTH]

the ping sound is more myth then faxt

[TheAKgunner]

One trick our guys used was to fire a few shots and then throw an empty clip on the ground. The enemy hears a "ping", thinks, 'he's out!', charges and ends up dead.

[CruelestChris]

@TheAKgunner

This works only if you are the only person in the entire area firing a gun. Otherwise the enemy is too busy hearing them firing at you, you firing at them or some combination thereof to hear anything going ping.

[TheAKgunner]

@CruelestChris Fair point.

[deathwatch72]

They need cartoons like these in the military today.

[Mr111989]

@deathwatch72, The military definitely needs more cartoons like this but how many of them would be produced before some of our Senators would get up in arms about it and want them pulled from circulation?

[ZaktheVampire]

COsidering the year I'm pretty sure it is the man that did Bugs Bunny's voice. He was very popular for WWII cartoon voices back then

[davefox72]

Wow Kaela...thanks for stopping by and commenting. His name is Mel Blanc, and yes he voiced virtually every warner brothers cartoon character there ever was. How did you stumble upon this?

[Shniki2000]

ahaha that really does sound like bugs :)

[davefox72]

Thanks for noticing..you really do have a good ear. Glad to see you Canucks enjoy a good cartoon as well. BTW, dialog written by Dr Seuss.

[Shniki2000]

yeah I noticed that from reading that's pretty cool :)

[Savior20061]

Pretty harsh on Snafu.

[Gvanillavodka]

lol  1:04

[cha0scl0ud]

Way to ruin that M1917 bucko!

[davefox72]

l wonder if you let an m1917 just go cyclic with, say, a mile long belt of ammo (and no water, btw l think waterjackets were obsolete by WW11), l wonder what would fail first?

[cha0scl0ud]

I would be willing to bet the barrel would fail before anything else. I've seen results of a LOT of continuous fire tests of automatic guns, and it's typically the barrel (and handguards) that gives up the ghost first.

[spindalis79]

That cannon behind Snafu's tent is so friggin' rotoscoped!

[RedwoodTheElf]

That would be impossible, since Rotoscoping wasn't invented until the 1960s.

[anothernicemess]

Baloney, rotoscoping was invented by the Fleischer bros (the studio that made Popeye) and patented in 1917! Read wikipedia.

[TheShoeOfMattie]

No Rotoscope. Just pure cartooning by the most talented artists in history

[Katana991]

Just curious, what is a rotoscope?

[TheShoeOfMattie]

That's when live-action footage is traced over with cartoon characters to get a "realistic" feel, or to cheat.

[Katana991]

They still use a technique similar to that today! I can't believe I didn't know that!!!!

[Supergungun]

Is the lesson in this to avoid rhyming Nazis?

[WolfLord5]

Indeed

[JoseMendola]

Just because you have the most advanced tools, does not necessairly mean you know how to use them.

[Quasimodo1957]

These cartoon were produced strictly for the armed forces as a 'what not to do' type primer. They were released for public viewing about 1952.

The point of this one is failure to maintain your weapons. Advanced weapons are superior but are only as good as the soldier who keeps them in working order.

[cha0scl0ud]

Of course you could just issue everyone something like the AK... but then you couldn't hit anything from a distance lol.

BTW, this song is awesome. Greatest generation for sure.

[xarealpersonx]

SNAFU is just plain awesome

[davefox72]

Yes, yes it is.

[enterthafatass]

doesnt snafu stand for situation normal all fucked up?

[davefox72]

Yes it does.

[steers83bravo]

I love the part with the switchblade

"eep!"

[davefox72]

I LOVE LOVE LOVE why terrorists don't use Volkswagons. Have sent it to everyone in my Stumble Group. Thank you for commenting on my video, and having such excellent and brilliant tastes!!! (Found it on your page)

[steers83bravo]

oh your very welcome!

I'm glad you found my page!

[spindalis79]

Can you upload Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike? Basically Snafu vs. a mosquito.

[thegeneralofcap]

I love watching these old WWII "training" videos. SNAFU is actually a military situation code: Situation Normal; All Fucked Up.

[1nicky14]

SNAFU is also written by Dr.Suess! i bet u guys didnt no that....

[Justinak74]

my great grand father told me about these movies

[davefox72]

glad i helped you get a chance to see them!

[Justinak74]

thanks for that man

[thechaddling]

Great video Dave! Man you sure are cool!

[baxterfilms]

Yours is in the correct audio davefox