Infamous Duck and Cover cartoon

[Adult0Swims]

Imagine all does people vaporizing after the flash xD.

[RashidAbuYusuf]

HAHAHA!! OH I CANT STOP LAUGHING!!!! HELP!!!

[HamonLord]

what year is this?

[theoriginalpeachpie]

@HamonLord  1951

[HamonLord]

@theoriginalpeachpie The 1950's Eh?

[theoriginalpeachpie]

@HamonLord Well as far as I read, yes. And also a big hint is that this same video appears on the right side of this screen in the "related video" section and it's named "Bert the Turtle: Duck and Cover (1951)". So as long as that's correct, then yes, lol.

[HamonLord]

@theoriginalpeachpie the 50's were something, weren't they?

[theoriginalpeachpie]

@HamonLord Yupper. But....but I guess I find just about every decade interesting in one regard or another. So.....I wondering, how'd you end up watching this vid? I can't even remember how I got to this page, lol.

[HamonLord]

@theoriginalpeachpie I got to this page from an embedded vid on another forum. 

[theoriginalpeachpie]

I like the guy who falls to the ground and throws a newspaper over his head.

Nothing like a sturdy piece of pulp to ward off 20Gy worth of radiation beating down on your head....

[RashidAbuYusuf]

@theoriginalpeachpie LOOOOOOOOL!!!! OOH MAN... I'M CRYING OVER HERE!!!



[theoriginalpeachpie]

@RashidAbuYusuf : )



[theoriginalpeachpie]

@RashidAbuYusuf : )

[tylerjl101]

i dunk and covered and it scared the shit out of my mom

[tylerjl101]

my school says they might start doing this

[gcybercarl]

I remember watching this and having duck and cover drills in elementary school, like fire drills, where we hid under our desks. It terrified lots of kids, so they stopped doing it. The possibility of being hit by a nuclear weapons seem remote now. Back then, it seemed inevitable.

[CaptnObviouss]

I watched this in history!!!! We talked of it for aaaaggggfges

[Geraldtoo]

Kilroy was here!!!

[eisemanrenyardjake]

As if that would save you from a nuclear explosion...

[takarifan]

I'm going to do this if I'm about to die in an atomic blast.

[TrebleClefSinger]

Planking of the 50's...

[Uvastiker333]

it would be fun to run around town with a flash-photography camera back then.

[dougcapehart]

If you are far enough away from the blast, this could actually save you from being severely burned

[jlboy112]

ducking and covering your self will not save you from the radiation poisoning.

what was the U.S. thinking when they made this clip.

[mygamingz]

MANS1AY3ER

[Brawlsmash]

I want to see a turtle that stayed safe during an atom bomb xD

[mrsuns10]

This is dumb we would die within minutes from the radiation

[theultimatehunt1]

YOUR SUPPOSED TO GET UP A LOOK INTO THE FLASH AS THE SHOCK WAVE SMASHES YOU TO DEATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[goodguitaristatmetal]

KEVLAR UMBRELLA GO!

[Jumpybeaver]

LOL They should show this in schools again. But this time, have the students point out everything that makes it wrong.

[GuardianArbiter]

@Jumpybeaver we actually did this in my chemistry class.

[WeatherMondacicci]

my mom remembers having to do these drills at school. She thought that even then that it wasn't going to do shit if an A-bomb went off and that we would die of radiation

[Muffler181]

haha the end should have shown a zombie and said "ah ah ah sally, did somebody forget to duck and cover?"

[Armpitshowdown7]

ya quick everyone if there is ever an atomic bomb dropped go grab a stack of newspaper and cower under that, it will save you for sure!!!

[lweezy2040]

who honestly believed this shit??!!

[theultimatehunt1]

GOTTA LOVE THESE OLD FILMS!

in real life. doesnt matter your screwed either way!

if it was an atomic bomb!

[muchmaplevideoz]

Quick! Everyone hide under a newspaper! That will save you for sure!

[maullster]

imagine if this actually worked

[juggalettechick96]

oh god! no! a fuckin nuke! wat'll i do???? SHIIIITTTTT! *BOOM* *BLOWS IN TO PIECES* Fuck, if only i'da ducked n covered.

[iNomTorndados]

gahhhhhhh, my back is melting off, and my fingers are just bone! intanse radiaton! wait, i might get a cool blast of air for the nucklear blast waaaaave!(flys off) but i ducked and covered. if a nucklear bomb goes off, i'm kissing the hottest girl that is closest to me, or fliping off the air and say something cool at the time being.

[fredsucks675]

Duck, cover, then what do ya do? NUCLEAR RETALIATION BITCH!

[aldeshsa]

Stick your head under a newspaper or a tablecloth. That'll save your ass. LOL!!!

[Allcanadian79]

duck and cover then kiss your ass good bye

[nssmuckers]

My wooden desk is supposed to protect me from a FIRE-FUCK-BALL

[djoktokensashi]

apparently

[psymondarkk]

YEAH, now I understand one episode of south park :D

[cassnkate]

i saw this a few weeks ago in class

[Videogamekid1992]

DUCK AND COVER! Lol. I just saw this in class yesterday. It had me rollin.

[vinylblues]

No wonder drugs were so prevalent in the '60s, yeesh.

[xde18]

The desk will save you form the burn but not death!

[skrich2]

The point of the video isn't to save yourself from "the atom bomb" its purpose to give people some comfort of "a plan" in there last moments. What should the government say, bend over and get ready to be boiled alive. Or perhaps the government should endorse massive panic. Propaganda is needed in war time to calm people, it is important for a country fighting a war overseas to maintain some normalcy in war time. This harmless propaganda is better than the dehumanizing the enemy stuff.

[CatZilla2007]

I agree...its meant to calm people down rather than have them panic during their last moments. why anyone would give you a poor rating just because you spoke the truth.

[Pendulum711]

yeah this is true, but lets face it, its completely UNeducational, in an xtra 2 mins, they coulda educated ppl about fallout following wind currents, contamination making it was down to low lying areas of water bodies, and on and on, if all i knew waz this vid, id probably walk towards ground zero to see wot happened

[TheT4xid3rmist]

THANK YOU. I've been telling this to people for years and finally somebody gets it.

[tml4873]

@skrich2 "Sundays, holidays, vacation time, we must be ready every day ALL THE TIME to do the right thing if the atomic bomb explodes." Sounds more like spreading paranoia than providing comfort. I'm sure people from that era will tell you they were more terrified than comforted by shit like this.

[rcarrillo7]

@skrich2 There wouldn't be time to panic if we were to get hit by a nuclear bomb.

[overmind2]

ducking and covering wont save your from a nuke, you will be vaporized within 10 milliseconds and even if you did survive you would die of radiation poisoning or the building will collapse on you.

[manopike]

Right.

[poetry276]

what happened to the monkey when the "bomb"

went off?

[bulbheadmyass]

Yeah, I remember that's what we were taught to do, and I don't recall anybody questioning exactly how this would protect us.

[KairiAngel]

Because hiding under wood will save you from fire and radiation. :<

[lindaklase]

We did this in the US when I was growing up.

They left out a few important words,

"Duck and Cover

and

Kiss your Ass Good-Bye."

[theone23ord]

nothing changes

TERRA! TERRA! TERRA!

50's style

Be afraid of SOMETHING..ANYTHING..so we can steal

your money (taxes, fines, levies...etc.)

[Oilwellian]

My father, always the pragmatist, taught me to run towards the light should a nuclear bomb explode nearby. Nonetheless, I remember these silly little drills, and there I'd be, ducking under my desk, giggling like a loon. D

[sarwar26]

How the FUCK are you gonna be safe when an Atom bomb explodes.

Dumb yanks.

Unless they are trying to scare you. Which will mean they are not so dumb.

ALL THE REAL AMERICAN PATRIOTS SHOULD REQUEST A PUBLIC ENQUIRY INTO 911. ITS BEEN NEARLY 8 YEARS AND NO ENQUIRY.

WHERE IS YOUR FREEDOM?

[blackiris1]

This is how u can brainwash people, by putting them in situations letting them believe there is a monster coming and how can you avoid it, history repeats itself now, islam is the monster now and everyone has to know how to cover himself from this threat... wake up.... everyone...

[bushuraloser]

Now its wrap your house in plastic and duct tape.Interesting only one fool did this as I recall.Yes Duck and cover.

[wiskawind]

I am 58 and I remember getting under my desk at school during drills. We are in worst shape now with our own government; I stopped spending two years ago and have put up supplies for my family!

[nellaseven]

everyone saw the mushroom cloud and heard the no. of casualties, so no one ever believed this? right? right? lol the biggest obstacle to freedom is what people choose to believe when the answers to questions they don't want asked are self evident.

[Rebelghost]

It's a nuclear bomb,get under the table!

[cameron223]

hahaha thats wase funny

[piasillo]

I'm 54 and remember these films vividly. During the Cuban Missile Crisis we would have air raid drills and run into our basements and hide in a closet. Heavily edited version of the original here.

[walkingbear56]

Another wonderful piece of propaganda....I think putting your head between your legs and kissing your ass goodbye was also suggested

[karlaelisa]

walkingbear...fabulous. just fabulous way to simulate duck and cover...my school was not so gifted with alternative choices.

[Googlespyware]

Fear/Deception to con-trol the masses,and now terror!(look up False Flags)

[sarwar26]

LOOK UP OPERATION NORTHWOODS

[Shino168]

what if they still did that?

[BrosaJarlen]

Go to Hiroshima and Nagasaki and ask if it helped any. Fear is a marvelous way to control people. It's been used in every facsist regime.

[eddietru]

DUCK AL QAEDA -DUCK AL QAEDA

[totalnerd747]

Duck and cover translated:

Put your head between your knees and kiss your ass goodbye

[orphandrift]

Seems like fear was so much more... FUN in the 50's.

[eddietru]

lol

[karlaelisa]

i TOO remember these being the answer to nukes in the 60's. duck and cover...we ALL learned this primary school dude...but TODAY we know that plastic and duct tape are the REAL answer to the big bomb...

[eddietru]

growing up afraid in the 1950s has anything changed in 2007

[grantdwalker1]

Classic stuff.

[Kris1907]

I'm barely in my 20's but I remember watching these in pre-K and such. The video is childish because this is the CHILD version of it all. And it began in the 1950's and I guess, if there was a chance of a bomb going off at any second, I would have existed better "knowing" that I had something to do to protect myself - rather than truly knowing I am dead no matter what.

[Lava1964]

I feel safer now.

[Panchosama2]

OMG, I think an umbrella will work better in this cases!

[mastud]

This sent chills down my spine!

[playgarden]

Duck and cover this ..i..

[fiver316]

in an atomic bomb attack, this advice would of done nothing. you'd be dead! duck and cover my arse.

very stupid and unrealistic.

[ivanradosevic]

It's terrible to present such an emergency procedure in such a childish way. 1950's were so innocent and childish.

[huggyface]

Yeah, and back then you'd actually have thought smoking was GOOD FOR YOU! (Before the health warnings became public I Guess) LOL If only I'd have been alive back then heehee

[americanaccents]

Look at all those white bread retards ducking and covering.

[cakeevanx]

well, the government kept repeating the same BS again and again...until people believed it. is it any different now?

[Sonichuman]

It didn't help in Hiroshima because they didn't have these videos you damn commie!

[GrahamChapman]

Oh, so estimatidly 140,000 people would've survived if they had only hidden under their tables? That's a very interesting theory... But stupid... Btw, you can call me a commie too if you want. I'd rather live in a fake communistic country, like Cuba, then in a fake democratic one, like the US.

[sangster1986]

Oh liked that helped in Hiroshima. Still amusing to see that they thought that was enough.

[MisterOno]

OMG awsome! My dad told me about these videos!