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Emergency Broadcast
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The answer to the question, "What the Hell Is That Noise?" The Emergency Broadcast is a means of public warning and public annoyance alike. Hearing an Emergency Broadcast warning of actual danger may lead to Oh, Crap!, Mass "Oh, Crap!", the need for one's brown pants to be brought — in that way, it may be the ultimate Brown Note. On the other hand, a test or a warning of something that doesn't affect you (e.g. a missing child warning, a flood when you're on high ground, a tsunami when you're 100 miles inland) may be a Berserk Button and lead to frustration with Crying Wolf. Another frequent frustration is when an actual alert has such horrible sound quality you can't understand what's being said. In many countries, Atomic Hate was the primary reason for the system's creation, and it eventually (and thankfully) ended up never being used for that purpose (yet, anyway) and being used for many others. In some occasions, both in fiction and real life, an emergency broadcast might outright preempt a program. May involve an Emergency Presidential Address. Obviously a major source of Nightmare Fuel. Needless to say, Truth in Television. See also We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties. |
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Episode 11 of Cat Tales ("Solar Flare Warning") by AlChestBreach has the intro interrupted by the Emergency Alert System. | |
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Shown briefly in Testament. | |
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Parodied in an episode of Roundhouse, where instead of using a machine of some sort to imitate the Emergency Broadcasting System's screeching noise, two cast members decided to scream the screech's normal duration. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Homer Defined", when Homer's inattention to warnings that the core temperature is nearing dangerous levels results in a near meltdown, Channel 5 immediately goes on air with a news flash alerting residents to the situation and that only a couple of minutes remain before a sure nuclear explosion. Kent Brockman interviews Mr. Burns, who — despite the wail of the sirens and the imminent danger to Springfield — hides his nervousness as he nonchalantly assures the public that the problem will quickly be resolved and that there is no danger to the town. Reaction around Springfield is, of course, varied (for instance, the students at Springfield Elementary are huddled under their desks in anticipation of a powerful explosion while the residents at Springfield Retirement Castle turn the channel to watch Wheel of Fortune [and a humorous missolve of "THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN"]). | |
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In Segment 13 of Winter of '83, the video starts with a weatherman warning viewers that the snowstorm going through Fawn Circle is getting worse and to stay inside while one of these are playing. It turns into a Deadline News moment when the weatherman is killed by a Snow Golem and the creature uses its abilities to replay and alter the messaging so that the people can step outside and be killed by them as well. | |
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Radios and TVs air a number of emergency warnings shortly before the attack sequences in The Day After. The broadcasts downplay the danger the public is in and are often ignored; one couple blithely sneaks upstairs to have sex as their young children watch an announcer struggle through an EBS alert. The last EBS announcement, broadcast as the sirens blare in Kansas City and residents downtown succumb to helpless panic, reassures listeners that there is no immediate danger but suggests that travellers in the metropolitan area take a moment to locate a nearby shelter. The first bomb explodes over the city in the middle of the broadcast. | |
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Living Dead Series: Appears briefly in Night of the Living Dead (1990), and in Dawn of the Dead (2004) on the car radio. Yes, The EBS can warn you of a Zombie Apocalypse. | |
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Used at the end of Countdown to Looking Glass. | |
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Aeon Entelechy Evangelion features an Emergency Broadcast in English and Nazzadi languages. | |
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Medium: In the season 7 episode "Where Were You When?", an Emergency Action Notification interrupts a cartoon on television, causing Allison DuBois to scream in fear and drop a glass of milk on the floor when she sees it. It turns out to actually be one of her numerous nightmares. | |
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Naturally, this is the basis for EAS Scenarios, which features a wide variety of stories played out through the medium of emergency broadcast messages. | |
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1983: Doomsday Stories: Emergency Broadcasts are mentioned in passing, but such was the speed in which everything unraveled that at least in some cases, the messages weren't even finished with their first loop by the time the bombs fell. | |
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The intro to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, showing the first alien abduction, ends with a shot of many, many dead people, and the sounds of the US emergency broadcast system in the background.note Given that the first mission canonically takes place in Germany (the tutorial mission), it raises some questions about how bad the situation is. | |
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Freakazoid! parodies the EBS in an episode shown in this clip. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): In "The Shelter", the Stocktons and their neighbors learn from a CONELRAD broadcast that unidentified objects believed to be missiles have been detected heading towards the United States. A later CONELRAD broadcast reveals that they were satellites which pose no danger. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1985): The end of "A Little Peace and Quiet" features a live announcer trembling through an EBS alert, losing his attempts to keep calm as nuclear war breaks out between the Soviet Union and the United States. Unlike The Day After, this EBS underscores the very real danger the public is in and cannot be ignored (as the screams from a panicked public can be heard outside). At one point, the announcer says listeners should take shelter but then — suggesting that doing so is fruitless and everyone's going to die anyway — states, "What's the point? It's over! We're finished! We're...", after which his voice trails off as he receives a bulletin noting that Russian missiles have entered American airspace. As the radio is broadcasting the EBS, a graphic on a TV has a large "Emergency Broadcast ALERT" (with "ALERT" boldfaced and flashing). At the very end, an explosion can be heard in the distance... but the main protagonist (a harried housewife who has lost control of her household, and is also disinterested in world affairs) manages to use a pendant she had found to freeze time ("SHUT UP!"), a split second before the airburst disables everything and seconds before the explosion envelops everything. At that moment, the action — except for her — freezes, and one of the stills shows the TV with the frozen "Emergency Broadcast ALERT" graphic on the screen. In "Shelter Skelter", Harry Dobbs and Nick Gatlin watch a television report about an escalating crisis in the Middle East. According to the report, the President and First Lady have left the White House by military helicopter and Russian cities are being evacuated. They later hear a radio report stating that the aircraft carrier Nimitz is in position in the Gulf of Sidra, the armed forces have been placed on red alert and an emergency Cabinet meeting is taking place at an unknown location. It is also reported that the President has issued a statement saying that he would not hesitate to use force to prevent the situation in the Middle East from escalating any further. |
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Played for drama in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, where the intro sequence to the mission "Of Their Own Accord" is an emergency broadcast system alert containing evacuation instructions for residents of Washington, D.C and its commuter belt. It also warns citizens to "remain alert" because the Ultranationalist troops assaulting the East Coast are killing any civilians they encounter in revenge for the False Flag Operation at the start of the game. Counts as a bit of nightmare fuel for those in the US playing the game. The start of the mission has no music, no sound, only the Emergency Broadcast. It's designed to sound and seem like it's a real emergency broadcast, as if the Russians are invading your suburban neighborhood for real. | |
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Silent Hill uses an air raid siren, which does a similar thing, but without anyone talking. Hell Is That Noise ensues. | |
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The Woody Woodpecker cartoon "Termites from Mars" invokes this. Woody's TV show is interrupted for a flash that, as the title implies, termites are invading. In a scene later, a termite attaches two electric wires to Woody's beak and turns a pupil in his eyes. Woody's eyes suddenly show the guy from TV who interrupted for the news flash. | |
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Negativland used the WHEN/Syracuse jingle version of the EBS script in their live performance "It's All in Your Head FM". | |
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The Big Snit takes place during a nuclear war, and a TV is shown playing a parody of nuclear attack warnings. | |
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In The Sims 3, you will hear the US EAS tone sometimes when turning the TV to the weather. No emergency actually ever happens (the game, unlike SimCity, is disaster-free aside from house fires and burglars, unless you are playing the firefighter career). | |
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ＬＯＣＡＬ５８: "Weather Service" starts with a government-issued extreme weather warning telling people not to go outside. Moments later, a new warning pops up telling everyone it's actually safe, then things quickly spiral downhill. "Contingency" is a broadcast that was supposed to play after the USA was utterly defeated in a war and urges every citizen to commit suicide. The end of the archive apologies for what they claim is a hoax, but subtle hints throughout the video imply the contingency was real; just broadcast by mistake. |
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Visionaries: As Prysmos's advanced technology fails in the opening minutes of the first episode, an emergency news flash states that though scientists are unable to explain the disruption to technology, "authorities warn against panic". However, it's unclear how many people would have heard this message before their televisions, radios etc. ceased to operate. Also, the technological failure inevitably spreads to the TV studio, causing the monitors to go blank. | |
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Being Human (UK): The Devil gets his hands on these in the finale. | |
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Seen in Legion, but given how fast the apocalypse happens, the only thing transmitted is a still image stating "This is NOT a Test" and an ear-piercing sound. | |
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The Gaunt's Ghosts novel Necropolis takes this and runs with it. When Vervunhive is initially attacked, it not only broadcasts warnings on all local media channels, and activates alert sirens, they also ring the church bells in time with the sirens. | |
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In a possible coincidence, the intro to Stab Me in the Back by X Japan sounds very much like the now-disused NHK war bells signal (3 from the link listed above) converted to a guitar solo. | |
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"Four Minute Warning" by Mark Owen of Take That is a reference to the UK emergency warning system of the same name. Every time the chorus repeats, a minute is removed from the countdown. | |
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Danger Mouse: The news reporter in "The Intergalatic 147" tells of a mysterious white sphere hurtling through space and has knocked Mars into the black hole Alpha Omega. Earth is the next planet to where the sphere is headed. The reporter suddenly turns it into a contest for viewers to name the sphere. | |
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Gone Home has the player's character return to an empty house, with the TV living room having a flood warning on a loop. This is a red herring to why nobody is in the house. | |
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The Protect and Survive announcements in Threads as well as the attack warning. | |
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In one episode of Tiny Toon Adventures, Hamton imagines himself being subjected to 60 seconds of the Emergency Broadcast System as a form of Cool and Unusual Punishment. | |
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Fallout: Equestria - Occupational Hazards features use of the CONELRAD broadcasting system repurposed as a general radio station, while leaving the automated emergency warning systems intact. These systems are triggered three times over the course of the story. | |
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Oddity Archive has an episode on weather warnings and videos on the old EBS. | |
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Referenced briefly in the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series. In Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2, as you're skating through the hallway of electronics in the Mall level, you will hear feint distorted EAS tones playing from the TV monitors on display. It's purely cosmetic, though, so nothing actually happens with it. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: A flash flood warning is issued for the RV park right before the climax of The Deep End. | |
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The pilot of Battlestar Galactica (2003) shows two instances. Gaius Baltar watches emergency broadcasts on his television of the Cylon's pummeling of the Twelve Colonies before a bomb hits their area, and the feeds go to static. Secretary of Education Laura Roslin, aboard a chartered space passenger liner, is in the cockpit as the pilots pick up an emergency broadcast, "Case Orange", designed to go off in case their president and most of the government is believed dead or missing. She is the only government official that responds and becomes the new president of the Colonies by default. |
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The premise of the Ed, Edd n Eddy fanfic The Ed Of The World is that Ed mistakes a test of the Emergency Broadcast System for a warning that the world will end. | |
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Twister has a couple of these, but the big tornado that hits Jo's aunt's house comes with no warning at all. The end goal of all the storm chasers is to improve tornado prediction enough that these broadcasts can come sooner. | |
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Famously used as part of a radio show in The War of the Worlds (1938). The broadcast was formatted as a series of news alerts, and many listeners (reportedly up to a quarter of them) thought that the show was reporting an actual alien attack — or a Nazi gas attack made to look like an alien invasion. As a result of the chaos that ensued, it is rumored that CBS is, to this day, forbidden to use the words "We interrupt this broadcast" for dramatic purposes. | |
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Subverted in War of the Worlds (2005) when the standard American EBS announcement that it's "only a test" and not "an actual emergency" plays on the radio of the hero's car as he's driving through the decimated countryside. Presumably, as it is an extreme actual emergency, whoever was supposed to replace this generic transmission with warnings and/or instructions for the public is already dead. Also see the radio show below. | |
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The Anthrax song "Fight 'Em Til You Can't", which is about a Zombie Apocalypse, opens with a fake emergency broadcast alerting listeners that the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living. A message eerily similar to the intro of the song was delivered by pranksters when the EAS was hijacked in Montana in February 2013 and used to deliver a fake message stating the same message as in the intro of the song. | |
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The New Order: Last Days of Europe: An Emergency Action Notification is one of the images displayed in the thermonuclear war superevent. | |
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Fishbone mentions it in "? (Modern Industry)", which is a List Song where they rattle off the call numbers of various radio stations. | |
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Black Mesa: One of the changes between the mod release and the Steam release was the addition of one heard on a radio after the resonance cascade. It was also used on an ominous webpage foreshadowing the game's release on Steam. After it was released, the webpage became a still-ominous advertisement video both for the Black Mesa Research Facility and the game itself. The EAS can be heard here. A similar variant released closer to the game's release can be heard here. There are 3 emergency broadcasts in Black Mesa. All of them can be heard here. The 3rd one has the United States government issuing an evacuation for all of New Mexico while they bomb Black Mesa and the areas to combat the hostile alien threat. An upcoming fan-made sequel called "Operation Black Mesa" by Tripmine Studios has one additional emergency broadcast about an unidentified aircraft, as well as expanding the Civil Danger Warning from New Mexico to the states of Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Texas, Nevada, California, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska. |
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The Purge Universe has a truly haunting one given the subject matter it is broadcasting: | |
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Used dramatically in Without Warning (1994), which interrupts the opening of another, ostensibly unrelated Made-for-TV Movie to inform the viewer that a meteor is headed towards Earth. | |
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Parodied in Total Distortion. Your radio aquarium can at one point pick up a test of the "Emergency Distortion Broadcast", followed by a shrill, sustained guitar riff, then ending with, "In the event of an actual emergency, you would have been instructed where to shred." | |
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Babylon 5 has Sheridan or Ivanova use the BabComm System to put out announcements to the station population to seek shelter or stay in their homes whenever a major crisis strikes. In the fourth season, Ivanova uses the system to announce on the progress of the Vorlon and Shadow Planet Killers and the locations of any colonies that are taking on refugees (some of which are added to the list of destroyed planets). This leads directly to her role later in the season as the Voice of the Resistance. | |
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Played with in the Emergency! series, as you are the one who has to clean up the mess. | |
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In Dexter's Laboratory, when Dexter's favorite show Action Hank is cut by a test of the EBS, Dex begins solving every emergency he can find to get it to stop before realizing that it's just a test. When the test finally stops, it shows the final minute of the Action Hank episode, where Hank remarks he just had the greatest fight of his life, and Dexter cries in frustration. | |
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Parodied in WKRP in Cincinnati. The station has no warning script for tornadoes, so when a tornado touches down in Cincinnati, Les is forced to make do with a Soviet invasion script. | |
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