Safety Instruction Parodies
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About
Safety Instruction Parodies refer to various illustrations and diagrams typically seen in safety instruction manuals accompanied by humorous captions that are generally subversive in nature.
Origin
The website Airtoons[1] was launched on February 21st, 1999, featuring illustrations from aircraft safety cards accompanied by humorous captions (shown below). According to the site description, the creator came up with the idea for the parodies after viewing a flight card that did not have any captions while traveling on an airline.
Spread
On October 15th, 1999, the black comedy film Fight Club[6] was released, in which the protagonist placed parody flight cards in commercial aircraft. For promotion of the film, Fox Movies[7] released images of the flight cards for download off their official website (shown below).
In February of 2003, the United States government launched the Ready.gov[3] website as a public service advertising campaign to provide information on how to prepare for national emergencies. The site provided various illustrations that were considered ambiguous by many viewers, prompting the creation of the parody site SafeNow.org,[4] which featured humorous captions alongside original illustrations from the Ready.gov website (shown below). Airtoons subsequently added different parodies of the Ready.gov images under the heading “Additional Government Safety Measures.”
On April 24th, the Titled Forum Project[2] philosophy board member Gatecrashed posted a thread titled “Parodies of Airplane Safety Brochures,” which reblogged many notable examples from the Airtoons website. On December 27th, 2010, the pop culture blog Unreality Mag[5] highlighted many of the Airtoons images in a post titled “Funny in Flight Safety Cards a La Fight Club.”
Gym Workout Diagrams
On September 10th, 2010, the Internet humor site College Humor[8] published a post titled “Realistic Gym Workout Diagrams,” which featured parody workout posters for exercising specific muscle groups (shown below).
Notable Examples
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External References
[1]Airtoons – Parody Airline Safety Procedures
[2]The TFP – Parodies of Airplane Safety Brochures
[3]Ready.gov – About the Ready Campaign
[4]Safenow.org – what to do in an emergency
[5]Unreality Mag – Funny in Flight Safety Cards
[6]Wikipedia – Fight Club
[7]Wayback Machine – Fight Club
[8]College Humor – Realistic Gym Workout Diagrams
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Captain Spark
Dec 03, 2012 at 04:10PM EST+32
+1 wait
+1 work
Necro910
Dec 03, 2012 at 01:09PM EST+23
There are hilarious, and the “try not to cry” one is a common reaction image. While these are popular, I’m not entirely sure if it’s actually a meme as opposed to a series of unrelated parodies of a common thing.
Since the page is only one sentence at the moment, I’ll wait before saying aye or nay.
+1 work, of course.
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