Hiding Under Blanket Scary Movie Funny

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— Internet Meme

Whether y'all're a little kid afraid of the monsters nether your bed or a thunderstorm exterior, or an adult trying to ignore someone, y'all'll find yourself throwing a coating over your head in a vain effort to make the problem go away.

For some reason, people do seem to experience safer underneath a blanket. There are even several scientific theories as to why people exercise this. Some think information technology's an attempt to "swaddle" oneself similar in infancy, or even to "crawl back into the womb".

They may or may not be hiding under a Security Blanket.

Not to be confused with Comforting Comforter.

Compare Ostrich Caput Hiding, the stereotype of ostriches burial their heads in the sand when frightened. Run across also No Object Permanence.

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Examples:

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    Comic Strips

• Calvin and Hobbes have been known to do this.
  • Ane occasion had his parents get out for an evening and make up one's mind to leave him by himself, so, naturally, he and Hobbes get a scary picture show. When his folks come dwelling, they find him upstairs hiding under the covers and the room booby-trapped.
  • Another time they hear a monster under the bed. It claims to exist alone, and so Calvin thinks he and Hobbes can take information technology, but then they hear the monster arguing with others and they pull the covers over and yell for Mom.
• The Far Side had a strip for a snorkel allowing a kid to breathe comfortably while hiding under the blankets (showing the child doing simply that while hiding from a dragon and a werewolf).

    Fan Works

• A Certain Magical Friendship: In Context_SHIFT: "Assault on the City of Scientific discipline - magicians_AND_espers": Fluttershy wants this, when the mean solar day needs saving:

  Different the others, Fluttershy hadn't moved from her spot in the park. She couldn't – if she tried, she was sure that she would merely dive back down the hole to Humansville and hide nether her covers, hoping desperately for someone much braver than her to save the day.

• Sorrowful and Immaculate Hearts series: Discussed during a Seinfeldian Conversation in "Gone Angling". Clark claims that it'south considering ghosts can't pass through bedlinen, as evidenced by all those ghosts yous come across trapped under bedsheets.

    Films — Live-Action

• Home Lone: Subverted then played straight. After the thieves come the kickoff night, we encounter the bed in the master chamber in the forenoon with a child-sized lump on it. Then the camera pans downward to show Kevin under the bed. He and then decides he'south not going to exist afraid and marches outside... where he runs into One-time Man Marley. Kevin runs screaming back into the business firm, into the bed and pulls the covers over his head. He stays there, refusing to move, fifty-fifty when a constabulary officer comes by to check on him.
• Jurassic Globe: Fallen Kingdom: At the cease of the film, Maisie tries to escape from the Indoraptor past hiding under her blankets. Information technology doesn't piece of work.

    Literature

• A Series of Unfortunate Events: During the "What Shall we Exercise, Lemony Snicket?" Q&A section of one of the early on books, ane submitter is scared of noises in their closet and their username is Blanket Over My Head.
• Robert Sheckley's brusque story "Ghost V" serves every bit a "What Do They Fear?" Episode for his recurring troubleshooter characters Arnold and Gregor and sees them visit a planet whose atmosphere contains an unknown agent turning people's subconscious imagings into unreasonably realistic hallucinations. The protagonists only realize this equally they are returning to Earth in their contaminated spaceship, and so must spend the trip defeating the monsters of their shared babyhood by recalling the diverse creatures' Weaksauce Weaknesses. Unfortunately, the final monster has none. In social club to outlast information technology, the duo somewhen remembers the ultimate "universal police" of their childhood, that no monster can find you nether a blanket, and only hide in their bunks for the rest of the trip.
• Weaponized in Discworld against bogeymen (the traditional "crash-land in the night" monster): because putting yourself under a blanket causes them to get away, putting one under a coating (or even a square of textile) gives them an existential crunch.

    Live-Activity TV

• Doc Who: Played with in "Heed". A tense sequence involves a small-scale figure hiding under a blanket, which might be a frightened male child or it might be the thing he'southward frightened of.
• WandaVision: In "Breaking the Fourth Wall" nosotros first see Wanda lying in bed, recovering from Halloween, and then hiding under the comforter as the boys come up charging in.

    Podcasts

• The Magnus Archives episode 86 "Tucked In". The victim of the episode goes to wait for an old friend but finds him dead and rotten- with his body nether a coating like he was hiding there. Soon the victim starts seeing a foul-smelling, shadowy animal sneaking around his room at night, that only stops moving when he hides nether his blankets. The blankets don't save him, though.

    Video Games

• The Sims 4 has a "Scared" mood when Sims can hide under their covers. This ordinarily happens during a lightning tempest. If autonomy is turned on, Sims will often endeavor to do this without the role player's prompting.

    Webcomics

• Irrational Fears discusses our instinctual fears well-nigh monsters under the bed, and the corresponding instinctual feeling of rubber under a blanket.

  […] information technology can't get you so long as you're completely underneath the blanket. If no skin is exposed, you might choke, merely you're safe.

• Milk And Mocha occasionally shows the duo hiding under blankets, typically when watching scary movies or, more than heartbreakingly, when the latter is overwhelmed by news about the ongoing pandemic.

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• This brusk horror film features a scared adult female hiding under a blanket.

    Western Animation

• Rugrats:
  • In the episode "Grandad'due south Engagement", Tommy and Chuckie realize they were put to bed early by Grandpa Lou. When Tommy suggests they find out what'due south going on, Chuckie refuses to entertain the idea and pulls his coating over his head.
  • In "Let There Be Light", Chuckie is afraid of the dark and hides under his blanket... just so, he realises that it's dark under there, too.
  • In "Under Chuckie'due south Bed", Chuckie starts sleeping in a regular bed afterwards Chas takes his former crib away. Angelica tells Chuckie a scary story about a boy who was eaten under his bed, saying that the safest place from monsters is under the covers. Chuckie wraps himself nether them at the climax, and Tommy has to coax him to come out.
• A Charlie Brown Christmas: When Charlie Brown announces that Sally will be playing Linus' wife in the Christmas pageant, Linus immediately throws his blanket over his head when Emerge gets besides shut.
• TaleSpin: At the stop of "For a Fuel Dollars More", Baloo is recovering in the hospital afterwards Rebecca'south last swell idea literally blew up (albeit with some aid from him). When she starts going on about another crazy scheme, he moans and pulls his blanket upwards over his caput.
• Mickey Mouse: In "The Scariest Story Ever", Mickey tells a scary story most a witch that bakes children into pies, which terrifies his and Donald's nephews, as well every bit Donald and Goofy, and makes them all run upstairs and hide under the covers. When Mickey thinks he sees the witch from his story at his door (actually Minnie in costume), he goes upwardly and joins them.
• In The Simpsons episode "Homer Goes to College", Homer'due south wacky hijinks leave him completely unprepared for the concluding exam, until he comes up with a programme:

  Homer: I've been working on a programme. During the examination, I'll hibernate under some coats, and hope that somehow everything volition work out.

• In a Robot Craven sketch, a couple of monsters sarcastically complaining that they can't get a kid nether the covers... and and then bust out the baseball bats.

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