Referenced By / Duck and Cover

• Black Widow (2021). During the chase scene in Budapest, Yelana says sarcastically: "Okay, you got a plan or should I just stay ducked and covered?" It's likely put in there as a Cold War reference like various others in the movie.
• Cartoon Network Groovies: Atom's Theme, a promotional short based on The Atom Ant Show, has the titular superhero fighting the Horsemen of the Apocalypse to a Voice Clip Song remix of the original theme using relevantly recontextualized quotes from Duck and Cover. "His job is to help protect us when there is danger of the atomic bomb."
• The short animated film Duct Tape and Cover by Yong-jin Park, satirizing the Department of Homeland Security calling for Duct Tape for Everything including sealing up against chemical and biological terrorist attacks. Poor Bert suffocates after taping up his shell!
• The Iron Giant: The "duck and cover" educational video is played as satire early, but Mansley takes the advice seriously after he has the missile launched on the town.
  General Rogard: There's no way to survive this, you idiot!
• Parodied in Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space.
  "And just like Bert the Turtle, you too can carry your own portable atomic shelter. Guaranteed to withstand a direct hit from an H-Missile or your money back!"
• Quantum Leap. The episode "Nuclear Family," had Sam leaping back into the 1950s, watching this film, and dryly relating to several others present all the reasons why ducking and covering wouldn't work for a real nuclear explosion. Al however points out that the children need some reassurance that they can survive.
• Played seriously in Rocketship Voyager when an atomic grenade goes off near Captain Janeway and she instinctively adopts the Duck & Cover position that had been drilled into her as a schoolchild.
• The Simpsons: In "Homer Defined," students at Springfield Elementary are shown ducking under their desks to prepare for the meltdown of the nuclear plant. Principal Skinner tells to himself how they laughed at him for still performing nuclear attack drills.
• On the South Park episode "Volcano," an educational short about the nearby volcano is shown, which suggests "duck and cover" to survive being covered in lava. When the volcano does erupt, two men try it, and get incinerated to death.
• The Trinity Desk Project uses the main refrain during its first video, getting progressively more distorted as the video continues until it is barely recognizable.
• The name of an episode of The West Wing. A nuclear plant in California is on the verge of meltdown. Bartlet declares it a federal disaster, and all available emergency services are dispatched. Bartlet recalls doing "duck and cover" drills as a child:
  Bartlet: We'd hide under our little wooden desks at school. At some point they stopped the drills. The threat was still there; they just stopped having the drills. I guess they realized a piece of plywood wasn't going to protect us against an atomic blast.

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