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Okay it's the standard Grandpa Drill, everyone into the cellar!

— Homer ‧ The Simpsons

A small round yellow door set into a grassy, flower-covered mound in a sunlit meadow.
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The speaker briskly announces a familiar routine and orders everyone down to the cellar. Calling it the standard drill makes the emergency sound habitual and almost administrative, with a comic sense that the family has done this before and expects immediate compliance.

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