The Great Emu War 

They were only given 10,000 rounds to kill 50,000 emus? This operation was doomed to fail from the start.

When I was little I was chased by about 5 emus and I had to throw my sandwich at them and run. I never forgot that sandwich.

I grew up in Australia and not ONCE did my history teachers ever mention this. Literally the coolest part of our history and no one even talks about it...

Things emus do: - walk on crops - crap on crops - crap on walks - crop on craps - crab on docks - captain on the rocks

Reported to God for drawing Emus with human feet.

You didnt mention that the farmers decided to build fences after the war and that pretty much solved their problem

Oversimplified's Emu War: Gentlemen version Sam O'Nella's Emu War: Crackheads version

If I had a nickel for ever time a emus won a war I would have 2 nickels that’s not a lot but it’s weird it happend twice

"It''s a nice change of pace to have the kids eating the dingoes for once" I love this channel.

why didn't they just recruit the emus into the Australian army? Australia would be unstoppable

As an Emu I can confirm that my grandfather served in the great Emu war

That fertility scale was one of the best non number based scale I’ve ever seen. Truly helped me picture the scarcity of fertility in the time

as an australian, i can confirm: emus are still salty about this to this day

If it wasn’t for the brave Australian farmers and soldiers’ actions, we would all be speaking Emu to this day.

"The men were feeling a little discouraged after losing to a bunch of discount ostriches"

"I mean it's a nice change for the kids to be eating the dingos for once..." AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHA

I really like how the emus have human feet

"It's a nice change of pace to have the kids eating the dingoes for once" As an Australian, can confirm

I love how it's called "The Emu War" implying that the Emus fought back in large numbers, they didn't call it "Attempted Emu Extermination" or something slightly cohesive or realistic, no just call it "Emu War"

The way you drew the emus with kinda realistic human feet always cracks me up

**Walking on crops and Crapping on crops and Crapping on Walks and Cropping on craps and Crapping on docks and Captain on the Rocks** Best sequence of words ever put in a sentence.

"A solid Hillary Clinton in fertility" I'm dying

When he said “don’t crowd fund. Crowd source.”, I thought for sure he’d have a sponsor then.

Can we take a moment to appreciate the fact that he actually drew Tanzania?

They still eradicated 1% Just three people... Still impressive Imo.

Australia: Loses a war against Emus. New Zealand: Eats a bigger version of Emu to extinction.

2:14 "remember, dying for the mob is dying for your sons"

Word has it, Emus moved to Tasmania, started to rebuild, plotting for vengeance. Satellite images show at least 20k heavy armored tanks, and a serious naval fleet that we can't get a count on

"Quack" -Unknown, 1936

“If you want to commit mass murder, don’t crowd fund, crowd source”. -Sam 2020-

I remember doing a presentation on the great emu war and I basically learned everything through this video 4 years ago 😂

I just realized the emus have human feet.

Call of duty Emu warfare

i wasn't ready for those feet

I like how sam apologizes for a mediocre truck drawing when all his doodles are, well just that, doodles, half ass drawings, not great, but that is all a part of the vibe of this great channel!

2:46 war thunder without gun stabilizers in a nutshell

Government: **puts bounty on emus** Farmers: **start farming emus** Government: **cancels bounty on emus** Farmers: **release emus** Government: SurprisedPikachu.png

"Don't crowd-fund, crowd-source" you have my subscription

1:42 cant believe Sam predicted the tanks from death stranding

By far, the most fabulous provider on RU-vid!

War. War never changes.

I don’t know why, but it really makes me happy that the emus have people feet

2:06 why does this looks so familiar

10 bullets per emu sounds extremely reasonable. In fact, that's exactly what I guessed when he mentioned they had 10,000 bullets - 1000 kills. I find it hard to believe that the bounty was less than the price of 10 bullets, so surely they were losing money with that programme. (You don't need to factor in the soldiers' salaries because they get paid regardless).

A lot of countries would be embarrassed at this defeat, but as an Australian, I'm incredibly proud... It's also the only reason japan didn't attempt a ground invasion of Australia during WW2

"Tell my wife I said quack" - Emu

What I remember about the rise of the Emu Empire is… is how quiet it was. During the waning hours of the Emu Wars, the Emu Legion was discreetly transferred back to Sydney. It was a silent trip; we all knew what was about to happen, what we were about to do. Did we have any doubts? Any private traitorous thoughts? Perhaps, but no one said a word. Not on the flight to Sydney, not when Order 66 came down, and not when we marched into the Sydney Opera House. Not a word."

Of course when humanity wants to intentionally destroy a species we FAIL.

This is my favorite war.

I don't think I need to attend college when I get such a vast pool of knowledge from you. Can you cover the entirety of electrical engineering in 5 minutes?

I like that this is the *Great* Emu War so as to distinguish it from those lesser Emu Wars.

0:30 laughs in extinct volcanic soil are you sure about that

"Tell my wife i said Quack" - Husband emo 2016 , rip you will never be forgotten

20,000 emus reported 50,000 bounties cashed sounds like someone got away with something

i'm going to watch every channel covering this war and i am never going to get tired of it

For anyone wondering why the emu is on the Australian coat of arms, it's not because they can step backwards, but because it was the only way to make a peace treatie

Emus: Modern day velociraptors with beaks.

"These fuckers are strong as hell. They're basically meat-laven tanks and they can definitely take a bullet or 3 and still run away."

"It's a nice change of pace to have the kids eating the dingoes for once". Here's where I spewed my drink in this episode. Every. Damned. Time.

Sam: they start out in a large mob Markrov: stop tempting me...

"Its a nice change of pace having the kida eat the dingos"

Read title as “The great emo war”

Emu otori war

Who's still consuming this absolute legend in 2022 bruh?

Australia fought in both wars. Won the war with millions of soldiers involved, lost the war with knock off ostriches.

And I quote from a former veteran of the Emu War; “We were on patrol one afternoon, deep in hostile territory. My team leader, whom we were all close mates with, had been with us from the start. This particular afternoon we were patrolling down Feather Valley when the bastards ambushed us from two sides. Our left and right flanks were hit hard by the feathered devils. One Emu had impaled my old mate of thirty years right through his chest with his long head, and looked at me with an evil stare. My old mate was screaming, looking down at his chest. The emu squawked, a terrible screeching sound. It sounded like that of a banshee. I grabbed my other mate by the leg as he was being dragged away by his arm from what I remember seeing as a giant black ball of fur. It’s eyes were red and Satan like. It looked like the embodiment of all that is evil. I yelled “FUCK OFF YA CUNT” and gave my mate one last pull on his shoes and got him free of the monsters grip. Shortly after our ambush, reinforcements arrived, eventually the Emu’s withdrew from the area. I found my old mate, our team leader, dangling upside down from a branch in a tree. His body was clawed and bloodied. I swore to myself I would kill every last one of those cunts...”

There were also various phases of the war with more people involved, ambushes, counterattacks from the emus, traps and ornitologists helping the military predict their enemie’s next moves.

I got some silly thoughts and I hope you know I love putting your videos on before I sleep, They help get my day since I go straight to my room and it’s funny and cool history. It’s like moist critical and like Joe perra mix and it knocks me out. I suffer with depression and most nights lay awake in darkness, but it’s funny to watch you before I rest or while I try to rest i wish you much more subs and thank you.

"Nice change of pace to have the kids eating the dingos for once" I died laughing

I swear, literally everything about Australia

4:00 So the lesson here kids is: if you want to commit mass murder, don't crowd fund, crowd source. LMFAO, can't stop, I just can't stop laughing!!!

One thing, what in the world is an emoo? IT’S EEM-YOU ✨Emu✨ Thankyou

Tier Zoo says hi and that you're his favorite

Bah! You left out how the bounty system totally backfired and how farmers started to *breed emus* in order to cash in more bounties!

This guy is if oversimplified was simplified

Fun Fact: Emu also have red eyes that STARES INTO YOUR SOUL

just walking on crops, and crapping on crops, and crapping on walks, and cropping on craps, and crabbing on docks, and captain on the rocks.

Australian: *gets into argument* Literally everyone: "Emu war" Australian: Australian: *runs away*

The tale of the Cassowary war is much more gory

We may have missed the timeline where big bird was a casualty of the worst astronomical tragedy in human history, but we managed to get the timeline where Emus won a war with Australia.

when you showed the picture of the emu's tiny brain it looked like he was stoned

"Don't crowd fund, crowd source." Sam O'Nella inspired the Philippine War on Drugs.

Welp, time for another binge.

Heard of the Great Emu War. Never heard it as entertaining as this. God I love Australia.

Emus: * *Exist* * Australia: So anyways I started blasting

As an Australian it's so amusing to hear "Emu" pronounced "Emoo". EDIT: Just to clear things up, this is how most Australians pronounce certain words: *Emu* = Eeem-you *Badger* = Baj-er *Grizzly Bear* = Grizzly Bearh *Due* = Jew *Bunnings Snags* = BLOODY DELICIOUS If you want to leave any other words in the replies section I might add them at some point. Also, please note that I am in no way saying that "Emoo" is a "wrong pronunciation", it's just not what we're used to hearing therefore amusing.

As an Australian, hearing 'Ee-moo' (as opposed to the regular 'Eem-yoo') really made my skin crawl...

This was the video that brought me to the Academy. RIP Sam, you are missed.

Listen everyone, I live in the east coast of America, home of the right-side-up whopper. Over here, we say ee-moo. Maybe I should be saying it like the Australians, maybe that's more politically correct, like how Obama would always say ih-RAHN instead of AI-RAN like a normal person. So i'd like to issue an informal apology, but it's staying the way it is in the video.

They could've just told everyone to eat the emus...a few a year would probably feed a family.

One of the best things ever! We dropped our rap explaining the Great Emu war today! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Needed to rewatch this today.

Press F to pay respects. #neverforget

Remember that one time Australia nuked a place called emu field

So Emus were: Crappin' on crops, Crappin' on walks, Croppin' on craps, Captain on the rocks.

I love how he pronounces emu as emoo

My PTSD is kicking in.

This is like one of those memes where it's like: Who would win? 3 Army soldiers or 200,000 Emus

That captain on the rocks bit had my sides in orbit

I had already heard of the emus and there impact in Australia but seeing it in one of Sam's videos is even more entertaining