# Antoine Dodson Bed Intruder Antoine Dodson Bed Intruder is a July 2010 viral news clip and catchphrase from Huntsville, Alabama, in which Antoine Dodson described chasing an intruder from his sister's bed and warned viewers to 'hide your kids, hide your wife.' The Gregory Brothers turned the WAFF-48 interview into an autotuned single that hit the Billboard Hot 100, making it one of the earliest local-news memes to cross into charting music. ## Overview Antoine Dodson Bed Intruder is a viral video and catchphrase pulled from a WAFF-48 News segment aired on July 28, 2010 in Huntsville, Alabama[1]. In the interview, Antoine Dodson described chasing an intruder out of his sister Kelly's bedroom and delivered the line 'hide your kids, hide your wife,' staring straight into the camera with a mix of anger and flair[1]. The clip took off almost immediately after being uploaded to YouTube, and two days later the Gregory Brothers turned it into an autotuned track called the 'Bed Intruder Song'[2]. What made the Antoine Dodson Bed Intruder clip stick was Antoine himself. His phrasing, 'he's climbing in your windows, he's snatching your people up,' was quoted, remixed and printed on shirts for years[1]. The Gregory Brothers' song then charted on the Billboard Hot 100, one of the earliest cases of a local news bit turning into a legitimate iTunes single[2]. Coverage of the meme split from day one. Some outlets treated the WAFF segment as an internet gift, while others asked whether laughing at Dodson skimmed past the fact that an attempted sexual assault was what the reporter had been sent to cover[1]. ## How It Spread Buzzfeed, Dlisted and Best Week Ever all picked the WAFF footage up within days of the YouTube upload[4]. The Gregory Brothers, a Brooklyn-based sibling group behind the 'Auto-Tune the News' YouTube series, released their 'Bed Intruder Song' on July 30, 2010[2]. The track hit No. 3 on iTunes' R&B chart and No. 25 on the overall chart[2]. It also debuted at No. 89 on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold more than 10,000 copies in its first two days[2]. The press coverage split into two lanes. NPR ran a piece on August 5, 2010 asking whether the meme was really about 'race, music, comedy, celebrity or a delicate mix of all of the above'[1]. Jezebel and other outlets pressed on how quickly the attempted sexual assault dropped out of the joke[6]. WAFF-48 stood by the segment, with reporter Elizabeth Gentle saying 'censoring people like Antoine is far worse'[1]. Antoine Dodson leaned into the attention. The Gregory Brothers set up a 50/50 revenue split with him and Kelly on song sales, an arrangement the group applied to every 'unintentional singer' they autotuned[2]. Wired reported in August 2010 that the group was already working on a pilot for Comedy Central built around the same technique[2]. CNET, writing in the same window, credited Dodson's 'theatrical flair' as the specific reason the clip translated into music instead of dying as a 30-second joke[3]. ## How to Use The Antoine Dodson Bed Intruder meme is typically deployed as a quoted line or a soundboard clip. 'Hide your kids, hide your wife, and hide your husband' is often pulled out as a mock warning about any threat, from raccoons in the trash to a suspicious link, with the 'and hide your husband' tag kept intact for the punchline[1]. Video edits commonly loop Dodson's cadence and gestures over unrelated footage, while the Gregory Brothers' autotuned chorus is a common backing track for edits and reaction videos[2]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Antoine Dodson Bed Intruder? It is a July 2010 WAFF-48 news clip from Huntsville, Alabama in which Antoine Dodson describes chasing an intruder out of his sister's bedroom and warns viewers to 'hide your kids, hide your wife'[1]. ### Where did Antoine Dodson Bed Intruder come from? The clip came from a July 28, 2010 report by WAFF-48 correspondent Elizabeth Gentle about a break-in at the Dodson family's apartment in the Lincoln Park housing project[1]. ### What does Antoine Dodson Bed Intruder mean? The phrase is used as a joking warning; the original line 'he's climbing in your windows, he's snatching your people up' was Dodson describing the intruder to a local news camera[1]. ### How do you use Antoine Dodson Bed Intruder? People typically quote the 'hide your kids, hide your wife' line, share the WAFF clip, or overlay the Gregory Brothers' autotuned chorus on unrelated video edits[2]. ### Is Antoine Dodson Bed Intruder still popular? It is a classic-era 2010 meme that is still quoted in reaction videos and audio edits, though its peak was during the summer of 2010 when the Bed Intruder Song charted[2]. ### Who made the Bed Intruder Song? The Gregory Brothers, a Brooklyn-based sibling group behind the 'Auto-Tune the News' YouTube series, released it on July 30, 2010[2]. ### Did the Bed Intruder Song chart on Billboard? Yes, it debuted at No. 89 on the Billboard Hot 100 and hit No. 3 on iTunes' R&B chart and No. 25 on the overall iTunes chart[2]. ### Did Antoine Dodson make money from the meme? The Gregory Brothers gave every 'unintentional singer' a 50/50 revenue split, so Antoine and Kelly Dodson shared in the song's earnings[2]. ### Was the WAFF-48 story controversial? Yes; some viewers said the interview reinforced stereotypes, and reporter Elizabeth Gentle responded that 'censoring people like Antoine is far worse'[1]. ### Did Antoine Dodson try to launch a reality show? He ran a Kickstarter starting March 14, 2014 with a $38,000 goal for a show titled 'The Antoine Dodson Experience'[4]. ### What happened with Antoine Dodson and the alleged intruder? The two fought a pay-per-view boxing match on November 2, 2014, staged on ETV.com, after Rashaad Cooper claimed he had been dating Kelly Dodson at the time of the incident[4]. ### Was Antoine Dodson arrested? Yes; al.com reported that in September 2011 he was arrested for failing to appear in court on an earlier marijuana charge after police stopped him for playing music too loudly on Beard Street in Huntsville[5]. ## References 1. [https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2010/08/05/129005122/youtube-bed-intruder-meme]() 2. [https://www.wired.com/2010/08/gregory-brothers-bed-intruder-antoine-dodson-autotune/]() 3. [https://www.cnet.com/news/how-auto-tune-makes-the-news-funny/]() 4. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/antoine-dodson-bed-intruder]() 5. [https://www.al.com/breaking/2011/09/antoine_dodson_arrested_for_fa.html]() 6. [https://jezebel.com/#!5601835/the-new-viral-video-hero-comes-with-complications]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/antoine-dodson-bed-intruder Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library