The video has been criticized for its treatment of the toddler who appears to be truly frightened throughout the video, although it is stated on the MGMT website, 'No children were harmed in the making of this video.' Stereogum noted that the video 'essentially polarized everyone old enough (but not too old) to know what the internet is.' While MTV noted that 'They really don’t make videos like this any more … mostly for legal reasons', The band later released a 'behind the scenes' video through their official YouTube channel that shows the toddler laughing while interacting with the puppets and actors in monster costumes. The boy happily waves his arms at VanWyngarden, but he explodes and the boy spins into darkness. The video ends with the little boy running from a monster and then climbing onto the hand of a giant Andrew VanWyngarden. Various surreal things begin to happen in the animated world. The video shifts from live-action to animation, and the van is revealed to be a scab on a naked woman. As the mother drives him home, the toddler sees monsters and a creepy sheepdog outside and in a DVD. The toddler gains an MGMT headband before being retrieved to his mother by a faceless policeman, and his mom discards the headband. The toddler smiles as he comes across the band performing the song in futuristic costumes. His inattentive mother then places him down and he begins to walk down the street, and then begins to cry and run in fear of the monsters. He is then picked up by his mom and she walks out of her house, then down the street, while the child sees humans as bloody monsters. After that, the toddler is seen in his crib, as monsters suddenly appears and show their claws at him. Then, a crudely designed countdown sequence from five to one plays, with a rapid set of fuzzy, low-quality pictures of children in the background. The abyss gazes also into you.') attributed to Mark Twain is actually a quote from Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil. The quote at the beginning of the video ('Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster.

It begins with a quote ostensibly from Mark Twain, on a background of fire.

The video follows a toddler menaced by monsters that his inattentive mother (played by Joanna Newsom) cannot see. It was directed by Ray Tintori, who directed MGMT's previous videos for ' Time to Pretend' and ' Electric Feel.' The video was released to the Oracular Spectacular version. On June 3, 2009, MGMT released the official music video for 'Kids'. ( June 2012) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. Please improve it by verifying the claims made and adding inline citations. This section possibly contains original research.

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