Mystery Science Theater 3000/Recap/S06/E02 Invasion USA

Featured work: A Date With Your Family (Educational Short) and Invasion USA (1952)

"World War III separates the serious drinkers from the amateurs!"

- Tom Servo

The film Invasion USA (1952) was featured, along with the memorable short A Date With Your Family, an educational film about dinner manners served with a heaping side of Unfortunate Implications.

The Mystery Science Theater 3000 presentation of Invasion USA contains these tropes:
"Crow: I really am a cowboy! I'm not gay!"
 * AI Is a Crapshoot / Crush! Kill! Destroy!: Mike's attempt to build his own Robot Buddy (following the lead of his predecessor Joel) results in this.
 * All Just a Dream: Referred to in the final host segment.
 * Camp Straight: The Arizona rancher character's cowboy outfit stampedes into this trope thanks to Have a Gay Old Time.

"Crow: (As airline pilot) We got a real pretty view of the dust cloud out the right window. It's currently seven thousand degrees in San Francisco..."
 * Color Coded for Your Convenience / Fridge Brilliance: The Robot Buddy Mike attempts to build is blue, which makes sense since Crow is yellow and Tom is red - blue is the logical next step, since it's the third primary color.
 * Dead Baby Comedy: Or more accurately, Nuclear Holocaust Comedy.

"Crow: (As Ohman) You know, you only rent cognac..."
 * Sophisticated As Hell:

"Crow: You know, this for.. fi.. fuh.. cuh.. aufhem.
 * Throw It In: Trace (as Crow) flubs one of his riffs during the movie, but they simply ignore it and keep going.

[Servo chuckles]"

The Mystery Science Theater 3000 presentation of A Date With Your Family contains these tropes:
"Narrator: Dad will be home soon. Better tell Mother she's needed in the kitchen.
 * Cheating With the Milkman:

Servo: ... where the postman eagerly awaits."

"Mike: Father feigns eating, draws Junior out, then disowns him!
 * I Have No Son: A running gag during the "dinner" portion of the short. When the narrator explains that nobody should start eating before Father serves everyone their plates ...

Mike: 'Least I have a daughter..."

"Servo: (As Brother, giving a blow-by-blow account of a fight) So Sister Mary Patrick had him up against the wall and nailed him...
 * Nuns Are Funny: Invoked during the Dinner and A Show portion of the family's dinner, during the scenes where Brother and Sister are shown talking with no sound.

Servo: (As Sister, making "unkind comparisons" about someone) Oh, and she was a big nun, with a mustache (Sister makes a gesture across her upper lip) and this huge black habit..."

"Servo: This stinks!"
 * Shout-Out: When Brother makes the "OK" sign after taking his first bite of dinner.

"EEEEEXTRA! PAAAAAPER! Read all about it! America invaded!"