Mystery Science Theater 3000/Recap/S06/E02 Invasion USA
Featured work: A Date with Your Family (Educational Short) and Invasion U.S.A. (1952)
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World War III separates the serious drinkers from the amateurs!
—Tom Servo
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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 U.S.A. contains these tropes:
- A.I. 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.
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Crow: I really am a cowboy! I'm not gay! |
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- 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.
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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... |
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Crow: (As Ohman) You know, you only rent cognac... |
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- Throw It In: Trace (as Crow) flubs one of his riffs during the movie, but they simply ignore it and keep going.
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Crow: You know, this for.. fi.. fuh.. cuh.. aufhem. |
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The Mystery Science Theater 3000 presentation of A Date with Your Family contains these tropes:
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Narrator: Dad will be home soon. Better tell Mother she's needed in the kitchen. |
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- 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[1]...
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Mike: Father feigns eating, draws Junior out, then disowns him! |
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- 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.
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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... |
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- Shout-Out: When Brother makes the "OK" sign after taking his first bite of dinner.
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Servo: This stinks! |
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"EEEEEXTRA! PAAAAAPER! Read all about it! America invaded!"
- ↑ THIS MEANS YOU!