MST3k 602 - Invasion USA 

"Father I had a feeling today!" "Well don't, son."

The A Date With Your Family narrator Is Your Friend. The narrator wants you to be happy. Happiness is mandatory. Failure to be happy is treason. Treason is punishable by summary execution.

This isnt a movie; it's a radio drama with accompanying stock footage.

"Father feigns eating to draw junior out, then disowns him!" HA! HA!

I was just watching Diabolik the other night and realized crow's "mother" is one of the items crow is taking to Earth, nice lil call back

Some great riffs in this one. "Request landing instructions" Tom: Well keep coming down until you're not in the sky anymore. "Got a light?" Crow: I think I hear one coming.

I like the comments that use words and sentences to express a point of view.

I love Mike's range in the opening segment - busy, creative, surprised, going for the jugular, and just washing his hands of it all, all in 30 seconds and no dialogue needed. Tom and Crow are perfect vict-- I mean foils for the shenanigans.

I'm not sure why, but when Crow screeched while hugging his 'mother' it cracked me up!

Fun fact: Dr. Forester's experiment at the beginning of the episode is based on a famous experiment done by Harry Harlow in the 1950s. Crow's preference for the wire "mother" is the exact opposite of the results Harlow got when he did this to baby monkeys. The giant pin cushion, however, is all Dr. F. :)

Really good point on Wikipedia: "On a philosophical level the film is also often viewed as humorously (and unintentionally) ironic, as the lesson it communicates encourages citizens to subordinate their individual needs and desires to that of the State in order to combat Communism."

"THE WOODY ALLEN STORY!" has always made me crack up every single time

That opening short that they riffed on was more horrific than any horror movie they showed in the entire history of MST3K

the movie doesn't talk about the consequences of the industrialist going back to his San Francisco plant and shooting his innocent window-washer for being a communist spy

Everything wrong with how I eat dinner is explained in this short. You're supposed to wear pants to the table? That's new...

I love that despite THREE atom bombs, life remains cozy at the bar....no dash for bread here!

I love Crow’s “formal hair-do” and how husky Tom Servo looks in a suit 😂🤵🏻

Date With Your Family is the best. Never gets old.

"I could make an entire movie using this stock footage!" -Ed Wood

"Emotions are for ethnic people." Nearly did a spit-take.

Fun Fact: The hypnotist in this movie was played by The Old Man (head of OCP) from Robocop. Guess he assembled the best spin team he had.

The two Lois Lanes are not the only superhero connection with this movie. The main star Gerald Mohr went on to be the voices of the Hal Jordan Green Lantern for Filmation's Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure and Reed Richards for Hanna Barbara's Fantastic Four cartoon.

God, the window cleaner squeaking over the conversation kills me every time!

Crow "As your President let me apologize for not seeing this invasion coming"

"Mike, this sucks! Can we just EAT?!" Love it! XD

I love how they left in Trace's flub at 36:24, it has to be at least as funny as whatever he was meant to say.

This is why the '60's were all about rebellion. People saw that short film and said screw this! And the world is a better place for it.

Crow's scream at 4:30. Dear God, Crow's horrific scream...

"I just wanna make tractorrrrrrrs!!"

"His helmet is ribbed for her pleasure"-mike LOL god they drop some filthy goodness all over this show.

49:46 "anybody got a light?" "I think I hear one coming!" Now there's a line I wish was actually in the movie

Mike's disgusted walk-away from the robot he just had to destroy is friggin' genius.

@1:31 Mike Dodge (1937-2015) played the H-bomb. He was a writer on Season 6 and later played the boss, “Bob Honcho” (originally Bob Rhino) in the post MST3K series, “The Film Crew.” It’s unusual to see someone outside of Mike, Kevin, et als playing a character on the show.

This movie and short combo paint a very warpped and disturbing view of the 50's...

I saw Cinematic Titanic about a year ago, and on my way to the meet-and-greet I literally ran into Joel. We had a "Whoa, sorry buddy!" moment then I wen't "Oh...OH! Sorry, Joel!" as he smirked and walked away.

Wikipedia says this film made $1.2 million on a budget of only $127,000. That's a hell of a return on investment, considering the movie is about 50% stock footage the producers likely got for free from the military!

"Knows all the angles..." "Calls himself 'Euclid..." XD

It’s so cute how this movie tried being timeless by not naming “the enemy” while still having it painfully obvious that it’s the Russians. Were they afraid of censorship or something?

1:38 - 2:35 Mike tampered in Joel's domain

"Pass the beer nuts, you back-ass cracker." I gotta remember that one.

I'm so glad Mike and the boys kept going after the show was cancelled with Rifftrax. It doesn't have the same charm as Mike, Crow and Servo..... but at least the jokes keep coming.

I'm sure the makers of this film did not understand how atomic bombs work. If Hoover Dam was nuked, there would be no flooding as all the water would have evaporated from the heat and then rained down as radioactive rain.

Crow on the two Lois Lanes: "Well...let's not get into that whole Kirk/Picard thing here; they were BOTH very good." Sounds like some comparisons people like to make all of the time in this comment section... doesn't it? And I tend to agree with Crow.

3:50 - Tom Servo, about the “wire mother” with the bottle sticking out nipple first: “I thought they usually have two of those.” 🤣

"Tractor police, John Deere squad"...NOW THAT MADE MY DAY!

I just can't get enough of the enemy smacking the gruff-sounding businessman across the face in his office. His high-pitched "SHUT UP!" coupled with the smacking sound of his hand is pure gold.

I've said it before and I'll say it again; "perhaps booze would alleviate this situation."

21:30 Gees! This has to be the first guy in U.S. industrial history upset that the Feds want to place an order with him!

I love how they alternated between footage of jet fighters and ww2 combat footage. Also how they showed b17s, b29s and b36s.

Let me boil down the Short at the beginning of the film: "Don't act like a human being, thanks." Also, "Go piss up a rope!" That had me rolling. :p

The jokes in the Date With Your Family short are hilarious.

Mike Dodge's performance as Bob the Bomb is outstanding.

A violent argument erupts over whose day was more pleasant.

The guy leading the Red invasion forces must be a distant ancestor of Starfleet's CMDR Chekov... He has the same bad accent.

Hahah, love it when Crow is all buttoned down for dinner how his head... thing... is on back to front so it sits down ^_^

Absolutely peak riffing form in the whole series.

The actor playing Mr. Ohman (Dan O'Herlihy) was in the first two Robocop movies, as well as Twin Peaks!

I've always loved how Crow's net gets "combed back" on formal occasions.

What the hell kind of dystopian future did the 50’s want us to live in??! So many damn rules lmao

Anyone else notice that the creepy hypnotist is German... how long after WWII was it that we started making films with about embracing Fascism to fight Communism?

17:07 The actor who played the bartender was in some Three Stooges episodes.

21:18 the squeaky window cleaning is so funny

I swear, these shorts are made for and by aliens wishing to assimilate.

Omgggg 😄😄😄😄 ~ The Dinner Date with your Family part, had me Lolling like every 10 seconds...😂😂😂😂

27:19 the invaders knew the perfect time to start their attack, when everyone was getting baked.

"My dog has no nose!" "How does he smell?" "Awful!"

And that's how you social engineer a family into an industrial element ran by the military.

And if you donate to the Military Industrial Complex, you'll get a nifty tote bag!

Fun fact: as of today (02/14/16), Phyllis Coates and Noel Neill are both still alive, at the respective ages of 89 and 95.

There's a bellhop at my hotel, knows all the angles, calls himself Euclid

To quote Linkara: "No please not the politicians please stop"

What's the biggest farce: Soviets acting like Nazis or Soviets flying B-29s? (A) the former. Soviets actually had B-29s...reverse-engineered B-29s, known as Tupolev Tu4 "Bull". They were made after 3 B-29s were captured following forced-landings.

They have made a lot of Casablanca jokes over the years but "Look, you're getting on that Russian..." has got to be the best.

The "Date with your Family" short embodies nearly everything that was wrong with the United States in the 1950s. Invasion USA covers the few wrongs that the short doesn't showcase, creating an MST3K episode that could be alternatively titled "Why the 1950s in America Utterly Sucked"

1:09:26 20 years and this joke still sounds like it was written today. That's progress folks!

I watch this show all the time, since I was little I go to sleep watching it - its like having old friends talk in the background, and this opening is still one of the funniest ones. Also, I was born in the late eighties, so this 'fkd up 50s' issue is painful to watch lol

"Hey, Hey nyet means nyet!"

"You'll have to give to public television." LOL This was a really funny episode. And I loved seeing Dan O'Herlihy. He's cool in pretty much anything.

"I'm torn between mourning my boyfriend and Marxist dogma...hmm, mourning my boyfriend or Marxist dogma?"

Oddly enough, a Date With Your Family is narrated by Ward Cleaver.

I love how almost immediately start humming and marching to the Soviet Union anthem as the soldier takes over and speaks on the radio. Like, Crow bouncing. Edit 4 years late, it turns out I was mistaken, it was The International that they start pantomiming and humming to.

This movie was remade 20 odd years later as a Christsploitation flick called 'If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?'.

That "date with your family" short is so weird. The 1950s were all about repression. I'm so glad I wasn't around for them. It has some off the most hilarious lines in any MST episode "..remember, emotions are for ethnic people" "...and of course no one eats until father has started." "Father feigns eating, draws junior out, then disowns him!" "A violent argument erupts over whos day was more pleasant" "Maybe I should have washed my hands after handling that dead woodchuck"

"Many families throughout the country observe the custom of saying Grace at mealtime." "Please, God, take me now!" Hahaha! XD

I think a lack of research is a key ingrediant in a terrible movie. And this movie is worse than Radar Secret Service. At one point it claims that a battleship is hit by an A Bomb. Apparently, the fire spreads and the captain gives the order to abandon ship. After being hit by an A Bomb. An A Bomb.

A Date With Your Family is the most terrifying short they ever featured, and I'm including A Case of Spring Fever.

At the dinner table, little kid is thinking to himself, 'yeah, I'm gonna be shooting heroin as soon as i am able".....

"Many families across the country observe the custom of saying grace at meal time." "Please God, take me now." If I'm ever forced to join in a gathered blessing, I'am so going to be thinking that the whole time. XD

"Wrong thinking is punishable. Right thinking will be as quickly rewarded. You will find it an effective combination."--Gene Roddenberry from ST:TOS episode "The Menagerie "

@drystyx: "Greatest achievements in film directing"...I know what you mean - most film critics won't mention the opening tracking shot of Touch of Evil, the chariot race in Ben Hur, the Odessa steps sequence from Battleship Potemkin, all of Metropolis, all of The Fall, all of Jeunet's magical Amelie, or Robert Altman's exquisitely nuanced choreography of Gosford Park without immediately dismissing them in favor of the dam-bursting sequence in Invasion USA. Starring two Lois Lanes.

Absolutely The Funniest Episode I Have Seen Yet

"Just keep coming down til you're not in the sky anymore. Don't you know how to land?"

While having a family meal is a great thing for many reasons, “A Date with Your Family” is effing insane. It’s so beyond psychotic. No one does that!

They just don’t make shameless propaganda like they used to.

9:55 "Father, I had a feeling today." "Well don't, son."

Second one in a row I’ve never seen before. Thanks for posting!

" Dad im dating a negro! " lmaooooo

16:16 Albert Glasser: the man who holds you down and pummels you with music

Jingoism, jingoism, jingo all the way...oh what fun to talk all tough while sitting at home all day, hey!...

"I saw taxi drivers use their cabs as weapons..." Yeah, AKA a typical day in New York.