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* LivesInAVan: With gasoline unavailable for years, ''many'' people seem to live in their immobile cars. The film's opening sequence starts out in an all-car neighborhood with tiny picket-fenced "yards" around vehicles adapted into homes, with the occasional "duplex" - two station wagons with the gap between them roofed over - for variety, a few cars stacked into a small "apartment complex", and a yellow school bus converted into an elementary school.
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* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler: Sam Birdwater donates the last $100,000 needed to save the country from repossession, while congratulating Monty Rushmore on a great show.]]
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* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler: Sam [[spoiler:Sam Birdwater donates the last $100,000 needed to save the country from repossession, while congratulating Monty Rushmore on a great show.]]
* IfItBleedsItLeads: A DarkComedy variation: [[[spoiler:the Americathon donations hit the real high gear when Monty Rushmore is shot on stage courtesy of hostile foreign powers trying to stop the Americathon and he pleads for people to give as he lies bleeding on the stage. When the Americathon ends, it's only $100,000 away from the goal, and Chief Birdwater hands that amount to Monty while telling him that it was a hell of a show.]]
* IfItBleedsItLeads: A DarkComedy variation: [[[spoiler:the Americathon donations hit the real high gear when Monty Rushmore is shot on stage courtesy of hostile foreign powers trying to stop the Americathon and he pleads for people to give as he lies bleeding on the stage. When the Americathon ends, it's only $100,000 away from the goal, and Chief Birdwater hands that amount to Monty while telling him that it was a hell of a show.]]
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A satirical comedy from 1979, adapted from the play by Creator/TheFiresignTheatre alumi Phil Proctor and Peter Bergman. Directed by Neal Israel, and featuring a cast that includes Creator/JohnRitter, Creator/HarveyKorman, Peter Riegert, Creator/FredWillard, Music/ElvisCostello, Creator/JayLeno, and (as the {{Narrator}}) Creator/GeorgeCarlin.
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A satirical comedy from 1979, adapted from the play by Creator/TheFiresignTheatre alumi Phil Proctor and Peter Bergman. Directed Bergman, directed by Neal Israel, and featuring a cast that includes Creator/JohnRitter, Creator/HarveyKorman, Peter Riegert, Creator/PeterRiegert, Creator/FredWillard, Music/MeatLoaf, Music/ElvisCostello, Creator/JayLeno, Creator/HowardHesseman, Creator/CybillShepherd, and (as the {{Narrator}}) Creator/GeorgeCarlin.
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* GracefulLoser: [[spoiler: Sam Birdwater donates the last $100,000 needed to save the country from repossession, while congratulating Monty Rushmore on a great show.]]
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* CultSoundtrack: With contributions from Music/TheBeachBoys, Music/ElvisCostello and Music/NickLowe, the soundtrack actually has a pretty good reputation.
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* RidiculousRepossession: If the Americathon fails, the United States of America will be repossessed by the MegaCorp that loaned the money the Roosevelt presidency used to try (futilely) to prevent the country's bankruptcy. One of the film's major subplots is the attempt by various foreign powers to sabotage the Americathon so they will be able to buy the country from Nike afterwards.
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* FailedFutureForecast: The Soviet Union still exists, but lost most of its territory to China after a nuclear war. On the other hand, the film accurately predicts China's emergence as a capitalist superpower.
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* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: The Soviet Union still exists, but lost most of its territory to China after a nuclear war. On the other hand, the film accurately predicts China's emergence as a capitalist superpower.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Filmed in 1979, with the events of the plot happening in 1998.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Filmed in 1979, with the events of the plot happening in 1998.
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* RidiculousFutureInflation: In one scene a bum asks for $25 to get himself a cup of coffee. Justified by the fact that double-digit inflation that seemed invincible, coupled with slow or nonexistent growth ("stagflation") was a very real chronic economic problem during the 1970s, and had it continued at the same pace that's probably what a cup of coffee, about 50 cents at the time of the film's release, would have cost by 1998. Thus, paper money is no good anymore in the United States -- it's gold coins or nothing.
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* RidiculousFutureInflation: In one scene a bum asks for $25 to get himself a cup of coffee. Justified by the fact that double-digit inflation that seemed invincible, coupled with slow or nonexistent growth ("stagflation") was a very real chronic economic problem during the 1970s, and had it continued at the same pace that's probably what a cup of coffee, about 50 cents at the time of the film's release, would have cost by 1998. (In the real 1998, as an aside, the cost of a cup of coffee, adjusted for inflation, would have been only $1.12.) Thus, paper money is no good anymore in the United States -- it's gold coins or nothing.
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* RidiculousFutureInflation: In one scene a bum asks for $25 to get himself a cup of coffee. Justified by the fact that double-digit inflation that seemed invincible, coupled with slow or nonexistent growth ("stagflation") was a very real chronic economic problem during the 1970s, and had it continued at the same pace that's probably what a cup of coffee, about 50 cents at the time of the film's release, would have cost by 1998. Money paper is no good anymore in the United States -- it's gold coins or nothing.
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* RidiculousFutureInflation: In one scene a bum asks for $25 to get himself a cup of coffee. Justified by the fact that double-digit inflation that seemed invincible, coupled with slow or nonexistent growth ("stagflation") was a very real chronic economic problem during the 1970s, and had it continued at the same pace that's probably what a cup of coffee, about 50 cents at the time of the film's release, would have cost by 1998. Money Thus, paper money is no good anymore in the United States -- it's gold coins or nothing.
