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The MST3K version of Invasion USA contains:

  • Rooting for the Empire: Mike & the 'Bots are strangely sympathetic to "The Enemy's" propaganda broadcast after taking over the hero's radio station. Tom even starts humming the Soviet national anthem in an outbreak of Patriotic Fervor (after humming "The Star-Spangled Banner" during the hero's Deadline News moment).
    • Hell, Mike and Crow start dancing to the Soviet anthem, such is their fervor.

The MST3K version of A Date with Your Family contains:

  • Funny Moments: The whole short, really.
    Mike: (as Junior) Father, I had a feeling today.
    Tom Servo: (as Father) Well, don't, son.
    • The way Servo delivers this line as the daughter makes it funnier:
    Servo: (as Daughter) Dad, I'm dating a Negro!
    • Not to mention:
    Mike: (as Narrator) Father feigns eating, draws Junior out, then disowns him!.
    • You can tell by the way Mike has said this, he has done it before:
    Mike: (as Father) All right. Spankings all around, then.
    Narrator: Do you begin to see now how a date with your family can be a truly special occasion?
    Mike: (as Narrator) Do you? DO YOU?
    Narrator: And why Brother and Sister looked forward to the evening?
    Mike: (as Narrator) WELL, DO YOU? BETTER SAY "YES", DAMMIT!
  • Harsher in Hindsight: Servo's "The Woody Allen Story!" joke when the title screen comes up is a lot more disturbing now that Allen's adopted daughter Dylan Farrow has spoken publicly about her memories of allegedly being molested at age seven.
  • Squick: A reasonable reaction to the narrator explaining that the elder son should "help Mother to her chair like he would his best girl."
    Mike: The less said about this, the better.
    Servo: Yeah.
    • Also this:
    Narrator: The women of this family seem to feel they owe it to the men of the family to look relaxed, rested, and attractive at dinnertime.

Meta

  • Fan Nickname: No name was given for the robot Mike built, so the MSTie community took to calling it D. Stroy. That's right, it was only introducing itself...
  • Values Dissonance: Remember, kids: Repress your emotions, smile constantly, never mention anything unpleasant (especially to your parents), never complain, women exist to serve the men of the family, fear the Dirty Commies, and let the government do whatever it likes in the name of beating the Red Menace! Basically, the only values the short and feature endorse that don't fall under this are "wash up before meals", "don't spend too long on the phone", and "help your parents with the dishes, especially if they made you dinner".
    • Even "don't spend too much time on the phone" is falling by the wayside as more people have their own individual cell phones.

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