History Film / IfFootmenTireYouWhatWillHorsesDo

* StupidGood: Okay, some goons have taken over your country & are killing religious folks like yourself in various horrifying ways. Do you have your services in a basement, an isolated barn or abandoned warehouse? HECK, NO! You have services out in the open outdoors or in actual Churches, [[TooStupidToLive where the "Commies" can see you!]]

* TheSoulsaver: How we're supposed to see Reverend Pirkle

->''The loudspeaker spoke up and said, Christianity's stupid. Christianity is stupid. Communism is good. Communism is good. Give up. Give up.''[[labelnote:*]]If you listen to Negativland, this quote may sound familiar...[[/labelnote]]

** "One of the top communists in America today said, 'I dream of the hour when the last Congressman is strangled to death on the guts of the last preacher and since the Christians love to sing about the blood, let's give them a little of it. Let's cut the throats of their children and let them drown in their own blood on the altar. Then we'll see if they enjoy singing these hymns or not.'" Christian conspiracy theorists have long attributed various versions of this quote to then CPUSA leader Gus Hall, but it [[BeamMeUpScotty seems to have no basis in fact]].

* TheDanza: "Judy" is played by Judy Creech, who never acted in anything else.

** Pirkle claims that communists are [[GodwinsLaw worse than Hitler]] because the Nazis supposedly killed people mercifully whereas communists torture. Obviously, the notion that the Nazis never used torture is a fantasy on par with Holocaust denial.
*** The Soviets actually did torture far more than the Nazis, and killed lots more people. Though the point still stands that the Nazis did torture at times, and denial of this is either very stupid or a blatant lie.

* AsTheGoodBookSays: The title paraphrases [[TheBible Jeremiah 12:5]]:

-->'''Reporter''': We interrupt this program to bring you news bulletins from WashingtonDC. All the wires have sent us the account. The President of the United States has been killed... in the White House, along with the Secretary of State and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. [[ThisJustIn Other bulletins]], coming from around the country, say that the governors of several states have been killed; the Governor of California, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana... and of New York. [[ThisJustIn There are other bulletins that tell us]]... that people are being herded into the street of the large cities and machine-gunned down like cattle! Ladies and gentlemen... this... is the communist takeover of the United States! This is the end of democracy as you and I know it!

-->'''Reporter''': We interrupt this program to bring you news bulletins from WashingtonDC. All the wires have sent us the account. The President of the United States has been killed in the White House, along with the Secretary of State and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. [[ThisJustIn Other bulletins]], coming from around the country, say that the governors of several states have been killed; the Governor of California, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana... and of New York. [[ThisJustIn There are other bulletins that tell us]]... that people are being herded into the street of the large cities and machine-gunned down like cattle! Ladies and gentlemen... this... is the communist takeover of the United States! This is the end of democracy as you and I know it!

-->'''Reporter''': We interrupt this program to bring you news bulletins from WashingtonDC. All the wires ''[random pause]'' have sent us the account. The President of the United States has been killed ''[random pause]'' in the White House, along with the Secretary of State and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. [[ThisJustIn Other bulletins]], coming from around the country, say that the governors of several states have been killed; the Governor of California, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, ''[random pause]'' and of New York. [[ThisJustIn There are other bulletins that tell us]] ''[random pause]'' that people are being herded into the street of the large cities and being machine-gunned down like cattle! Ladies and gentlemen ''[random pause]'' this... is the communist takeover of the United States! This is the end of democracy as you and I know it!

* VodkaDrunkenski: A drunken communist soldier is shown drinking vodka, because obviously all communists drink vodka, whether they're Russian or not.

* NewMediaAreEvil: Reverend Pirkle is definitely not a fan of television. He tells us that, "since the advent of TV, the crime rate in some areas has increased one thousand percent." Needless to say, he provides no evidence that television is the ''cause'' rather [[FalseCause something which happened to occur at the same time]].

* NewMediaAreEvil: Reverend Pirkle is definitely not a fan of television. He tells us that, "[[FalseCause since the advent of TV, the crime rate in some areas has increased one thousand percent]]."

** Reverend Pirkle claims that it took only a week for the communists to take over China. Who knows where he got that figure from, but it's total nonsense. The Chinese Civil War which brought MaoZedong to power lasted from 1927 to 1949, with some time in the middle taken off for the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar.

** Reverend Pirkle claims that it took only a week for the communists to take over China. Who knows where he got that figure from, but it's total nonsense. The Chinese Civil War which brought MaoZedong to power lasted from 1927 to 1949, with some time in the middle taken off for the SecondSinoJapaneseWar.
** Reverend Pirkle says that three million Christians have been killed in NorthKorea, twenty million Christians have been killed in the SovietUnion, and fifty million Christians have been killed in RedChina. If that seems like an oddly large number of Christians to be living in China, it's because Pirkle took the complete death toll of the Maoist regime and just assumed that all the victims were Christians.

** "One of the top communists in America today said, 'I dream of the hour when the last Congressman is strangled to death on the guts of the last preacher and since the Christians love to sing about the blood, let's give them a little of it. Let's cut the throats of their children and let them drown in their own blood on the altar, and then we'll see if they enjoy singing these hymns or not.'" Christian conspiracy theorists have long attributed various versions of this quote to then CPUSA leader Gus Hall, but it [[BeamMeUpScotty seems to have no basis in fact]].

** "One of the top communists in America today said, 'I dream of the hour when the last Congressman is strangled to death on the guts of the last preacher and since the Christians love to sing about the blood, let's give them a little of it. Let's cut the throats of their children and let them drown in their own blood on the altar, and then we'll see if they enjoy singing these hymns or not.'" Christian conspiracy theorists have long attributed this quote to then CPUSA leader Gus Hall, but it [[BeamMeUpScotty seems to have no basis in fact]].

* ThisLoserIsYou: Judy

* BadLiar: Tommy denying that he is a Christian

* MoralGuardian: Reverend Pirkle ("Dancing is just as wrong as it's always been!")

Thus, comes the unholy matrimony of fundamentalist preacher and Creator/EdWood[=-style=] filmmaker. Throughout this one-hour movie, inept {{Imagine Spot}}s illustrate the horrors of 1970s American society, tell of Judy's various misdeeds, and hysterically warn of what America will be like under communist rule.