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* AIIsACrapshoot: Mike's attempt to build his own RobotBuddy results in this.

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Apparently, the writers seem to be under the impression that the "Atom Bomb" is merely some kind of High Yield Explosive, that has nothing to do with leaving a thousand mile wake of irradiated fallout. Hence, [[DirtyCommunists "The Enemy"]] throw nuclear weapons like peanuts, blowing up dams, battleships, and cities (repeatedly), technically negating the very concept of an "invasion", since there'd be nothing actually left to occupy for about fifty years.

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Apparently, to the writers, they seem to be under the impression that the "Atom Bomb" is merely some kind of High Yield Explosive, that has nothing to do with leaving a thousand mile wake of irradiated fallout. Hence, [[DirtyCommunists "The Enemy"]] throw nuclear weapons like peanuts, blowing up dams, battleships, and cities (repeatedly), technically negating the very concept of an "invasion", since there'd be nothing actually left to occupy for about fifty years.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Mike's attempt to build a robot buddy himself results in this.

The film was featured on an episode of ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' along with the memorable short "A Date With Your Family", an educational film about dinner manners served with a heaping side of UnfortunateImplications.

* AllJustADream

* {{Glurge}}

* InvisiblePresident

** DeadlineNews: A reporter covering one battle against the Enemy's forces has his signal cut off while his position is being overrun. Also, the reporter hero's final broadcast near the end of the film.

* StockFootage: Used in long montages to show the progress of the war. At the end of one of these...

In the end, through the germanic man's hypnotizing the entire bar into seeing visions of what might be, the naysayers are shown the evils of their ways and pledge to be more patriotic afterwards. And the reporter hero manages to win the affections of the heroine from the congressman who brought her to the bar.

-->'''Paperboy:''' ''(From offscreen)'' [[ExtraExtraReadAllAboutIt Ex-tra, Pa-per, America invaded, read all about it!]] ''(Comes onscreen from behind the couple, stares openly at the couple, turns around, walks offscreen while repeating previous line.)''

** DeadlineNews: A reporter covering one battle against the Enemy's forces has his signal cut off while his position is being overrun.

--> "Thank you for choosing this flight. The temperature in San Francisco is currently seven thousand degrees..."

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: "EXTRA, EXTRA, AMERICA INVADED..." Appropriately chosen as TheStinger when it aired on Mystery Science Theater 3000.

One day in a bar, with news of Cold War tensions on the TV, a reporter comes in to ask the patrons -- a motley bunch from all walks of life -- if they support allowing the U.S. government to take over companies in the name of the cold war effort. Most of the patrons are skeptical except for a strange man nursing a wine glass at the end of the bar -- one Mr. Ohman (Dan O'Herlihy), who delivers a [[WhatTheHellHero What The Hell, Citizen]] speech to everyone accusing them of just wanting to wish their problems dead instead of doing what needed to be done. After mesmerizing his audience with his speech before leaving, the patrons quickly discover that the U.S. is now in the middle of {{World War III}}, as the [[strike:Soviet Union]] [[NoNationsWereHarmed Enemy]] conducts an audacious plan to invade the North American mainland, with both nukes and paratroopers flying freely. The main characters try to do what they can, but somehow every request of the military-industrial complex that they'd been complaining about or ignoring comes back to bite the U.S. at the worst possible time, and the cast starts dropping like flies before the Red onslaught.

'''Invasion: USA''' is a 1950s [[{{Glurge}} Glurgefest]] that purports to show a bunch of naysayers from all walks of life that they need to get with the program and support having their operations taken over by the government for a war effort.

After a [[WhatTheHellHero What The Hell, Citizen]] speech from a germanic man in a bar, they quickly find themselves in the middle of {{World War III}}, as the Soviet Union conducts an audacious plan to invade the North American mainland, with both nukes and paratroopers flying freely. The main characters try to do what they can, but somehow every request of the military-industrial complex that they'd been complaining about or ignoring comes back to bite the U.S. at the worst possible time, and the cast starts dropping like flies.

* StockFootage

!!The MysteryScienceTheater3000 presentation contains these tropes:

* HoYay: "I really am a cowboy! We're not gay!"

'''Invasion: USA''' is a 1950s [[{{Glurge}} Glurgefest]] that purports to show a bunch of naysayers that they need to get with the program and support having their operations taken over by the government for a war effort.

Through hypnosis into an alternate reality, the naysayers are shown the evils of their ways and pledge to be more patriotic afterwards.

* AllJustADream: Referred to in the final host segment.

'''Invasion: USA''' is a 1950s [[{{Glurge}} Glurgefest]] that purports to show a bunch of naysayers that they need to get with the program and support having their operations taken over by the government for a war effort.

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