* AccidentalInnuendo: The narrator describes the women wearing their best dresses 'for the men of the family', clearly missing out on how incestuous that sounds.
** The Brother is said to treat his mother "as he would his best girl".
* NightmareFuel: The very idea that this crypto-authoritarianism was once considered [[{{Eagleland}} "All-American"]]. With the hyper-rigid gender roles, deprecation of emotionality and individuality, the whole short plays like a How-To Guide for [[Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers Pod People]].
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Seriously, this thing couldn't have screamed "TheFifties" any louder if it had been a deliberate parody of the period.
* ValuesDissonance: Displays the early [[TheFifties 1950's]] in all their repressive, [[CrapsaccharineWorld crapsaccharine]] glory. Aside from the mass smoking and TV dinners, it has just about every essential 50's trope there is.

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