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Americathon (trailer, 1979)

Commercial · Don't Touch That Dial shorts · 1979 · 2 min · 322 words

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This year for a bullet from 1998. The year America ran out of gas, oil and cash. Flash. People have stopped driving cars and started living in them. Flash. The President has sold the White House, raffled off the two, the unknown soldier, and moved into a rundown condo in Southern California.

Hi. United States of America. I'm President Roosevelt. This is my cabinet and my old lady. Flash. The city of San Diego has been bought by Mexico. No! No! No! No! No! That! The Jews and Arabs have joined forces to form the United Hebrab Republic!

That planning is why your country isn't a toilet. A country is flat broke. I know a way to raise money? A tower! Ah! Take it off a collection before Americans are gone. If this is a movie, it must be an American thought.

Ladies and gentlemen, let's take track to America, Donovan. The Lofeis and Mother's Shung-Bok-Shig. We could still clean, but nobody's buying. We could trade in all our cars, but nobody's driving. And now, meet Loaf versus the last living one of my babies.

You gotta grab my beer, TV screen. Aw. Look at me, damn it. Ooh. I'm not a country, I'm not an office, I'm not a decorative seal, I'm a person. I'm a man, I'm a man who wants to make love to you.

Awww... You want to talk? We got three-six-e-denation! Folks do something... ...and die. Call and make a pledge. Cheet get home, not for action, and for America. If you call yourself an American, if you care about America, then see America part of your local theater before you see it happening in your own front yard, American Art 1998.

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