In the 70s and 80s, Nazi groups in America were very fringe, so the comedy comes from the juxtaposition that such a wackjob extremist group would take root in somewhere as banal and Midwest as rural Illinois was viewed at the time.
Now if you’ll excuse me, Carrie Fisher is coming after me with a battle rifle, I have to drive my used Cop Car with Cop Shocks and Cop Suspension through a shopping mall
it’s not a joke, the National Socialist Party of America was headquartered in Chicago. there was a famous supreme court case about their right to hold a demonstration in the mostly-Jewish suburb of Skokie that took place in 1977, three years before the movie came out
edit: to clarify, the legal case took place in 77. the Nazis won but the demonstration never actually happened
In the 70s and 80s, Nazi groups in America were very fringe, so the comedy comes from the juxtaposition that such a wackjob extremist group would take root in somewhere as banal and Midwest as rural Illinois was viewed at the time.
Now if you’ll excuse me, Carrie Fisher is coming after me with a battle rifle, I have to drive my used Cop Car with Cop Shocks and Cop Suspension through a shopping mall
MAGA, when Nazis were fringe groups, and got punched when showing up in public.
Fr bro 😪
it’s not a joke, the National Socialist Party of America was headquartered in Chicago. there was a famous supreme court case about their right to hold a demonstration in the mostly-Jewish suburb of Skokie that took place in 1977, three years before the movie came out
edit: to clarify, the legal case took place in 77. the Nazis won but the demonstration never actually happened