
Pillsbury is very quick to correct him with "No! DUCK!!" while pointing out the front window. He shouts it out next, prompting Hoxly to crouch against the steering wheel of his truck. Duck!: While riding with Sheriff Hoxly as he is following the mob of townspeople looking for the Martians, Pillsbury utters the word duck.Drives Like Crazy: Blaznee gives us this when he crashes their ship into Wrenchmuller's barn.Double Take: "Nobody gets away with going three thousand miles-per-hour in a fifty-five mile-an-hou.The trope is then immediately subverted in that they don't want to send aid they think that the battle group went to Earth and decide to join their fleet in conquering humanity. They then pick up War of the World and mistake it for a human Distress Call. Played with since the patrol ship doesn't know where it came from and have to start scanning for additional signal. Distress Call: One from the lead ship of the Martian battle group catches attention from Bipto's patrol ship way back in the Sol System.Blaznee takes the cake and even drops a comment or two at the viewer. Deadpan Snarker: A majority of the cast dip into this.Curb-Stomp Battle: The rest of the invasion fleet ends up in the right system, then promptly gets their asses handed to them.Klembecker, for trying to throw folks off their farms BEFORE the crops and farm loans are due, including Old Man Wrenchmuller. Ziplock is just making a spectacle of himself. Cool Shades: Blaznee rocks them 95% of the time.Russel Pillsbury: ( Beat) This happened a lot in Chicago? Catchphrase: Giggywig's "Prepare to die, Earth scum".an almost unlimited number of listings for 'psychiatrist'". Instead of taking the call seriously, the operator on the other end comments on ". Sheriff Hoxly also runs into this when trying to contact the appropriate authorities.

His story, as well as Russel's chiming in about writing one of them a ticket, quickly loses merit when the captured Blaznee comes to and scurries off before anyone can see him.

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By the time the movie is half-over, he is visibly timid, panicky, and a tad agitated, drawing his gun on Brian at one point believing him to be a Martian. In a single night, he has had his patrol car torched, half of his face visibly reddened from the heat of the Martian craft, misses his sought-for opportunity to catch Big Bean's first speeder, fails in his attempt to impress his parents with a video of him in action, and takes a bale of hay straight to the face.

Back from the Brink: Wrenchmuller was going to lose his farm come the morning.

Aliens Steal Cable: The whole mess happens because the ship intercepts a radio broadcast of War of the Worlds.There actually was a full-on invasion, but the target was another solar system entirely and this ship got lost. The only Martians participating in the invasion are these five idiots. Alien Invasion: A parody of the all-out invasion type.
