Americathon 1979 American comedy film

Americathon (also known as Americathon 1998) is a 1979 American comedy film starring John Ritter, Fred Willard, Peter Riegert, Harvey Korman, and Nancy Morgan, with narration by George Carlin, based on a play by Firesign Theatre alumni Phil Proctor and Peter Bergman. Others credited in the film include Jay Leno, Meat Loaf, Tommy Lasorda, and Chief Dan George, with a musical performance by Elvis Costello.
The premise of the film is that, sometime in the then-near future (1998), the USA has run bankrupt, out of oil, and many Americans are literally living in their (now stationary) cars and either jog or ride bicycles to travel. The federal government, housed in "The Western White House" (a sub-leased condominium in Marina del Rey, California), is near national bankruptcy and in danger of being foreclosed by a cartel of Native Americans in control of Nike (which has been renamed "National Indian Knitting Enterprise"). President Chet Roosevelt (Ritter) hires television consultant Eric McMerkin (Riegert) to help produce a national raffle. Instead, they decide that the only way enough money can be raised to save America is to run a telethon, and hire TV celebrity Monty Rushmore (Korman) to host it.

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[freePUAbootcamp]

I saw this when it came out and didn't think it was too far-fetched.

[MrUnidyne]

@MrUnidyne 

[MrUnidyne]

@XVMSSS02 The monologue about China says that it beat the USSR in a nuclear war.

[MrUnidyne]

Let's see... China is a global economic superpower, the USSR is gone, the UK relies on tourism for money, the world is running out of cheap oil, Americans are broke and living in their cars, the USA is heavily in debt to foreign countries, TV programming is reaching new lows... I'd say this was an accurate prediction.

[J5MARLON]

@mingblack uh ok, thanks Merlin.

[mingblack]

@J5MARLON

Because the media is part of the Illuminati, and they had knowledge on the future because the aliens told them what would happen.

[mingblack]

@boardskins

Because in 1998 our president was white. Dumb question...

[XVMSSS02]

what scene shows that Soviet Union collapsed in this film?

[J5MARLON]

Why are the most craziest predictions the most accurate.

[boardskins]

Why is the President white?