Dad comes home from work complaining about a racist letter from his co-workers, but he is optimistic because he is certain the apocalypse is very near, and his very pure family will certainly be spared.
Sally and the other cheerleaders arrive to watch the special videotape, which is actually a secret sex tape that Holly and Rex recorded.
Suddenly a pair of skinheads light fire to a cross in the front yard, and barge into the house: they're looking for Katsumi, who owes them money.
Eightball stabs Fagtoast in the eye, and then messages her mothership that her research mission is now complete, and she will bring her specimen with her: she and Katsumi's body are teleported away.
Tom Sawyer's car pulls up outside, and Holly runs out to meet him, knocking into Rex who has furiously biked to profess his love for her.
[10] When the film debuted, David Rooney of Variety wrote, "this rambunctious volley of flagrantly tasteless humor could whip up a minor cult following, especially in the U.K. and Europe" and added that "frivolous sex and gore content is far from explicit, and hard to take offense at.
"[6] Entertainment Weekly's Ken Tucker described the film as "intentionally ugly and crude: it focuses on a squabbling, drug-taking Asian-American clan that gives new meaning to the term dysfunctional".
[11] In the Los Angeles Times, Howard Rosenberg wrote that the film is an "amusing, self-bleeping, self-mocking soap opera whose politically incorrect Asian family communicates mostly through ribaldry and spermspeak", and made reference to the public funding controversy by mentioning that "some members of Congress need to rethink their notion of public TV".
"[13] Mike Hale, writing for The New York Times, echoed that thought: compared to the sitcom All-American Girl that debuted shortly after, Terminal USA is a "much more entertaining and in its way much more authentic depiction of Asian-American family life — a view from the inside that made its way onto television and gleefully trashed the notion of Asian-Americans as a 'model minority'.