My grandparents had this weird tradition of giving
everyone huge blocks of Wisconsin Cheddar Cheese for Christmas and my Pop used to always get 1 order of cheese curds, we used to hid out in the garage eating them.
Like Melancholia, Attack the
Block takes a small disaster (a nurse gets mugged) and then contrasts it against a
huge one (a swarm of alien beasties arrive and start killing
everyone in sight).