MST3K - A Date with Your Family

[@cammameil]

A violent argument erupts over whose day was more pleasant!

[@plinkitee]

Father feigns eating, draws Junior out, then disowns him! 🤣

[@apassionatenerd.3564]

*"Emotions are for Ethnic people."* "Pleasant, *unemotional* conversation helps digestion." _"I can't stress unemotional enough!"_

[@deathproofpony]

"Many families throughout the country observe the custom of saying grace at mealtime." "Please, God, take me now."

[@rebeccah.4983]

"Father I had a feeling today" and "well there it is -- spankings all around then"

[@djargus]

"Well, don't, son."

[@c0t0d0s7]

ok

[@land1sea1lions]

"as THOUGH they are genuinely glad to see him."

[@AJF786]

"they're not, of course..."

[@snarkaholic]

EAGER to talk to him = looking forward to it ANXIOUS to talk to him = stressed out/dreading it. Hmm....

[@infinimineyt9700]

"Son and Junior greet dad as if they're genuinely glad to see him." Tom: "They're not of course."

[@djargus]

That was actually Mike.

[@user-hi4sm3ig5j]

"Father feigns eating, draws Junior out then disowns him!"

[@rashaseden7062]

"Father feigns eating, draws out brother, and disowns him!" Makes me laugh every time...

[@followingtheroe1952]

8:27 I love the strained "bE yOURseLF"

[@faithfulgrl]

Growing up in the 1970's we all sat together at the table. Dad always said "I laughed" then said something funny about his day, and it was. It was natural. It's not until many years later you realize, it's gone...

[@tompinkerton8099]

This is one of the all-time best MST3K shorts!

[@mikey.1743]

"We secretly switched their Folgers coffee..." lol

[@michaelrodriguez2597]

Father, I had a feeling today. Well don't son.. 🤣

[@EzraKnickelbine]

Pleasant, unemotional conversation aids digestion!

[@cord2250]

+Ezra Knickelbine "I can't stress unemotional enough."

[@MrHmg55]

@@cord2250 Emotions are for ethnic people!

[@DoctorPorkenfries]

Criminey, why would people want to behave at home like they do working a retail job?

[@Shades14]

The 50's: Act like everything's ok no matter how broken you are inside! We're all perfectly fine! In all seriousness, fuck the 50's.

[@apassionatenerd.3564]

@@Shades14 The classic 1950s mentality of "As long as you're a white American, your life is perfect and everything is flawless." With all this generic and souless 'family values' propaganda trying to get people to act so robotically, it's no wonder there was such a large counterculture scene in the 60s.

[@blugreen123]

I've seen this so many times that I've practically memorized it. But I still watch it a couple times a year. 😂

[@jonathanwashington6083]

Dinner with the Duggar's!

[@faithfulgrl]

I felt for the Dugger kids & Mom. The Mom said she'd be up at 2 in the morning getting the laundry done..prayin' her way thru. Too many rules not enough adventures.🕊 Even the Dove of Peace, Flies! God Bless Them🛐

[@scitsalcoryp]

Actually, sitting around the table, in the time honored tradition ...is one of the most stressful things ever

[@johnanderson9765]

That''s why an instructional film like this exists, to make it less stressful.

[@johnanderson9765]

My favorite moment: Narrator: Do remeber simply this: Treat the other members of your family with the same respect and cordiality you would show your most treasured friend outside the family circle. Joel: So snap Dad's bra?

[@cremetangerine82]

This episode has Mike, not Joel.

[@tuckerbowen4626]

ah the '50s, when a young teenage girl could dress up to look "attractive" for her father and brothers at dinner at it somehow wasn't weird

[@jasondulin7376]

I’ve been saying that forever… it’s so gross.

[@Azmina_the_warlock]

Remember ladies, your value depends on how good you look to the men in your family. 🤢

[@BTScriviner]

Yeah, because molestation never happened in the 1950s. 🙄

[@tuckerbowen4626]

@@BTScriviner I'm sure it did, but that's kinda another issue entirely

[@snarkaholic]

"Tell Mother how good the food is." If it's so good, then why does Dad camouflage the roast under the mashed potatoes on every plate?

[@emmaduncan2991]

"these boys greet their dad as though, they are genuinely glad to see him." in other words, if not particularly happy to see dad, fake it!

[@applemask]

STOMACHS KNOTTED LIKE FISTS

[@DDlambchop43]

wow, dinner was never like this when I was a kid. Only on holidays (when granny come over) did we end up at the table. Rest of the time, dad's wacky work hrs meant dinner was when we got hungry and eaten in front of the TV. And it's serve yourself.

[@jamesalves6199]

"Well...that's it then. Spankings all around!" "Brother has a tight psychological grip on Junior"

[@hyenaedits3460]

How To Be A Dysfunctional Family is a more appropriate title.

[@adiraiju9336]

Well, my family never had a dinner like this... One of us might end up with a knife lodged in his or her thorax, but it was never boring!

[@mrmonty86]

When I was young, the only time families ate at the dinner table was in the movies or on television because I always ate dinner in the den or my room.

[@soupalex]

"Eh-err, you don't have to cut my mashed potatoes, too"

[@AJF786]

"Or the Jell-O..."

[@rabidrabbitshuggers]

I may bitch about how conservative my parents are but thank god home life was never *this* repressive and emotionally stifled.

[@FlexoShootFlexo]

Clearly you're not English

[@AR-cp5dz]

"may"? I doubt that.

[@theoldar]

Silvia? Oh man, classic.

[@SteelyBud]

Wow, no wonder kids born in the 50s/late 40s did drugs when they went to college. Probably took the edge off the post-traumatic stress disorder from dinner.

[@berrybellcosplay]

A stranger enters.

[@scitsalcoryp]

Perhaps booze would alleviate this situation

[@luisreyes1963]

Doesn't it always in the 50's? 🥃

[@weston5209]

He has to strip and replace the oil in his hair with “summer weight.”

[@sarahcartan4194]

"With your family you can relax, be yourself. Just be sure it's your best self." "And be sure no one knows the real you."

[@needles1987]

Hugh Beaumont (Ward Cleaver) does the narration.

[@SteelyBud]

Really? I never noticed. That's awesome.

[@jamesremington8056]

Mother, Father, Sister, Brother and Oops.

[@favoritemustard3542]

Someone(s) didn't stick to the plan lol

[@mikeb837]

"Father i had a feeling today." "Well dont son."

[@amberjohnson4820]

This is so funny! I laughed till I cried the first time watching this!!!!

[@dianalewandowski7615]

ME TOO! EVERY QUIP IS HYSTERICALLY FUNNY...U SHOULD CHECK OUT THE SHORT, "OUT OF THIS WORLD" ABOUT A BREAD SALESMAN, JUST AS FUNNY

[@artfan101]

Jr. was an accident, and an inconvenience.

[@emmaduncan2991]

wait, they "owe it to the men in the family, to look attractive." hella yes, lets get those girls under the thumb of a man, right at the start!

[@freebird0147]

Yep. And you'll do it and like it

[@cheekbonestrenchcoat]

This makes Mother and Father uncomfortable "And they don't like you enough already!"

[@captainobvious9233]

We never sat at the table outside holiday meals. When we were little we would usually sit on the floor in the living room watching TV. Later, we'd just take our plate to our room.

[@ricarleite]

I know this one by heart...

[@scitsalcoryp]

The less said about this ...the better

[@EthanStrongiscool]

"Hello there! Who are you?"

[@AJF786]

Salad needs more butter, Mother...

[@luisreyes1963]

And not Strychnine. 🤢

[@SpookySkellyGurl]

Hittin' on Hittin' on Hittin' on family members Got some attractive cousins

[@HylianFox3]

"The sisters are puttin' on makeup, and the brothers can't wait to hook up..." "Hook up with who? WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THIS FAMILY!?"

[@jeffreygunn3150]

I sense the concept of “gaslighting” originated around this time.

[@classiclife7204]

Pretty close - "Gaslight" was released in 1944.

[@JHATDRUMMER1976]

junior seats sister,sister seats the dog,and the dog........ perhaps booze would elite the situation

[@lonnf3919]

thank you for this, and all of these.

[@RanMouri82]

Gotta say, the other MST3K shorts from around this time period aren't so weirdly sterile. "Pleasant, unemotional!"

[@cord2250]

7:00 And a young Marc Summers becomes annoyed.

[@scitsalcoryp]

I'm in a thoroughly relaxed mood

[@angryman1206]

This is what Project 2025 will bring about.

[@XexusNH]

for safety sake, mother should always be fed first .. as true today as it was then

[@billsmith6884]

Daughter has changed from her school clothes into something more comfortable; a werewolf.

[@moorek1967]

So the older boy was Son but the younger boy was Jr.?

[@kathleenmorrison2908]

Very surprised Crow managed to get the word “bint” on tv

[@cremetangerine82]

Probably because that's not a common slang term in the USA.

[@jw6842]

"Brother has a tight psychological grip on Junior." 😂😂

[@randomness928]

But what if I greet my friends by flipping them off?

[@robertmoffett3486]

It's been exciting every day since they sat in high chairs, because Daddy has let them live another day

[@jackal59]

"Emotions are for ethnic people!" was the line that doubled over a colleague I showed this to. Remember, this is the "great" that people want America to be again.

[@wendyinminnesota]

There's a rabbit in there!

[@artfan101]

round peg round peg must be a round peg.

[@jackal59]

If I were foolish enough to pick their best short, this would be it.

[@MegaMawileTheNommer]

Wasn't that the little boy from another short on a Child getting lost from his mother on the way to the Art Gallery?

[@christinestudley3982]

I miss that show! 🥲

[@frauleinfunf]

Ok, ignoring literally every other problem with this short film (most unsurprisingly linked to misogyny), the advice to treat your family like your most treasured friend doesn't really work for me because while I do treat my closest friends like family, that means us being comfortable with being total assholes to each other, which this video is clearly discouraging (even though that's pretty much how everyone in the real world acts)

[@ConfusionPlus2]

***** Misogyny? Who hates women?

[@frauleinfunf]

I say misogyny because literally everything the mother and daughter are expected to do revolve around making the dad and sons happy, which was a common attitude about family during the time period this was made. While the definition of misogyny is hatred of women, many cases aren't as clear cut as say, a woman not being allowed to vote because of her gender.

[@jonathanwashington6083]

***** Particularly all the notice about mother and daughter looking "attractive" for the men of the house.

[@JoeKaye-hn5dt]

Men weren't all gay in those days either. I guess you chicks can't have it both ways.

[@squirrelsarepeopletoo6678]

Daughter is a 1950's hottie !!!

[@Archetype000]

0:25 Dinsdale?!

[@BTScriviner]

The guys' commentatry is funny, but I also find these short films an interesting window into the past.

[@janetremsing6988]

😂❤

[@timberry4709]

6:36 - - "As Brother flashes his White Supremacist hand sign."

[@favoritemustard3542]

How did that malarkey ever start - 👌 will always mean O.K. to me If it was appropriated (& not just a slow news day) I'll just reappropriate it right back ✌😁👌

[@JamaicanCastle]

It stinks!

[@dragonkeeper19600]

What are they actually supposed to talk about? Like, for real?

[@apassionatenerd.3564]

Baseball, the weather, Eisenhower... And I think that was pretty much it.

[@BlueBrainMountainStream]

4:55 Damn Servo!

[@oddmontsoddington8961]

A STRANGER ENTERS.....

[@cr3861]

More gin, Pop?

[@jeffreygunn3150]

This family could use Vampira at dinner.

[@rcanoli99]

"Salad needs more butter Mother..."

[@scitsalcoryp]

Don't monopolize the conversation and go on and on and on ....

[@luisreyes1963]

7:10 How to reduce Dinnertime into a soulless experience. 😶

[@classiclife7204]

Treating each other kindly and having good manners is always good, but this short goes too far. The whole "pretend to be glad to see your father, and don't tell him any bad news until some later, unspecified time" is just sad, and the latter part in particular is really bad advice.

[@BackroadsNBrokenDreams]

"A stranger enters..."

[@TimelordR]

The Stepford Family...

[@christieperry4361]

Hello there... Who are you?

[@breakstuff4]

6:35 This stinks

[@gantz22ify]

The brother went on to work at IGN.

[@-throat-]

Ow ow that’s my hand!

[@poetcomic1]

FOOD FIGHT!!!

[@sammycolon69]

Glad we dnt do that in my hispanic family. that way of living is SO DULL!!

[@JoeKaye-hn5dt]

Us Hunkies rarely all sat down to eat at the same time. Dinner was in the pot. Get it yourself.

[@davidstrohl]

“This makes mother and father uncomfortable.” Is it because because dad hates being reminded of just how much he doesn’t measure up to the neighbors and mom hates any reminder that she should’ve married better? I’m sure that’s not it at all.

[@greyfox37]

MORE GIN, POP?

[@MrDuncanBelfast]

Huh. It's the original Safe Space.

[@TheNKillham]

You mean the 1950s?

[@chillydawgg4354]

Don't belch & blow it in your siblings' faces

[@TestCandidate95]

Malcom in the Middle had more realistic and comfortable family dinner scenes than this.

[@matthewgriffin7857]

oh my God this is creepy

[@luisreyes1963]

Matthew Griffin Getting a Stepford Wives sort of vibe, eh?

[@Pooky1991]

Most boring date ever.

[@cavalierfan1995]

junior seats dad and sister seats the dog and the dog......