A Date with Your Family

A Date with Your Family is a 1950 10minute social engineering short film presented by SimmelMeservey, directed by Edward G. Simmel, and written by Arthur V. Jones to primarily show youth how to act and behave with parents during dinner to have a pleasant time. The subject family consists of a father, mother and their children a daughter, older son and a younger son. The narrator tells what happens with the family what should happen during the meal, what types of manners and socializing should be exhibited to not sour the time with your family and what should not happen. There are many stereotypical views of each person to coincide with the preferred image of a nuclear family in the postwar era of the 1950s.

A Date with Your Family was satirized on a season six episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 as a short paired with the Cold War scare film Invasion U.S.A.. It is known as one of the most humorous shorts of the series, also containing many dark jokes Emotions are for ethnic people and also Brother has a tight psychological grip on Junior because of the extremely restrictive nature of instructions for a common social event such as a family dinner. The title itself was mocked as well, with the characters cracking jokes that implied it suggested incest. Tom Servo referred to it as The Woody Allen Story while Mike Nelson commented, Hey, I like my family as a friend.A Date with Your Family was featured as an extra feature in the Mystery Science Theater 3000 XXVI DVD collection with The Sword and the Dragon. ........

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