A Date With Your Family

[MrTheaterBasement]

When the guy was like, 'What not exciting to you?" I though he was about to say, "WELL GET THE HELL OUT!"

[5star555555555]

A violent argument erupts over which day was more pleasant!

[markusvampyre]

"Ah, you don't have to cut my mash potatoes too."

[markusvampyre]

"Brother seats Junior..."

"Daughter obsesses with the flowers"

"....then helps mother to her chair as he would his best girl."

"The less said about this, the better."

[msdemos]

I heard that in real life,

'Daughter' ended up marrying 'Father',

'Brother' was into little boys,

'Mother' drank herself to death,

and 'Junior' was killed in Vietnam.

Anybody know if that's true ??? ;-)

[tenfed1861]

@msdemos Someone posted that Junior was her high school teacher and he would show this in his class.

[msdemos]

@tenfed1861

Incredible......would be really cool to know if that is true!

[distancerunner7]

I get the feeling that this family supports incest

[CesMan83]

If it weren't for the hippies, we'd all live like the Cleaver family!

[djdrock111]

After dinner, Mom is going to service Dad and have a nice helping of tapioca pudding.

[UKISOCIETY]

One of the best shorts and movie from the MST3K boys.

[lilmexicanbaby2]

"Brother is spending an hour before dinner.." "Plagiarizing."

[archer1949]

Emotions are for "Ethnic" People!

[SuperHollygrovechick]

"The women of this family seem to feel that they owe it to the men of the family to look relaxed, rested, and attractive at dinner time." *So they're unsuspecting when they kill them.*

[jec444]

Sure I like my family....as a Friend!!

[RioMadeira]

"Hi, Mom? I'm pregnant."

[elpatro1]

yeah double the bet

[VeryWhiteandNerdy]

Perhaps booze would alleviate this situation =D

[dchiapello]

Snap Dad's bra?

[Theburn77]

"There stomachs knotted like fists!"

[TimelordR]

At 7:10- the son goes into graphic detail on what he did to the class president for not paying his weekly "protection", whilst the daughter goes into clinical detail about the pros & cons of feminine hygiene products.

[CocteauDalighari]

"More gin, pop?"

[jeepgayguy]

"go piss up a rope!"  "sit and spin ya cruddy skank!" funniest lines!!

[jimm2224]

"Hi, I'm Betty and I'll be your wife tonight." LOLOLOL

[thisfreemind]

Definitely my fave short.

[SlaydPendragon]

"Pleas God, take me now."

[blackadder3]

After finally seeing Pod People a few days ago, I realized the stink references are in different episodes like this and Mr. B Natural, hilarious!

[zjc92]

@blackadder3 Ahh, the magic of MST3K

[Jade10923]

mom wants a career, dads gay, brother is taking marijauna, sister is dating a black guy, and juniors a communist :D

[SaintLizard]

Pod People reference. Awesome.

[Evertide05]

@SaintLizard Awesome?  They're the BEST :D

[braindamagehurts44]

what episode/movie is this from?

[savpunk]

@braindamagehurts44 Invasion USA

[braindamagehurts44]

@savpunk cheers

[DudeSinger]

Come on its time to scrubb ya

[smpawloski]

"Dad, I had a feeling today."

"Well, don't, son."

[nmg82]

"and everyone wants to flee this seething cauldron of angst"

[gothicgrace]

Title

"THE WOODY ALLEN STORY!"

xD lmao, awesome reference

[nogoodsnookeroo]

Emotions are for ethnic people

[blacknite76]

Dad I'm dating a negro!

[Applemask]

Stomachs knotted like FISTS

[uruseiranma]

This short just always makes me feel uncomfortable. It's almost saying you're better off dead and stifled than sit down to this meal.

[FetaCheese222]

This is funny even without the commentry.

[SachaKaBoom]

"Emotions are for ethnic people." hahahaha

[tailgrowth]

Wow, that family really fell apart quickly at dinner. They looked so cheerful beforehand.

[noodlenate]

There are so many things in this that are scary and should be joked about that it's incapacitating.

[lonelysith66]

"I'm moving to Fire Island, Dear."

Yeah, no big surprise there.

LOL XD

[theprincessactress]

" This makes un-noticeable when they kill them" I Love this

[SashaTheBrit]

THERE'S A RABBIT IN THERE!

[jackal59]

I didn't get "there's a rabbit in there!" until I ran across the definition of "bunny boiler." This is funny enough to make you cry.

[dchiapello]

@jackal59 I was sort of the opposite - I knew it was taken from Fatal Attraction, but I didn't know about the term "bunny boiler." LOL

[kcfreak725]

"Do you begin to see now how a date with your family can be a truly special occasion?" "Do you? DO YOU?" "And of why a brother or sister look forward to the evening? "Well, DO YOU? YOU BETTER SAY YES DAMN IT!!!!"

[urmerm]

"He's mute"

[dchiapello]

"snap dad's bra?"

[pimpborg]

Not funny at all.

[ElizabethGStone]

@pimpborg Too bad for you, then.

[ultimateSpagety]

"mom I'm pregnant" followed immediately by "is it that late already?" XDDD

[masticina]

Mmm the one on irce or this one.. mm though choice but this is a more homely setting. Yes it is pretty nice :)

[TheVintageBug]

Still my FAVORITE short ^.^ Never gets old.

[tenfed1861]

"More gin,pop?"

YES!!!

[ArtemisRampant]

"Emotions are for ethnic people." So hilarious, oh my god.

[copperandbrick]

This is one of my favorite shorts. :-)

I love my Dad and brother, but looking attractive to my male relatives is not even on my list of priorities.

[kev747]

"But i like my family as a friend," LOL

[dchiapello]

So snap Dad's bra?  LOL

[proffesorcat]

it has been far too long since I last saw one of these.

[Saxifrage040210]

So repressive

[needles1987]

No wonder people wanted change in the 60s.

[ToxicOdiousOne]

Brother runs a boy cleaning service on the side. Rofl.

[ToxicOdiousOne]

He's got to strip. Rofl.

[ToxicOdiousOne]

Attractive at dinnertime especially daughter.

[ToxicOdiousOne]

We don't need a maid. We have a daughter. Rofl. Exactly.

[ToxicOdiousOne]

Lol. A date with daughter.

[ToxicOdiousOne]

Daughter is hot.

[crescentfreshbret]

@ToxicOdiousOne I've always thought she looks a bit like Scarlett Johanssen.

[j3din1nj4]

"Emotions are for ethnic people" XD

"I can't stress unemotional enough."

[dunderbob91]

"a violent argument erupts over whose day was more pleasant." That had me in tears.

[apo18llo]

I like my family as a friend!

[Klopy1414]

rofl. I hope i get the DVD of these for christmas like i asked. :o

[Zalis116]

"Watch him play Butler, in Remains of the Day." I love how MST3K wasn't afraid to make jokes that not too many people would get.

First saw this short in a college English class, where the prof put it up as an example of a modernist work with post-modernist commentary.

[AnnoyingSquib]

@Zalis116

Props to your professor! I wish I had someone that cool!

[ssjzero64]

More Gin Pop?!

[JStot]

Maybe I'm just crazy, but I don't think I owe it to my male relatives to 'look attractive at dinner'. Ew.

[dhart1977]

I guess you may be right on that, unless you consider your Dungeon and Dragons attire formal. You wouldnt understand the way things back then were due to you wandering off into some alternate reality. Dungeons and Dragons, wasnt that popular back in like the 80's?

[stagmarauder]

Dude, cool it with the hostility. Maybe she was born recently. I was born in 1994. Just becuase you find this funny doesn't mean you were around back then. In any case, this video was made in 1950, so the question is arbitrary! Just cool your jets a bit, man. Just relax. No one is trying to offend you, including me. Just chill out.

[dhart1977]

Cool your jets a bit, "man"? Look here "boy", things would be better if things went back to how they were back then. You have no clue as to how it was, I actually talked to my grandparents and was told how it was. Do you have grandparents? If so, you need to listen to them. What you might find out is that this is the way many families were, or at least tried to be. What pisses me off is that the next generation now just wants whats in front of them, they think a simple dinner together is stupid.

[stagmarauder]

That's just offensive. I know "how it was." that's beside the point. I respect your opinion, but don't presume that just because I'm young I don't appreciate a family dinner. that's my favorite part of my day. I think it's ridiculous that you can make these assumptions about me as a person, and my peers, based on a comment where I told you that no one was trying to offend you, so you didn't need to be hostile. Like it or not, and I don't always like it, things change.

[stagmarauder]

Just because I, or JStot, don't agree with everything they say, doesn't mean she or I don't like to have a nice family dinner. As for "wanting what's in front of them," well, yes we do. We want that as much as every other generation wanted it. No more, no less. America is a capitalist society. Our very infrastructure is based off wanting! I'm not trying to offend you, but please don't continue to insult people who mean no harm.

[dhart1977]

Your whole argument started when I made a comment towards a person that denounced how things were in favor for her lack of perspective. I could sit here and go down the ever growing list of whats wrong with the youth of today, but there is not enough time in the year. Many children, about your age I might add, do not care about much today. They definitely would not take the time to sit down for dinner. All I hear from kids today is "I want", but they wont try to earn anything, thats my point.

[reddog22000]

Hahahah, I find it hilariously ironic that a 32 year old whining about 'kids these days', is antagonizing a 15 year old with far more maturity.

Seriously, 'kids these days' is a timeless classic. In fact I just overheard someone on the TV in the next room say "What's wrong with kids these days?" as I'm writing this post! Heheh.

Yet you act as if no other generation felt the same way about the youth in their own time.

Maybe you need to stop reminiscing about a time you never even lived in.

[dhart1977]

Wow, you seem like you have a clue as to what you are talking about.

[robokill387]

@dhart1977 the 1950's was only great if you were a wealthy white man.

[XxMetalManiacXxX]

@stagmarauder I know my dad finds it hilarious, but was born back in the 50s. haha :)

[reiterated]

I think the only people concerned about looking attractive at dinner for their male relatives are heroines in V.C. Andrews novels. (Speaking of which, I am surprised no V.C. refs were made during this short. There was certainly ample opportunity for it.)

[reddog22000]

No, you're not crazy. You don't owe it to anyone, to appear in any specific manner at all.

[Premedia]

"... and mother seats dog?" XD

[anagnorasis]

"Sylvia?"

[PhantosTheHedgehog]

Do they really think a little kid is going to talk about financial metters?

[raineandrews]

"Dad Im dating a Negro..."

Good gawd that was funny as hell XDD LMFAO

[LexieCasteel]

"I have no son!" That made me crack up

[ShadowXII]

"Perhaps booze would alleviate this situation."

[Enumclaw]

"Martini!"

[TheStrohs]

"Father feigns eating, draws Junior out and then DISOWNS HIM!!"

"The salad needs more butter mother!"

some of the BEST lines from MST3K come from this short lol...totally awesome

[KonstantineTheGreat1]

-father i had a feeling today...

-well son,don't.

emotions are for ethnic people...

LOLOLOL

[frofro9997]

one of their best! love it. "I probably should have washed my hands after handling that dead woodchuck. Oh well."

[dchiapello]

snap dad's bra?? LOL!

[welthawood]

I'm dyin' here this is so funny!

[AutobotLover]

dad im dating a negro *laughing* this is too damn funny

[lobsterthecannibal]

"A violent argument erupts about whose day was more pleasant."

[blugreen123]

of course, the women have to dress festively because "they owe it to the men in their lives to look relaxed" woooww

i suppose not naming the children makes it seem like they're the "everyman" family

Please God, take me now!

Pleasant and unemotional conversation makes for better digestion?! let's not discuss anything of importance while the whole family's together

no one can start eating 'till the MAN does

this is one of the most oppressive shorts ever

go piss up a rope!

[blugreen123]

most families don't have servents...they have daughters!

[crescentfreshbret]

@blugreen123 Ah, sit 'n' spin, ya cruddy skank! :)

[dchiapello]

Love the la-di-da writing: "...no family so poor BUT THAT the evening meal.... no family so busy BUT THAT it can come together... "

[Llamabob9]

"I can't stress unemotional enough"

my favorite line. it sums up the entire video perfectly.

[Ready4PrimeTime]

"But he won't spend much time on the phone, either..."

"He's MUTE!"

[Gomess]

These parents were VERY cruel when naming their kids.

Presumptuous, too; who calls their FIRST boy "Brother"??

[htomsirveaux42]

@Gomess The Berenstain Bears

[okey26]

"Brother has a tight psycholigical grip on junior"

favorite line,plus i think it can describe any brothers in any family lol

[dchiapello]

let's go to the flow chart for this. lol

[dantesque17]

Why is the daughter called "Daughter", while the older son is called "Brother"? Shouldn't the daughter be called "Sister"?

[0okamino]

I wonder if brother was ever busted for his plagiarism.

[thatbigolhead]

yyyyyeah doublethebet!

[ElizabethGStone]

- Father, I had a feeling today.

- Well, don't, son.

- 'Kay.

[Cerezaelectrica]

Hahahaha "Hi, I am Betty and I'll be your wife tonight"

[Fratrix]

"Emotions are for ethnic people!" XD

God, did pleasant Zombie people like that really exist in those days?

[CarryLarry]

I love how they jump right in with a Woody Allen slam

[lonelysith66]

@CarryLarry Yeah, really, good times!

LOL XD

[nostromo38]

Salad needs more butter, mother.

Should we be scrubbing each other now?

[crowskyler]

Probably the best MST3K short.

[xXpunk12Xx]

i love these guys

"They're high!"

[Ozker1313]

"This stinks!"

[Evertide05]

That is really an all-purpose line, isn't it?

[rogerfan1327]

hello there! who are you?

[capthavic]

Well do you? DO YOU? Better say yes, dammit!

[Uraharasensei]

MST3K comments were fun as hell, but the video is real, and all I have to say is: What a brainwash of supression, sexism... O_O

[doinblow]

"Their stomachs knotted like fists! Daddy, I'm dating a negro!"

Damn I love MST3K.

[thseeds420]

this commentary is amazing!

[Idiotetiquette]

Ah, the 50's. Time of Vera Lynn, Doris Day and the Gaylords back dropped to the morally ambiguous and the procastinators of Civil Rights. Where sitting down to dinner meant cutting the allegorical raw-red meat known as insecurity so that it could be consumed to lay dorment in that somber crackpot of emotional repression you called your stomach. Sigmund Freud became the baseline for justifying your latent incestuousness and shorts like these? -- The precursor to why you are now a schizoid.

Creepy

[Ninjamuffin13]

Huh, no matter how many times I listen, I can't quite make out that prayer Servo mumbles at 5:06

[Gaslight61375]

It sounds kind of like the chanting in Evil Dead or something in that vein.

[RSVPBlogger]

It sort of sounds like he is doing the transcental meditation mantra - "om mani padme hum"

[Bureyeanne]

That food would have been very cold by the time all was set for this production.

[Bureyeanne]

At 6:16 junior has his arms rested on the table.

[jayMaze5]

This is an excelent short. Hands down one of the all time funniest.

[WillDouglas]

This is the funniest 10 minutes in the history of film.

[dahwang12]

My college film instructor just showed us this!!!

[lonelysith66]

@dahwang12 You have the coolest teacher ever!

<3 :D <3

[HollyHammondLovesMST]

It'll be a sad day when all the MST3K episodes and shorts will be gone from youtube.

[JiaBlackholesun]

I doubt that'll ever happen on a permanent basis. MST3K fans are too wily to be kept down. Keep circulating the tapes!

[ecarey08]

That was the funniest MST3K EVER! I was laughing so hard the whole time!

[Xp710]

god damn..that was hilarious

[nordicwarrior66]

I had tears in my eyes laughing

[LadyFagen]

"This boy and girl look quite content with life and why not?" "They're high!" I spit my drink out at that one! :)

[BeeDub57]

"Father, I had a feeling today."

"Well, don't, son."

[Skarnu]

Pleasant unemotional conversation is good for digestion.

"I can't stress unemotional enough."

[pura769377]

A violent argument erupts over whose day was more pleasant.

[mcarlucci55904]

"...Brother has a tight psychological grip on junior..."

[boysinblack]

1 + 1.. Uhh Err

[JerryGarciafan]

WOW... hilarious.... but damn, sooo sexist

[raskolniki]

"..and control and repression.." haha

[defyingGravity87]

"Hey mom, umm I'm pregnanat."

"M'kay, buck up here we go."

LMAO.

I love this show.

[areoborg]

"THERE'S A RABBIT IN THERE!"

[whitebishop1]

And why not?  They're high! :-)

[stagmarauder]

Can you believe that they actually showed this short on public television?

[greyfox37]

It is silly, but it's also sad that formality is abandoned along with deeper family values thanks to the decade following this one. Should we go back to this? Not exactly, but at least table manners and family gathering should still be enforced.

More gin, pop???

[rawoctopus]

"i'll be your wife tonight"

[greyfox37]

"Emotion is for ethnic people!"

God, I love this racist sexist tripe

[iBatzy]

"Brother runs a boy-cleaning service on the side!"

I almost woke up my family when I laughed at that.

[Venckman]

So...snap Dad's bra?

[sfguy72]

This is one of the all time great MST3K shorts. Hey, "I like my family....as a friend"!!

[EclecticNerd]

these instructional videos are fucked up!

[NeedsMoreTry]

Be sure no one knows the real you.

[orion421]

I agree! No wonder the youth of the 1960's wanted change....Being hounded even about eating at home..LOL That's Not natural lol