History Main / DinnerAndAShow

* For those in the United Kingdom of a certain age, this should bring the TV series ''{{Bread}}'' to mind...

* OnceAnEpisode in ''BlueBloods'', the Reagan family has Sunday dinner. Sometimes it's a serious discussion of the episode's events, sometimes it's the funniest part of the episode.

* In ''DueSouth'', Ray Vecchio's family seems to have this as their default setting.

'''Art''': No, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint last night we had meatloaf]].
* In ''IceAge'', when Manny, Sid and Diego steal a melon from the dodos, the dodos fight back hysterically (and ineffectually) prompting Manny (played by Ray Romano, who's [[EverybodyLovesRaymond seen this trope played out many times before]]) to comment, "Wow, dinner ''and'' a show."

* The infamous dinner party hosted by Miles in ''[[VorkosiganSaga A Civil Campaign]]''.

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* Lampshaded by [[{{GilmoreGirls}} Lorelai]] when she and Rory once arrived for Friday Night Dinner and they watched an argument between Richard and Emily.

* ''{{Californication}}'' seems to be going out of its way to have one of these every series. They're yet to top the one from series 2 though.
* One SaturdayNightLive sketch was an advertisement for the greatest hits of dysfunctional family holiday dinners (for those who can't make it home this year). Each one ended with the father (Will Ferrell) yelling "*BLEEP* this, I'm leaving!" and flipping his dinner plate into the air. What really made this funny was that Ferrell's plate flips just got harder every time until the last one where he practically launches it across the table.
* On ''{{Series/Heroes}}'', Thanksgiving dinner at the Bennet house starts with a massive argument and ends with Claire self-mutilating in order to demonstrate her HealingFactor, causing her mom's new boyfriend to pass out. Meanwhile, at the Petrelli house, they discuss [[spoiler:how one of the brothers is actually dead, with his memories transferred into the body of a mindwiped shapeshifting villain]].

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* This is the basic premise of the stage comedy ''[[YouCantTakeItWithYou You Can't Take It With You]]'' by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.

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'''Art''': No, last night we had meatloaf.

-->--'''The Cat''', RedDwarf

* The infamous dinner party hosted by Miles in [[VorkosiganSaga A Civil Campaign]].

-->Wow. Dinner ''and'' a show.
-->'''-The comment of a guest as yet another [[BrothersAndSisters Walker]] family dinner descends into an argument'''

-->What is this, Cabaret? Entertainment while you eat?
-->'''The Cat''', RedDwarf

* [[ArrestedDevelopment All in all, it was one of the Bluth family's better parties.]]

** Most notably the Thanksgiving episode where the phrase is uttered during Mr Simmons Thanksgiving dinner. WHen the girl known as Joy starts choking, Mr Simmons' "friend" Peter dryly states this as he sips some red wine.

* Basically every episode of ''EverybodyLovesRaymond''

* In ''IceAge'', when Manny, Sid and Diego steal a melon from the dodos, the dodos fight back hysterically(and ineffectually) prompting Manny(played by Ray Romano, who's [[EverybodyLovesRaymond seen this trope played out many times before]]) to comment, "Wow, dinner ''and'' a show."

* {{Californication}} seems to be going out of its way to have one of these every series. They're yet to top the one from series 2 though.

* This is the basic premise of the stage comedy [[YouCantTakeItWithYou You Can't Take It With You]] by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.

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* The educational short ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiwirMibASY A Date With Your Family]]'', as seen on ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'', had the family inevitably do it, and the narrator cautions us '''not''' to follow their example while it is happening.

* So common on ''PicketFences'' whenever they have dinner guests, that FyvushFinkel [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] it when urging someone to accept an invitation: "Strange things happen when they ''eat''."

* ''BrothersAndSisters'', where Walker family dinners inevitably result in an argument. They've started LampshadeHanging it, especially Robert [=McAllister=]:

* If we are to go by SixFeetUnder, family dinners can get quite interesting when one member of the family has had ecstasy. Without him knowing about it.