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* ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner'': A white woman brings home her black fiancée to meet her parents. His parents later show up as well. The film came out in 1967, when the Supreme Court had only recently struck down the South (and California's) anti-miscegenation laws in ''Loving v. Virginia'' The races are flipped in the 2005 remake, ''Guess Who'', with a black woman bringing her white fiancée to meet her parents.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', the essentially gentle and unworldly Wizard Ponder Stibbons is allowed a girlfriend. She's an Assassin and is a product of a border country in [[UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica Howondaland]] where there are occassional disagreements with [[DarkestAfrica the neighbours]] over the figurative garden fence. He discovers her family fit the picture of the AmoralAfrikaner, taken UpToEleven as a courtesy detail. His first encounter with PapaWolf and MamaBear is even more terrifying than the border war he has just, unwillingly, been drawn into at her side. Ponder adapts, and realizes his in-laws are actually quite well disposed towards him. The alternative, he realizes, would be unspeakable. Read more in the works of Creator/AAPessimal.

* Midway through ''Film/MrBaseball'', Jack Elliot's Japanese girlfriend Hiroko takes him to dinner with her parents. In a twist on the IntroductionByHookup, Hiroko's father turns out to be Uchiyama, Jack's team manager. Jack and Uchiyama both realize they've been set up.
* In ''Film/BeauJest'', a young Jewish woman is dating a gentile man. She told her parents, who dislike him, that she would break up with him. So when her parents finally convince her to bring her new boyfriend to a family dinner, she hires an actor to play the role of her boyfriend. The problem? He isn't Jewish either, even though his name is Bob Schroeder. So the guy has to pretend to be Jewish, even though his only experience with Judaism was playing a role in a production of ''Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof''. In the end, though, after everything is revealed, it turns out her parents never had a problem with her dating gentiles. It was just that her previous boyfriend reminded them of a cousin they didn't like. [[spoiler:Naturally, she ends up breaking off her relationship and starting to date Bob for real, and he even seriously considers converting, having grown to like Jewish culture.]]
* ''Film/MeetTheParents''. The first movie is about Greg [[EmbarrassingLastName Focker]] meeting his girlfriend's parents for the first time and trying to make a good enough impression to get their blessing to propose to her. The sequel, ''Meet The Fockers'', flips things around to show Pam and her parents meeting Greg's BourgeoisBohemian parents.

* ''Film/ImThinkingOfEndingThings'' has this as its premise. Jake is bringing his new girlfriend home to meet his parents. The dinner that proceeds is increasingly awkward and surreal.
* In ''Film/FortyCarats'', Ann meets the unhappily married parents of her much-younger fiancé Peter. It goes very badly - Peter's father tears into the relationship and almost convinces Ann to break up with Peter.

'''Vince''': It was my idea.\\

* ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner'': A white woman brings home her black fiancée to meet her parents. His parents later show up as well. The film came out in 1967, when the Supreme Court had only recently struck down the South (and California's) anti-miscegenation laws in ''Loving v. Virginia''
** The races are flipped in the 2005 remake, ''Guess Who'', with a black woman bringing her white fiancée to meet her parents.
* ''Film/TheInLaws'' (1979) has mild-mannered dentist Sheldon Kornpett meet his daughter's fiance's father, crazed CIA agent Vince Ricardo, who soon involves him in Central American hanky-panky.
On seeing a picture from JFK inscribed "At least we tried":
--->'''Vince''':That was for the Bay of Pigs.\\
'''Shelldon''':You were involved in the Bay of Pigs!?!\\
'''Vince''':It was my idea.\\

** Much the same plot in the 2003 version

* While it's kept to [[HideYourGays subtext]], the ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance'' episode [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/StarWarsResistanceS2E6FromBeneath "From Beneath"]] is centered on Orka meeting Flix's family. They're not too impressed at first, but as soon as Orka starts yelling at them to mount a rescue they immediately approve.

* ''Film/TheInLaws'' (1979)has mild-mannered dentist Sheldon Kornpett meet his daughter's fiances father, crazed CIA agent Vince Ricardo, who soon involves him in Central American hanky-panky.
On seeing a picture from JFK inscribed "At least we trisd":

'''Shelldon''':You were involved inthe Bay of Pigs!?!\\

* ''Film/TheInLaws'' (1979)has mild-mannered dentist Sheldon Kornpett meet his daughter's fiances father, crazed CIA agent Vince Ricard0, who soon involves him in Central American hanky-panky.

===>'''Vince''':That was for the Bay of Pigs.\\

* During the field trip to the West in ''Manga/BoardingSchoolJuliet'', Romio makes plans to formally introduce himself to Juliet's parents (he already met Juliet's mother before, but that didn't give her a good first impression of him). Post-war tensions between their two countries aside, Romio is rather optimistic of the matter, even though other characters warn him repeatedly that it will go very, very wrong. [[spoiler:Complicating matters further is that Turkish, Juliet's father, was in Romio's shoes before, having previously had a SecretRelationship with someone from an "enemy country", only to have his hopes shattered when the secret got out and he became a pariah. Turkish doesn't want Juliet to go through the same hardships as he did.]] And thus Turkish serves as the final major obstacle for the OfficialCouple when he [[KnightOfCerebus finally shows up]].

* ''Literature/CradleSage'':

* In Chapter 74 of ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'', Kusuri takes Rentarou home to meet her parents, who also resemble eight-year-olds due to taking her immortality drug. It goes fairly well, although Kusuri's father isn't too happy that his daughter is dating someone who has fourteen other girlfriends. At the end of the chapter, he meets Kusuri's grandmother Yaku - who turns out to be his sixteenth soulmate.
* In ''Manga/GirlfriendGirlfriend'', Naoya's mother and father finally come home after being away from their house for so long, allowing them to meet the two girls their son is dating and the two extra girls staying in their home. Predictably, they're both angry with the relationship, but they soon accept that he's dating Saki and Nagisa, although they still don't consider Mirika and Shino official girlfriends (yet).
* In ''Manga/IBelongToTheBaddestGirlAtSchool'', Fuyuhiko's mom shows up to bring him his lunch while he's alone with Kanade. Though Kanade is nervous the whole time, desperately trying to make a good first impression and prevent her from finding out she's a delinquent, she turns out to be very supportive of their relationship.

* During the field trip to the West in ''Manga/BoardingSchoolJuliet'', Romio makes plans to formally introduce himself to Juliet's parents. (he already met Juliet's mother before, but that didn't give her a good first impression of him) Post-war tensions between their two countries aside, Romio is rather optimistic of the matter, even though other characters warn him repeatedly that it will go very, very wrong. [[spoiler:Complicating matters further is that Turkish, Juliet's father, was in Romio's shoes before, having previously had a SecretRelationship with someone from an "enemy country", only to have his hopes shattered when the secret got out and he became a pariah. Turkish doesn't want Juliet to go through the same hardships as he did.]] And thus Turkish serves as the final major obstacle for the OfficialCouple when he [[KnightOfCerebus finally shows up]].

* We get a flashback in chapter 7 of ''Manga/ICantUnderstandWhatMyHusbandIsSaying'' to when Hajime met Kaoru's father. It went surprisingly well despite Hajime being a hardcore otaku, although Kaoru get's a ThousandYardStare when she remembers it due to how embarrassing it was for her.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', the essentially gentle and unworldly Wizard Ponder Stibbons is allowed a girlfriend. She's an Assassin and is a product of a border country in [[UsefulNotes/SouthAfrica Howondaland]] where there are occassional disagreements with [[DarkestAfrica the neighbours]] over the figurative garden fence. He discovers her family fit the picture of the AmoralAfrikaner, taken UpToEleven as a courtesy detail. His first encounter with PapaWolf and MamaBear is even more terrifying than the border war he has just, unwillingly, been drawn into at her side. Ponder adapts, and realises his in-laws are actually quite well disposed towards him. The alternative, he realises, would be unspeakable. Read more in the works of Creator/AAPessimal.

* ''Film/GuessWhosComingToDinner'': A white woman brings home her black fiance to meet her parents. His parents later show up as well. The film came out in 1967, when the Supreme Court had only recently struck down the South (and California's) anti-miscegenation laws in ''Loving v. Virginia''
** The races are flipped in the 2005 remake, ''Guess Who'', with a black woman bringing her white fiance to meet her parents.

* ''Series/{{Soap}}'': Danny brings home his fiancees to meet his parents twice; both times it goes badly. The first time he's engaged to TheDon's bratty daughter and they hate each other. The second time she's black (Danny and his parents are white) and much tension ensues. When her parents come over to meet the Campbells, the mothers agree that it's a horrible idea for the two of them to get married, and ultimately Polly (the fiancee in question) breaks it off with Danny.