History YMMV / ADateWithYourFamily

* UnfortunateImplications: As [[http://americancentury.omeka.wlu.edu/exhibits/show/reinforcement-of-gender-roles-/item/242 this]] points out, the short's reinforcement of [[StayInTheKitchen traditional gender roles]] is staggering, even for the time period.

* NightmareFuel: The very idea that this crypto-authoritarianism was once considered [[{{Eagleland}} "All-American"]]. With the hyper-rigid Gender roles, deprecation of emotionality and individuality, the whole short plays like a How-To Guide for [[Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers Pod People]].

* StepfordSuburbia: Unintentionally done, as the narrator emphasizes "unemotional" discussion at the dinner table, and that it's a place for ''pleasant'' discussions. Even prior, Junior and Brother are discouraged from bringing up anything negative with Father after he comes home.
-->'''Narrator''': If they have disagreeable news, they'll postpone the discussion until another time.

* ValuesDissonance: Displays the early [[TheFifties 1950's]] in all their repressive, [[CrapsaccharineWorld crapsaccharine]] glory. Aside from the mass smoking and TV dinners, it has just about every essential 50's trope there is.

** The elder son is said to treat his mother "as he would his best girl".

* UnfortunateImplications: As [[http://americancentury.omeka.wlu.edu/exhibits/show/reinforcement-of-gender-roles-/item/242 this]] points out, the short's re-enforcement of [[StayInTheKitchen traditional gender roles]] is staggering, even for the time period.

* AccidentalInnuendo: The narrator describes the women wearing their best dresses 'for the men of the family', clearly missing out on incestuous that sounds.

* NightmareFuel: The very idea that this crypto-authoritarianism was once considered [[{{Eagleland}} "All-American"]]. With the hyper-rigid Gender roles, deprecation of emotionality and individuality, the whole short plays like a How-To Guide for [[ReplicantSnatching Pod People]].

* ValuesDissonance: The early [[TheFifties 1950's]] in all their repressive, [[CrapsaccharineWorld crapsaccharine]] glory. Aside from the mass smoking and TV dinners, it has just about every essential 50's trope there is.

* UnfortunateImplications: As [[http://americancentury.omeka.wlu.edu/exhibits/show/reinforcement-of-gender-roles-/item/242 this]] points out, with its enforcement of Gender Roles, deprecation of emotionality and individuality, the whole short plays like a How-To Guide for [[ReplicantSnatching Pod People]].

* ValuesDissonance: It's amazing, but aside from the mass smoking and TV dinners, it has just about every essential 1950s thing about it.

* UnfortunateImplications: The title. Also, how the message of the film pretty much boils down to everyone putting on an act for the dinner table.