A Date with Your Family is a 1950 10-minute social engineering short film presented by Simmel-Meservey, directed by Edward G. Simmel, and written by Arthur V. Jones,[1] with Miriam Bucher as editor, primarily to show youth how to act and behave with parents during dinner to have a pleasant time.

The older son begins to talk and motion graphically about a fight, in turn disgusting the father, and then argues with his sister.

[3] 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.

Tom Servo referred to it as "The Woody Allen Story" while Mike Nelson commented, "Hey, I like my family...as a friend!".