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Family Dinner

Saturday Night Live

Family Dinner is an occasional Saturday Night Live sketch in which a suburban family's polite dinner conversation keeps breaking into vicious shouting before settling back into calm. SNL Archives lists two installments, on January 17, 1998…

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THE REPEAT COLLECTION
Dysfunctional Family Dinner
A GOOD PLACE TO DROP INDysfunctional Family Dinner

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Same setup. More good bits.

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Family Dinner is an occasional Saturday Night Live sketch in which a suburban family's polite dinner conversation keeps breaking into vicious shouting before settling back into calm. SNL Archives lists two installments, on January 17, 1998 and November 10, 2001.

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