The holiday season has arrived, which means you’re busy either preparing your home for a family, your stomach for your family dinner, and your mental for your family in general. Whether you’re stressed or excited or a combination of both, we’re passing the time with some of the wildest TV and movie dinner scenes.
This is just a reminder there is someone’s family even more crazier than yours. So in honor of holidays and crazy family members here are 21 of the wildest and funniest TV and movie dinner scenes
Check them all out below.
Who Made The Potatoe Salad
The whole movie may not be top tier but this dinner scene is iconic.
Almost Christmas
Nobody needs Grandma Cheryl to come to dinner so please stay faithful. And if you are going to cheat, don’t cheat with a “dumb b*tch”
Meet The Browns
“What about our momma”…”Nasty hoe” — When you find out your father was a pimp and all the “nice” women were his hoes.
Brown Sugar
This one scene has so many funny one liners as he finds his wife cheating on him while at dinner, joins said dinner, and proceeds to act a fool
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
How does anyone keep it together in this scene is beyond me.
Dysfunctional Friends
It was a whole lot of chicken with a side of everyone’s business served at dinner.
Why Did I Get Married
In the future, no one should make Mike the keeper of secrets.
Django Unchained
There was a slave’s skull examined, smeared blood on one’s face, and overt racism. It doesn’t get any more disgusting than that. Fun fact, Leonardo DiCaprio really cut his hand up in the scene but stayed in character.
Nutty Professor
While this was funny, I would hate to attend dinner with the klumps and their flatulence.
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Pose
“God may have blessed you with Barbies, a backyard with a pony, a boyfriend named Jake and an unwanted pregnancy that your father paid to terminate so you could go to college and major in being a basic bitch…” –This is a clear example of why you should mind the business that pays you.
Kingdom Come
Don’t cheat on a wife who is dramatic.
The Color Purple
“Until you do right by me, everything you even think about gonna fail!” — When a woman’s fed up. Don’t mess with Cecily.
Master of None
Coming out and then introducing your family to your significant other, can be intense.
Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family
What’s done in the dark will come to the light.
Scary Movie 2
This scene is as hilarious as it is creepy. Would you eat the food after being served this way?
Dirty Laundry
One thing about Jenifer Lewis, she knows how to make an awkward situation more awkward.
House Party 3
“They used to call me jawbone”
Jumping The Broom
With a future mother-in-law like this, who needs enemies, or whatever the saying is.
Guess Who
It is all fun and games until someone says something too racist.
Boomerang
“Bang Bang Bang…”
Bringing Down The House
Slavery songs and laxatives do not go together.
The Help
It’s not really a dinner scene, but someone’s at the table and there is food present, even if it is food, NO ONE should eat, so we’re including it.
Soul Food
Where there is manipulation, there is fire. And where there is fire, there is money.
The Butler
This is why politics and Sidney Poitier aren’t good dinner conversations.
Empire
Honestly, when did the Lyon family ever have a normal dinner? So we’re just going to start with the first one because Cookie sure knows how to make an entrance.
Power Book II: Ghost
Zeke and Cane were definitely worried about the wrong part of the Monet’s secret. (Start video at 13 mins)