Amazon Prime recommended Dinner with Parents, a 2024 American remake of a Britcom about weekly family dinners, with this photo of the adult son and his boyfriend.
Scene 1: David (Henry Hall) interrupts Boyfriend Gregg (Daniel Thrasher, left) while he's going through the prank box. There's a problem: Chet will be at tonight's family dinner. "I thought he had midterms?" "He got finished early."
Chet has been pranking them for years. Boyfriend Gregg wants to prank him hard tonight, but David says no. Too risky. They've been burned too many times. How long have these guys been together? Their friend is still in college, so only a few years.
Scene 2: Dad (David Bakkedahl), Mom, and Jane are in the family kitchen, cooking. David comes in. Jane says "Hi, Honey"! Wait -- I thought David was gay, with a boyfriend. If he's married to Jane, why didn't they come to the dinner together?
Jane is upset because her incredibly beautiful Sister is coming to the family dinner tonight. Everyone will be flirting with her, so Jane won't get any attention. Aren't these people her parents and brother? She's upset because they will no longer think she's sexy when Sister arrives?
They move to the living room, where Boyfriend Gregg has pulled up an old video to remind them of the prankster they'll be facing tonight: during David's Bar Mitzvah, Chet lit the Torah on fire! Um...that sounds more like an antisemitic hate crime than a prank.
Scene 3: A tour bus pulls up, and the incredibly rich, successful, and beautiful Sister Tilly emerges. The family is overcome with joy, except Jane, who hates her.
Her husband Mitch (Karl Collins), emerges, and Dad does some jive-greetings with him. "You know, the phrase 'Brother in law' doesn't even come close to touching this thing tht you and I have." He wants to be called "Brothers-in-love" instead. Ok, that's a gay code, but I thought Mitch was Sister Tilly's husband, which would make him Dad's son-in-law.
Prankster Chet, not listed in the IMDB, appears, insults David, and throws away his glasses. David decides he's up for pranking after all.
Scene 4: At dinner, Tilly is bragging, and Mom is gazing at her like a lovesick teenager. I guess that's the joke -- family affection portrayed as romantic love, so Jane calls her brother "honey," and Mom is in love with her daughter.
Everyone goes into ecstasies over the vegan apple crisp that Jane made -- until Tilly gets a call from somebody famous who wants to be on her podcast. Then they ignore Jane again.
Scene 5: While doing the dishes, Dad gets upset because his Brother/Son-in-Love Mitch has gone vegan, and won't eat the 30-pound bag of cheese he's been saving. So I guess their bromance is the C plot.
"No, I'll eat it, but if Amy catches me with it, I'm dead!" Ok, so he's married to someone named Amy, who was not at the dinner, and Jane's sister Tilly must be his daughter.
"Just hide it in the RV. She'll never know." They came in a tour bus. It must be Dad's RV.
More after the break
Scene 6: The boyfriends are cozying up to each other on the couch and glaring at Prankster Chet. Time for operation Major Prank: Boyfriend Gregg heads to the bedroom, and tells David to follow in 30 seconds. Are they going to prank or make out?
In the kitchen, Sister Tilly is doing a podcast on "her" vegan apple crisp. Jane glares at her, and finally can't take it: "That's my vegan apple crisp, Amy! You stole it!"
Hold on, I'm confused. I don't mind that Tilly is now named Amy, but she's married to Mitch, the man Jane's Dad called "brother-in-law." So is Tilly/Amy Jane's sister or aunt?
Anyway, Tilly/Amy dismisses Jane, so she barges into the podcast to demonstrate how to make the dish.
Uh-oh, Prankster Chet grabs David on the way to the bedroom. "Aren't we too old for this prank war? Then tell your brother to end it." Brother -- but I thought Gregg was his boyfriend. Is this like Tilly/Amy being Jane's sister and aunt at the same time?
He tells David that Boyfriend/Brother Gregg is planning a major prank on him!
Scene 7: Now suspicious, David glares at Boyfriend/Brother Gregg, who senses that something is wrong and returns to Prankster Chet: "What's going on between you and David?" "Um...er...nothing. I was just checking to see if he had any cavities...with my tongue..."
Prankster Chet say that David is planning a major prank on him!
David bursts in: "What's going on here?" "Um...er...nothing. His fly was open, and I was just helping him zip up...with my mouth..."
Scene 8: Meanwhile, Sister/Aunt Tilly/Amy's followers all love Jane's cooking tips. They even give her a catchphrase: "I go there." Uh-oh, she accidentally slices her finger off, but throws it into the ice in the freezer and keeps going.
And in the RV, Dad and his brother/son in law Mitch eat cheese and sing about how much they love each other. "Um...er...we always get naked to sing, don't you?" They are disobeying Tilly/Amy's vegan orders, but who cares? She's not around. Then they run out of beer, so Dad sneaks into the kitchen to get some more and some ice, and Tilly/Amy sees him!
He rushes back to the RV. There's a knock on the door -- Tilly/Amy, coming to kill them? No, dopey next door neighbor, played by Rob Delaney, top photo. He accidentally pushes the "lockdown" button, trapping them in the RV.
Left: Daniel Thrasher according to P*rnhub.
Scene 9: David and Boyfriend Gregg drag each other into the bathroom Each believes that the other is wearing a body cam for a prank, so they undress each other. Prankster Chet listens in, delighted. That's a lot of work just to see them n*ked, bro.
Jane comes clean about chopping off her finger and hiding it in the ice, which Dad brought back to the RV. They go outside to retrieve it, but the RV is gone! It was towed, with Dad, his brother/son in law, and the finger still inside.
Jane calls them. It's an emergency -- they need to get the finger to the hospital. So they hug and push through the RV door to get the attention of the tow truck driver.
Cut to the hospital -- Jane is fine. She and Tilly/Amy have a five-minute long heart-to-heart that I fast-forwarded through.
Scene 10: When the boyfriend/brothers are completely n*ked, Chet bursts in and grabs their clothes. They chase him into the kitchen, where the podcast is still streaming, so Tilly/Amy's fans see them, har har.
Clothed again, the guys get revenge by shining a laser in Chet's eyes, so he loses the video game he's playing. That's revenge? How about making him run down the street n*ked?
Beefcake: The brother/boyfriends.
Left: Moe Bar El, who does not appear in this episode. I think.
Gay characters: David and Gregg get girlfriends, so they are both straight. They have a lot of queer codes going on, but apparently it's just fraternal affection, like the bromance between Dad and his brother/son in law.
Family Tree: There's no wikipedia entry, so I had to watch another episode to figure it out:
Jane isn't David's sister or wife, she's his Mom, married to Dad. And the person they all call Mom is David's grandmother.
Since Jane turned into David's mom, her sister Tilly/Amy is David's aunt, and her husband Mitch is Dad's brother-in-law. They use the correct family terms throughout. I was just confused by the Tilly/Amy name change and the fact that Jane looks like she's the same age as David and Greg, while her mother looks the same age as Dad. And they act like they're in love with their siblings.
My Grade: Focus character David is really annoying, the familial relations come with so many misdirections that I think we're supposed to be confused, and gay people do not exist. Not worth a bare butt or two. D.
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