The First Reality Show: An American Family

Was The Loud Family Being Ridiculed Again?

While no other skits have actually addressed the family by name, other skits seem to have poked fun at the family dynamics captured on the show. During the early 2000s, Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Ana Gasteyer starred in a skit on the show about a dysfunctional family having dinner.

While the dinner starts off normally enough, their dysfunction quickly reveals itself as their aggression towards one another leaks out and they all begin screaming at one another by the end of the skit. Then again, perhaps this skit is not aiming at the Loud family in particular and just any other dysfunctional family dinners that probably have existed in the world.