Meet My Folks — Season 1, Episode 4: The Reeves
Comedy, Reality • 60 min • 2 seasons, 20 episodes • ★ 9.0/10
Episode synopsis
Repo man Larry Reeves and his wife Tina, who raises quarter horses, must choose a date for their daughter Stephanie (a student) from between three bachelors: Brad (a doorman), Eric (a bartender), and Joe (a student and valet). All three contestants spend a weekend at the family ranch in Ramona, California, and are put through a battery of challenges in order to impress the parents and win the girl, including an early morning rude awakening to do farm chores and the infamous ""Meet My Folks"" lie detector test. - nbc.com
About Meet My Folks
Meet My Folks is a comedy reality television series which aired on NBC from 2002–2003 and aired in re-runs on MyNetworkTV from 2007-2008. Local versions of the show have aired in other countries since 2000. The series was apparently inspired by, but has no direct connection to, the 2000 comedy film Meet the Parents, wherein a man must seek the approval of his girlfriend's demanding parents before proposing. One of the film's best-known elements, a lie detector test, also figures prominently in the series. The film's producers, Universal Studios, had at one point considered legal action over the program, specifically the title and the lie detector segment, but this did not come to fruition.