In the first clip, we see Spader as Mr. Black motivating (and periodically firing) the employees of Black Box, the ominously ill-lit Apple send-up that employs the entire town:

Here, our hero Tobin "Toe" Thompson (whose parents are the ill-fated team leaders in the clip above), stands up to school bully (and daughter of Mr. Black) Helvetica by insisting she's in love with him:

Toe's bully-confronting strategy gets a little help from the wishing rock he finds, which enables him to conjure up a crew of aliens who prove as strong as they are tiny:

But naturally the wishes don't always go as planned, as when Toe's friend Loogie wishes for one of their crew to become super smart:

Or when "Nose" Noseworthy summons forth a sentient monster made from his own boogers:

We also get two clips from the Black Box employee party. First, Jon Cryer and Leslie Mann get too close for comfort:

Then Toe has another violent encounter with Helvetica:

The Skywalkers (Star Wars): The Skywalkers are more or less the gold standard for family dysfunction. Putting aside that twins Luke and Leia have the hots for one another, Papa Vader chopped off Luke’s hand, nearly killed him, and annihilated Leia’s entire home planet. Makes those family dinners pretty awkward.

Adding Han Solo’s DNA to the family tree doesn’t improve matters, as his Force-sensitive offspring Jaina and Jacen just end up battling to the death.

The Connors (Terminator): If it weren’t for all the time-traveling killer robots and the apocalyptic future, Sarah Connor’s treatment of her son John would be considered abuse. She intensely isolates the future leader of humanity’s Resistance against the machines, and encourages in him a level of paranoia, violence, and general criminal behavior that most parents would tend to avoid. And the future John will befriend Kyle and Derek Reese, never revealing to them that they are his father and uncle respectively. And, given that John and Sarah spend so much of their lives running from Terminators, they develop warm fuzzy feelings for a couple of them. A reprogrammed T-800 serves as John’s first father figure and Cameron proves a vital (and confusingly sexy) addition to the Connor clan.

The Ventures (The Venture Bros): Rusty Venture is a walking dysfunction all on his lonesome. Unable to live up to his father’s impossible example, Rusty turned into a pill-popping, underachieving neurotic with a shaky moral center. And it doesn’t help that his brother JJ (who played Abel to Rusty’s Cain in the womb) is successful in the very areas where Rusty fails. Conversely, Rusty treats his own children with less than benign neglect, cloning replacements whenever they are killed (which is often) and leaving their emotional care to the ultra-violent, highly promiscuous spy Brock Samson.

The Cylons (Battlestar Galactica): The Significant Seven models of Cylon are a big, dysfunctional family in their own right, albeit one that pulls out the heavy artillery when a disagreement over the family pets goes to far. But it’s within the individual model lines that the dynamics get particularly screwy. When everyone shares the same face and the same programming, personal identities and relationships tend to get blurred. At least one of the Sharons wants to be Sharon Agathon so badly that she sampled her fellow Eight’s memories and put the moves on her husband. And then there’s this scene:

The Mulder/Spender Families (The X-Files): It’s little surprise that Fox Mulder developed an interest in conspiracies given how much of his upbringing was based on lies. Bill Mulder, the man Mulder believed to be his father, traded Mulder’s sister Samantha for an alliance with a group of alien colonists. As result, Samantha is repeatedly cloned and Mulder develops an obsession with aliens and conspiracies. And no one told Mulder that his biological father is, in fact, the Cigarette Smoking Man, the ruthless conspiracy agent who has antagonized Mulder throughout his FBI career. The CSM has Mulder’s partner Dana Scully abducted, tries to ruin his career, lies to him about his sister’s fate, and generally torments him. Still, that’s nothing compared with the CSM’s treatment of his other son, Mulder’s half brother Jeffrey Spender. The CSM berates Spender for being inferior to Mulder, shoots him, and authorizes his agents to perform horrific and disfiguring experiments on him. It’s all enough to make Mulder’s emotionally distant relationship with Scully, the mother of his own child, seem downright warm and fuzzy.

Mama Ripley and the Alien Hybrids (Alien Resurrection): Ellen Ripley spends three movies ensuring the destruction of as many Alien xenomorphs as she could take a flamethrower to. Then, in the fourth film, her clone gestates and “births” an Alien queen. Tainted by Ripley’s human DNA, the queen develops a womb, letting her give birth to an Alien daughter of her own. Like so many children, the newborn Alien digs grandma a whole lot more than mom, and matricide ensues. Ripley repays her grandchild by getting it sucked out into space, but not before they share a vaguely erotic moment:

The Petrellis (Heroes): The Petrellis are generally marked by three characteristics: they all have superpowers; they all have secret parents, siblings, or offspring; and they are constantly trying to kill one another. Claire shoots her uncle Peter. Peter shoots his brother Nathan. Patriarch Arthur plans to murder his son Nathan. And brothers Peter and Sylar are constantly trying to kill each other. Only matriarch Angela Petrelli (wife of Arthur and apparent mother of Nathan, Peter, and Sylar) stays out of the attempted murder racket, though she’s pulling most of the other family members’ strings.

Just about everybody in Dune: The noble houses of Dune are dysfunctional precisely because they resemble so many of history’s noble families: propagated through inbreeding, filled with members of uncertain parentage, and driven by political marriages so that you can’t help but go to war with your cousin. That many of the series’ characters were conceived as part of the Bene Gesserit’s breeding program helps to further entangle the families. And the spice agony, which causes a person to take on the memories (and sometimes personalities) of all their ancestors, allows a person experience the full spectrum of familial dysfunction without ever leaving their own head.

The Endless (Sandman): Sibling rivalry is bad enough without having siblings who are the immortal embodiments of the world’s greatest forces. Dream gets along fine with his sister Death, but their sibling Desire, in concert with its twin Despair, interferes constantly in his affairs, and takes great pleasure in trying to bring the wrath of the Furies down on Dream’s head. Although generally fond of youngest sister Delirium, the Endless tend to ignore her incoherent babbling until it is far too late. And Destiny quietly watches on, acting only when his great book tells him he will do so. The only sensible one seems to be Destruction, who retired from his position and stays out of family matters.

Kyle Reese is John Connor’s Father (Terminator): In the future, Kyle Reese is one John Connor’s best soldiers and closest friends. He also harbors a slightly creepy attraction to John’s late mother, Sarah, volunteering to go back in time to protect her. Little does he know that his brief pre-mortem coitus with the young Sarah Connor will make him the father of the future Resistance leader.

Jeffrey Spender is Fox Mulder’s Half-Brother (The X-Files): Fox Mulder’s already shadowy history gets even more confused when fellow FBI agent Jeffrey Spender claims to be Mulder’s half-brother, a claim their similar DNA seems to confirm. It also suggests that Mulder’s real father is not Bill Mulder, but the nefarious Cigarette Smoking Man.

Benjamin Sisko’s Mother was a Prophet (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine): Star Trek is full of surprise relatives: Kirk and David Marcus, Worf and Alexander, Picard and his clone Shinzon. But no family tree is quite as strange as that of Captain Benjamin Sisko. To bring about their emissary, the Bajoran Prophets send one of their own to possess a human woman, marry Joseph Sisko, and give birth to little Benjamin. Although biologically human, Sisko would have deep ties to the Prophets and Bajor.

Quinn Mallory’s Parents are Sliders from Another Dimension (Sliders): Brilliant physics student Quinn Mallory hops from dimension to dimension, hoping to find his way home. But it turns out Earth Prime is not the dimension where Quinn was born. Rather, he was born on Kromagg Prime and spirited away by his real, dimension-sliding parents. He was raised on Earth Prime by his parents’ doubles, who grew so attached to Quinn that they never bothered to give him back.

The Sleeper Cylons’ Parents are False Memories (Battlestar Galactica): It’s heartbreaking enough to find out that you’re a cylon, a member of the race who has just committed genocide against your loved ones. But on top of that, you discover that your whole childhood, your whole history was a sham. For Boomer, who believed her parents died in a mining accident, it means the loss of her family a second time.

Various Mutants are the Parents/Children/Clones of Other Mutants (X-Men): The X-Men, their adversaries, and their allies have family trees that rival those of soap opera characters. There are your more traditional love children you never knew existed (as with Professor Xavier and Legion, and Magneto and the twins Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch) and parents who abandoned you as an infant (as with Nightcrawler and Mystique). But when you bring in time traveling, alternate dimensions, and cloning, it’s hard to keep track of who’s who at the family reunion.

Claire Littleton is Jack Shephard’s Sister (Lost): Many of the people who find themselves on the Island are connected to one another, if only tenuously. For Claire and Jack, that tie is a common bloodline. Strangers before the crash of Oceanic 815, Jack and Claire are both the children of the dead-but-not-gone Christian Shephard. This makes Jack uncle to Claire’s son Aaron, and makes Jack a bit uncomfortable with his ex-girlfriend Kate raising the boy.

Bruce Wayne is Terry McGinnis’s Father (Justice League Unlimited): Terry McGinnis, Bruce Wayne’s protégé, always did resemble his boss more than his parents. That’s because Terry was part of a Boys from Brazil-style scheme to create another Batman. Warren McGinnis’s germ cells were replaced with Wayne’s, making Wayne Terry’s genetic father. And, when Terry experiences the outrage of his father’s murder, he does take up the Batman mantle.

The Comedian is Laurie Juspeczyk’s Father (Watchmen): Laurie always knew that her mother’s agent husband wasn’t her real father. But she never suspected her father was the sadistic Comedian, who once sexually assaulted Laurie’s mother, but later fathered Laurie through consensual sex. And she’s not the only one who’s surprised. Even Doctor Manhattan couldn’t have predicted the circumstances of Laurie’s unlikely birth, a thought that renews his interest in humanity.

Fry is his own Grandfather (Futurama): When Fry travels to the past and encounters his grandfather, he makes it his mission to preserve the timeline and make sure his granddad stays alive. In true Fry fashion, this ensures that Grandpa Fry gets incinerated. Upon realizing he hasn’t disappeared, Fry shrugs and beds his newly-widowed grandmother, thereby becoming his own grandfather.

The Bartender is His Own Entire Family (“–All You Zombies–“): The Bartender has Fry beat on being his own descendant and ancestor. Through a remarkable series of events, he becomes his own mother, father, lover, and daughter. Over the course of his life, he comes to understand the loop of his own creation, but is mystified by the rest of humanity.

Darth Vader is Luke and Leia’s Father (Star Wars): The galaxy far, far away may be a big place, but Luke Skywalker just keeps running into people he’s related to. And the revelations are bittersweet. First he learns that his father is the homicidal lunatic who just chopped off Luke’s hand. Then he finds out Leia’s his sister after all that quality time they spent together in Splinter of the Mind’s Eye.