In Popular Culture
Bob Newhart played an unpopular President of the United States of America in the 1980 movie " First Family".
In the comic book series Astro City, the First Family is the name of a family of super-powered adventurers. First Family is also the title of the second novel in the Amtrak Wars series.
In the series Doctor Who, in the episode Partners in Crime, the First Family commissioned Miss Foster to create the Adipose.
The First Family is also a collection of Australopithecus afarensis fossils discovered at site "333" at Hadar in Ethiopia, near the location of another famous A. afarensis, Lucy. A. afarensis is believed to be the first habitual bipedal hominid and a direct ancestor of Homo sapiens. This species lived between 3.9 million to 2.9 million years ago.
The First Family is also the title of an American sitcom airing in first-run syndication in the United States beginning in 2012.
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