I've had to explain to people that mitochondrial eve wasn't literally the first woman nor did she shack up with Y-chromosomal adam. She's just the most recent common matrilineal ancestor of everyone currently alive and he's the same thing but patrilineal. And few words put people to sleep faster than most recent common matrilineal ancestor.
Also unlike biblical eve, mitochondrial eve had a mother. That's a question I had to field once. Yeah, humanity didn't just pop out of thin air one day. It's not like the first human was delivered via stork and this pregnancy stuff is a modern invention. Instead, it's a long line of sex and pregnancy, from anatomically modern humans all the way back to archaic humans and eventually to non-human apes. Evolution is weird like that.