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  • "Quintuplets" which is on Fox with Andy Richter, about a father raising teenage quintuplets.

    CNN Transcript May 2, 2005 2005

  • From the Dionne Quintuplets to The King Family Show (which featured 37 members of the extended King family); from The Partridge Family (which starred Shirley Jones as the widowed mother of five children) to the nine members of The Brady Bunch, entertainment brands based on a large family's adventures have been a part of the popular culture.

    George Heymont: At A.C.T., The Family That Plays Together Doesn't Always Stay Together George Heymont 2011

  • From the Dionne Quintuplets to The King Family Show (which featured 37 members of the extended King family); from The Partridge Family (which starred Shirley Jones as the widowed mother of five children) to the nine members of The Brady Bunch, entertainment brands based on a large family's adventures have been a part of the popular culture.

    George Heymont: At A.C.T., The Family That Plays Together Doesn't Always Stay Together George Heymont 2011

  • The audience consists of Sisters of the Precious Blood who taught, scolded and smacked Bobby until he graduated from high school, and they seem pleased to hear that they have left an impression on the unruly boy who was almost expelled in second grade for trying to knock the habit off of Sister Annette Cecile Marie Jeanne Yvonne, who was named after the Dionne Quintuplets.

    Lounge Singer's Road to Top Paved With Bad Detentions 2010

  • Unlike they brats from the reality television program, Jon and Kate Plus Eight, The Dionne Quintuplets were conceived naturally, immediately snatched away from their poor parents by their government and placed them in a "home" called "Quintland" where millions of dollars were made off of them.

    The World Famous Dionne Quintuplets Dusty 2010

  • Unlike they brats from the reality television program, Jon and Kate Plus Eight, The Dionne Quintuplets were conceived naturally, immediately snatched away from their poor parents by their government and placed them in a "home" called "Quintland" where millions of dollars were made off of them.

    Archive 2010-06-01 splogman 2010

  • Billed as The Dionne Quintuplets, the adorable French-Canadian litter, were naturally abused and exploited like circus freaks from the time they were born.

    The World Famous Dionne Quintuplets Dusty 2010

  • Billed as The Dionne Quintuplets, the adorable French-Canadian litter, were naturally abused and exploited like circus freaks from the time they were born.

    Archive 2010-06-01 splogman 2010

  • So they are likely to approach the Bush Quintuplets once again, and brave whatever (feeble) outcry might ensue, momentarily, from certain Democrats and pundits, if/when SCOTUS steps in to abort another major popular decision.

    To "save" Coleman's seat, GOP eyes Bush v. Gore 2009

  • (The third, Quintuplets, was a more anonymous family sitcom; naturally, it ran the longest of the three, albeit a modest 22 episodes.) "I'm of two minds," says Richter after I complimented him on how strong the episodes of Andy Richter Controls The Universe remain, including the five that never even aired.

    Michael Giltz: Andy Richter Still Controls The Universe 2009

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