For information about actual quintuplets, see multiple birth.
For the South Park episode, see Quintuplets 2000.
Quintuplets is a
sitcom that aired twenty-two episodes on
FOX from
June 16,
2004 through
January 12,
2005. The program starred
Andy Richter and
Rebecca Creskoff as parents of a family of quintuplets and their various adventures in parenthood.
The story is set in
Nutley,
New Jersey, and is on the face of it a typical
family sitcom. Much of the storyline focuses on the difficulty of supporting a large family of teens, both financially and emotionally, as they grapple with the reality that, grown up, they simply aren't as cute and interesting as they were when they were born.
The house is a typical three-bedroom family home. The male quints share a room with bunk beds, the female quints share another room. The kitchen contains a double wide beer cooler as a refrigerator, and the basement contains a walk-in freezer, both to store the large amounts of food such a large family requires. The situation may be seen to parallel and parody the old sitcom
The Brady Bunch, by highlighting the impracticality of the large family.