History Main / TooManyBabies

* [[http://www.comicvine.com/mother-of-champions/29-41239/ Mother of Champions]] from Franchise/TheDCU's "Great Ten" superhero team is a particularly bizarre (albeit non-comedic) variation. Ironically, she was barren before she developed her powers.

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* Drizzt Do'Urden, the drow of ''ForgottenRealms'' fame, was almost killed at birth because he was the third son born into his family, according to the R.A. Salvatore novel "Homeland." The ChaoticEvil and matriarchal drow were fine with having ''many'' daughters, but any more than two sons had to be sacrificed to Lloth. Drizzt survived because one of his older brothers killed the other to improve his own standing.

* The original ''OswaldTheLuckyRabbit'' pilot, "Poor Papa", has this, where a stork delivers way too many babies to him and his wife. This carries over to his appearance in ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'', where he and his girlfriend have spawned numerous offspring since his imprisonment.

* In the series finale of ''{{Chowder}}'', Chowder and Panini are married and have 50 babies, including 20 ''in one day''. They ''are'' sort of like rabbits, after all...
* This is Shrek's nightmare in WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird.

* ''Quints'', a DisneyChannel Original movie about a teenage girl who gets five younger siblings at one shot and has to take care of them.

* [[http://www.comicvine.com/mother-of-champions/29-41239/ Mother of Champions]] from TheDCU's "Great Ten" superhero team is a particularly bizarre (albeit non-comedic) variation. Ironically, she was barren before she developed her powers.

* In ''TheSimpsons'', Apu and Manjula get octuplets after she starts taking fertility treatments to increase the chance of pregnancy. We later find out that this wasn't the fault of the doctor they saw — several people had been slipping Manjula fertility drugs without her knowledge. Later on the same episode, ''nine'' babies are born to a couple living in Shelbyville.

* This is {{Shrek}}'s nightmare in his third movie.

* In one BadFuture episode of ''CaptainPlanet'', Linka is shown living in a deeply impoverished town with over half a dozen kids...all fathered by [[ShipTease Wheeler]].

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** Ditto "[[PorkyPig Porky]]'s Romance", which was a parody of the aforementioned "Mickey's Nightmare".

* The titular miracle in ''Film/TheMiracleOfMorgansCreek'' (1944) involves Betty Hutton giving birth to sextuplets.

* A 1935 MerrieMelodies cartoon (directed by Creator/FrizFreleng), "The Merry Old Soul", has Old King Cole marry The Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe. HilarityEnsues when he tries to take care of all those kids.

A woman has babies. That is, she gave birth to multiple babies at the same time, and now she, with help from her husband, has to figure out how the heck to deal with this many kids at once. HilarityEnsues.

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* The NurseryRhyme about the old woman who lived in a shoe...and had so many children, she didn't know ''what'' to do!

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* Drizzt Do'Urden, the drow of ''ForgottenRealms'' fame, was almost killed at birth because he was the third son born into his family, according to the R.A. Salvatore novel "Homeland." The ChaoticEvil and matriarchal drow were fine with having ''many'' daughters, but any more than two sons had to be sacrificed to Lloth. Drizzt survived because one of his older brothers killed the other to improve his own standing.

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* The UrExample is probably the case of the Dionne quintuplets, born in Canada in 1934. A tragic case, they were removed from their parents' custody and exploited as a government-operated tourist attraction.
* For a darker [[DeconstructedTrope deconstruction]] of this, many cultures view the birth of twins as a bad omen, which may lead to them being killed shortly after birth.
* Then there's Nadya Suleman, the "Octomom," so called because of a dead-straight example of the "in vitro GoneHorriblyRight" version resulting in the second set of surviving octuplets in US history (and first set where all members survived longer than a week.) Normally that many are ''not'' implanted, but she has said that the alternative was that the unused embryos would be destroyed. This adds to the six kids she had ''already,'' those ''not'' at once.
** In order to not look ''completely'' crazy she claimed to have only implanted 6 left-over embryos (of which 2 then split into twins) because she didn't want any of her babies to die. She was [[BlatantLies lying]] on both fronts: the doctor implanted 12 embryos. And she insisted on fresh embryos for each of her IVF-cycles, so there are still some of her embryos left in the freezer.

* Bloo tells a phony story in ''FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' to their next door neighbour about how he and Frankie are not only married, but have 64 children as well. Frankie is not particularly happy about this lie, and to make matters worse, Bloo asks her "What were their names again?"...

* Drizzt Do'Urden, the drow of ''ForgottenRealms'' fame, was almost killed at birth because he was the third son born into his family, according to the RASalvatore novel "Homeland." The ChaoticEvil and matriarchal drow were fine with having ''many'' daughters, but any more than two sons had to be sacrificed to Lloth. Drizzt survived because one of his older brothers killed the other to improve his own standing.

* A whole spate of RealityTV shows involved finding TruthInTelevision examples of this trope and filming it, the most well-known example probably being ''JonAndKatePlusEight''. Shows in this vein seem to be waning in popularity thanks to Octomom (who actually has ''fourteen'' children), whose irresponsible invocation of this trope has caused the viewing public to strongly question the morality and motives of anyone who would decide to have this many children, let alone try to get a Reality TV show for it.

* In ''TheSimpsons'', Apu and Manjula get octuplets after she starts taking fertility treatments to increase the chance of pregnancy. We later find out that this wasn't the fault of the doctor they saw — several people had been slipping Manjula fertility drugs without her knowledge.

* ''RaisingArizona'' has this as a set-up: Herbert's poorly thought-out plan to have a child with his wife involves kidnapping one of the Arizona Quints, reasoning that the parents wouldn't mind losing just one. (He gets the idea from reading an interview with the father, who had jokingly commented that "We've got more than we can handle!")

* Several episodes during Season 2 of ''GreysAnatomy'' are centered around a mom who chose to keep all 5 of her babies, even though the doctors had recommended she have 1 or 2 of the fetuses terminated.

* A 1935 MerrieMelodies cartoon (directed by FrizFreleng), "The Merry Old Soul", has Old King Cole marry The Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe. HilarityEnsues when he tries to take care of all those kids.

* The original ''OswaldTheLuckyRabbit'' pilot, "Poor Papa", has this, where a stork delivers way too many babies to him and his wife.

* ''RaisingArizona'' has this as a set-up: Herbert's poorly thought-out plan to have a child with his wife involves kidnapping one of the Arizona Quints, reasoning that the parents wouldn't mind losing just one.
* ''Quints'', a DisneyChannel Original movie about a teenage girl who gets five younger siblings and has to take care of them.

* Several episodes during Season 2 of ''GreysAnatomy'' are centred around a mom who chose to keep all 5 of her babies, even though the doctors had recommended she have 1 or 2 of the fetuses terminated.