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Too Many Babies
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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. Hilarity Ensues. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Often the defining feature of works that it appears in for the simple reason of plausibility. Babies are a lot of work, and anyone who has this many is pretty much going to have to center a great deal of her life around them. While one would think that this would make the parents a little high-strung and frustrated with their baby-centered lives, quite often Babies Make Everything Better anyway, despite the extremity of the situation. When used as a brief gag, it's usually tongue-in-cheek. This trope came to prominence because of the relatively high chance of multiple births in the early days of in vitro technology. This was due to the procedure (no longer practiced by most above-board facilities) of implanting multiple embryos under the assumption that only one would actually take. While this is the extreme version of the trope, more down-to-earth works of fiction can still play this up with twins. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Compare and contrast Massive Numbered Siblings, when there's a large number of children but they were born one (sometimes two) at a time. If a sight gag is made out of the many babies forming a conglomeration that looks like a flood or a tidal wave, see Wave of Babies. Examples: |
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This is Shrek's nightmare in Shrek the Third. | |
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The Simpsons: 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 also applies to Cletus and Brandine Spuckler, who have far more children, even before season 8. Holidays of Future Past shows that each of Apu and Manjula's children also had a set of octuplets. |
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When Leslie finds out on Parks and Recreation that she is pregnant with triplets, her husband Ben, who is an accountant, has a panic attack at the prospect of having to pay for the upbringing of three children. | |
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Raising Arizona 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!") | |
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Several episodes during Season 2 of Grey's Anatomy 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. | |
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Cracked presents a parody of Reality TV shows on the subject: Katie and Katie Plus Eighty. The Katies are, of course, out of their minds with stress. | |
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Bloo tells a phony story in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends 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?"... | |
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The Chronicles of Wormwood: While touring Heaven, our heroes run into a man taking care of an entire room of screaming, hungry babies, and begs them to help as he thinks there's been a terrible mistake, but Danny tells him there was absolutely no mistake where he's concerned. See, the man was a suicide bomber, promised entry into Heaven and 72 virgins... | |
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Ditto "Porky's Romance", which was a parody of the aforementioned "Mickey's Nightmare". | |
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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... | |
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Drizzt Do'Urden, the drow of Forgotten Realms 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 Chaotic Evil 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 Hundred and One Dalmatians: Missis, the mother Dalmatian, has fifteen puppies at once. Consequently, her owners have to take in a stray adult female, Perdita, who serves as a wet-nurse for some of the pups. Averted in the Disney film adaptations, where Perdita is the sole mother and proves perfectly capable of feeding all fifteen on her own. | |
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The Rupert episode "Rupert in Timeland" featured Rupert Bear and Podgy Pig flashing forward through various future stages of their lives because of an accident that happened while trying to help Father Time fix his machine. One of the futures they end up going to has Podgy becoming the father of an alarming amount of children. | |
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One Piece: Subverted with Charlotte "Big Mom" Linlin - she gave birth at least once a year for 42 years, resulting in a total of 85 children (including at least eight sets of twins, two sets of triplets, a set of quadruplets, a set of quintuplets and a set of decuplets), but apparently never had any trouble with any of them, aside from most of them growing up to be just as unpleasant as their mother. It helps that's she's extremely wealthy due to being a pirate empress. | |
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The titular miracle in The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944) involves Betty Hutton's character giving birth to sextuplets. | |
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An unusual variant on this trope in Italian film Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. Adelina has the babies one at a time, the regular way. The problem is that she has to pop out a baby every fifteen months, because she is facing imprisonment for selling contraband cigarettes, and being pregnant or nursing keeps her out of jail. It works for a while but as time passes the steadily increasing size of her lower-class family starts presenting problems. | |
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While 19 Kids and Counting isn't exactly this trope (she obviously didn't have all 19 kids at once), she does have 2 sets of twins. | |
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The original Oswald the Lucky Rabbit 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 Epic Mickey, where he and his girlfriend have spawned numerous offspring since his imprisonment. The same plot is reused in the Mickey Mouse short "Mickey's Nightmare", which as the title suggests, is All Just a Dream. Ditto "Porky's Romance", which was a parody of the aforementioned "Mickey's Nightmare". |
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The same plot is reused in the Mickey Mouse short "Mickey's Nightmare", which as the title suggests, is All Just a Dream. | |
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Friends: In season four Phoebe acts as a surrogate for her half-brother and his much older wife. She's implanted with five embryos and eventually learns that three of them have successfully attached. Frank and Alice insist they'll try to make it work but Phoebe still feels guilty and offers to help them raise some money to cover their expenses. Several seasons later Frank admits that he and Alice are exhausted from having to take care of three kids. He tries to ask Phoebe to take one of the triplets off their hands but when pushed he can't bring himself to give any of them up. | |
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