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{{quote|'''Lor:''' I've got 13 brothers. They have their ''own'' [basketball] league.
'''Tino:''' I thought you have 14 brothers.
'''Lor:''' Huh? Oh, yeah! I forgot to count one of the Dannys.|''[[The Weekenders]]''}}
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* Lotte, [[Love Interest]] of ''[[Young Werther]]'', has eight younger siblings.
* In the tween novel ''The Snowbird'', the character July explains to protagonist Willanna how he got his name - he had so many older brothers and sisters that by the time he was on the way, his mother had run out of ideas for what to call her children, so his father said to just name the new baby after the month in which he was born. Since July is [[The Stoic]], he takes it in stride.
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* The Cleary family in ''[[The Thorn Birds]]'', which was later adapted into the better-known made-for-TV movie, had nine kids. Of them all, only Meggie - the lone daughter - had children of her own, and she had just two.
* The ''[[All of a Kind Family]]'' has five daughters, each born two years apart.
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* Although they're only all together for family reunions, the Apple Family on ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' definitely qualifies.
** But they’re all cousins, not siblings. Still, to produce that many cousins, Granny Smith must’ve had at least ten foals.
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* On ''[[Ugly Americans]]'', Grimes has fifteen daughters and, to his displeasure, no sons.
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' Plankton is shown to have lots of cousins, possibly millions of them. The catch is they're all hillbillies.
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* On ''[[Gargoyles]],'' a whole generation in each clan refers to each other as "rookery siblings," despite not necessarily being biologically related. Angela, for example, refers to having fifteen sisters.
* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', Cletus Spuckler, the slack-jawed yokel, has many kids. The known named ones are:
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* On ''[[Daria]],'' [[Casa Lane Parenting|the Lanes]] just qualify with five kids (Summer, Wind, Penny, Trent and Jane). So far Summer is the only one known to have kids of her own, with four.
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