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References to the quintuplets appear in the Three Stooges' shorts False Alarms (1936), and Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise (1939), the screwball comedy My Man Godfrey (1936), Preston Sturges' The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944), and Agatha Christie's The Adventure of the Cheap Flat.
During the "contract scene" in the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera (1935), Groucho asks Chico if he knows what "duplicates" are. Chico answers, "Sure, those five kids up in Canada." "I've never been to Canada," Groucho replies.
In the 1939 movie The Women, Crystal Allen wants to make dinner for the married man she is seeing to show him that she is a "home girl". A co-worker quips "why don't you borrow the Quints for the night". In Dumbo (1941), during the song "Watch Out For Mr. Stork", the reference to the sisters is Remember those quintuplets / And the woman in the shoe / Maybe he's got his eye on you /.
They are mentioned in Stephen Sondheim's list song "I'm Still Here" from his 1971 musical Follies. They were also loosely parodied in the South Park episode "Quintuplets 2000"; though the sisters featured on the show are Romanian, their treatment by both of the South Park main characters, their father, and their government mirror the Dionne quintuplets' situations.
Creative photographer Genevieve Thauvette composed a series "The Dionne Quintuplets".
In an episode of the Canadian program Wind at My Back, Grace Bailey is totally enamored by the quints and seeks to break away from her domineering mother to visit Callander, and Quintland to see the girls in person.
In the season 4 episode (5) of the television sitcom M.A.S.H., Hey Doc, Hawkeye Pierce says, "Good thing you didn't go to the local doctors. Their sole medical training comes from watching Jean Hersholt deliver the Dionne quintuplets."
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