History Film / CheaperByTheDozen

'''Charlie''': Whoa, whoa, whoa. You did ''not'' take this coaching job for us. You took it because you were a loser in college while Shake was out there being a superstar! If you want your shot at glory, Dad, if you wanna have it all, you do what you gotta do. But quit feeding us this line about being a "happier and stronger family". This move was about ''you''! And y'know what? I don't have to sit here and pay the price for your life choices. I'm leaving! (''he heads for hte door, but Tom stops him'')\\

'''Charlie''': Whoa, whoa, whoa. You did ''not'' take this coaching job for us! You took it because you were a loser in college while Shake was out there being a superstar! If you want your shot at glory, Dad, if you wanna have it all, you do what you gotta do. But quit feeding us this line about being a "happier and stronger family". This move was about ''you''! And y'know what? I don't have to sit here and pay the price for your life choices. I'm leaving! (''he heads for hte door, but Tom stops him'')\\

* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: Nigel and Kyle call Shake a "hot dog" in Shake's first appearance, but only because they'd heard Kate call him that and are probably not aware of what she meant. They also call h

VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory, in that there was a [[Literature/CheaperByTheDozen 1948 book]] and 1950 FilmOfTheBook also called ''Cheaper by the Dozen'' which had a family with twelve kids in it. The [[Literature/CheaperByTheDozen original book]] is set in the 1920s and was written by Frank Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey. That's the only similarity. The Gilbreth children were: Anne, Mary (1906-1912), Ernestine, Martha, Frank Jr., William, Lillian, Frederick, Daniel, John, Robert and Jane. The authors wrote a sequel called ''Belles on Their Toes'' which follows the family after Frank Gilbreth, Sr's death. Mrs. Lillian Gilbreth (the mother) served as an adviser to five American presidents (Hoover, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson); she and her husband are part of a permanent exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution. The last surviving child, Frederick, passed away in December of 2015.

** Tom when he realizes bounce house overinflates and then explodes, sending him and everyone else flying. Then Dylan gets one when he sees Tom is about to land on him.

** Tom and Dylan get one at Dylan's party when Tom is about to land on Dylan after being blown out of the bounce house.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Mike at Dylan's party. Jake tells him to go get the football they got for Dylan so they can play with it. When he does, he knocks some of the presents over, and the Brazilian mud wiper they also got for him escapes. The [[OhCrap resulting panic]] causes Tom to realize the kids have gone, and to enlist the players to round them up, as well as, in trying to get Sarah, [[ItMakesSenseInContext Tom ending up breaking Dylan's arm by accident]].

A sequel was released, running with basically the same premise but a different plot, in which the family goes to a lake for a vacation but run into an old rival of Dad's---who has a big family of his own. Naturally, everyone else ends up hitting it off well, which ultimately leads out to some fallout with the fathers and their families, but they make up in time to win a contest. Meanwhile, the oldest daughter gives birth to her first child.

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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: As Dylan is taken to the hospital after receiving a broken arm courtesy of Tom accidentally falling on him, Tina (as she tells Tom "You're children are never playing with Dylan again!") can be seen bumping into a doorway threshold, proceeding to nurse her injured butt as she walks alongside the gurney.

* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: Nigel and Kyle call Shake a "hot dog" in Shake's first appearance, but only because they'd heard Kate call him that and are probably not aware of what she meant. They also call him a wiener within his earshot as they leave in the same scene, as well as behind his back in a later scene at the Baker house.

* MeaningfulEcho: Shortly after moving to Chicago, Mark draws a picture of their old house, which is his[[spoiler: "Favorite place in the world"]] After he runs away, the police tell Tom that they searched train and bus stations. He claims that his son wouldn't take a train or a bus. Nora then says that she always wanted to run away to Chicago, which was her[[spoiler: "Favorite place in the world"]]. This makes him realize exactly where Mark has gone.

** After the Oprah segment has to be cancelled, Jessica witnesses Tom tell Kate he was going to sleep on the couch, and asks if Tom and Kate will get a divorce. Tom wordlessly picks her up and hugs her. Then comes a buig moment of shock when Kate appears and tells them Mark has run away.

* ShirtlessScene: Tom Welling's character briefly appears shirtless (unsurprisingly, given how often [[{{Superman}} his character]] on ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' did.)

* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: Nigel and Kyle call Shake a "hot dog" in Shake's first appearance, but only because they'd heard Ktae call him that and are probably not aware of what she meant. They also call him a wiener within his earshot as they leave in the same scene, as well as behind his back in a later scene at the Baker house.

As harmless as the former, but performed much poorer at the box office.

As inoffensive as the former, but performed much poorer at the box office.

** Even Tom gets hints of this. He moves the family to Chicago even when none of the kids want to do it, just so he can pursue his dream job and look good in front of Shake (Charlie says later that Shake was a superstar in high school, whereas Tom was a loser, while he is CallingTheOldManOut), and becomes something of a workaholic so doesn't see the kids' side when they're either ignored or punished for fighting in school, but of course he still cares very much about the family and Kate and [[spoiler:eventually gives up the coaching job so he can get another job closer to home.]]

* {{Adorkable}}: Hank.

* CallingTheOldManOut: Tom gets this from Charlie [[spoiler:after Charlie is kicked off the football team due to being bullied.]] At the end of it, Charlie warns Tom that once he graduates, he's leaving.
* ChildHater: Hank. He flat out calls Nora's siblings monsters. (This was after they set his pants on fire.)

* EnfanteTerrible: Again, Sarah.

* TheRunaway: Mark becomes this after Beans Beans and Sarah [[KickTheDog tells him no one cares]].

-->'''Mark:''' Stop calling me that!

* KickTheDog: Sarah telling Mark that no one cares about Beans dying, and then calling him Fedex again. [[RageBreakingPoint Mark shouts at her to stop calling him that]].

* StealthPuN: Nora has her baby on ''Labor'' Day.