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* This describes the ''Literature/{{Barbapapa}}'' family perfectly; a group of multi-colored [[BlobMonster blob monsters]] who can [[VoluntaryShapeshifting voluntarily shapeshift]] into anything they want to, and all with their different quirks. There's Barbabravo, a red jock sports fan and amateur KidDetective; Barbabright, a blue scientist; Barbazoo, a yellow AnimalLover, the only furry one and a black painter; Barbalala, a green calm musician; Barbabelle, a purple narcissistic beauty queen; and Barbalib, an orange intelligent bookworm. And that's without mentioning Frank and Cindy, or the many (though relatively normal) dogs and other animals that the [[BigGood kind, caring family]] keep around them.

* At many points, the cast of ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance''.
* [[WeirdnessMagnet Bob,]] Jean, [[CuteMonsterGirl Molly,]] and [[AlienAnimals Snookums]] in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob.'' Could probably expand it to include [[CuteMonsterGirl Galatea,]] [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Auntie Voluptua,]] [[RobotBuddy Roofus,]] and [[OurGiantsAreBigger Djali.]]

* The Parr family from ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' appear to be a nice suburban family. Little do their neighbors know that they are actually superheroes who have to keep their superpowers a secret to avoid lawsuits.

* ''Series/{{Pataclaun}} stars a ditzy housewife for a mother, an abrasive father, three quirky ghosts, and a baby with the intelligence and foresight of a college student. And they're all clowns, also.

* The Sakura Hall in ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'': An IdiotSavant (Mashiro), an [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife insecure guy]] [[KindHeartedCatLover who shelters seven cats]] (Sorata), a SenseiChan (Chihiro), a [[GenkiGirl hyperactive]] OtakuSurrogate (Misaki), an [[DudeLooksLikeALady effeminate]] {{Hikikomori}} (Ryounosuke), a [[TheCasanova Casanova]] [[HeroicSelfDeprecation with an inferiority complex]] (Jin), and a {{workaholic}} aspiring voice actress who pushes herself too far (Nanami), living together in a two-storey wooden house.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons'', the Robinson family includes a patriarch with a smiley face drawn on the back of his head who always wears his clothes backwards (but claims his head is backwards) and his wife, a retired DitzyGenius who loves dancing (called "baking cookies"). He has two brothers, one of whom is big and fat and needs to be fed lest disaster strike and married to a train enthusiast with very large model trains, the other of whom is a HenpeckedHusband married to a ventriloquist dummy with two adult children who act like fighting kids, a sister who wears a giant skyscraper hat and a brother who flies around painting on everything. Their son invented almost everything anyone uses and his wife spent most of her life teaching frogs to dance, sing, and play instruments. She has two brothers, one of whom is a cannon enthusiast (both using and being shot out of, actually racing at one point with his train enthusiast in-law) and one of whom delivers pizza dressed as a superhero in a UFO. Their son is fairly ordinary in comparison but still managed to leave the garage door open so that one of the two family time machines got stolen. There's also a robot, a butler who is a giant squid, and two random twins (apparently unrelated to everyone else) who live in the flower pots on the stoop and compete for doorbell rings. They also apparently have food fights at the dinner table a lot, cheer and toast when people fail, and have a very difficult to navigate house. Still, they are one of the most functional loving families ever.

* ''Literature/InCryptid'': The Price family is a BadassFamily of cryptozoologists who include a {{roofhopping}} ballroom dancer, a BadassBookworm herpetologist, a [[RollerbladeGood roller derby-playing]] [[OurMagesAreDifferent Sorcerer]], a DimensionalTraveler BadassGrandma who [[OlderThanTheyLook looks younger than her own grandkids]], and a HumanOutsideAlienInside telepath who loves math. Oh, and they also live with hundreds of mice that [[AnimalReligion worship them as gods]].

* The Higashikata household from ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureJojolion'' is this. While the family patriarch, Norisuke IV, is relatively normal (or at least, as normal as you can get in a series like ''[[WorldOfWeirdness JoJo]]''), the family also consist of his children, BeetleManiac Jobin, BrainlessBeauty Hato, {{Jerkass}} ButtMonkey Joshu, blind {{Yandere}} Daiya, Jobin's wife, [[VanityisFeminine Beauty Obsessed]] Mitsuba, their son, CreepyChild Tsurugi, and NinjaMaid Kyo. Over the course of the Part, they gain new members in the form of the Part's protagonist, AmnesiacHero Josuke, a Rock Animal and the TokenHeroicOrc of the Rock Creatures, Iwasuke, and Norisuke's ex-wife, BlackSheep Kaato.

* ''The Crossovers'', who buck the idea that the QuirkyHousehold residents don't need to worry about TheMasquerade, because every member of the family is maintaining a ''[[FantasyKitchenSink different]]'' Masquerade. The dad Carter is the FlyingBrick superhero Archetype, the mom Calista is a VampireHunter, the BrattyTeenageDaughter Cris secretly travels to a SwordAndSorcery word as the heroine Eradika, and her kid brother Clifford is communicating with TheGreys.

* The Planet Express staff from ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' straddle the border between the QuirkyHousehold and TrueCompanions. In the episode "Future Stock", Fry even says, "We're not a traditional family, like the Johnsons next door or the lesbian coven across the street, but we're still a family!"

* ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' and '''Series/TheMunsters'' are classic examples.

* [[WeirdnessMagnet Bob,]] [[HotScientist Jean,]] [[CuteMonsterGirl Molly,]] and [[AlienAnimals Snookums]] in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob.'' Could probably expand it to include [[CuteMonsterGirl Galatea,]] [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Auntie Voluptua,]] [[RobotBuddy Roofus,]] and [[OurGiantsAreBigger Djali.]]

* The Two Two family from ''WesternAnimation/JacobTwoTwo'', which consists of a mellow AuthorAvatar father, a multi-faced and soft-spoken housewife, a ShrinkingViolet younger brother, a BrotherSisterTeam who love to play jokes, a BrattyTeenageDaughter and a slacker older brother. The quirkiness also extends to a JewishGrandpa and a GranolaGirl aunt.

* Often in [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover multifandom]] RolePlayingGames on [=LiveJournal=], characters will form together in a (very quirky) band of TrueCompanions depending on where they live. For example, the game ''Polychromatic'' has characters from ''Anime/PrincessTutu'', ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'', ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'', and ''Manga/CountCain'' among others that have settled in a building known as "The Opera House". The result is a chaotic but tightly-knit group of character that often treat each other like family. (Poly has LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters, so this is just one example of many.)

* The Eggert family on ''WesternAnimation/{{Pelswick}}'' has a CoolOldLady grandmother, an [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad absurdly politically correct]] single father, a DisabledSnarker big brother, an AdorablyPrecociousChild little sister, and a baby yet to grow into his quirk. They're very loving and supporting of each other. The household gets quirkier if it includes Pelswick's GuardianAngel.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': Lincoln Loud is a fairly average kid who happens to be [[MassiveNumberedSiblings the middle of eleven children]], [[OutnumberedSibling the rest of whom are girls]]. There's [[BigSisterBully Lori, the bossy oldest sister]]; [[KindheartedSimpleton Leni, the sweet but ditzy one]]; [[TheRockStar Luna, a budding rock starlet]]; [[ThePrankster Luan, a wannabe comedian obsessed with pranks]] [[PungeonMaster and bad puns]]; [[PassionateSportsGirl Lynn, the athletic one]]; [[{{Goth}} Lucy, a snarky pre-teen goth girl]]; [[PolarOppositeTwins the twins, tomboyish Lana and child pageant starlet Lola]]; [[ChildProdigy Lisa, a four year-old super-genius]]; and [[TheBabyOfTheBunch Lily, the youngest]].

* The Coneheads from ''Series/SaturdayNightLive.
* ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' and '''Series/TheMunsters'' are classic examples (which carries over to their [[{{Expy}} expies]] The Gruesomes on ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'').

* [[WeirdnessMagnet Bob,]] [[HotScientist Jean,]] [[CuteMonsterGirl Molly,]] and [[AlienAnimals Snookums]] in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob.'' Could probably expand it to include [[CuteMonsterGirl Galatea,]] [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Auntie Voluptua,]] and [[OurGiantsAreBigger Djali.]]

* [[WeirdnessMagnet Bob,]] [[HotScientist Jean,]] [[CuteMonsterGirl Molly,]] and [[UglyCute Snookums]] in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob.'' Could probably expand it to include [[CuteMonsterGirl Galatea,]] [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Auntie Voluptua,]] and [[OurGiantsAreBigger Djali.]]

* [[WeirdnessMagnet Bob,]] [[HotScientist Jean,]] [[CuteMonsterGirl Molly,]] and [[UglyCute Snookums]] in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob.'' Could probably expand it to include [[CuteMonsterGirl Galatea,]] Auntie Voluptua, and [[OurGiantsAreBigger Djali.]]