Keeping Up With the Quadashians

Keeping Up With The Quadashians
Season 3
Episode 3
Production
Air Date	January 21, 2017
Prod. Code	303
Writer(s)	Douglas Lieblein
Director	Trevor Kirschner
Episode Guide
previous	Odd Quad Out
next	The Great Mullet Caper

Keeping Up with the Quadashians is the third episode of Season 3 of Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn. It premiered on January 21, 2017.

Summary

After binge-watching their favorite reality show, the quads decide to start their own reality show, "Hanging With The Harpers".

Plot

The Harper Quads are watching a reality show called "Life of Eiffel" starring Eiffel and her sister Lilly. Dawn says she didn't like Eiffel as much when she did ballet class together with her in "Ballet and the Beasts" but now that she's a TV star, she loves her! In the show, Eiffel is complaining that Lilly didn't invite her to the game night. Lilly says Eiffel would make it odd because she's odd. As the drama escalates, the quads start cheering and shouting until Anne and Tom enter the room to see if the kids are ok. The quads explain that they're just watching Life of Eiffel and Dawn even does an impression of Eiffel. The parents urge the quads to stop watching too much TV. They don't need to watch other people's lives. Their lives are interesting too.

This gives Dawn an idea. Their lives are interesting too. In fact, they are quadruplets. Everyone would love to see a show about them. The quads agree with her to film their own reality show, Hanging with the Harpers so that they can get famous too. To get the right equipment for the show, they call in Dooley. After spending too much time praising himself, Dooley tells the quads that he's got cameras set up ready in the house, personal microphones and a "safe zone" for the quads to share their views.

The filming begins and the quads get started. However, starting drama to make the show more interesting proves too difficult. Luckily, Mae's birthday is coming up and the quads see it as an opportunity to cause some drama. Dawn tries to infuence Mae by asking her to cut the number of attendees to her party. But Mae isn't comfortable cutting anyone out. Dawn keeps raising the bar but Mae proves too difficult to convince. Realizing that the quads can't convince Mae to cut out some people, there's only one thing they can do: vote one of themselves out. Ricky loves the idea of voting one of them out and is confident that they will vote Nicky out after trying to influence Dawn and Dicky. Things don't work out for Ricky. He gets voted out of Mae's birthday party instead of Nicky.

Ricky gets mad and Dicky and Dawn for voting against him despite his attempt to influence them to vote Nicky out. In fact, he decides to quit Hanging with the Harpers and starts his own show. He makes himself the only star of the show. Dawn, Nicky and Dicky arrive at Mae's party and use it as an opportunity to shoot more of their show. Ricky arrives too and says that since he's not part of Hanging with the Harpers, he doesn't have to respect their vote against him. He tries to take a shot with Mae for his Ricky show. Things get out of control.

After ruining Mae's party and watching the entire show, the quads agree that they went too far to cause drama. They agree to do away with the show and ask Dooley to delete the videos recorded.

Cast

Main Cast

• Aidan Gallagher as Nicky Harper
• Casey Simpson as Ricky Harper
• Mace Coronel as Dicky Harper
• Lizzy Greene as Dawn Harper
• Allison Munn as Anne Harper
• Brian Stepanek as Tom Harper
• Kyla Drew Simmons as Mae Valentine

Recurring Cast

• Maddie Ziegler as Eiffel
• Mackenzie Ziegler as Lilly
• Hayden Crawford as Dooley
• Theodore Barnes as Miles
• Amahri Richard as Xander
• Tiffany Jeneen as Fran
• Trevor Lissauer as Zack Leben
• Patrick Quinlan as Smith
• Lars Slind as Danson
• Jason Tobias as Hanson

Special Guest Cast

• Alex Shibutani as Himself
• Maia Shibutani as Herself

Continuity

• Dawn references the time she joined Eiffel's class in Ballet and the Beasts.
• This is the second time the quads think their lives are very interesting and worthy a TV show. In New Kid on the Block, they were debating on the name for their show name.
• The quads have tried to create drama before for their own selfish needs in Quad Court.
• Mae shows crush on Miles in this episode and they later start dating in Ye Olde Hand Holde.
• Mae's love for cats has been mentioned in multiple episodes including Quad Court, Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Sicky.

Trivia

• The title of this episode is a pun on a popular reality TV-show, Keeping Up With The Kardashians, though they're reality TV-show was called Hanging With The Harpers.
• It is revealed that Eiffel has a sister named Lilly whereas Eiffel and Lilly's portrayers (Maddie Ziegler and Mackenzie Ziegler) are real life sisters
• This is Eiffel's second appearance and Lilly's second appearance, but they appeared in different episodes. Eiffel appeared in "Ballet and the Beasts" and Lilly appeared in "Unhappy Campers"
• This the second episode to feature a birthday party. The first being "The Quadfather"
• It is revealed that Mae's birthday is January 21st, just 11 days after the Harpers birthday.