Grounded for Life debuted on January 10, 2001, as a mid-season replacement on Fox. The show starred Donal Logue and Megyn Price as Sean and Claudia Finnerty, an Irish Catholic couple living on Staten Island, New York, with their three children: Lily (Lynsey Bartilson), Jimmy (Griffin Frazen), and Henry (Jake Burbage) The show also starred Kevin Corrigan, Bret Harrison, and Richard Riehle.
The show, set in an Irish-Catholic neighborhood of Staten Island, New York, is about the comedic interplay of the Irish-American Catholic Finnerty family. The show features an unusual style of storytelling, often starting with a scene at the end of the story or sometimes in the middle and filling in the gaps with flashbacks. The opening sequence is set to a guitar theme, performed by the band Ween.