Grounded for Life is an American television sitcom that 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).

It featured guest stars such as Ashton Kutcher, Danny Masterson, Mila Kunis, Wilmer Valderrama (cast of That '70s Show), Dave Foley, Kevin McDonald, Scott Thompson (cast of The Kids in the Hall), Mike Vogel, Natasha Lyonne, Vincent Pastore, Miriam Flynn, Stephen Root, and Elizabeth Berridge (Kevin Corrigan's wife).

Sister Helen (Miriam Flynn) is the nun and principal at Lily, Jimmy, and Henry's school.

She frequently tries to tell Sean and Claudia how to raise their kids, whom she is always berating at school (Lily's skirts are too revealing, Jimmy's hair is too long, etc.).

Dan O'Keefe (Floyd Van Buskirk in season 1, Gregory Jbara in all later appearances) is Brad's father.

The household that makes for the primary location for the series features exciting background props that refer to the family's interests.

The living room also features a framed and hung vintage baseball bat, a broken guitar (used by Sean in his younger days), and a pair of crucifixes, representing the Catholic religion of the family.

Two episodes from Season 3, "Oh, What a Knight" and "Part-Time Lover," were not broadcast during the show's original network run, and were later aired in syndication on ABC Family.

In December 2000, Fox cancelled the sitcom Normal, Ohio and announced that Grounded for Life would premiere in its place in January 2001.

The series aired in syndication on ABC Family (now Freeform) on an intermittent basis since 2005,[19] having gone through several timeslot changes during its run on the network.

On August 3, 2017, Amazon added all five seasons in HD through its Prime video service through a distribution deal with FilmRise.