A married couple suddenly go bankrupt and the only remaining asset they have is an ugly small town named Schitt's Creek.

The Rose family-parents Johnny (Eugene Levy) and Moira (Catherine O'Hara) and their adult children David (Daniel Levy) and Alexis (Annie Murphy)-head to the only asset the government has allowed them to keep: the town of Schitt's Creek. The cosmopolitan Roses, who had purchased the town as a joke, move into the local motel, where they share two adjoining rooms; they stick out like sore thumbs in their new home.But at its heart, Schitt's Creek is a show about family. "We've used a fish out of water scenario to help dramatize that story," co-creator and star Daniel Levy told Assignment X, "forcing them into a motel room and ... examining what it means to be a family and what relationships are and having the time to concentrate and focus on who they are to each other and what they mean to each other."

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