Donald Duck Is a Good Babysitter He Watches All the Babies Song

...I think...I'm getting the hang of this...

"The infant was EXPLODING! Yous always sat an exploding baby earlier, Mr. Dicker?!"

One of the classic comedy plots, most ofttimes seen in cartoons. A babysitter is left in accuse of an infant (who, despite being so young, turns out to exist incredibly mobile). As soon as the infant's parents are off-stage, the babysitter begins a gauntlet of pain and anguish of which, somehow, the infant is the ultimate crusade.

There are some common variations. The baby may wander away from the home, with the babysitter giving chase. In others, the babe itself turns the home into an obstacle form of doom using the furnishings, appliances, water pipes, electrical outlets, and pretty much everything else in the house. Or it is possible that the baby is unusual in some manner, and thus is physically dangerous, and volition inadvertently (or non so inadvertently) hurt the babysitter in the course of "playing". Regardless, in the end grievous bodily harm comes to the babysitter (and quite often the home itself is wrecked)... but the baby itself is rubber and audio, and utterly unhurt.

When the parents — who frankly should be locked upward for negligence — return home, they are either totally unaware that anything untoward has happened or chastise the babysitter for something picayune, like tracking mud on the carpet, not knowing that the sitter has suffered massive Amusing Injuries keeping their kid safe.

A version of the story (below) goes correct back to ancient Welsh folklore — making this trope Older Than Print.

Note that the "babysitter" need non be an actual babysitter, nor the "baby" an actual baby. This trope works any time a supposedly responsible private is left in charge of an innocent and ends up paying for it physically.

Compare No Sympathy, Escort Mission (and Stealth Escort Mission when the babysitter must ensure their charge is unaware there was whatever danger in the first place), and Dreaded Kids' Party Entertainer Task. Can overlap with Baby Morph Episode if the baby used to exist older.

The charge in question is commonly a Babysitter'due south Nightmare. Babysitter from Hell is the inversion of this trope, merely this trope sometimes comes into play as a karmic punishment. It likewise works the other way around. Meet as well Bodyguard Friendship, where the child the babysitter looks afterwards is one of their best friends.

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• In this commercial for Energizer batteries featuring Po from Kung Fu Panda, The Energizer Bunny wanders through the Jade Palace'southward preparation hall. Po chases later on him to try to protect him, but while the Bunny ends upwards unharmed, the aforementioned can't be said for Po.

    Anime & Manga

• Happens to Case Closed in a filler episode, when Conan's stuck taking care of a ii-twelvemonth-quondam male child named Santa whose mother Shigeko is 1 of Kogoro's clients. And so Shigeko is kidnapped... And in the end, information technology turns out that Santa'southward real name is Haruka... and 'he' is really a little girl.
• Galaxy Angel, season three, episode 14: The Affections-tai are turned into children due to Lost Technology disguised every bit candy, and the Twin Stars must play the babysitters. The danger hither, though, comes less from wandering into danger and more from Ranpha and Forte'due south bluntly sadistic tendencies.
• Estonia from Hetalia: Axis Powers ends upwardly existence this to the mochis.
• MegaMan.EXE became this in Rockman.EXE Beast (MegaMan NT Warrior Beast) sometimes when he has to look afterwards Trill.
• One affiliate of Nagasarete Airantou has Yukino accept intendance of the illegitimate child nephew of her mother'southward bird friend. Yukino is a Friend to All Living Things, but even she becomes this trope.
• In the Neptunia manga, when Nepgear, Uni, Rom, and Ram are de-anile into babies, Neptune had a pretty hard time looking after them. She wasn't put through as much physical corruption as other examples on this page, but she did take to put upward with straining stuff.
• A 2nd flashback in 1 Piece introduces the reader to Curly Dadan, Luffy and Ace's foster mother. Forced into taking care of the brothers nether threat of imprisonment for her banditry by Garp, she wonders whether or not jail time would be worse than putting upwardly with the D children.
• Alice Sakaguchi is this to Rin Kobayashi briefly at the beginning of Please Salvage My Earth, simply Rin turned out to be... well, a unlike kind of special from what Alice expected.
• Ash's Pikachu from Pokémon became this sometimes when little Togepi wandered off. Misty actually did observe something dangerous the egg was doing and managed to rescue information technology from being killed a couple of times, though.
  • It as well happened once with Pachirisu and Happiny.
  • Sun and Moon looks to exist bringing it back if the stinger afterward Nebby was introduced is any indication — he tried to relieve information technology from crawling off a ladder...just this Pokemon can float, then Pikachu ended up sending himself to the basis.
  • A similar incident happened to Pika in the Pokémon Adventures manga. Here, the part of baby was taken by Kitty, Xanthous's recently caught Caterpie who Yellow told Pika to look after while she went on a quick errand. Kitty so decided to follow a globe-trotting leaf from i danger to some other, much to Pika's horror.
• In The Prince of Lawn tennis anime, Tomoka Osakada is implied to fall into this trope when she has to accept care of her two baby siblings.

    Comic Books

• In Asterix and Son, the titular Doorstop Baby, in one case tanked up on Magic Potion, becomes more than a match for any would-be babysitter, tossing people effectually like rattlers. When a Roman legionary disguised equally a rattler pedlar offers to lookout the baby...

  Asterix: Do yous think we ought to take the risk, Obelix?
  Obelix: It's the pedlar who'd be taking a risk!

• The DCU comic book Elseworlds lxxx Page Giant was pulled from the shelves for "Letitia Lerner, Superman's Babysitter", a Desperately Dilapidated Babysitter sequence in which a baby Clark Kent survives various cartoonish hazards, including accidentally microwaving himself, thank you to his invulnerability. The story was later reprinted in Bizarro Comics. It was also pulled for other things, like the implication that the Kents hired the babysitter so they could take a serenity nighttime together at a No-Tell Motel. Also played with a chip at the end where the Kents get home, come across the wrecked house, and compliment Letitia and ask if she's bachelor adjacent week. Another affair that irked the censors was a scene where piffling Clark gets himself a drink of milk straight from the udders of a cow.
• A variation happens in Spirou and Fantasio: Panade à Champignac, the 2 heroes are the battered babysitters of the grown-upwardly Zorglub, who suffers from amnesia and acts similar an viii-month-old babe.
• X23:
  • The title character is assigned the job of watching afterwards the Richards kids. Said kids open a temporal window and unleash a dragon. Information technology gets complicated from there.
  • In the humorous, out-of-continuity series Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius, Herbie the Robot is this to the titular son of Reed Richards (thankfully for Herbie, Franklin'southward super-genius sister does not announced), who is a rough counterpart of Calvin with almost unlimited admission to all the technology on paw in the Fantastic Four'south headquarters. Though Herbie comes off as high-strung and neurotic, it's usually his quick (and desperate) thinking that prevents devastation, disaster, and Franklin being grounded for life.
• Shows up a couple of times in Young Justice: once when Wonder Girl and Arrowette babysat a kid who was hypnotized by a children'south video into attempting to kill them, and over again when the young and old superheroes switched ages, forcing the at present-developed sidekicks to babysit their now-child mentors. During the midst of the latter state of affairs, Wonder Girl even mentions the one-time one, lamenting how she'd promised never to babysit again afterward.
• In Robin (1993), Tim'due south friend Ives gets so badly bruised after taking a chore as a mascot at a Suck East. Cheese's that Tim thinks he'southward being abused, it turns out the injuries are from the kids and his lack of mobility in his Goofy Adapt.

    Comic Strips

• Strongly implied to exist a risk of babysitting The Addams Family children.

  "We won't be late, Miss Weems. Get the children to bed effectually eight, and keep your dorsum to the wall at all times."

• Baby Blues: Usually happens in the comic where instead of the parents leaving, it'south Darryl that leaves. Wanda ends up chasing or saving Zoe, Hammie, and Wren and gets hurt in the process.
• Very averted in Calvin and Hobbes, where Rosalyn comes close to a Babysitter from Hell at times, being one of the few people Calvin is truly agape of. Showtime, every time the parents hire Rosalyn to picket over Calvin, he'south e'er the 1 to become lectured (at the very least) for the pranks he pulls on her. He once tried to run away and didn't get very far before she brought him back. Rosalyn can generally take what he dishes out and come up down hard on him for it. Even during the times Calvin "won", it would always be a Pyrrhic Victory at best, as he was the one to get in trouble for information technology. Second, she commands princely sums (even getting advances) every bit she'south the just one who will put upwardly with Calvin. Third, the parents are all too enlightened of Calvin's antics themselves, then Rosalyn never has to worry about non being believed. Lastly, in Rosalyn's final appearance, she and Calvin make peace with each other later on bonding over a game of Calvinball. Although one strip suggested that the reason Rosalyn is willing to babysit Calvin is that every other bodyguard who his parents have hired has fallen victim to this trope.
• Done with a twist in the "Close To Home" books past John McPherson. A babysitter, afterward a hellish evening with her charges, (which ended in a wrecked firm), states to the child's parents that not only will she never babysit for them again, but it volition cost them an actress $100 but for her to proceed her mouth shut and not tell other sitters to avert them.
• Dennis the Menace: This was pretty much a regular trope for this strip, particularly when Hank Ketchum was alive doing it, and Dennis was much more 'menacing'.
• Foxtrot:
  • Paige Fox has suffered mild versions of this, but nigh of the time information technology'southward her ain fault. Once she fell asleep considering she was working herself too hard on babysitting jobs, and the girl she was supposed to be watching cut upwards her new dress with her mother's scissors (As Paige says herself, it could have been much worse). Another time she fed a toddler a huge slice of chocolate cake correct before bedtime, and hilarity ensued when she began quite literally bouncing off the walls.
  • Her blood brother Peter, on the other hand, has actually suffered serious injury dog-sitting an extremely small canis familiaris with extremely sharp teeth and a Napoleon Complex.

    Fan Works

• In Calvin and Hobbes: The Serial, the main cast takes on this role trying to babysit Calvin's younger cousin, climaxing in a water park.
• I story of the Facing the Future Series involves this when Danny and Sam are turned into five-year-olds and Tucker and the rest of the Fentons must deal with their ghost powered mischief. Co-ordinate to Jazz, Danny was like this the first fourth dimension he was v years sometime.
• In Mega Man: Defender of the Homo Race, Tiesel Bonne has to wait after his rambunctious baby brother...who pilots a mech suit.
• In Torso'southward New Expect the titular character takes on this role when babysitting Goten and his younger self. This eventually results in him ending up in his mother's Playboy Bunny outfit. Suffice to say after all of that he never takes a babysitting job over again.
• Invoked in Ashes of the Past. Argent the baby Lugia is normally perfectly well-behaved, just his parents need to keep three rambunctious legendary birds decorated while they aid save the world. Then they tell the birds to have intendance of Silver "on pain of laser", and so tell Silver to keep the birds busy. Cue a "rampaging" Argent engaging in all sorts of mischief, including etching his name in islands with Aeroblast.
• Invoked in Daze the Monkey . Since Hal Jordan ate leftovers that obviously weren't intended for him, Batman is gonna throw the hapless Lantern to the Batkids until he finally repents and swears to never touch the refrigerator again. It works.

    Films — Animation

• Barbie and the Secret Door has Malucia'southward trog guardian, Grodlin. He's supposed to be looking after her while her parents are gone, but can't rein her in.
• Ice Historic period is this in a nutshell: a mammoth, a sloth, and a sabre-toothed tiger protect a Palaeolithic babe from ice storms, ice caves, icicles, and a lava field. Babe has fun. Caretakers? Not and so much.
• The Incredibles:
  • The short moving-picture show Jack-Jack Assail features a slightly ditzy but responsible daughter (Kari) babysitting Jack-Jack Parr. Jack-Jack proceeds to bear witness off his Combo Platter Powers, including his Heart Beams (which is the page paradigm). This actually happened WITHIN the time-frame of the first movie, off-screen.
  • The short moving-picture show Auntie Edna occurs during the sequel, and features Edna Mode researching Jack-Jack's Philharmonic Platter Powers so that she can make a supersuit tailored to his many powers.
  • In Incredibles two, Bob is a downplayed example. He had just started to become a handle on running the household when he learns of Jack-Jack'south Combo Platter Powers. The sheer variety of these abilities quickly outstrips Bob's chapters to cope; while he isn't injured by anything Jack-Jack can dish out, it does run Bob to exhaustion from keeping up with the baby. Inverted when Edna has few issues with Jack-Jack and designs him a new super-suit with countermeasures for some of his virtually common transformations. The babe is at-home and mostly well-behaved effectually her, aside from chasing her in his monster course later on running out of cookies, and is forced to hide inside the testing bedchamber while he is in burn down form.
• The Lion King:
  • In the first movie, Zazu gets trampled by a herd of animals twice and shoved into a volcanic vent by hyenas while babysitting Simba and Nala.
  • In The Lion King Ii: Simba's Pride, Simba entrusts Timon and Pumbaa to watch Kiara — something they don't know the first thing about. Considering that their attempt to heighten Simba as shown in The Lion King 1½ wasn't any better, either.
• When Kala discovers and rescues Tarzan from the tree house.
• This is Roger's part in the Roger Rabbit Shorts, as well every bit in the movie.

    Films — Live-Action

• Abbott and Costello often had to deal with the repellent Stinky, played by Joe Besser of Three Stooges fame. The fact that Stinky was nearly as large as Costello and usually dressed up like Trivial Lord Fauntleroy only fabricated the whole affair even more ridiculous.
• Adventures in Babysitting is made of tweaks to this trope. The babysitter has to exit to the large scary City, dragging her (multiple) charges along, and they get into truly ridiculous amounts of trouble, but always manage to escape more or less unharmed.
• In the moving-picture show Baby's Day Out, the titular babe is kidnapped, escapes from his three abductors, and makes his way safely through a very busy day in which the kidnappers accept such a beating that their eventual abort is a relief to them since it puts them well away from the baby.
• Deconstructed in the horror film Babysitter Wanted (2008). A wholesome Christian daughter is left in accuse of a piddling boy out in the country when an intruder breaks in and tries to kill him. She manages to fight the intruder (a priest) off and save the little boy'southward life, but to find out later that the parents who left her in charge are actually killers who butcher young virgins to feed them to the little boy, who is revealed to be the spawn of Satan. At the end of the movie, the child remains live, and well, and truly is the reason why the babysitter goes through all sorts of torture and corruption.
• The Boy is well-nigh a girl on the run from an abusive ex being hired to babysit a rich couple's child in a mansion. The trouble is he's just a doll, or is he.
• Halloween has Laurie and Annie, the latter of whom ends upward with a slashed pharynx while Laurie ends up with a slashed shoulder, cleaved ankle, and a cut-upwards mitt.

• For an adult-to-adult instance, check out Heart of Dragon starring Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung, where Chan plays the big brother to his mentally-retarded autistic sibling, Sammo, and spends much of the moving-picture show getting dragged into the latter's shenanigans and losing his chore due to needing to take intendance of his retarded brother.
• Sarah is a form of this in Labyrinth, though it was her fault that goblins took her baby blood brother abroad. She has to go through a fairy bitter her, lots of running, falling downward traps, enduring the Bog of Eternal Stench, beingness striking on by the villain, and going up against a goblin army. And their parents are none the wiser.
• In the Hulk Hogan film Mr. Nanny, Hulk'southward character Sean Armstrong is fabricated the bodyguard of businessman's son and daughter, who have made a habit of chasing off nannies hired by their loving-but-likewise-busy-with-work father with outrageous- and possibly deadly- pranks. when nosotros first see them they've acquired their current nanny'southward hair to burn past rigging her hairdryer, and somehow caused the one earlier that to break her arm. Co-ordinate to Corrine the cook, the number of nannies they've sent packing goes into the dozens. Of course, Armstrong takes their first traps in stride before telling them that plenty is plenty because HE'S. Non. LEAVING. This ironically wins their respect.
• The Iii Stooges got into several of these messes, near famously i that involved a couple fighting over their child, an adorable tyke who, among other stunts, belted the Stooges and his father with a hammer.
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit abused its titular character as he attempted to babysit Baby Herman in a movie-short-within-a-film. This 'plot' was carried over to subsequent Roger Rabbit Shorts.
• A Played for Drama example happens in X2: X-Men United. Logan returns to the Xavier Institute just in time for the Professor to ask a small favor of him: watching the students for the night while Xavier and Scott visit Magneto, Jean and Storm rails down the mutant that attacked the White Firm. The problem for Logan doesn't prevarication in his charges, but rather with William Stryker'due south forces assaulting the Institute that very night.
• Double subverted in the horror album film The Mortuary Collection. The last segment, "The Babysitter Murders" (originally released every bit a short film in its own right), opens with a familiar Slasher Moving picture storyline: Sam, a pretty blonde bodyguard, finds herself nether attack past the "Tooth Fairy" Serial Killer who bankrupt out of a mental infirmary, and fights to save both herself and the children under her watch. She also starts the film watching a cheesy slasher with a very similar plot. It turns out, however, that she is the escaped serial killer — her real name is Charlotte, and she took the name Sam from the (male) original babysitter, who is now fighting back against her and who we'd been led to believe was the bad guy for most of the segment. Given that we've been following "Sam"/Charlotte every bit the Audition Surrogate during the Framing Device connecting the segments, it goes without saying that The Bad Guy Wins; when the segment starts, she'southward already killed one of the kids and is putting him in the oven (which we only detect out afterwards The Reveal), she kills the real Sam and escapes as the kids' parents render home, and she was at the mortuary not to apply for a job only to collect a tooth from her victim'southward corpse (her trademark every bit a killer). The mortician Montgomery Night, upon learning who "Sam" actually is (and especially afterward she tries to kill him upon deciding that He Knows Likewise Much), proceeds to inflict a dose of Laser-Guided Karma on her.

    Literature

• A story in Binkle And Flip had Flip the bunny rabbit taking a babysitting chore... and finding out in the terminal minute that he's babysitting foxes. The unabridged story revolves around poor Flip trying to stay live while looking afterwards some rambunctious fox cubs (who loves to bite), under the watchful eye of the mother who's more than willing to plough her babysitter into dejeuner if she feels like it.
• Good Domestic dog, Carl and its sequels feature a Rottweiler who is, in each volume, left to take intendance of the baby. Subverted in that Carl often assists the baby — such as when he gives the baby a boost to clamber into the laundry chute (there was a full basket of soft laundry at the bottom) or takes the baby out to become window shopping and meet Santa.
• Several Jeeves and Wooster stories revolve around Bertie being asked to keep an eye on or take intendance of someone, generally by Aunt Agatha. The people he's asked to watch ever turn out to be utterly irresponsible and impossible to control. Similarly, in "Episode of the Canis familiaris McIntosh" he has to look later Aunt Agatha's canis familiaris, in what turns out to be "a guardianship fraught with peril".
• A very night version in the novel Let'south Go Play at the Adams' past Mendal Johnson. A young adult female babysits a family of teenagers. They tie her to a bed and things become downhill from at that place. Some elements are based on the Sylvia Likens instance.
• "The Bribe of Ruby Chief", a short story by O. Henry, features 2 kidnappers in the Depression-era South abducting the son of a wealthy man. Past the stop of the tale, the kidnappers wind up paying the father a ransom in order to get the kid out of their hair.
• In a Sugariness Valley Twins book, Jessica gets a hefty dose of Laser-Guided Karma afterwards stealing Elizabeth's babysitting job when the corporeality of kids to wait later goes from one to 4 and they all turn out to exist brats.
• The Footling Critter volume But Me and My Babysitter involves something like this; the parents become out for the evening and leave Little Critter and Little Sister in the care of an elderly female sitter. The kids brand her chore a hassle, by non wanting to eat the dinner she prepares, going crazy with bathing Lilliputian Sis, having a pillow fight, repeatedly making messages, watching a movie on Television set the babysitter isn't crazy near, and not going to bed when told to. The book ends with the parents returning at ane in the morning to encounter the kids watching Goggle box while the babysitter is sleeping on the couch.
• Marley & Me. The writer and his wife take a trip to Ireland, leaving their dog Marley in the care of a pet sitter. Every day, she calls to regale them with horror stories of Marley's antics and seems to exist in a complete Heroic BSoD when they return to option him up.
• Played very darkly during the Kim Newman novella "Encarmine Students." Ane subplot involves a woman named Abigail being asked to babysit the protagonist's eight-twelvemonth-old son, Jason: the child's a nuisance at the all-time of times, merely he's recently been bitten by a rabbit conveying the mutagenic super-virus of the story, and then things start to become downhill when Jason mutates... and then goes on to not only attack Abigail but rape her too.

    Alive-Action Tv

• Kimmy in Full House tends to be this when she babysits Nicky and Alex.
  • During the episode "5's a Crowd", Kimmy shows a strong aversion to feeding the boys with baby food because she had to eat the stuff herself in the by, so Stephanie steps in... for a fee. Most the stop of the episode, the amount of times Stephanie steps in to feed or alter the babies ends up causing Kimmy to lose the entirety of the coin she was promised for babysitting to Stephanie.
  • The episode "Subterranean Graduation Blues" has Kimmy giving finger-paint to Nicky and Alex to continue them occupied. They end upwards causing graffiti all over the house, resulting in Kimmy spending the whole episode cleaning up the mess.
• Glee: Quinn and Puck babysit and end up tied to a chair with a skipping rope. They turn it effectually, though.
• I Love Lucy: In need of money, Lucy answers an ad for a babysitting job that pays 5 dollars an hour (a large sum in the 1950s). She is suspicious of why she is being paid so much and finds out that she is taking care of two badly-behaved twin brothers. They are very demanding, constantly screaming and kicking her, and at one signal tie her up to fire her at the stake while playing Cowboys and Indians.
• Married... with Children:
  • Drastic for concert ticket money, Bud rents Kelly out as a babysitter. During the evening, she'south tied to a chair, peed on, and threatened with scalping. (They fifty-fifty threaten to lynch her, simply she escapes that, somehow.)
  • The roles are reversed in the episode Married....without Children. Al and Peggy decide to take a vacation at a cabin in Wisconsin. Their side by side-door neighbors, Steve and Marcy Rhoade, offer to babysit Bud and Kelly. They quickly regret their decision as Bud and Kelly prove to exist total chaos. (Marcy wanted to know what information technology would be like to raise a child.) The Rhoades are thrilled to hear that Al and Peggy are deciding to come dwelling early. To show that they shouldn't babysit the kids again, Marcy allows Kelly to throw a political party, which was forbidden by Peggy. This turns out to be a bigger error. Not only are the Rhoades' dwelling house wrecked by the party, but Al and Peggy make up one's mind to stay at the motel.
• Late in The Umbrella University, it'south revealed that Number Seven (AKA: Vanya) was prone to killing the household nannies in fits of pique, either throwing them across the room, down the stairs or out the window. All in response to being told to eat oatmeal for breakfast. It took the creation of Grace the android nanny to cease this particular habit, and fifty-fifty she concluded upwardly having her neck twisted 180 degrees earlier Vanya finally got the message.
• In Jekyll, Katherine Reimer is technically hired every bit Dr. Jackman's assistant, but when the maliciously childish Hyde manifests, she one-half-jokingly refers to herself as his nanny. In plough, Hyde gleefully dubs her "Mary Poppins." As per the understanding, they have a relatively harmonious relationship as long as Jackman'south CCTV cameras are still forcing Hyde to remain on his best behavior ... correct upwardly until Katherine shuts downwardly the security systems in a very risky endeavour to sneak a peek at her employer's secrets, resulting in Hyde turning the whole thing into an Alone with the Psycho scenario.
• In Home Improvement when Tim and Jill leave for the weekend to attend Jill's course reunion, they get Al to await after the boys. They end upward running amok and locking Al out of the business firm.
• Malcolm in the Middle:
  • When the family is going to a water park, Hal can be heard calling a potential babysitter for Dewey, who can't go considering of an ear infection, telling her "merely the little one" as the others, Malcolm and Reese, won't be anywhere almost the house. Malcolm then explains that they've had problems with babysitters in the past, with a series of flashbacks showing: a baby Francis biting an old lady; a teenage girl running out of the firm in terror considering of something they showed her; and a guy suffering from claustrophobia having a panic attack inside the cupboard Malcolm and Reese locked him in.
  • It'southward heavily implied that existence together is what sets off the boys to cause problem in the episode where Hal takes a heavily meaning Lois to a retreat. Every bit they're getting set to exit town, they explicate that Malcolm will stay the weekend at Stevie'south business firm, Reese volition visit Ida, and Dewey will exist babysat by Craig, and Reese asks why they tin't stay together at the firm. Hal frankly responds, "it's the but fashion the judge will permit u.s. leave of boondocks."
• In the Drake & Josh episode "Two Idiots and a Baby", Drake and Josh must look afterwards their begetter's boss'due south son. However, Drake leaves to play a gig with his band, leaving Josh to take care of the babe all by himself. On acme of this, his step-sister Megan decides to play a prank on him by hiding the infant. Fortunately, Drake comes home in fourth dimension to help his stepbrother out.
• Cheers: It's a running gag throughout the series that anyone who looks after Carla's vicious children is, basically, request for it. This is part of the reason Carla is eager to find someone to practice it for her. One of the first season episodes has her judging a prospective sitter on the sole ground of how she throws a punch. Several episodes show members of the gang trying to look after them. Cliff assumes he'll be able to go on them in line, and is deposited dorsum on the steps of Cheers trussed upwardly in wrapping. Sam tries, and his evening starts with the kids microwaving his pants. Information technology doesn't go easier from there. Even Ludlow, the nicest and smartest of Carla'southward kids, ends up setting Frasier's shoes on burn in a crowded restaurant.
• In Legends of Tomorrow, once she becomes a Fairy Godmother, Nora becomes exasperated with the demands of her charges, which encompasses practically any youth all over the world who'd need a fairy godmother in the beginning identify. This might explicate why her predecessor, Tabitha, was such a Jackass Genie (she got fed up with all the responsibilities). Unlike Tabitha, however, Nora actually owns upward to the role.
• The Odd Squad episode "Into the Odd Woods" downplays this. Orla doesn't get physically injured by Omar, but rather, she gets repeated pies to the face every bit a issue of his Clown-itosis as she tries to keep him from running away to join the circus.
• In Turner and Hooch (2021), Turner essentially becomes this "A Skillful Day to Dog Hard" as he is forced to have a playdate with the young daughter, Kaya, of the Olympic Committee and ends upward in a tea party for over two hours. Later he asks his co-workers if they want a plough and is mocked for asking for backup treatment a 7 year old. This is what he's dealing with...

  Kaya: I had a nanny, merely she quit. And so the other nannies quit. And then the nanny company stopped calling Daddy back. So now I go everywhere with him.

  Turner: Oh. I'm sorry. That must exist hard.

  Kaya: Yes. Sometimes it's lonely. Simply Daddy says I take to stay strong until we can find a nanny who is not afraid of a challenge.

    Myths & Organized religion

• Older Than Impress: In a Welsh folktale, Prince Llywelyn the Great returns from a day out to discover his babe son's cradle overturned, the baby missing, and the baby-sit domestic dog Gelert with blood around his mouth. Llywelyn drew his sword and killed Gelert, who let out a final dying yelp. Then he heard the baby's cries and found it under the cradle, unharmed, along with a dead wolf that had attacked the child. Gelert had killed it, and the blood had been the wolf's — and his own, from wounds received in the child's defense.
  • The French version has a greyhound called Guinefort who kills a snake. He is killed the same way as in the Welsh version but is then made a saint. Talk about a proficient boy!
• 1 variation of the "Caller Upstairs" urban fable involve the babysitter inviting a friend or even her boyfriend over. Subsequently several calls, they alert the police force, and the friend/swain goes upstairs to investigate, the 911 dispatcher calls and says the caller is inside the house, the companion then comes tumbling into the living room, bleeding out, telling the original babysitter to make a run for it.

    Puppet Shows

• The Muppet Bear witness: Anyone who has to look subsequently Bobby Benson'southward Baby Band is bound to become a badly battered babysitter. Fozzie got beaten upwards in less than two minutes (in fairness, he tried to tell them his jokes). Miss Piggy's room got ransacked. The babies don't even become forth with each other, oftentimes picking fights mid-act, and then anyone else is fair game. The just person who can go on them on a leash is Bobby himself. And Bobby's a crook.

    Radio

• Our Miss Brooks: Miss Brooks falls victim to this trope in "Babysitting for Three", "Babysitting New year'south Eve" and "Measles".

    Tabletop Games

• The "Mythic Babysitting" campaign outline in GURPS All-Star Jam 2004 takes this trope upward to 11. Y'all play every bit a babysitter taking care of underage gods and/or demons, werewolf puppies, kid geniuses, boy wizards or little witches, and the children of superheroes and villains. There's a reason the benefits package for the babysitters includes free resurrection for babysitters killed in activeness.

    Video Games

• In the Bomberman series, Super Bomberman R has these missions where you have to escort the abandoned little bomber girls to the goal without letting the enemies go to them in Planet Brainwave and Planet Bomber respectively.
• Ane level of Earthworm Jim has the titular Jim protecting Peter Puppy from danger, mostly by whipping him over obstacles. If Peter ever gets striking, it causes him to mutate into a horrifying monster which gain to crush the crud out of Jim for his failure and drag him backwards through the stage.
• One of the scenarios in Aristocracy Beat Agents involves a cat trying to protect his owner's baby son as the hapless infant chases a butterfly through an inexplicably peril-laden construction site. The very commencement vocal has a sitter trying to command a terrible trio of uncooperative children.
• In JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mount and Jump Outset Typing, Botley played this part. This aspect of his grapheme seems to have been abandoned since then.
• In Resident Evil two, Claire Redfield's daring heroics for Sherry's sake.
• Although not babysitting, two SNES video games follow the same plot — Rocko'southward Modern Life: Spunky's Dangerous Twenty-four hour period and Eek! The Cat both centered around the title (playable) character ensuring the safety of the individual they're watching over (a canis familiaris for the one-time, his large girlfriend and an sometime lady for the latter)
• The platform game Sleepwalker had the histrion controlling a hapless dog tasked with stopping his master from waking upwards as he sleepwalked all over the city.
• A parody of this occurs in the Stinkoman 20X6, in which the hopelessly naive 1-Upwards wanders into "The Lava Zone" to look for a kidnapped Pan-Pan. Stinkoman doesn't care until he realizes 1-Up took his "Ability Crisis," at which point he must follow and protect i-Upwardly to ensure he gets his item back.
• Yoshi'due south Island has a multicolored tribe of Yoshis ferrying Baby Mario through the whole game and rather ridiculous obstacles. (You recall they could merely leave the baby with someone at home and go clear the manner on their ain?) Or maybe have all eight Yoshis travel together rather than pass the baby like a relay baton?

    Web Comics

• Poor Benny in the "Wolves" comic from Hyperbole and a Half.
• Unsaid to happen with whoever is in charge of the Västerström children in Stand up Nevertheless, Stay Silent. The get-go line of the woman who was babysitting the Västerström children while their parents were abroad is "I quit". Later, Onni goes into a magical trance while in the aforementioned room every bit these same children and later regains awareness to a new haircut, a very small function of his upper ear missing and one of the children lament that "the new babysitter is wearisome".
• In Erma, the titular immature Stringy-Haired Ghost Daughter has supernatural powers and a morbid sense of sense of humor that she's eager to share with babysitters. Subverted with Felicia, a Genre Savvy horror movie buff who thinks that Erma's freakiness is cool and ends upwardly befriending her. Played straight with her old babysitter, who ended up in a mental institution and has been filling a Room Total of Crazy since her release.

    Western Animation

• This happens to Spot in the 101 Dalmatians: The Series episode, "Wild Chick Chase" when she'due south forced to babysit Peeps, a babe chick.
• This is the setup used past the "Buttons and Mindy" segments of Animaniacs, where they took almost sadistic glee in torturing the poor dog. And the poor domestic dog always winds up getting chewed out by the oblivious mother.
  • The overuse of this trope is Lampshaded in one cartoon where Mindy winds up in a construction site, where Captain Ersatzes of Tom and Jerry are trying to save an unknown baby, and a Popeye Captain Ersatz is trying to save "Green Bean".
  • In one episode, the Warners have met upwards with Elmyra and are trying to go rid of her. They do so by convincing her to follow Mindy. Later the Warners stop him from automatically trying to interfere on Mindy's behalf, Buttons really enjoys seeing someone other than himself taking all the pain for a change.
  • This was taken Up to Eleven in a Halloween Episode where Buttons chased her into a zombie-infested graveyard (Mindy patently knew what zombies were, but just didn't realize they were unsafe) ending in a Homage to Michael Jackson'south "Thriller". (Sort of a CMOA for Buttons.) At to the lowest degree this time, Buttons didn't get yelled at past Mindy'due south parents.
  • And in Wakko'southward Wish, he finally gets his reward: a pile of steaks.
  • Most of the shorts also tend to end with Buttons getting a big hug from Mindy, showing that while the daughter's parents treat him like clay, said daughter really adores him. So his torment isn't entirely without its rewards.
• At that place'south an episode of Arthur when Arthur has to have care of the terrible Tibble Twins. They're a semi-regular gig in later seasons since a couple of them start with him heading off to sit for them and making plans to go on them out of trouble (these commonly fall flat).
• In Beetlejuice (the animated series), Lydia was babysitting someone, and money-grubbing Beej decides to copy this for a become-quick-rich scheme in the Netherworld (taking the concept of Infant sitting literally). He ends upwardly calling Lydia for assistance when he realized it wasn't piece of cake and somehow turned into a baby himself, leaving Lydia having to watch over iii monstrous babies, babe Beej, and her own charge, and trying to not let them cause too much havoc.
• Between the Lions does this in the "Chicken Jane" animated sketches, where Craven Jane saves her two young (and very ditzy) charges past writing words to them, just in time for them to act and to miss being harmed, only to get striking herself.
• In Bob's Burgers, this is Tina'southward fate pretty much every time that she is assigned to act as a babysitter to Gene and Louise. Her parents seem to know that information technology'southward a bad idea, but and so again, at that place'due south about no possible outcome to anyone babysitting the Belcher children that doesn't involve this trope.
• In The Town episode "Habitation Alone", we see a montage of bad experiences involving Huey, Riley, and some babysitters who were hired by their Granddad; including a teenage girl who was pistol whiped with an airsoft gun by Riley, and a professional "role model" who was somehow driven to tears by the boys' behavior (another babysitter, a British Supernanny, was left unscathed merely was fired for a stupid reason). Subsequently in the episode, Huey and Riley fire airsoft guns to scare their latest bodyguard, Uncle Ruckus, out of the firm.
• Happens to Marion in an episode of Bounty Hamster with an alien child who keeps randomly changing ages.
• Examples from Flake 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers: The booby baby in "Three Men and a Booby", Jeremy in "Bearing Up Infant", and Bink (and Tammy) in "Adventures in Squirrelsitting".
• Courage the Cowardly Dog is constantly putting himself in harm's way to protect his elderly and largely oblivious owners from danger. A full-fledged example of this takes identify in "Niggling Muriel", where Muriel is inexplicably de-aged to about three years old by a tornado and drives Courage up the wall before he finally decides to find a manner to get her back to normal.
• Averted to amusing effect in Daria. She expects the ridiculously sweetness, well-behaved children to turn into monsters in one case the parents are gone, merely no, they're really like that all the time. Daria considers this worse.
• DC Super Hero Girls: The episode "#TweenTitans" is about Jess and Karen hired to babysit Dick Grayson'south altogether party at Wayne Manor. Unfortunately, he and his friend Kori, Victor, Garfield and Rachel are a flake rambunctious... and super-powered! The Tween Titans use their powers to make life hell for their babysitters, willing to feed them to an interdimensional monster when they endeavour to stop them. It's made articulate Alfred is drastic to discover a consistent babysitter.
• A Downplayed example in Detentionaire when Cam has to babysit his "evil trivial sister", Angelina. He has to yell at her to non microwave the goldfish and gets hitting in the head with both a h2o balloon and soccer ball and presumably more offscreen. In the terminate, though, it'south non so bad, because they're but acting like siblings commonly do and not causing anyone real harm. Except for the goldfish, that is.
• One episode of The Fairly Oddparents had Timmy chasing after magically powered fairy infant Poof. Including the obligatory structure girders.
• An episode of Fievel'due south American Tails devoted an episode to this trope, where Fievel is forced to babysit his petty sister Yasha, who and so escapes and gets into trouble.
• A series of Donald Duck shorts on Mickey Mouse Works and House of Mouse depict Donald having to watch a mischievous baby turtle, lest Don face up the female parent'south wrath.
  • Baby Shelby'southward mischief was even the plot (if Business firm of Mouse could always really be said to take a plot) of one actual episode.
  • His nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie were introduced in a badly dilapidated bodyguard-type cartoon (his sister Dumbella leaving them in his intendance).
  • Another older cartoon has Daisy Duck trying to protect her boyfriend from harm while he's sleepwalking.
  • Donald himself had a long-suffering guardian angel who put up with all sorts of abuse from her devilish analogue until she got fed upwardly and a Curb-Stomp Battle ensued.
• Inspector Gadget'due south niece'south canis familiaris, Brain, was e'er doing the leg piece of work and getting the worst of the situations Gadget got into on cases. Gadget himself was not aware of this in the least. Taken to its logical conclusion in Gadget and the Gadgetinis. The sequel series, taking place ii years subsequently the first show, shows that Encephalon had a breakdown between shows and was moved to a riverside business firm. He'due south fine around Penny, and warms upward to the robot sidekicks that took his place, simply is terrified to meet Gadget or even hear the word gadget.
• Kim Possible:
  • In the episode "Adventures in Rufus-Sitting", Kim watches Rufus while Ron and his parents go on vacation. Rufus ends up swallowing a microchip that is wanted past everyone, and three different villains come afterwards him for it. After Rufus is kidnapped, Kim tracks him to France, where, ironically, Ron is vacationing, and has to save him from the hands of Shego, Duff Killigan, and Monkey Fist, without letting Ron know.
  • In the beginning of the episode "Oh No! Yono!", Ron has to babysit his little sister, Hana. Hana proceeds to crawl on the walls and ceiling and destroy the firm. So a couple of nights after, Ron and Kim both babysit Hana, and the same thing happens, with Hana even climbing on top of the refrigerator and jumping off. Luckily, Ron catches her.
• The Lilo & Stitch: The Series episode "Babyfier" had most of the characters, including Lilo's older sister, turn into babies, forcing Lilo to babysit.
• Looney Tunes
  • The Marc Anthony and Pussyfoot cartoons had a gruff only softhearted bulldog protecting an oblivious kitten.
  • The Up-Standing Sitter has Daffy Duck as 1 of these.

    "Life is bitter for I am a sitter
    and put little kiddies to bed.
    While I tuck the sheet around their anxiety,
    they're busy slappin' my head.
    They throw their trains and rattle my brains;
    my head is full of dents.
    No wonder I'm sour; goes on past the 60 minutes!
    And each hour I earn fifty cents."

  • "Brother Brat" is a Wartime Drawing where a manufacturing plant worker has Porky spotter over her sack-o'-hell baby. She gives him a large child psychology book before she leaves, but its advice proves thoroughly useless. It isn't until the mother returns that we see how she intended him to apply the book: equally a spanking aid.
• Kaeloo: Ane episode had Stumpy try to babysit Quack Quack to earn money. It did not cease well.
• Marsupilami: In the short, "Hey, Hey, They're The Monkeys!" Marsupilami and Maurice babysat those 3 baby monkeys who were trying to take over Marsupilami's nest.
• Happens to Leslie in Mega Babies.
• Played With in Milo Potato's Law. Naturally, Milo was the "unusual child" variant, with his quondam babysitter, Veronica, being the only person outside of the family Crazy-Prepared enough to go along Murphy'due south Law from killing him. Milo'due south Awesome Backpack of supplies was actually a gift from her.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • Fluttershy gets run ragged trying to look subsequently the Cutie Mark Crusaders in "Stare Principal", and Pinkie Pie struggles to proceed up with the Cakes' newborn twins in "Baby Cakes". Spike also spends some time as a Badly Battered Petsitter in "Dragonshy," though the audience only witnesses the aftermath.
  • Spike gets some other turn when he looks after all of the Mane Half-dozen's pets in "Only for Sidekicks". Like last time, Angel gives him hell.
  • "Baby Cakes" reverses the traditional catastrophe: Mr. and Mrs. Cake are very pleased with the job Pinkie did... And inquire if she can babysit for them on a regular basis.
  • "The Crystalling" is an unusual case in which the parents are on the receiving end of this. Not the but ones on the receiving end, listen you lot, merely they're certainly right there. A babe alicorn isn't like shooting fish in a barrel to manage.
  • "A Flurry Of Emotions" downplays the trope. The worst that happens to Twilight physically is that she gets covered in mashed peas at ane point, but the task of managing a mischievous alicorn foal during a 24-hour interval already set to be busy turns out to be no less stressful without the physical abuse that comes with the trope.
• On The Penguins of Madagascar, the penguins become after a lost baby when his carriage is knocked out of the zoo and into the streets. Kowalski fifty-fifty points out the inevitable construction site, although here information technology turns out to be a demolition site for a modify.
• Phineas and Ferb:
  • Subverted in the episode "Suddenly Suzy". When Candace has to have care of her boyfriend'southward evil and sadistic sister Suzy, she'southward sure she's in for this... only for Suzy to explicate that if Jeremy isn't there, she's off the clock.
  • However, Candace did end up being one in "Agent Doof" where her brothers are reduced to piddling babies.
• The bodyguard isn't e'er an animate being — the earliest variation on this theme is ane of the onetime Fleischer Popeye cartoons, with either the titular sailor himself or Poopdeck Pappy sitting the errant baby. Many of the other examples on this folio are probably homages to the Popeye cartoons. This was probably a variation of the 1934 Popeye cartoon "A Dream Walking," in which Popeye and Bluto tried to protect a sleepwalking Olive Oyl from the dangers of a construction site.
• Male parent Nicholas from the short-lived Popetown. The "kid" he takes care of is really a Psychopathic Manchild... and The Pope.
• An incredibly weird variation occurs in The Powerpuff Girls. The girls are given a random babysitter who, by chance, is their Arch-Nemesis Mojo Jojo, who believes that as their babysitter he can demand that they help him accept over Townsville. The girls are deliberately the worst kids ever, somewhen escalating to a direct No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, ultimately driving him completely insane.
• Regular Evidence, In "Dead at Viii", Mordecai and Rigby have to babysit Expiry'due south kid, Thomas, or he will take Muscle Homo's soul. Despite being a babe, Thomas is revealed to be 300-years-old and can talk and his parents are not aware of this.
• In an episode of The Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo Evidence, later Shaggy and Scooby accidentally go turned into babies, Scrappy isn't dilapidated, per se, but he is completely and utterly battered from chasing them around.
• The Simpsons has washed information technology:
  • Bart has actually abused and then many babysitters that the family is finer blacklisted by everyone in Springfield (and one who is convinced to come dorsum has post-traumatic flashbacks on seeing Bart - who, as a baby, tried to run her over with the family car - and runs away screaming). All deliberate attempts on Bart'south role to make certain he has absolutely no supervision at home so he can have free reign of the house.
  • In the episode "My Sister, My Sitter," Lisa starts a successful babysitting concern, and when Marge and Homer decide to go out 1 night, they get out her in charge of Bart and Maggie. Feeling humiliated at the fact that his younger sister is in charge of him, Bart decides to put Lisa through the aforementioned hell the other babysitters went through.
• The Smurfs.
  • This happened to Peewit in spades in i episode. While the king had to hash out a very frail peace treaty with some other king, Peewit got stuck watching the visiting king'south bratty son. Just information technology got worse. The young prince started messing effectually with Peewit'due south alchemy equipment, and turned himself into a chicken. So it got even worse; before Peewit could change him back, he ran away, and got caught past the ogre Big Mouth, who was in the mood for chicken soup. Peewit had to get some assistance from his smurf friends to outsmart the ogre into letting the prince go, and fortunately, in the end, the prince'southward dad took his son'due south claims for an overactive imagination.
  • A late-flavor episode has the Smurflings volunteer to look after Bigmouth'southward infant son, which they before long regret, every bit looking later a baby ogre (who clearly inherited his dad'southward huge appetite) is difficult and exhausting, even when the other Smurfs help, non to mention a drain on their supply of smurfberry juice. Bigmouth's warning that he'd exist very angry if annihilation bad happens doesn't make it easier.
• On the South Park episode "Tssst!", Cartman takes down two reality-show nannies. Ane ends upward in a straitjacket.
• SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Sandy's Nutty Nieces", SpongeBob decides to babysit Sandy's nieces. By the end of the day, SpongeBob is dilapidated upward from being beaten in arm-wrestling and being hit by a wrecking ball, all thanks to those nieces.
• Steven Universe: Hereafter: Onion, the boondocks's local troublemaker, is being an accented angel for Rainbow Quartz, the fusion of Steven and Pearl. Steven then has to leave to aid with some other fusion across boondocks, leaving Pearl (the much more experienced mother figure) in accuse of Onion. He ends upwards getting a series of increasingly frantic phone calls where Onion starts smashing things with an umbrella, climbing inside the ventilation, and setting his pet snake loose. It'south also hilarious in that Onion, while not an angel, is also tamer than usual with Steven. After seeing Steven get used to Onion's antics in the original series, seeing Pearl reacting realistically to his actions is hilarious.
• In The Super Mario Bros. Super Show episode '2 Plumbers and a Infant', Princess Toadstool turns into a baby after falling in the Fountain of Youth, and the Marios wear themselves out trying to keep the infant royal nether control until they find a way to age her dorsum to normal.
• Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen become this in the Superman: The Animated Series episode "Monkey Fun, with the twist that they're watching a monkey, Titano. Afterward keeping him for a week, an exhausted Lois presses Jimmy into service. Titano throws things (including the refrigerator) at him.
• Parodied to the extreme by TV Funhouse in its "The infant, the immigrant, and the guy on mushrooms" sketches (where mom leaves the cat in charge of the titular baby, immigrant, and guy on mushrooms).
• The ThunderCats (2011) curt "Butterfly Blues" is almost Snarf watching Lion-O, until he gets distracted past a butterfly, leading to Snarf trying to get him back domicile.
• Timon & Pumbaa:
  • The title characters spent an episode taking intendance of an eagle chick named Infant Earl. Infant Earl's mama had decided to nest right on the border of a cliff, and Babe Earl himself decided he wanted to try "flight the coop"...literally. This was non helped by the fact that the only reason Timon and Pumbaa were stuck looking after the kid was because the mother defenseless them stealing food from her precious infant, and and so forced them to watch him as penalty, with the condition that if "1. Unmarried. SCRATCH" was plant on Baby Earl, that Timon would be crushed. And then there was the semi that randomly showed up...
  • In the episode "Sitting Pretty Awful", Timon and Pumbaa babysit a prepare of human triplets. It starts out with the usual hijinks, such every bit Timon getting striking on the head by a bowling brawl and throwing a lit match into a pile of dynamite while trying to proceed the triplets safe, simply towards the end of the episode, Timon injures himself in various ways on purpose to become them to laugh.
• If a grapheme in Tiny Toon Adventures is sent to look after a certain baby mouse with a perpetual cold or Plot Allergy, this will happen. In Elmyra'south case, it's pretty much Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation-Guided Karma even though she treated Sneezer surprisingly well in that segment.
• Tom and Jerry did two of these. At that place is one episode where at the end Tom and Jerry are arrested for kidnapping. Though it at least seems at the terminate that they might go off since the interrogating officeholder notices the baby wandering off again. There was too another where it ends with the infant mischievously winking at the camera, suggesting he does it on purpose. During both of those cartoons, the babysitter spends the entire time talking on the phone and sees the moment Tom puts the baby back in his crib. She then hits Tom or throws him out of the firm, thinking he was harassing or harming the baby.
• In Trollhunters, Jim volunteers to babysit Claire's little brother Enrique, whom he suspects of existence replaced with a Changeling. Naturally, he'southward right—Not-Enrique first manages to hide Jim's iron horseshoe and lock him out of the business firm, and when finally forced into his true form, wreaks havoc before the rest of the family returns.
• The Wacky Races (2017) episode "Formula Racing" has Dick Dastardly forced to look after Peter Perfect, Penelope Pitstop, I.Q. Ickley, and the Gruesome Twosome after they've turned into babies, suffering a lot of pain during his efforts to keep them from impairment.

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