Badly-Battered Babysitter: Difference between revisions

* ''Good Dog, Carl'' and its sequels feature a Rottweiler who is, in each book, left to take care of the baby. Subverted in that Carl often assists the baby - such as when he gives baby a boost to crawl into the laundry chute (there was a full basket of soft laundry at the bottom), or takes baby out to go window shopping and meet Santa.

* Several ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (novel)|Jeeves and Wooster]]'' stories revolve around Bertie being asked to keep an eye on or take care of someone, generally by Aunt Agatha. The people he's asked to watch always turn out to be utterly irresponsible and impossible to control. Similarly, in "Episode of the Dog McIntosh" he has to look after Aunt Agatha's dog, in what turns out to be "a guardianship fraught with peril".

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* A parody of this occurs in the ''[[Stinkoman 20 X 6]]'', in which the hopelessly naive 1-Up wanders into "[[Lethal Lava Land|The Lava Zone]]" to look for a kidnapped Pan-Pan. Stinkoman doesn't care until he realizes 1-Up took his "Power Crunch," at which point he must follow and protect 1-Up to ensure he gets his item back.

* Any gamer only ''wishes'' that the punishment of most [[Escort Mission|Escort Missions]] was directed at the player, rather than the typically dumb-as-rocks escortee.

* ''[[Yoshis Island]]'' has a multicolored tribe of Yoshis ferrying Baby Mario through the whole game, and rather ridiculous obstacles. (You think they could just leave the baby with someone at home and go clear the way on their own?)

** Or maybe have all eight Yoshis travel together rather than pass the baby like a relay baton?

* The ''Marc Anthony and Pussyfoot'' cartoons from [[Looney Tunes|Warner Brothers]] had a gruff but softhearted bulldog protecting an oblivious kitten.

** ''The Up-Standing Sitter'' has [[Daffy Duck]] as one of these.

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* ''[[Inspector Gadget]]'''s niece's dog, Brain, was always doing the leg work and getting the worst of the situations Gadget got into on cases. Gadget himself was [[Inspector Oblivious|not aware of this]] in the least.