Badly-Battered Babysitter: Difference between revisions

== [[Video Games]] ==

* One of the scenarios in ''[[Elite Beat Agents]]'' involves a cat trying to protect his owner's infant son as the hapless baby chases a butterfly through an [[No OSHA Compliance|inexplicably peril-laden construction site]]. The ''very first song'' has a sitter trying to control a terrible trio of uncooperative children.

* One level of ''[[Earthworm Jim (video game)|Earthworm Jim]]'' has the titular Jim protecting Peter Puppy from danger, mostly by whipping him over obstacles. If Peter ever gets hit, it causes him to mutate into a horrifying monster which proceeds to beat the crud out of Jim for his failure and drag him backwards through the stage.

* The platform game ''Sleepwalker'' had the player controlling a hapless dog tasked with stopping his master from waking up as he sleepwalked all over the city.

** His nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie were introduced in a badly battered babysitter-type cartoon (his sister Dumbella leaving them in his care).

** Another, older cartoon has Daisy Duck trying to protect her boyfriend from harm while he's sleep walking.

* Examples from ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'': The booby baby in "Three Men and a Booby", Jeremy in "Bearing Up Baby", and Bink (and Tammy) in "Adventures in Squirrelsitting".

* ''[[Timon and Pumbaa]]'', in ''Timon and Pumbaa's Wild Adventures'', spent an episode taking care of a eagle chick named Baby Earl. Baby Earl's mama had decided to nest right on the edge of a cliff, and Baby Earl himself decided he wanted to try "flying the coop"...literally. This was not helped by the fact that the only reason Timon and Pumbaa were stuck looking after the kid was because [[Mama Bear|the mother]] caught them stealing food from her precious baby, and so forced them to watch him as punishment, with the condition that if [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|"ONE. SINGLE. SCRATCH"]] was found on Baby Earl, that Timon would be crushed. [[Hilarity Ensues|And then there was the semi that randomly showed up...]]

* Happens to Marion in an episode of ''[[Bounty Hamster]]'' with a alien child who keeps randomly changing ages.

** If it counts, this also applies to Vicky in the pilot episode (except in her case she's a [[Jerkass]] [[Teens Are Monsters|who clearly deserves it]]).

* An episode of ''[[An American Tail|Fievel's American Tails]]'' devoted an episode to this trope, where Fievel is forced to babysit his little sister Yasha, who then escapes and gets into trouble.

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