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'''''Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead''''' is a 1991 comedy starring [[Christina Applegate]].
When their mother goes to Australia for the summer, the Crandell children are loath to find themselves in the charge of a crotchety old babysitter. When she promptly dies, they decide to keep that key fact from their mother so they can enjoy their summer with no adults to tell them what to do. However, their scant funds soon run out, followed by their food. Oldest daughter Sue Ellen must figure out how to take care of her younger siblings while keeping their mother in the dark.
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* [[Opposites Attract]]: Averted. Bruce and Carolyn are both petty, vindictive, and slimy people. They seem perfectly happy together.
* [[Poster Gallery Bedroom]]: Mrs. Sturak stumbles into the Kenny's bedroom and reacts in horror at all the heavy metal posters on the walls. It's implied to give her a ''fatal heart attack'' that kicks off the plot.
* [[Power Hair]]: In order to help pass as an "Executive Administrative Assistant", Sue Ellen puts her hair up in a fancy
* [[Promotion to Parent]]: Sue Ellen
* [[Really Seventeen Years Old]]: Sue Ellen lies about her age and falsifies a resume in order to get a job with a fashion agency. Everyone there assumes she's in her mid 20s.
* [[She Cleans Up Nicely|He Cleans Up Nicely]]: Kenny, which causes {{spoiler|Nicole to finally notice him}}.
* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: The [[Deadpan Snarker|apathy]] displayed by the Crandell siblings towards their own mother, let alone Mrs. Sturak, places the film firmly in the late
{{quote|'''Sue Ellen''': Do you really want to go crawling to aunt Pat, or one of Mom's semi-wretched friends?}}
* [[Smoking Is Cool]]: Rose, and Sue Ellen on occasion.
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* [[The Stoner]]: Kenny.
* [[Success Symbiosis]]: Sue Ellen gets a job in the fashion industry by lying about her age and keeps it because a mostly overlooked employee from another department is doing all the hard stuff for her.
* [[Technology Marches On]]: Sue Ellen, as a [[Fish Out of Water|high-schooler]], has no idea how to operate the GAW fax-machine (an essential piece of office kit in 1991), but the irony is that arguably most ''modern'' high-schoolers
** Also, simply the fact that when showing Sue Ellen her computer, Rose proudly pointed out the mouse like it was state of the art. YMMV but may be [[Truth in Television]] as most PC users in
** Their office was using Lotus. Also, Sue Ellen wrote her resume on a typewriter. At least the CD changer during the fashion show still looks semi-current, though.
* [[Tomboy]]: Melissa.
* [[Unintentional Period Piece]]: This movie is ''painfully'' early
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: The fate of Mrs. Sturak's body and the money is finally answered right before the credits. {{spoiler|She was given a nice burial by the mortuary workers who found the money and spent it in Vegas. Her tombstone reads the same as the note the kids left with her - "''Nice Old Lady Inside. Died of Natural Causes.''"}}
* [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]]: Rose actually ''begs'' Sue Ellen to work for her after a quick skim-read through her (ridiculously embellished) resumé in the office reception.
* [[Woman Scorned]]: Carolyn, who seems like a top grade
* [[Zany Scheme]]: Arguably, the whole movie.
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