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** Black Yoshi gets another babysitting job from Mario in "Jeffy's Mistake!", when Mario asks him to babysit Jeffy while he takes Rosalina out on a date. To keep Jeffy entertained, Black Yoshi lets him play a game of ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'', which results in Jeffy destroying his UsefulNotes/XboxOne. Needless to say, [[BerserkButton Black Yoshi does not take this well]].

* ''WesternAnimation/BunnyMaloney'': "Rabid Rabbit", which has the ProtecTeam tasked to take care of a baby rabbit/kit Candy found at their apartment's doorstop... at least, until she's not around.

* ''WesternAnimation/DocMcStuffins'': "Bringing Home Baby" has Grandma McStuffins babysitting Doc and Donny while Mom and Dad McStuffins went off to bring Maya home.

* ''WesternAnimation/FievelsAmericanTails'': The episode "Babysitting Blues", where Fievel must babysit his baby sister Yasha while his parents and older sister are busy.

* ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'': The episode "Babysitting Blues", where Fievel must babysit his baby sister Yasha while his parents and older sister are busy.

%% * ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'': "Babysitting Blues" from ''Fievel's American Tails''.

* Episode 2 of the ''Anime/LittleLulu'' anime focused on Lulu playing babysitter for Tubby while his parents are out for the day, much to Tubby's chagrin. To add insult to injury in Tubby's case, the situation is subsequently discovered by Iggy who finds it funny that Tubby is being babysat by Lulu, which angers Tubby so very much.

* Meia's BirthdayEpisode doubles as this in ''Anime/{{Vandread}}'': Meia is stuck babysitting Ezra's baby daughter as part of a ploy to prevent Meia from [[BirthdayHater escaping her own birthday party again]].

* The first episode of ''Anime/DevilMayCryTheAnimatedSeries'' has Dante being saddled with the task of watching over Patty Lowell; a little girl who is the sole heir of a large fortune, with other people seeking to use demons to kill her.
* ''Manga/WeNeverLearn'': Chapter 93 involves Mafuyu taking care of her baby cousin Natsume for her aunt while her sister and parents are overseas in America. She finds it to be extremely difficult and has to enlist Nariyuki's help.
* In one arc of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'', Josuke and Joseph find an abandoned baby - later christened Shizuka - with a Stand that renders her invisible, and the two bond over taking care of her. Which is only rendered steadily more difficult when the baby's uncontrollable stand starts expanding to render other objects invisible, including her stroller, trees, the ground, and Joseph's hands.

* Not quite babysitting, per se, but two different arcs of ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strips had Garfield and Odie being pet-sat while Jon was out on a date with Liz. The first time, they were pet-sat by the [[BlindMistake horribly nearsighted]] Lillian, and the second time had them under the care of the muscle-bound Greta.
* Periodically, Calvin from ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' would be babysat by Rosalyn, whom Calvin fears very greatly.

* ''Fanfic/TheOmnitrixHero'': The chapter "Ten Aliens and a Baby" has Shining Armor call Flash Sentry and beg him to babysit Flurry Heart last minute, since his usual babysitter called in sick and everyone else he could think of was busy with something else. Flash has to not only make sure Flurry is safe and entertained, but he ends up having to bring her along when he goes Hero so not to leave her alone, while also keeping her out of sight of civilians, resulting in her having the time of her life.
* ''Webcomic/LittleJolyneGoesToMorioh'' is a doujin about Josuke Higashikata watching over Jotaro Kujo's daughter Jolyne while Jotaro is looking for a Stand user.

* ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears and the Sitter'' is this where Ms. Grizzle babysits Brother and Sister while their parents go off to a town meeting. The cubs are nervous about her as they think she's not very nice but learn AnAesop about how babysitters can be nice.

* ''Series/{{Selfie}}'' has one for the fourth episode, "Nugget of Wisdom", as Eliza is encouraged by Henry to do something nice, which becomes babysitting receptionist Charmonique's son Kevin. The babysitting doesn't go horribly (although Eliza has to get help from Henry), and Eliza ends up learning a little from Kevin, and Henry gets an idea that helps his PR pitch.

* One episode of ''Series/ClarissaExplainsItAll'' has Clarissa baby sitting "Little Elsie", an absolute monster of a child, who makes it a point to make Clarissa's life a living hell. [[spoiler:Clarissa manages to defeat Elsie by goading her into bragging about everything Elsie has gotten away with and [[CaughtOnTape recording it]].]]
* ''Series/{{Glee}}'': In the episode [[Recap/GleeS1E11Hairography ''Hairography'']], Quinn takes up Kendra's offer of babysitting in order to test Puck's potential as a father. In true ''Glee'' fashion, they put the kids to sleep using a song.

* ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'' Josh volunteers himself and Drake to babysit for his father's boss's baby. Things are quiet quite for a few minutes...until one of Megan's practical jokes makes the baby wake up and cry.
* In an episode of ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'', Aunt Clara starts babysitting for kids in Samantha's neighborhood. During her evenings with these kids, she casually tells them that she's a witch. Naturally, they want proof, so she does a few spells for them. The kids end up loving her, resulting in more parents asking her to babysit as well, but they begin to grow concerned as the kids tell them that she says she's a witch, and have her go through a competency hearing.

* ''Series/FullHouse'':
** D.J. babysits Stephanie and Michelle in "Sisters in Crime" and takes them to [[MovieTheaterEpisode the movie theater]] when Steve drops by unexpectedly. When Stephanie and Michelle spend all the money on snacks, they don't have enough money to pay for the tickets. D.J. convinces Kimmy, who works at the theater, to sneak them in, but they are caught by the manager.
** Kimmy babysits Nicky and Alex in "Five's A Crowd". To get out of having to feed the twins and [[TheDiaperChange change their diapers]], Kimmy pays Stephanie to do it for her.
** Kimmy babysits Nicky and Alex again in "Subterranean Graduation Blues". Like her previous experience, this one has disastrous results, this time involving finger paint.
* ''Series/FutureCop'''s final two-parter, "Cops and Robin," has Haven and Cleaver looking after a five-year-old girl while her mother is in protective custody.
* ''Series/OddSquad'':
** The episode "Hold the Door" has Olive and Otto being tasked with showing Ori, an agent-in-training, around Precinct 13579. However, when the duo take their eyes off of him for even a second, he runs off to somewhere else, leading them to dash all around Headquarters just to find him before he gets hurt, and before they are sniffed out by Ms. O. Oscar and Dr. O also agree to help them out once they see just how tough their job is, but not even they are able to catch up to Ori until he goes into the Princess Room.
** In "Two Agents and a Baby", Olympia and Otis are asked by Rivka to babysit Baby Genius while she goes BackToSchool to get her pilot's license while also trying to stop Marty Marmalade, Jamie Jam's cousin, from wreaking havoc on the town. Realizing they can't do both at the same time, they attempt to pass off babysitting duties to Ocean, Oona and Orson with little to no success, and are forced to take Baby Genius with them out onto the field, much to their chagrins.
** "It's Not Easy Being Chill" revolves around Omar having to take care of Orpita, a young agent-in-training from the Odd Squad Academy who is onboard the Mobile Unit van as part of an assignment, when she picks him as the subject for her Agent Report and begins to look up to him due to his laid-back personality. However, since he's on creature duty, he's also the babysitter for a creature that he and his teammates are transporting to its native habitat, and he must balance both taking care of it and taking care of Orpita while Opal, Orla and Oswald leave to fight a giant robot.
* ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'': "Abdullah", where Jeannie (and eventually Tony and Roger, when she has to leave for the day) has to watch her baby nephew, who is ''also'' a genie.
* ''Series/ThatGirl'': "All's Well That Ends" and "Never Change a Diaper on Opening Night". "I Am Curious Lemon", too - though the charge in that episode is about eight years old, she brings along a rather high-maintenance lemon tree.
* ''Series/{{Friends}}'' used this a few times.
** When Ross has an allergic reaction he's forced to leave his baby son with Chandler and Joey while getting medical attention. Chandler and Joey take little Ben for a walk around the neighborhood to PickUpBabesWithBabes and accidentally lose him on a bus.
** After they start dating Rachel begs Ross to let her watch Ben for an afternoon. He only agrees because Monica will be home all day to keep an eye on them, except it ends up being ''Monica'' who accidentally injures Ben by smacking his head into a beam.
** Phoebe asks Monica and Chandler to help her brother's triplets. The three of them actually have a good system going, but then Chandler swallows a toy and has to go to the hospital. Phoebe's soon overwhelmed trying to keep track of three babies on her own.
* ''Series/ReadyOrNot1993'': Amanda babysits for a [[BourgeoisBohemian bohemian]] couple and invites Busy over. It is this couple's house where the two girls come across the "Guide to Sex" book.

* A very LowerDeckEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' shows 'Mazing Man catsitting, which he also did in his eponymous comic book.
* The ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'' episode "[[Recap/MrBogusS2E2BabysittingBogus Babysitting Bogus]]" dealt with Bogus finding himself playing babysitter for an incredibly unruly baby while the real babysitter is [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny waylaid by her talking on the phone]].

* The ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' episode "Watch the Birdies" has Muriel and Courage get roped into babysitting an anthropomorphic vulture's chicks while she looks for a husband.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'':
** This was the plot point of the episode "Arthur Babysits", where he has to babysit the dreaded Tibble Twins. This episode is also notorious for marking the first appearance of Mrs. Tibble and the Tibble Twins.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' [[Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer MGM]] shorts "Busy Buddies" and "Tot Watchers", Tom and Jerry have to continually chase down and rescue the baby from trouble because the actual babysitter spends her time gossiping on the telephone.

* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' cartoons:
** In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' episode "Baby-Sitter Jitters", Sonic and Tails wind up babysitting a trio of baby beavers -- Tails made the offer to the parents because Sonic "loves babes".
** In the ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' episode, "[[Recap/SonicBoomS2E40ThreeMenAndMyBaby Three Men and My Baby!]]", Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles [[NiceJobBreakingItHero accidentally injure Lady Walrus]], and volunteer to babysit her infant son, Chumley, until she's healed.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresFromTheBookOfVirtues'': In "Selflessness", Annie is forced to babysit her toddler cousins, skipping a trip of hers.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In what was originally the very first episode, but was delayed to the first season finale, Homer and Marge go out for the evening while the kids are sat by what turns out to be "the Babysitting Bandit," who gets a babysitting job and then ties up the kids and steals everything from the house.
** In another episode, eight-year-old Lisa offers her services as a babysitter, proving to do a good job of it despite her age, until Homer & Marge have her watch Bart and Maggie. Bart does a lot of stupid things mostly for the sake of being contrarian, which eventually lands him in the hospital (she even has to drive him there in a wheelbarrow because he prank-called them earlier), but she still gets work afterward.
** While healing from a knee injury, Homer starts a ''Film/DaddyDayCare''–type in-home babysitting service.
* WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck has to take care of a bratty baby turtle named Shelby in a series of ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' shorts.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', [[Recap/RegularShowS03Ep27DeadAtEight "Dead At Eight"]], Mordecai and Rigby have to babysit Death's son, Thomas, in order to save Muscle Man's soul.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' episode "Babysitter Blues" had Christopher Robin, Pooh, Piglet, and Tigger being babysat by an unnamed babysitter who also appeared as TheFaceless like Christopher Robin's mother. Later in the episode, Christopher Robin has to babysit Roo while Kanga goes out into the Hundred Acre Wood.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' episode "Doug Loses Dale" is about Doug babysitting Skeeter's younger brother, Dale.
* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'' had two instances, which were [[TwoShorts paired up together]]. "Rolly's Egg-Celent Adventure" had Rolly taking care of Cornelia's eggs, which hatched at the beginning of the episode when he sat on them. "Wild Chick Chase" was about Spot having to babysit Peeps, a chick who kept getting into danger.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/PacMan'' short "Hocus-Pocus Pac-Man", Ms. Pac-Man asks her husband to watch Pac-Baby while she goes shopping. Pac-Man tries to amuse Pac-Baby with some magic tricks, but one of them goes wrong and Pac-Baby seemingly vanishes.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleRascals'' animated short "Tiny Terror" has Butch leave his baby brother with the Rascals so he can go fishing. Among other things, the baby climbs a tree and bombards Alfalfa and Spanky with apples.
* ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'': "Babysitting Blues" from ''Fievel's American Tails''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': In the Gruesomes' debut episode, Fred and Barney agree to babysit Goblin, whose antics and pets make it near life-threatening.
* ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'': In one episode, they have to babysit Cliff's niece. She eventually gets lost and when Lube comes to pick up the baby, they pass off Winslow as the baby and go look for her. They manage to get her back before Cliff finds out.

* There are two of these in ''WesternAnimation/{{Ewoks}}''. In first season's ''The Travelling Jindas'', Latara joins the nomadic tribe/species giving performances all around Endor because she's frustrated with babysitting her toddler siblings, solely to be kidnapped by Duloks in order to babysit their children. In second season's ''Bringing Up Norky'', the gang is taking care of an obnoxiously manipulative young critter while his parents are away.
* The ''WesternAnimation/ChalkZone'' episode "The Terrible 2 1/2s" had Rudy and Penny watching Rudy's younger cousin, Sophie. Danger ensues when Sophie manages to get the magic chalk and ends up in [=ChalkZone=].
* The ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' episode "Baby Boom" had Jimmy and Beezy babysitting [[DrillSergeantNasty Molotov's]] kids. His son Tori [[KidsAreCruel is an obnoxious brat]], while his infant daughter Blammo won't stop spewing.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' "Starsitting", Star and Marco take care of [[FriendlyEnemy Buff Frog]]'s tadpoles - a challenge that is much more difficult than it sounds, especially when the sitters have conflicting views on taking care of them.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'' gets roped into Quinn's babysitting job when Quinn has a date for the night she was supposed to work (it was either that or spend the evening attending Helen's couples therapy session). Daria was expecting the kids to be total brats, but ended up being very disturbed at how [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior unusually obedient they were and not thinking for themselves.]] With Jane's help, she decides to remedy that.
* ''WesternAnimation/WhatsWithAndy'': The episode "Andy Pranky Pudding and Pie" had Jen babysit two intelligent little boys while Andy plays pranks and tries to pin the blame on them.
* Both of Manon's appearances so far in ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' have had Marinette babysit her. The first time, Alya ended up mostly taking over for her (since Marinette had to go into Ladybug mode to fight the VillainOfTheWeek); the second time, a fight over a doll caused Manon [[spoiler: to become [[NearVillainVictory the most successful akumatized villain yet.]]]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': The episode "Let's Play Babysitting" had Stumpy try to babysit Quack Quack, who didn't even need or want a babysitter. [[BadlyBatteredBabysitter It doesn't end well.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rubbadubbers}}'': Amelia the Babysitter, where Amelia hates being told what to do and wants to be in charge. She then if onlys herself into a cloud world, where she has to babysit the other Rubbadubbers, who are pretending to be toddlers and demand to tell them what to do.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'':
** In "Bubble Buddy Returns", [=SpongeBob=] looks after Bubble Buddy's son, Shiny.
** In "Whale Watching", Mr. Krabs hires Squidward to babysit Pearl, but Pearl wants to sneak out of Mr. Krabs' house to go to a cool teen party.
** In "Biddy Sitting", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick start their own babysitting service. First, they babysit infant sextuplets, then they babysit Mary's 137-year-old mother (from "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsChocolateWithNutsMermaidManAndBarnacleBoyV Chocolate With Nuts]]").
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' episode, "[[Recap/ThePowerpuffGirlsS3E2TownAndOutChildFearing Child Fearing]]", when Professor Utonium runs late for an event, Mojo Jojo is hired as the girls' babysitter. At first, he tries to use his new position to try and make the girls help him take over Townsville, but the girls [[BadlyBatteredBabysitter deliberately make his job a living heck]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/DrZitbagsTransylvaniaPetShop'' episode "Horrybaby" has Dr. Zitbag being forced by Officer Deadbeat to look after his infant son Damian.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BumpInTheNight'' episode "Baby Snail", Mr. Bumpy has to look after a baby snail while Squishington looks for the baby snail's mother.
* In one episode of the Australian cartoon ''Anime/AdventuresOfTheLittleKoala'', title character Roobear babysits the young triplet brothers of his friends. They want to swim in the family pool, to which he agrees; however, as they're penguins and he's a koala, they end up exhausting him and have to save him from drowning. He's so humiliated by this that the triplets are able to blackmail him into buying them treats.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Lizzie}}'' episode "Misadventures in Babysitting" had Lizzie Green get a job babysitting a woman's one-year-old son.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gasp}}'': In "Fish Stick", Gasp, experimenting with mind-control techniques while babysitting, panics when he thinks he's accidentally turned Winston into a fish stick.
* ''WesternAnimation/PixelPinkie'': "Clones R Us". In said episode, Nina tries to convince Pinkie to make a clone of her to babysit while she goes to Suzi's party.
* The ''WesternAnimation/MonaTheVampire'' episode, "Robot Baby Sitter", which features the introduction of the babysitter, Belinda, who was responsible for Angela before Mona. There are some other episodes revolving around this as well.
* The ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBeaks'' episode revolves around Harvey and his egg sister being babysat by Jeremy, much to Harvey's frustration, as he wants to prove that he can do the job himself (Jeremy treating Harvey like a baby probably doesn't help matters).
* ''WesternAnimation/SeaPrincesses'': In "The Babysitters", Ester and Marli confidently set out on their first babysitting job. But it all goes horribly wrong when they lose the Sea Lion King's son, Naimo, who disappears in search of his favorite toy.
* The ''WebAnimation/MightyMagiswords'' episode "Transylbabies" had Vambre and Prohyas hired by a Snowmanpire couple to look after their babies.
* ''WesternAnimation/DennisTheMenace'':
** In "[[Recap/DennisTheMenace1986S1E30 A Step Ahead]]", Alice and Henry go out for the evening and hire a young babysitter named Marty to look after Dennis. Marty is able to anticipate most of Dennis' tricks, having pulled many of them himself when he was Dennis' age.
** In "[[Recap/DennisTheMenace1986S1E37 Big Baby]]", Alice babysits Sylvester, the infant son of Mrs. Atkins, and Dennis volunteers to look after him when she has to go to the store to buy more baby food. Around this time, [=PeeBee=] shows Dennis his new super growth formula, which he keeps in a baby bottle since just one drop makes things bigger. Sylvester gets ahold of [=PeeBee's=] bottle and drinks most of the formula, growing to an enormous size as a result. Dennis and [=PeeBee=] have to get Sylvester back to his normal size before Alice returns.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard'': "Babysitter Bunga" is about Bunga being entrusted to take care of the kids by several moms. Surprisingly for the naughtiest member of the Lion Guard, he does well since he's able to train them in self-defense, just in time for when the jackals attack them.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'': "Baby's Wild Ride." It would be so fine if Stanley only had to babysit his neighbor's infant son with no other complications outside the usual. Alas, the tot just had to get his little hands on The Mask and join up with a biker gang!!
* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'': In "Uncle Zucchini Babysits", Uncle Zucchini looks after Jet and his friends when Jet's parents are busy. [[ItMakesSenseInContext The kids end up teaching him about the three states of matter]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/BunsenIsABeast'' episode "Adventures in Beastysitting" concerns Mikey and Bunsen looking after a baby beast while trying to return him to his parents (due to a mix-up, the [[DeliveryStork Monstork]] had mistakenly delivered Mikey and Bunsen's tacos to the baby beast's parents).
* The ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'' episode "Johnny Real Good" has Johnny take up a babysitting job in hopes of getting the money he needs to buy a car he is interested in. Too bad for him the kid is an {{Expy}} of [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E73ItsAGoodLife Anthony Fremont]] and is therefore an EnfantTerrible RealityWarper who doesn't hesitate to use his powers to punish Johnny the moment he gets on his bad side.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'': The B-plot of "[[Recap/TheLooneyTunesShowS2E11WereInBigTruffle We're in Big Truffle]]" involves Bugs Bunny babysitting Gossamer for Witch Lezah while she goes to the witch's convention in the Fifth Dimension. When Lola comes to help Bugs, she mistakes Lezah's spell book for a book of bedtime stories and transforms Gossamer.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocoyo}}'': "Baby Bird Sitting" has Pato (and later Pocoyo) looking after Baby Bird and Caterpillar while Sleepy Bird is away.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': "Hide and Seek" from season 5 have Raven being assigned to babysit three young superheroes and deliver them to a monastery, while the rest of the Titans are dealing with the Brotherhood of Evil across the globe. While initially annoyed at the kids' antics, Raven however quickly bonds with them and even saves them near the end when Mallah attacks the monastery and abducts the children.
--> '''Raven''': Nobody messes with ''[[MamaBear my kids]]''!
* ''WesternAnimation/SevenLittleMonsters'': "Seven Monsters and a Baby" has the seven monsters watch over their neighbor Mrs. Mulligan's baby while their mother is asleep.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1992'': In "Double Bubble", Ariel babysits the twin merbabies of the Count and Countess of Clambakersfield. Despite having help from Flounder and Sebastian, the twins escape and get held for ransom by the Lobster Mobster and Da Shrimp.