History Main / BabysittingEpisode

* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Peter's Lost Youth", Meg had to babysit Stewie. After she yells at him, he runs away and when he comes back, Meg apologizes to Stewie for yelling at him.

*** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E3AFlurryOfEmotions A Flurry of Emotions]]": Twilight has to babysit her niece Flurry Heart when Shining Armor and Princess Cadance go to an art exhibition.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' 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]].

* In the ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' fanfic ''Fanfic/ShiningAndSweet'' chapter aptly titled "Babysitting", Aran Ryan is put in charge of Bear Hugger's son Raine, Piston Hondo's niece Sakura, and Glass Joe's baby daughter Paige.

* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Mighty Goat Squad'' episode 3 is about Weslie looking after a butterfly woman's caterpillar children. The caterpillars are quite hyperactive, but things go surprisingly well until one of the caterpillars ends up in a pupa on a leaf and floats away.

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* Used several times in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** The episode [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E12BabyCakes "Baby Cakes"]] features Pinkie Pie eagerly wanting to babysit her boss' twin babies without understanding the differences between playing with babies and taking care of them. [[BadlyBatteredBabysitter It goes about as well as you'd expect.]]
** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E17StareMaster "Stare Master"]], Fluttershy offers to watch the Cutie Mark Crusaders, greatly underestimating how energetic they can be. She eventually does earn their respect and obedience [[spoiler:by saving them from a monster in the Everfree Forest]].
** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E8JustForSidekicks "Just for Sidekicks"]], Spike pet-sits for all the mane six. He's mainly interested in the gems he received as payment, and he spends the bare minimum of time actually watching the pets. This comes back to bite him when one of the pets, Angel Bunny, resents being ignored and runs away; Spike is run through the wringer trying to get Angel back.
** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E3AFlurryOfEmotions A Flurry of Emotions]]", Twilight has to babysit her niece Flurry Heart when Shining Armor and Princess Cadance go to an art exhibition.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'', ''The Ice Cream Wars'', has the First Tooth ponies begrudgingly babysitting the two sets of Newborn Twins. [[ThatRemindsMeOfASong They even sing about it!]]
* The ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'' episode "Villains' Night In" is about Darrell and Shannon, two of Lord Boxman's robot minions/children, babysitting Professor Venomous's minion/daughter, Fink, while Venomous and Boxman are at a party. The [[SynchronousEpisodes counterpart episode]] "Villains' Night Out" is about the party.
* The plot point of the ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresFromTheBookOfVirtues'' episode "Selflessness", in which Annie was forced to babysit her toddler cousins, skipping a trip of hers.

** In another episode, 8-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.

* 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 [[AmazonianBeauty muscle-bound]] Greta.

* 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.

* ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' episode 566 is basically [[BadlyBatteredBabysitter Conan's]] [[ButtMonkey misadventures]] while taking care of a 2 year old whose mother is a client of Kogoro. Silly since Conan is believed to be a six-year-old.

Essentially, this is an episode where a character is forced to babysit a small child or a baby, usually a OneShotCharacter. The character that is doing the babysitting may either wind up being a BabysitterFromHell or a BadlyBatteredBabysitter. Sometimes, the child being babysat may be a BrattyHalfPint or an EnfantTerrible ([[EggSitting Eggs are their own trope]]).