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5	[[caption-width-right:350:Know the difference between a kidsitter and a kid''napper''?]]
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7	->'''Rosalyn:''' Calvin, take a look by the telephone and tell me what you see.\
8	'''Calvin:''' A note Mom left with emergency numbers.\
9	'''Rosalyn:''' Right. Now, you wouldn't want me to have to CALL any of those numbers, would you?\
10	'''Calvin:''' Well, it must be 6:30. I guess I'll turn in.
11	-->-- ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''
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13	While becoming a BadlyBatteredBabysitter may be an adult's worst nightmare, having a [[TitleDrop Babysitter from Hell]] is a child's.
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15	In RealLife, child abuse by a temporary or hired guardian is a very serious thing. But in fiction, it can be comedy gold. It's also a good way to give a character a DarkAndTroubledPast that's only [[ButNotTooEvil just dark enough]], without making the parents out to be bad. A common fate of characters with a HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood.
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17	This villain type is always introduced the same way: parents need someone to care for their children. Often, possibly because either a parent or child has a bad reputation, short notice, or bad timing (who'd have thought they'd schedule the high school prom and the elementary school PTA meeting on the same night?), the parents are left with few choices.
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19	The Babysitter from Hell is often a JerkassAtYourDiscretion, only revealed for what they are after the parents leave. Usually this character can be identified by at least three of the following traits or behaviors:
20	# Children are frightened of them. Hilarity ensues as [[NotNowKiddo adults take little notice]] of a child's instinctive concern, being either too busy or assuming it's just ordinary separation anxiety.
21	# The babysitter is impatient, angsty, or just plain mean.
22	# The babysitter clearly has little experience in dealing with children of the age in question.
23	# The babysitter only took this job to [[OnlyInItForTheMoney get paid]].
24	# The babysitter assigns the child a task or responsibility that is clearly inappropriate.
25	# The child is assigned all the chores while the babysitter chats on the phone, watches TV, or otherwise refuses to help.
26	# The babysitter puts the child in a situation that is obviously dangerous, unhealthy, or frightening, such as locking them in the basement.
27	# When the child gets in trouble, is at risk of serious injury, or asks for help, the babysitter ignores them.
28	# The babysitter uses the parents' home to throw a party or conduct criminal activities. If the babysitter uses the ''children'' to commit a crime, they might be TheFagin.
29	# The babysitter deliberately [[KickTheDog makes the child miserable]] out of angst, revenge, etc., or ForTheEvulz.
30	# The babysitter is, of course, badly battered and vows payback.
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32	To meet the requirements for this trope, all of the following must be true:
33	# A character is hired or otherwise entrusted with a child.
34	# They end up doing more harm than good.
35	# [[KarmaHoudini They get away with it repeatedly.]]
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37	[[SocialServicesDoesNotExist With no support from adults]], the child is usually forced to take unilateral action to either foil or prank the babysitter. When the parents return, either the Babysitter from Hell has already left or blames anything the parents find amiss on the child. Since the parents usually don't believe the child, the threat that they will be back remains.
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39	This is a villain type where on the SlidingScaleOfAntagonistVileness the Babysitter from Hell can range from pure evil to a JerkassWoobie with a DarkAndTroubledPast of their own, and AlternateCharacterInterpretation may allow some to be regarded as both.
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41	The inversions of this trope are BadlyBatteredBabysitter and BabysittersNightmare, where the CHILD torments the babysitter, and BabysitterFriendship, where the child and babysitter love seeing each other.
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45	!!Examples:
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49	[[folder:Advertising]]
50	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDDf7DSJBNI This Cap'n Crunch Cereal commercial]] involves the Cap'n taking two children away from the cross, elderly female babysitter Mrs. Winkler to have a house party in his ship.
51	* This 1997 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-6MscY5nRg Burger King Kids' Club]] commercial features two siblings being frightened by their mean-looking elderly female babysitter until the animated kid mascot of the Kids' Club zaps the siblings away to have fun at a Burger King instead.
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54	[[folder:Comic Books]]
55	* The Graphic Novel ''ComicBook/{{Blankets}}'' details this. Greg mentions that he imagined people who were mean to him eating their own excrement as revenge for the things they did. The picture shows his SadistTeacher, his schoolyard bullies, and the babysitter, whose eyes are never shown. It's never stated explicitly what he did... but the novel gives enough hints to show that he sexually abused Greg and his brother.
56	* The British comic book ''2000AD'' once featured a short story about a nasty little boy named Bradley whose idea of fun was to tie a mouse between two of his model railway engines and drive them in opposite directions. Then Bradley asks his parents for a certain machine which, when you press the button, changes into "exactly what you need." Bradley's parents exchange a look and get him the machine. Bradley presses the button and the machine changes into exactly what he needs all right -- the Babysitter From Hell, which [[LaserGuidedKarma immediately straps him down to a table (which is part of the machine), gags him and puts up a display reading "you move - you die"]] while the boy's parents enjoy a welcome break from trying to keep the little brat out of trouble.
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59	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
60	* Calvin of ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' ''thinks'' his babysitter Rosalyn is this but from her viewpoint, she's fending off becoming a BadlyBatteredBabysitter. [[spoiler:Then in her last appearance, a game of {{Calvinball}} brings them together, averting both tropes.]]
61	* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' has a strip in which the parents come home and find [[spoiler:that the very obvious WickedWitch they hired cooked and ate not one, but both children.]] They're not only surprised at the result, but they're [[TheComicallySerious indignant rather than horrified]].
62	* Rat proved himself to be the absolute ''worst'' babysitter imaginable in the ''ComicStrip/BabyBlues''[=-=]''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'' crossover strip: Here's a rundown of what happened: he agrees to do everything Wanda and Darryl ask of him, and as soon as they leave, [[DrinkingOnDuty prepares to waste himself with shots of Tequila (and started wearing a beer hat)]]. He then has Zoe and Hammie go out to a package and liquor store to get more bottles of tequila (note: Zoe and Hammie are incredibly too young to drive, never mind below the age limit of purchasing alcohol, so he's risking their being potentially arrested and doing time at a juvenile correction facility for driving below the age limit, underage purchasing of alcohol, ''and'' possession of alcohol while driving just to get himself drunk yet again, at the very least). Predictably, it goes as badly as possible, with Hammie apparently wrecking their parents' minivan, which also causes a gas station to explode, and apparently they accidentally ran over Jeremy from ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'', and his reaction was horror that their liquor run was delayed. Likewise, he left Wren unsupervised while he went to watch a movie, which nearly got Wren eaten by the crocodiles (only reason they didn't eat her is that she turned the tables on them and actually bludgeoned them to death [[BatterUp with a plastic bat]]). Honestly, at least [[WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents Vicky]] expressed some concern when Timmy disappeared under her charge.
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65	[[folder:Fan Fic]]
66	* Downplayed in the ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4403803/6/Baby-Gazzee Baby Gazzee]]''. After Gaz is [[BabyMorphEpisode magically turned into a baby]], with everyone else's memories altered to think she's always been one, Professor Membrane and Dib realize they need to hire a babysitter while they're both out of the house during the week. It's at this point that Tak shows up, having returned to Earth in a new human disguise and seeking to infiltrate the Membrane home, taking the babysitter job to do so. She proceeds to make Gaz's situation even more miserable than it already was -- ignoring her as much as possible, force-feeding her the most disgusting baby food available (while eating better food right in front of her to spite her), and putting her through the most embarrassingly infantile activities imaginable to mock her.
67	* In ''Webcomic/KillLaKillAU'', we get this Rei the "Drunk Secretary", whose natural idea of babysitting Mako, Ryuuko, Nui, and Satsuki (the oldest of which is five and the youngest being two, along with the middle being three) involved sending them on a beer run when she runs out of booze, along with implications that she is rarely sober. Needless to say, Ragyo and Soichiro were none too pleased, Ragyo even hitting her with a baseball bat.
68	* Renee Taylor from ''Fanfic/ASecondChance'' is a teenage overachiever whose stints as the Loud kids’ babysitter cause the latter a lot of grief, though she’s not a sadistic bully but rather a [[TheComicallySerious dour and humorless]] authoritarian tyrant who is obsessed with rules and order, [[DisproportionateRetribution who tends to treat her charges like prisoners and punishes them severely for even the most minor offense]], and has a special dislike for Lucy, due to the latter’s CreepyChild tendencies. Those that try to oppose her, like the twins and Luna, are easily caught and punished even more, in Luna’s case, getting thrown into solitary confinement in the family’s bunker. Renee is actually the same age as Luna and younger than Leni and Lori, but she still treats the latter three as dumb children due to their perceived immaturity ([[JerkassHasAPoint which isn’t entirely unwarranted]]).
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71	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
72	* Subverted with Elizabeth[=/=]Zee from ''WesternAnimation/MonsterHouse''. Though she's largely apathetic to DJ and breaks a pot knowing he would be the one blamed, she calls off her boyfriend when he continues harassing her charge, and even gives the kids some Halloween candy (granted, so she didn't have to make them breakfast, but candy is candy!).
73	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'', Madame Medusa and Mr. Snoops need Penny to help them retrieve a diamond at the bottom of a cave too small for an adult to fit into. The cave is prone to flooding whenever the tide comes in, but Medusa in particular doesn't care as long as Penny gets the diamond. Oh, and they actually kidnapped her from an orphanage for this.
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76	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
77	%%* ''The Babysitter'' (1980).
78	* ''Film/DontBotherToKnock'': Nell may be the supreme example. She seems all right at first, but as the night wears on she menaces Bunny, neglects her when she cries, and at one point at least toys with the idea of [[DestinationDefenestration pushing her out the window]]. By the end, she's tied the kid up.
79	* [[PlayingWithATrope Toyed with]] in the 2015 thriller ''Film/{{Emelie}}'' where the babysitter is an impostor seeking new kids to [[ReplacementGoldfish replace her son that died.]]
80	* ''Film/TheGuardian1990'' about a nanny who's really a dryad seeking a sacrifice.
81	* ''Film/TheHandThatRocksTheCradle'' features a psycho nanny who is actually the widow of the disgraced obstetrician.
82	%%* Nanny (Creator/BetteDavis) in ''The Nanny''.
83	* The elderly Mrs. Sturak from ''Film/DontTellMomTheBabysittersDead'' wasted no time establishing herself as one of these. It's no wonder the kids didn't exactly mourn her passing.
84	* The Creator/{{Netflix}} original horror/comedy film ''Film/TheBabysitter2017'' takes this trope to a very literal extreme with the main character's babysitter actually being the lead member of a Satanic Cult. At the same time it subverts it as, aside from the tiny detail of secretly using small amounts of his blood in rituals alongside human sacrifices, the titular babysitter is actually pretty great at her job and seems to genuinely care for her charge. Also worth noting, she isn't planning on sacrificing ''him'', [[spoiler:and even saves his life from another Cult member. She's still a villain.]]
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87	[[folder:Literature]]
88	* ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'': From what we hear of her, Gawain and Twyla's previous nanny was a mean and strict woman who tried to scare her charges straight with all sorts of bogeymen that would punish children for the slightest bit of disobedience. Thanks to [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve the power of belief]] some of these things turn out to be real. Susan takes to chasing these ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight off with a fireplace poker but also expresses a desire to hunt this woman down and use the poker on her.
89	* The unnamed babysitter for Georgia and Shaun in ''[[Literature/{{Newsflesh}} Feed]]''. [[spoiler:She decides that Georgia doesn't really ''need'' her sunglasses and tosses them out into the backyard, making the twins search for them. Important detail: This is after the ZombieApocalypse and zombies are still shambling around everywhere. Fortunately for them, the same ocular medical condition that ''did'' make the sunglasses necessary allowed Georgia to see an incoming zombie in time for Shaun to deal with the threat. A decade later, he still thinks that's the best gift she's ever given him.]]
90	* ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears'' appear at first to have an example of this in "The Sitter," but then Mrs. Grizzle turns out to be pretty nice after all. There's also a subversion in "The Week at Grandma's" where Mama and Papa Bear go on a vacation and leave the kids with their grandparents. They think they're in for a hell of boredom, but the grandparents turn out to be great fun.
91	* From the anthology series ''Literature/ClassicSingaporeHorrorStories'', one of the stories titled ''Suffer the Children'' revolves around an unmarried woman in her 30s who is tasked with taking care of her sister's two children. Harboring a grudge towards her far more successful sister, she instead spends her time whipping, beating, and abusing both kids, culminating in an [[spoiler:AccidentalMurder moment when she smashed her niece's head repeatedly on a wall and crushing the little girl's skull]].
92	* In ''On Writing'', Creator/StephenKing relates a story from his childhood: a babysitter named Beulah (or maybe Eulah)--who liked to sit on his head and fart--fed Little Stevie most of a dozen eggs, then locked him in a closet while she fell asleep. His mother was unimpressed, especially since he threw up in her good shoes.
93	* Neil Gaiman's ''Literature/TheOceanAtTheEndOfTheLane'' has Ursula Monkton, a babysitter [[spoiler:who is actually a low-level EldritchAbomination. She compels the protagonist's father to abuse him and have an affair with her, and has even worse things planned if he keeps disobeying.]]
94	* Miss Andrew from the ''Literature/MaryPoppins'' series is so conceited and verbally abusive, Mr. Banks refers to her as "a Holy Terror!" She also appears in the musical, where she gets a [[VillainSong musical number]] called "[[StockYuck Brimstone and Treacle]]" -- her go-to for dealing with [[ChildHater irksome children]].
95	* In one of the ''Literature/TeenageWorrier'' books, Letty wants to go out to a party to see her crush, but is supposed to be watching her little brother Benjy. She asks two neighboring kids to babysit him while she goes out -- even though Benjy is clearly terrified of them, and they know nothing about looking after kids. When she gets back from the party, she finds that they sat him in front of a violent horror movie, got him drunk, ''and'' let their hamster escape in the house.
96	* A mild version in the second ''Literature/TheBabysittersClub'' book, where the girls face competition from a similar group called "The Babysitters Agency". As the girls in the second group are older, the local parents prefer them. However, it turns out they're doing a poor job, merely watching TV and paying little attention to the kids, and in one instance, they find a child roaming the street, having snuck out. The girls are horrified to realize what could have happened had they not come along (being hit by a car, being abducted, getting lost, etc).
97	* ''Literature/AKindOfSpark'': When Addie was four and her twin older sisters Nina and Keedie were 11, they had an abusive childminder named Mrs Craig. At this point, Keedie had been diagnosed with autism, but Addie had not, and Mrs Craig thought Keedie was a spoiled brat. When Keedie couldn't stomach the disgusting dinner, Mrs Craig [[TantrumThrowing threw a plate]], pinned her to the ground, and screamed at her. At that point, a neighbor heard the screams and intervened, but Keedie didn't come out of her room for days.
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100	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
101	* ''Series/CreepedOut'':
102	** Esme in "Kindlesticks". She scares the kids she is babysitting with stories of a monster who will eat them if they don't go to bed and has her boyfriend dress up as the monster to help scare them.
103	** Ava the digital assistant in "Help" is a tech version of this, since Molly's parents have no trouble leaving her alone with it for a weekend.
104	* A bloodcurdling example occurs on ''[[Series/{{CSI}} CSI: Crime Scene Investigation]]'' when the team finds a little boy's corpse in a garbage bag. They discover that the little boy was one of three brothers staying with a prostitute who happened to be their mother's cousin. The prostitute locked all three of them in the basement of the shed in her backyard, and when one of them died she simply got one of her johns to put the body into a garbage bag and hide it in someone else's trash. The hooker claims that her cousin simply dumped the boys on her without leaving any money to pay for feeding them. Brass later discovers that the boys' mother did in fact give her hooker cousin $300...and as Brass put it "that skanky bitch went out and bought a new TV!" The [=CSI=] team eventually finds the two surviving boys in the basement of the hooker's shed, and they're both close to death. Brass quite bluntly threatens the prostitute with the warning that, if either of them dies, he's going to do everything in his power to make sure she gets the death penalty.
105	** This is also Nick's backstory -- he was molested by his babysitter as a boy.
106	* ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' has Nanny West in Series 4. While appearing friendly if strict to the upstairs, she bullies and starves Tom and Sybil's daughter Sybbie because of her mixed class and heritage (Tom was the chauffeur and from Ireland).
107	* ''Series/EverybodyHatesChris'' has the "Everybody Hates The Babysitter" episode in which the babysitter won't stay in the house, gets into a fight with her baby's daddy, and leaves Chris to look after the kid because she's too lazy. The episode ends with Chris blabbing about everything she did and Rochelle getting ready to beat the hell out of her. There wasn't much saying this was another ImagineSpot either, so it probably actually happened.
108	-->'''Rochelle:''' "Hold my hair." ''(hands Chris her wig as a boxing bell goes off)''
109	* Mild instance in ''Series/FlashForward2009'', with the babysitter making out with her guy while the child in her care is upstairs asleep, right before the blackout.
110	* Played with in an episode of ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'', when Malcolm is hired to babysit at a wealthy household. He later finds a secret panel in the wall with a nanny cam and videotapes of him doing minor things like taking too much food. He decides to teach the family a little lesson by making it look like he's going to put their expensive fish in a blender, and instead gives a lecture on trust before disabling the camera.
111	* Played with in ''Series/ThatsSoRaven''. In "Cake Fear," Raven and her brother are told their parents are hiring an old babysitter to look after them for the weekend. The babysitter, Ms. Patterson, was a complete pushover who let them do whatever they wanted, and they blamed her for eating a cake their dad made for their mom's birthday. Raven expects her to still be the same pushover she was before until they find out she had a psychotic breakdown, spent time in prison... and escaped. And then Raven's friends start disappearing while staying at the house. [[spoiler:It turns out the whole thing's a reality TV show prank on Raven and Cory. Ms. Patterson wanted to get back at them for blaming her for the cake incident, and their dad was in on it the whole time.]]
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114	[[folder:Music]]
115	* In the song "Bad Babysitter" by Princess Superstar, the [[http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/princesssuperstar/badbabysitter.html lyrics]] are from the point of view of the VillainProtagonist.
116	* [[Music/{{Queen}}: "Left alone with big fat Fanny/She was such a naughty nanny . . ."]] "Fat-Bottomed Girls" is open for interpretation: Was Fanny sexually abusive, provocative, or just the kind of person who would let her charges stay up past their bedtime eating ice cream and watching R-rated movies?
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119	[[folder:Urban Legends]]
120	* A classic UrbanLegend has a babysitter hired to watch the baby and put the chicken in the oven for dinner. The babysitter arrives, [[DrugsAreBad smokes pot (or takes LSD)]], and when the parents return, they see the chicken in the baby chair...
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123	[[folder:Video Games]]
124	* ''VideoGame/TheAdventuresOfWillyBeamish'': One of the evening events has Willy and his younger sister as the victims of a vampire babysitter. The rest of the evening involves avoiding her.
125	* In Chapter 5 of ''VideoGame/BugFables'', Maki entrusts Kina with watching over Yin (a non-verbal baby caterpillar) while he and Team Snakemouth cross Wild Swamplands. When Team Snakemouth meets them in the Defiant Root, they learn that Kina is definitely not thrilled about babysitting Yin, even outright threatening to kill her at one point.
126	-->'''Kina:''' Ugh. What am I supposed to do with you now?!
127	-->'''Yin:''' M-muh muh!
128	-->'''Kina:''' DON'T YOU "MUH MUH" ME! I SEE HOW YOU KEEP LOOKING AT MAKI! YOU BETTER NOT THINK OF DOING ANYTHING FUNNY OR ''I WILL END YOU!!''
129	-->'''Yin:''' M-muh! Muh muuuuh!!
130	* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach'': The Daycare Attendant...does not do its job well. Sun is much too eager to play and doesn't seem to understand how grabbing and forcefully restraining a child could upset them. Moon, meanwhile, is an overly antagonistic jerk who traumatizes children who stay up past their bedtime.
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133	[[folder:Webcomics]]
134	* Syphile from ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' in the first chapter manages to hit points 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 ''and'' 9, with 9 being a particularly brutal version of [[KillTheCutie Kill The Kitty]] in front of Ariel. It's little wonder that when asked what her greatest desire is, the 10-year-old Ariel's response is "Kill Syphile."
135	* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': Von Pinn is actually a ''monster'' assigned to take care of the children, then students, in Castle Wulfenbach. Oh, and she'd like to kill Agatha. On the other hand, Gil and Tarvek call her the closest thing to a mother they ever had, and are extremely distraught when they find her injured. It is eventually revealed that she is [[spoiler:Otilia, the Muse of Protection, and was transferred out of her mechanical body into a fleshy one by [[BigBad Lucrezia]]. Otilia ''really'' didn't enjoy the experience]].
136	* ''Webcomic/DarwinCarmichaelIsGoingToHell'': When Darwin was in high school, he was hired as a babysitter for a baby. Darwin, a [[TheQuincyPunk Quincy Punk]] at the time, ignores the baby completely in order to make out with his girlfriend. Due to this neglect, the baby, who is also the future Dalai Lama, falls out of his chair and sustains permanent brain damage.
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139	[[folder:Western Animation]]
140	* Vicky from ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents''. She's normally either chasing Timmy with power tools or using him as a footrest, among a thousand other tortures.
141	** This trope was once turned on its head when Timmy wished for Vicky to be a child and proceeded to act as ''her'' Babysitter From Hell as revenge for all the torment he'd suffered at her hands. Naturally, this ended up backfiring, as he ended up making young Vicky miserable enough to qualify for fairy godparents; since Timmy was no longer miserable enough to keep his, Cosmo and Wanda were reassigned to young Vicky, who proceeded to use their power to make Timmy a BadlyBatteredBabysitter with her as an EnfantTerrible.
142	** A more ''literal'' case, is one episode where Timmy in an act of revenge read her diary and sabotaged her love life. Since Vicky was too upset to babysit, Timmy's parents hired a replacement: a group of sitters who resemble ''THE FREAKING [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings '''NAZGUL!!''']]''
143	---->'''Grim Reapers:''' ''Give us the boy!''\
144	'''Timmy:''' I have to get Vicky back!
145	* There's a ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' cartoon in which the cat and mouse are on the same side, [[BadlyBatteredBabysitter protecting the baby from getting into danger]], but every time the teen girl hired as the actual babysitter pauses on the phone it's to beat them up for bothering the baby they just put back into the crib. In this case, the babysitter is neglectful, but not mean to the baby, with Tom and Jerry being the target.
146	* The first season of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' had the Babysitter Bandit, a criminal who tried to rob the place. Bart, Lisa, and Maggie manage to defeat her and flee to a payphone, [[spoiler:but Homer and Marge get home before the police arrive, untie her, and let her leave. Homer even carried the bags of loot she'd stolen from them to her car]].
147	* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'''s {{Muggle Best Friend}}s Spud and Trixie aren't such good babysitters for Jake's sister Haley -- but she is a dragon too. A rare case of IdiotHero Babysitter from Hell.
148	* A robot babysitter (voiced by Sarah Silverman) looks after Meatwad in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce.'' She was made by Frylock, after he and Shake get jobs at a Slurp-A-Lunch but she does the opposite of what Frylock made her do and abuses Meatwad. When she shows her true colors to Frylock, he gets rid of her by putting her (and her friend, Shiela) in the Slurp-A-Lunch's juicer. Earlier, they had Carl as a babysitter and he let Meatwad get into the medicine cabinet.
149	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': Stan's sister Shelley occasionally works as a babysitter, e.g. in [[Recap/SouthParkS3E7CatOrgy "Cat Orgy"]], and she's abusive. Then again, the only kid we've seen her babysit is [[{{Jerkass}} Eric]] [[FatBastard Cartman]].
150	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingSpiez!'' episode "Operation Spy-Sitter". The kids' parents hire a babysitter named Melinda to look after them. Melinda appears to be perfect, having just the skills to help each of them. She turns out to be a he -- an enemy spy named Mel who's been kidnapping WOOHP spies, and now wants the kids.
151	** Actually, while Mel is perfectly willing to go after Megan, Marc, and Tony once they catch on to him, his target was Lee who he had already nabbed by TheReveal and was planning of disposing of (along with the rest of the agents he had kidnapped) via bombs!
152	* In ''WesternAnimation/KickButtowski'': Kick is chasing his sister Brianna, who has taken his trike.
153	-->'''Kick:''' You know you're not supposed to go out alone!
154	-->'''Brianna:''' ''Brad's'' watching me.
155	-->[cut to Brad lying on the sofa, picking his nose and watching TV. The TV announces Tankini Lumberjacks, and Brad cheers].
156	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' inexplicably features Dee Dee babysitting Mandark, in spite of the fact that they both appear to be about the same age. Dee Dee repeatedly denigrates Mandark by calling him by his real name, teases him for playing with 'dollies,' bathes him, and dresses him for bed -- all the while, "Susie" grimaces in embarrassment. Ultimately, Mandark writes the experience off as a positive because his mother left instructions for him to [[AnywhereButTheirLips receive a goodnight kiss before bed]].
157	* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainFlamingo'' has Meghan: a lazy teenager who just can't seem to get off the phone. She takes almost no notice of Milo and his friends' antics, and if she does notice, it's not really that big a deal. How does she react:
158	--> '''Meghan:''' You can (insert activity here) when I'm done on the phone!
159	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' has Numbuh Two's mom hiring ''Cree'', of all people, to babysit him and Tommy, who turns out to be only one of many babysitters plotting to dispose of their charges. [[spoiler:It turns out to be AllJustADream, but when Numbuh Two wakes up, his actual babysitter is at the door, [[OrWasItADream and the episode ends there]].]]
160	* Elmyra Duff from ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' is an unintentional example of this in the short "Drooley Davey" (part of "The Wide World of Elmyra"). While she means no harm towards Davey, she is clearly too young and stupid to be a proper babysitter. Davey's parents are completely oblivious to their son being scared by Elmyra's presence and pass it off as him being excited to see her. At one point in the cartoon, Elmyra tries feeding him extremely hot milk. When Elmyra volunteers to babysit him again the following night, Davey packs his bags, says "I Quit" to his parents in a [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Baby Herman]]-esque voice, and runs away.
161	* In ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'', twin geniuses Susan and Mary are head over heels in love with their dumbass next-door neighbour Gil. But he never notices they exist despite them having been neighbours for seven years. In one episode, he starts a babysitting service, in which to get close to him, the two turn themselves into babies. In which his babysitting routine includes "bouncing on a pull-out sofa", "watching horror movies", and "feeding them chili" (not to mention he has no idea how to change a diaper). Their brother Johnny calls him out on each one, and questions why he even started a babysitting business.
162	* One episode, "Pet Sitter Pat", of ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' shows Patrick in this light. First, he throws away the schedule [=SpongeBob=] gave him because he can't read it (he was holding it upside-down) and then he eats all the snail food Sponge left for Gary. Oh, and when it's bathtime, he tries to bathe Gary with a ''flamethrower''. Though this is played with, as, other than the pineapple getting wrecked, the episode flip-flops on whether or not Patrick is as bad or less as [=SpongeBob=] keeps imagining him to be.
163	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'':
164	** In "No Guts, No Glori", whenever Lori Loud is in charge, she dons DrillSergeantNasty getup and becomes the Queen of No, preventing her siblings from doing anything they find fun and forcing them to essentially spend the night eating dinner and then staring at the wall until they fall asleep from boredom. Justified since she's trying to keep the house from falling into more chaos while the parents are gone. She ends up learning to be a bit more lenient about this at the end.
165	** In "Sitting Bull", Lori, Leni, Luna, and Luan pride themselves as the best babysitters in town, and reluctantly allow [[CompetitionFreak Lynn Jr.]] into their business. They regret it almost immediately after a client calls to complain about how she forced her kids to perform rigorous exercises. When they threaten to kick her out of their group, she takes on their jobs and gets them fired, citing rough treatment. They then decide to stick her with the worst kids they know to get her to quit. It doesn't work, as Lynn Jr. proves to be the only babysitter that can actually put up with them, and gets hired by that couple to care for their kids whenever they want to go out.
166	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In the BabysittingEpisode, Stumpy (of all people) is one. He forcibly babysits Quack Quack, who didn't even want or need a babysitter, and does stuff like ForceFeeding him spinach using a funnel and a baseball bat. Eventually, Quack Quack gets annoyed and Stumpy winds up as a BadlyBatteredBabysitter.
167	* ''WesternAnimation/LesSisters'': Madame Georgette, who is well-intentioned but not a very good babysitter. When she has to babysit the Sisters for the weekend, she forces them to eat disgusting soup instead of ordering a pizza like they wanted, makes them go to sleep before it's even nighttime despite Wendy telling her she had to watch an important episode of her favorite show, and confiscates Wendy's tablet and Marine's snacks.
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