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1	* BreakthroughHit: For Creator/ChrisColumbus as director.
2	* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: The writers are somehow under the impression that there's something special about Thor's helmet. As in Creator/MarvelComics [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor.]] In the comics themselves, the only thing special about Thor's helmet is...he wears it.
3	** Since Sara is 9, believing that the helmet will somehow help Dawson could be chalked up to her using child logic not necessarily her knowledge of comic books.
4	* DawsonCasting: For a good reason. If Creator/ElisabethShue actually ''was'' 17 when this was made, the whole "looking-like-the-''Magazine/{{Playboy}}''-centerfold" thing would have crossed the line.
5	** Also, Creator/BradleyWhitford was 27 when he played Chris's boyfriend in this film.
6	* RealLifeRelative: Creator/ElisabethShue's brother, Andrew Shue, has a role as an extra at the frat party. He is at the bar laughing at Daryl.
7	* RecycledTheSeries: A sitcom pilot for a TV version aired on CBS but did not go to series. The most notable actors to appear in the pilot were Creator/JoeyLawrence and Creator/BrianAustinGreen as Brad and Daryl. The premise centered on Chris, Brenda, and the kids getting held up at a store, locked in a storage room, and then trying to escape through the [[SewerGator sewers where they come face-to-face with an alligator]].
8	* StarMakingRole: While Elisabeth Shue had been the leading lady in ''Film/TheKarateKid1984'', she was not the star of that film (Creator/RalphMacchio was). ''Adventures in Babysitting'' was her first leading role in a film.
9	* ThrowItIn: During the scene where Brenda tries to buy a hot dog, the vendor improvised the line "Then I don't have a fucking weiner!" The director thought it was hilarious, but the executives told him to take it out of the theatrical release to keep it PG-13.
10	** They got their revenge for that bit of ExecutiveMeddling by getting some truly EPIC revised lines:
11	--> '''Vendor:''' Look, you slip me the cash, and I'll slip you the wiener.
12	--> '''Brenda:''' But I don't have any cash!
13	--> '''Vendor:''' Then ''I'' don't have a wiener!
14	** Also the song they improvise to get off the stage.
15	* TechnologyMarchesOn: Within a few years of this film's release, Brenda could have stocked up on cash from the bus station ATM rather than needing a ride, and Chris could've called a tow truck and cab from her cell immediately after getting a flat.
16	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
17	** Creator/JuliaLouisDreyfus auditioned for the lead role, but withdrew in favor of Creator/JodieFoster, who also withdrew. Other candidates included Creator/BridgetFonda, Creator/MelanieGriffith, Creator/AndieMacDowell, Creator/TatumONeal, Creator/MichellePfeiffer, Creator/BrookeShields, Creator/SharonStone and Creator/KathleenTurner.
18	** Creator/StevenSpielberg considered being the executive producer of this film and have the film released under the Amblin banner, to help his friend Creator/ChrisColumbus get the directing job. However Columbus had the directing job secured.
19	** Sara's [[LoonyFan obsession towards Thor]] was the result of various changes from a ''News Junkie'' to various characters (from He-Man to Spider-Man, which the latter was rejected by Marvel) before setting on Thor, according to this [[https://wizardworld.com/wizard/adventures-in-babysitting-thor-vincent-donofrio article]].

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