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* ''{{Website/Neopets}}'': In the game "The Usul Suspects", you play as Lumi, a teenage babysitter facing off with a water gun against an endless horde of evil baby Usuls armed with ray guns and propeller beanies.

* ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'': The series has many examples. In particular, new children, who are introduced in different books, often start off as insufferable (the Feldman children, the Delaney children, Rosie Wilder, the Arnold twins, Betsy Sobak, etc.) but usually get better thanks to CharacterDevelopment. However, there are some examples who are consistently seen as nightmares throughout the series, like [[SpoiledBrat Jenny Prezzioso]] or [[WalkingDisasterArea Jackie Rodowsky]], who are recurring characters and nobody ever wants to babysit them. (Unlike most examples of this trope, Jackie isn't a brat; he's just so hopelessly clumsy and accident-prone that the sitters privately refer to him as the "Walking Disaster.")

* ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'': The series has many examples. In particular, new children, who are introduced in different books, often start off as insufferable (the Feldman children, the Delaney children, Rosie Wilder, the Arnold twins, Betsy Sobak, etc.) but usually get better thanks to CharacterDevelopment. However, there are some examples who are consistently seen as nightmares throughout the series, like [[SpoiledBrat Jenny Prezzioso]] or [[WalkingDisasterArea Jackie Rodowsky]], who are recurring characters and nobody ever wants to babysit them.

* ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991'': Discussed in the episode "[[Recap/RugratsS3E17MommysLittleAssetsChuckiesWonderfulLife Mommy's Little Assets]]". Charlotte and Drew both have important business meetings to go to, and need someone to watch Tommy and Angelica[[note]]specifically, since Stu and Didi have gone on vacation, Grandpa Lou has gone fishing, Betty and Howard took Phil and Lil to a big tractor pull, and Chas went to a therapists' convention (and presumably took Chuckie with him)[[/note]]. When Charlotte asks Drew if they know any babysitters, Drew tells her they do, but they can never get any of them to look after Angelica a second time.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': Discussed in the episode "[[Recap/RugratsS3E17MommysLittleAssetsChuckiesWonderfulLife Mommy's Little Assets]]". Charlotte and Drew both have important business meetings to go to, and need someone to watch Tommy and Angelica[[note]]specifically, since Stu and Didi have gone on vacation, Grandpa Lou has gone fishing, Betty and Howard took Phil and Lil to a big tractor pull, and Chas went to a therapists' convention (and presumably took Chuckie with him)[[/note]]. When Charlotte asks Drew if they know any babysitters, Drew tells her they do, but they can never get any of them to look after Angelica a second time.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' comic [[https://www.deviantart.com/toonbat/art/Fallensitter-368261199 "Fallensitter"]], nopony in Canterlot will agree to foalsit Twilight because they're terrified of her crazy magic powers. Cadence appears on their doorstep and offers to do it for 175 bits an hour, but Night Light talks her down to [[ComicallySmallBribe 8 bits for the night and two oatsicles from the freezer]] (and their son Shining Armor's hoof in marriage when they're older).

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' comic [[https://www.deviantart.com/toonbat/art/Fallensitter-368261199 "Fallensitter"]], nopony in Canterlot will agree to foalsit Twilight because they're terrified of her crazy magic powers. Cadence appears on their doorstep and offers to do it for 175 bits an hour, but Night Light talks her down to [[ComicallySmallBribe 8 bits for the night and two oatsicles from the freezer]] (and their son Shining Armor's hoof in marriage when they're older).

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' comic [[https://www.deviantart.com/toonbat/art/Fallensitter-368261199 "Fallensitter"]], nopony in Canterlot will agree to foalsit Twilight because they're terrified of her crazy magic powers. Cadence offers to do it for 175 bits an hour, but Night Light talks her down to [[ComicallySmallBribe 8 bits for the night and two oatsicles from the freezer]] (and their son Shining Armor's hoof in marriage when they're older).

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' comic [[https://www.deviantart.com/toonbat/art/Fallensitter-368261199 "Fallensitter"]], nopony in Canterlot will agree to foalsit Twilight because they're terrified of her crazy magic powers. Cadence offers to do it for 175 bits an hour, but Night Light talks her down to [[ComicallySmallBribe 8 bits for the night and two oatsicles from the freezer]].

* ''Film/NannyMcPhee'': The seven Brown children are such terrors that they take pride in having scared away 17 different nannies.

* ''Horowitz Horror'': In "Harriet's Horrible Dream", spoiled rich girl Harriet is proud of the fact that she's managed to get four nannies sacked from her family's house. The last one only lasted three weeks.

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* A variant in ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' episode, "Father Figures"; when WesternAnimation/PorkyPig joins the Father Figure program, he is paired with Henery Hawk, who tells him that he goes through father figures like he goes through boxes of chocolate. Porky is determined to prove that he can be a good father figure to Henery, taking him on such activities as [[AGoodOldFashionedPaintWatching watching paint dry and watching grass grow]], even though all Henery wants to do is eat chicken, which Porky keeps ignoring because he thinks it's a metaphor for wanting attention. Porky finally realizes that Henery really did want chicken after Henery bites Foghorn Leghorn at the Royal Oaks Glen Oaks Oakwood Oaks Country Club's father/son tennis tournament, resulting in Foghorn becoming hospitalized. When Porky finally serves Henery some chicken near the end of the episode, Henery congratulates him on being the first father figure who didn't give up on him.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' comic [[https://www.deviantart.com/toonbat/art/Fallensitter-368261199 "Fallensitter"]], nopony in Canterlot will agree to foalsit Twilight because they're terrified of her crazy magic powers. Cadence offers to do it for 175 bits an hour, but Night Light talks her down to [[ComicallySmallBribe 8 bits an hour and two oatsicles from the freezer]].

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' comic [[https://www.deviantart.com/toonbat/art/Fallensitter-368261199 "Fallensitter"]], nopony in Canterlot will agree to foalsit Twilight because they're terrified of her crazy magic powers. Cadence offers to do it for 175 bits an hour, but Night Light talks her down to 8 bits an hour and two oatsicles from the freezer.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' comic [[https://www.deviantart.com/toonbat/art/Fallensitter-368261199 "Fallensitter"]], nopony in Canterlot will agree to foalsit Twilight because they're terrified of her crazy magic powers. Cadence offers to do it for 175 bits an hour, but Night Light talks her down to 8 bits and two oatsicles out of the freezer.

** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E20TheWarOfTheSimpsons The War of the Simpsons]]", Homer and Marge try to hire a babysitter while they go to a couples retreat. She runs off screaming at the sight of Bart ("Back for more?"), so they decide to have Grampa babysit instead.

* A variant in the ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' episode, "Father Figures"; when WesternAnimation/PorkyPig joins the Father Figure program, he is paired with Henery Hawk, who tells him that he goes through father figures like he goes through boxes of chocolate. Porky is determined to prove that he can be a good father figure to Henery, taking him on such activities as [[AGoodOldFashionedPaintWatching watching paint dry and watching grass grow]], even though all Henery wants to do is eat chicken, which Porky keeps ignoring because he thinks it's a metaphor for wanting attention. Porky finally realizes that Henery really did want chicken after Henery bites Foghorn Leghorn at the Royal Oaks Glen Oaks Oakwood Oaks Country Club's father/son tennis tournament, resulting in Foghorn becoming hospitalized. When Porky finally serves Henery some chicken near the end of the episode, Henery congratulates him on being the first father figure who didn't give up on him.

* ''Film/WeNeedToTalkAboutKevin'': As a baby, Kevin drives his nanny away by pulling her hair, tearing up her silk scarf and throwing his toys and food all over the floor. The situation doesn't improve when he becomes a toddler; the other mothers fear him so much that they start making excuses to pull their children out of his after-preschool playgroup and eventually form a new, Kevin-less one without telling Eva.

* ''Horowitz Horror'': Spoiled rich girl Harriet is proud of the fact that she's managed to get four nannies sacked from her family's house. The last one only lasted three weeks.