History Main / BabysitterFromHell

* 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 they've been neighbours for seven years. So 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.

** In the episode "Sitting Bull," Lori, Leni, Luna, and Luanne pride themselves as the best babysitters in town, and reluctantly allow 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 baby sitter that can actually put up with them, and gets hired by that couple to care for their kids whenever they want to go out.

* 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 doing 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 incredulously 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 caused a gas station to explode, and apparently they accidentally ran over Jeremy from 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 because 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.

* [[PlayingWithATrope Toyed with]] in the 2015 thriller Emelie where the babysitter is an imposter seeking new kids to [[ReplacementScrappy replace her son that died.]]

* In ''Disney/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.

* The Creator/{{Netflix}} original horror/comedy film ''Film/TheBabysitter'' takes this trope to a very literal extreme with the main character's baby sitter 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 of human sacrifices, the titular babysitter is actually pretty great at her job and seems to genuinely care for her charge.

[[caption-width-right:350:Know the difference between a kidsitter and a kidnapper?]]

* In ''Theatre/{{Annie}}'', the musical, orphanage manager Miss Hannigan.

* The Creator/{{Netflix}} original horror/comedy film ''Film/TheBabysitter'' takes this trope to a very literal extreme with the main character's baby sitter 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 of human sacrifices, the titular babysitter is actually pretty great at her job and seems to genuinly care for her charge.

* A robot babysitter (voiced by Sarah Silverman) looks after Meatwad in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce.'' It's soon revealed she is psychotic and abusive. Though, Frylock had no idea she was like this, and when she shows her true colors he melts her with his eye lightning.

* One episode, "Pet Sitter Pat", of ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' shows Patrick in this light.

** In the episode "Sitting Bull," Lori, Leni, Luna, and Luanne pride themselves as the best babysitters in town, and reluctantly allow Lynn Jr. into tbeir 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 baby sitter that can actually put up with them, and gets hired by that couple to care for their kids whenver they want to go out.

** This trope was once turned on its head when Timmy wished for Vicky to be a child and proceeded to act as ''her'' BabysitterFromHell 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.

* 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]], and when the parents return, they see the chicken in the baby chair...

* 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 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.

* 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.

* Vicky from ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents''. She currently provides the page image with her ''tamest'' appearance in the show (she's normally either chasing Timmy with power tools or using him as a footrest, among a thousand other tortures).

* Lori from ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'', complete with DrillSergeantNasty getup.

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* ''Webcomic/DarwinCarmichaelIsGoingToHell'': When Darwin was in high school, he was hired as a babysitter for a baby. Darwin, a QuincyPunk 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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* The Netflix original horror/comedy film ''Film/TheBabysitter'' takes this trope to a very literal extreme with the main character's baby sitter 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 of human sacrifices, the titular babysitter is actually pretty great at her job and seems to genuinly care for her charge.

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* A classic UrbanLegend has a babysitter hired to watch the baby and put the chicken in the oven for dinner. The babysitter arrives, [[ScareEmStraight smokes pot,]] and when the parents return, they see the chicken in the baby chair...

* Vicky from ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents''. She currently provides the page image with her ''tamest'' appearance in the show (she's normally either chasing Timmy with power tools or using him as a footrest, among a thousand other tortures).

* The Netflix original horror/comedy film ''The Babysitter'' takes this trope to a very literal extreme with the main character's baby sitter actually being the lead member of a Satanic Cult.

* ''Series/EverybodyHatesChris'' has the "Everybody Hates The Babysitter" episode in which the babysitter won't stay in the house, getting into a fight with her baby daddy, and leaving Chris to look after the kid because she's too lazy. The episode ends with Chris blabbing 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.

* 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 doing 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 incredulously 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 parent's minivan, which also caused a gas station to explode, and apparently they accidentially ran over Jeremy from 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 because 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.

* ''VideoGame/TheAdventuresOfWillyBeamish'': One of the evening events has Willy and his younger sister are the victim of a vampire babysitter. The rest of the evening involves avoiding her.

* 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 not the baby, with Tom and Jerry being the target.
* 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 pay phone, [[spoiler:but Homer and Marge get home before the police arrive, untied her and let her leave. Homer even carried the bags of loot she'd stolen from them to her car]].

** 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!

* 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]].

** 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. ''THE FREAKING '''GRIM REAPER!!'''''
---->'''Grim Reaper''': ''Give me the boy!''\\

* The Graphic Novel ''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 [[AdultFear novel gives enough hints to show that he sexually abused Greg and his brother]].

* [[{{Queen}} ""Left alone with big fat Fanny / She was such a naughty nanny . . ."]]