History Series / TheBabySittersClub2020

* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In this show, Morbidda Destiny also happens to be an aunt of Dawn's.

This is a modern adaptation of the 1980s-2000s book series ''Literature/TheBabysittersClub'', produced by Creator/{{Netflix}} and given a SettingUpdate to 2020. The first season dropped in June 2020.

Outspoken tomboy and seventh-grader Kristy Thomas (Sophie Grace) convinces her two childhood friends -- her shy and closest friend Mary-Anne Spier (Malia Baker) and the artsy Claudia Kishi (Momona Tamada) -- to start a baby-sitters' club in order to cut down on Internet-related hassle for their neighborhood. Joining them is Claudia's new friend Stacey [=McGill=] (Shay Rudolph), a chic girl from [[BigApplesauce New York City]], and later Mary-Anne's new friend Dawn Schafer, a passionate activist from California. The girls not only have their ups and down with their baby-sitting charges but also often deal with issues in their personal lives, whether it be family problems or boy crushes.

* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: The books don't stray away from Kristy being affected by her father's abandonment of the family but the series focuses on Kristy's angst regarding that to the point where she has a tantrum after being reminded of how far her friends and babysitting charges's fathers are willing to go to be involved with their children.

** Jessi appears earlier than in the books (after Stacey moves away), showing up at the same camp as the other girls.
** Logan Bruno debuts in the tenth book where he moves to Stoneybrook and becomes an associate member of the Baby-sitters Club. He appears considerably earlier in this adaptation, debuting in Episode 2 when Mary-Anne spies on him in the library.

* AdaptedOut: Dawn's younger brother Jeff, the symbol of more-than-a-little of her California homesickness, who originally moved to Stoneybrook with her and Sharon in the books.
* AloofBigBrother:
** Janine Kishi from her very first appearance, to the point where she often deadpans with Claudia or she would even suggest to their parents that they can withhold Claudia going to the dance if she doesn't improve her grades.
** Sam Thomas, who can be very snarky with Kristy, even spelling out all her fears about Liz's engagement to Watson in front of the club.

* FiveTokenBand: Even more than the original series. Like the books, 1) Dawn and Kristy have divorced parents, 2) Stacey has diabetes, 3) Claudia is Japanese-American and 4) Mary-Anne has a deceased mother. Additionally in this adaptation, [[RaceLift Dawn and Mary-Anne are no longer white]] (Hispanic-American and half-black respectively).

* InnocentlyInsensitive: The nurse and doctor who treat Bailey Delvecchio refer to her as a boy based on her chart and medical file. This clearly upsets Bailey, so Mary-Anne takes the two aside to gently but firmly call them out on what they're doing and makes them understand Bailey is a ''girl'' and needs to be acknowledged as such regardless of her chart. The doctor and nurse are quietly chastised and apologize for their unintentional rudeness.

* InvisibleSubtleDifference: Richard Spier holds up two identical white buttoned shirts and asks Mary Anne which one he should wear to the wedding, much to her confusion. Later asking her:
--->'''Richard:''' Does this smell like meat?

** Arguably, Alma Spier, Mary Anne's deceased mother. Mimi tells Mary-Anne about the time she chased off a bunch of highschoolers giving her and Mimi a hard time while Alma was pregnant.
** Ms. Delvecchio, Bailey's mother, given that she is very insistent that no one but Mary Anne, the daughter of her work colleague, babysits her transgender daughter.

* OverprotectiveDad: As Mary-Anne says, her father Richard Spier doesn't even like her leaving the house because he's worried something will happen to her (such as her being murdered). While he does still struggle to completely shake off his habits, to his credit he begins to loosen up in time after Mary-Anne finds the confidence to tell him she'd like to change a few things about herself.

** Mary-Anne is white in the book series and in fact so pale she can't tan; in this adaptation, Mary-Anne is half-black since her mother was African-American.

* RetroUniverse: Somewhat, the show takes place in modern times, but it’s chock-a-bloc with 90s fashions, phones and references á la ''Stranger Things''.

** ''Hello, Camp Moosehead!'' Parts 1 and 2 have a ''ton'' of shoutouts to ''Theatre/LesMiserables'', including a scene where the campers build a barricade and stand atop it waving flags. Plus the musical Mary Anne is producing is full of [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong Suspiciously Similar Songs]] to the musical, and during the performance, Logan directly quotes the opening text from [[Film/LesMiserables2012 the film adaptation]].

** Laine snarks if the hermit who cursed the theatre did it because the people were rehearsing ''Theatre/{{Cats}}''.
** ''Claudia and the Mean Janine'' does one for the Trump Administration policy targeting undocumented immigrants where detained immigrants are separated from their children in detention camps, comparing it to the mass internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

* ShrinkingViolet: Mary Anne, who gets so shy to the point of emotional outbursts or even sick when she has to speak in front of people. It's implied she inherited this trait from her father Richard, who was once called "Turtle" by Sharon when they were younger.

* IntergenerationalFriendship: Mimi and Mary Anne's later mother Alma had this friendship, often hanging out together taking aqua exercise classes and Mimi later had developed this relationship with the middle-school aged Mary Anne herself.

* OverprotectiveDad: As Mary-Anne says, her father Richard Spier doesn't even like her leaving the house because he's worried something will happen to her (such as her being murdered). He loosens up after Mary-Anne finds the confidence to tell him she'd like to change a few things about herself, but he still struggles to completely shake off his strict ways.

** Dawn is described to have light blonde hair in the books and is shown as such on book covers. In the adaptation she has brown hair instead.
** In this adaptation Mary Anne also wears glasses, which she doesn't need in the original. For the inverse, Mallory doesn't wear glasses like her book counterpart.

** Janine Kishi from her very first appearance, to the point there she often deadpans with Claudia or she would even suggest to their parents that they can withhold Claudia going to the dance if she doesn't improve her grades.

** Mary Anne has dark brown hair and is a knowledgeable book worm with a advanced emotional maturity.

** Sharon, Dawn's mother. She is scatterbrained but she takes umbrage when Ms. Barrett's criminal lack of organization and messy divorce interfere with Dawn's boundaries and her ability to be a child (even making her stay out later than her set hours), picking up Dawn's phone when she calls after she neglected to tell Dawn about her ex-husband visiting the kids and taking their son to his swimming lessons, telling her off that she needs to get her life in order and leave Dawn out of her mess.

* OverprotectiveDad: As Mary-Anne says, her father Richard Spier doesn't even like her leaving the house because he's worried something will happen to her. He loosens up after Mary-Anne finds the confidence to tell him she'd like to change a few things about herself, but he still struggles to completely shake off his strict ways.

* TantrumThrowing: Kristy has a sudden breakdown after seeing how everyone else's dads care for their children (unlike her own dad, who left her and her family) and smacks open a few bags of chips.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted hard when Stacy and Laine get exposed to poison ivy and the normally pretty girls get hideous swelling in their faces.

** Ms. Delvecchio, Bailey's mother. Given that she is very insistent that Mary Anne, the daughter of her work colleague, and she only babysits her transgender daughter.

* InvisibleSubtleDifference: Richard Spier holds up two identical white buttoned shirts and asks Mary Anne which one he should wear to the wedding, much to her confusion.

** Laine snarks if the hermit who cursed the theatre did it because the people were rehearsing ''Theatre/{{Cats}}''.

** As another shout-out to Elizabeth Thomas being in ''Film/{{Clueless}}'', Claudia also wears a version of Cher's IconicOutfit with a yellow-and-black check blazer in "Mary Anne Saves The Day" when at the canteen.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Janine Kishi, the books and early illustrations comment on her as being plain looking in comparison to her younger sister and with a fashion sense comparable to [[Series/TheBigBangTheory Amy Farrah Fowler]], this adaptation has her portrayed by the attractive [[https://twitter.com/AyaMFurukawa Aya Furukawa]] and having a more stylish, edgy style.
* AdaptationalDiversity:
** Mary Anne and Dawn were white in the books; in the show, they're biracial (half-black and half-white) and Latina respectively.
** Dawn's father is gay in the show. He only ever dated and married women in the books.

* AdaptationalLateAppearance: Laine originally makes her debut in "The Truth About Stacey" when Stacey's family has to stay with her family in New York. In this series, Laine gets a name mention in the adapted episode but otherwise doesn't appear until Episode 9 where she participates in the same camp as the girls.

* BrainyBrunette: The club is made up of them.
** Claudia is slightly BookDumb but she is a talented artist and she is very knowledgeable about feminist role models like Ruth Bader Ginsberg and given to quoting Buddist sayings and is very clever about saving Kristy from the wrath of their strict teacher.
** Janine Kishi, through and through, who is interested in computer science and medical science and fluent in Japanese and is very aware of current events and the history of Internment camps in the United States.
** Dawn Schafer, who is socially and politically conscious and an intelligent young woman and the OnlySaneMan to her scatterbrained mother.
** Mary Anne, a knowledgeable book worm with a advanced emotional maturity.

* FieryRedhead: There are a few redheads in the series.

** Avoided with Mallory Pike and her younger sister Vanessa, the former being a mild-mannered NiceGirl and the latter being quirky but prone to speaking in rhyme.

--->'''Dawn:''' Parents are just older weirdos doing the best they can, just like the rest of us.

* AdaptationalAngst: The books don't stray away from Kristy being affected by her father's abandonment of the family but the series focuses on Kristy's angst regarding that to the point where she has a tantrum after being reminded of how far her friends and babysitting charges's fathers are willing to go to be involved with their children.

* AdaptationalDiversity:
** Mary Anne and Dawn were white in the books; in the show, they're biracial (half-black and half-white) and Latina respectively.
** Dawn's father is gay in the show. He only ever dated and married women in the books.

* HalloweenEpisode: "Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls" takes place around Halloween and includes a Halloween-themed school dance that Claudia and Stacey plan to go to. A subplot is a phantom caller that keeps inconveniencing the neighbourhood.

* AdaptationalLateAppearance: Laine originally makes her debut in "The Truth About Stacey" when Stacey's family has to stay with her family in New York. In this series, Laine gets a name mention in the adapted episode but otherwise doesn't appear until Episode 9 where she participates in the same camp as the girls.

* FiveTokenBand: Even more than the original series. Like the books, 1) Dawn and Kristy have divorced parents, 2) Stacey has diabetes, 3) Claudia is Japanese-American and 4) Mary-Anne has a deceased mother. Additionally in this adaptation, [[RaceLift Dawn and Mary-Anne are no longer white]] (Hispanic-American and half-black respectively) and Dawn's father is also gay (although he was closeted until the divorce).

* {{Transgender}}: Mary Anne's baby-sitting charge Bailey (who takes Jenny Prezzioso's place in this adaptation) is a transgender girl. Mary Anne doesn't realize this until the end of their first baby-sitting session when she notices all the "old clothes" in Bailey's closet are boyish attire while all the "new clothes" in her drawers are mostly dresses. She's initially confused but understands better once Dawn explains to her how people want their "outsides" to match their "insides" and that denying Bailey her girly interests is like being forced to use your non-dominant hand. When Mary Anne accompanies Bailey to the hospital, she tells off the doctor and nurse for purposely misgendering her.

** As another shout-out to Elizabeth Thomas being in ''Film/{{Clueless}}'', Claudia also wears a version of Cher's IconicOutfit with a yellow-and-black check blazer in "Mary Anne Saves The Day".
* AdaptationNameChange: Jack Schafer is now Gus while John Pike is renamed Forrest, Dee Pike is Deidre, and Rioko Kishi is now Kimiko.

* AdaptationalVillainy: The Baby-Sitters Agency were still antagonistic in the original books, to the point of having two members pretend to join the [=BSC=] and botch their assignments to make the club look bad. In the episode adaption of "The Truth About Stacey," after Stacey calls Kim Newton about Jamie being left to play in the streets by himself, the Agency retaliated by sending everyone a video of Stacey going into insulin shock.

* AngerBornOfWorry:
** Stacey's mother shouts at her repeatedly over her fears that Stacey is being irresponsible about her diabetes.
** As Mary-Anne says, her father Richard Spier doesn't even like her leaving the house because he's worried something will happen to her.