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100 things we learned from Adventures in Babysitting


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100. Don't f$#k with the babysitter.

99. I'm a little bit overdressed.

98. Thor's a homo.

97. Chris' legs are locked together at the knee.

96. If you don't have the cash, then I don't have a weiner.



"Oh motherballs" - Paget Brewster

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Just one, I miss being young.

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95.) The Brady Bunch will be dealt with after the meeting. Love the late, great John Davis Chandler's supremely creepy portrayal of the ruthless Bleak; he's without a doubt the scariest and most menacing of the three bad guys in the movie.
94.) Nobody leaves this place without singing the blues.

1,000 mini-bios and I feel like I'm just getting started

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93. Sesame Plexor, ew, she's such a sleaze!!!!


Jezebel! Flauntin' your flesh in temptation's raiment! You will burn. Oh, you will burn!

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92. Babysitters *beep* with The Lords of Hell.

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91. Old men live in phone booths.
90. Old women walk around with no pants on in bus stations.

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89. Hot dog vendors don't take checks (at least the mean ones don't)
88. A new tire from Dawson's garage cost $50 bucks (well at least in the 80's they did)
87. High School seniors don't date freshmen.
86. Oak Park is a suburb of Chicago
85. Clearasil can be substituted as brown paint
84. "I gotta make" means "I have to go to the bathroom"


Love love love this move - a classic!!!


I've already tried therapy, obviously it did me no good. - UL

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83. If you are gonna two time your girlfriend, it's best not to have a personalized number plate that reads "so cool"

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82. A knife wound to the foot requires one stitch.
81. Righteous babes are lonely.

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80. Brenda's probably dead.
79. Jumbo sized sewer rats allow you to pick them up and pet them.
78. Don't have the same prescription glasses as a homeless person or they will steal them.
77. Brenda's antics may be the only thing you learned.

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76. You gotta get outta the old mans house ( which is a phone box ! ).

75. Chris enjoys dancing to " and then he kissed me " .


74. Dan needs a babysitter for himself, so Chris agrees that retirement can wait.


73.Babysitting for the Andersons would depress anyone.


72. Living in the town is like a dairy queen, you only get one flavour.


71. Brenda's stepmother is such a pain.


70. Brenda was her parents mistake.

69. Mike's sister is " contagious ".

68. Eating chocolate will make Brad get zits all over his face.

67. Sarah had a bad cough for almost two weeks.

66. Chris forgot her purse when she left the house.

65. Chris went out on the expressway without a spare tire.

64. Mr Pruitt keeps a gun in his glove compartment, not his hand, which chopped off.

63. Mr Dawson has a hat, like the one Sarah has, at home.


62. There's no mall in the city.

61. Joe wouldn't even get out of the car in this neighbourhood.

60. Daryl looks like Rupert Grint ( Ron from the Harry Potter films ) . Lol.

59. Mr Anderson looks like Chevy Chase ( well, i think he does, lol ! ).

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58. If Brenda doesn't get out of the house, she's going to spike her stepmom's TaB with Draino.

57. A Dairy Queen only has one flavour.

56. The girl in this month's Playboy looks EXACTLY like Chris and has humongous boobs!

55. Jumbo-sized sewer rats look like defenceless little kittens when Brenda doesn't wear her glasses!

54. Mrs Anderson is starting a diet next week.

53. Chris's mum wrote a check/cheque to Chris because Chris bought her something, but can't remember what. Then Brenda bought Chris some press-on nails, Chris kept the difference and made the check/cheque out to Brenda. Now Brenda will write the check/cheque over to the hotdog man, he'll keep the difference and Brenda will take the hotdog!

52. Mike Todwell's sister made a miraculous recovery.

51. Daryl Cooper-Smith is a gear head AND a sex fiend!

50. Chris is too old for this crap.

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76. Dont spend all your running away money on cab fare.
75. The prettiest girl at the University of Chicago is in high school.
74. Babysitting can be as dangerous as stealing cars.

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44. This was the best time Darryl's ever had - so far.
43. Chris will speak to Brad in the hall from now on.
42. Chris will spend more time babysitting Dan than Brad's little sis.

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41. Apparently, a kid in high school is not qualified to watch his 9 year old sister for one night.

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51, Make sure you have a spare when going on the expressway

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40. Everything can be solved with a checkbook

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39. Chris is in charge here.
38. A mid-80s Pontiac Parisienne wagon can do 80mph.
37. Joe "ain't drivin' to no mall".

What's a knockout like you doing in a computer-generated gin joint like this?

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76. Don't eat chocolate in an elevator while being chased.
75. You should care about Love, Romance and Sex. Not Football!
74. If you runaway at age 17 you will turn into a homeless Prostitute
73. Never steal someone elses Playboy

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36. If you want to keep the girl of your dreams from seeing an identical girl in a sex magazine, open the nearest window and throw it out immediately.
35. Little sisters can feel they have a passion for teasing their older brothers while deep down they adore them with their hearts.
34. Garage owners stay at their facilities very late at night and run everything themselves.
33. Kids can not accept that there are human look-a-likes of their favorite superheroes.
32. Gearhead punks might act naturally dumb but really contain seem real wisdom and intelligence.
31. When a car thief drives off in someone else's car which happens to have kids in it, the car thief should be considered trustworthy no matter what either the personality of him or the nature of those he works for.
30. The are bars and clubs in this day and age (in the 1980's and there still are) where everyone who attends if of the same race.

Long live the 80's!

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29) Kids who scream at the sight of a hook in place of a hand must be from the suburbs.

28) Chris is not supposed to be taking these kids into the city.

27) If you leave Brad alone in the house, it will explode.

26) Daryl's ass still has a footprint on it from when he touched Mike's car

25) The Anderson parents usually drive 45mph on the interstate

24) A Playboy magazine is a perfectly logical place to write all your notes for the Philadelphia order

23) Downtown Chicago ain't Boise, Idaho and Joe ain't drivin to no mall

22) Pruitt's wife is dumb enough to have her boyfriend park right in front of her house.

21) Mike is the best thing that ever happened to Chris

20) Daryl doesn't mind sinking to Mike's level.

19) Either the kids are at Haagen Daz or Sara is hanging from the rafters

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18. A tire at Dawson's garage is only fifty bucks.

What's a knockout like you doing in a computer-generated gin joint like this?

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17. You slip me the cash and I will slip you the weiner.

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16. Nobody leaves (the blues bar) without singin' the blues.

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15. If these kids turn out to be drug addicts and mass murderers, it will be the babysitters fault.

14. If you call a random woman at a party a "righteous babe" it will be the sweetest thing that has ever been said to her and she will go to bed with you.

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13. Leaving your skates in someone's car will be returned to you if your name and address is on them.

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13. Never start a thread about 100 things you can learn from this movie. Most will simply be quotes. (Lame).

12. If you leave stuff in a phone booth, you can claim it as your home.

11. You can stop a gang fight if you stand in between them.

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10.5 Start a thread like this, and there's always someone who dumps on everyone else's posts yet comes up with nothing that is more clever or funny than rest did.




Get out of my chair, Meathead!

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10. It is possible to spotlessly clean a completely trashed kitchen in exactly 37 seconds.

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9. Thor is NOT a homo, but Brad is a sissy
8. Vincent D'onfrio never was more beautiful.
7. Thor can pull off that horrible blond wig.
6. I'd ask if I could work off the $50

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5. Brad thinks hell is exciting

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Been there, done that

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4. The opening scene is a shameless rip-off from "Risky Business" but they must have cut the part where Elisabeth Shue is wearing only a bra & panties... :)

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I know we are done, but I'm not stopping.
.75 - This is the city.
.65 - It's amazing how much stuff can happen at 11:40 p.m. Romantic dinners, Thor hanging out at a Auto Repair store.
.50 - One stitch makes you a complete failure in the eyes of the girl of your dreams.

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.45 - Nobody's parents would pay you good money for someone else to babysit their kids.

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Gus Haynes from the 5th season of The Wire used to be the leader of The Lords of Hell.

"They just don't realize." "Donnie can go in there and make them love me".

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.40 No matter how many shared, traumatic experiences you endure with your hot babysitter, you will lose her to an Andrew McCarthy/John Cusack hybrid and just have to accept it.

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* A real friend will put the lives of three children at risk to help you out of your own stupid mistake.

* Back in the 80's, sledgehammers were the preferred tool of auto mechanics...

* ...and they, for some reason, liked to enter the room on loud, slow-moving hydraulic lifts.

* If you're a good-hearted car thief and you happen to accidentally steal a car with four innocent people inside, it's okay to bring them to your chop shop instead of driving them to safety first. They'll be totally safe; organized crime bosses LOVE children...and witnesses.

* In the 80's, the ugliest college dude with the blondest and stupidest curly hair was ALWAYS dating the hot, horny girl. (Man, I hated that guy's stupid hair)

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Chris' name is not 'Shayleen'

Pruitt lived in a really bad section of town.

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You can still look good at the end of it all, not a hair out of place, and it will all just fall into place.

Makes me kind of miss the 80's!

When you get up in the morning, how do you decide what shade of black to wear? (Shallow Grave)

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Don't forget!
1) Gang fights ALWAYS happen on Subway trains.

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199) Elizabeth Shue was smolderingly hot. (And still is -- she looks great even now.)

198) Organized crime bosses keep all their most devious plans written in the margins of Playboy magazines.

197) The boss's underlings liked to take the aforementioned copies of Playboy to the privacy of the upstairs office so they could "read articles."

196) Elisabeth Shue was not, sadly, the actual Miss March 1987.

195) All the black people you'll meet in "the city" are either stealing cars, stealing random prescription glasses, or forcing white teenagers to sing the blues at guitarpoint.

194) That particularly annoying scrawny kid who blackmailed his way into the city driving expedition was not actually Anthony Michael Hall, even though Anthony Michael Hall was thought to have a monopoly on those roles.

193) Brad, you know you're not supposed to be eating chocolate! Your acne will flare up again! (Clearisil product placement!$!)

192) Did you know Elisabeth Shue showed her breasts in movies later in her career?they're real, and they're spectacular.

191) While Elisabeth Shue was not the real Miss March 1987, she *was* the Playmate in the movie's fake copy of Playboy. In a crime against humanity, Elisabeth Shue was not naked in the fold-out centerfold.

190) Street gangs in the late 1980s were apparently populated by flagrantly gay men who enjoyed wearing matching red leather vests and fighting each other with pointy objects.

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191 When you're being chased by bad guys, go to a tall building, go to a high level, climb out without a climbing rope and hope you don't side down to your death.

192 If you see a girl hanging into the side of a tall building, go out of the building and hang on the side too also without a rope.

193 It's alright to shoot and kill a guy who your wife is cheating you on.

194 The Chicago skyline constantly changes

195 Unfinished sections of the Associates Center that are dark have lights on from the outside view.

196 Oak Park and Chicago are boarding towns, but it takes from day to night to make the trip.

197 Pruitt is a fugitive now, kind of like us

198 Daryl cost $50

199 Dance with a guy you just met, ask for $50 from him and accept $45

200 The college partiers think Daryl is a talking penis

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Hahahah! "Guitar point "

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