nothingtolose18
Sitting For The Johanssens
Mal / Sam / Price / Ben
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Post by nothingtolose18 on Feb 24, 2008 20:37:50 GMT -5
What about in Mary Anne's Bad-Luck Mystery, where they were all so sure that the bad luck was sent to them by evil spirits, or whatever, and caused by that chain letter? Even I knew as a kid that chain letters were made up. There's lots more, I'm sure, but I can't think of any right now that you guys haven't said. Love all your examples! ;D I think some more general ones would be when the BSC knew more about the client's kids, and fixed it for them. I never got that. I know they babysat a lot, but still.. you would think that the parents knew a teensy, tiny bit about their own kids than a bunch of 13- and 11-year-olds! Oh, a few of you mentioned a book about Jessi thinking that Aunt C was getting married. I have never read that book, but it sounds funny, lol. Can anyone tell me the name of it?
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Post by aln1982 on Feb 24, 2008 20:39:58 GMT -5
^ Jessi and the Troublemaker. I love that book, anyway. ;D
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nothingtolose18
Sitting For The Johanssens
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Post by nothingtolose18 on Feb 24, 2008 21:31:39 GMT -5
Okay, thanks!
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Post by m0drnmoonlight on Apr 14, 2008 17:37:50 GMT -5
-In The Truth About Stacey, when the girls find out Mrs. Newton is calling the Babysitting Agency to babysit newborn Lucy, the BSC freaks out and assumes they did something to piss Mrs. Newton off, so much as they go and confront her about it?! Maybe it's because she didn't feel right leaving her newborn daughter in the care of 12-year-olds. Then again, was the BSA any better? Still, dumb assumption.
-Kristy thinking that having their holiday party at Mallory's house in #92 (I always forget the title!) will bring instant publicity to the BSC, but only makes her look more like an ass when she hounds the producer about not filming them and then tries to offer a discount on babysitting when he mentions he's going to see his (adult) children. And instant publicity...so she wants to branch the BSC out to the entire southern CT region now?
-In Little Miss Stoneybrook...and Dawn, Kristy, Mary Anne, and Dawn assuming that since Dr. Johanssen asked for Claudia specifically, they're bad babysitters and Dr. Johanssen must hate them. Oh yeah, and Claudia must suck too because she got asked for and they didn't.
-Jessi thinking she can definitely be a model when Derek Masters suggests it to her in Jessi and the Superbrat. How close was she to trashing her career as a ballerina and throwing all her effort into being a model, where all she would have to do is smile and pose? Uh...
I'm sure there's more I'm not thinking of lol.
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Post by lionessblack on Apr 14, 2008 20:58:11 GMT -5
dumb assumption by Kristy sine i just read mary anne and the zoo mystery... that stacey would stop sitting for charlotte now that she had quit the job *enter eye roll* I love that one. In Kristy-land, if Stacey doesn't want to be in the BSC, she must obviously not care about ANY children, especially her almost-sister. Typical Kristy mentality. It's kind of like Jessi and the Bad Babysitter. If you don't have the BSC commitment, you are a bad sitter and don't care about children. Like all of Stacey's sitting knowledge would just fall out of her head the second she left the club.
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Post by m0drnmoonlight on Apr 14, 2008 21:02:53 GMT -5
I forgot the situation, I think it was in Truth About Stacey, but Stacey's parents tell her they have something important to tell her and she flips out and goes "OMG YOU'RE PREGNANT!?!??" in a public place.
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Post by wenonah4th on Apr 14, 2008 21:21:34 GMT -5
What was it they were actually telling her- about that holistic doctor?
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Post by booboobrewer on Apr 14, 2008 21:23:07 GMT -5
^Yep. And she was like, "a faith healer?"
Laughing about Stacey flipping out like that. And the McGills were like "for heaven's sake, calm down."
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Post by wenonah4th on Apr 14, 2008 21:36:52 GMT -5
Reasonable guess based on the word, actually.
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Post by candykane on Apr 22, 2008 11:00:50 GMT -5
How about in Stacey's Ex-Best Friend when Stacey assumes that Laine would just love to come spend her week off in Stoneybrook, during a time when Stacey still has to go to school, leaving Laine with the option of sitting at the McGill's house alone with the TV for six hours, or coming along to SMS with Stacey? Of course, it still doesn't excuse Laine from treating everyone in Stoneybrook the way she did.
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Post by m0drnmoonlight on Apr 22, 2008 14:49:46 GMT -5
omg yes! And Stacey is all shocked that Laine is being a mega b*tch...maybe it's because you pretty much dragged her about to Stoneybrook on her break? You know, Stacey was all humiliated in Stacey's Mistake when the BSC visited her in NYC and she thought they were babyish and immature. Does she think they all-of-a-sudden changed overnight and they'd be able to mingle with Laine? No way, Stacey - these personality traits are superglued to EVERYONE and they're not going anywhere!
What about the dumb assumption from every babysitter that if a kid isn't a perfect little angel, or doesn't want to play with the oh-so-perfect BSC that they're demon children, and belong on an episode of Supernanny? Actually, they wouldn't...the BSC are all supernannies themselves and can magically transform any kid into one of the perfect children that Stoneybrook's known for. That annoyed me so much.
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nothingtolose18
Sitting For The Johanssens
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Post by nothingtolose18 on Apr 22, 2008 14:58:34 GMT -5
^ Oh, yes. Lol. No 'bad children' were horrible after dealing with the BSC! It might take three, four, or maybe *gasp* FIVE sitting jobs, but they were always tamed! WTH?
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Post by m0drnmoonlight on Apr 22, 2008 15:22:33 GMT -5
^ In Dawn and the Impossible Three, all it took was Dawn cleaning up the house and brushing the kids' hair, and suddenly, they were no longer little hellions lol. Who is she, Mary Poppins?
I'm trying to think of more, I wish I had my books with me! -Kristy assuming she's the one who knows best for Susan in The Secret of Susan...she knows better than the girl's parents and teachers? -Kristy assuming that Christina Thomas in Kristy and the Missing Fortune is related to her because their names sound the same, and maybe if she finds the missing fortune, she'll get some of it! Thomas is one of the most common names, right up there with Smith and Williams! How hilarious was it when it was determined that of all people, Cokie was related to her? -Sabrina Bouvier the Elder and her friend must be snobby because they wear a lot of makeup and dress fancy. What does that make Miss Sophisticated McGill then? -I always thought it was funny when Regina George Pamela Harding and her two friends Gretchen and Karen thought dressing up as a witch for Halloween was babyish, and dressing as a flight attendant or waitress was the height of maturity. Uh, maybe in 7th grade they'd act like that. In 2nd/3rd grade, the popular costumes of the day were Jasmine from Aladdin and poodle skirts and kids were still dressing up as animals!
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Post by sparklymouse on Apr 22, 2008 17:00:28 GMT -5
It seemed like the Barrett kids were a bit neglected while their mother tried to get her act together. They probably just responded well to someone paying attention to them. Dawn wasn't special, I think they would have reacted the same way to anyone.
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Post by m0drnmoonlight on Apr 22, 2008 21:18:59 GMT -5
It seemed like the Barrett kids were a bit neglected while their mother tried to get her act together. They probably just responded well to someone paying attention to them. Dawn wasn't special, I think they would have reacted the same way to anyone. I see what you're saying, and you are right. I was just giggling at the image of Dawn waving a magic wand in the messy house, and all of a sudden, everything's clean and sparkling and the kids are neat and smiling. Another solution from the BSC! lol
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