Right On That, Rose!
June 9, 2015 8:24 PM Subscribe
Initially panned by critics and a failure at the box office, Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead has found a second life as a cult favorite.
The dishes are done, man!
posted by belarius at 8:38 PM on June 9, 2015 [44 favorites]
posted by belarius at 8:38 PM on June 9, 2015 [44 favorites]
Spoiler: My favorite part is the final line, when the mom comes home and asking where the babysitter is before it cuts to black.
posted by hellojed at 8:38 PM on June 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by hellojed at 8:38 PM on June 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
The dishes are done, man!
posted by ActingTheGoat at 8:39 PM on June 9, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by ActingTheGoat at 8:39 PM on June 9, 2015 [2 favorites]
How can you post this here when the movie isn't even on Netflix or anything? :(
posted by ODiV at 9:05 PM on June 9, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by ODiV at 9:05 PM on June 9, 2015 [3 favorites]
great movie, but only the second best babysitting movie of its era. Just realized that Will Gardner from The Good Wife was in this.
Weird that they failed to get so many of the major people involved with the making of the movie.
As noted in the article, this was on HBO more or less constantly in the early to mid 90's. I watched bits and pieces of it while in high school and channel surfing, and I remember eventually being "wow, I know this movie is supposed to be stupid, but it's pretty damn funny."
posted by skewed at 9:16 PM on June 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
Weird that they failed to get so many of the major people involved with the making of the movie.
As noted in the article, this was on HBO more or less constantly in the early to mid 90's. I watched bits and pieces of it while in high school and channel surfing, and I remember eventually being "wow, I know this movie is supposed to be stupid, but it's pretty damn funny."
posted by skewed at 9:16 PM on June 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
“What, did she copy this out of a resume book?”
posted by infinitewindow at 9:24 PM on June 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by infinitewindow at 9:24 PM on June 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
Josh Charles was the absolute cutest thing ever in this.
posted by sallybrown at 9:44 PM on June 9, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by sallybrown at 9:44 PM on June 9, 2015 [4 favorites]
True story: I was introduced to the concept of belgian waffles by this movie and now make them on a regular basis. Thank you, Kenny.
posted by Alison at 10:31 PM on June 9, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Alison at 10:31 PM on June 9, 2015 [2 favorites]
I was watching this movie recently and saw the Clown Dog where Josh Charles worked and realized holy shit, it's the Chipotle on Sunset Boulevard and a few blocks from where I live. One block west is the Nightmare on Elm Street House and two blocks past that are the two houses where the babysitting and murders occur in Halloween. #funfacts
posted by SmileyChewtrain at 10:48 PM on June 9, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by SmileyChewtrain at 10:48 PM on June 9, 2015 [4 favorites]
One block west is the Nightmare on Elm Street House and two blocks past that are the two houses where the babysitting and murders occur in Halloween.
What I've always felt, LA is way, way more dangerous than NYC
posted by From Bklyn at 2:32 AM on June 10, 2015 [5 favorites]
What I've always felt, LA is way, way more dangerous than NYC
posted by From Bklyn at 2:32 AM on June 10, 2015 [5 favorites]
I have seen this movie so many times but not in the last ten years. Time to remedy that.
posted by custardfairy at 5:29 AM on June 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by custardfairy at 5:29 AM on June 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
How did you screw up the title of this FPP? It's in in the URL!
Joanna Cassidy is a national treasure.
posted by telegraph at 6:11 AM on June 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
Joanna Cassidy is a national treasure.
posted by telegraph at 6:11 AM on June 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
I'm going to go ahead and point out that positively every movie that made it into heavy rotation on cable in the 90s is, to some degree, a "cult" film because that's just the relationship kids growing up during that era had with stuff. What the material is like is incidental. Watch a fucking thing ten times because you have nothing else to do and it becomes part of you.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 6:34 AM on June 10, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 6:34 AM on June 10, 2015 [6 favorites]
I love this movie, and so do my closest friends who, like me, grew up rewatching and quoting it. So for my birthday recently, I had a Don't Tell Mom the Baby-Sitter's Dead themed sleepover, and it was as awesome as it sounds. We dressed up in fun 90's clothes, and looked like we would fit right in with Sue Ellen's gang. I made Belgian waffles of course, and I also got some frozen pizzas (a favourite line of mine is, 'Mama Celeste face up, I get a job. Mama Celeste face down, we're selling carnations on a freeway off-ramp') I had everyone try my signature drink of the night, Martini and Rossi on the rocks ('Sweet or dry?' 'Oh... a little bit of both'). We spent most of the night watching a neverending YouTube playlist of Julia Child episodes and colouring pages in a fashion colouring book, which was the perfect entertainment for a grown-up sleepover. And there were a couple of those bouncers kicking around (remember the scene where Sue Ellen and Brian bounce through the aisles of a toy store?) Then, in the morning, I recreated a scene I've always loved. I poured a box of Captain Crunch cereal in a giant bowl, emptied a carton of milk, plunked down some spoons and told my friends, 'Breakfast is served.' It was the best. The party, I mean. The Captain Crunch sucked bit it was so worth it.
posted by to recite so charmingly at 6:40 AM on June 10, 2015 [14 favorites]
posted by to recite so charmingly at 6:40 AM on June 10, 2015 [14 favorites]
skewed: "I watched bits and pieces of it while in high school and channel surfing, and I remember eventually being "wow, I know this movie is supposed to be stupid, but it's pretty damn funny.""
This is how I felt about "Dude, Where's My Car?"
posted by Chrysostom at 7:32 AM on June 10, 2015 [3 favorites]
This is how I felt about "Dude, Where's My Car?"
posted by Chrysostom at 7:32 AM on June 10, 2015 [3 favorites]
This movie introduced and defined forever what the term "petty cash," meant to me.
posted by Atreides at 7:50 AM on June 10, 2015 [7 favorites]
posted by Atreides at 7:50 AM on June 10, 2015 [7 favorites]
to recite so charmingly - how do I become your friend?
posted by lock sock and barrel at 2:49 PM on June 10, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by lock sock and barrel at 2:49 PM on June 10, 2015 [2 favorites]
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