The Sitter story
Jennifer Mowbray, a babysitter from some presumably Caribbean island, uses the powers of voodoo to get Lance and Dennis Paxton, the beleaguering and overactive brothers she's charged with looking after, under control. Directed by: Joan Darling. Story by: Joshua Brand & John Falsey, Mick Garris.
12 total · 1 choice · 6 major · 5 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| coping with a spoiled brat | choice | Jennifer and numerous babysitters struggled to keep the brat brothers Lance and Dennis in check. |
| brother and brother | major | The story turns on the two unruly, young brothers Lance and Dennis being scared into behaving by their voodoo magic wielding babysitter. |
| discipline of a child | major | The bratty brothers Lance and Dennis were transformed into obedient, model children thanks to Jennifer's unorthodox babysitting methods. She used voodoo magic to scare them straight. |
| human childhood | major | The story turns on the two unruly, young brothers Lance and Dennis being scared into behaving by their voodoo magic wielding babysitter. |
| mother and son | major | Barbara struggled to make her boys behave. |
| practical joking | major | The two unruly brothers Lance and Dennis perpetrated an endless series of pranks on their babysitters. They slipped a laxative into Mrs. Abbot's hot chocolate. They tried to torment Jennifer by propping a bucket of water over a door, and later by making it seem as if the house had caught fire. What they didn't count on was Jennifer being a practitioner of voodoo magic. |
| voodoo magic | major | The babysitter Jennifer, who was presumably from a Caribbean island, finally got the better of Lance and Dennis by using voodoo magic. |
| ghost | minor | Jennifer vanished after leaving the house. Given her previous comments about souls being trapped on the earth, this may have been an indication that she was a ghost. |
| human phobia | minor | Lance and Dennis attempted to scare the Jamaican babysitter with tiny reptiles of some sort, but she turned the table on them by wielding two enormous geckos. [herpetophobia] |
| master and pet | minor | Mrs. Abbott brought her terrier to babysitting. |