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Adventures in Babysitting Quotes

Adventures in Babysitting is a television program that appeared on TV in 1970 . Adventures in Babysitting completed its run in 1970.

It features Debra Hill as producer, Michael Kamen in charge of musical score, and Ric Waite as head of cinematography.

Adventures in Babysitting is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of Adventures in Babysitting is 99 minutes long. Adventures in Babysitting is distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution.

The cast includes: Elisabeth Shue as Chris, Keith Coogan as Brad, Anthony Rapp as Daryl, Keith Coogan as Band, Maia Brewton as Sarah, Penelope Ann Miller as Brenda, Bradley Whitford as Mike, George Newbern as Dan Lynch, Calvin Levels as Joe Gipp, John Davis Chandler as Bleak, Elisabeth Shue as Mrs. Parker, Vincent D'Onofrio as Dawson, Keith Coogan as Mrs. Anderson, and John Ford Noonan as John Pruitt.

Adventures in Babysitting Quotes

Penelope Ann Miller as Brenda

  • (Janitor #1) "Put the animal down."
  • (Penelope Ann Miller) "Why?"
  • (Janitor #2) "We gotta kill it."
  • (Penelope Ann Miller) "What? You monsters. Why would you want to kill a poor defenseless little kitten?"
  • (Janitor #2) "Kitten?"
  • (Janitor #1) "This ain't no kitten, kid."
  • (Janitor #2) "That's a jumbo-sized sewer rat."
  • (Penelope Ann Miller) "Chris I'm begging you, it's really scary here. I've just seen three people shoot up, a bald Chinese lady with no pants on, and there's this old guy outside who wants his bedroom slippers."
  • (Old Man) "Get out of my house."
  • (Penelope Ann Miller) "You just moved."
  • (Penelope Ann Miller) "Uh, those are hot dogs, right?"
  • (Hot Dog Vendor) "Yeah, want one?"
  • (Penelope Ann Miller) "Mmm, yeah I'd love one."
  • (Hot Dog Vendor) "That'll be two bucks."
  • (Hot Dog Vendor) "A check?"
  • (Penelope Ann Miller) "Yeah, but it's a good check. See, Chris' mom wrote it to Chris 'cause Chris bought her something, I can't remember what. Then I bought Chris some press-on nails, I gave Chris the difference, and she wrote the check over to me. So I'll write the check over to you, you keep the difference, and I'll take the hot dog. So, you got a pen?"
  • (Hot Dog Vendor) "Get outta here."
  • (Penelope Ann Miller) "Wait. I'm starving, you'd rather throw it away than give it to me?"
  • (Hot Dog Vendor) "I work on a cash-only basis."
  • (Penelope Ann Miller) "But it's a perfectly good check."
  • (Hot Dog Vendor) "No. I'll make it very clear. you slip me the cash, and I'll slip you the weiner."
  • (Penelope Ann Miller) "But I don't have any cash."
  • (Hot Dog Vendor) "Then I don't have a weiner."

Keith Coogan as Brad

  • (Keith Coogan) "Sir. Would you please take us to the next corner, and drop us off?"
  • (Calvin Levels) "In this neighborhood? Hey, I wouldn't even get out of the car in this neighborhood."
  • (Keith Coogan) "Could you drop us off at the nearest mall?"
  • (Calvin Levels) "A mall? Where y'all think we're at, Boise, Idaho? Shooo."
  • (Keith Coogan) "Uh -- where's the spare?"
  • (Anthony Rapp) "Maybe it's on the car -- you think?"
  • (Keith Coogan) "You're such a loser."
  • (Anthony Rapp) "Here we go again."
  • (Keith Coogan) "I can only dream about having somebody like Chris as a girlfriend, but you've got her, and you treat her like this?"
  • (Bradley Whitford) "Don't waste your time, half pint. Her legs are locked together at the knee."
  • (Keith Coogan) "I'd love to hit you. I'd love to pound on your face."
  • (Bradley Whitford) "Yeah? Go ahead."
  • (Keith Coogan) "But I won't. You're so slimy, I won't sink to your level."
  • (Anthony Rapp) "I will."
  • (Keith Coogan) "Where we gonna get 50 bucks?"
  • (Maia Brewton) "We could sell Daryl. You think?"
  • (Dr. Nuhkbane) "There you are, one stitch, all better."
  • (Keith Coogan) "One stitch?"
  • (Dr. Nuhkbane) "Oh, yes, one stitch."
  • (Keith Coogan) "My only shot at ever being in a gang fight and all I get is one stitch? Chris is gonna think I'm a total failure."
  • (Keith Coogan) "Daryl, why are you hugging me?"
  • (Anthony Rapp) "Brad, don't you ever die on me. Ever."
  • (Keith Coogan) "O.K. I won't."
  • (Keith Coogan) "I just think you should give other guys a chance."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Like who?"
  • (Maia Brewton) "Don't say it. Don't say it."
  • (Keith Coogan) "Like me?"
  • (Keith Coogan) "What's so funny?"
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Well, it's just that -- you're just a child."
  • (Keith Coogan) "And you're just a girl in love with an asshole."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Brad --"
  • (Keith Coogan) "Forget it."
  • (Keith Coogan) "Why do I get this funny feeling we're never going to see him again?"

Elisabeth Shue as Chris

  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Don't worry. We'll get home. This has all just been a big mistake."
  • (Maia Brewton) "What about Brenda?"
  • (Keith Coogan) "That was her parents' mistake."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Now boys, if either of you give me any grief I swear to God I'll kill you. Dead, murdered, stabbed."
  • (Anthony Rapp) "Raped?"
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "I'm too old for this crap."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Just relax, Chris, tonight is going to be the greatest night of your life."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "What should I do?"
  • (Maia Brewton) "Get in the car and run him over."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Who was at the door?"
  • (Keith Coogan) "Stray dog."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "I don't think your parents will ever ask me to babysit again."
  • (Keith Coogan) "If they do, I'd ask them for a buck more an hour."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Babysitting blues."
  • (Anthony Rapp) "Baby, baby."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Babysitting blues."
  • (Albert Collins) "Now, there're nights"
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "You swear you were born to lose. Yeah."
  • (Albert Collins) "Like tonight."
  • (Albert Collins) "And you wish your feet were walking in someone else's shoes."
  • (Albert Collins) "Some guys are out to get them. And the girls's probably dead. She ain't got a nickel."
  • (Anthony Rapp) "And we should be in bed."
  • (Albert Collins) "You're outta luck."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "I got enough watching these guys. I've got the babysitting blues."
  • (Unnamed) "Baby, baby."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Babysitting blues."
  • (Unnamed) "Baby, baby."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Babysitting blues."
  • (Gang Leader) "Don't f*** with the Lords of Hell."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Don't f*** with the babysitter."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Brad? Sarah? That's not your parents' car is it?"
  • (Maia Brewton) "Yes it is."
  • (Keith Coogan) "Oh my God it is."
  • (Anthony Rapp) "What are we going to do?"
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Everybody duck."
  • (Keith Coogan) "Look at that lunatic. You know, Brad and Sarah are going to be driving in a couple of years and they'll be sharing the road with people like that."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Brad, how fast do your parents drive?"
  • (Keith Coogan) "I don't know -- forty-five?"
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "We'll go eighty."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Hi. Um -- My name is Chris Parker. I live in Oak Park. That's a suburb."
  • (Keith Coogan) "They probably figured that out. Ha."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "This is Brad, Sara and Daryl. And we're in trouble."
  • (Anthony Rapp) "Ain't no doubt."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "See, me and my boyfriend Mike, tonight's our anniversary. But then he went and cancelled. And now I'm stuck watching these three. And it's so hard --."
  • (Albert Collins) "And it's so hard."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Babysitting these guys."
  • (Keith Coogan) "She's got the --"
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "I got this call from Brenda. I went to pick her up. The tire had a blowout. And my mom's car got shot up."
  • (Maia Brewton) "And these guys started to chase us."
  • (Keith Coogan) "And we all got hijacked. Ha."
  • (Anthony Rapp) "We're cruising down the highway."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "In this big ol' Cadillac. And it's so hard."
  • (Albert Collins) "And it's so hard."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Babysitting these guys."
  • (Albert Collins) "She got the babysitting blues."
  • (Keith Coogan) "Baby, baby. Babysitting blues."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "I've got the babysitting blues."
  • (Albert Collins) "There's nights you swear you were born to lose. Like tonight. And you wish your feet were walking in someone else's shoes."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Some guys are out to get us."
  • (Anthony Rapp) "And Brenda's probably dead."
  • (Keith Coogan) "We ain't got a nickel."
  • (Albert Collins) "And they should be in bed. And you outta luck."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "I got enough watching these guys. I've got the babysitting blues."
  • (Anthony Rapp) "Baby, baby."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "What do you want?"
  • (John Ford Noonan) "I just want to help you."
  • (Anthony Rapp) "Don't listen to him, he just wants to scrape our faces off."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Where are we going?"
  • (Anthony Rapp) "To hell. Kind of exciting, don't you think?"
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "That was Mrs. Anderson, she wants to know if you can babysit tonight."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "No, tell her I can't."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Why not?"
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Because I want to sit at home and be depressed."
  • (Penelope Ann Miller) "Oh, sit for the Andersons, that'll depress anyone."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Mom, I'm too old to babysit."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "So, when the babysitter looked more closely at the kids, she saw that -- THEY HAD NO FACES."
  • (Maia Brewton) "Oh my God."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Just a pool of mushy goo."
  • (Maia Brewton) "Like Spaghetti-O's?"
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Spaghetti-O's with meat."

Bradley Whitford as Mike

  • (Bradley Whitford) "Girls like you come along once in a lifetime."

John Ford Noonan as John Pruitt

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George Newbern as Dan Lynch

  • (George Newbern) "-- Shes not Chaylene. Think about it -- Do you honestly think a Playboy centerfold would have nothing better to do on a night like this than show up at a Kappa party with a bunch of kids?"
  • (Drunk at Party) "-- Yea."
  • (George Newbern) "Where is your brain?"

Anthony Rapp as Daryl

  • (Anthony Rapp) "This is weird."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "You're weird."
  • (Anthony Rapp) "HAHAHAHAHA."
  • (Anthony Rapp) "Did you steal all of these cars?"
  • (Calvin Levels) "Yeah. It gets me some good money."
  • (Anthony Rapp) "Isn't it kind of dangerous?"
  • (Calvin Levels) "Hey, I like danger, all right?"
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "You should try babysitting."
  • (Anthony Rapp) "Brad, you wouldn't believe what that girl would do for twenty bucks."
  • (Anthony Rapp) "The chick is losing it."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "I am not."
  • (Maia Brewton) "You guys want some candy?"
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Brad, no chocolate. Your acne. Sara. It is time for your cough syrup. Daryl, fasten the seat belt."
  • (Maia Brewton) "She's definitely losing it."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "I am not losing anything, I am still in control here. Got it?"
  • (Anthony Rapp) "You gotta be s***tin me."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Watch your mouth."
  • (Anthony Rapp) "Watch my mouth? You gotta be s***tin me."
  • (Anthony Rapp) "What are you doing? I'm trying to get a date, you're cramping my style."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "She's too old for you."
  • (Teenage Runaway) "Oh, and you're not."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Well I'm his babysitter."
  • (Teenage Runaway) "How old are you?"
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "17."
  • (Teenage Runaway) "Me too."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "You're 17? What are you doing on the street?"
  • (Teenage Runaway) "I ran away from home."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "BRENDA."
  • (Anthony Rapp) "Don't touch it. It could get infected, Jesus. He could get anything; Tetanus, rabies, scabies, emphysema."
  • (Anthony Rapp) "Mike what?"
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Mike what what?"
  • (Anthony Rapp) "Mike what what what are we talking about? What's his last name?"
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Toddwell. Are you writing a book?"
  • (Anthony Rapp) "Mike Toddwell? Do you know him?"
  • (Keith Coogan) "They go out."
  • (Anthony Rapp) "He's got a red Camaro, right?"
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Oh, gee, Daryl, are you a gear head and a sex fiend? Anyway, a lot of people have Camaros."
  • (Anthony Rapp) "Yeah, but do a lot of people have the license plate "So Cool"?"
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "That's Mike."
  • (Anthony Rapp) "He's the guy who beat me up last summer for touching his car, which I didn't do."
  • (Keith Coogan) "That was him?"
  • (Anthony Rapp) "That was him."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Mike wouldn't do that."
  • (Anthony Rapp) "Yes, he would."
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "He would not."
  • (Anthony Rapp) "Yes, he would. He did. He kicked my ass. Wanna see the footprint?"
  • (Maia Brewton) "No."
  • (College Girl) "I'm so lonely."
  • (Anthony Rapp) "How could a righteous babe like you be lonely?"
  • (College Girl) "That's the sweetest thing anybody's ever said to me."
  • (Anthony Rapp) "Really?"
  • (College Girl) "Wanna go to bed?"

John Davis Chandler as Bleak

  • (John Davis Chandler) "Take the Brady Bunch upstairs. We'll deal with them after the meeting."
  • (John Davis Chandler) "Caterer?"

Maia Brewton as Sarah

  • (Maia Brewton) "What if the house explodes?"
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "The house is not going to explode."
  • (Maia Brewton) "You leave him here alone, and it will."
  • (Maia Brewton) "Its Thor."
  • (Keith Coogan) "No it's no not Sara."
  • (Maia Brewton) "Don't listen to him, he says you're a homo."
  • (Vincent D'Onofrio) "You spreading lies about me, kid?"
  • (Keith Coogan) "Who, me? Never."
  • (Maia Brewton) "Hey, wait. I know why you aren't acting like yourself. You don't have your special helmet."
  • (Maia Brewton) "See you have the baseball cap, but you're supposed to be wearing this"
  • (Maia Brewton) "Here, take mine. Go on, take it."
  • (Vincent D'Onofrio) "You're giving this to me?"
  • (Maia Brewton) "Well, yeah, you're my hero."
  • (Vincent D'Onofrio) "Here. Here, take the car."
  • (Maia Brewton) "Thanks, Thor."
  • (Vincent D'Onofrio) "Hey kid. I got one of these at home"
  • (Elisabeth Shue) "Could I get your address so I can mail you the five dollars?"
  • (Vincent D'Onofrio) "Go."

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