Keith Coogan, Star of Adventures in Babysitting and Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead, Indulges Our Nostalgia
A must read! The most insightful interview ever!
Yes, the “Don’t fuck with the babysitter” scene.
Yeah, that’s a benchmark line; it kind of pushed that edge because it is a Disney movie, it’s a Touchstone Pictures release, and it was rated PG-13. They fought tooth and nail with the MPAA. The MPAA said, “You can have one F-word, you can say s-h-i-t twice. But any more than one F-word and it’s gotta go rated R.” And they really pushed, they said, “Well, it’s all in one scene, they’re right back-to-back. And we’ll even pronounce it FOCK,” like Meet the Fockers. Like, Don’t fock with the babysitter.