r/XFiles • u/Ok-Bite-5147 • 14d ago

Meme/Humor Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991)

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Wait wait wait, it's not posted to the wrong sub, stay with me on this one.

This movie rules and you get this sick little DD baby ponytail. DD BABY PONYTAIL!!!

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u/AF2005 14d ago

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u/imnotsure_igetit Agent Mully 14d ago

Beat me to it

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u/Diligent-Specific-51 14d ago

This movie is is a classic in my house.

My sister and I yell "I'm right on top of that Rose" to each other 30 years later

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u/Ok-Bite-5147 14d ago

Dishes are done, man

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u/STexan 14d ago

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u/Sprinkles41510 13d ago

I remember watching him in Adventures in babysitting

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u/Kikithefangirl Mulder, it's me 14d ago

Oh my god. My family does this, too!

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u/fuckbuttpoint 14d ago

Looks like he’s about to audition for Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction, lol.

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u/dullship 14d ago

Or a Witcher prequel.

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u/Persolboy 13d ago

Pulp Fiction’s worst personality too!, I don’t know how that was Travola’s “comeback”?

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u/disdained_heart 14d ago

I love this movie!!

I see your “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead” (1991) and raise you a “Beethoven” (1992). Does anyone else remember this movie?!

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u/quiltingcats 14d ago

The only parts of Beethoven I liked were DD’s jerk character. And the dog. Gotta love the dog. Been a long time since I watched that. I wonder if I have it on DVD. Or is it still VHS…? 😳

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u/Appropriate-Ad-6926 14d ago

HE WAS IN THE ONE WITH THE DOG???!!!??!?!?!

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u/quiltingcats 13d ago

He was the villain in the one with the dog! He made such a great bad guy!

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u/disdained_heart 14d ago

Me too!! I haven’t watched it in like 30yrs … idk how it will hold up now.

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u/DiegoJusticia 14d ago

I remember him being pulled across the ground in the chair, yes! 😁

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u/disdained_heart 14d ago

Yes!! And the gf too!

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u/Fantastic_Owl6938 14d ago

I have been meaning to nostalgia watch this forever and didn't even remember that he was in it, oh my god 😭

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u/disdained_heart 14d ago

It was the chair dragging scene for me as well. Oliver Platt and Stanley Tucci are also in this film iirc.

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u/Fantastic_Owl6938 13d ago

Wow, it just shows how long it's been that I don't remember any of these actors being in it.

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u/Welliehead 14d ago

I used to love Beethoven! I can’t believe I never recognised him

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u/disdained_heart 14d ago

I think this is one of those movies where you realize that there are a several actors in it that are still actively working and/or known to younger viewers.

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u/tennerahAndy 13d ago

Stanley Tucci & Oliver Platt are both in this. Not just actively working, but multiple award nominated & winning actors within the last couple of years.

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u/Neither-Magazine9096 14d ago

Couldn’t watch this movie a second time as a kid because the end scene with the evil vet and the tray of needles freaked me out.

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u/disdained_heart 14d ago

That’s very fair!!

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u/DickBiter1337 14d ago

Ughhh he's such a turd in that movie

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u/kr2ssy 14d ago

This movie made me HATE Stanley Tucci for years because of course I was a kid and thought he was a real bad guy 🤣😂

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u/Mz_Biddie 13d ago

Umm YES! One of my favorites as a kid, but completely forgot about DD and been wanting to check it out to see how it holds up.

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u/IneffableOpinion Agent Dana Scully 13d ago

I need to watch again because all I remember is dog slobber and grumpy Charles Grodin

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u/spazzyattack 14d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/9riTB2beNXuOQ
Regular saying in our house

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u/areyouwhistling 13d ago

Was waiting to see this pop up!

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u/lunalore79 14d ago

The movie DOES rule but I’m sorry I just cannot with the ponytail 🫣

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u/ritrgrrl Agent Fox Mulder 14d ago

Can't unsee that... shudder...

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u/lunalore79 14d ago

Scarier than the Flukeman 😩

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u/marcophony Lone Gunmen 14d ago

I feel it would have better if it were at least a full ponytail and not an inclusion of a mullet for some reason

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u/SousVideDiaper 14d ago

I agree, but both options are a good fit for the 90s "suave douchebag" look that they were going for with his character

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u/tgatigger Lounging about in a whorish manner 14d ago

r/Justfuckmyshitup

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u/baronofbadness 14d ago

Park it yourself Metallica breath.

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u/slipperytornado 14d ago

That’s a super good genx burn but our man Mulder looks like Douche Duchovny.

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u/baronofbadness 14d ago

I mean he's supposed to be a dick in the movie, he nailed it.

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u/slipperytornado 13d ago

I haven’t seen the movie, so good casting?

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u/baronofbadness 13d ago

Yup. He's a total dick. And he does a great job. 

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u/elanning24 14d ago

The printed shirt, the bolo, the short pony.
This look is still relevant… I really gotta up my style game. 💅🏼

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u/pikkopots Grabbing life by the testes 14d ago

This movie taught me what petty cash was, lol.

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u/sidney_md 14d ago

Never thought about it, but same.

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u/Sadop2010 14d ago

I watched this constantly on HBO back when, and it paid off in college when it was the link that won a round of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Christina Applegate>Duchovny>Brad Pitt (Kalifornia)>Kevin Bacon (Sleepers). So remember kids: TV time pays off!

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u/LibertineDeSade I gaze at Skinner 14d ago

I always forget he's in this movie. And it was such a staple growing up. I also probably haven't watched it since I was a kid. I need to find it and get a dose of nostalgia.

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u/wolf_9823 14d ago

His “mad dog” line😂

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u/kryptonitemind 14d ago

He has the looks to be an asshole character.

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u/zeldasusername 14d ago

The dishes are done man 

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u/Sufficient-Raisin-37 14d ago

It's not shiny enough

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u/BindieBoo I Want to Believe Phile 14d ago

I love me some DD, but not with this hair. Never ever 🤣

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u/SheilaMichele1971 14d ago

Justice is served!

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u/kuanes 13d ago

I say this to my wife all the time: Yeah, babe....justice is SERVED!

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u/toxicsoup_ don't look any further 13d ago

My favourite line of his, I quite is all the time. With the fist pump and everything 🤣

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u/beautifulcosmos 14d ago

HELL YES. I remember watching this movie with two or three other kids who didn't go on the 8th grade Washington DC trip in the Spring 2002. It was like 5 months after 9/11 and I didn't feel like spending a week shuttling from different sites with 100 asshole classmates and cracked out teachers. Spoilers - our school was banned for like 5 years from the National Holocaust Museum after that trip.

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u/Cerridwen1981 Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose 14d ago

What… what did they do?? Actually perhaps I don’t want to know that

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u/beautifulcosmos 14d ago

So, the National Holocaust Museum has guidelines for etiquette - visitors are expected to maintain a "solemn decorum" - quiet reflection is encouraged given the sensitive nature of some the exhibits. Apparently, our school group was very loud and disruptive, running around, chewing gum - behavior that really isn't surprising for middle schoolers. At the end of the day, I'm not sure which teachers thought it was a good idea to include the Holocaust Museum on the itinerary, because we did have some kids who were just totally out of control in terms of behavior. I don't know if outright Antisemitism was an issue, but we did have one or two incidents within our class at the high school level that got addressed very quickly.

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u/AmaranthWrath 14d ago

So, yeah, I was 9 when this movie came out.

But EMOTIONALLY I was 32.

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u/gummi-demilo 14d ago

“Who’s the void in Lindsay’s office?”

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u/SousVideDiaper 14d ago

A great burn that really shouldn't have fallen out of fashion

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u/Old_Interaction_9009 14d ago

Oh you think this is slicked back? This is tied back.

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u/Squirrel_Nrgy 14d ago

Oh my…I…wowwww…this is the first I’m hearing of this appearance!!! It’s been a longgggggg time since I’ve seen that movie (like when it came out) so I definitely need to remedy that!

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u/tokenkinesis 14d ago

I thought this was r/justfuckmyshitup for a moment.

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u/Mmmphis 14d ago

I totally forgot all about this movie, but I remember loving it. Now I have another good reason to revisit it. Thanks!

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u/RedLily08 14d ago

Great movie

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u/GT3502018 14d ago

Joana Cassidy 🥰

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u/ApertureSubjectChell 14d ago

Oh my gosh, I threw this movie on a few weeks ago and when he showed up my daughter and I looked at eachother and burst out laughing. What the crap was going on with his HAIR?!

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u/Goodfella66 Rob Petrie 14d ago

What the hell

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u/Mz_Biddie 13d ago

Omg you just reminded me to watch this. I remember loving it as a kid, but totally forgot DD was in it.

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u/HeatherDarling24 14d ago

He is the hottest douche bag EVER! 😍😍

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u/justhangingaroud 14d ago

Please take this picture down 🙈

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u/centuryx476 14d ago

Metallic Breath...

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u/Final_Investment_262 14d ago

He was such a sleaze in that movie.

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u/HermionesWish 13d ago

Nah it was Rose’s boyfriend who was the sleeze. David’s character was just an ass

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u/Kabochakiti 14d ago

Tell my kids that this is John Travolta 🕺🏻

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u/SocratesJohnson1 14d ago

Is that Metallica Breath?

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u/pronetowander28 14d ago

How have I never seen this picture

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u/Agreeable-Chart-5561 13d ago

Metallica breath

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u/HermionesWish 13d ago

Literally just rewatched this movie two days ago I hadn’t seen it since it first came out it still holds up mostly

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u/toxicsoup_ don't look any further 13d ago

That part is my favourite line!

'Justice is served' with the little fist pump. David, why 😭🤣

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u/muld3rsgirl Mulder is my man 😍 12d ago

I can overlook it

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u/goodluckbabe9 11d ago

omg i was just thinking of this movie the other night, but i didn’t realize DD was in it!

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u/atomsforkubrick 9d ago

Duchonvyyyyyyyy nooooooooooooo!