Hilarious Cable Info-Bar Description Of The Day: Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead
Posted at 3:45 PM Sep 04, 2008
By Kenny Herzog
Yesterday, NCDSUV debuted its newest daily feature, which takes aim at the most confounding, misleading or abruptly hysterical info-bar synopses of the day's cable programming. And while yesterday saw Mask get recast as a freak-gets-murderous-revenge tale, today's selection re-imagines a '90s teen-comedy classic as a poignant Hallmark drama.
Today's entry is:
Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead
The Actual Story: After their crotchety summer sitter croaks, Christina Applegate fakes her age to work at a fashion-design company and leads her brood of siblings (including the incomparable Keith Coogan) through various hyjinks, all of them heeeelarious.
Cable Info-Bar Synopsis: "With the sitter dead, a Los Angeles teen lands a job in the fashion industry to feed her siblings."
What Their Description Would Have You Believe: That Don't Tell Mom is the inspiring, based-on-true-events story of a young teenager who had it all, but gave it up just as fast to support her ragamuffin brothers and sisters when the only woman designated to watch after them passed suddenly and tragically.
Comments
Christina Applegate, humanitarian!!!!! That's the first thing that comes in mind for me. Wait, is that not the first thing that comes in mind for you?!?
Keith Coogan was also in Adventures in Babysitting, likely cementing his place alongside Fred Savage in the hypothetical future "unapologetically dorky but still somehow appealing teen stars of the 80s" Vh1 special.
This cracked me up ... thanks
Posted 09/04/2008 at 04:46:06 PMDon't forget his role in the action-comedy mish-mash hiding out, featuring Amazonian '80s goddess Annabeth Gish and Jon Cryer.
Posted 09/04/2008 at 05:36:21 PM