Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

“No rules. No curfews. No baths. No nagging. No pulse.”

The Crandell kids have a summer to themselves once their mother leaves for Australia, and then the elderly babysitter hired to watch them dies. Seventeen-year-old Sue Ellen "Swell" (Christina Applegate) lies about her age and experience to land a fashion job under boss Rose (Joanna Cassidy), while her siblings run loose at home. Stephen Herek keeps the tone bright, and the house fills up with kids and unpaid bills.