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Christina Applegate, Keith Coogan, Robert Hy Gorman, Danielle Harris, and Christopher Pettiet in Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991)

Christopher Pettiet: Zach

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

Christopher Pettiet credited as playing...

Zach

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Quotes10

  • Mrs. Sturak: Time for little boys to be in bed.
  • Zach Crandell: Can't you see I'm in the middle of a date?
  • Mrs. Sturak: [Opening the car door and tossing Cynthia out] And time for little trollops to go home!
  • Sue Ellen "Swell" Crandell: You have spent over $3,000?
  • Zach Crandell, Kenny Crandell, Melissa Crandell, Walter Crandell: [sheepishly look at her]
  • Sue Ellen "Swell" Crandell: You're grounded! You are ALL grounded! How could you steal from me?
  • Kenny Crandell: Well, now, they didn't really steal. They "borrowed". They were just following your irresponsible example.
  • Sue Ellen "Swell" Crandell: Oh, shut up, Kenny! I am in deep SHIT!
  • Melissa Crandell: Quit your job. Get out while you can.
  • Sue Ellen "Swell" Crandell: I'm an embezzler. They're gonna throw me in prison.
  • Zach Crandell: Nah, the judge will probably go easy on you considering that you're a minor.
  • Sue Ellen "Swell" Crandell: I'm not gonna give up. I'll keep working. I'll... work overtime if I have to. A few more paychecks, I'll be able to put it back and no one's gonna know, right? I'm innocent!
  • Walter Crandell: She doesn't look dead.
  • Zach Crandell: That's because it just happened. So you can't really tell, like on "MacGyver".
  • Zach Crandell: It was petty cash, YOU were spending petty cash.
  • Sue Ellen "Swell" Crandell: Zach, I bought a pair of boots and a magazine. You bought a home-entertainment center!
  • Zach Crandell: Cynthia, you're my moon goddess.
  • Sue Ellen "Swell" Crandell: Look, we are a family of felons. Our summer freedom's going to be a winter prison unless I get some help around here. I want the house spick-and-span by Saturday night or I'm turning us all in. Are you with me?
  • Kenny Crandell: Guys, what do you say?
  • Walter Crandell, Zach Crandell, Melissa Crandell: Yeah.
  • Kenny Crandell: Yeah? Come on, guys, what do you say?
  • Walter Crandell, Zach Crandell, Melissa Crandell: YEAH!
  • Kenny Crandell: YEAH! We're with you, Sue, ROCK AND ROLL!
  • Zach Crandell: We told you to talk to her. We didn't want you to send her to the glue factory.
  • Sue Ellen "Swell" Crandell: I didn't kill her, Zach. She died in her sleep.
  • Melissa Crandell: Probably choked on her whistle.
  • Kenny Crandell: Um... what should we do with her body?
  • Sue Ellen "Swell" Crandell: Call an ambulance, call the cops, I don't know. Well... I mean they're gonna come and get her and they're gonna ask us a lotta questions...
  • Kenny Crandell: They'll probably blame us.
  • Sue Ellen "Swell" Crandell: [scared of the thought] They'll definitely call Mom!
  • Melissa Crandell: SHE'LL blame us.
  • Kenny Crandell: Yeah, she'll hop the next flight home and then be in our faces.
  • Sue Ellen "Swell" Crandell: I don't want Mom to come home.
  • Zach Crandell: I don't either.
  • Melissa Crandell: No way.
  • Walter Crandell: Me too.
  • Mom: [catching Zach taking money from her wallet] Zach! Put it back. If you need money, ask first.
  • Zach Crandell: OK then, can I have $10?
  • Mom: Forget it!
  • Kenny Crandell: What are we going to do for cash for the next two months?
  • Sue Ellen "Swell" Crandell: What about a garage sale?
  • Kenny Crandell: We live in the boonies.
  • Sue Ellen "Swell" Crandell: What about calling Dad?
  • Kenny Crandell: Dad doesn't care.
  • Zach Crandell: What about blackmailing Dad?
  • Melissa Crandell: What about donating blood? Don't they pay you for that?
  • Kenny Crandell: You have to be over 18.
  • Sue Ellen "Swell" Crandell: Well, there goes our great summer.

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