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Babies learn to move quite young — far younger than they learn good judgment, or even to talk. This often leads to their wandering off (often because they are Chasing a Butterfly) and into grave danger, such as near a tub of water where they could drown. Whenever a child escapes the parental eye for a moment, expect a vanishing, and a subsequent panic before tracking the kid down. Worse occurs when the supervising character sees the baby just before trouble. A common comedy trouble is that all the problems escape the baby and hit the character pursuing. The Badly Battered Babysitter may get in that condition just trying to follow. A trope for children younger than Free-Range Children, who would be expected to have some judgment, even if they sometimes do stupid things, and Scare Dare, as the child blunders into danger out of sheer ignorance. It tapers off by about five, when the child has enough judgment to get into danger through willfulness rather than ignorance. Truth in Television. Contrast Baby Carriage. Examples |
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In The Stanley Parable, Stanley is assigned to keep a suicidal baby from beelining into a lit fireplace (in actual fact, a cardboard cutout of a baby on a track). If you fail, the Lemony Narrator scolds you quite stringently for it. | |
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In Who's Your Daddy?, one player is a Bumbling Dad and the other is a Straying Baby. The Baby is trying to kill themselves in an amusing fashion, while the Dad is trying to keep the baby alive as long as possible. | |
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The 1958 Tom and Jerry cartoon Tot Watchers has Tom and Jerry work together to save a wandering infant from the hazards of a construction site. The teenage babysitter is too busy nattering on the phone to notice anything amiss. | |
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Minami's triplet sisters in A Centaur's Life have a reputation as troublemakers that began when they managed to wander twenty kilometers from home within five hours of taking their first steps. Their sister can only wonder "How?!" | |
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In the BoJack Horseman episode "Surprise", the main characters are hiding in Mr. Peanutbutter and Pickles's house and trying not to get caught. So of course baby Ruthie wanders off, and the rest of the cast have to juggle handling her and not being found out. | |
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CSI: NY's 'Unspoken': Danny and Lindsay are at a political rally with Lucy, who's somewhere between four and five (a time skip and mild Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome make it hard to pinpoint exactly) and she wanders off. Lindsay panics, looks for her, and finds her just in time to be able to dive for cover with her when someone starts shooting. | |
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Maggie in The Simpsons is prone to this, although she's more capable of taking care of herself than other examples. One Noodle Incident involving her wandering off ends up with her winning a beauty pagent tiara & sceptre. Another time, she somehow manages to drive the family car across town before crashing it into the wall of the local prison, and when a stressed out Marge goes on vacation, Maggie sets out to find her (although she's ultimately satisfied with an anthropomorphic ice cream cone on the roof of an ice cream parlor). And in one of the first episodes she wanders into a cave full of bears, who fall in love with her after she gives one of them a pacifier. | |
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Kevin & Kell The 2002 Chrismas storyline, "A Christmas for Coney", had Coney the baby carnivorous rabbit chase a mouse into someone else's Christmas tree and end up on an adventure all across Domain. This also frequently happened with baby Francis. The only human child in the setting, his defining trait is curiosity. As he got older, he started doing it on purpose, making a game out of eluding his "pursuers", good and ill-intentioned (and, when he was older still, leading them into traps). He stopped after Carl nearly died saving him from a hawk attack in the middle of one of his escapades. |
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This is almost the entire plot of the movie Baby's Day Out, where a rich baby gets away from three bumbling kidnappers and leads them through all manner of dangers. | |
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In Harry Potter, Dumbledore leaves a 15 month old Harry on the doorstep overnight with a letter. Harry doesn't get up and walk away in canon. In fanfiction, sometimes he does, and even more often, the fact that he could have is discussed to cast Dumbledore as senile or untrustworthy. Of course, Harry was asleep at the time. |
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Ghost in the Machine: During the babysitter scenes, an infant girl proceeds to wander off into the kitchen while the virtual killer starts overheating the gas stoves. Luckily, the babysitter catches the little girl in time before anything bad can happen. | |
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All three children born to Darryl and Wanda MacPherson in Baby Blues exhibit this tendency. Firstborn Zoe tended to stray like a hazard-seeking robot. Hamlet tended to roll around the house, going much further and faster than crawling. Third baby Wren has learned to climb; it frightened Wanda horribly to discover tiny Wren atop an eight-foot tall bookcase. | |
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This is the whole premise of "Buttons and Mindy" on Animaniacs (1993). Every segment has Mindy's clueless parents leaving the dog Buttons to watch the toddler, Mindy escaping, Buttons chasing her through ridiculous circumstances, and the parents returning and blaming it all on the dog. One cartoon where she wandered into a construction site lampshaded the popularity of the trope by having cameos of Tom and Jerry and Popeye, chasing their own babies from the cartoons mentioned below. | |
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Sesame Street: In Episode 2851, Maria is tasked with babysitting Natasha while trying to do her work at the Fix-it Shop at the same time. Natasha keeps crawling away whenever Maria is busy with her work, so Maria has to find her and bring her back to her high chair whenever she does this. | |
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In the Popeye cartoon "Child Sockology" baby Swee'Pea wanders around a construction site and Popeye & Bluto try to save him. Yet another has Popeye taking Sweet Pea to the zoo and Swee' Pea picking the cages of the most dangerous animals to enter. In "Lost and Foundry", Popeye and Olive try to save Swee' Pea after he wanders into a steel mill, only to end up needing saving by Swee' Pea when he manages to get his hands on Popeye's can of spinach. |
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Baby Herman does this inside a kitchen during the Maroon Cartoons short "Somethin's Cookin'" at the beginning of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It's all Roger can do to protect him from harm. | |
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Chumley, Lady Walrus' infant son from Sonic Boom, often wanders off from his mother and ends up in a dangerous situation requiring Sonic and his friends to save him. | |
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In Pet Sematary, Louis's son Gage. He doesn't even wander that far before the inevitable happens. | |
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One NPC encountered in Metal Slug 2/X is a cute little baby that moves around aimlessly and even tries to perform a handstand, only to topple over before resuming its crawl. Wandering around in a war zone does nothing to deter its natural curiosity, although one wonders where its parents are and how it ended up on a battlefield in the first place. | |
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In Blue Yonder, Blue Yonder was apparently flying as a Three-Month-Old Newborn. | |
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If their mother is killed, wounded and hospitalized, or otherwise separated from them, babies in Dwarf Fortress will wander around the fortress without regard to safety. Civilian alerts don't work; babies ignore them, so there's no way to prevent them from crawling out to say hi to the besieging goblin army or whatever else is trying to kill everyone. | |
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Save Yourselves!: While Su and Jack are undergoing a Mushroom Samba, the baby they rescued ends up wandering away. Once Su is able to end their trip via an epinephrine ejection, the couple immediately searches for the baby. They eventually find it sitting in the woods... right near a pouffe. | |
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The second bonus level in Elite Beat Agents involves a baby escaping into a construction site with only a cat being able to protect him. | |
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Mai's little brother in Avatar: The Last Airbender is prone to wandering off. | |
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Arthur: four year old DW has wandered off a few times. Once when they visited the White House the President himself finds her (she says her family is lost, not her). In another episode she wanders away from her mother as Mom is waylayed by a client while out shopping; DW manages to coincidentally get back to her mother just as the conversation finishes. | |
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Happens in a one-off scene in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing. A baby on a pier nearly falls off as it chases a butterfly while Treize Kushrenada holds back the mother from rescuing it to prove a point about human nature and taking risks: the baby turns back at the last second and begins to walk. | |
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This ends with the worst possible outcome in Tarzan; Kerchak and Kala's child wanders away from its sleeping parents, and is promptly caught and killed by Sabor. | |
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On Sisters, the moment Georgie becomes thoroughly fed up with her sister Frankie and her estranged husband is when the two of them are so busy arguing that they fail to notice that their son Thomas George has crawled into the street and is about to be run over. It's Georgie who saves his life and she's so angry with them that she basically shoved the kid at them and storms off, ignoring their profuse gratitude. | |
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In an episode of Malcolm in the Middle when the family are at some convention event, Jamie wanders off, ends up toddling through the convention hall and somehow gets up into the rafters, and falls—just as Malcolm and Dewey, arguing over whether Dewey's shirt is "lucky" as the latter claims, are each tugging at the shirt: and this outstretched shirt is what Jamie falls into, saving him from hitting the floor. | |
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Mao of Chibi☆Devi! does this near the beginning of the anime (in the manga, he was kidnapped). | |
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Togepi from Pokémon has done this on more than one occasion. Pikachu frequently ends up a Badly Battered Babysitter trying to keep her out of danger. | |
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In My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Pinkie Pie faces a babysitter's worst nightmare when she tucks the foals Pound and Pumpkin Cake in their crib for a nap, looks away for second, and discovers they are missing. Turns out both foals are manifesting their powers: Pound can fly and Wall Crawl with his wings, and Pumpkin can apparently phase through objects. | |
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A Mythbusters episode tested the abilities of men and women to multitask. Part of the test involved making sure an animatronic baby didn't crawl out of a designated area. | |
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In a Good Dog, Carl! book, the baby's mother and her friend leave the baby with Carl, a Rottweiler and another dog while they have tea. The three wander off and have adventures, returning just in time for the women to find them. | |
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In The Casual Vacancy, Robbie Weedon wanders off and drowns because his sister, Krystal, is too busy getting Fats Wall to shag her to supervise him properly. | |
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The 1989 Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers episode Bearing Up Baby has an infant wander away from its parents' campsite into the woods, where it encounters a bear and a puma, among other hazards. | |
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Mega Babies has plenty of this, sometimes with disastrous results. | |
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