She and her other guests mistreat him and exclude him from many activities (because 'he's not even a real kid he's adopted'), so Junior takes his revenge on her by doing the following: filling the pinata with the contents of several pickle jars, throwing her presents in the pool, putting a live frog in the punch bowl, and replacing the cake's candles with firecrackers. Birthday Party Goes Wrong: Junior goes to a Lucy's birthday party.Big Bad: Martin, aka the Bow Tie Killer, the escaped convict who Junior writes letters to, becomes a bigger danger to Ben's family than Junior could ever be.Because You Were Nice to Me: Junior is shown to actually like Ben as a father, since Ben was the first person to adopt him to actually treat him better.After hitting the ball, he holds onto the bat while making his way to the bases and uses it to beat up anyone in his way. Batter Up!: Junior's dad gives him the tip of 'holding onto the bat' after two strikes.And There Was Much Rejoicing: The nuns throw a celebration at the orphanage when Ben Healy decides to adopt Junior.All Just a Dream: The TV version adds a scene during Martin's ink blot test, in which he hallucinates, and dreams about being set to the electric chair, and escaping from it in the process, but not before sending the Warden to it.Adoption Diss: Lucy Henderson's friends say that Junior's 'not even a real kid.Peabody wears a Watchmen button on his suit. In 3, when Murph (Eric Edwards) introduces Junior to his sister Bertha (played by Edwards in drag), Junior says 'Who let her out of Jurassic Park?' Both Jurassic Park and Problem Child franchises are Universal releases.

The poster of the 1st movie resembles that of Parenthood.Shout-Out: Below is a list of examples from all three movies:.Re-Cut: Both 1 and 2 aired on television, edited for content, but with newly-added scenes to make up for what was cut.The problem is that a lot of people find it easy to take advantage of that kindness. Nice Guy: Ben Healy is the nicest person in the series, hands down, because he genuinely loves Junior even when he's bad.Peabody, was an adoption agent in the first film, a principal in the second (and cartoon) and a dentist in the third. New Job as the Plot Demands: Gottfried's character, Mr.Meaningful Name: Ben Healy literally heals Junior.It's All About Me: Flo Healy and LaWanda Dumore only care about making themselves look good.Bad to the Bone: Junior's Leitmotif is George Thorogood and the Destroyers' 'Bad To The Bone', and the opening riff sounds pretty often when he's causing mayhem.This is before he meet the Healys, and the man who would become his dad. Babysitter's Nightmare: Junior is characterized as a holy terror through this trope, being passed from foster family to foster family before winding up in the care of an orphan home run by nuns.

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