I love Sabrina Spellman. She's the perfect representation of people who think magic will solve their problems, because not only will it not solve your problems, it will only make them bigger. That's a lesson she learns in the hard way in... pretty much every episode of this series, and the animated series that preceded this one, and the live action series, and the comics... so, really, she never learned her lesson. It's the same formula: Sabrina wants something, or wants to do something, then she's denied, then she turns to magic, she screws up royally, uses magic again to turn things back to normal and is left holding the bag... of tricks, that is. So how does she mess things up this week? Well, it all started one Friday afternoon when Aunts Hilda and Zelda would be going out of town, and Sabrina was sure she would be trusted enough to stay home alone. As she brags about this to her friend, Maritza, who should come along but her rival, Cassandra, who manages to guilt her into throwing a party. Yeah, she wants to be "with it" like the other girls. Well, if the other girls jumped off a cliff, would Sabrina do it too? Yeah, probably. Well, at least she has the house to herself for the weekend... no, as predicted, her aunts don't trust her as far as they could throw her, so they get her a babysitter. Yep, elderly Mrs. Pratt, who instantly takes to slipping a pink sweater on Salem and stroking him as hard as she could. Well, what's a desperate, teenage half-witch who promised a party in an empty house to all her friends to do? Ask Salem for help, of course. In exchange for 1/3 of Sabrina's pizza, he suggests finding her aunts' old spell book in the attic and magically make Mrs. Pratt younger. So after leafing through the ancient tome, she finds the spell and calculates the old bat's age to be around 80, and wants to make her around 20, because 20-year-olds are never party poopers. Well, I think it goes without saying that the spell works all too well, as Mrs. Pratt goes from an elderly woman to an infant! D'oh! And worse yet, Maritza drops by. Sabrina can't simply tell her the truth, because she's a mortal. Well, so was your other friend, Chloe, and you had no problem telling her. Witches sure have strange rules. Well, I guess it wouldn't be as funny as if she couldn't hide her little faux pas and give us sub-sitcom hijinks. So she fibs and says she was forced to babysit at the last minute. Yeah, that works.
So now the two girls are stuck with babysitting duties, and as you would expect, they're completely clueless. When they deduce the baby is hungry, Sabrina tries to give it pizza, then pours milk in a glass. No, you put it in a bottle, dum-dum. She conjures one up via magic and then, that problem is solved. Until they burp the baby, making her spit up all over Salem, who then licks it up. Gross! Oh, and speaking of gross, now the baby has a dirty diaper. They don't know how to conjure one up, and Salem says he's never even seen a diaper... well, that's an odd thing to say. Surely he was around when Sabrina was a baby? No matter, they decide to just go buy some, and Salem conjures up a baby carriage with a pumpkin ala Cinderella. Speaking of which, you know how Cinderella had until midnight? Well, Salem doesn't find out until it's nearly too late that the carriage has a time of span of roughly ten minutes... so after running up and down the walls screaming, he runs after the girls, who had just spent a whopping $30 on baby supplies, and catches the little tyke right as the carriage disappears. Good, crisis averted. Boy, the absurd lengths they'll go to keep their magic stuff a secret. So by the time they get back to the house, the little brat is still crying up a storm, and of course, the kids all arrive for Sabrina's party. Needless to say, the party dies before it even starts, because while Sabrina uses her hairdryer to warm a baby bottle, she watches Cassandra putting the moves on Harvey. What's more, when two girls decide the meager snacks Sabrina put out as party food sucked, they go for microwave popcorn, thus overloading the circuits and causing a blackout. Deciding that having no grown ups around isn't as fun as they thought, Sabrina decides it's time to change Mrs. Pratt back into an adult. Unfortunately, neither she nor Salem can find a reversal in any spell book. However, when Cassandra goes snooping around the house and discovers what's what, she manages to change her back into an adult with a wave of her hands. Maybe Sabrina could have figured that out, but I guess she isn't that smart. Well, when the babysitter discovers the party going on, she phones Hilda and Zelda, who rush right home and make Sabrina aware of the monumental trouble she's in. As we close, Sabrina and Maritza talk on the phone about how hard adults have it and decide they want to stay teenagers forever. Sabrina says that will take some powerful magic, but she'll work on it... I thought she wasn't allowed to tell her friend she's a witch. Well, she just gave it away.
This episode was quite funny and enjoyable, though it features an older-than-dirt plot formula. The classic babysitting routine: take an inexperienced character and put them in charge of an infant. Hilarity will ensue. Sometimes it will be a real baby, other times it will be another character having been turned into one. It works so well and is so much fun to watch every time. I mean, who doesn't love babies? Well, unless you have to deal with them I guess. I'm sure this experience not only made Sabrina and Maritza more appreciative of being teenagers, but will serve as a very good lesson against teen pregnancy. To think, this whole batty situation could've been avoided if Sabrina just called Cassandra's bluff and said something like, "yeah, I'm having a party, but you're not invited." Or maybe said nothing and not had the blasted party in the first place, but then teenagers are not noted for rational thinking. So do I recommend Sabrina's Secret Life: Baby Makes Three? Sure. Even if you don't watch the series regularly or are a fan of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, you'll still enjoy it. As I said, it's a classic formula. In fact, the premise of this episode was very similar to the movie Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, except there, the babysitter just died on them. Imagine if that had happened here instead of being turned into a baby.
So now the two girls are stuck with babysitting duties, and as you would expect, they're completely clueless. When they deduce the baby is hungry, Sabrina tries to give it pizza, then pours milk in a glass. No, you put it in a bottle, dum-dum. She conjures one up via magic and then, that problem is solved. Until they burp the baby, making her spit up all over Salem, who then licks it up. Gross! Oh, and speaking of gross, now the baby has a dirty diaper. They don't know how to conjure one up, and Salem says he's never even seen a diaper... well, that's an odd thing to say. Surely he was around when Sabrina was a baby? No matter, they decide to just go buy some, and Salem conjures up a baby carriage with a pumpkin ala Cinderella. Speaking of which, you know how Cinderella had until midnight? Well, Salem doesn't find out until it's nearly too late that the carriage has a time of span of roughly ten minutes... so after running up and down the walls screaming, he runs after the girls, who had just spent a whopping $30 on baby supplies, and catches the little tyke right as the carriage disappears. Good, crisis averted. Boy, the absurd lengths they'll go to keep their magic stuff a secret. So by the time they get back to the house, the little brat is still crying up a storm, and of course, the kids all arrive for Sabrina's party. Needless to say, the party dies before it even starts, because while Sabrina uses her hairdryer to warm a baby bottle, she watches Cassandra putting the moves on Harvey. What's more, when two girls decide the meager snacks Sabrina put out as party food sucked, they go for microwave popcorn, thus overloading the circuits and causing a blackout. Deciding that having no grown ups around isn't as fun as they thought, Sabrina decides it's time to change Mrs. Pratt back into an adult. Unfortunately, neither she nor Salem can find a reversal in any spell book. However, when Cassandra goes snooping around the house and discovers what's what, she manages to change her back into an adult with a wave of her hands. Maybe Sabrina could have figured that out, but I guess she isn't that smart. Well, when the babysitter discovers the party going on, she phones Hilda and Zelda, who rush right home and make Sabrina aware of the monumental trouble she's in. As we close, Sabrina and Maritza talk on the phone about how hard adults have it and decide they want to stay teenagers forever. Sabrina says that will take some powerful magic, but she'll work on it... I thought she wasn't allowed to tell her friend she's a witch. Well, she just gave it away.
This episode was quite funny and enjoyable, though it features an older-than-dirt plot formula. The classic babysitting routine: take an inexperienced character and put them in charge of an infant. Hilarity will ensue. Sometimes it will be a real baby, other times it will be another character having been turned into one. It works so well and is so much fun to watch every time. I mean, who doesn't love babies? Well, unless you have to deal with them I guess. I'm sure this experience not only made Sabrina and Maritza more appreciative of being teenagers, but will serve as a very good lesson against teen pregnancy. To think, this whole batty situation could've been avoided if Sabrina just called Cassandra's bluff and said something like, "yeah, I'm having a party, but you're not invited." Or maybe said nothing and not had the blasted party in the first place, but then teenagers are not noted for rational thinking. So do I recommend Sabrina's Secret Life: Baby Makes Three? Sure. Even if you don't watch the series regularly or are a fan of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, you'll still enjoy it. As I said, it's a classic formula. In fact, the premise of this episode was very similar to the movie Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, except there, the babysitter just died on them. Imagine if that had happened here instead of being turned into a baby.