An Agreeable Nanny
Summary:
The Parker family kids are convinced that they are too grown-up for a babysitter. A parents’ night out, a nanny named Maria, and the neighbor’s dog Bruno may be their opportunity to prove themselves.
Review:
Acting/Characters: I thought that the kids were oddly bad since a few minuets ago they were trying to convince their parents that they were responsible. And Camilla was deliberately disobedient by watching what she knew was a bad movie after Maria told her to make sure that it was appropriate.
I also think that it would have been cool if the babysitter was Gloria McCoy. Even though she would be way out of collage by now, but Odyssey time doesn't make sense anyway.
Sound: I did have too turn the volume down during the hectic scene with the fire alarm. And the sound affects in the banana fight were realistic but disgusting.
Lesson: The lesson was weak. It was another one about being responsible and we already had one or two of those in album 51.
I give it 3/5.
"This episode was written in part to help promote Focus on the Family's basketball camps. It also features the appearance of an adult character named Alex Jefferson. In "The Eternal Birthday" (album 33), we introduced a kid character named Alex Jefferson because we forgot that we'd already used that name for a basketball player."
"The scene in, 'But Not Forgotten,' might sound a little too real, my son, Landon, is an adult now, but at the time, he played the role of scrub. We were in the studio recording his lines, but he wasn't getting into the emotion of the scene very well. We kept giving him direction and after a while it got too much for the little guy, and the tears started to flow. Instead of stopping to console him we realized that we should get the lines in while he was feeling the emotion of the part. The result was a powerful scene and a lot of razzing from my friends about being a heartless father. (By the way Landon was fine afterward and we have a great relationship to this day. Phew!)"