Comedy
Dead Boy Detectives
Dead Boy Detectives targets teens in style and story. But it comes with very adult, problematic content.
Thirteen-year-old Gabby Duran has always felt a bit…average. With successful, beautiful mom Dina and genius little sister Olivia, Gabby feels like the misfit in her own family.
And she feels even more out of place now that she and her family have moved from Miami to Havensburg, Colorado, following her parents’ divorce. Away from family, friends and a familiar school, Gabby is out of her depth. So, she concocts a plan to get kicked out of her new school by duct-taping Principal Swift’s car.
Unfortunately, instead of getting kicked out, Principal Swift is impressed with Gabby’s spunk and presents her with the offer of a lifetime: babysitting his extraterrestrial nephew, Jeremy.
You see, Principal Swift is actually a shapeshifting, Gor-Monite alien from a faraway planet. And he’s here on earth to guard and protect young Jeremy, the future Gor-Monite leader, from those who aren’t yet ready to see him take the throne. But it’s an exhausting job trying keep Jeremy’s extraterrestrial identity a secret and Principal Swift needs help.
Good thing Gabby is all about this new assignment. After all, it isn’t every day that you get the chance to protect the future leader of a planet and become the best babysitter in the galaxy.
Based on the novel of the same name by Elise Allen and Daryle Conners, Disney’s Gabby Duran & The Unsittables follows spunky, strong-willed Gabby through her crazy adventures as the neighborhood, alien babysitter.
Each episode (most run a little more than 20 minutes) focuses on Gabby, her personal life, the friends she makes along the way and all her wild adventures. And, of course, it features some pretty cool technology and alien gadgets, too.
Solidly landing at a TV-G rating, Gabby occasionally has a poor attitude and can be dismissive of instruction. But as the show progresses, she becomes more thoughtful, kind and responsible. And as Gabby learns how to be her best self, kids watching might also learn a thing or two about acceptance, kindness and responsibility.
Gabby and her younger sister, Olivia, prepare the house for their dad’s annual Christmas visit. But when her father’s flight is delayed, Gabby asks Principal Swift, secretly a visitor from outer space, to disguise himself as her dad to make Olivia happy. Alien child Jeremy, is determined to prove that Santa Claus is actually “an evil, alien, soul-sucking monster.”
Gabby grieves her parents divorce and wishes she could see her dad more often. In a moment of anger, Gabby throws the Christmas turkey at her family’s Christmas tree and storms upstairs to her room.
Jeremy believes that Santa Claus distracts children with presents in order to “suck their brains dry” And “feast on [their] life force”. Gabby and her sister joke about the ghost of Christmas past.
Two kids get zapped by lasers. Gabby tells an alien to swallow a tooth. A man admires his own muscles. Gabby says “dang it.”
Kristin Smith joined the Plugged In team in 2017. Formerly a Spanish and English teacher, Kristin loves reading literature and eating authentic Mexican tacos. She and her husband, Eddy, love raising their children Judah and Selah. Kristin also has a deep affection for coffee, music, her dog (Cali) and cat (Aslan).
Dead Boy Detectives targets teens in style and story. But it comes with very adult, problematic content.
An elf mage contemplates on connection and regret as she watches her human friends grow old and pass away.
