# Which movie or TV child would you adopt? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 18, 2004, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-or-tv-child-would-you-adopt/280542 "2004-12-18T18:07:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-or-tv-child-would-you-adopt/280542/61 "2004-12-30T20:53:52Z")
No, in the book, she could use her powers whether she was angry or not. Before the prom, for instance, she practiced by moving stuff around her room, gently so that her mom wouldn’t hear. Telekenisis doesn’t **have** to be a destructive power, after all. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-or-tv-child-would-you-adopt/280542/62 "2004-12-30T21:17:27Z")
I want Rachel’s daughter, Emma. Her parents are so scatterbrained…for crying out loud, Rachel was going to go to Paris without her! That kid needs an intact family, not two people that have so much baggage they can’t be proper parents. ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-or-tv-child-would-you-adopt/280542/63 "2004-12-30T21:32:49Z")
Was Samwise Gamgee a kid in the traditional sense? I’ll also take Kyle, Ike and Cartman please. I’d take Stan, but his sister would drive me batshit. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-or-tv-child-would-you-adopt/280542/64 "2004-12-30T21:35:55Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > Violet, Dashiel & Jack-Jack Parr. > > And I bet I don’t even have to explain who they are. > > Three really super kids. gotta love 'em. Can we work out an arrangement? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-or-tv-child-would-you-adopt/280542/65 "2004-12-30T21:57:58Z")
> [@](#): > > Wednesday and Pugsley Addams. Don’t forget that Pubert comes with them. Can I adopt Peabody’s boy Sherman? He seems a decent, helpful sort. ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-or-tv-child-would-you-adopt/280542/66 "2004-12-30T22:19:47Z")
Charlie and Sally Brown. I’d start by calling him by his first name for a change, I’d show favoritism to him (since Sally needs some humility), and get them both to a proper shrink (y’know, one who costs more than 7 cents). Best part about it? With Charlie Brown comes Snoopy, and how cool is _that_? ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2004, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-or-tv-child-would-you-adopt/280542/67 "2004-12-30T22:47:17Z")
I’ll take George Michael off _Arrested Development_. A few social issues (and we’d have to get rid of Yam), but on the whole, pleasant, clean, and hard-working. And he could finally hook up with Maeby! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-or-tv-child-would-you-adopt/280542/68 "2004-12-31T01:10:25Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Can we work out an arrangement? 🙂 As I gather, you’re a young lady. So… how do you look in spandex? 😉😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-or-tv-child-would-you-adopt/280542/69 "2004-12-31T01:46:17Z")
Red spandex. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-or-tv-child-would-you-adopt/280542/70 "2004-12-31T01:48:19Z")
Well, I certainly have been described as… _flexible_. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-or-tv-child-would-you-adopt/280542/71 "2004-12-31T01:59:16Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Well, I certainly have been described as… _flexible_. 😉 Wanna come up to my secret laboratory, & see my etchings of 1920’s Style Death Rays? ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-or-tv-child-would-you-adopt/280542/72 "2004-12-31T02:09:06Z")
You’re on. _flirts shamelessly_ ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-or-tv-child-would-you-adopt/280542/73 "2004-12-31T04:53:34Z")
> [@choie](#): > > Charlie and Sally Brown. I’d start by calling him by his first name for a change, I’d show favoritism to him (since Sally needs some humility), and get them both to a proper shrink (y’know, one who costs more than 7 cents). Best part about it? With Charlie Brown comes Snoopy, and how cool is _that_? _Seven_ cents? It was always five cents when I was a kid. When did her rates go up? I bet Charles HMO requires a bigger co-pay even though his rates have gone up. ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2004, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-or-tv-child-would-you-adopt/280542/74 "2004-12-31T08:25:49Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > _Seven_ cents? > > It was always five cents when I was a kid. When did her rates go up? I bet Charles HMO requires a bigger co-pay even though his rates have gone up. Heh. It was 5 cents when I was a kid too, but I remember for at least one strip she raised it to seven. Maybe it was during the heavy inflation of the early '90s? She seems to have brought it back down to 5 cents though. This way, Charlie’s dad is still able to support that round-headed kid’s much needed therapy, even with his meager barber’s salary. \ ---
**Author:** ![Badge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Badge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badge)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2005, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-or-tv-child-would-you-adopt/280542/75 "2005-01-01T11:19:22Z")
I think I would like to adopt young [Samantha Micelli](http://www.uwe.peterson.claranet.de/private/moviefaces/actress/m/am_boss0502.jpg) from _Who’s the Boss?_. I’m thinking that she might be [kinda cute](http://www.freenet.de/freenet/unterhaltung/tv/bildershows/alyssa_milano/bilder_gross/01.jpeg) when she grows up. What? It worked for Woody Allen, didn’t it? 🙂 Ouch! Hey, stop that! Quit throwing things! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2005, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-or-tv-child-would-you-adopt/280542/76 "2005-01-01T12:15:20Z")
Hermione Granger. Yep, absolutely, no question. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-movie-or-tv-child-would-you-adopt/280542.md?page=3)