It’s one of the hoariest premises in fiction. A person, decidedly unfit to raise and care for children, is put in charge of younglings with indisposed parents. It is the kind of set-up that birthed many a 1980s sitcom, with laugh-tracks underscoring eye-rolls, comedy built on catchphrases and numerous iterations of the words “uh oh”. This week, as I look at two new and diametrically different comedies that, coincidentally, take three young upstarts and hand over their reins to monstrously inappropriate guardians, it is clear that no cliché is too old to rejuvenate.

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