I am a big fan of the Disney channel and I have watched it since a was very young, but I have a complaint about your show My Babysitter's a Vampire (MBV). I have noticed that the plots and sories in the show almost always are exactly or close to episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer shown in the late 90's to early 2000's. I know that the majority of your viewers are too young to remember or watch Buffy but that is no excuse for using other's work and claiming it as your own. To help illustrate my point a game of sorts; I will describe an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and you guess what episode of MBV it is (MBV writers should be good at this game). First one, Willow makes a love potion that goes wrong and ends up affecting another character Zander. The potion first makes girls love him but soon they want to kill him (sound familiar?). OK, next one; a witch is causing havoc with the cheerleading squad at Sunnydale high School, cheerleaders are being harmed so that one girl could be the best cheerleader. This witch Amy actually turns out to be her mother who felt that Amy was wasting her youth and then stole it from her in an effort to kind of become immortal. She ends up getting her wish because at the end of the episode she is trapped forever in a trophy in the school (at least until the school blows up). I could continue comparing MBV episodes with Buffy the Vampire Slayer but I felt two examples are good enough to get the ball rolling. If you decide to continue to take plot lines and episodes from Buffy I do have some suggestions: first off don't use any past high school expecially NOT season 6 (If you've seen Buffy you know what I mean), you should toatally rip off the egg episode (I was kind of surprised that you hadn't already), and finally avoid all Angel Buffy story lines and plots (it's not very disney friendly). I know that by this point in the review many have stopped reading if they bothered to in the first place but I do hope that one of the good writers left on disney hears about this and will be encouraged to write their own unique stories and not borrow from the 90's.
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