Premise
Kevin Burke (Christopher Sieber) is a college professor and widowed father living in Chicago, Illinois, who believes there is a scientific explanation for everything except how to control his scheming 13 year old daughters. Mary-Kate and Ashley Burke (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen) are fraternal twin sisters, who are complete opposites. Mary-Kate is a tomboy, whose biggest interest is perfecting her jumpshot and her curveball and her worst subject in school is Math. Ashley makes Straight A's and she dreams of a modeling career and boys.
And then there's Carrie (Sally Wheeler), a 26-year-old freshman in Kevin's class, who has come late to college after exploring the world. Carrie is quirky, difficult, beautiful, and quick to speak her mind, so when she answers Kevin's ad for a part-time baby sitter for the girls, he is convinced she's nothing but trouble and is in favor of their next door neighbor Mrs. Baker baby sitting Mary-Kate and Ashley. The girls think she is a dream-sitter come true, and agree to put their differences aside to join forces to make a little chemistry between their by-the-book father and the beautiful woman who seems to drive him crazy in all the right ways.
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