BSCC: Mystery – Stacey and the Missing Ring

The episode for "Mystery #1: Stacey and the Missing Ring" was originally released on May 1, 2017 and is BSCC Mystery #1. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 1:06:57 long.This week's ghostwriter: Ellen Miles.

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## Official Episode Description

It's the first ever Baby-Sitters Club Mystery! And things get very mysterious, very quickly. Stacey McGill has stolen a powerful ring that turns the babysitters against each other. Meanwhile, the boys are attacked by a terrible spectral presence in the room, Tanner spills an entire beer onto his crotch, and it seems almost certain that a fissure has been opened up between our world and the strange parallel universe in which the Baby-Sitters Club Mysteries take place. Jack and Tanner also chat with Kelsey and Holland from Whatever It Takes: A Degrassi Podcast to get their insights on the thousand mystifying mysteries contained within Stacey and the Missing Ring.

## Music Credits

* “Midnight Story,” by Platinum EDM
* Original Intro by Scott Lamb
* Superbrat Outro by Superbrat

## Ann's Epithets

The epithet "Bane to Bats" is officially debuted this week.

## Book Description

Jack grafts a description of the A-Team with this book for his description. The boys discuss which sitter would be which character: Claudia would be Mr. T (B. A. Barakus), Kristy would be Hannibal, Stacey would be Face. There is some discussion about how Mary Anne fits; they decide to kick Mary Anne out ("that's a babysitter's club I can get behind") and place Dawn as Murdock. Jack later declares The A-Team as "good as hell" ("no I don't mean the movie from a few years ago!").

Tanner had a first, unaired description where he did a poor job and focused entirely on the names of a baby's pets. In his second, aired description, he does a good job though he doesn't finish in 60 seconds.

## Segments

###  Burn Of The Week

Jack describes this sub-podcast, like the Mystery books, as a spinoff that still captures the spirit of the original. His burn is on Dawn, "smells like an accident in a perfume factory".

Tanner didn't capture a burn.

###  Tanner Googles

Tanner Googles 1991 movies: Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Boys in the Hood, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, City Slickers, Hook, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. Addams Family, Hotshots, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2.

Later, Tanner Googles to try and find more information about Joey Conklin, the "reverse Jackie". He isn't listed on the BSC Wikia and everyone is worried. A reviewer on GoodReads leaves this in their review: "the thing that's funny about this is that she makes a big deal about him being jackie rodowsky-like (which is inaccurate because jackie never tries to be bad) but I don't think we ever hear about joey conklin ever again! memorable character introduction with no followup."

## Theories

###  Doll Theory

There's a new doll: ratty old clown doll named "Mr. Bog".

## Jack's References

* Jack's mall outfit: oversized JNCO jeans, Ralph Lauren sweatshirt, and a visor
* Through a glass darkly ("King James or nothing")
* Stacey as Smeagol, which Jack pronounces wrong; backed up by Stacey's obsession with rings and the only Stacey-Claudia fight in the canon so far.

## Tanner's References

* Drake
* Jean Valjean in Les Mis
* Reverse Flash mythology, and Joey Conklin vs Jackie

## Notes

* Tanner opens the episode by noting that the show is now part of the HeadGum network.
* "Seems fairly contemporary with where we are," says Tanner. This is Mystery #1, from August 1991, which is set near the time of Episode 48: Mary Anne Misses Logan. The boys posits parallel universes and alternate timelines like Marvel.
* Jack and Tanner previously guest-starred on Whatever It Takes, in "S7E4 It's Tricky".
* Jack's thumbprint opens Tanner's phone. Tanner drops an entire beer on himself and then Jack forgets to hit record on the podcast.
* There is no Happy Reading section in the end.
* Consensus is that the burglar is the same as the one from Episode 2: Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls.
* Additional discussion of the Earring Hierarchy and whether a "cuff" counts in the hierarchy.
* Tanner is the worst at transitions, which Jack hates.
* This is the one with the paranormal encounter with the crinkling noise in the corner of Jack's room. Tanner narrates the event, to much laughter. There is no clear reason for the noise (a Michaels bag filled with posterboard). "That's really triggering someone's ASMR."

## References & Links

1. ↑ Whatever It Takes: A Degrassi Podcast: on iTunes and on Twitter
2. ↑ Goodreads review of this book: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1471865225
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1\_Corinthians\_13#%22Through\_a\_glass,\_darkly%22
4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gollum
5. ↑ https://fanlore.org/wiki/Shipping
6. ↑ Drake: Started from the Bottom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RubBzkZzpUA
7. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean\_Valjean
8. ↑ https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Reverse-Flash
9. ↑ Marvel and alternate universes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse\_(Marvel\_Comics)
10. ↑ ASMR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous\_sensory\_meridian\_response

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