Episode 19: Stacey's Mistake

The episode for "Stacey's Mistake" was originally released on July 4, 2016. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 46:13 long.This week's ghostwriter: none.

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## Official Episode Description

Great! Everything is so great! Definitely no major catastrophes this week. Just your typical, high-energy, enthusiastic Jack and Tanner having a lively discussion about the next book in the Baby-Sitter's Club series: "Stacey's Mistake!" Stacey certainly made some mistakes this week, but not ole' Jack and Tanner. Those dudes have everything all figured out. Haha! So great! Just... great.

## Book Description

“Hard-bitten, film noir kind of thing.”

Six girls visit New York City.

## Segments

###  Burn Of The Week

Jack: Claudia burns Laine in regards to her name-dropping with "Herbert von Knuflebacker." Celebrity doesn't matter, we are all going to die.

Tanner: “You are an old toad.”

###  Deep Voice Boys

Vice President Mark Markson (Jack), came over from Synertech. Samson ThrobTorso (Tanner) a new employee at Goliath Industries. This roleplay is happening over Slack, and the point of the roleplay is to demonstrate the use of the “old toad” burn in context.

## Theories

###  Bee Theory

The only type of insect these girls know is “bees”.

###  Doll Theory

Claudia is an empty shell like a porcelain doll and is fully a doll person.

## * The French witch hunters are referenced in connection with Amber Theory. Jack's References

	+ Rosemary's Baby
	+ A lot of intertextuality between this novel and  Kristy's Big Day
	+ Jack tries to come up with an “ascending tricolon” to end the episode.
	+ Tori Amos “Little Earthquake” and “Cornflake Girl” and “Strange Little Girls” and “Silent All These Years”

		### Jack’s Notes

		Originally on babysittersclubclub.com, now accessed through archive.org:

		*As discussed in Episode 8: Boy-Crazy Stacey, the previous Stacey installment, the Stacey books are often a deliberate nod to the great epistolary novels of the 18th century, and this one is no exception. In addition to format, Stacey books share with the early epistolary novel a deep concern with social order that is enacted by putting a relationship in moral peril for the ultimate purpose of upholding the social values that underpin it once the danger is overcome. I'm thinking particularly of Richardson here, whose Pamela follows this formula directly (and whose Clarissa is a more complex variety of the same set of themes), but also of Smollett's The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, which also shares with Stacey's Mistake a travel narrative and a consequent appraisal of urban versus country values. In Martin, of course, these paradigms are subverted, with the moral peril introduced by Stacey's physically and morally dangerous New York working its dark magic on the girls in a way that brings about a full reversal of the individual characteristics that had hitherto acted as their moral true north, much like what happens in a later, infamous epistolary novel that introduced the world to vampires.*Tanner's References

Jenkins is THRILLED to have Tanner around for a second episode record in one week.

This is not Jenkins the Cat but somehow I think he'd approve. (source)

	+ ”Without Me” by Eminem
	+ ”Rudy, Rudy, Rudy” is a reference to the finale of the 1993 film starring Sean Astin.
	+ Here’s what I don’t like about the Warhammer 40K mythology: chaos and the agents of chaos. “I think the Sitter-verse and the Warhammer 40K-verse have a lot in common.”
## + Tanner compares the aging of the animals to the apes in Planet of the Apes.Notes

	+ Jack’s Roomba is named Scott Lamb.
	+ Jack and Tanner lost the first recording of this episode, so this version is the second recording, and pretty loose.
	+ This week, the boys are “JAS and T-DawG”.
	+ There is a dramatic Roomba incident in this episode.
	+ Tanner pets Jenkins the Cat with a plastic knife.
	+ The boys discuss each of the babysitters and how they’ve reversed their personalities. Jack declares Dawn his favourite baby-sitter.
	+ The Infinite Sadness of Claudia is that she remains unchanged. The boys say that this is because she brought everything with her on the trip, every item of clothes she owns. She is already an empty shell.
## + This is the first appearance of the BSCC extended family on the podcast: Jack’s wife Sarah. She says “hi hi”.References & Links

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