Episode 62: Mary Anne's Makeover

Cover alteration by Baby Bee Angela

The episode for "Mary Anne's Makeover" was originally released on May 8, 2017 and is #60. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 59:05 long.This week's ghostwriter: Peter Lerangis.

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## Official Episode Description

Mary Anne is finally getting that makeover we’ve been hearing about for so long! We also have reason to believe that Mr. Spier and Logan have a lot more in common than we thought, and that Mr. Spier and the X-Men’s Wolverine have a lot more in common than we thought. He’s the best there is at what he does, and what he does is weird sex play with food. Also, Jack is moving to Texas so nothing else really matters.

## Music Credits

* “Sepia” by Podington Bear
* “Red in Black” by Kosta T
* “Vessel” by Ship Wrek, Zookeepers & Trauzers
* "A Storm At Eilean Mor" by Jon Luc Hefferman
* Original Intro by Scott Lamb
* Superbrat Outro by Superbrat

## Book Description

Tanner spends the entirety of Jack's description mocking him (since they are now on separate audio tracks). The FaceTime call fails in the middle of Tanner's description, so Tanner completes the entire book while Jack is off the call.

## Segments

###  Baller of the Week

"At the other end of the room, Sabrina's date looked around, smiled, and shook his shoulders." Carlos Mendez.

###  Burn Of The Week

Tanner: "boy haircut and clown makeup" and "go choke on an alfalfa sprout". Tanner suggests that Baby Nation should go on Twitter and direct the latter burn at Jack. "Now go change your pants" is the suggested stinger on this burn.

Jack: "at least they didn't scalp off your voice box, too". Tanner is unimpressed by this burn.

###  Lerangis Moment

The boys call Pete a "joke nymph" and praise his "lyrical prose" but do not call out a specific moment.

###  Refrigerator Play

Mary Anne, have you seen my spaghetti tongs?

They're on the towels in the linen closet, I told her.

###  Soileau You Into the Dark

What Hodges is trying to tell us.

Jack brings up the cover art. Claudia has a crucifix around her neck.

###  Tearful Moment

Tanner: when the Arnold twins do their time machine; Marilyn was a good sister and pretends the time machine works.

Jack admits his tearful moment is predictable, a Mr. Spier moment.

## Theories

###  Amber Theory

Stoneybrook is trapped in a temporal bubble, like mosquitoes trapped in Amber from the Jurassic period. This week, Tanner posits that perhaps it's just the BSC trapped in amber, and not the entire town. Tanner quotes from Episode 10: Logan Likes Mary Anne to support this theory.

###  Factions

Hunter is a tragic character. This week, Hunter got a dinosaur backpack and has fallen to the dinosaur faction.

More alignment talk: dinosaurs are chaotic evil, demons are lawful evil.

###  Witchcraft

Logan is messing with time.

Tanner proposes a mad theory that Mr. Spier is Logan Bruno, gone forward in time to watch over Mary Anne.

## Tanner's References

* The scene in West Wing when Josh Lyman gets shot + smash cut to credits, parallels with Anne's Happy Reading section.

## Notes

* This is a much-anticipated episode.
* Jack is calling from Austin, TX, where he is about to live, and wants to be called "Tex".
	+ Later, Tanner is excited that he can make snarky remarks while Jack is talking, because they're on separate audio tracks now.
* The boys are jazzed that Dawn and Pete are going to the January Jamboree together.
* The book references a Reader Request: "Logan Bruno, Boy Babysitter". Tanner and Jack are both excited by the description and say that they have to read it.
* Time shenanigans:
	+ Mary Anne last made NY resolutions in Episode 52: Dawn’s Big Date. An entire year passed in ten books.
	+ Sabrina Bouvier is back, last seen in Episode 16: Little Miss Stoneybrook...and Dawn; she is now an 8th grader and not a child.
* The one where the guys make the gross "eh" noise.
* In the stinger, Tanner describes "shadowboxing".

## References & Links

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old\_Man\_Logan

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