Episode 75: Mary Anne and Miss Priss

The episode for "Mary Anne and Miss Priss" was originally released on August 21, 2017 and is #73. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 1:00:24 long.This week's ghostwriter: Jahnna N. Malcolm.

*Previous:* Episode 74: Dawn and the We ♥ Kids Club | *Next:* Episode 76: Kristy and the Copycat | *Or,* see all episodes.

## Official Episode Description

Welcome to the "Jahnna N. Malcolm Hate Podcast," a podcast in which two small-minded men viciously, slanderously, and unfairly malign the beloved children’s literature of the entity known as Jahnna N. Malcolm, whose only crime is their deep love for one another and for making the world a better place by entertaining children and enriching their lives. In slightly better news, Mallory’s back in action, but the Baby-Sitters are still down one, and The Dolls are gaining power as they tighten the noose on the sleepy little town of Stoneybrook. And Baby Nation: If you learn one thing from this podcast, learn this: Don’t. Trust. Dolls.

## Music Credits

* “Empty Promise,” by Chad London
* “Love Potion,” by Fasol Prod
* “Carnival Lament,” by Robert Austin
* “Snowbird,” by The Wolf
* "Theme From 'The Fly,'" by Howard Shore
* Original Intro by Scott Lamb
* Superbrat Outro by Superbrat

## Ann's Epithets

Jack dislikes the term "Time Lordress"; they settle on "Time Lady" this week.

## Segments

###  Baller of the Week

Bob is the baller of the week - the photographer. Tanner and Jack roleplay it.

###  Burn Of The Week

Tanner: "They both love math so much - not!"

Jack: "They're sitting in the dirt like pigs!"

###  Refrigerator Play

The high heels are left in the vegetable drawer of the fridge; the pruning shears are in the bathroom cabinet.

## Theories

###  Doll Theory

Jenny has become a doll. Tanner references Episode 14: Good Bye Stacey, Good-Bye, during which Stacey sold her doll to Jenny. Now both Prezziosos have been taken by the dolls.

## Jack's References

* Jack sawed a fallen tree into tiny pieces in his yard, doing manly things.
* "It's interesting that you bring up Crime and Punishment, because I want to talk about deontology."
* The Jahnna N. Malcolm wikipedia page.
* Spiderman 2099
* "Let's play a game called The Robot."
* "I've been wanting to talk about Virtue Ethics." Jack then references Aristotle's golden mean.
* "It reminds me of Manichaeism."
* Aporia, an impasse, puzzle, expression of doubt.

## Tanner's References

* Tanner asks Jack if he did "sounding". Tanner spent some time going to the Whitney Museum and the Highline Park. Jack says he lived in NY long enough to know that this means Tanner had a visitor.
* Jason Todd from Batman. Peter Lerangis is "obviously" Dick Grayson, but Jahnna is Jason Todd aka anti-hero Red Hood.
* Superior Spiderman
* "I thought Carcassonne was a bad game too, before I played it."
* Tanner keeps trying to distract Jack throughout the episode. He balances a ruler on his lip and puts a Norse rune up his nose.
* "Like Star Wars. There's always going to be light vs. dark, evil vs. good."
* Tanner Sings some trial balloon songs for a Jahnna N. Malcolm Moment.
* Tanner argues with Jack about whether Zelda should be discussed.

## Notes

* Jack coins the term "League of Extraordinary Ghostwriters"
* This book is GCBSF.
* Tanner says "Dostoevsky's War and Peace" which makes Jack very upset.
* A Sweet Pete-esque comedic run on what starting the podcast with this episode would be like:
	+ Reading in the middle of Tugenev's Fathers and Sons
	+ Season 8 of the Simpsons and a bumblebee man.
	+ Reading in the middle of Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero For Our Time - who is this Pechorin character?
	+ Like starting with Myst Ages of Uru and being confused about linking books, Riven, etc.
	+ Start at the ending of Sologub's The Little Demon, is it a real demon, is it imagination?
* Some D & D alignment: lawful evil and chaotic evil, Good Jenny and Bad Jenny.
* Jack posits that a rift/fissure has formed because of the number of sitters. The seven are now six.
* Missing babies: Jackie hasn't been heard from in ~15 books (Episode 65: Claudia's Friend), Jaime Newton hasn't been heard from in ~30 (last noted on the wiki in Episode 27: Claudia and the Sad Goodbye, where he gave people J+).
* Jack shouts out to two Baby Bees: Kate, who listened to the BSCC in Puerto Rico, and Rose, who is in Siberia.

## References & Links

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahnna\_N.\_Malcolm
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man\_2099
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue\_ethics
4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism
5. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aporia
6. ↑ https://batman.fandom.com/wiki/Jason\_Todd
7. ↑ https://batman.fandom.com/wiki/Red\_Hood#The\_Second\_Red\_Hood
8. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Superior\_Spider-Man
9. ↑ Tanner was talking about the Last Jedi, which hadn't been released at the time of recording, but he has a good theory that might reflect on EpIX, unreleased at the time of this note: "the way to take down the Sith is to eliminate the Jedi, balance of the Force. It's right there in the text."
10. ↑ https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Darth\_Plagueis
11. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fathers\_and\_Sons\_(novel)
12. ↑ https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Bumblebee\_Man
13. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A\_Hero\_of\_Our\_Time
14. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uru:\_Ages\_Beyond\_Myst
15. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor\_Sologub#The\_Petty\_Demon
16. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakutsk

* Random Page | The One Where...