Episode 6: Kristy's Big Day

The episode for "Kristy’s Big Day" was originally released on April 4, 2016 and is #6. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 45:39 long.This week's ghostwriter: none.

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## Official Episode Description

Love! Marriage! Last minute 'spaghetti things' in the kitchen! It all happens this week when Jack and Tanner sit down to discuss book six of The Baby-sitter's Club, "Kristy's Big Day"! I hope you like Tearful Moments because you're gonna be drowning in our tears (well, Tanner's tears at least) this week.

## Book Description

* Jack: "It's Elizabeth and Watson's big day - they are finally uniting in front of everyone in their small town. But strange magics are brewing. A dark magic and a white magic are coming together, and there may be aliens on the horizon. Will they survive this attack on Stonybrook, CT in time to join together in the power of their own love? Or is this the last of the babysitters club."
* Tanner: completes the book description in 50 seconds.

## Segments

###  Tanner Googles

(unofficial) Tanner Googles the colors of chrysanthemums for a segment on color magic.

###  Tearful Moment

* Jack: When Watson and Elizabeth tie the knot;
* Tanner: “the last fifteen goddamn pages in this book”, in particular the Watson-Brewer family tree

## Theories

###  Bee Theory

Jack: “Yes, this is my point. This is not necessarily true life. This is an alternate reality.”
Tanner: “No, no, no. This is a beehive.”
Jack: “What?!”
Tanner: “These are bees. Every character in this book is a bee, and they’re all just raising bees for the brood queen, to act as her workers, to go out and collect pollen.”
Jack: “God, that makes so much sense.”

Timestamp 12:01, the beginning of Bee Theory.

Tanner: “What if it’s bees all the way down?”

Jack: “The Bee-bee Sitter Club.”

###  Witchcraft

* Tanner: There’s no such thing as magic or Martians or black or white magic.
* Jack provides the description of Mrs. Porter showing up at the wedding.
## * There is a discussion of color magic re: wedding flowers and baby organization. White flowers are white magic, black flowers are black magic. Jack's References

	+ this book is an epithalamium: song or poetry about marriage: Theocritus, Catullus, Edmund Spencer
	+ Jack wrote a lot of stuff about totalitarianism
	+ Martians
## + Cassandra complexTanner's References

	+ Tanner is a Pokemon
	+ The “The Baby-Sitter’s Club” Club
	+ Jack is Frodo to Tanner’s Samwise; Jack is the Harry to Tanner’s Ron
	+ the television series 24
	+ what if Morbidda Destiny is a Snape-like character?
	+ The Thomas Crowne Affair
## + Green LanternNotes

		- introduction of the Jamie Newton “Hi hi” catchphrase
		- Why Kristy doesn’t believe in God, or football, and a discussion of the Sunday dread
		- the unfortunate discussion of what 14 year old boys want
		- Kristy’s mom’s job: evidence that she is an art thief, and that Watson is an art thief fence
		- Introduction of the nomenclature “Baby Boys”, “Baby Girls”, and “Baby Bees” for fans of the podcast
		- Jack officiated Tanner’s wedding (to a human, not a bee)
		- ”last minute spaghetti things”Notable Non-Sitters

## Claudia is wearing a bra now, and the way she talks, you’d think boys had just been invented.References & Links

	+ Random Page | The One Where...