Episode 97: Stacey McGill, Super Sitter

The episode for "Stacey McGill, Super Sitter" was originally released on January 29, 2018 and is BSC #94. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 1:02:29 long.This week's ghostwriter: Suzanne Weyn.

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## Official Episode Description

Having seen the error of her ways after falling in with Crime Girls, Stacey McGill is riding the baby-sitting dragon again, but she’s not out of danger yet! That’s right, the Herald has appeared, the clairvoyant has spoken her baleful prophecy, and it won’t be too long now before those adorable little Otter Bishops start preaching about the end of days. Fortunately, it’s not all doom and gloom this week, because the boys are paid a visit by their dear friend Handel, Logan finally decided to put a ring on it, and the BSC came through in a big way with some good, clean baby-sitting fun.

## Music Credits

* “Detective,” by Schwartzburg
* “Crooning High Big Band Jazz,” by Giorgio di Campo
* “Reflections at the Piano,” by Music Break
* “Snowbird,” by AnonymOus
* Original Intro by Scott Lamb
* Superbrat Outro by Superbrat

## Book Description

Tanner entertains himself with a paper towel tube and the trivia game HQ while Jack does his noir description.

## Segments

###  Burn Of The Week

*Timestamp 51:42*

Tanner: "Crusty Toenails, that's you."

Jack uses a quote from Great Gatsby.

###  Great American Novel of the Week

*Timestamp 42:50*

Classy classical music plays. (Tanner and Jack reference Handel, Bach, and Scarlatti.)

This week: Stacey McGill, Super Sitter, or F. Scott Fitzgerald?

Tanner uses the opening line of Great Gatsby in conversation and catches Jack unawares.

###  Soileau You Into the Dark

*Timestamp: 35:40*

Tanner and Jack are list professionals, so they try to analyze the list on the cover of the book.

It's apocalyptic.

* Max Headroom?
* Madame Sosostris (from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land
* Otter bishops
* Clean pies/kids
* Poison meteor (checked off)
* Blank iris
* Shapes don't go tomorrow

## Jack's References

* The great troubadours: Arnaut Daniel, Peire Vidal. Then Jack recites the opening of "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" by the Backstreet Boys
* Daniel Day-Lewis
* Sisyphean task of making money
* Cupidity
* Bram Stoker's Dracula

## Tanner's References

* Pokemon Ditto
* Gatsbying: Tanner and Jack's party trick. Wait until people are chatting and having fun, then stand in front of a window staring out until someone comes and asks you what you are doing.

## Notes

* Tanner opens the episode with an ad hominem against Jack, reciting lines from this book.
* Jack is back to work this week, Baby Nation.
* Though the boys are reluctant to award the moniker to a Stacey book, there is much discussion about whether this was GCBSF.
* Tanner discusses the weird energy of the Logan POV chapter in a non-super-special book.
* This book is about the dangers of excess.
* The boys provide some NYC knowledge mocking Stacey's desire to own a car there.
* A new Happy Reading ending. The five ways to end the section so far:
	+ Happy reading,
	+ Happy reading! (Pete)
	+ Happy trails! (Ellen)
	+ (nothing) (Episode 96: Mary Anne and the Memory Garden - The Entity)
	+ Happy reading and happy sitting, (this week, Suzanne)
* More veilwalkers this week: Keanu Reeves, Macaulay Culkin, and Winona Ryder.
* In the stinger the boys talk about how Ellen Miles was consigned to the mystery series. (Last seen in Episode 47: Kristy and the Baby Parade. Don't worry, she'll be back to the regular series soon, in Episode 104: Claudia Kishi, Middle School Dropout.)

## References & Links

#### Literature

1. ↑ The Great Gatsby: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Great\_Gatsby
2. ↑ Madame Sosostris (from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Waste\_Land
3. ↑ Arnaut Daniel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnaut\_Daniel
4. ↑ Peire Vidal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peire\_Vidal
5. ↑ Sisyphean task: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus
6. ↑ cu·pid·i·ty /kyo͞oˈpidədē/ noun. greed for money or possessions.
7. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad\_hominem
#### Culture

1. ↑ HQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HQ\_Trivia
2. ↑ Max Headroom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max\_Headroom\_(character)
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel\_Day-Lewis
4. ↑ Bram Stoker's Dracula: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram\_Stoker%27s\_Dracula
5. ↑ https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Ditto\_(Pok%C3%A9mon)
6. ↑ More Home Alone references this week: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home\_Alone
#### Music

1. ↑ Handel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George\_Frideric\_Handel
2. ↑ Bach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann\_Sebastian\_Bach
3. ↑ Scarlatti: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domenico\_Scarlatti
4. ↑ "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" by the Backstreet Boys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody\_(Backstreet%27s\_Back)

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