Episode 83: Super Special 12: Here Come the Bridesmaids!

The episode for "Super Special 12 - Here Come the Bridesmaids!" was originally released on October 16, 2017 and is #12. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 1:02:07 long.This week's ghostwriter: Peter Lerangis.

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## Official Episode Description

Here come the bridesmaids, and there goes our sense of basically everything that is right and decent, because Tanner decided we needed to read a Super Special, OUT OF ORDER, this week to make sense of whatever the hell is going on in our next BSC book, Kristy and Mr. Mom. So here we are at this "coast 2 coast wedding orgy," with plenty of brides but not quite enough bridesmaids, as Mary Anne is about to discover to her eternal dismay. All that being said, Ann is kind of burying the lede here, because something else is coming in this book, something that is vastly more frightening and dangerous than even the most diabolical of bridesmaids. Though, to be fair, if she’d called this one “Here Comes the Terror Clown,” it might have hurt the sales a bit. Enjoy!

## Music Credits

* “Beautiful Reasons,” by Jonny Easton
* “Carnival Lament,” by Robert Austin
* “Overture,” by Lionheart
* “The Prophecy,” by Fox Beat
* “Elegy of Death,” by Robert Austin
* Original Intro by Scott Lamb
* Heavy Metal Outro by Baby Bee Wolfkiller

## Book Description

Tanner's description is meandering, Jack's is hyper. Jack summarizes the seven plots:

* Bridesmaid bullshit between Mary Anne and Dawn
* Mal and Ben Hobart are fighting
* Jessi is Santa Clause
* Kristy is trying to be cool with the We Heart Kids Club
* Shannon and Mal are trying to control the Barrett kids
* Suzie is afraid that Santa Clause will lose his way
* Claudia is the photographer

## Segments

###  Burn Of The Week

Both Jeff burns this week:

Tanner: "a real dumb toast" in the official wedding book

Jack: "journals are dumb"

###  Claudia's Closet

Her hair was in dreadlocks. Two of them were dyed red and green. She was wearing this crazy neon-patterned jumpsuit under a tailored cotton jacket with padded shoulders.

###  Lerangis Moment

Baby Bee Kat: "My Lerangis" (Tanner Sings to the tune of "My Sharona")

Tanner didn't have a Lerangis moment and was surprised when he saw the acknowledgement at the end of the book.

Jack, in contrast, describes the prose as scintillating. His moment involves Lyle the Florist, and the flower names that confuse Claudia.

Tanner comes up with a moment: Lava Lamps described as "pig embryos swimming around in colored water tanks".

###  Tanner Googles

Tanner Googles what a "ducktail" haircut is.

## Theories

###  Witchcraft

The clown totem: a clown in a black and white costume that looked like it was crying. Jeff is aligned with the occult forces of this clown. Tanner describes the lamp as non-Euclidian.

## Jack's References

* "Have you heard of Boss Baby?"
* An "East-West marriage fest"
* This book is like the movie The Expendables, that didn't live up to its promise.
* "Have you read A Hundred Years of Solitude?"
* This novel is about the rituals of change and newness, because the seven are one again.
* Matrix 3 (Maggie's hair)
* The We Heart Kids Club eats Dawn in effigy (cake).
* Jack is extremely vexed by Mary Anne this week.
* Jack got a cat harness for Jenkins the Cat, who has now seen the outside world and is meowing wildly. The outdoors has changed him.

## Tanner's References

* Gravity boots
* Carly Rae Jepson's hair
* "This book was really frustrating because everyone's a dingleberry."
* Stanley Tucci's character in the Hunger Games; Devil Wears Prada; Easy A. "I don't know why I bring up pop culture references to you, like, ever."

## Notes

* This book was discussed a second time, with the remaining Super Specials: BSCSC 012: Here Come the Bridesmaids!
* Jack is very upset by his sense of order being disrupted, since this recording is out of series order. Tanner is making Jack read this Super Specials because too many things have happened.
	+ "I didn't even think about how to number this episode." / "I did!"
* New word: robocool.
* Tanner proclaims that he wants to start incorporating the Super Specials in the regular release schedule again.

## References & Links

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Expendables\_(2010\_film)#Reception
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One\_Hundred\_Years\_of\_Solitude
3. ↑ Gravity boots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversion\_therapy
4. ↑ Stanley Tucci in The Hunger Games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYDnZLMt8lM
5. ↑ Stanley Tucci in Devil Wears Prada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6sQ70RGUF0
6. ↑ Stanley Tucci in Easy A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oTeK2lBpdg

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