Live: Super Mystery 001: Baby-Sitters Haunted House

Live show! (Image from Baby Bee KJ, introing the episode on guitar.)

The episode for "Live: Super Mystery 001: Baby-Sitters Haunted House" was originally released on February 25, 2019 and is #1. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 1:21:56 long.This week's ghostwriter: Jeanne Betancourt.

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## Official Episode Description

Live at Littlefield in Brooklyn, NY, the boys dig deep into one of the greatest mysteries of all time: What the heck is going on with ghostwriter Jeanne Betancourt and her twisted blood orgies? It may just be part of her writing process for these Super Mysteries, in which case it worked! Plenty of spooky ghosts, scary vampires, and unsavory teenage boys in this one, not to mention a whole mess of parades, because Stoneybrook has finally gone fully off the deep end. This is the first (and therefore, currently, best) BSCC live show! Avoid this one if you're scandalized by wine crimes.

## Music Credits

* “Inspirational Dreams,” by StereoNuts
* “You Gotta Have Theremin and Ukulele,” by Squidlord
* “Emotional Documentary Background,” by musicdream
* “Lovely Memories Ident,” by CreativeMedias\_net
* “Kantai Collection: KanColle Theme,” by Akino from bless4
* An extra special thanks to KJ from The Oddysy for playing our theme song!

## Book Description

“Jack does it in a way that is overwrought and obnoxious. And then I do it for real, in just sixty seconds.”

In a shocking twist, the “big bad clock” is just Jack with an audio file called “clock sound effect .wav”. Baby Nation is stunned, news at 11.

Tanner recites the premise from House on Haunted Hill in lieu of a description.

## Segments

###  Burn Of The Week

This is a burn-light book.

Tanner: “You could just chew on shredded paper, and it would taste the same.”

Jack: “But I thought the point of the club was to have sitters available!”

###  Claudia's Closet

Jack surprises Tanner with a Claudia’s Closet segment.

This week, Tanner dresses as Claudia in a literal “honey” sweatshirt.

 ###  Deep Voice Boys

Our heroes, deep in a DVB roleplay.

Tanner is Goliath Hardbody. Jack is Dave Daveson. Goliath is calling Dave on the phone for an emergency board meeting. They read a quote from Mr. Menders, and then go around the table to introduce themselves.

Tanner is Goliath Hardbody, president of Hardbody Industries, who recently acquired the Kids Incorporated and Synertech companies. Jack is Dave Daveson, who is trapped in the Cauliflower Universe, hoping to be rescued.

Tanner hands out hats, and they become new characters. Jack is now Hermes Firmballs, who was dropped on his head a child. Tanner is Hippolita Gunnuts, who comes from a mystical island called Loom. Jack then becomes Percius Swiftbottom, who doesn’t actually work there.

 ###  Hashtag Swoon

Tanner hates the name of the segment.

Jack’s first #swoon was for KJ, playing the intro music to the live show.

Tanner: sinister, straight black hair, heavy eyebrows, crooked smile.

Jack: “Can we take #swoon back?” The boys then cancel this predator of a man and do a different bit instead.

###  Tanner Googles

Tanner Googles and then spills wine all over his laptop. Tanner then re-Googles to find the plot summary for House on Haunted Hill.

###  Trackin' Jackie

Jack never knows how to introduce this segment, even after three years.

Scenario: “I asked my dad to keep an extra-close eye on Jackie, the rolling disaster.”

Blip: It’s 523 and Jackie is chained by the Ostrogoths. Yes, he is Boethius. The “wheel of fortune” = “the rolling disaster”.

###  Wandering Frog People

Tanner handed every attendee of the live show a plastic frog as they entered the venue, so they are all now losers, making Tanner the supreme winner.

Andrew spends the entire episode frogging people.

## Theories

###  Bread Theory

The Bread Theory theme song is the X-Files theme. “There’s a lot of bread in this book,” says Jack.

Logan works at the Rosebud Cafe, which only serves bread. There is a scene where he is slicing French bread.

Jack implores Tanner to reveal the answer to Bread Theory. Tanner fakes a phone call from Barack Obama to get out of sharing. Tanner references the beginning of Bread Theory, Episode 41: Poor Mallory!.

###  Doll Theory

Make your own rag doll booth at the Celebrate America day.

Quote: “the loaf of bread folding like a rag doll” - the bread and the dolls are coming together, which has never happened before.

## Jack's References

* Interregnum: this is during the time when Stacey does wine crimes and goes to a U4Me concert.
* This book is full of bats so the boys are sure she’s never read this book. She once posted about this on her FB page, thus the epithet  Bane to Bats.
* Dracula resonance. “Vampiric Typewriting: Dracula and Its Media“ by Jennifer Wicke a seminal piece of criticism of Bram Stoker and his Dracula; Jack ties this into the BSC books
* Marx reference (“means of production”) within the Dracula criticism.
* Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (last referenced in Episode 51: Claudia and the Genius of Elm Street) which is what vampires do
* ”Tanner, sing “Sober”.” (A “deep cut Tool song”.) Then Jack Sings.

## Tanner's References

* ”I got tons more Loom stuff. I can do more Loom stuff.”
* Tanner Sings an intro for Jeanne Betancourt to Pearl Jam’s Even Flow. He mistakenly refers to a lobster place in Portland, Maine.
* Tanner calls the plot of this book a “Scooby Doo” mystery.
* Thirteen Ghosts.
* Celebrate America day. “That’s not a day! That’s like The Purge universe!” (Sidebar, there are a lot of media properties called ‘The Purge’.)
* Is Reese, Maine a made-up city? Yes, considering the first Google return is the Babysitter’s Club Wikia page.
* Tanner learned the meaning of epistolary from Episode 8: Boy-Crazy Stacey.
* ”That’s the plot of The Ring!”
* ”That’s from Lost,” says Jack re: Trackin’ Jackie, explaining things for the casuals.
* ”It’s called a compliment sandwich.”
* Frightened Rabbit, the band

## Notes

* Jack and Tanner opened the live show with some epic Powerpoint presentations, referenced at the start of this episode. Jack’s presentation explains the reasoning behind his street clothes and not the outfit from The Bet.
* Tanner brings Jack some water + wine for “OWOWing” - one wine, one water.
* Tanner asks people where they are from and Jack is vexed.
* Jack describes the process of finding a babysitter for Cyril while in NYC.
* Neither Peter Lerangis nor The Leviathan could make it to the live show.
* Jack gave Tanner a set list for the show. “We’re on ‘descriptions’,” says Tanner. “We’ve done ‘intro’ and ‘Jeanne Betancourt’.”
* ”Did you say Dong?”
* Three ghosts in the novel (there is a sidebar where Tanner puts very silly images in the Powerpoint to accompany this section). One is Netflix’s Spectral, which Tanner then goes on to describe the plot of, one is the real ghost, and one is the ghost of Stacey.
* Andrew is not only a frog but is also a boat. Jack and Tanner reference their Tokyo trip and their Tomoyo doll (#3 on their list of items from Tokyo vending machines).
* A baby bee wearing boys’ basketball merch tells the boys that Mr. Prezzioso’s first name is Nick. Tanner points out that these shirts are for sale in the lobby, where Jaime is manning the merch table.
* The audience begins requesting segments. There was no tearful moment. An audience member requests Jack’s accents (did you know Jack is Secretly British?)

Oh yeah. Deep cut.

## References & Links

1. ↑ https://elements.envato.com/inspirational-dreams-8JCXMDY
2. ↑ https://soundcloud.com/squidlord/you-gotta-have-theremin-and-ukulele
3. ↑ https://elements.envato.com/emotional-documentary-background-VUD5LJG
4. ↑ https://audiojungle.net/item/lovely-memories-ident-/21369605
5. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3Gmv4\_HkN4
6. ↑ https://www.instagram.com/theoddysy/
7. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loom\_(video\_game)
8. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Haunting\_(TV\_series)
9. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian\_Doll\_(TV\_series)
10. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boethius#Fall\_and\_death
11. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interregnum
12. ↑ https://www.jstor.org/stable/2873351?seq=1#page\_scan\_tab\_contents
13. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Work\_of\_Art\_in\_the\_Age\_of\_Mechanical\_Reproduction
14. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxKWTzr-k6s
15. ↑ http://www.eventideoysterco.com/
16. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen\_Ghosts
17. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Purge\_(TV\_series)
18. ↑ https://babysittersclub.fandom.com/wiki/Reese,\_Maine
19. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Ring\_(franchise)
20. ↑ https://lostpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Regularly\_spoken\_phrases/G-N#.22Go\_back.21.22
21. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frightened\_Rabbit
22. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral
23. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantai\_Collection\_(TV\_series)
24. ↑ https://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/machineheads
25. ↑ https://store.dftba.com/products/b-ball-shirt

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