Episode 54: Mary Anne + 2 Many Babies

The episode for "Mary Anne + 2 Many Babies" was originally released on March 6, 2017. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 56:29 long.This week's ghostwriter: none.

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## Official Episode Description

We hit a record-setting number of segments this week, but what do you expect when you’re dealing with 2 MANY BABIES! (We’re still not totally sure what that title is supposed to mean, but don’t worry, we never get around to discussing it.) This week, Mary Anne and Logan get married and kiss in front of their classmates, an egg-napper is on the loose in Stoneybrook, and there may be a new queen ascending who could be the songstress Adele!

## Music Credits

* ”Lurking in the Depths" by Grumpy Music
* "Horror Creepy Children Shouting" by SoundEffectsFactory
* "Glitch Drone FX” by Glitch Noise Effects
* "The Wide Drone” by RoyaltyFreeSounds
* "Entrance to the Queen of Sheba for Two Oboes, Strings” by Georg Friedrich Händel
* “My Sharona” MIDI
* “Mad World” MIDI
* "bicycle 2D" by Anes & Bateaux
* “Savage” by Paul Flint
* Original Intro by Scott Lamb
* Superbrat Outro by Superbrat

## Book Description

Jack gives his synopsis as though all the sitters had real babies. Tanner improves Jack’s description with a Humpty Dumpty reference. Tanner does not finish describing the book.

## Segments

###  Burn Of The Week

Tanner: actually read Chapter Two this week. A great dessert for Dawn is berries.

Jack: Dawn eats a literal square of raw tofu. Jack relates a personal story about being fed two raw pieces of tofu as a vegetarian at a B&B.

Jack: “Where’s Izzy?”

###  Jack Googles

Tara means queen, star, goddess of the sea.

###  Pete Black (Back in Black)

Tanner sings the Pete Black theme song again, looking forward to next week’s episode.

###  Refrigerator Play

Bread Theory/Refrigerator Play: the hedgeclippers end up in the bread drawer; Mary Anne also notes that her sweater is in the freezer and the remote control for the TV is on the shelf in the bathroom.

###  Strike Against the Patriarchy

The seven girls’ names.

Jack: “We’re not pieces of property!” Re: Gordon Brown’s comments.

## Theories

###  Amber Theory

Tragedy of Hunter Bruno, forever having a cold

###  Bee Theory

Callback to Kristy’s Great Idea: “Bees flew into our classroom and droned around our heads.” The rest of the series is about those bees.

One of Mary Anne’s baby names is “Bea”.

###  Bread Theory

Bread Theory/Refrigerator Play: the hedgeclippers end up in the bread drawer

It’s bread, all the way down.

## Jack's References

* Jack proclaims that a 32-page single-spaced paper (the report Mary Anne and Logan wrote) is longer than his dissertation. (Tanner is forced to guess the topic, and guesses T. S. Eliot, Heidegger, and the Washington Redskins.) It is actually a sample translation and history of Chariton's Callirhoe. “It’s not actually that long, I could maybe read it to you.” “Maybe as a bonus episode someday,” says Tanner.
* ”I Have a Section in My Notes Titled...: Bread Theory/Refrigerator Play.”
* Kumbell Catalog - norse word for tombstone
* Isidore of Seville and his Etymologiae

## Tanner's References

* Tanner went to art school, so he did a final film instead of a final dissertation. His film was a hand-drawn cell animation of a bee falling in love with a flower.
* Like Bilbo sitting down to write The Hobbit
* In the outro, Tanner talks about his plan to pull up Poe Dameron’s Wikipedia page and follow along while Jack talked about Edgar Allen Poe.

## Notes

* The boys note that this was a weird book, and was a solo effort by  Princess Ann.
* This is the one where the girls take care of “babies” (eggs) in their health class. Tanner relates that when his school did this, it was 1998, and there were dolls with sensors. Tanner did poorly on this task. Jack is a bit confused by this whole concept because he didn’t go to American school (because…Jack is Secretly British).
* Logan and Mary Anne reveal that the annual revenue for one babysitter + an associate sitter is $800 ($1500 adjusted for inflation to 2016 dollars).
* The boys try to understand if the BSC is VC-funded.
* The boys chronicle all the twins/multiples in the BSC-verse: Ricky and Rose Salem; Mariah and Miranda Schillaber; Marolyn and Carolyn Arnold; Jordan, Adam, and Byron Pike; Abby and Anna Stevenson
* Egg kidnappers; kidnapping of Tigger; dance academy phantom; but probably phantom phonecaller
* Seven names: Tara, Lizzie, Margaret, Adele, France, Charity, and **Bea**
* Discussion of the $2000/month cost of a 1 bedroom in Stoneybrook, CT and how this is a wild cost in 1991, when a 2017 1 bedroom in NYC is not that much.

## References & Links

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidore\_of\_Seville
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymologiae
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe\_Dameron

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