Episode 50: Jessi's Wish

Tom's Midnight Garden cover (source)

The episode for "Jessi's Wish" was originally released on February 6, 2017. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 53:24 long.This week's ghostwriter: none.

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## Official Episode Description

Difficult episode this week, Baby Nation! And not just because of the subject matter, which is TOUGH, but also because apparently every single airplane in America decided to buzz by Jack’s apartment during this recording session?! Look, this episode is mostly about Jack and Tanner doing their best NOT to talk about childhood cancer, but Ann insisted. Oh well.

## Music Credits

* ”Arboles" by Podington Bear
* “Wren” by Podington Bear
* “Haunted” by CO.AG Music
* “YO!” by Stratus
* Original Intro by Scott Lamb
* Superbrat Outro by Superbrat

## Book Description

TW/CW: This is a Very Special Book about Leukemia.

Jack: Struggle, perseverance, and the real-life magic that comes from believing in your dreams.

Tanner: Does a good job.

## Segments

###  Burn Of The Week

Jack: The boy next to Margot Pike about her clay man: "It looks like a hamburger."

Tanner’s burn comes from the Chapter Two. “Guess what Mallory and I are in charge of? Nothing.”

###  Tearful Moment

Tanner had six tearful moments, including Danielle gifting a "wishing star" necklace to Jessi. His True Tearful moment came from the Happy Reading section about the real Danielle, who Ann granted a wish for with the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Jack: the plot of *Tom’s Midnight Garden* by Philippa Pearce, which is mentioned as one of Jessi's favorite books. We get a brief moment of Jack is Secretly British in the pronunciation of the name "Hattie."

###  Trackin' Jackie

(Tracking’ Jackie is like *Quantum Leap*, the boys decide. Jack congratulates Tanner for remembering that Scott Bakula’s *Quantum Leap* character is named Sam Beckett.)

Scene: there is an incident with clay all over the floor in Claudia’s art class.

Jackie is floating in an inky black nothingness and fashions the matter of the stars into the elephant Ganesh. In his other hand he makes Nidhog the dread biter of Norse mythology; Naga; Lucifer; Logan.

## Theories

###  Amber Theory

Claudia tells Karen to "fire" her clay jungle, once it has come to life. Karen's own creation myth, which Claudia shuts down via burning. Life in its infancy is trapped in time, ending in fire, like the Baby-Sitters Club series itself.

###  Doll Theory

The girls being sat have warpaint on their dolls.

## Jack's References

* Jack is upset about the airplanes over his house, referencing the Blue Angels.

## Tanner's References

* Tanner opens the episode by saying nonsense in Norwegian. “Is this area safe at night? Er dette området trygt om natten?”
* *Tom’s Midnight Garden* is like Peggy Carter in *Captain America*, specifically in *Captain America: Civil War*
* In 1991, Tanner said whatever the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles said.
* Bart Simpson's catchphrase: "Don't have a cow, man!"
* Jackie is the Alpha and the Omega
* Tanner explains Wookie life debts to Jack. He mentions his Star Wars: Reader’s Companion book, which Jack is apparently jealous of. This book was previously mentioned in Episode 10: Logan Likes Mary Anne.

## Notes

* This book was also a bit of an ad for Walt Disney World
* New word: “chilly” meaning cool. Dropped in the text with no explanation, causing Jack and Tanner to question their own sanity and their memory of 1991, when Jack said "tight!"
* To be a baby bee, you should: study Hinduism, Catholicism, creation myths of every main religion, the epic of Gilgamesh, Old Testament, New Testament, Boethius, the collected works of T. S. Eliot, the Bhagavad Gita, the entire extended Star Wars universe, and a light primer for the Warhammer 40K universe

## References & Links

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%27s\_Midnight\_Garden
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum\_Leap
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue\_Angels
4. ↑ https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Peggy\_Carter
5. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart\_Simpson
6. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha\_and\_Omega
7. ↑ https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Life\_debt/Legends
8. ↑ https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Readers-Companion-Star-Wars/dp/0345511190
9. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt\_Disney\_World

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