Episode 93: Welcome to the BSC, Abby

The episode for "Welcome to the BSC, Abby" was originally released on 1/1/2018 and is BSCC #90. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 1:04:33 long.This week's ghostwriter: Nola Thacker.

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## Official Episode Description

Who was John Stevenson and what did he know? These are some of the tough questions that this fascinating novel asks us, but it also asks us to look deep inside ourselves and take an unerring look at what we might find there. Which is exactly what our brave boys do this week, as they grapple with difficult truths like whether new baby-sitter Abby Stevenson is the best baby-sitter now that Dawn’s gone; whether it’s ever appropriate to question Kristy Thomas’s authority; and what, precisely, this all has to do with Hellraiser. The bravest of the two boys also takes this opportunity to admit that he was wrong and to accept the consequences of his terrible mistake. Not to make excuses, not to ask for forgiveness – but to own what he has done and to pay for it. With his life. Also, there’s some good stuff about bees, Druscilla Destiny, and Abby’s burgeoning stand-up career, so strap in for a wild ride.

## Music Credits

* “Empty Promise,” by UEMonthly
* “The Evil Carnival,” by Robert Austin
* “Drops of Jupiter remix,” by Jesse Bloch
* “Carnival Lament,” by Robert Austin
* “Jane’s Lament,” by EMSonora
* Original Intro by Scott Lamb
* Outro by Bye Bye Empire

## Book Description

Jack started his description with a misplaced antecedent. "It stings."

## Segments

###  Abby's Tight 20

Tanner: "Don't be heartless and leave us artless!"

Jack: "the Wheeze Wagon". / "I've got such a headache. I wanted to be a boat. But does anybody listen to me?"

###  Burn Of The Week

Tanner: "Getting a little behind?"

Jack: burn on the dishonest media, "Newspeople are always getting hysterical about things such as Presidential hairdos."

###  Meme of the Week

Introduced this week.

Tanner references "the wickedly talented Adele Dazeem".

###  Tearful Moment

Tanner: the first daddy moment, "the box contained our father's things."

Jack: the second daddy moment, where the twins confront their mother about the box.

## Theories

###  Witchcraft

Drusilla Destiny's fortune: "beware the cold cold snows of winter".

## Jack's References

* Jack is in a Baby-Sitters Club.
* The 12:45 train: Matthew 12:45 (seven demons)
* "Is there a D & D version of this?" (Re: CAO having the powers of every position).
* "Tanner, I was talking about The Joker."

## Tanner's References

* Dragon Head, an anime featuring a train derailment, as in this book.
* "My friend Jim" - "taste how much I care".
* The YA novel "Divergent".
* Tanner talks about the multiple types of Joker.
* Tanner Sings "God Must Have Spent" by NSYNC and "Drops of Jupiter" by Train ("Train is a good band.") In the stinger, Tanner sings "Hero" by Enrique Iglesias.
* Hellraiser: the coming of the cenobites ("Claudia was the Pinhead"), the Lament Configuration ("We haven't talked about it in a number of episodes," says Jack; it's been 48 episodes since the last reference in Episode 45: Stacey’s Emergency).

## Notes

"I'm going to be honest, Jack. Probably not."

* Tanner talks about how iBooks had misnumbered this book, and rubs egg in Jack's face. He requests that Jack commit seppuku.
* New catchphrase: "what's the gory story?"
* Jack says Abby and Kristy are the best baby-sitters. Further evidence is the concept that Abby hates Stacey.
* The Batman villain "Calendar Man"
* "What's in the box?" (Se7en)

## References & Links

#### Literature

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divergent\_(novel)
#### Culture

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon\_Head
2. ↑ https://hellraiser.fandom.com/wiki/Cenobites
3. ↑ https://hellraiser.fandom.com/wiki/Pinhead
4. ↑ https://hellraiser.fandom.com/wiki/Lament\_Configuration
5. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppuku
6. ↑ Calendar Man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar\_Man
#### Music

1. ↑ "God Must Have Spent" by NSYNC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fxh7jAJR8U
2. ↑ "Drops of Jupiter" by Train: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xf-Lesrkuc
3. ↑ "Hero" by Enrique Iglesias: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koJlIGDImiU

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