Episode 28: Jessi and the Superbrat

The episode for "Jessi and the Superbrat" was originally released on September 5, 2016. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 47:14 long.This week's ghostwriter: Jan Carr.

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## Official Episode Description

Think of Stoneybrook (if you don't already) as a lovely, welcoming bird's nest. Now imagine that a wicked cuckoo has passed its boundaries and laid a great big vile, impostor cuckoo's egg right inside that sacred nest. That's literally (LITERALLY) what happens this week when an entity called JOHN (aka The Superbrat) hatches inside our beautiful home and sets about destroying dear Jessi's life. Of course, if we'd only paid attention we would have known, because, as is ever the case in the Baby-Sitters Cycle, it was foretold.

## Music Credits

* "The Inner Demon," by Lionel Schmitt & ProjectSam, CC
* MidiWorld.com "Rituals," by Warrio,
* CC "Crystal," by Zerryx & Midgranger, CC
* Original Intro by Scott Lamb

## Book Description

Tanner points out a visual inconsistency in an audio medium.

Jack’s is very dramatic about what “John” is.

Tanner brings up the mysterious man in the family illustration in the book.. He does not finish describing the book at all.

## Segments

###  Burn Of The Week

Tanner: Derek's “Anvil-head! Cactus-brain! Pizza breath!” Three burns in one. Tanner speculates that our young starlet got his burns from TMZ

###  Tanner Googles

Tanner Googles “1:62” for an epic, live Bible-verse reading. Can't spoil, you must listen. Luke 1:62-63.

###  Tearful Moment

Neither Tanner nor Jack had one. This book was terrifying, but it was not sad. Jack came the closest to crying when Madame Noelle tells Jessi, "You are gifted doncer[sic]," and encourages her to try out for Swan Lake. Jack completely lost himself inside this scene, but it was NOT a real Tearful Moment.

## Theories

###  Amber Theory

John represents an invasion of new ideas.

## Jack's References

* Superb rat is a ”neologism”
* Jack’s anagram is “burp stare”
* Jack calls this the “external forces narrative” (first mentioned in Episode 24).
* Points out “cuckoo” - cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds nests
* Explains “rhetorical question” for Tanner.
* Jack references some TV shows: *Just the 10 of Us, Growing Pains, A Different World*
* Fission, comes from the latin findere, “to split”; the proto-indo-european bʰeyd (“bite”) have the same root. Where once there was one, now there are two.

## Tanner's References

* Tanner’s notes are 6 lines that were highlighted.
* Swan Lake
* John is a “Lovecraftian horror”
* Silver Surfer to Galactus.
* Urkel and *Family Matters* (Jack is vehemently opposed to talking about *Family Matters*)
* Screech from *Saved by the Bell*
* Michael J. Fox and *Family Ties*
* ”the robot one” (*Small Wonder*)
* TGIF, *Step by Step*

  Amongst whom?
Nerds.
((laughter))

## Notes

* Jenkins the Cat intros the episode by catching a cockroach.
* Tanner and Jack come up with an acronym for Superbrat: Stupid Ugly Petty Execrable Rat Boy Revolts Against Tweens
* No one is named John
* ”John is part of me.”
* Tanner and Jack recount the time in the last week when they spotted Ann M. Martin the lobby of their work building

## Sign Off

I love you and I kiss you. Claudia’s wearing a bra now, and the way she talks, you’d think boys had just been invented.

## References & Links

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/BSCCPodcast/status/773329453640548352
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/BSCCPodcast/status/773329453640548352
3. ↑ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/b%CA%B0eyd-

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