Episode 84: Kristy and Mr. Mom

The episode for "Kristy and Mr. Mom" was originally released on October 23, 2017 and is #81. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 59:42 long.This week's ghostwriter: Jahnna N. Malcolm.

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## Official Episode Description

This week, after father of three Jack Butler loses his job at the Ford Motor Company, he is forced to become a stay-at-home dad when his wife, Caroline, takes a job as a high-powered executive at a prestigious ad agency in Detroit. No wait, that’s the plot of 1983’s Mr. Mom. Shit. Uh, well… pretty much the same thing happens in this book, except it’s Watson Brewer, and he doesn’t lose his job, but he does have a heart attack. (He's fine.)

## Music Credits

* “Fits” by Podington Bear
* “December” by Kai Engel
* “Thaw” by Kai Engel
* “Fearless” by TULE
* Original Intro by Scott Lamb
* Superbrat Outro by Superbrat

## Ann's Epithets

Jack introduces Mother of Clocks this week as an epithet.

## Book Description

Tanner pretends in his description that Watson died.

## Segments

###  Burn Of The Week

Jack: I'm Mrs. Fiddle-Faddle, let's roleplay.

Tanner: "sprout sandwiches and carrot juice" re: Dawn making lunch

###  Pete Black (Back in Black)

Pete Black went to the movies with Sabrina Bouvier this week. Callback to the Baller of the Week moment from Episode 62: Mary Anne's Makeover.

###  Refrigerator Play

Roleplay: Tanner is Richard Spier. Jack is Mrs. Spier, wearing an electrician's outfit. "A weak refrigerator play" with a wrench in the fridge and the milk in the toolbox.

###  Soileau You Into the Dark

Tanner describes Hodges' painting on the cover, and how Watson doesn't look like what Tanner expected. "He looks like the dad from Veronica Mars," says Jack.

###  Tearful Moment

The joint tearful moment is the description of Watson's heart attack, which he describes as "harrowing".

###  Wandering Frog People

Baby Bee Colin's wife frogged Baby Bee Colin during labor/birth.

## Theories

###  Doll Theory

There is a chink in the dolls' armor this week. Tanner draws connections with the movie Signs and the girls' floating dollies. "Dry the dolls or they might catch a cold." There is a weakness in the factions. This is the origin of the "drown all your dolls" Sign Off.

## Jack's References

* "'Thinking outside the bun' is a very bad Taco Bell slogan."

## Tanner's References

* Re: The Entity: "They're like the guy from Jurassic Park at the end of Event Horizon."
* Michael Keaton in both Mr. Mom and Batman.
* David Foster Wallace would've also chosen Jack's burn.
* Kristy might be Banksy. (Previously, Claudia was Banksy and Alan Gray was Banksy.)

## Notes

* Jack thinks that The Entity works best when they are focusing on death. Tanner later adds that Jahnna and Malcolm aren't good at burns.
* Tanner has Hercules next to him, and Jack has Jenkins the Cat next to him. Jenkins is tearing a box to shreds.
* "Is Watson evil?" Watson has a fax machine and a mansion and an unclear job.
* Tanner relates a story about his friend Jim, who once tried to get his son to call him "Dude". Jack and Tanner relate a story about when they were all playing Nintendo once while supposedly watching the child.
* Baby Bee Adam, a park ranger, writes in to the BSCC from Yellowstone.
* Callback to "round off your corners" from Episode 68: Maid Mary Anne.
* The stinger is about the Happy Reading section's focus on scrambled eggs: *Dear Reader, In Kristy and Mr. Mom, Watson moves his office home and decides to run the household as well. When I was growing up, my father didn't work at home, but he and my mother divided the household responsibilities pretty equally. They both helped out around the house. Mom cooked dinner for our family every night, and Dad cooked breakfast every morning. One morning he was making scrambled eggs and left the eggs on the stove while he went outside to get the newspaper. The front door was stuck, however, and he forgot about the eggs while he stopped to fix the door. By the time he returned to the kitchen, the eggs had hardened and were sort of a cross between scrambled eggs and an omelet. He served them to us anyway, and to his surprise, we liked them so much that we asked for them again and again. We even gave them a name — Stuck Door Eggs. Sometimes my dad still fixes them. Happy reading!*

## References & Links

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signs\_(film)
2. ↑ Sam Neill, the "eyes" quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhEs9KUQ4qo
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr.\_Mom
4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman\_(1989\_film)
5. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David\_Foster\_Wallace

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