Episode 36: Stacey and the Mystery of Stoneybrook

The episode for "Stacey and the Mystery of Stoneybrook" was originally released on October 31, 2016. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 45:57 long.This week's ghostwriter: Ellen Miles.

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## Official Episode Description

Happy Halloween, Baby Nation! Have we got a thematically appropriate episode for you this week! With the help of the Baby-Sitter's Club, Stacey discovers that Stoneybrook is build on an ancient burial ground, which is somehow the LEAST strange thing to happen in this book. Oh! Also, you all have a tough decision to make this week, Baby Nation: BURN or BEES.

## Music Credits

* ”Slenderman Is Watching” by Espanto Music
* “My Sharona” MIDI
* "The Dusty Attic” by Kevin Macleod
* "Horror Ambience Music 3” by ThrillShowX
* “Spooky Scary Skeletons” by Dennibro
* Original Intro by Scott Lamb
* Superbrat Outro by Superbrat

## Ann's Epithets

This week, Tanner is not interested in any epithet except Stormborn.

## Book Description

Jack describes it as an *Amityville* horror show.

Tanner does not finish describing the book and gets an extra 30 seconds of “Double Takes”.

## Segments

###  Burn Of The Week

Jack’s burn comes from the Chapter Two: Mary Anne cries at the drop of a hat, probably because she feels sorry for the hat.

Tanner: “I would try the phonebook?”

###  Deep Voice Boys

Tanner is Sir Archibald von Pissenvald, Jack is Mark von Markson, and the two pretentious men meet at an event. Mark has read an article on Jessi Ramsey and wants to talk about it.

###  Tanner Googles

Tanner sings the theme song to this segment when Jack is trying to introduce Double Takes.

###  Tearful Moment

Jack: Stacey and Charlotte on the phone. “Goodnight, big sister.”

## Theories

###  Bee Theory

* BURN OR BEES (the saying's first appearance) -- an anagram for Rubber Nose.
* The swarm of flies isn’t actually flies - it’s bees.

 ###  Factions

The children have naive insight into the factions of Stoneybrook. Jessi may be conscripting ballerina soldiers into the faction wars.

## Jack's References

* ”for the nonce”
* Claudia acts like Nancy Drew and goes to the library
* ”Concrete Jungle” by Alicia Keys

## Tanner's References

* Tanner asks to do a podcast on the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child, and references “Make Me” and pre-orders “Night School” on the podcast.
* Horror references: *The Amityville Horror*, *A Nightmare on Elm Street*, burial grounds, *Pet Sematary*, *Poltergeist*
* "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen
* Tanner Sings "I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing" by Aerosmith
* The Freemasons.
* Tanner is playing Plants vs. Zombies on his phone in the outro.

## Notes

* The boys think this book is very very bananas.
* This episode was originally released on Halloween.
* Theory that this book is entirely a diabetic coma dream.
* Jessi is only noted in her absence, and may be conscripting children for a battle against the occult. See also, the card game “War”.
* Don’t triangulate: they both lives blocks from two prominent streets named after a body of water not the Pacific Ocean. 250 years ago, it was the main avenue for soldiers marching in the Revolutionary War.
* 4-1-1

## References & Links

1. ↑ https://openliterature.net/2012/01/06/word-of-the-day-nonce/
2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPggPjkoCjE
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make\_Me\_(novel)
4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night\_School\_(novel)
5. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Amityville\_Horror
6. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A\_Nightmare\_on\_Elm\_Street\_(franchise)
7. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet\_Sematary
8. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poltergeist\_(1982\_film)
9. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWNaR-rxAic
10. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkK8g6FMEXE
11. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plants\_vs.\_Zombies
12. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War\_(card\_game)
13. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-1-1

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