Episode 22: Mallory and the Trouble With Twins

The episode for "Mallory and the Trouble With Twins" was originally released on July 25, 2016. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 47:04 long.This week's ghostwriter: none.

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## Official Episode Description

Come play with us! Mallory's babysitting twins this week and it promises to be a fun, wholesome time that's not rotted through with any sinister evil at all. Plus, the boys discuss the gory ritual of ear-piercing, the troubling spectre of new babysitters on the horizon, and the frankly insane ensemble Claudia put together for this installment. There's also a bit of bad news about Mark Markson, who's on an increasingly desperate hunt for a new job ...

## Music Credits

* Overture, by Lionheart / CC
* Acoustically driven instrumental, by Hyde / CC
* Let the Beat Drop, by Anton Markus / CC
* Original Intro by Scott Lamb

## Ann's Epithets

In this episode, “Princeton’s own” is added: “Princeton’s own Ann Matthews Martin”. Birthplace of Ann M. Martin, full stop.

## Book Description

Jack’s description is as if there is only one girl and not twins.

Tanner fails to finish describing the book.

## Segments

###  American Sports

Tanner’s favorite baseball team is the Minnesota Twins.

###  Burn Of The Week

Tanner: “We pranked you.” It was a good prank and wasted so much time.

Jack: Chapter one, page one, line one. “Kindergarten baby, stick your head in gravy, wash it off with applesauce and show it to the Navy.”

###  Claudia's Closet

Her hair was fixed in a million braids, pulled back and held in place with a column of puffy ponytail holders. She was wearing a t-shirt that she had painted herself. Tight blue pants that ended just past her knees, push-down socks, and no shoes. From her ears dangled small baskets of fruit. She’d made those, I knew she’d found the baskets and fruits from a store that sold dollhouse furniture.

###  Deep Voice Boys

Roleplay to illustrate the “kindergarten baby” burn. Tanner plays Mark Markson, recently fired VP of Synertech, looking for a new job. Jack is British Navy recruiter. Midshipman Hermes Pulsemuscle. Jack is Secretly British.

###  Tanner Googles

Warner Bros still of the twins from The Shining source

The Wonder Twins from Superfriends

Jack and Tanner dressed as Amy Pond from Doctor Who

Banksy

Tanner tries to Google the image of him and Jack dressed as Amy Pond. Later, Tanner tries to Google how the Superfriends Power twins work.

###  Tearful Moment

Jack: “I’ll be surprised if I live to see twelve.”

Tanner: how all the girls are together, even the ones that didn’t get their ears pierced.

## Theories

###  Amber Theory

“I’ll be surprised if I live to see twelve.” Mallory is trapped in amber.

###  Doll Theory

The twins get raggedy Ann dolls, barbie dolls, and Elephants.

## Jack's References

* Chips and curry.
* Reading titles of these books is like getting ahead with *Game of Thrones*.
* Castor and Pollock, duality.
* Morbid angel, cannibal corpse
* Significance of the number 72.

## Tanner's References

* Tanner thinks Adnan is innocent, a reference to the Serial podcast.
* Eyes Wide Shut (ear piercing)
* ”malling”, like something from The Purge
* Tanner tries to get distracted and calls Jenkins the Cat
* Tanner describes the twins in this book as “the girls from The Shining” (1980)
* ”their Jar-Jar Binks Gungun language”
* Tanner references Brexit and Jack is vexed.
* Starlee Kine and Sarah Koenig
* Jack and Tanner once dressed as Amy Pond from Doctor Who for a BBC America promo spot.
* Weasley twins from *Harry Potter*
* Power twins from *SuperFriends* (actually the “Wonder Twins”).
* Jack Shepherd from Lost
* John Mayer (Tanner sings “My Body”, sort of)
* Mad Max.
* Mortal Kombat is Tanner’s go-to metal song.
* Tanner mockingly says that Claudia’s self-painted shirt is like Banksy.
* Tanner notes that the elephants are like the Immaterium, the Chaos Realm from the Warhammer 40K universe.
* President Bartlet (from The West Wing)

## Notes

* Twins fever sweeps Stoneybrook.
* Tanner is angry about the Happy Reading section that notes Abby as a new sitter. Tanner reads titles, and this doesn’t happen until book #90.
* Nipple deep in twins.

## Notable Non-Sitters

Marilyn Arnold, Carolyn Arnold, Karen Brewer, Hannie Papadakis

## References & Links

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