Episode 14: Good Bye Stacey, Good-Bye

The episode for "Good Bye Stacey, Good-Bye" was originally released on May 30, 2016. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 46:32 long.This week's ghostwriter: none.

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## Official Episode Description

Stacey is moving out of Stoneybrook, and 4 to 10 new brides of Satan are moving in to take her place, so it's up to two undercover French witch-hunters to eradicate the evil threat looming over the town once and for all. Also, the dolls and are in control, and Jack and Tanner make a bet that the Baby Nation is going to have to hold them to, because they're DEFINITELY going to forget.

## Music Credits

Original Intro/Outro by Scott Lamb

Lightning Crashes by Live

## Ann's Epithets

This week, the boys learn that the “M.” Stands for Matthews: “Ann Matthews Martin”.

## Book Description

"A small local business in CT deals with growing pains when they decide to open a NY branch. Does Stonybrook BSC have the right business model to succeed in the cutthroat world of New York City? Or is the babysitting bubble about to burst?"

Stacey’s dad’s company closes in Stamford and they move back to New York.

## Segments

###  Burn Of The Week

Jack: when Stacey’s ex-friend calls her “barf mouth”.

Tanner: combo Burn of the Week and Tearful Moment. Tables were $600, which interrupted a poignant moment between Stacey and Charlotte.

###  Claudia's Closet

Kristy's uniform is the same as Steve Jobs' uniform.

Claudia's Closet makes a Bet

Jack: A purple and white striped bodysuit under a gray jumper thing. The legs of the bodysuit stretched all the way to her ankles but she was wearing purple push-down socks anyway. Around her middle was a wide purple belt with a buckle in the shape of a telephone. And on her feet were black ballet slippers.

 ###  Mr. Prezzioso's Boys' Basketball Corner

The boys miss Mr. Prezzioso and his love of boys' basketball, and feel bad that he must put up with the influence of Jenny's new doll. They wonder if he was the man who bought a rope.

###  Tanner Googles

Tanner checks to see if Ann M. Martin is a penname.

Tanner and Jack sitting down to record this episode (source).

###  Tearful Moment

* Tanner: “I was ALL tearful moments.” And “I shed a physical tear.”
* Tanner: combo Burn of the Week and Tearful Moment. Tables were $600, which interrupted a poignant moment between Stacey and Charlotte.
* Stacey’s new business cards for the NY branch of the BSC.

## Theories

###  Doll Theory

* “The dolls are in control”
* Stacey is playing with Claudia’s doll Lenny, and the doll influences Claud and Stacey.
* Stacey sells her own doll Annamarie to Jenny Prezzioso.

 ###  Witchcraft

* Morbidda Destiny makes lemonade for the children. They become the brides of Satan on Earth.
* There are French witch hunters that are making the Pike kids nervous.

## Notes

* Don’t triangulate! Jack and Tanner are exactly 100 miles to the Williamsburg Bridge.
* Princess Cutieface is Jack’s “true cat” (poor Jenkins).
* First mention of "The Sitter's Cycle".
* Baby Nation is now closer in time to the recording - two weeks, instead of a month and a half. (Amber theory???)
* Garage sale is a major plot point.
* Nobody does anything except talk about money.
* French spies
* Kristy establishes that Treasurer is a promotion from CAO; Mallory is a new member of the BSC. She is the one who the prophecy foretold: the baby who became a babysitter.
* Roleplay: Alison Ritz and Stacey (“barf mouth”)

Tanner: You asked me to.
Jack: I just think that you think we don’t spend enough time together.
Tanner: You said to me one day, “Wouldn’t it be funny if us, two thirty year old men, read The Baby-Sitters Club books and made a podcast—“
Jack: —by Ann Matthews Martin—
Tanner: —and I said, “I don’t know, man. Neither of us are very funny or charming, we’ve both got weird voices, and like, we spend all day with each other…you really want to spend more time with one another?” And you’re like, “yeah, man, very much so.” That’s why we’re doing it. That’s why I’m doing it.

## Notable Non-Sitters

Morbidda Destiny, Karen Brewer, Charlotte, Jenny Prezzioso

## Sign Off

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

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