Episode 40: Kristy's Mystery Admirer

Movie poster for Blank Check

The episode for "Kristy's Mystery Admirer" was originally released on November 28, 2016. **You can listen to it here.** This episode is 48:58 long.This week's ghostwriter: none.

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## Official Episode Description

Deep inside Stoneybrook Middle School is a waypoint, a marker in time from which a thousand timelines diverge, like ripples in a stream. It's where the dance is: The still point of the turning world. The dance in this case is the Halloween Hop, and the ripple in time that we're focused on this week is a ripple in which someone sent Kristy fingernail clippings in the mail, which I guess is what amounts to romance these days. Anyway, Kristy has a mystery admirer, and it's creepier than that sounds.

## Music Credits

* “Electro Breaks Loop,” by Technoaxe, CC
* “Miles Away,” by Oxzide, CC
* “Road Less Traveled,” by Jonny Easton, CC   Thanks, as always, to original baby boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and Superbrat for the outro music.
* Original Intro by Scott Lamb
* Superbrat Outro by Superbrat

## Ann's Epithets

Jack adds "the Great." Princeton’s own Ann M. Martin has been canonized as a saint because Tanner is staying on Rue de Saint-Martin. Jack amends his introduction-- Princeton's own Saint Ann Matthews Martin.

## Book Description

Jack describes this as a horror flick. Tanner does an excellent job describing the book but doesn’t finish in 60 seconds because it’s a dense book.

## Segments

###  Burn Of The Week

Tanner: Dawn’s burn on Kristy. "Of all the people at this table, who would think that SHE had a mystery admirer?" Noted as a *savage* burn.

Jack: Kristy saying that Alan Gray is "a jerk, a boy at school who's been a pest all his life and will remain that way into adulthood." A complete and total character assassination.

###  Tanner Googles

Tanner Googles the movie *Blank Check* (not the podcast, which Tanner recommended in a December 2017 recommendation list on Major Media Company’s site).

Tanner also Googles "The Four Quartets" by T. S. Eliot and declares it “too long” but also “seems like a good poem”.

###  Tearful Moment

Tanner has a tandem BOTW / Tearful Moment: Shannon saying "Kristy, you’re weird."

Jack: how Bart feels about Kristy.

###  Wandering Frog People

Baby Boy Colin is the newest loser in the WFP game.

## Theories

###  Amber Theory

Jack points out that it’s Halloween Hop time again - the third in the series so far (see also Episode 2: Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls and Episode 18: Mary Anne's Bad-Luck Mystery) and then wonders how these events all tie together. Tanner posits that this may be multiple timelines cycling every ten books, instead of repeating the same year over and over. The Halloween Hop is the totem.

## Jack's References

* *Hellraiser*
* Dialectic of love and violence. As one begins, another must die.
* Jack’s wildest fantasy in 1994 was to have a TurboGrafx-16 and a Sega Genesis.
* "The still point of the turning world" from *Burnt Norton* by T. S. Eliot. A recording of Eliot reading a section of this poem is also the cold open to this episode. Tanner calls Jack “predictable”.

## Tanner's References

* The box is called the Lament Configuration

Tanner read this book in Versailles.
* Tanner read this book at Versailles; Tanner also references Marie Antoinette.
* Tanner summarizes the movie *Blank Check*. “This isn’t the *Blank Check* check” says Jack.
* Totems from *Inception*.
* Pauly Shore
* The video game *Bioshock* and the Lighthouse

## Notes

* CIA agent Shannon has returned to the novels, under deep cover in Stoneybrook to assassinate a high-profile target, and therefore can hang out with Kristy.
* Cokie Mason is potentially a crime boss.
* New word: “distant”.
* Jack asks Baby Nation to write Aunt Cecilia / Charlie fan fiction. (As of 10/29/2023, there are no Aunt Cecilia fics on AO3 and around 1000 BSC fics total.)
* Jack is now a US citizen.

## References & Links

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blank\_Check\_(film)
2. ↑ https://blank-check.fandom.com/wiki/Blank\_Check\_with\_Griffin\_and\_David\_Wiki#Miniseries
3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccupYGfiDEw
4. ↑ https://twitter.com/BSCCPodcast/status/800008229161877508
5. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellraiser
6. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurboGrafx-16
7. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega\_Genesis
8. ↑ https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/11/18/t-s-eliot-reads-burnt-norton/
9. ↑ https://hellraiser.fandom.com/wiki/Lament\_Configuration
10. ↑ http://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/estate/gardens
11. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blank\_Check\_(film)
12. ↑ https://inception.fandom.com/wiki/Totem
13. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauly\_Shore
14. ↑ https://bioshock.fandom.com/wiki/The\_Lighthouse
15. ↑ Aunt Cecilia/Charlie BSC fics on AO3

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