We're between seasons right now, but we have spent some time together IRL this summer. Inspired by the BSC and their tenacious vacation record keeping, we cobbled together some real-time voice notes and reflections to create our first ever Audio Super Special. Please stick around till the end of the episode for our Season 4 preview! Enjoy.

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Do you have a favorite ice cream flavor that just tastes like childhood? Have you ever smelled a really good bookstore, or found a thriftstore treasure that felt like a win? Share your summer vacation memories at with us at [email protected]

After a 26-book wait, Richard and Sharon finally announce their plans to marry, to their daughters’ delight…and Mary Anne and Dawn’s dreaming and scheming shifts from Parent Trapping to high-gear wedding planning. As Mary Anne mentally prepares to gain a stepfamily and lose the only home she’s ever known, she somehow also steers the Arnold twins through conflict as they try on their new, separate identities. 

Join us and our guest Jessie in a pew at the back of the chapel (plenty of room…where are Sharon and Richard’s friends?) as we titter about Dawn’s attire and share why we’re gaga for Gozzie Kunka in our chat about Mary Anne and the Great Romance.

Learn more about Jessie at jessierosen.com, and find her new book, All the Signs, at bookshop.org.

What the Arnold twin room row called to mind

(just one of many examples)

Implausible Anachronistic/Time-Traveling Suitor Watchlist

Bridgerton

Kate & Leopold

Is Kristy the Miranda of the first four? Let us know at [email protected].

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It’s winter in Stoneybrook, and the baby-sitters are off to Vermont for the annual trip to Leicester Lodge, hosts of the Winter War. No sooner do they arrive at the Overlook-esque ski lodge than a real ripsnorter of a storm blows in (with thanks for the phrase to local armchair meteorologist Teensy Mooseman), and a busload of children are stranded without adequate supervision. Cue the BSC! They spend the week caring for kids, competing for colors, and crushing on maybe Canadians, with plenty of hot chocolate and local legends to go around. Take off your fat mittens and join us as we curl up by the fire and pull Super Special #3: Baby-sitters’ Winter Vacation off the library shelf. 

School Vacation Media List:

Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree by the Andrews Sisters

Send us your bad drawings of winter vacations at [email protected].

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As the McGill gals settle into their new old house and start to clear forgotten treasures from the attic, neighbor Mal scores a most handsome trunk and finds evidence of a kindred spirit (possibly from the spirit world) within. Join hands with us at the seance table (but leave the offensive costume and behavior behind, Kristy) as we learn the distinction between journals and diaries, which of the sitters are believers in or skeptics of ghoulies and ghosties, and what an inspiring reading tutor junior officer Pike is in Mallory and the Mystery Diary.

Media recommendations from this week's episode:

Season 1 of Yellowjackets (2021)

Now and Then (1995)

About The Cartoonists Club by Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud (2025)

The one thing Mallory maybe missed the mark on:

GOOPS and How to be Them by Gelett Burgess (1900)

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As Mr. and Mrs. McGills’ relationship unravels, Stacey finds herself caught in the fray and, after several failed attempts to Parent Trap her mom and dad into reconciling, confronts a big decision: should she stay in New York in her father’s pre-war bachelor pad, or leave the city yet again to live with her mother in Stoneybrook suburbia? 

Pile into the backseat of the McGill’s station wagon with us (and Claudia) as we house-hunt and spend some time in the mind of America’s Favorite Baby-sitter (as of 1989) in Welcome Back, Stacey! (What a tell-all title.)

As mentioned on this episode:

How we picture Laine (Elizabeth Perkins in Big (1988))

Another gal we love with a taxi cab wardrobe palette 

The Brave Little Toaster (1987)

Did you ever decline an Oreo and braid hair instead at a sleepover? Tell us at [email protected].

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We’ll be back next week!

Child celeb Derek Masters returns to Stoneybrook from L.A., and–guess what–his parents need a sitter. In keeping with an emerging pattern for Jessi-centric books, stars align for her to take on most of the gigs with the new charge, and she and the BSC help him process some setbacks at school and settle back into everyday suburban Connecticut life. Derek returns the favor by coaching Jessi through a series of high-stakes auditions for Swan Lake, and even has her considering new outlets for her performative (and workaholic) energies…

Microwave your Kid Cuisine of choice, then join us and the fam in front of the TV for some appointment viewing and conversation as we revisit Jessi and the Superbrat.

As mentioned on this episode:

A bit of what Jan Carr has been up to since 1989, plus a couple media references that Karen brought to mind with her play and costume choices:

The Muppet Movie (1979)

Dressed up E.T.

Send us pointers on how to make it in *showbiz* at [email protected]. 

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Claudia has long grappled with her grandmother’s declining health, but is still unprepared for the moment that she actually passes away. Luckily, she can lean on her artwork and her friends in the BSC. Join us for a celebration of Mimi’s life (and a bit of papier-mâché art therapy) as we navigate Claudia and the Sad Goodbye. 

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It’s ten o’clock. Do you know where your kitten is? Though Mary Anne may have shaken off the chain letter curse back in Book 17, her bad luck (and ominous mail streak) continues in her next spin as narrator when her beloved pet goes missing and her usually exemplary boyfriend turns distant and moody in Book 25: Mary Anne and the Search for Tigger.

Grab a flashlight and a stack of posters from Mrs. Brewer’s office Xerox and head out with us and our return guest Tim as we hunt for the littlest tiger-striped cat and encounter local kids LARPing as cops and criminals along the way. 

Age-Inappropriate Watchlist for Stoneybrook Children

Magnum, P.I.

Matlock

COPS

Are the Brunos a problem family? Do trees grow in fields and make for good hiding spots? Add your two cents at [email protected].

Find us on Instagram @stoneybrookreunion, and more from Tim at alternateending.com.

It’s springtime in Stoneybrook, and Mother’s Day looms large in the minds of our baby-sitters– with glances askance to Mary Anne, of course. Kristy’s Idea Brain comes up with a gift for their clients: a day off for the moms while the BSC takes charge of their kids. Join us at the Sudsy’s Carnival midway and please try not to barf as we, like Kristy, are pleasantly distracted from what turns out to be the *real* surprise of Kristy and the Mother's Day Surprise.

This episode’s pop culture deep cuts and rabbit holes:

• For the carnival curious: According to Wikipedia, the term “midway games” originated at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893.

• Vintage V8 and Sunny D commercials

• “Side by Side” from Richie Rich (1994)