Strange Bedfellows

This one's a mess.

Josh and Jack from the hit Pokemon/Baby-Sitters Club crossover podcast "The Babysitters Experience" make a good-faith attempt to discuss "Pokemon The Movie 2000" and "Logan Likes Mary Anne" the graphic novel, but their nice podcast is sabotaged and also vandalized and, frankly, ruined.

Music credits:

“Overture,” by Lionheart

“The Prophecy,” by Fox Beat

Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Superbrat for the outro music.

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In 1993, Ann and two distinctly separate beings who would later fuse into one uncanny entity joined forces to create what they thought would be the one book to end them all: The ultimate guide to baby-sitting, featuring everything anyone could possibly want to know about head wounds, house fires, and bad burps. This week, our intrepid heroes ventured into that book and, somehow, lived to tell the tale.

Music credits:

“Stardust,” by Fox Beat Stock Music

"Elevator Music," by Korolkov

Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Cyril for the outro music.

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In a major snub of the Tannerheads, Jack and Josh (?!) come together to discuss two major classics of our time: Baby-Sitters Club #87, "Stacey and the Bad Girls," and Pokemon 3: The Movie. What do these things have in common? Not much, but the boys are doing their best here in a crisis! Special thanks to Josh Fjelstad from the Exp. Share Pokemon podcast for reading a whole Stacey book on short notice.

Music credits:

“Dark Lullaby,” by J Blanks

“Vibe,” by Marble Space

Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Bye Bye Empire for the outro music.

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The boys are indoctrinated into a mysterious chain of secrets, lies, and treachery after accidentally reading a cryptic letter from someone (or something) named "Robin." The more they investigate this "Book of Secrets" (which contains confessions of lurid crimes by Jessi, Mallory, Stacey, Kristy, Claudia, Dawn, and Mary Anne), the more they are rebuffed, first by agents of Scholastic, then by someone who is far, far closer to them. As the net of the Baby-Sitters Club Chain Letter closes around them, they understand—too late—the meaning of the four words that started it all: Secrets. Will. Always. Kill.

Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Bye Bye Empire for the outro music.

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Having apparently run out of Baby-Sitters Club books, the boys lie out in the field and wait for the birds to take them.

Music credits:

“Illuminate,” by Bluebird

“Invincible,” by Dimotai

Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Superbrat for the outro music.

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The Baby-Sitters Club Club CLUB is a podcast wherein two grown men talk about The Baby-Sitters Club Club, a podcast wherein two grown men talk about The Baby-Sitters Club, a series by Ann M. Martin. In this episode, the boys dive into the first Baby-Sitters Club Club episode, "Kristy's Great Idea," which is pretty good except they keep referring to Stoneybrook as being in Long Island and they don't make a single mention of bees or dolls or even bread. This one's fun if you like navel-gazing, recursion, or nostalgia for the fairly recent past!

Music credits:

“Orchestral Russian Kalinka,” by Orchestralis

“Epic Battle,” by Mr B Music Studio

“The Prophecy,” by Fox Beat

Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Cyril for the outro music

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A lot of chest-beating and handwringing this week as Kristy grapples with the end of the BSC, Mary Anne makes up with Logan, and one of the boys realizes that he never graduated from the 8th grade. A real surfeit of emotions to process as we experience this, the absolute final word on the BSC before Ann shakes her ghastly snow globe and makes the eternal dance begin anew.

Music credits:

“Sweating Bullets,” by Megadeth

“The Sadness Piano,” by Korolkov

“Nostalgic Piano,” by Alex Bird

“Emotional Cinematic,” by Alex Bird

“Stardust,” by Fox Beat Stock Music

“Dreamy Nature Relaxation Music,” by Stereo Nuts

“Bittersweet Time,” by Phil Larson

Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, to Baby Bee Carys for the Soileau You Into the Dark theme, and to Baby Bee Wolfkiller for the outro music.

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A lot of people have been asking exactly how many shades of Alan Gray there are and while most casual observers think it’s fifty, true experts will tell you that it’s three: Prank Alan, Suave Alan, and Trying-Too-Hard Alan. Anyway, Claudia dates all three of them this week and none of the dates are a disaster and the title of this book is a lie.

Music credits:

“Passion,” by Pink Zebra

“Passion,” by Stellar Tracks

“Chopstick Slapstick,” by OurMusicBox

“Creepy,” by Wild Kitty Tunes

“Classical Inspiration,” by Mat Steiner

Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Bye Bye Empire for the outro music.

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The great Sunny Winslow’s paying a visit to the BSC this week and bringing her special brand of California Diaries chaos and angst to the sleepy town of Stoneybrook. The girls commit a bunch of shocking travel crimes, Jackie Rodowsky blips into an alternate reality, and the boys speculate about what kind of music Mr. Spier listened to as a cool, ‘70s Connecticut teen.

Music credits:

“Teenage Freakout,” by Mules

“This Is Nostalgia,” by Raspberry Music

“Classic Arcade Video Game,” by Adigold

“Haunted,” by LucaFrancini

“Christmas Piano Lullaby,” by Praded

“The Prophecy,” by Fox Beat

“You Gotta Have Theremin and Ukulele,” by Squidlord

“Inspirational Cinematic Trailer,” by Anuch

“Powerful Cinematic Soundtrack,” by Blue Sky Audio

“Vibe,” by Marble Space

Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Superbrat for the outro music.

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What is Stacey’s problem? A question these boys have been asking since book one but one that Ann, Suzanne, and the Scholastic LIARS refuse to address even in this book, of all books! Fortunately, it’s a very good one and Stacey is on her best behavior and actually quite sweet and it’s mostly about Maureen and how she doesn’t need a man. We really loved this one.

Music credits:

“For Sadness,” by Olexandr Ignatov

Thanks as always to original Baby Boy Scott Lamb for the intro music, and to Baby Bee Wolfkiller for the outro music.

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