Stuck in Stoneybrook: A Baby-Sitters Club Podcast

Stoneybrookers!!! This! Is! Not! A! Drill! We are honored and excited to present our interview with Rachel Shukert, executive producer and Showrunner of “The Baby-sitters Club” on Netflix! Anne and Esme asked hard hitting questions about periods, Watson, which moms in the ‘Brook she would avoid on the playground, you know, the big stuff. Plus lots more about both the books and the show. We hope you enjoy this Very Special Episode!

It’s the first mystery! Is there a new client ? Is the client rich but still nice but also weird? Does Stacey need a diamond? Yes, yes, and… questionable? Join us as we wade into mysterious territory and also, weirdly, learn the history of SmartFood (which is FASCINATING).

Baby-sitters Club on Netflix Season 2, Stoneybrookers! You KNOW that we binged the whole thing on Monday! This is a freeform episode describing our initial thoughts. The summary: A++! And… we have questions. Hopefully we will get to ask them someday! In the meantime, we love all of YOU in an almost "concerningly aggressive" fashion (to quote Richard Spier, the surprising mental health MVP of this season🧠!). Pull out your adult coloring book and give it a listen! And comment below with your favorite moments and your questions about the creative choices in season 2! Can you tell how enthusiastic we are by our use of many exclamation points!?

START SPREADING THE NEWS…. It’s the guest you’ve all been waiting for! Our childhood friend Michele Fletcher, Sacramento’s answer to Stacey McGill, joins us to discuss SS6! There are random dogs, British children, art classes, lots of shopping, boy ballerinas, and, of course, no vacation is complete without babysitting. We’ve all lived in NYC, but  Michele was the first of any of us to move to the Big Apple (because she’s so sophisticated). Join us as we paint the town red!

START SPREADING THE NEWS…. It’s the guest you’ve all been waiting for! Our childhood friend Michele Fletcher, Sacramento’s answer to Stacey McGill, joins us to discuss SS6! There are random dogs, British children, art classes, lots of shopping, boy ballerinas, and, of course, no vacation is complete without babysitting. We’ve all lived in NYC, but  Michele was the first of any of us to move to the Big Apple (because she’s so sophisticated). Join us as we paint the town red!

We are so excited to welcome Jody Worthington, of The Blume Saloon (a Judy Blume Book Club!) to discuss Book 44 with us! The kids at Stoneybrook Elementary School have penpals in the Zuni tribe and—yikes!—their school and many of their homes burn down! We discuss the psychological benefits of altruism, the white savior-dom of this whole enterprise, and whether Ann M. Martin continued to be influenced by “Dances With Wolves.”

It’s finally here! Stacey’s brittle diabetes breakdown, foreshadowed in so many books, comes to a head. Also, the McGills are being TERRIBLE. We discuss illness anxiety disorder, diabetes noncompliance, self-esteem, the environmental impact of hospitals… oh, and cootie catchers.

More mysterious things are happening in Stoneybrook and something is out to sabotage Jessi’s starring role in Sleeping Beauty! But it’s not the spooky, Casper the Friendly Ghost kind of mystery—this is just... straight-up malicious? Yikes. Then add in a lot of envy and you’ve got yourself a dangerous mix of ballerinas behaving badly. Thankfully, Esme teaches us how to be less envious (when we want to), more crappy moms show up, and there are a LOT of pets, like way too many for one YA book. And oh yeah! Another BSC Big 5!

THE TIME HAS COME FOR LOGAN’S COMEUPPANCE. Okay. So it wasn’t THAT dramatic, but Mary Anne dumps Logan! A mix of emotions washes over Emily—is she happy, is she sad?—and she doesn’t even know what to make of it, y’all. We have some fun, though. We talk a lot about the oppression of manufactured “Romance” from Logan and MA all the way down to elementary school valentines. Also, does anyone like chocolate covered cherries? And if so, why?!

Annnnnd we’re back with another Ellen Miles mystery and a new popular girl nemesis, Shawna Riverson (Cokie Mason, who?). Poor Claudia gets caught “cheating” and Janine has to slip into Mary Anne’s shoes to Save The Day. Emily ponders: “What is cheating, really?” We also read some fantastic reader letters and discuss Claud’s fight, flight or freeze response and the wisdom behind Mrs. Pike’s punishment strategy with those naughty triplets. Also, Anne has a lot to say about why math is confusing and jelly shoes. Join us for a… “mystery?”