While much of the world was focused on high-stakes athletic and political competitions in September 1988, a couple of young outsiders made a connection in their new town of Stoneybrook. Brooke and Kaykay dive into the growing anti-ableism movement that set the backdrop for Jessi's Secret Language, including the Deaf President Now student protest at Gallaudet University and the emergence of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Plus: digressions on Muppet musicians, gay food analogies, and the most hideous of all 80s hair trends.

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August 1988 was a month of so-terrible-they're-legendary movies and a similar caliber of performances in the Little Miss Stoneybrook pageant. Brooke and Kaykay discuss the competition between the BSC while reading beauty pageants, the patriarchy, and predatory capitalism for ABSOLUTE FILTH. As a special bonus, this episode contains a delightful factoid that will come in very handy at parties (post-vaccination, of course).

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The Caribbean took center stage in July 1988, with the debuts of Cocktail, the inaugural Shark Week, and the first Baby-sitters Club Super Special, Baby-sitters on Board! Brooke and Kaykay break down the creeps & cons and slobs & scams in this extended advertisement for the Disney conglomerate, with diversions on prom themes, sports at sea, and Kaykay's exclusive kindergarten social club.

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June 1988 was BIG. The movie Big brought in big bucks across America, very big turtles were big news in the Bronx, and big changes were happening in the small town of Stoneybrook. Brooke and Kaykay verbally dismantle the hostile power structures that isolate Mallory Pike and Stoneybrook’s newest residents, the Ramseys, and pontificate on Kids Incorporated, dapper sharks, and Fudge Club.

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May 1988 saw two sad departures: Cagney & Lacey from Kaykay's television screen and Stacey McGill from Stoneybrook.  Brooke and Kaykay discuss the American tradition of distracting oneself from internal reflection via capitalism, as well as neighborhood (real!) spies, the BSC gang at Burning Man, and the character building experience of guerilla paintball warfare.

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In April 1988, prestigious honors were granted to Alf , Celine Dion, and the newest student at Stoneybrook Middle School, sculptress and hiking boot aficionado Ashley Wyeth.  Brooke and Kaykay discuss the thick subtext of Claudia and Ashley's relationship, including a Karen Brewer-meets-David Lynch-esque theory about what is really going on in this book.

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March 1988 was all about California Raisins and Connecticut Snobs. Brooke and Kaykay dig into the tense social hierarchy in Stoneybrook, as well as authoritarian rhetorical tricks, tacky rich people decor (indoor fish fountains, anyone?), and the life changing impact of French-rolled jeans.

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In February 1988, four Jamaican athletes not named Yul Brenner raced a bobsled in Calgary, Salt-N-Pepa commanded the world to push it real good, and Logan Damn Bruno crashed the Baby-sitters Club. Brooke and Kaykay discuss all of this, plus the nature of art and the self, the insidiousness of 80s & 90s teen magazines, and the bravery of gender non-conforming insects.

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In January 1988, The Phantom of the Opera came to Broadway, The Wonder Years premiered on TV, and way too many kids in Stoneybrook decided to start hanging out in crawl spaces. Brooke and Kaykay discuss these topics and more, including Cabbage Patch Kids, Taylor Dayne, and the generational traumas inflicted by Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and the ironically-named Snackwell’s cookies.

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In November 1987, millions of moviegoers watched Three Men and a Baby, while only one Baby-sitters Club member watched eight Pike children near a large body of water...and it wasn't Stacey McGill. Brooke and Kaykay discuss all of the hot topics in Surf City, including misogynistic lifeguards, high-stakes mini-golf, and the question everyone is afraid to ask, "Beaches: Do they actually suck?"

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