The Baby-sitters Fight Club
Two grown women discuss The Baby-sitters Club series, one book at a time, with the seriousness it deserves and the humor that you need. In each episode, Brooke Suchomel and Kaykay Brady explore both the text and subtext of Ann M. Martin's work and what it says about growing up female in America in the 1980s and 1990s -- and how these messages affect us today.
Episodes
58 episodes
BSFC at the Movies: Teen Witch
There are movies that are bad. There are movies that are so bad, they're good. And then there's Teen Witch.Brooke and KK are back to discuss the Most 80s of Movies, a hallmark of the HBO childhood-to-therapist ...
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Season 1
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Episode 57
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1:03:30
BSFC at the Movies: Troop Beverly Hills
It's Cookie Time, y'all! That's right, Brooke and Kaykay are finally back to break down 1989's Troop Beverly Hills, give you the scoop on the show's recent hiatus, and rain flowers upon underrated icon Shelley Long.
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Season 1
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Episode 56
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1:07:40
BSFC at the Movies: Working Girl
For the inaugural BSFC at the Movies episode, Brooke & Kaykay dive into the EXTREMELY 1988 classic Working Girl, a love letter to the Staten Island Ferry, AquaNet, and capitalism. SPOILER ALERT: It hasn't aged well. (J...
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Season 1
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Episode 55
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1:01:50
BSFC Netflix #2.7 & 2.8: Claudia and the Sad Goodbye / Kristy and the Baby Parade
Brooke and Kaykay are back to bid a fond farewell to The Baby-sitters Club series on Netflix. Also: Stick around 'til the end for an exciting announcement about this show!Visit us at our w...
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Season 1
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Episode 54
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52:45
BSFC Netflix #2.5 & 2.6: Mary Anne and the Great Romance / Dawn and the Wicked Stepsister
In which Brooke & Kaykay discuss lessons from the 5th & 6th episodes of season 2, including the joys of refusing to be defined by labels, healthy ways to navigate changing relationships, and how to keep it together around Surprise Clown...
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Season 1
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Episode 53
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58:56
BSFC Netflix #2.3 & 2.4: Stacey's Emergency / Jessi and the Superbrat
SCOTUS is bad. The BSC is good.Join us for a 60 minute respite from the flaming dumpster heap that is present-day America as we discuss the 3rd and 4th episodes of season 2 of the Netflix series. This is a marathon, y'all -- humor, crit...
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Season 1
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Episode 52
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1:00:25
BSFC Netflix #2.1 & 2.2: Kristy and the Snobs / Claudia and the New Girl
At last, Brooke and Kaykay are diving into the second (and sadly, final) season of The Baby-sitters Club on Netflix! This show is so damn good, y'all. Visit us at our website, and foll...
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Season 1
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Episode 51
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1:01:16
BSFC #36: Jessi's Baby-sitter
For our 50th episode (!!!), we're heading back to August 1990, when Mariah Carey's debut had the power on the pop charts, existential dread dominated the box office, and Ferris Bueller moved to...Santa Monica? Pop culture was getting, getting, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 50
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58:10
BSFC Super Special #4: Baby-sitters' Island Adventure
July 1990 was a month of classic American sensationalism: in the news (Satanic Panic! jingoism! copaganda!), in the theatres (spiders! ghosts! infertile women!) and in the Baby-sitters Club (a friggin' SHIPWRECK?!).Brooke and Kaykay dis...
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Season 1
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Episode 49
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1:08:20
BSFC #35: Stacey and the Mystery of Stoneybrook
In June 1990, a calculated culture war campaign raged in Florida while copaganda reigned supreme in theaters and a cable channel brainwashed its loyal viewers. I mean, can you even imagine?! Brooke and Kaykay discuss the ...
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Season 1
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Episode 48
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1:04:28
BSFC #34: Mary Anne and Too Many Boys
May 1990 was a rollercoaster: Madonna's "Vogue" video blew our minds, the death of Jim Henson broke our hearts, and a new BSC ghostwriter boggled our brains. The Sea City we knew and tolerated -- Burger Garden, mini-golf, and Tunnel of Luv -- i...
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Season 1
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Episode 47
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57:55
BSFC #33: Claudia and the Great Search
The pop culture of April 1990 blew our young minds: Sinead O'Connor! Fire Marshal Bill, Homey the Clown, AND the Log Lady! The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie and its soundtrack (the perfect gift)! A ripped-from-the-tabloids Very Special BSC...
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Season 1
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Episode 46
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58:40
BSFC #32: Kristy and the Secret of Susan
March 1990 was a big month for Janet Jackson and Julia Roberts and a bad month for fans of the HBO BSC series. On a related note, a hearty WTF?! to Netflix. Brooke and Kaykay mourn the loss of a 3rd season of the Netflix BSC show before...
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Season 1
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Episode 45
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52:03
BSFC #31: Dawn's Wicked Stepsister
February 1990 packed a lot of change into a short month: Nelson Mandela was released from prison, the Brady Bunch was given a gritty reboot (with a theme song that must be heard to be believed), and tw...
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Season 1
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Episode 44
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1:08:09
BSFC #30: Mary Anne and the Great Romance
It's hard to take a lighthearted tone in such dark times, but fortunately this episode was recorded well in advance of the horrendous attack on Ukraine. If you need a respite from the weight of this brutal, stupid world, join us as we reflect o...
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Season 1
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Episode 43
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57:08
BSFC Super Special #3: Baby-sitters' Winter Vacation
December 1989 brought an appropriately dramatic end to the 1980s: The month kicked off with Dad Bush and future Pizza Hut spokesperson Mikhail Gorbachev announcing an end to the Cold War; ended with a piano scarfed David Hasselhoff rocking Berl...
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Season 1
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Episode 42
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1:07:36
BSFC #29: Mallory and the Mystery Diary
November 1989 was serving INSPIRATION: The fall of the Berlin Wall! The Velvet Revolution! The debut of Queen Latifah! The introduction of queer icon Ursula the Sea Witch! The Baby-sitters Club's addition of literacy tutoring to their ever-expa...
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Season 1
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Episode 41
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1:00:03
BSFC #28: Welcome Back, Stacey!
October 1989 was a month of political, physical, and personal shakeups: Regimes fell in Central Europe, San Francisco quaked on live TV, and copaganda's stranglehold on the box office was ended by two Scientologists and a talking baby. It was a...
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Season 1
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Episode 40
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1:11:32
BSFC #27: Jessi and the Superbrat
The vibe of September 1989 was BOLD, with popular uprisings against authoritarianism in East Germany, South Africa, and Beverly Hills (justice for Zsa Zsa!), Cher's scandalous strut across an aircraft carrier and up the music charts, and the de...
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Season 1
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Episode 39
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1:04:50
BSFC Super Special #2: Baby-sitters' Summer Vacation
August 1989 was a month for motley crews out of their elements: a bevy of your loudest uncle's favorite bands (including Motley Crue, natch) rocked Moscow; two movies about dysfunctional families in crisis ruled the box office; and half of Ston...
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Season 1
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Episode 38
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1:19:03
BSFC #26: Claudia and the Sad Good-bye
Hollywood went deep into copaganda in July 1989 (Batman, Lethal Weapon 2, AND Turner & Hooch?!), and Ann M. Martin went even deeper into the Kubler-Ross model in this exquisitely realized portrayal of death and grief. Grab your weighted bla...
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Season 1
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Episode 37
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1:00:02
BSFC #25: Mary Anne and the Search for Tigger
June 1989 was rough and so is this book. Y'ALL. Over the course of the last three books, the BSC went from exploring profound questions like "Where is home?" and "What makes a family?" to "Why is Logan?!?!" Buckle up, kids, because it's a damn ...
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Season 1
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Episode 36
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1:04:55
BSFC #24: Kristy and the Mother's Day Surprise
In May 1989, we bid farewell to Alexis Carrington and Alex P. Keaton, said hello to Toonces the Driving Cat, and crossed our fingers for the health and safety of 28 children in Connecticut who spent Mother's Day Eve wandering through Sudsy's Ca...
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Season 1
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Episode 35
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58:23
BSFC #23: Dawn on the Coast
April 1989 was heavy: The Tiananmen Square Protests began in Beijing, the Central Park Jogger case threw New York City into a frenzy, and Ann M. Martin laid down some hard philosophical truths about the ephemeral nature of one's definition of "...
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Season 1
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Episode 34
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1:07:47
BSFC #22: Jessi Ramsey, Pet-sitter
March 1989: When Madonna pissed off the Pope (and Pepsi), a fever dream opened the Oscars, and Ann M. Martin gave a civics lesson disguised as a book about pet-sitting.Brooke and Kaykay discuss the BSC's battle with interpersonal and st...
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Season 1
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Episode 33
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1:02:40