{"id":1693,"date":"2016-07-18T12:01:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T16:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:54:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:54:51","slug":"episode-53-the-baby-sitters-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/episode-53-the-baby-sitters-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 53 – The Baby-sitters Club"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Baby-sitters \"Baby-sitters \"California<\/center>Flashback Summer continues! While Renata is off in the wilderness, settling into her Sadness Cave, Kait, our editor Becca, and our guest Jennifer<\/a> said hello to their friends–the Baby-sitters Club! Kait, Becca, and Jen revisited the BSC franchise as a whole with Baby-sitters Club #56: Keep Out, Claudia!<\/a>, Baby-sitters Club Super Special #4: Baby-sitters’ Island Adventure<\/a>, and California Diaries: Ducky #3<\/a>, thinking fondly back on the time when you could call one number and reach seven reliable baby-sitters,\u00a0people just abandoned their children to The World’s Most Mature Thirteen Year Olds on the regular, and that theme song was constantly stuck in your head. Put on your oversized blue and pink tie dyed t-shirt, blue cowboy boots, pink and black checked leggings, side-ponytail, and one earring shaped like a musical note and one earring shaped like a guitar and join us for another stroll down memory lane in our Flashback Summer!<\/p>\n

Readers advisory<\/strong>: Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Footnotes:\u00a0<\/strong>The Baby-sitters Club<\/a><\/em> television theme song<\/p>\n

The Baby-sitters Club Mystery Game<\/em> commercial<\/a><\/p>\n

A Mary Anne with Kristy Rising: On the Enduring Legacy of the Baby-Sitters Club Books<\/a><\/p>\n

List of Baby-sitters Club books by ghostwriter<\/a><\/p>\n

California Diaries on Wikipedia (including ghostwriters)<\/a><\/p>\n

Peter Lerangis on Ghostwriting the Baby-Sitter’s Club and the Future of YA Lit<\/a><\/p>\n

Quantum Leap theme song<\/a><\/p>\n

Monstress Vol 1 by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda<\/a><\/p>\n

Candy pairing:\u00a0 <\/strong>Kait says candy necklaces<\/a>,\u00a0Becca says Now and Laters<\/a>, Jennifer says Fruit-by-theFoot<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Coming up next:\u00a0<\/strong>Goosebumps<\/a><\/em> and\u00a0Fear Street<\/em> by RL Stine.<\/p>\n

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(But no pressure, we\u2019re also happy if you get these items from your local library or independent bookstore.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Flashback Summer continues! While Renata is off in the wilderness, settling into her Sadness Cave, Kait, our editor Becca, and our guest Jennifer said hello to their friends–the Baby-sitters Club! Kait, Becca, and Jen revisited the BSC franchise as a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[850,6,2142],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-flashback-summer","tag-podcast","tag-the-baby-sitters-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6656,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions\/6656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}