Strange Bedfellows

SB 047 - "My Girl," directed by Howard Zieff

15 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If you can't see without your glasses, put them on now because you're going to want to be fully present for our discussion of this absolutely bee-yuti...

SB 046 - "Persuasion," directed by Carrie Cracknell

08 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jane Austen's classic novel about the clash of duty and longing in a society that denies women the latter and cruelly enforces the former gets the muc...

SB 045 - "Only You," directed by Norman Jewison!

01 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Inspired by this beautiful movie about love and destiny, the boys go in search of their own "Damon Bradley" — a soulmate who can be their other half...

SB 044 - "The Lost City," directed by Aaron and Adam Nee

25 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Miss Congeniality and Mr. Tatum star in this scintillating romance adventure about a catless academic and an emotionally available cover model who sea...

SB 043 - "Once," directed by John Carney (feat. Jared Sosa)

18 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Inspired by this scintillating musical romance, which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, the boys successfully make a smash hit single that...

SB 042 - "Fire Island," directed by Andrew Ahn

11 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week the boys brave the scorching heat of the legendary Fire Island as they try to discover what historical piece of media this scintillating tal...

SB 041 - "Kate & Leopold," directed by James Mangold

27 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jeff & Elmer are back to see whether their friends Kate & Leopold have committed any Time Crimes™ this week, but it's hard to pass judgement when Wo...

SB 040 - “Just Like Heaven,” directed by Mark Waters

20 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In a film that many people are describing as a "Wall to Wall Spookfest," a young Mark Ruffalo falls in love with a spectral entity who is haunting his...

SB 039 - "The Lake House," directed by Alejandro Agresti

13 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

After the success of "Speed," Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock gave into popular demand and reunited for a film about a temporal love mailbox, a parado...

SB 038 - "Fifty Shades of Grey," directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson

06 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, a film that is easy to talk about in an informative, grownup way because it is about various tints along the gradient from graphite to slat...

SB 037 - "Dirty Dancing," directed by Emile Ardolino

30 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, a film that is about so much more than dancing, but the dirty kind. To be clear, it's mostly about the dirty kind of dancing — that's rea...

SB 036 - "Your Name," directed by Makoto Shinkai

23 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, a genuinely beautiful film that answers the age-old question: What would you do if you magically swapped bodies with another Japanese teen ...

Off Week!

16 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Hi friends! We're taking a week off this week. Find out why in this two-minute "housekeeping" interlude that early reviewers are calling "one of the b...

SB 035 - "13 Going on 30," directed by Gary Winick

09 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, a film that answers one of philosophy's most revealing questions: How would you like it if you wished on some magic dust sprinkled on a pla...

SB 034 - "She's All That," directed by Robert Iscove

02 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It's one of the most beautiful romances of all time, and no one knows how or why it ended. But we're not here to litigate the circumstances surroundin...

SB 033 - "Reality Bites," directed by Ben Stiller

25 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

You ever have a day where you chain-smoked and listened to Lisa Loeb and talked ironically about existentialism and fell in love with the wrong person...

SB 032 - "Somewhere in Time," directed by Jeannot Szwarc

18 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes you love someone from the past so much that you've got to hypnotize yourself into a time travel fugue state so you can kiss them right on th...

SB 031 - "Twilight," directed by Catherine Hardwicke

11 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, it's a tale as old as time: A family of century-old Baseball vampires moves to a small town and one of them falls in love with a girl from ...

SB 030 - "You've Got Mail," directed by Nora Ephron

04 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

You've got TWO males this week, and they're here to expertly guide you through this classic love story about cybersex, the decline of retail bookstore...

SB 029 - "The Bromance Book Club," by Lyssa Kay Adams

28 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"The Bromance Book Club" is a fun, funny, and sexy novel about a group of men who help their friend save his marriage with the help of tropes from the...

SB 028 - "City of Angels," directed by Brad Silberling

21 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It's a movie about body surfing, bike safety, and very specifically what happens if you give up forever to touch someone. That's right, we accidentall...

SB 027 - "Beach Read," by Emily Henry

14 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

She loves stories with happy endings; he loves Jonathan Franzen and listening to "Everybody Hurts" on repeat. She loves delightful "meet-cutes"; he lo...

OGIF 001: Full House, "Tanner's Island"

09 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A new saga begins. Join us for a grueling slog through an endless Friday of fun, as we watch every single episode of ABC's TGIF lineup, beginning on S...

SB 026 - "The Viscount Who Loved Me (Bridgerton Series #2)," by Julia Quinn

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It's a Bridgerton book! She's afraid of storms, he's afraid of bees, they're both kind of afraid to love, but they've got absolutely piles of cash so ...

SB 025 - "Ghost," directed by Jerry Zucker

28 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Wanna feel romantic? Close your eyes and then pretend you're Demi Moore, closing her eyes and pretending that Whoopi Goldberg is her dead boyfriend an...

SB 024 - "The Love Hypothesis," by Ali Hazelwood

21 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Does Kylo Ren wear a scary mask and worship an evil master of darkness? Absolutely. Do we still think he'd be a really nice boyfriend for Rey if they ...

SB 023 - "Rescuing Roxy," by Rex Albion

14 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

WARNING: This one really is pretty explicit!!! Unfortunately (and inevitably), the boys got their wires crossed this week and accidentally read an EXT...

SB 022 - "Emma," directed by Autumn de Wilde (feat. Jaime Green)

07 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Tanner and his lover (Jaime) do a power ranking of all the couples in Jane Austen's hit 2020 movie, "Emma." Music credits: “Typewriter ...

SB 021 - "The Charm Offensive," by Alison Cochrun (feat. Jaime Green)

31 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A creative visionary with a passion for fairy tales meets an awkward nerd who's far from anyone's idea of Prince Charming ... and marries him anyway! ...

SB 020 - "American Sweethearts," by Adriana Herrera

24 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Can these two fiery, passionate, headstrong, and wildly successful careerists in their middle age set aside their ambitions — just for a moment — ...

SB 019 - "10 Things I Hate About You," directed by Gil Junger

17 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A charming rogue with a quick wit makes a bet that he can win over a famously sharp-tongued misanthrope who's afraid to love, and attempts to do so ov...

Where are the Sweet Valley Ghostwriters???

14 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

An investigation into the greatest mystery of our time. This is a special bonus episode from our Patreon. For more Sweet Valley Twins episodes, as wel...

SB 018 - "To All the Boys I've Loved Before," by Jenny Han

10 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There's five types of boys in the world, but only two of them are taking the time this week to spend an hour together discussing this extremely fun no...

SB 017 - "One Dance With a Duke," by Tessa Dare (feat. Vanessa Zoltan)

03 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

An unlikely trio of arrogant equestrians discover that true love will melt even their hardened hearts after they spend an hour together discussing thi...

SB 016 - "New Year's Eve," directed by Garry Marshall

27 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A cool and confident bro helps a shy, misanthropic recluse tick off every single task on a lifelong bucket list, including spending an hour discussing...

SB 015 - "The Nine Lives of Christmas," (a Hallmark Original Movie)

20 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A lonely old cat fanatic and a commitment-phobic stud-muffin get together under the mistletoe to make merry and talk about this sweet Hallmark Christm...

SB 014 - "The Christmas House," (a Hallmark Original Movie)

13 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A popular and successful heartthrob reconnects with a small-town local from his younger days and they have a joyful discussion of the almost impossibl...

SB 013 - "Northanger Abbey," by Jane Austen

06 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A credulous horror fan and a sarcastic sophisticate trade gentle barbs and sentimental observations as they engage in a penetrating analysis of this l...

SB 012 - "Spoiler Alert," by Olivia Dade

29 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A geeky smartypants in a movie star's body and a cosplaying fan who longs to teach him how to be his true self have a lively, insightful discussion ab...

SB 011 - "The King's Man," by Elizabeth Kingston (feat. Cat Sebastian)

22 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

With some gentle guidance from their liege, a mopey, emo landowner and the back-talking firebrand who's captured him have a rousing discussion about t...

SB 010 - "Seduction on the Slopes," by Tamsen Parker

15 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A cagey old veteran who's well past his prime still has plenty to teach an impulsive young buck over the course of this episode where they discuss thi...

SB 009 - "A Scot in the Dark," by Sarah MacLean (feat. Jaime Green)

08 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A brilliant young socialite gives advice to her fallen friend about how best to engage with a brutish lord of their acquaintance, then the three of th...

The Baby-sitters Club Netflix Series, Season 2 (feat. Rachel Shukert)

07 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this very special bonus episode, the boys chat with The Baby-sitters Club showrunner Rachel Shukert about all things Season 2, how she took inspira...

SB 008 - "The Price of Salt" (aka, "Carol"), by Patricia Highsmith

01 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A starry-eyed iconoclast becomes captivated by a jaded but beautiful sophisticate and they spend an unforgettable hour discussing this classic romance...

SB 007 - "Hate to Want You," by Alisha Rai

25 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A self-loathing bro and a brooding arty type struggle past the long and convoluted history they have with one another and cobble together a discussion...

SB 006 - "Grimspace," by Ann Aguirre

18 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A world-weary fugitive and a dangerous space cadet push past their suspicions of one another and discuss this exhilarating sci-fi romance novel by Ann...

SB 005 - "Unmasked by the Marquess," by Cat Sebastian

11 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A cantankerous old misanthrope and a charming but penniless social climber lean into their strange attraction for one another and discuss an excellent...

SB 004 - "A Princess in Theory," by Alyssa Cole

04 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A brilliant academic and a brash, overconfident lordling get off on the wrong foot but eventually manage to cobble together a discussion of this delig...

SB 003 - "The Rogue Not Taken," by Sarah MacLean

27 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

An ill-tempered ne'er-do-well  and a beautiful social outcast look past their distrust of one another and get together to discuss this saucy romance ...

SB 002 - "The Worst Best Man," by Mia Sosa

20 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A buttoned-up, logical control freak and an impulsive Creative Professional put aside their differences and get together to discuss this fiery romance...

SB 001 - "Red, White & Royal Blue," by Casey McQuiston

13 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

A handsome British princeling and a dashing American dreamboat put aside their differences and get together to discuss this delightful romance novel b...

Introducing: Strange Bedfellows

09 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Starting this Monday, the boys are going to be discussing a new romance novel every single week, beginning with "Red, White, and Royal Blue," by Casey...

SSVB 012 - When Love Dies

30 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Bad news, Steve Wakefield: Your girlfriend Tricia has heard the sweet song of the cows; the clarion clucks of the chickens; the beckoning cries of the...

SSVB 011 - Too Good To Be True

23 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Hide your precious jewels, your boyfriends, and your favorite teachers because the wicked Suzanne Devlin is in town and she's going to burn them all t...

SSVB 010 - Wrong Kind of Girl

16 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Jessica is mean to a cheerleader, Elizabeth is nice to a cheerleader but not particularly helpful, and a gruesome, tentacled, otherworldly ...

SSVB 009 - Racing Hearts

09 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The fabulous Mr. Kiss and his awkward sidekick are here to talk about what everybody in Sweet Valley is doing with their mouths these days, and the bo...

SSVB 008 - Heart Breaker

02 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We've all been doing kissing all wrong and this week's book is going to set us straight on the optimal technique, but first we have to do a power rank...

SSVB 007 - Dear Sister

26 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Twin Singularity has produced a Uni-twin and Elizabeth has taken on Jessica's personality and vice versa and this is definitely "Fight Club," isn'...

SSVB 006 - Dangerous Love

19 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Todd got a brand-new hog and he wrecked it while Elizabeth was on it and now there's only one twin in Sweet Valley, but folks: We have to talk about t...

SSVB 005 - All Night Long

12 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Jessica Wakefield stays up all night long thanks to a mustachioed creep named Scott. Elizabeth Wakefield accidentally wears a cursed artifa...

SSVB 004 - Power Play

05 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Sweet Sweet Valley Boys continue their dangerous reading spree through the Sweet Valley books this week with a deep dive into the life and times o...

SSVB 003 - Playing With Fire (feat. Marissa Flaxbart)

28 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

After realizing just how out of their depth they are in the dangerous narrative universe of Sweet Valley High, the Sweet Sweet Valley Boys call in an ...

SSVB 002 - Secrets

21 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Sweet Valley Jack and Tanner are back to investigate who's keeping secrets and who's telling lies in this scintillating novel by Francine Pascal about...

Ann M. Martin: The Story of the author of THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB

14 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The "Dark Library" is a collection of forbidden texts composed by Ann M. Martin before it was given to her to weave the great Sitters' Cycle. It is un...

A Time to Kilbourne

07 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Five years ago, two men made a solemn promise: They would tell the story of Agent Associate Baby-Sitter Shannon Kilbourne the way Ann M. Martin always...

The Baby-Sitters Club Mystery Board Game (feat. Dan Shannon)

31 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In 1992, the brilliant but reclusive game designer Milton Bradley created what was to become his masterpiece, a game so compelling and so dangerous th...

PATREON BONUS: Karen's Unicorn

24 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The boys are joined by a very, very, very special guest to discuss a little-known MTV Buzz Bin act called Ednaswap. Also, the novel Karen’s Unicorn....

Remembering "The Da Vinci Code"

17 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In this special one-off episode, Dan Brown scholars and archivists Jack Shepherd and Tanner Greenring collaborate to painstakingly recreate the first ...

PATREON BONUS: Karen's Big Sister

10 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Kind of a frantic energy about this one. Tanner reveals a big secret. Karen disgraces herself. Jack is ... distracted. This is a bonus episode that a...

BSCC Presents: Babysitting in "Jane Eyre"

03 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Some fun (and let's be honest, quite sexy!) spoilers for the classic baby-sitting novel (she's a governess!) "Jane Eyre"  in this episode — a book ...

FEED DROP: Exp. Share: Pokémon Play Podcast (HeartGold/SoulSilver)

26 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The boys will be back next week with Jane Eyre, but in the meantime, here's the latest episode of Tanner's OTHER podcast. The idea here, I think, was,...

BSCC Presents: Babysitting Anakin Skywalker

19 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Perhaps the most highly anticipated babysitting movie of all time, "The Phantom Menace" proved to be a showcase of just how bad babysitting can be whe...

BSCC Presents: Babysitting on "Baby Island"

05 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It takes a lot to surprise two boys who've encountered every form of babysitting from leopards to Tiny Yoda to that time Jake Kuhn fell down a well an...

PATREON BONUS: Karen's Mistake

29 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Our sexiest episode yet. This is a bonus episode from our Patreon. To get an episode like this every week for just $5 a month, subscribe to the show...

BSCC Presents: Babysitting the Kids From "One Fine Day"

22 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

One huge fan, one reluctant cohost, and one perfect babysitting movie makes for one particularly fine day over here at BSCC headquarters, where we're ...

BSCC Presents: Babysitting "Baby" From "Bringing Up Baby" (feat. Sarah Morgan)

15 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What do you do when your baby is an actual leopard and the man you love is kind of a chicken? Is the question this fascinating babysitting film from t...

BSCC Presents: Babysitting the Kids in "He-Man & She-Ra: A Christmas Special"

08 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

No jokes or digressions this week, because we've got an imposing amount of critical theory related to the seminal '80s babysitting text, "He-Man & She...

BSCC Presents: Babysitting Jake From "The Gunslinger"

01 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. Along the way, he did some pretty heavy-duty babysitting, took a bunch of mescal...

BSCC Presents: Babysitting the Kids From "The Governess Game" (feat. Jaime Green)

22 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The boys (and special guest Jaime Green) make a valiant effort to keep the rating on this one down and appease the censors, but end up with what can o...

BSCC Presents: Babysitting the Baby From "Willow"

15 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The year is 1988 and it is prophesied that a bikini baby will bring about the downfall of an evil sorceress named Bad Mother. Consequently, Bad Mother...

BSCC Presents: Babysitting the Kids From Mrs. Doubtfire

08 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Can you babysit your own children? What if you're pretending to be someone else? Is it in any way creepy to disguise yourself as an elderly nanny and ...

BSCC Presents: Babysitting the Kids From "Stranger Things"

01 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Much like the local mall where a giant meat monster does a big battle in the hit TV show "Stranger Things," this episode could be best described as a ...

BSCC Presents: Babysitting the Kids From "Adventures in Babysitting"

25 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Let's take a trip back to the early days of babysitting: It was 1987, and an unsuspecting world was just beginning to appreciate the giddy highs and t...

BSCC Presents: Babysitting The Boy From "The Road"

18 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

One of the great babysitting novels of all time, Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" is a story about an ongoing act of ambulatory babysitting right at the v...

BSCC Presents: Babysitting the Girl From Waterworld

11 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Aquatic babysitting is one of the hardest types of babysitting there is, as Dawn and Claudia famously learned in Babysitters Island Adventure; as Kris...

BSCC Presents: Babysitting Baby Yoda

04 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The boys from the baby-sitters club club are back for yet another scintillating discussion of baby-sitting style and technique, this time in the smash...

BSCCDROM 002: 4th Grade Learning Adventures

28 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Join the Hot Legs Gamer Clan as they bravely venture into this year's most anticipated title: The Baby-sitters Club 4th Grade Learning Adventures CD-R...

Karen's Christmas Carol

25 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mean old Tabenanner Scroogering and his sniveling pushover assistant Bob Jackchit try to discuss Karen Brewer's disastrous performance in "A Christmas...

Baby-Sitters Club: The Summer Before

21 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In an act of dangerous desperation, Ann has attempted to go back in time and fix what she set into motion before it ever started. An astonishing, rapt...

PATREON BONUS: Karen's Movie Star

18 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

They got Boo-Boo. Ann got Boo-Boo. This is the one where Ann gets Boo-Boo. This is a bonus episode from our Patreon. To get an episode like this ever...

The Baby-sitters Experience 2: Logan Vs. Slowking (feat. Josh Fjelstad)

14 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 d...

The Baby-Sitters Club Guide to Baby-Sitting

07 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 on...

The Baby-sitters Experience (feat. Josh Fjelstad)

30 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Baby-Sitters Club: Chain Letter

23 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The boys are indoctrinated into a mysterious chain of secrets, lies, and treachery after accidentally reading a cryptic letter from someone (or someth...

Birds!

16 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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: “Illuminat...

The Baby-Sitters Club Club CLUB

09 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 T...

Friends Forever Special: Graduation Day

02 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 reali...

FF 012 - Claudia and the Disaster Date

26 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

FF 011 - Welcome Home, Mary Anne

19 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 tow...

FF 010 - Stacey's Problem

12 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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 addres...