Strange Bedfellows
Episodes
FF 009 - Kristy and the Kidnapper
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A pulse-pounding adventure full of elite haxors, Knights Templar, and secret service shootouts, Kristy and the Kidnapper is Ellen Miles’ most ambiti...
FF 008 - Mary Anne's Revenge
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After heroically grappling with the inscrutable temporal paradox created by having to go and watch the Netflix show in between Friends Forever discuss...
FF 007 - Claudia Gets Her Guy
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
🚨 CLAUDIA DATES ALAN GRAY CLAUDIA DATES ALAN GRAY CLAUDIA DATES ALAN GRAY CLAUDIA DATES ALAN GRAY 🚨 That's right. The guy is Alan G...
FF 006 - Stacey and the Boyfriend Trap
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After the fever dream that was the Netflix video novels, the boys are thrown headfirst back into the twilight world of "Friends Forever," where the Fa...
BSCTV 010 - Hello, Camp Moosehead! Part 2 (feat. Jaime Greenring)
07 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The baby-sitters face their hardest test yet, as they stand on the edge of a dark and forbidding forest; a wilderness wherein they must wander until t...
BSCTV 009 - Hello, Camp Moosehead! Part 1 (feat. Sophie Grace and Sophia Reid-Gantzert)
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The boys send their best and bravest into the heart of suburban Connecticut in search of the secret portal to Stoneybrook, but all they end up with is...
BSCTV 008 - Kristy's Big Day (feat. Mark Feuerstein)
24 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Things aren’t looking so hot for Batgirl’s big day! Kristy looks like a banana, the officiant is a witch, and Mr. Spier’s shirt smells like meat...
BSCTV 007 - Boy-Crazy Stacey (feat. Shay Rudolph and Momona Tamada)
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Something’s going on with the dads of Stoneybrook this week. Watson’s hiding something behind a mysterious blue door, Mr. Spier is undergoing some...
BSCTV 006 - Claudia and Mean Janine (feat. Naia Cucukov and Lucy Kitada)
10 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The boys bring their sharp critical lens to another fascinating video-novel this week as they grapple with a number of complex choices its creators ha...
BSCTV 005 - Dawn and the Impossible Three (feat. Xochitl Gomez and Malia Baker)
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This fascinating video-novel poses three impossible problems: Kristy’s baffling reluctance to accept Dawn into the club; the paradoxical influence o...
BSCTV 004 - Mary Anne Saves the Day (feat. Lucia Aniello)
27 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This one has nowhere near enough boys’ basketball in it, but that kind of sums up Mr. Prezzioso’s life anyway, so it all checks out. Plenty to dis...
BSCTV 003 - The Truth About Stacey (feat. Rachel Shukert)
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a new baby-sitting conglomerate in town and their unique brand of baby-sitting, including sizzle reels, peer-to-peer influencer marketing, a...
BSCTV 002 - Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we find out that the Phantom Phone Caller was inside us all along, which certainly explains why he’s still at large, but somehow isn’t a...
BSCTV 001 - Kristy's Great Idea
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the boys slam on the brakes of the Friends Forever series and smash through their windshields right into the first episode of the Baby-Sitt...
FF 005 - Kristy Power!
29 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Unchastened by their disastrous attempts to heckle 8-year-olds during “Claudia’s First Thanksgiving,” not to mention the censorship fiasco in “...
FF 004 - Claudia and the Friendship Feud
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
According to Merriam Webster, a “Friendship Feud” is when you have a big feud with your friend about whether it’s somehow a good thing that Stac...
FF 003 - Mary Anne's Big Breakup
15 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ann continues to take a wrecking ball to what remains of our beloved baby-sitting club, this time reducing the passionate and (literally) timeless lov...
FF 002 - Stacey Vs. Claudia
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With her Wine Crimes in the rearview mirror, Stacey McGill tries her hand at betrayal. Meanwhile, as Stoneybrook reels from what is presumably a five-...
FF 001 - Kristy's Big News
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Total mystery what Kristy’s Big News is this week, but Patrick Thomas is getting married and he can’t do that without every member of his estrange...
Friends Forever Special: Everything Changes
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It had long been foretold that Kristy would be betrayed nine times before the end. But even after Dawn and Mallory turned their backs on her, no one w...
Two Men Play With Dolls
18 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Failing to heed their own best advice, the boys bring dolls into the sanctity of their homes and play with them. But these aren’t just any dolls: Th...
California Diaries: Ducky (Three)
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The California Diaries are over. The time has come for us to roll up our JNCOs, gather up our empty bottles of MD 20/20, feed our Furbies one final ti...
California Diaries: Amalia (Three)
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
OK so Brendan’s acting super weird because he wasn’t there for Amalia when these girls harassed her outside the movie theater and Dawn doesn’t k...
California Diaries: Maggie (Three)
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Maggie Blume is dating literally the hottest guy in the world! And if you think that’s Pacey from Dawson’s Creek, you’ve made the biggest mistak...
California Diaries: Sunny (Three)
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ugh, this one was pretty brutal. Sunny’s mom dies, Sunny’s dad can’t make it through his eulogy at the funeral because he’s crying so hard, an...
California Diaries: Dawn (Three)
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Will Sunny and Dawn ever be friends again? Will there ever be a singer as handsome as Belgian heartthrob Pierre X from Jax? Will the mysterious publis...
California Diaries: Ducky (Two)
06 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
YNAW, Poundmasters! Ann gave us a sensitive and heavy topic to chew on this week, so we stepped up to the plate like we always do in these situations ...
California Diaries: Amalia (Two)
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Which of us would not sacrifice the very world for just one glimpse of his baggy jeans; his suave super-gelled Brian Austin Green hair; his shy, bluis...
California Diaries: Maggie (Two)
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The boys settle in for a pleasant and relaxing evening babysitting a gaggle of grumpy teens. Truth Translation: We’re pretty out of our depth here! ...
California Diaries: Dawn (Two)
16 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dawn’s stepmother Carol is in the hospital getting ready to bring new life into the world. Sunny’s mother is in the very same hospital looking at ...
California Diaries: Sunny (Two)
09 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sunny is in a bad mood because of circumstances beyond her control and she’s being a glum plum and bringing everybody down, which is fine, it happen...
California Diaries: Ducky (One)
02 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Cro-Mags are whispering to each other and snickering, as if you’re too dumb or too INVISIBLE to figure out that they’re laughing at YOU. So yo...
California Diaries: Amalia (One)
24 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It took four books, but we finally get a taste of that Good Clean Baby-Sitting Fun we’ve been so desperately craving this week, from the unlikely di...
California Diaries: Maggie (One)
17 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When you have a choice between watching the star-studded world premiere of “Fatal Judgment” or being in the crowd at the Battle of the Bands for t...
California Diaries: Sunny (One)
10 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Everything is still very, very late '90s out here in California and we're all pretty worked up about it. But we're grown adults, so we're going to do ...
California Diaries: Dawn (One)
03 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Edgier, more grownup, full of alcohol and angst and bad decisions. Cool. Sullen. Sarcastic. Mad at the whole world and ready to explode. These are jus...
BSCCD-ROM: The Baby-Sitters Club Friendship Kit
27 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A wonderfully surreal and slightly scary world awaits all those who are brave enough to crawl through the looking glass, speak their own secret names ...
BSCBBs 009 - Shannon's Story
20 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Trained from a young age by an elite academy for assassins, Associate Baby-Sitter Shannon Kilbourne is ready for the biggest mission of her life when ...
BSCBBs 008 - Logan Bruno, Boy Baby-Sitter
13 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The boys head back in time to get frisky with some whales and check up on what Logan Bruno’s up to, which, WOW! He’s fallen in with a group of ‘...
BSCBBs 007: Logan's Story
06 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The boys are both canceled this week, sadly, along with Pete Black, Logan, and everybody else on the SMS Gladiators track team except Austin Bentley. ...
BSCBBs 006 - Abby's Book
30 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jack takes a seat on the bench so that Regular Tanner and Future Tanner can solve the maddening puzzle that Jeanne Betancourt has created this week in...
The Lerangismas Episode
25 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The war on Lerangismas is over! The era of Pete has begun! The boys gather on a snowy night to share some Lerangismas cheer and talk about their very ...
BSCBBs 005 - Kristy's Book
23 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
With a little bit of help from their best friend Doctor Who, the boys take a magic phone box into the past and hang out with some of history’s most ...
BSCBBs 004 - Mary Anne's Book
16 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Our adorable Time Babies run into an impenetrable temporal anomaly inside a beautiful and possibly slightly magical Lake House as they navigate their ...
BSCBBs 003 - Dawn's Book
09 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The boys invent a nifty little machine in their garage that creates a time loop which will allow them to go all the way back to 1995 and attempt to fo...
BSCBBs 002 - Claudia's Book
02 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Our intrepid Time Babies take another trip back to save the future, this time into Claudia Kishi’s past, where the Great One (She Who Lurks in the D...
BSCBBs 001 - Stacey's Book
25 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lobstrosities, Clone People, a malevolent Cloud AI ... and they’re all converging on the sweet, sweet feet of the sweetest Baby-Sitters Club Ghostwr...
Daddy Eats Cat Food
18 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Daddy and Tanner get some expert help as they navigate the sparse and unforgiving terrain they seem to have navigated themselves into after finishing ...
BSCAC 001 - Kristy's Great Idea Audio Book
11 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
OK, so someone called “Elle Fanning” went back and changed a bunch of things in this one, but you know what she couldn’t hide? THE TRUTH. This ...
BSCMC 036 - Kristy and the Cat Burglar
04 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Well, it was always going to end in cat burglars, but if any of us had even begun to suspect who those cats and who those burglars were, let alone wha...
BSCMC 035 - Abby and the Notorious Neighbor
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Detective Tanner and Gumshoe Jack wade into a mystery that they are fundamentally ill equipped to solve, featuring not just Abby Stevenson, but a belo...
BSCMC 034 - Mary Anne and the Haunted Bookstore
21 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
An illuminating peek inside the writing process of the mysterious Vicki Berger Erwin, this scintillating episode takes you where no other Baby-Sitters...
BSCMC 033 - Stacey and the Stolen Hearts
14 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Someone stole a bag from Stacey, but more importantly, someone stole Pete Black's heart, and we're not going to rest until they're behind bars where t...
BSCMC 032 - Claudia and the Mystery Painting
07 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Art is a mystery, and the mystery we read this week was certainly a work of art because this week’s mystery was surging with VBE ENERGY! That’s ri...
BSCMC 031 - Mary Anne and the Music Box Secret
30 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Anne discovered the freaking LAMENT CONFIGURATION in a wall this week and all hell quite literally broke loose. Meanwhile, the DeWitts are buildi...
BSCMC 030 - Kristy And The Mystery Train
23 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“A sense of endearing honesty permeates this episode, which is far more than anyone can say about Jack and Tanner’s subsequent work. It’s a sham...
BSCMC 029 - Stacey and the Fashion Victim
16 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Somebody’s poisoning fashion teens this week, but don’t worry because Stacey McGill and her best friends Abraham Lincoln, Drop Dead Fred, and Wolv...
BSCMC 028 - Abby and the Mystery Baby
09 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
To paraphrase Joe Pantoliano’s character Cypher in The Matrix, “You know, I know this mystery doesn’t exist. I know that when I put it in my eye...
BSCMC 027 - Claudia and the Lighthouse Ghost
02 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
'Tis the season for lighthouse ghosts, alien beehives, and AI-enabled thermonuclear devastation, and there's only one person in the whole wide world w...
BSCMC 026 - Dawn Schafer Undercover Baby-Sitter
26 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It’s an undercover episode, by which we mean, it’s a totally normal episode and not really different in any way from any other episode of the show...
BSCMC 025 - Kristy and the Middle School Vandal
19 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Who likes mysteries? We hope you do, because it’s time to get wet, wild, and wiggly for some horny mystery action with Nola, who's back, stacked, an...
BSCMC 024 - Mary Anne and the Silent Witness
12 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Huge news this week, Riddlebabies. We think we uncovered the origins of *69, and it’s way raunchier than you probably imagined. (Also, for younger l...
PATREON PREVIEW: Little Sister #32 - Karen’s Pumpkin Patch
08 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is a bonus episode from our Patreon! Patreon subscribers have already heard this one, but for everyone else, this is the most recent episode of T...
BSCMC 023 - Abby and the Secret Society
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Abby’s first mystery, which means we’re hurtling at 99% of the speed of light toward the messy end of this thing wherein the birds eat our ...
BSCMC #022 - Stacey and the Haunted Masquerade
29 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
If there’s something strange in you podcast app, who you gonna call? Jack and Tanner! If you’re sick of hearing, all that true crime crap, who you...
BSCMC 021 - Claudia and the Recipe for Danger
22 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It’s Cake Week this week, and our star bakers – Claudia Kishi, Mary Anne Spier, and Shea Rodowsky – are getting ready to wow the judges with the...
BSCMC 020 - Mary Anne and the Zoo Mystery
15 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Entity is back! And we wrote an incredible mystery book. We think we’ll really get a kick out of where our episode goes this week. We filled the...
Wa-BSCMC 019 - Kristy and the Missing Fortune
08 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It’s an Evil Episode this week, folks. Everything that should be right-side-up is upside down. Everything that should be clockwise is widdershins, a...
BSCMC 018 - Stacey and the Mystery of the Empty House
01 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
You’re gonna love this episode 😉 (👈 this is not a come-on. We just genuinely think you’ll like this episode a lot. We had a lot of fun makin...
W♥KCMC 017 - Dawn and the Halloween Mystery
24 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the City Council meeting for Palo City! Quite a full agenda this week, as we’ll need to decide whether or not to cancel Halloween this ye...
BSCMC 016 - Claudia and the Clue in the Photograph
17 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever looked at a photograph that really made you laugh? Like, why were your eyes so red and what the hell was on Joey’s head? That’s prec...
BSCMC 015 - Kristy and the Vampires
10 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Your two favorite disaffected but lovable Goths sink their Hot Topic fangs into more ‘90s horror this week, with a bone-chilling look at the famousl...
BSCMC 014 - Stacey and the Mystery At the Mall
03 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Matthews, born on January 9th, 1967, is an American singer-songwriter originally born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is best known for perfor...
BSCMC 013 - Mary Anne and the Library Mystery
27 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We got ‘em! These dangerous Private Investigators have made their last mistake, and as soon as we release this damning report to the world, Mary Ann...
W♥KCMC 012 - Dawn and the Surfer Ghost
20 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hang ten, Riptide Babies! Your favorite cheeba/Stoppard heads, Weed Lord and Half-Pipe, are back all the way from sunny California! The fog is rolling...
BSCMC 011 - Claudia and the Mystery of the Museum
13 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
There’s suddenly a massive, new, multi-story, premiere art gallery in Stoneybrook, which would be enough of a mystery by itself if it weren’t for ...
BSCMC 010 - Stacey and the Mystery Money
06 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bad news. Stacey is a crime girl again. She just can’t help herself, she’s as drawn to crime as she is hot and horny young men, like Terry/David H...
BSCMC 009 - Kristy and the Haunted Mansion
29 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The boys are elbows deep in Boethius this week as they take a trip with Kristy and the Krashers to a mansion that is haunted by the angry, vengeful gh...
BSCMC 008 - Jessi and the Jewel Thieves
22 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Jessi and Quint break it off. But not before they harass two master actors and probable lovers by accusing them of crimes and stalking them...
BSCMC 007 - Dawn and the Disappearing Dogs
15 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A searing indictment of Minnesota’s police force specifically, this brave episode goes where no previous episode has dared to go: Right to the sourc...
BSCMC 006 - Mystery at Claudia's House
08 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“Mystery” is generous for this book because there was not really much of a mystery, but it was a pretty fun book and discussion! When Janine “Th...
BSCMC 005 - Mary Anne and the Secret in the Attic
01 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Prepare to dive headfirst into a world of intrigue and MYSTERY! To unlock the SECRETS of Mary Anne’s origins; to decipher the PUZZLE of the universe...
The Baby-Sitters Club Movie
25 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The boys originally wanted to buy themselves a week to figure out what they’re going to do now that they’re out of Super Special books, but boy di...
BSCSC 015 - Baby-sitters' European Vacation
18 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is a time for sobriety and reflection as the boys gaze bravely into oblivion. Shattered by the loss of a dear, innocent friend who was betrayed b...
BSCSC 014 - BSC in the USA
11 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Wow! This book was a banger. You’ve never heard two boys who are more excited to talk about a BSC book. The girls FINALLY make it to America, and th...
BSCSC 013 - Aloha, Baby-sitters!
04 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Stacey’s chopper is down and she’s missing in the jungles of Hawaii. Meanwhile, back in Stoneybrook, Mallory has alienated a potential client by m...
BSCC Live: Super Mystery 001: Baby-Sitters Haunted House
25 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Live at Littlefield in Brooklyn, NY, the boys dig deep into one of the greatest mysteries of all time: What the heck is going on with ghostwriter Jean...
BSCSC 012 - Here Come the Bridesmaids!
11 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Put a dollar in your Pete jars, folks, because the boys are talking about the Pete Lerangis Super Special so nice … they read it twice! That’s rig...
BSCSC 011 - The Baby-Sitters Remember
04 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone remembers the 24 to 72 hours immediately preceding the first time they ever met Kristin Amanda Thomas. For most of the girls in the Baby-Sitt...
BSCSC 010 - Sea City, Here We Come!
28 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Stacey and Mary Anne are headed back to the scene of the crime. To the place where it all started, all those years ago – to the locus for those half...
BSCSC 009 - Starring the Baby-sitters Club!
21 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“Electrifying. Dangerous. Masterful.” –Erik Anderson, AwardsWatch “Revealing both the dangers and payoffs of artistic ambition, The Baby-Sit...
BSCSC 008 - Baby-sitters at Shadow Lake
14 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Shadow Lake holds many mysteries – including a disappearing family that haunts its islands and a big scary monster that lurks in in its depths – b...
1998: The Podcast 001
07 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to pilot two of three! This week, Jack and Tanner go back to the first good year, the last good year, and possibly the only good year in livin...
BSCSC 007 - Snowbound
31 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ann’s back with a whole lot more snow and a rare and surprising tribute to the heroic men who are so often unsung in these novels – He-Man’s fri...
BSCC: On Christmas Eve
25 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For this bonus Holiday Special episode, the boys delve into a book that Ann has been trying to keep secret from us. A book so dangerous that it may ho...
BSCSC 006: New York, New York!
24 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week the girls of the BSC fuggedaboutit! as they leave Stoneybrook and schlep to the mean hard streets of the Big Apple! Watch out, cause these b...
BSCSC 005 - California Girls!
17 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The BSC is undeniable this week. Fine, fresh, fierce, and they’ve got it on lock. Except of course when Stacey is committing Surf Crimes, Car Crimes...
BSCSC 004 - Baby-Sitters' Island Adventure
10 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Baby-Sitters Club Super Special #4: Baby-Sitters' Island Adventure chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of Claudia Kishi and Daw...
SSVB 001 - Double Love
03 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The pilot episode of the Sweet Sweet Valley Boys brings you deep into the heart of Sweet Valley, a mysterious enclave in a dystopian future where Amer...
BSCSC 003 - Baby-Sitters' Winter Vacation
26 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Leicester Lounge hungers, and the only thing that can sate its twisted appetite is the laughter of children echoing through its halls. The girls d...