“The Baby-Sitters Club” Meets World (with Larisa Oleynik)

You know, I really truly believe that we have the best listeners in the world, because if there's anything that pops up online that they think we haven't seen, we get it within I don't know, maybe twenty minutes of it popping up online.

It's so great.

We talk about it all the time when we're traveling during our live shows, that we have the best fans. Like the Boy Meets World and Pod Meets World fans are the best of the best, and like you said, our listeners.

Are positive, so is the greatest.

Well, this is from an email from Erica Jacobs, one of our listeners, and I normally would start with the beginning, but I'd like to start with the PS. The PS is Danielle. If you're ever in Japan, I think you would love the egg Sandwich is here at seven to eleven. That's just how it starts.

Apparently we're famous.

Yes, yes, I cannot wait to go to Japan.

Well, that's what this email is all about. I will read her email and then I will show you what she sent us. Dear pod Meets World, I love the podcast. I live in Japan and I listen when I'm traveling around. I feel like you are on my trips with me. I even listen to your podcast when I was climbing Mount Fuji.

Wow.

I'm not much of a role her and got scared at one point, but listening to your podcast helped me stay very positive anyway.

Like I said, I live in Japan.

When I watch Boy Meets World on Disney Plus, most of the time, I can watch it in English, but there are a few episodes, such as the time travel episode or the Scream episode that they only have dubbed Japanese versions for. For those episodes that are only in Japanese, they have a different opening sequence and I thought it was pretty interesting, so I wanted to send it to you guys. They use the same music from season one,

Wait, oh, can you want to see it?

All right? So let me show you wow.

And then there was Sean, Oh my god.

That's so cool, really cool.

We had some fans come up to us at the live show who were from Mexico and they were talking about how they always watched the show in Spanish, and I thought we should find the actors who did our voices in other languages there must be like these actors must be out there somewhere, and if they can speak English, we should have them on the pod.

The funny thing is that what they said was they had always watched it in Spanish and they thought we were all speaking Spanish, and then they watched they heard it in English and they were like, that's not what they sound like, Like they are voices to them in what we really sound like? Our voices didn't sound anything to them?

What our counterparts sound like? I know, like do they must be? I want to see it?

Why is she still English?

Nice?

Just are just English? Doesn't even change it.

It's me but in Spanish but in Spanish.

Nice.

Thank you to Erica Jacobs as Erica really cool that.

Jensen.

I just decided that for my forty fifth birthday next year, I want to go because May is the time to go if you want to see the Japanese cherry blossoms. So I want to go for my forty fifth birthday next year, I'm going to Planet.

We're going to watch Disney.

Is this going to be like a severe kind of situation where you're going to take us all with you?

Well, because that was that's what I do now for every year on my birthday, I just take you guys on a big trick.

Yes, love it. Your birthday is quickly becoming my favorite Jenson bye.

No. Japan is it's a It's a beautiful place, a pretty special place.

I wanted to go for my fortieth birthday. That was our plan for my fortieth birthday. And then I was pregnant, and I was like, I don't want to go to Japan pregnant. No, I didn't want to do all the walking. Even the walking's fine while you're pregnant, I just didn't want to do all the walking I was. It was also my pregnancy with Keaton, and so after my pregnancy with Adler, going into labor early, I was like, I'm not going to.

Take any chances of.

There's weet seafood in Japan, and you're not supposed to eat seafood when you're pregnant, right I did.

Some people don't because the risk for you know, infection, But I was told by my doctor that as long as I was eating from a reputable place that I had been to before. Basically, no seven eleven sushi, although I know they have better, stronger, you know rules, whatever, just as long as it was from a reputable place, I didn't have to worry about it. But everybody makes their own decisions. Of course, when you're pregnant, it's up

In Yeah, yeah, heck, yess Okay, great. Welcome to Pod Meets World.

I'm Daniel Fishel, I'm right or Strong, and I'm Will Fordell. When we had the pleasure of welcoming Larissa Olenik to the podcast a while back, we noticed a very overwhelming consensus in our emails and Instagram comments. I wish you would have talked more about the Babysitters Club movie. Now, when we approach our guests, we always know there will be something missing from the interview. It's just the nature

A spin off of Boy Meets World.

Pod Meets World guest stars like Larissa, Marla Sokeloff, Natanya Ross, and e j De La Pena appear in the movie, while it also stars writer's ex girlfriend Rachel Lee Cook and his childhood lay mis pen pal Aaron Metchick. Screening this movie has a real this is your life aspect for at least one of us, So we decided to

Larissa Olenik.

Is she gonna show up with her Boy Meets World hat?

Oh? I hope so?

Remember she had all that?

Maybe she'll have ho.

Hi? No, I wish, I wish. I tried to find some Babysitters Club works I do have. I did find a Babysitters Club necklace that was like, oh.

Books, so I rot cute? Uh?

We when we I was just saying in your intro when we had you on the amount of emails and comments we got about what a missed opportunity it was to not really spend time on the Babysitters Club movie was overwhelming?

Who knew?

I mean the crossover. Did you have any idea that this movie had such a rabid fan base?

It's not usually well, that's why it's not usually the thing that people want to talk to me about, which is why when this came up, I was like, I love talking about this movie, and I think we actually are at our like thirtieth annivers I think that's coming up. But yeah, you know, it didn't. I don't think it made a big splash at the box office. I think I definitely. I think I definitely remember seeing it at like a two for one matinee screening. You know, I

Someone was cutting onions.

But I was like, I was like, I was like, oh right, I get it. I get I get why it is still like impactful for people who sort of grew up with it least.

This feels like a perfect opportunity to do a nineties con reunion like this. If this is especially if this is your thirtieth year, they need to jump on getting as many of you guys together for this little for a reunion as possible.

Well, we're all we're all buds. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're all yeah, we're all pretty so yeah. I mean, I would love any opportunity to hang out with with those ladies. Yes, and men and men?

Is the last time? The last time you were all together when you shot it? Have you? Have you been together?

Has the Babysitters Club themselves been together since the film ended?

We did a screening at the Alamo.

I was.

Before I knew that the Alamo was like supposed to be, like, you're not supposed to like heckle And.

Did you get kicked out of the Alamo?

No? But I didn't know the rules. And I was like, I was a couple. I was a couple deep in Austin's Finest Margariteaes and I was like, I was like, let's all sing along and like, you know whatever. It was actually so that was with Melanie the director, and Skuyler and Brie and Rachel and Stacy, And it was only after the fact that we got it was very last minute. It was like, I mean, I think I had like a couple of days notice and it was

No as a kid, did you read the Babysitters Club book series?

I yeah, I was also gonna say, I think like it's also the enduring appeal also of like these story you know, and and and this setup that feels kind of like still very like uh, revolutionary from like a feminist lens. Yes, we're out in the eighties, you know. Of course, it's also like capitalism. They're entrepreneurs and they're making it work. I do love that moment at the end where they're like they're like we made one hundred dollars.

Wait a second, so they they would break it up by character, so you could you could get a book just about Dawn, or you could get a book just about one of the other characters in the Babysitters Club.

I can't believe you don't know this well, I don't.

If there's no wizards, I don't read it.

Did you say it's not about wizards?

Yeah, no wizards, I don't.

I butt we could.

Find you one. Then the fan base knows that there's a book about wizards in somewhere and Babysitters Club club over Yeah, no, there's there. It'll be from each character's perspective, like there will be it's like still all of the Babysitters, but it goes through, it cycles through each character from their perspective and the story as they see it.

Oh, yeah, for reference in case people don't know it was tell Us Daniel. The Babysitters Club book series was a worldwide phenomenon written by Anne M.

Martin.

They were published between nineteen eighty six and the year two thousand. The series consists of sixty to eighty novels written by Martin, and it sold almost two hundred million copies. It was conceived by Scholastic after a different book about babysitters had seen a spike in sales.

Wow, so, no, wonder.

There's that capitalist Yeah, no wonder, Yeah, exactly what was that one.

They're still really popular. We were watching the movie with Indy last night and he was like, oh, yeah, she has diabetes. I know that he like knew characters, he knew which ones.

Were Netflix show.

I don't think so. No, he went through a phase where he read a couple of the books. I want to say, like two years ago, like you know, got him out of the school library. They're still popular.

Yeah, Okay, you remember auditioning for this movie. It must have been extremely competitive.

I do remember auditioning for this movie because I think it was in between the first and the second season of Alex mac like if I remember my own age, I believe it was around there. So I think, you know, I say this because the times that this has happened, you know, are not the usual. I think I was like pretty wanted, like in general, and so you were, well,

I was going to say, they probably just kept auditioning and mixed and matching and.

Yeah, and I definitely wanted to be done. I think I just I felt closer to her, and I felt really close to her storyline in the movie. And also I didn't want to kiss a boy. Yeah right, well this is definitely like you know, I was thirteen, so.

It was like ninety five, I feel like, yeah, because.

Yeah, so it was it would have been like you know before, like maybe a year before I had done Boy, So there's a big difference between thirteen and fourteen totally. And I definitely I was actually laughing at like whatever improv there was where like, you know, I get the hand on my shoulder.

And you're like lah.

But also I was boy obsessed to which is so funny.

Listen, you were exactly the same. I was so boy obsessed, but I didn't want to actually kiss one. I want to think about kissing one, yeah.

Actually do anything about it. Yeah.

I wanted to dream about it and kiss my palm. I kissed, kiss the back of my hand and pretend and like have you know, posters on my walls with the idea of an actual human boy was like terrifying to me. So I didn't want to have to kiss a boy like Stacy did. And then with the Christie stuff. This is so funny, you guys. I really remember being like, that's a lot of heavy lifting.

It's a lot of happening. Yeah, it's true.

Gosh, I really think I'm getting goosebumps right now because I really think Skyler it was so it's so fantastic and there's so much of what she had to go through in this movie that just breaks my heart on so many But I remember just kind of being like being like, that seems that seems like a lot of work, and I, you know, I it is still it is still very much my sweet spot. I'd like being I like being a solid number four on the call sheet, and then that's.

What you're happening. Shooting for the middle, Shoot for the middle, because because I was.

Already doing Alex Mack and I was just like, I was like, I want this to feel like a vacation, and it did. I got to have a vacation for sure.

For sure, I think you made the right choice.

Well you get you get Ellen Burston stuff too, Like.

I mean, is that not insane? Like I have no idea, how do we get Ellen Burson to do this movie?

Oh yeah, this cast is It was such a weird experience to like know everybody in those casts. I'm sitting there, I'm like, oh my god. Everybody kept popping up and I'm like, yes, them too. It's like and I feel like I was on set even though I was nowhere near it. Where did you guys film?

Were you in la or in Pasadena?

Pasadena? Okay, that's what I thought. I was like, it looks like Pasadena, and then yeah, I just knew everybody. It's so weird, weird.

Larissa, did you know of all the boy meets World slash writers strong connections before we brought this up to you?

I mean I know Marlon Natanya, Yeah, sure, and then I know Rachel and then what else?

Aaron right from Le Mis and he was on Boy Meets World.

Daily Payne.

Who he's the one who's dusting the plant?

I think so, yes, he's one of the little.

Kids, one of the little kids.

Yeah, yeah, I'll tell you who. Yeah.

I was like Danielle, Danielle finding out.

But it's just like our era of actors, do you know what I mean? It was like everybody that we would auditioned against. Yeah, exactly. You guys were the entire pool.

Cool.

Yeah, but I don't think I ever auditioned for it. I don't remember ever going.

On Missed Opportunity.

You were already you would have heard between seasons. I would have been between Oh he played.

Little brother, that's right, Okay, that's right. Yeah, that's where.

There's Ethan Sile played Frankie Stacchino.

His little brother.

He did a couple of episodes where he had like a crush on Morgan Matthews.

And there were so many faces in this movie that I was like, I know this person from somewhere. I know, like, for instance, the lead you were just talking about, she I had never seen this movie, obviously. I just remember her from one of the creepiest Law and Order SVU episodes ever, where she's in a relationship with her dad.

So it's like those in a relationship.

Is that how you say that.

She was pregnant with her dad's baby? Okay, yes, I was sorry. They were really not a relationship. They really loved Danielle and it was real.

You don't see anything about anything from that episode.

No, it was really creepy like that.

I can talk about Christie's dad all day.

I know.

There's some moments, there's some there's some weird moments. Let's jump into our synopsis. A group of teenage girlfriends run a summer day camp while navigating crushes, family drama, and growing pains.

Well being twelve.

It's like they're running a business, their babysitting and they're all like I was like, oh my.

God, they're all like twelve.

I was looking at this camp, going this would be the hardest job effort.

Yeah, like these effort.

These girls are working and they're like barely older than the kids they're taking care.

I know, No, you've gotta really love kids to god, this would have been Danielle's Little Danielle's Dream by the way.

Really yeah, that's such an eighties and nineties thing though. It's like, I'm just gonna go drop my kid off with these twelve year olds.

They'll take care. Yeah, really insane, insane.

The movie was released in theaters on August sixteenth, nineteen ninety five, one of the two new films that debuted that weekend. Does anyone know what the other movie was?

Wait ninety five, Summer Blockbuster ninety five?

Twister, No, let's play the clip?

Mortal Combat. Great movie, great move, you've never seen it?

Great movie, that's right, Mortal Kombat. Both movies did not live up to their pre release.

Babysitters Club came in ninth that weekend with just three million dollars at the box office.

Mortal Kombat finished just one ahead at eighth.

Babysitters Club finished its theatrical run with a total domestic gross of just under ten million.

Do we know what the budget was?

Keep in mind it only cost six and a half million to make, so at least it didn't lose money.

Wow, it felt so much more high budget than that too, I really did.

I watched it.

I was like, oh, this is a ten to twenty million dollar movie. Yeah, I shot on film. I was like, this was a big thing.

There was so many locations. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, that's that's impressive.

Actually good, I know, very impressive. Larissa, do you remember seeing it in theaters?

Uh?

This is one of the only Okay, so I think this is the only movie premiere I've ever been so for something of my because we didn't have one for ten things and so this so this was like the movie premiere and they went all out. It was crazy. It was on the Paramount lot. They like we all arrived in school buses. It was like a huge carnival. It was so fun. So I think that must have

You were like, oh God, did you see Mortal Kombat? I don't think I did. Okay.

Now, this movie is not currently streaming on any of the monthly premium services, but it is available for purchase or rent on Amazon, Prime, Apple TV, or YouTube, so you can watch this movie right along with us. If you like, just live with our detailed recap.

It's up to you. So it was.

Directed by Melanie Mayron.

She was actually best known as an actress, playing Melissa Stedman on the big ABC drama thirty Something, which won her an Emmy for Best Supporting Actress.

Gotcha, that's the thirty something connection.

Okay, yeah, but she also directed some movies.

Will might know a little something about Disney Channel originals Freaky Friday and Toothless.

Oh.

She still directs for TV shows like Jane the Virgin, Pretty Little Liars, Seal Team, and The Fosters. Yet another connection to writer Wow Alex.

Yeah.

I wonder if Alex knows her that.

Yeah, she was probably.

She also directed me in an episode of Pretty Little Liars, which was fun.

That's cool.

We haven't seen we haven't seen Freaky Friday yet, but Toothless was not good.

We thought we should be on your list because that's also Marla and Atanya and Andrew. I think yeah that.

It was written by Dayleen Young and the original Babysitters Club writer Anne M. Martin also got credit for her characters. Dayleen is another actress who moonlit behind the camera. She wrote dozen of TV movies, including titles like Panic and Echo, Park, dead Man's Curve, and Marilyn The Untold Story. She also appeared on camera just a few years ago in Pig, a critically beloved Nick Cage truffle hunter movie where she played Jessebel Sadly, Dalleen passed away just this May.

She was eighty five years old.

Oh my goodness, so.

Starring Rachel Lee Cook as Mary Anne. Rachel is best known for movies like She's All That, Tom and Huck and Josie and the Pussycats.

But I believe this.

Was her first, like big job ever?

Yeah she I don't. I can't remember if she had just done Tom and Huck or had gotten it right.

Afterwards, okay, right around the time of booking Tom and Huck.

Yeah, yeah yeah.

And then our pal here, Larissa Olen Nick plays Dawn. You know Larissa from movies like Ten Things I Hate About You, Third Rock from the Sun and is the titular iconic character in the Secret World of Alex Mack.

And then we have Skyler. Fisk is Christy.

Skyler is most recognizable from the movie's range County and snow Day, and Bree Blair plays Stacy. This was also Bree's first job and she went on to do a ton of TV. You may have seen her on Swat, Narcos or Grey's Anatomy. And we mentioned them before and we're gonna hear directly from them a little bit later. Marla Sokloff is Cookie Mason. COKEI Cookie Hokey COKEI what a name?

Cookie? Marla's sokle Off is Coke.

Mason and Natanya Ross plays Grace, the two of the uh Resting Base Bullies. We have interviewed both of them here on Podmets World in the past, so go check out their episodes if you'd like to know a little more about them, and you should. They are both fascinating women. So Larissa, please tell us everything about filming this with all of these girls. Are you guys all the same You guys are all about the same age, right roughly.

Trisha, who played Claudia, was a little bit older. She was like seventeen or eighteen, and I think I don't think she stayed in the hotel, but the rest and then Zelda was significantly younger. I think she was eighty only nine. She was young and young, but also like so wide and she had already done Crooklyn. So we were yeah, we were like, we were like, oh you hello,

Yeah, but.

I mean it really did. It really is. It is one of those that it truly felt like summer camp. And I think the amazing thing about having Melanie at the Helm is that, like, you know, there's some there's some it gets off to a bit of a clunky start the moon and it's like I remember when you're talking about the budget and all of these kids and these locations, like it was definitely chaotic. Like she had a lot to wrangle. Yeah, she had a lot to wrangle, and.

Any given scene would have like eight of you and like be done in one shot, and I'm just like, oh my god, this is the coordinating all of this must have been.

Yeah, yeah, I think her editing process must have been I've never actually asked her about it, but I was just watching it thinking like, her editing process must have been a little uh tricky. But her like the main like the main thing that she like right from the jump was like she just wanted it has this heart, you know, it has this heart to it. It's it's rare, I think, to see something so earnest and genuine. And

Now, when you're doing a movie that's based on such a huge, international best selling series of books, is the author of the novel? Was she on set and involved in any way, shape or form, or was it just kind of like you sign it over and you walk away.

I think she had to give final approval on all of us, certainly, and I mean maybe of the film. I don't really remember her being there. I think she

There were also two actresses with recognizable names who appear in the film, Annie and Lily Costner, and yes, Kevin Costner's kids.

Really yeah, they're sweet. They're sweet. They're really really sweet, so cute. And he was there like a couple of times, you know, and it was like a big deal and also not a big deal at the same time because it's like, you know, it's just he was just he was just dad.

Just a dad, exactly. And finally, Ellen Burston is Missus Haberman. Burston is a rare triple Crown winner in acting, taking Home an Oscar, an Emmy and a Tony with movies like Alice doesn't live here anymore, Requiem for a Dream, The Exorcist, and the Last Picture Show on her resume a true legend. So let's get into our movie. We get our opening credits with this funky little bass number.

Let's play clip number one.

Listend people everywhere day yet together, if you can.

So.

Over the credits and somehow wedged into that jam, we hear people feverishly phoning into hire babysitters.

Did any of you guys ever actually babysit?

I did not. No, I've never baby. That was my experience of it. I was like, that was it for me?

So you literally didn't You didn't babysit, but you played one on TV. Yeah.

I loved it great. I mean there's like lots of stuff with us carding the kids around and stuff and scripted or directed. That was just we were just sort of like playing roles.

So cute.

You see Christy, a founding member of the Stony Brook Babysitters Club, getting ready for her day, which includes pulling up her boxer shorts, tucking her shirt into them, and then letting them ride above her shirt?

Was this was this a trend?

I missed?

I I don't remember this box it all.

Oh no, I remember wearing boxers, but she's like at boxers the T shirt and then doesn't she put jeans on over the boxers and the shirt like rides up.

I totally missed that.

No, I don't know. I think it's a trend. I missed sure. I was like, oh, it's a boy exactly, You're going.

To think it's a guy.

She's got tennis shoes and boxers and she rides a bike.

Yep, girls don't play sports, but.

Her style is pretty iconic, very tomboy, almost Bart Simpson esque. Christy explains the Babysitters Club is a famous local network of seven young girls. You just call the number and you can book one of them to watch your kids. We meet the cosmopolitan former New Yorker Stacy, she's the club treasurer. Then there's Mary Anne the Quiet series One Dawn Laid by the adorable Larissa is Mari Anne's stepsister, a California transplant with her mind on the environment.

And so he only fourteen or thirteen, You look older to.

Me, I know, and you were tall, you were taught. I noticed that too, it was like you, but something about the hair too.

I was like, Larissa. This is like how I remember Larissa at like sixteen seventy thirteen.

Yeah, and I loved your hair in this movie so much.

About that paid one fifth of it was mine? Really those are all clippings.

Oh and Danielle, you just broke Danielle, you.

Would pick up on that. Yeah, those are extensions.

You are not my down.

What do you mean that's not real?

No?

I was like, wow, look at that hair, those braids and everything.

I don't know, I'm the worst. I don't ever notice anything like that.

Yeah, no, I mean you can see you can actually see it that, Like my hair comes to about there and then the extensions are much longer and much I mean I have, I truly have like a fifth of that hair.

Claudia is an artist whose parents wanted to study more in Mallory is a junior member who wants to be a novel writer. There's another junior member, Jesse, and she is Mallory's best friend. These girls are more than a club. They're best friends and nothing can ever change that spoiler changing That is what this entire movie is about.

Yeah, It's like it's like it's it's changed. Everything must changed, everything must changed. That everything remains the.

Same, Yes, exactly, I like you.

Got to part Oh it's no, don't worry about it.

School is out for the summer and Mallory, Don, Jesse, and Claudia arrive at the first Babysitters Club meeting of the season, held in Claudia's room because she's the only one with a phone. Also, Don brought soy meal chips. Oh Don. Meanwhile, Claudia is flunking science and if she doesn't get at least a C plus on the final test, she will have to drop out of the Babysitters Club.

Is she the only one in school? Is she the only one in school? It doesn't seem to be anybody else's trying to No one else's stress. They all have straight a's. They're also like all hanging out doing other stuff while she's in school.

Yeah, she's the only one that takes a test that.

Summer summer school.

Is the only one in school? Okay yeah.

Christy agrees to help her, and the phone keeps ringing with babysittering jobs. One family called in with a message for Stacy for her job to Ms. Wilder says, her little nephew from Switzerland will be there too. We cut to Stacy knocking on the Wilder's door and she is greeted by this little nephew who's not little at all. He's Luca, a honky teenage heart thrub.

How about why couldn't he just watch?

He's seventeen years old and she is the babysitter.

I don't why they need both.

He was going to the movies.

He's going to the movie. Oh, he wasn't going to.

Be there because remember She's like, aren't you going to the movies?

And he's like, I have the rest of my life to go to the movies. I can always go to the movies later. I can hold you to the movies later.

I'm here to see you now, making kis faces.

Stacy is at a loss for words, and they instantly hit it off, so much so that Luca is ditching his friends to hang back with his little cousin Rosie and Stacy.

Wait, I have another connection for you. So Christian was on Saved by the New Class with Lindsay McCann.

Wow, absolute memory like an elephant on Lindsay mckeirn that she never forgets a moment. She can tell you even what song was playing. When she exited cast A dressing room after a wardrobe bedding, she remembers.

Every should have brought her back for this.

She would have. She would have come back and been like, I'm so happy to be here. I've always wanted to be on this show.

Pod World. I've never heard of it, heard this. I'm so happy to be here, very excited.

Larissa has no idea what.

I'm quiet.

She's quiet. Larisa is diplomatic, gotcha.

Meanwhile, Christy is at her house trying to convince her parents she should have her own phone line.

Man, having your own phone line such a big deal.

I did not have my own phone line.

Me neither.

I didn't have my own phone line. I had my own phone in my room. But like I shared the line with my family.

I got my own line.

Of course you did, right, course, of course she did.

My voice changing my voice changing phone from a sharper image writer did.

They didn't own a TV, but he had his own phone line.

Had multiple swords, swords, full swords.

You know.

Wow.

Oh, so I call my house. They had to speak to my mother and then they had to speak to.

That's how it's supposed to be. You don't know who's calling? You pick up and you go, hello, who is this? Oh, let me see if they're available?

Calls work? Yes, exactly who is this? Please's supposed to work.

I'm back in the day and I'd be on the phone my mom make a phone call, and then my mom would try to connect to the internet and you hear.

Thee.

You go, I'm on the phone.

Oh sorry, Oh gosh, it's just you and it's just you and Kegan. He's just like, we should play that game where we get our faces as close as possible and to see if if anything happens like that, would.

We should try that?

Do you like?

Daniel Danielle's just fielding.

Calls from other people, talking about just sit here in the corner, talk on my boyfriend time. Oh oh poor.

Meanwhile, do you want to know something so funny? When we were filming this movie, because the reason why I remember that Marlon and Tanya had done fore We're never going to get through this Friday with Andrews because the entire time we were filming, they were like, maybe he'll come to our wrap party, and I was like iper ventilating at the idea of Andrew coming to our You.

Have to warn me if he's coming, you have to warn me.

Which I think he might have, because I'm sure he was. Like the wrap party for a movie about a.

Bunch of girls, was there, I guarantee you Andrew was there.

I'm there, and he asked Danielle to go with him.

But it was the joke of mind, not the whole shoot that I was just like. I was like, I was like, it's okay, guys, we'll get through it. Just think Andrew keek in.

Just to think about Andrew.

It.

Oh my god.

In town, Stacy, little Rosie, and Hunky Luca are getting ice cream. Luca is quick to ask Stacy to the movies on Saturday night, and he is so into Stacy. The girls are back together the next day at Claudia's and Stacy wonders if she should have told Luca she has diabetes, which I'll.

Bet she's thirteen. Yeah, I forget the diabetes.

How about the fact, you, guys, I'm gonna I'm gonna go out on a limb and say to any of you listening, you do not need to tell a boy you just met about your diabetes. You should, however, tell him that.

You're yeah, that you're thirteen, Like, seriously, let's hope that movie's not rated R because you're not getting into that.

Oh he is seventeen.

The girls pooled their money together and after expenses, they have eleven forty seven.

And so Dusty has a brilliant.

Idea, a new service to offer summer day camp for their babysitter kids. She's already drawn up budgets and schedules to pass out, and just like that, she wins them over. It's the paperwork. Little girls love paperwork. You hand some paperwork, they're gonna think it's genius. And so the Babysitters Club

Wait a second, I'm sorry, isn't it Don's backyard?

Is it's Don and mary Anne's backyard?

Oh?

Don kitchen was Don's backyard because she comes her father was the lawyer, and they have to sign all the paperwork to use the backyard because her dad's the lawyer.

Of course, Will the one with two lawyer parents, who's backyard. It is based on lawyer paperwork.

You have no idea how much this brought me back to childhood.

We got trampoline one year and my dad originally wasn't gonna let anybody on unless they signed a waiver.

Wow, it all too yeah, exactly. So it's Don's backyard, okay, And.

So the Babysitters Club camp has begun in down and Mary Hann's backyard.

It just occurred to me it's basically the same plot as Camp.

Nowhere a little bit. Yeah, camera is.

Just the darker ex kids are running wild.

Yeah, except in Camp Nowhere. It's just they pretend there are their supervision in this there are they are the supervision.

Yeah.

But during their planning, the neighbor is obviously a bit concerned. The girls all sign a contract without reading it, and now they are officially putting together.

A summer camp. Do we think they will have insurance?

Yeah?

Who's I mean, who's signing stuff without reading it? Come on?

This is the reason it's again. That was like twitching. I was like, there's this.

Sign stuff for Podny's World.

We should maybe we should.

I'll tell you what, you know what, no one we've ever had on this show has ever had to sign anything but Rider and I have had to sign every piece of every contract you can think of.

Will He's like, guys, I.

Know we've been best friends and we've known each other for thirty years with justin curse.

Just course, I'm gonna have to.

Also people that will send me a contract that'll be like, hey, uh, I know it's eleven fifteen.

This by eleven seventeen. It's fourteen pages long. Like, that's not that's not gonna happen.

I'm sitting who I have on a retainer, and I'm sending it to my dad and then my mind are going to look it over and then they're gonna red line it.

Then I'm gonna send it back to you and me, Oh, you're lucky. I'll sign it. That's how contracts work. God, just sign it. Just sign it. Yeah, we're getting it out.

We'll get it out.

This is this is the real behind the scenes of pods your You're seeing it later. Christy and a kid named Jackie, one of her babysitting clients, are horseback riding. Jackie is the first enrolled camper and he wants to hit a home run despite the fact that he is terrible at softball. And then we meet Kochie. She's hated the girl since the third grade and her dreams to put the Babysitters Club out of business.

We are also introduced to Logan, Marianne's boyfriend.

Does Cokie ever get more motivation?

Like she just hates all those babysitters?

Every time he kept cutting back, I was like, Oh, I forgot about this whole storyline.

And likes she likes Rachel's boyfriend. That's that's one of the big that's one of the big problems.

Boyfriend. Yeah. Isn't that the guy from the Arms Schwarzenegger movie. Yes, yeah, okay, yes.

That you knew him too well, Yeah, because he had the same studio teacher. So I got to go to the set of the last action here and I meet Arnold Schwarzenegger. I spent the whole day with Austin.

Yeah. God, connection to you. I know, I feel like this whole movie was for you.

It was just all right, Larissa.

Do you remember coming to see the play that Shiloh and I did. We did a play a series like a Night of one X, and the entire cast of Babysitters Club women in Wallace and then it was a play with.

Shiloh Shades of Blue, Shades of Blue.

Yeah, and you guys all came yes, like during filming, like the entire cast camp. Yeah, and I didn't even really quite know. I mean, I knew you were there, and I obviously knew other people. But then when Rachel and I met later, she was like, oh, yeah, I came and saw your play with the entire cast of Babysitters Club.

Wow? What? And so where did it was that performance? In La? Or was it up North? Yeah? Yeah, no, okay, in Hollywood.

I definitely remember going to that, but I didn't realize that we went as a as a unit.

That's fun, that's cute.

We're also introduced to Logan, Marianne's boyfriend and an associate member of the b S. Kochie also wants to date this dude, So there's a real point of contention. So is now a good time to hear some thoughts from Kochi herself miss Maso if Marl.

First of all, is Marla not so good in this movie?

She's so so good.

She is having so much fun too, Like, yeah.

She plays a real good She's the best, I mean the best but I mean, I.

Just like, every time I watch it, I'm like, Marla is so funny.

So good. Let's let's hear from her herself.

Louris Uh, it's Marla Sokoloff.

How are you?

I miss you. I miss your face, I miss your energy.

I miss being around you. Side note hope all as well. Okay, So a Babysitters Club movie recap. Huh well, I think my favorite part of working on that movie with you is, you know, we already knew each other, which was so magical. Our relationship began years before that movie up in northern California where we were both you know, young actors doing our thing. Our moms, you know, Lorraine and Cindy would hang out all the time and do their stage mom vibes with writer's mom Lynn.

But they were like the cool stage moms.

It wasn't like the scary stage moms. They were the cool stage moms.

Thank goodness.

I just have great memories with all of us, but more importantly back to you Babysitters Club movie, hanging out with you on set and just having like a familiar person around and somebody who has very consistently just been a wonderful friend, a wonderful supporter, and somebody that I just generally sorry my child came in. Why do kids have to just walk in when you're doing the one thing?

Ah, that's so sweet.

You guys really need we need I'm willing to throw it, but we need to make a big deal about the thirtieth anniversary. You guys need to do like there needs to be where we truly get all of you together play the movie do with Q and A like there should it should.

Be have a slumber party at the Mall of America.

America got a limo together, We're Planet Hollywood Jackets, eat it at the Bevics.

All the things.

That's so sweet. No, I mean, it's just it's true, like, well, just the Marlo part of it. It's true that, like I mean that it was a big deal writer for us to have all been like in this acting class in Berkeley and know each other from there and then travel together downtown.

All go to the oak Woods.

Yep, it was, I mean, and it is. Yeah, it's true. It made it. It made a big difference in my experience on that set and on your set to be like to be like, Okay, well I've known this person for a really long time. It's just something about knowing sense. It's what we're experiencing right now. Like, yeah, you know, I was, It's what I was experienced. I was texting Rachel earlier. It's like you've known someone for this long. It's just it's just different. It's just different. And that

Nervous no tequila?

Uh? I was like, oh yeah, we we. Last time I saw was at I don't think Sha midst saying it was at Natania's wedding, which was a we got to we were dates to that right.

Coke uses Grace and Beebie to distract mary Anne and flirt with Logan, but it doesn't work when mary Anne catches them and they all insult each other like little babysitting battle wrappers.

But when Coke offers him smashing pumpkins tickets, who can say no to that? His head turns quick. His head turns quick for a little Billy Corgan action right there. Just boom, I'm out. There is some trouble in Paradise.

Yeah.

Elsewhere, the girls are distributing advertisements for the summer camp. They even perform payola by treating radio airtime for five hours of babysitting. Now at a beautiful Neon drive up diner where Coke works on roller skates, the BSc are hanging out and talking about Christy's upcoming birthday party and the camp. They're charging two hundred and fifty dollars per camper and hoping to make seventy five hundred dollars to open up their own official.

Office with a fax machine.

It's so far only twelve kids have signed up. Then Cokey coasts by to rub her smashing Pumpkin's date with Logan and Mary Anne's face, commenting on how outrageous her outfit is gonna be. Cokey came to winch. In an attempt to calm the tensions, Christy tries to call a truce with Cokie and invites her to an annual b A C party tomorrow night at the park. But yet the next day, Bully Cokey and her friends arrive at said park party only to be drenched by sprinklers instead

I'm gonna cry if I have to think about some memories from Babysitters Club. Well one, Larissa and I were so stoked to get a movie together.

It was probably I think it was in the middle of season two, two and three of Alex Mack, so we were locked in. We were like already best friends.

So to go from that to this really high budget feature film first one for both of us. I say it all the time, it's so cheesy, but Babysitters Club is such a beautiful coming of age movie, and it really was such a beautiful coming of age.

Time for all of us that were in the movie.

Just to give a little like behind the scenes tea, my very first boyfriend was actually Austin O'Brien called Logan, which was yeah, that would have been Rachel Lee Cook's boyfriend in the movie. Of course, everybody made fun of us for it, and it was this cute little thing and it was innocent and we would just hold.

Hands between scenes. And I do remember there was one scene where him and Rachel they had to kiss.

In the scene, man, I was a wreck, and of course I stayed away and I stayed in the school room, refused to.

Be anywhere near that setup when they were doing that. I will say, everybody like in the school.

Room, I know, everybody was listening to the New Live album or Ravana Hole, all of the things, and I was obsessed.

To believe me, I had every single one of those albums, but I was like extra obsessed with TLC at that time.

I've always been like a hip hop girl, so I had Sexy crazy Cool playing on repeat in my little Walkman.

Gosh, we are also old now.

I told you.

Austin was my very first boyfriend ever, and he was also my first kiss. So at the rap party for Babysitters Club, we did it at Pickwick Bowling Alley, which is in Burbank. When it was time to go, we kind of like snuck out to the parking lot and we kissed for the first time, and of course I was madly in love. And that was back in the time when we had pagers, so Austin and I had our own little pager code. I will never forget it was twenty seven thirty five. That was because those who

I love you all.

There were thirty five tracks on the live.

That's what I was thinking.

I have to look up to see what are a nooon crush It's two, seven, three and five, which is It's.

Like, my god, there's thirty five tracks.

That makes a lot more sense, That makes a lot more That's funny. I knew that they were dating. I mean I was, that's I wasn't. I wasn't gonna say anything about it, but I knew what they were doing, but I didn't know it was that intense, so serious, I know, and I think I'm sure more than one of us had a crush on Austin, but uh yeah, that's but you know I did. That's so funny that she said it did. It felt like it was felt

Yeah, oh yeah.

So was everybody's parents on set too, Like they were all the moms were around.

Oh my god.

Wow, Wow, you're lucky you didn't have more drama then, Like, will you just bring that many child actors and their parents together? It's like it could be really bad and what thirty little kid extras? I mean, it could have been just nay.

Yeah.

Well.

Then it's the official first day of the BSc Summer Camp and things look pretty busy.

They hand out advertising potholders, you know, because kids love potholders. The girls think they have everything covered, but that darn neighbor is now very concerned, and when things couldn't get worse.

Alan the neb Gray arrives.

He is a dorky boy who's friends with Logan and dressed like he's taking tickets at a circus and.

For amish people, like who dressed this guy? That's like, what are you wearing?

I felt like this character could have been inspired by Shiloh Strong.

There is it in my paper.

There is no way Shiloh did audition for this.

Shallowed but yes, no, he was totally like the suspenders and like would have been wearing a bowler hat and like juggling. Yeah, I totally get this guy.

I mean like like like a Henley shirt, like a pretty sight. I don't know, I was into it. Yeah, yeah, I loves in this movie honestly. Oh.

The wardrobe's great, lots of vests, lots of vests over other shirts, which made me go, do I need to be wearing vests?

We bring back the best I might?

I might need to do it well.

The NED wants to help, so they hire the Dweeb as an unplayd unpaid employee, and now on their way home, Marianne and Christy are talking about this Logan and Kochi issue. He rejected the date, but Christy thinks mary Anne still has to stand up for herself, and when mary Anne leaves, Christy is surprised by her estranged dad. He drops a bombshell he might be moving back. He has a shot at getting a newspaper job in town, but doesn't want

So Van, do not trust him.

No, he is a loser. I really did want his van though. I was like, Van, that's pretty nice.

I'm hoping you guys are gonna let me be cause I think I missed something. I get why she didn't or he didn't want her to say anything to her mom, But I didn't get why she couldn't tell her friends.

Did I miss that? I don't even know why she doesn't want to tell understand.

I literally had to have the conversation with Indy. I was like, if an adult ever telts you to keep a secret, you tell me or mom or anybody, you tell everybody. Like, no adult should be asking a kid to keep a secret for them.

I'm like, I mean, get again, it's weird. I I but I get the hey, I don't tell your mom. I'm intel Like I got that at least made a little bit of sense.

But about that rule is like a gift, like if Jensen wants to take the boys to go buy me a Mother's Day gift, like it's a surprise.

And he asked about the He's like, well what if I you know. I was like, oh, well then that's you know, that's a surprise.

Is that delayed?

But if you're like asked to keep a secret, like, don't tell anybody about that from an adult if you kid, so double.

It up to where you're asked to keep a secret by somebody with a van. Yeah, this is a good thing. This is a double double tell an adult immediately.

Yeah, it was hard to see the I mean I think the point is that she you know, like when they play baseball and like youreo. But like there was never there wasn't enough like likability on the dad's part that I was like, this is a relationship worth screwing over everybody in your life for.

My god, Wait, that's so that is so interesting. I mean, but that's her, but it's her dad, I know.

But why can't you why don't you tell your friends. My dad's back in town. Please don't tell my mom. But my I mean, it's like I get not telling your mom, but why keep it from all of her friends that I didn't understand?

So I mean, even though she has this oh my god, I'm we're going to get into it, even though she has the stepfather who like that's that's That's also one of the things that's like so interesting that it's like it's like she knows that the step father is like the real deal and is totally there for She has that beautiful scene with Brook Adams at the end about like, you guys love me differently than the way he does, but like she's so starved.

For this relationship she's been times.

And that's what's so like heartbreaking to me that her coming of age story happens is like going it's like going from a girl to a woman, disappointment by some one who's supposed to be there for me and having to like parent yourself through this, and so heartbreaking for me about him too, and his character is that like the reason why he needs her to keep it a

That's me.

But I mean, Peter Horton is a dream. You're not charmed. I'm so charmed.

That night, Christie brings along mary Anne to have dinner at her dad's sad VW van that eat pancakes shaped like mice, and Christy wants to know when he plans on calling her mom. Patrick says he wants to at least have a job before he tells her, which shouldn't be long, and he has a gift for Christy. It's a bohemian dress, which doesn't really fit her tomboy style, but it's the thought that counts. Later that night, Christy makes mary Anne promise not to say anything to anyone

How did that feel?

How did what feel?

The kiss? Oh?

H do you remember?

I mean you?

So, It's been revealed that Natania was date had her first boyfriend on the set. Did anybody it was anybody else dating? Oh, can't tell us.

Oh, but somebody was dating Luca. Somebody's dating the guy who played Lucas.

He was like, nicey, yeah.

He legitimately, and he and I had talked. I mean, oh boy, that actor has passed, so we'll be respectful. We can still make fun of the storyline though, because I think he and I had worked on something together recently, and like he was like he was like, I was so uncomfortable because he was a kid being like being like a nineteen year old man amidst all of these like thirteen year old girls and having to kiss a four Brie was actually seen and he was.

Like, yeah, uh.

It's camp sports day, which for some reason involves sling shotting items into the neighbor's yard. Kochie shows up at camp to distract Logan and her hench women drop a smoke bomb in the yard, but forget to detonate it, so when the kids sling shot it over the fence, they are really pushing it with the neighbor, who is engulfed in smoke. Also this Logan is still flirting with

And he got out of the car.

I saw him across the parking lot, ran jumped into his arms, took Then he's like, come on, we're gonna go get lunch. And I took my backpack and I hopped in the car and we drove away. And the next day everyone was like, who's your boyfriend? Who can drive?

Who's your boyfriend?

Danielle?

You know, Danielle's boyfriend.

I'm like, what are you talking? I had no idea what they were even talking about. I was like, well, boyfriend, I don't I don't have a boyfriend. They were like the guy the hot guy who came and pick you up yes day.

I was like, those are my dad.

It's a weird storyline, but it doesn'tpen very realistic.

Yes.

Instead of just ignoring her friend's questions about this mysterious man, Marianne says she can't say anything about it, which makes it even weirder. And that's when the neighbor, missus Haberman, appears. She's had enough and she's going crazy. She gives them an official warning and if there's any more trouble she will call the city and have their permit revoked. But based on their reactions, it seems like maybe they don't have any permits.

I can't get over the number of jelly donuts wasted that they were shooting over the fence.

That's going to stick with me for the whole movie. I was like, what are you doing? What are you doing?

Kochie overhears everything, which seems like trouble. Gaudia continues to focus on drawing in the club instead.

Of her summer school workload.

She's stepped up for the preoccupied Christie Claude even found an abandoned greenhouse.

She made a deal with the city if they can fix it up, they can use it as an office.

These girls sure know how to work through infrastructural red stuff with the municipality and wow Yeah.

The next day at camp, it's full on chaotic food fight in the cafeteria and every camper gets a time out, so at the end of the camp day the girls are exhausted. Stacy had another great date with Luca, but Christy continues to drop the ball as president. That night, Stacy is at home having a panic attack about not having anything to wear for another date with Luca. She's so stressed she's not even eating, which is really testing her diabetes. Luca eventually arrives and says this, Hi, Hi, Hi.

He looks smashing smash.

He looks.

He wants to go on a hike, which is not something city girl Stacy has ever done before, but teene love will make you do weird things. Out on the hike, Luca talks about his band, The Dogs, and then Stacy lays on the ground. It's not just because of the bad news that her crush is likely in a terrible band, it's also that she needs some thing to eat. She's losing energy and now almost passed out. Stacy decides to tell Luca she's diabetic, which.

Is more egregious that he's nineteen or that he's talking about his band on the.

Terrible, Terrible to Escape route. Let me tell you about my band.

Trail.

Please, I can't go anywhere. It could have been good. The dogs had to run there for a while.

Well.

Thankfully her diabetes doesn't bother him. He still thinks she's beautiful. Elsewhere, Christy is on her way to play some baseball with Dad and changes into the dress at the greenhouse.

She doesn't remember her dad being this much fun.

But it's all been going great, except he continues to be vague about the job hunt, and in all the excitement, she's missed a babysitters club meeting for the first time ever. Claudia steps in to run the meeting just as Christy comes running in. The First order of business is the new issue with Missus Haberman and the city permit they don't have. Christy promises they don't need a permit, but her not being there to fight back with the neighbor

The guilt is getting.

Excaything else to do. Koch and her friends. It's like Pinky in the Brain storyline.

Like nothing else going on, and Na Timea.

Clearly wants to be part of the crew. Sheyline for.

The secret is weighing heavy, but Marianne stays strong as her best friend and doesn't betray her. Trussed Claudia is feeling the effects of Christy ignoring the club too. When they tried studying for that final test, Christie's attention was elsewhere. And all of this has turned into a big battle royale fight between all of the Babysitters Club.

But wait a second. At the beginning they said nothing was going to bring him up.

It was like part of the movie.

It does get very combative very quickly. That was something that I was sort of. I was like, we are angry.

Yeah, there's no room for understanding. It's just immediately jumping to like what the where are you?

Why are you not telling you?

You're letting us all down.

One of them said, you owe us, Like what do they owe you for?

But it doesn't stop Christy from sneaking off from camp again to see her dad, and this time with her gone, her brother walks off campus and basically right into traffic.

He was like, car's gonna hit him. Car's gonna hit him. Come on, question, you don't want that would make this so much better?

Meet Joe Black in the hospital.

All of a sudden, now is so is her little brother then Bruce Davidson's kid or is that also imagine Peter Horton's kid.

No, No, that's Bruce david Peter Horton doesn't care.

Okay, so that's it. So that's her half brother that step. Yeah.

Another writer strong connection. Brooke Adams played my mom in a TV movie called The Last Hit. So I saw her on the street and I was.

Like, oh my god, everybody's crazy.

I actually just saw her and Melanie and an actress whom I love by the name of Caroline Aaron, and also I think MARYL. Hemingway in a play. Yeah, the four of them, And I was like, you know, Melanie and I are in sort of regular contact. But I was like, Brooke, I don't know if you'll remember that we did. She was like, of course, I remember she's so.

We really lucked out with all of the adults great cast.

All the while, Christy is mindlessly dancing on a bridge with her dad, not a care in the world. But when she gets home, her mom and stepdad are waiting for her, furious she didn't pick up her half brother. They don't know what's gotten into her, and she yells the cliche you're not my father as she runs away.

No, this is when I started. This is when it started for me, and like I started solving and it didn't stop.

I know.

It's just so she's got so much pressure, so much pressure, and so many things on her plate, and every adult around her and all of her friends.

And everybody, everybody, even Rachel turns on her at one point. It's like, wow, I know nobody now, yeah, I know, poor Christie.

The next day camp, Christy knows things have gotten rough with her friendships and family, without even knowing that her friends are still setting up a surprise birthday party for her. Christie starts her apology tour by creating a camp wide lesson plan to help Claudia study, and that includes performing.

This rap song.

If you want to run.

Okay, remiss about the brain being the center.

Runs run through the course, so the frontal lobe through the hypothalamus. It's good to go and to the cerebellum. It's the best thing that could happen because we're the babysitters and we'll always be rapping, singing and something. It's the best. So you better go and study. So you passed your science tests, do you better go?

You're missing the brain, the brain, the center, the chain.

Do you remember our lame is rap? Do you remember when we wrapped for the Hugo Awards.

It doesn't surprise me.

What was it?

It was so I don't know, I don't remember, but we did a rap because that was like the fun thing for kids to do. It was like we did the Hugo Awards where everybody got award. It was like a fake ceremony that the cast through for itself and we got up and all four of us rapped.

You guys through your own award show.

It was like a joke awards show, like you give out awards for like somebody who always you know, had thebe malfunction or something. So it was all like in jokes. So yeah, I forget my award.

Yeah, I think my mind was messiest or most cluttered or so cute Diane or Diane did that? Came up with that for us or something? Yeah, you know, but I do remember doing the wrap.

Gary Gary Beach. I remember him pulling me because he was hosted the whole night, and he pulled me into his addressing room, was.

Like, what is this?

You guys could do a rap? Could you come up with a rap? And then like we worked it up with him. Yeah, we all came home. I have a video of it. I'll find it.

Yeah. We also, I think we also choreographed that rap. I think I'm sure we had a choreographer present. I'm sure there was an actual paid individual, but I think they wanted our input, and so I do remember us working, like working on the choreography to the rap funny for a minute at that Pasadena hotel.

Well, the next day, while taking the Testa starts tapping her pencil and she remembers the song and now she's a genius.

She can do it.

But still, even with this progress, the Babysitters Club have lost their trust in Christy or even Mary Anne for keeping a secret too. And with all the weight on her shoulders, Christie almost tells her mom, but decides not to at the last minute. At camp, Jackie still hasn't hit a home run, and the girls finally confront Christy. They want to know what's happening, but she still won't tell them.

Can somebody teach this kid how to at least hold the bat problem? I mean, he's hitting his own foot with the bat.

It's so bad. It's like, come on, dude, somebody helped this kid swing the bat.

That's also a writer. That's Aaron's little brother as sure, yeah, ash sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. We kept it in the fam because Skyler's little sister is in the movie as well. I think I think that was also the thing with the parents that they were like, if we already have a parent's present for this child, right your other.

Child exactly, that's how we can make sure we don'tut yeah, cut down.

On the adults and rooms.

And also Asher was great.

And so that day Christy finally speaks up to her dad. She tells him that he's basically ruining her life and she has to tell her mom instead, he has an idea for her birthday. He'll pick her up at home for dinner and let everyone know the good news together, then we get a montage of more greenhouse cleaning. Christy is still oblivious to her upcoming surprise party, but she said she might just be a little late to what

Stacy Rody's it only got her a bus.

Yeah, well, I remembers the brain brain center of the chain. There's only so many things. There were other questions they couldn't work out exactly. Stacy and Kadia went out in New York together and decided to meet up with Luca.

But the girls can't get into.

A nightclub with their fake IDs, and that's when Luca realizes she's thirteen. He apparently thought she was older and is now furious.

How rightfully? So rightfully? So your responsibility to ask? Really? Yeah? Yeah, the girls should never say hey, I'm thirteen.

I mean, both people could have done something.

But if I, if I'm the one, I'm going to be doing something illegal, you best be sure I'm asking.

Also, those fun fact, those two damn its that he says were thrown in in a dr to get PG thirteen. I think they didn't want to. They wanted to try and appeal to the tween set, not necessarily like kids kids right.

Well, did you notice the cab ride on the way home?

Yes?

Oh god, where there's just a band, there's a truck behind them, nobody's moving.

Yes, it's done on the stage and it's so I was like, what is happening, Like, are we supposed to believe that this is on the road.

Yeah.

I was just saying touch it because I took a video of that clip for break because Brie and I are still really close, and I was like, I was like, oh, this is your When she's just like shut up, shut up, it was great. I was dying. I was like, there's my little firecracker.

There's also two different scenes where they cut away and they just dropped the audio out from underneath Rachel, like she's in the middle of saying something and they just like, no, cut the seed.

So they just dropped the audio out. Her mouth is moving, and then they just cut.

I know there's a lot of that too.

That great, Well, he wants nothing to do with her now, and good for him.

The next morning, Stacy and Claudia come back home in a cab and there are just three and a half weeks left of camp, but it's not coming quick enough for missus Haberman. Kids have ripped apart the neighbor's yard and taken her flowers, and so, as promised, she's calling the city, but Don is able to calm her down with some replacement flowers and they bond about her interesting life. What do you remember about working with Ellen Burston, Larissa, I knew.

It was a really big deal, and my mom and I had watched Alice doesn't live here anymore, and I, you know, I think I learned some sort of like very high row acting techniques in the moment of like of like just you know, use whatever you're feeling to serve the sea. I just like I wanted her to like me, and I wanted her to think I was good, and I wanted to get her. I wanted to get

Yeah, where you get to drink a cup of tea.

Would drink a cup of tea and talk to a real actor, and she could not have been more lovely. And yeah, that's just the few. That's just what I remember. I just remember feeling very grown up and very accepted. And again, this is one of those when I say it was such a positive environment, like we were never talked down to. We were very much treated like actors in our own rights, and we had an opinion. You know,

Very good. It's a good scene.

It's a great scene. I love how it starts too.

It starts because you walk over and you're looking at a picture of Ellen Burston exactly as she looks now because you take him on the set and you're like.

Is that you and the pictures? Yeah, it's literally her. It was two days ago.

We just did this.

Just mailed me that. Yeah, that's literally me. Shirt shirt.

Suicir and over.

At Stacy's house, Luca is playing harmonica outside begging for forgiveness, apparently completely over the age thing now, and all of this is before technically.

Not illegal seventeen fourteen.

Yeah, no, thirteen, thirteen fourteen. Yet also, her mom really wants this relationship to work out, So you know thirteen what eighth grade? Yeah, eighth grade is thirteen? I mean your fresh eighth or eighth or ninth grade, thirteenth grade?

Okay, I think we're supposed to be eighth graders going into.

Ninth ninth grade?

Yeah, ok, the summer before he's in a band and about to graduate high school, gotcha?

Yeah?

Copy that.

All of this is before Christie's big surprise party. The girls have put together a nice night and now they're just waiting for the birthday girl. She's supposed to be spending some time with her dad, but he is nowhere to be found. She takes a cab to the pier where they were supposed to celebrate, but while a sad song about wanting to be a daddy's girl plays, he's

Thought things couldn't get worse.

Coochy in her gang toilet paper and spray shaving cream all over the newly renovated Greenhouse the night before the big city inspection, and in the process the bullies get stuck in wet cement. The carnival is closing, a thunderstorm is brewing. There is no sign of her dad still, so Christy hides in a scary carousel and calls the Babysitters Club crying, but the payphone cuts out, so Maryann spills the beans. She reveals Christie's real dad came back.

The way they said that too, was like, well that answers all the problems, Like what ye what.

One huge hole. It really is, like, I'm like, wow, I don't think we can dig ourselves out of that one.

Maybe that was yeah, that was that was audibly me going, wait, what's happening, What the hell is happening?

Yeah, Oh, he's Also they could have just.

Made him sixteen, which still there's a little bit of an age difference. But if he had been sixteen, he could still have a car, he could still be driving, and she could be fourteen next year, and he'll be seventeen next year, and then we're still not quite were still teenagers. It's still not great, but the fact that they went out of their way to make him seventeen when it's all just like, could have been.

Saved a little bit. I think with just one year difference, you.

Are completely different human beings.

Though at thirteen and seventeen you just too it's you might as well be twenty and eighty.

I mean, you're just two different people.

I know.

But you know when you're like I remember being in high school and you're all in high school together, you know, you're in high school with seventeen year olds, some seventeen year olds or juniors, some seventeen year olds or high or seniors. I was a freshman at fourteen, Like, you're all you hang out at lunch, you go, you see each other at parties.

Like you you do date, I know, I mean like even like I mean just the difference between Larissa, who to me looked like teenage Larissa, and Rachel, who looked.

Like a child to me.

Yeah, like you know, like two years later I was dating her and I was like, yeah, that was a different person. I was like watching this was creepy. It was like, oh, that is a little girl likes whereas Larissa's right next to the same age.

But because Rachel's two years old, like she was, yeah, I was thirteen. She felt she felt like a teenager.

To me, she felt like a big kid.

Yeah. I like so looked up to her. I thought she was the coolest, coolest, coolest coming in with her thrift store clothes, I.

Know, and then they dressed her like such a yuppie in this part her coffee.

Yeah, no, I know, it's that's so funny. So not her, yeah, because to me, Yeah, to me, she was To me, she was she was like a big kid.

Yeah.

So yeah, and I felt like I still felt like ten.

Right, right, you were like, I can't wait till I'm I'm grown up. I know I was so tall, I know you were.

There was at one point you were all in the line and you must have had six inches on everybody else that was there.

So they mentioned that she'll be fourteen, and he says he knew.

Oh.

They completely ignore the fact that that means he'll be eighteen and really breaking the law, and then they kiss. The girls can soul Christie as she sobs about her dad.

She really believed him.

This time, everyone forgives each other and they are still able to celebrate her birthday best friends forever. The next day, Christy finally tells her mom, who isn't happy she kept it a secret, but correctly blames her dad, but she also admits her dad really does love her. She reveals a letter that he left in the mailbox. It says the job didn't work out and he apologizes for everything. He's going to Colorado for a possible job and will

Give them up.

It's a little I'm a little confused about the message there. I thought she was gonna say's full of bourbon, which is why he didn't show up.

Yeah.

Also, I just so he was when he made the plans to pick her up on her birthday? Did he know then he was gonna let her down?

Like?

Ah, when did he make the decision that leaving her stranded again on her birthday and just leaving her a note instead.

Was the good choice here?

Probably when he was shooting thirty something, maybe nobody.

That's I think that that's the thing, like that he's you know, it's that that's that misguided attempt at like, oh, I'll hurt her less if I do it this way. And it's like, you know how you don't hurt your daughter. You tell her the truth.

You don't set her up for failure.

The promises that you can't keep. That's how you do.

Yeah.

They tried to do his character where it's like he wanted to be there. You know, he was trying this time, but it was like this, I don't buy this.

But I don't begrudge. I don't begrudge forgot. I don't brigadge berg Adam's character for not like speaking ill of him.

You know, I love that she doesn't speak ill sense.

And she's really trying to bite her tongue on that one.

Absolutely, And I do think it's so important, like for even if, even if you don't feel it or believe it, to tell your kid how much your the other parent loves them, because there if a child feels unloved by a parent, it's not because they blame the parent, it's because they think they are unlovable.

And so when she said, I what if I had done something different? And what if I were different?

Oh my god, yeah I know yeaheah.

The scene, the scene you don't see is then her at night with with the parents at night, Bruce Davidson together and her like can.

You believe he did this?

Comes up exactly that's when that would have happened. But in front of your kid, you're like, no, it's just he's following his dreams.

Yeah.

So when the girls get to the Greenhouse ready for the inspection, they see all the damage from Kochie and her crew and their shoes in the dry cement. So, with two hours left before the city officials arrived, the whole club and the kids from the camp clean the area. They work tirelessly, right, up until the committee arrives, which apparently includes the neighbor, Missus Aberman, And although it looks beautiful,

Yeah?

Oh got you that, wondering what it was like sitting there.

When they first walked in the first scene walking into this they someone has the line this gatehouse used to be and both all three of me, Indy and Alex were liked. She'd just say gayhouse. Is this a gayhouse? We went back, but all three of us heard it.

We were like, this used to be a gayhouse. Now it's a greenhouse.

Is gatehouse another word for a greenhouse?

I don't know, No, I think a gatehouse probably back in the time was probably the little house that your guard would be in at your gates to drive up.

It's called a gatehouse.

So this is probably on a big piece of property, and it used to be it was formerly a gatehouse, I would think, Okay, all.

Right, So it was an amazing day.

They got the greenhouse as an office and Jackie hit his first home run with the ball landing on Kochie in a tree, knocking her into a dumpster.

No one ever heard from her again, so she might be dead.

Even the nerdy kid and Dawn end up together, and Christy gets another letter from her dad. He's actually sending one every week, and with summer ending and liking Claudia's room is the actual clubhouse, they decide to donate the greenhouse to missus Haberman. So in the end, Claudia wasn't the only one with a test the summer. They were each tested in their own ways and learned what it means to come through for each other. They take one last group photo, and the Babysitters Club will live forever.

Final thoughts on the movie.

I think it all come I think it all wraps up very nicely.

Me too, you know what, it made me really feel like I super missed out because I didn't see this movie when I was a teen. It makes me really it made me feel the same way I'm talking about.

You guys need to do a big reunion.

It makes me wonder, like I guess Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is another movie that feels like this, But it really made me go movies about groups of girlfriends, why are there not more of them? Like I think about some of my favorite movies like Steel Magnolias, like movies about women and their relationships and now and now and then Great One Babysitters Club, Like I want to watch them all and I want to see more of them.

They're they're so compelling.

I think it's also I think what I was struck by this time, and I remember I was struck by a couple of years ago when I rewatched it was like the level of aside from the Bad Girls storyline, which you know now does feel a little dated, even

And I think we forget that as teenagers. When somebody, somebody has something weird going on, your first thought is not maybe there's something wrong with them that I should I should dig dig deeper and I should have more empathy for them. Your thought is, why are they doing this to me? What is it about me that's making this happen?

Me?

Me, me, me Me, And your first thought is, well.

Then sinne, if you're not gonna tell me what's going on, then I guess we're just not friends anymore. Like it, those things are very real. I mean, my best friend, Jennifer Kaminski started dating a boy I had a I had dated before, and I was furious, and we wrote each other nasty notes and dropped him in each other's locker, and I'm sure like a real breakup it did. It was way more traumatizing to me than anything that happened with Michael Goldman.

Did you become friends with her again or not?

Oh?

Yeah, Jen still my best friend? We we yeah, yeah, yeah, we of course overcame it. But that's my point is that your relationship, your relationships with each other, there are there are highs, and there are lows, and sometimes in teenage friendships especially, you do things you are not proud of and you make the worst of assumptions.

But it's all very real. Like all of that, it felt very real to me.

Yeah.

And then and the part of the reason why we're so upset is that we're just feeling like left out of something. Yeah, someone knows something that someone else does.

You know.

I'm curious, writer, what was Indy's takeaway?

You know, he's gotten I think he's gotten a little more sophisticate. He likes horror films now, you know, like so he wants to watch grown up things. So I think he felt like it was a kid's movie and he you know.

You guys are forcing him.

Yeah, yeah, but no, it's such a cozy film, you know, Like that's the feeling I got. It was like, oh, this is this is a movie where like even the bad things aren't really that bad, you know, and it's like it's just a it's a nice it's a nice world, you know. It's just like a cozy, you know, relaxing world. And I just I love the way it looks too, Like I love seeing a movie from the nineties that had that, like you know that film.

Yeah Sheen.

It just looks good and it looks inviting and warm, and I just want to like, yeah, I figured it was Pasadena. I was like, if they didn't shoot this, this had if this was an La this is Pasadena, but it's just beautiful. But yeah, what a tough job, though, man being a summer campa for a bunch of kids, that seems like a nightmare.

Yeah, Laurissa, thank you so much for joining us again and letting us enjoy this beautiful movie with you.

Thank you for sharing your perspective with us. You know how we ill about you.

We literally did this as just as an excuse to have you back in a room because we just love you so much and you were an absolute fan favorite.

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