I was obsessed with The Baby-sitter’s Club as a kid. Not as obsessed as my cousin Geanna who read every book backward and forward, twice, but I was obsessed because she was obsessed so she gets bragging rights over her degree of obsession.
TBC featured a super cool Asian character (Claudia) with an edgy attitude about life, just like my cousin Geanna, and a Caucasian nerd who wore lots of turtlenecks (Kristy) and was really bossy, just like me! Though back then I told everyone who asked (which was at lot of people at that time) that I was a total Mary Anne because I always wanted to be kind of shy and cut my hair short with a little bit of Stacy mixed in (the loving fashion and NYC part).
It was because of our mutual love of for these books and the entrepreneurial spirit they inspired that Geanna and I started several business of our own. There was the phone dating site we ran out of the giant pink plastic Little Tikes house that my family kept in the playroom because my sisters and I were afraid of bugs. We didn’t actually call boys on actual working phones, but we did hone or skills for pretending we didn’t like the exact guy we were in love with, which came in handy for the next 20 years. Then there was the combo clothing store and restaurant we ran out of my basement. I actually can’t remember if it was clothing and food or maybe food and books or possible clothing and books? Either way it was super high concept and very before it’s time.
I don’t know why we didn’t just set up a baby-sitters club of our own considering that business plan was already tried, tested and famous. I’d like to think it’s because we wanted to be more original, but we probably didn’t know there could be two of the same businesses in different places. Copyright infringement hadn’t yet made it to the central Jersey public school system’s 4th and 5th grade curriculum.
All this is to say that The Baby-sitters Club probably changed my life. And those were just the books. When the TV show finally arrived, I was inspired and star-struck (plus I always preferred TV to books. Still do.). Now I knew exactly what a Kristy looked like and how much I actually wanted to be a Stacy or Mary-Anne! Now Geanna knew just how much like Claudia she really was (lucky!). So it is with an insane amount of excitement that I say, the girls are back in all their ’90s glory!
The fine folks over at Scholastic Media recently let me know that you can now download and watch all 13 episodes of the original series from iTunes AND because we’re friends, you guys can download one episode for free up until Monday! Just click this link to get your fix of “Claudia and the Mystery of the Secret Passage” (I don’t want to spoil anything so I’ll just say that Claudia’s outfit is killer throughout this entire episode).
Now please excuse me while I go text Geanna to tell her she’s required to fly out to LA so we can be Claudia and Kristy for Halloween. Even though I really want to go as Stacy or Mary-Anne I it’s time to embrace the Baby-sitter’s Club girl I’ve always been, considering I’m 30.
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Jessie Rosen
Jessie Rosen resides physically in LA and mentally in NY. She writes scripts, books, articles, sex stories, branded content and killer e-mails.
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