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Since the show has been hinting a lot, there’s something about Stacey McGill, and now that the new girl at Stoneybrook is our narrator, she tells us: she was recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. It was the reason she left New York City in the first place. place. One day at school, she suffered an insulin shock and began to seize. The video was broadcast by her best friend at the time, no less, so McGills moved to Stoneybrook to start again. Due to that healing event, Stacey works very hard to keep her diagnosis a secret – well, from everyone else.
Although the other girls can definitely tell that something is going on with Stacey, remember, Kristy caught her in a lie (well, technically he caught her in a Porsche), they are extremely concerned right now. Lacy Lewis and her High School Student Daycare Agency have infiltrated the BSC market and it’s not a good one. Loyal customers are no longer loyal, as older babysitters mean childcare with curfews and subsequent driver’s licenses. The girls are concerned, but refuse to give up. If Lacy Lewis justifies stealing your idea and that of your clients by “free market” rules, they will show you the free market.
Unfortunately, simply making children’s kits (book readers, I applauded the invention of the legendary children’s kits) doesn’t help with customer retention, and the Agency takes things to a higher level by hiring girls for fake jobs. Will Mary Anne recover from old Carl yelling at her about her Depende? We will never know.
Then Kristy peaks and leans hard towards Sun Tzu. The Art of War, calling the other girls for the nanny club’s first emergency meeting. Everyone has their reasons for needing to fight to keep BSC alive, but Stacey’s is the most moving, even if she keeps it a secret – she needs the club because she can’t bear to lose her friends again. Stacey is breaking my heart in this episode, just tell the girls!
Things change: while the four girls are away, they meet one of their regulars, Jamie, playing on the street. When they take him inside, they find his new babysitter, the only BSA president, Lacy Lewis, hanging out on the couch with her idiot boyfriend, who is probably the worst poet on the planet, without exaggeration. (Mary Anne: “That doesn’t rhyme, sir.”) Honestly, she, the high school student who bullies 12-year-olds and steals her business model just to get an inferior product, deserves that clown. I hope you are very happy together !!
Obviously, the BSC will not tolerate this. Stacey immediately calls Jamie’s mother to tell her about the situation. Lacy tells Stacey that she will pay for what she has done and honestly, could Lacy please have a life?
Instead, Lacy finds Stacey’s video in insulin shock and sends it to a bunch of parents as evidence why you shouldn’t hire the Baby-Sitters Club. It could happen again! While she cares for your children! Excuse my language, guys, but Lacy really sucks.
Fortunately, only good things come out of this video: First, he forces Stacey to trust Claudia, Mary Anne, and Kristy, and he immediately realizes that he had nothing to fear. They obviously regret everything they are facing, but they know people with diabetes. It is not a shocking revelation. Also, they would never make fun of her, they are her friends after all. It’s a very nice moment and yes it’s fine, maybe it made me cry a little. I am just a human!
The next thing the video forces is another emergency meeting, this time with a gang of parents. I applaud the ambition of our BSC girls, but come on, at least one of these parents had to get a notice from their 12-year-old babysitter calling a meeting and saying, “Excuse me, I don’t have time for this.” At least from the looks of it, the girls provided a very good app spread. Weren’t you the proudest to see Stacey in front of all those adults, explain her situation, and then offer to quit the BSC if that meant keeping the other girls in business? These girls give me hope! Fortunately, it doesn’t boil down to that because one of the parents, Dr. Johanssen (we met her and his wife at the Halloween ball) is an endocrinology specialist, discovered Stacey’s insulin pump the first time she saw her daughter and said: frankly impressed with Stacey’s ability to manage her symptoms. Stacey is mature. Also, she would never be a punk like Lacy. BSC is back on top!
The whole mess does another very positive thing: it helps Stacey rid herself of the shame she feels for her illness. She also confronts her mother because apparently she always wants to hide Stacey’s diagnosis from other people. Ms. McGill could not be more sorry for having made Stacey feel ashamed of herself, she simply wanted to protect her so that she would never hurt herself again. Of course she is on board with Stacey dazzling her insulin pump and making her strong and proud. Well, well, now the tears really flow. Fire me, these girls are my role models.
• Here it is me Truth About Stacey: Growing up, she was my favorite babysitter. I had her doll. She was classy and cool and I definitely wasn’t those things. How, when Mary Anne was impressed by Stacey referring to New York as “the city”? I felt that.
• I still can’t decide who is my favorite in this version of the BSCBut I know that Claudia Kishi is safe in the race, especially thanks to lines like this: “Why don’t you hang around the mall like normal teens?”
• Obviously, Mary Anne Spier is there too, because when Kristy announces that they are going to do the most responsible for the Child Care Agency, Mary Anne responds, “Vacuum.” And guys, she is not wrong.
• Kristy certainly hasn’t seen her mother marry Watson again yet. When he sees Elizabeth wearing a huge engagement ring, he doesn’t waste time dragging her: “What’s next, are you going to start walking behind him all the time?” But Elizabeth, who receives her daughter, responds: “Of course. And from now on it would make us feel more comfortable if she refers to me as Ofwatson. Well, Elizabeth Thomas is fine with The Maid’s Tale references
• I am ready to delve into the life of Mary Anne Spier. At the end of the episode, as the other girls share the stories their mothers told them about the day they were born, she is visibly upset. Mary Anne is the most precious. Protect it at all costs.
• Oooooo Stacey loves Sam Thomas! Stacey is no match for her feelings when Sam, Kristy’s brother and a freshman at Stoneybrook High, wanders around playing a guitar he barely knows how to play and says things like, “Is that your club? I thought you sat down and talked about babies, you know.
• “Where have you been saving it?” “High school.”
