Baby Sitters Club - Page 2

norcalchick · #16 01-06-2005, 10:58 AM

hhe. i read the books. i liked stacy because she was the fashion savvy one. i had the movie too. i used to try to watch the tv show, but i think it played on the disney channel before the disney channel was on regular cable. disney used to show the channel for like 3 days so that you can see what's on it and order the cable channel like how you order hbo or something. it would always come up on different channels and different times. whenever i did catch it on tv, i would be glued to it watching all the shows like bug juice.

(if the bsc wasn't on the disney channel, then my bad. )

abaici · #17 01-06-2005, 11:35 AM

I loved BSC. But, I enjoyed the Junior High series more. I was never a fan of Sweet Valley High.

ASUADPi · #18 01-06-2005, 02:17 PM

OMG I love this thread.

ah memories!!!!

I was such a huge BSC fan. I had all the books, the board game, the 30 minute movies and the the long feature. Pretty sad huh?

My friend and I actually started out own BSC with the Kid Kits and everything. (Remember those?!?)

As for SVH, OMG I loved those books too. My favorite was the saga with the prom. Liz got drunk, drove off with Jess's boyfriend, crashed the car and killed him. She went to trial. Her sister hated her. Everything worked out in the end. But OMG it was this huge drama and I loved it. Probably because the writer usually made them perfect so it was kind of nice to see them not perfect. LOL.

I should mention I also have (I say have because I still have these games boxed up somewhere. I don't have the heart to toss them) the Sweet Valley High game. LOL.

sugar and spice · #19 01-06-2005, 02:50 PM

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Originally posted by ASUADPi

As for SVH, OMG I loved those books too. My favorite was the saga with the prom. Liz got drunk, drove off with Jess's boyfriend, crashed the car and killed him. She went to trial. Her sister hated her. Everything worked out in the end. But OMG it was this huge drama and I loved it. Probably because the writer usually made them perfect so it was kind of nice to see them not perfect. LOL.

But you forgot that it was Jess that SPIKED LIZ AND SAM'S PUNCH so they got drunk and drove off together. So it was really all Jessica's fault, as usual, that her boyfriend got killed.

I love:
1) that they got drunk off of one spiked cup of punch split between the two of them . . . must have been a big cup.
2) that between the twins, I think they killed off about 20 boyfriends by the time the series was over with. You'd think that sooner or later they'd start getting a reputation.

It's sad that I know all this.

AchtungBaby80 · #20 01-06-2005, 02:54 PM

Oh, wow...I was crazy about the Babysitters Club books! I had hundreds of books, but those were my favorites--I had just about every single one, and still do. I also had a lot of the Sweet Valley Twins series, but like somebody else said, I was never big into the Sweet Valley High ones, either. Geez...does this bring back memories.

Honeykiss1974 · #21 01-06-2005, 03:04 PM

I loved the BSC! I found a DVD of the BSC in the $5 bin at Walmart about two weeks ago.

DGqueen17 · #22 01-06-2005, 03:37 PM

I read like two of the SVH college books. The ones where Jess falls in love with the "older" man and Liz starts getting fat. I only had the first two and I never could find anymore

Honeykiss1974 · #23 01-06-2005, 04:23 PM

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Originally posted by DGqueen17
I read like two of the SVH college books. The ones where Jess falls in love with the "older" man and Liz starts getting fat. I only had the first two and I never could find anymore

I have some SVC books. I have the Sorority Sisters one (when the twins rush their mom's sorority, but Liz hates it) and the very first one too.

carnation · #24 01-06-2005, 05:11 PM

orchid2, we have the Karen books! I liked them too except that it made me crazy when the characters wouldn't use contractions. I also got sick of reading the chapter that would always be in there about "why I am Karen Two-Two". We always looked forward to the new Karen book every month!

As for the BSC books, we still have a ton here. ASLFRose adored the videos and I really think that the sisterhood on those was a prime reason that she pledged in college--she wanted that close friendship that the BSC members had!

Private I · #25 01-06-2005, 07:58 PM

didn't Jessica get married and pregnant by the 3rd SVU book?
also it pissed me off that Elizabeth thought she was fat cos she moved up from a size 6 to a size 8. boo frickitty hoo.

WVU alpha phi · #26 01-06-2005, 09:05 PM

I was also a big fan of the Baby Sitters Little Sister books.. Karen and Andrew Two-Two.

I think I was scaring my friends at dinner cuz I could remember Karen's best friends' names (Nancy Dawes and Hannie Papadakis) and her "husband" (Ricky Torres). Those books really stuck with me!

My favorite BSC members were Stacey and Claudia cuz they were obsessed with clothes and Claudia loved junk food. And I loved the Baby Sitters Remember book that had the gold cover with all their signatures raised, and a little story about every one of them!
God now I really wanna read some BSC books!

I used to read a lot of Sweet Valley books but I never really got into the series. I liked the one with the history of the Fowlers.

Taualumna · #27 01-06-2005, 09:34 PM

Did anyone play Karen's favourite game "Let's All Come In"?

ADqtPiMel · #28 01-06-2005, 11:04 PM

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Originally posted by sugar and spice

One day last year I was feeling nostalgic and made my then-boyfriend watch the BSC movie with me.

My boyfriend swears this is his favorite movie. Sometimes I question his sanity.

astroAPhi · #29 01-07-2005, 12:33 AM

I question his sanity too!

I loved the BSC. I wanted to be a baby-sitter so badly when I was younger. Now I look at my younger cousin trying to "baby-sit" all the little kids all the time and I just want to cry because I know I did that too. Then I grew up and realized what brats little kids were. My favorite was Dawn because I thought she was so cool being from Cali and all, but so down to earth at the same time. I think I was a hippie when I was younger or something. I also liked the Baby-Sitter's Little Sister books and the Karen Two-Two chapter always drove me nuts! Honestly, now I look back and I think those books were pretty juvenile... "My name is Karen Two-Two because I have two of everything?" Come on, kid, you're older than 3, act like it.

SVH and SVT were also a favorite of mine. I think those 4 series of books took up most of my reading. Did anyone do those Scholastic book clubs in elementary school? My teacher refused to do it for us in 4th grade and I got so upset that I got my parents to call the school and ask if I could order it through one of the other 4th grade classes. That would have meant that I would have missed out on the newest BSC book! But Liz was my favorite, because she liked writing and was a nerd (let's face it). I never got to the SVU book where she got fat... that's hysterical! I did however, like that she and Todd broke up because he wanted a piece of ass and she wouldn't give it up. Seriously, after dating for all of junior high and high school, you're going to have at least TALKED about it... it shouldn't be a surprise!

So funny.

Taualumna · #30 01-07-2005, 12:39 AM

My school had the Scholastic book club thing. My friends and I were all addicted to the series books, including "Sleep Over Friends" (anyone remember this? It was in the late 80s-early 90s...I also read "Girl Talk" for a while. I think it was a spin off of the game, Girl Talk. There were five girls in that series and they were in 7th grade) There were four (or was it five) girls who had a sleepover club, and they would rotate houses each Friday night.