#73 - Mary Anne and Miss Priss

Timeline
Spring has sprung on their 4th repeat of 8th grade

Plot
Mrs. Prezzioso calls the BSC and asks for a permanent babysitter like five days a week. She is kind of secretive about the reason why, and Mary Anne ends up with most of the jobs. Jenny is even more weird than usual; super obsessive about being perfect and clean. Finally MA works up the nerve to ask Mrs. P where she is going, and it ends up she is trying to make Andrea (Jenny's little sister) a baby model. So she has been taking her to auditions, which is why Jenny is trying to be perfect - she is trying to get her mom's attention. Finally, Jenny just tells her mom she wants to try being a model too. So Mrs. P (and MaryAnne, for some reason) take Jenny to get headshots taken, and also on a bunch of auditions. Jenny isn't as sought after as Andrea is so then Jenny goes in the complete opposite direction and becomes a complete slob. Then Jenny actually get a job, but hates it, so then she kind of just becomes a normal little girl.

Sub plot is that the Pike triplets form a neighborhood kickball league and they refuse help from any of the BSC. The whole thing is a disaster and pretty soon everyone quits.  Finally, Mallory convinces them to take some advice from her and Claudia, and everything gets solved.

Also, Mallory is still not in the BSC because of her mono. Her parents are totally taking advantage of her by making her their in house nanny. Finally, Mallory confronts them about it and they agree she can rejoin the BSC.

Takeaways
At one point, Jenny sits in the front seat of her mom's car. As a four year old. Man, the 80's were a free for all.

The Pike triplets refuse help from the BSC because they finally realized that they are only one year younger than Mallory and it makes no sense that she has so many more responsibilities and privileges than they do.

I wonder why Mrs. P all of a sudden wants to get her baby into modeling. Did she think Jenny was an uggo and that's why she didn't try with her?

I will never understand why the parents of Stoneybrook have to ask the BSC to help them parent their children. Like why did Mrs. P need to take MA with her on auditions? She can't handle the two children that she chose to give birth to?

Best Character
Mary Anne, because she has the patience of a saint with Jenny and the whole Prezzioso family, actually.

Worst Character
The other parents of the kids who were on the auditions. I have no experience with stage moms, but they sound fucking terrible.