BSC Drinking Game
1.
The girls say, “I’m not conceited, it’s true,” when describing how awesome they are at their hobbies.
2. Kristy glares at someone for being a minute late to a BSC meeting.
3. Someone nearly kills herself trying to get to the BSC meeting on time.
4. Mary Anne is described as shy.
5. Richard is mentioned as being a controlling parent until he hooked up with Dawn’s mom.
6. Dawn gets a going away party.
7. Claudia gets out junk food for her friends and they don’t say thank you.
8. Claudia gets out junk health food for Dawn and Stacey and they don’t say thank you.
9. Dawn acts self-righteous because she eats health food.
10. Dawn is described as an individual.
11. Dawn is described as laid back.
12. Dawn’s hair is mentioned.
13. Dawn’s style is called California casual.
14. Everyone acts like Dawn’s health food is the worst thing ever.
15. Sharon is absent-minded and disorganized.
16. Stacey’s diabetes is mentioned.
17. Stacey having to give herself injections is described as gross.
18. Stacey is described as sophisticated.
19. Everyone has an orgasm at the thought of New York.
20. Claudia misspells something.
21. Outfits are described. Bonus points if it’s a Claudia or Stacey outfit.
22. Jessi gets the lead role in the ballet or any time the BSC is the best at their chosen hobby. This includes any new hobbies, such as Jessi and synchronized swimming.
23. Jessi being black is a listed as a difference between her and Mallory.
24. Jessi being black is mentioned, but the BSC don’t care.
25. Mallory is described as not pretty, but she’s got a great personality and other variants.
26. Janine is mentioned to be a genius.
27. Claudia’s parents don’t like her to read Nancy Drew.
28. Claudia doesn’t like school.
29. Vanessa rhymes.
30. Byron is the emotional eater of the triplets.
31. Stacey has boy troubles.
32. Mallory and Jessi complain that their parents treat them like babies. Bonus points if Mallory is whining that she can’t get a nose job.
33. Watson is described as a real live millionaire.
34. Charlie has nothing better to do than drive his sister and her friends around.
35. Mallory is shat on.
36. The word zooey or ackaminnie is used.
37. Ann uses funetik accents. This includes allergy speak and speaking with your mouth full.
38. The BSC gets to go on a trip.
39. The BSC decides to document the trip.
40. The BSC describe themselves as expert sitters.
41. The BSC get insecure when it appears the children have preferences.
42. Claudia’s gorgeous and exotic looks are mentioned.
43. Claudia has a great figure despite gorging herself on junk food.
44. Mary Anne and Kristy are best friends even though they are polar opposites.
45. Mary Anne is passive aggressive.
46. Mary Anne cries. Bonus points if it’s for something ridiculous like a tissue commercial.
47. Kristy’s family situation is described as complicated or unusual.
48. The girls say, “I’m getting ahead of myself,” “Maybe I should explain,” or any variants when awkwardly transitioning from whatever they were talking about to their friends and the history of the BSC.
49. Kristy has a “great idea.”
50. Everyone acts like Kristy invented babysitting clubs.
51. The BSC meddles in other people’s business.
52. The girls go to someone else’s house or take their charges to someone else’s house while babysitting.
53. The BSC dismisses someone else’s interests because they don’t like it.
54. Jenny is described as bratty.
55. The girls shriek “Gross!’ when Mrs. Prezzioso calls or Jenny is mentioned.
56. Jenny is the devil for being neat and fussy.
57. Jenny is the devil for liking to dress up.
58. Two sitters write an entry for the Pikes and go back and forth in the notebook.
59. The Pikes run wild.
60. Dawn acts self-righteous about the environment.
61. Jackie trips or has a minor incident and the BSC act like he’s a walking disaster.
62. The BSC act like possessive jerks when someone is friendly with someone outside the club.
63. The BSC is validated because the outsider was a bad person.
64. The BSC doesn’t apologize for being jerks, even when they were in the wrong.
65. The wronged person apologizes.
66. Mallory is a live-in maid who doesn’t get paid.
67. Mary Anne has a boyfriend even though she’s shy.
68. Claudia and Stacey describe Mary Anne and Kristy as babyish.
69. Karen forces everyone to play Let’s All Come in.
70. Karen talks about Ben Brewer.
71. Karen talks about Morbidda Destiny.
72. The BSC believe Karen’s bullshit.
73. Karen is described as having an active imagination.
74. Karen is a brat, but gets away with it.
75. Ann acts like kids who are introverted, reserved, shy, and like spending time inside are freaks.
76. A child is bad sibling if they don’t love their brother or sister every waking moment of every day.
77. The BSC acts like regular childhood problems ( fear of monsters, sibling rivalry) is a major problem.
78. Dawn debates living in California or Connecticut.
79. Everyone in California is a blonde health food nut.
80. Kristy is bossy.
81. Mary Anne makes someone else’s problem all about her.
82. Mary Anne gets away with being a jerk by being the sensitive one.
83. The parents make stupid decisions, such as Watson never disciplining Karen, the Pikes letting their kids do whatever they want because they don’t believe in rules, and the island incident.
84. The BSC don’t tell an adult about a problem they have, even if their lives could be in danger.
85. Back stories are mentioned.
86. The BSC is codependent. This includes going with Mallory to get her ears pierced, being mad that Mary Anne got a haircut without them, and the BSC wailing whenever they’re separated.
87. The BSC is incapable of doing anything without kids.
88. The Perkinses are Mary Sues.
89. The Perkinses are held up as benchmarks, so all toddlers should be able to sing songs from musicals.
90. The BSC has a favorite charge, but kids aren’t allowed to have a favorite sitter.
91. Jamie Newton says hi-hi.
92. Claire says silly billy goo goo or nofe air.
93. The BSC magically solves all the problems a kid or the parent faces.
94. Claudia is a great artist.
95. Mary Anne is super organized.
96. The BSC jumps to conclusions based on ridiculous evidence.
97. Television is the devil.
98. The BSC has to come up with an elaborate activity instead of just letting the kids do their own thing.
99. I Love Lucy or any other 1950’s thing is referenced.
100. Abby makes a bad joke or mocks Kristy.
101. Kristy falls over herself to spread the good word of the BSC.
102. Parentheses are used.
103. The first chapter opens with dialogue.
104. The BSC act like they’re the only ones allowed to babysit.
105. The BSC goes apeshit over babies.
106. The girls are flanderized.
107. Jessi assumes something is because of racism.
108. The BSC push Charlotte to perform and she freaks out.
109. The BSC overreact to any minor inconveniences.
110. The BSC are hypocrites.
111. Onomatopoeia is used.
The BSC needs to be validated by a bunch of little kids.