Episode 35: The Big Party Weekend
Wing, Raven and Dove talk about Sweet Valley Twins 54: The Big Party Weekend. They also discuss Bleak Valley and how the book ties into this theory.
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Raven: Hello!
We last published a podcast in September 2019. Eighteen months ago. And we’d recorded it a full year earlier.
Last month, we dusted off the mics and picked up where we left off. We’re now older, and wiser, around eighty books worse for wear, and we’d all forgotten what buttons to press, but we had fun, and we promised each other we’d record more. Since then, we have.
Here’s ninety minutes of bluster, blather and bluff on everyone’s favourite blonde-haired blue-eyed twins, specifically tackling The Big Party Weekend. We’ll be returning to our usual 3-recap-1-podcast four-weekly cycle (ish), so be sure to stay tuned to the signal weaving through.
Next week, I’ll be recapping Happy Mother’s Day, Lila, but for now enjoy our dulcet tones as we discuss a book we’d pretty much forgotten. All bar Dove, naturally, becuase she has a supernatural memory where the Wakefields are concerned.
Until next time!
A new podcast!!! How exciting! Oh boy, I have 90 minutes of notes lol…
The twins ages don’t make sense here especially as in SVH the twins are juniors and Steven is a college freshman – which is a two year age gap.
I’m gonna go the other way and say that Wing and Raven will like SVH more than Dove. Dove has expressed hesitation for the soapy elements, but it is often of a much more madcap plotting than SVT and I think Wing and Raven will enjoy that. At the very least, the highs are much higher.
I was banned from SVH because potentially adult situations (they’re really not) but I think my mom was worried on the weight focus. I was allowed and encouraged to read SVT as a replacement. I smuggled books in instead. Just told my mom, who was unaware, score for 8-9y/o me 🙂 So yes, this was a good marketing plan.
It’s interesting listening to Dove recount reading the series then. As obsessed as I was with the series, I have no idea what sort of order I read. I think Ms Quarterback might have been my first, as it’s one of the books I have a strong memory of. I remember buying buying some of the later books – Unicorns Go Hawaiian and Deadly Voyage – and my friend’s bookshelf of SVH but absolutely no memory of how I actually read the series.
I do sympathize with the kids in this one. While I never had babysitters because my grandparents were fucking amazing, I hit the roof when I had substitute teachers who tried to enforce new rules in class. I once got away with walking out of class midway through without them noticing. Which is Sweet Valley level of teaching because no way he didn’t notice the troublemaker was gone (I’d already been lectured for having the bathroom pass out too long) and as he’s legally responsible for me, he should have notified the office and they would have been looking for me. Maybe he didn’t care, or maybe he didn’t know who I was and didn’t want to ask the class/they didn’t rat me out. It was senior year of high school, and I just went into another classroom to hang out.
I also only sort of understand casserole. I know it is a considered a full meal, but I didn’t grow up with them so I’m not sure how you’d make it.
Yes! Love the banter, by far my fave podcast. Thank you x
Glad you’re enjoying it! 🙂
I hope you’re right about SVH. I’ve hopes, but they’re not exactly high.
I too sympathise with the kids in this one, mainly becuase the babysiter is demonstrably demonic.
And casserole? Bloody lovely. 🙂
How to make a casserole: take a bunch of things you like, throw them in a casserole dish, shove in oven for an hour or so. Lol Technically, I think lasagne could be considered a casserole. Practically every can of condensed soup has a casserole recipe printed on it – chicken, rice, condensed cream of mushroom soup, maybe some kind of vegetable, toss in oven. Hell, I make a tator tot casserole that’s basically just layers of tator tots, ground beef, and cheese. Casseroles are pretty much whatever tf you want them to be!
Thank you for coming to Casserole Chat with JC!
Okay I kind of want to make tater tot casserole right now. And then throw some eggs on top of the leftovers tomorrow
Thank you for bringing back the podcast, especially since it’s right where I got into the series (though I read in no order so remember most of the early books too). It would be a travesty to NOT discuss the Unicorns Go Hawaiian at length. I can’t wait to hear how Bleak Elizabeth came up with that one. Eating horrible things wins her/Jessica a vacation?
Don’t worry, we’ve recorded our podcast for The Unicorns Go Hawaian. It’s next up on the podcast schedule, to be published on the 21st of June.