Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991) w. Candace Jane Opper

You Are Good

Sarah Marshall + Alex Steed

Film History, Film Reviews, Relationships, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

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🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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We're right on top of that, Rose! We giddily go back to 1991 and talk all things Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead with our great friend Candace Opper!An EXTENDED CUT of this episode is available on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/youaregood) and Apple podcasts!Candace Jane Opper can be found online here! (https://candacejaneopper.com/)https://candacejaneopper.comMerch inspired by this episode can be found here (https://www.bonfire.com/dont-tel-mom-you-are-good/)!https://www.bonfire.com/dont-tel-mom-you-are-goodThis episode was made possible by your support! Thanks to everybody who supports us on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/youaregood) and Apple Plus.Here is the article I mentioned in the introduction regarding the Indian death toll of the British colonial regime (https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/independence-day-165-million-unaccounted-indian-victims-of-the-british-colonial-regime/articleshow/102696431.cms?from=mdr).Alex’s zine (https://www.patreon.com/HighOcculture?utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan)! https://www.patreon.com/HighOcculture (https://www.patreon.com/HighOcculture?utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan)We LOVE Magpie Cinema Club! You can find their songs / Bandcamp HERE (http://magpiecinemaclub.bandcamp.com/)!You can buy a You Are Good logo shirt (https://www.bonfire.com/you-are-good-shirts160/) DESIGNED BY THE GREAT LIZ CLIMO here. (Liz Climo designed our logo!)You Are Good (https://www.podpage.com/you-are-good/) is a feelings podcast about movies.You can make a contribution to Palestine Children's Relief Fund here (https://www.pcrf.net/).You can find us on Twitter, Instagram, BlueSky, TikTok, Patreon and Apple Plus.The Music of You Are Good, Vol. 1 is here (https://carolynkendrick.bandcamp.com/album/the-music-of-you-are-good-vol-1).Miranda Zickler (https://linktr.ee/mirandatheswampmonster) produced and edited this episode!Fresh Lesh produces the beats for our episodes.

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0:13.7	Hello you and welcome to you are good of feelings about movies. Today we're talking about don't tell mom the babysitter's dead.
0:16.4	We're talking about it with our great friend, Candice, Apper.
0:19.6	I am one of your hosts Alex Steed and I will soon be joined by my marvelous co-host Sarah Marshall.
0:26.7	Don't Tell Mom the Babysitters Dead is a 1991 American Coming-A-Grach Black comedy film.
0:31.6	It stars of course Christina Applegate Joanna Cassidy
0:34.8	Keith Coogan, John Gets, and Josh Charles. The plot focuses on a 17 year old girl
0:39.6	who assumes the role as head of the house when the elderly babysitter whom her mother had hired to watch over her kids while she is in Australia suddenly dies.
0:50.0	Candice Jane Hopper is a writer, a mother and occasional visual artist.
0:55.0	She is the author of the book Certain and Impossible Events,
0:59.0	which I really think you should read.
1:01.0	If you haven't already, we'll have that linked in the show notes.
1:04.0	Candice is also a fellow zinemaker. We love a zine around here. Check out the link to all of Candace's stuff in our show notes.
1:16.0	Speaking of Zines, I mentioned the Zines that I make last week's episode and guess what? I didn't link to the
1:20.8	Zines. I said I was going to. It's going to link to the zines. I said I was going to. It's going to link to the zines in the show notes and I absolutely did not do that so if that was
1:28.4	a thing that was interesting to you I will have that linked in the show notes this week.
1:32.6	I put them out every couple of months.
1:34.8	You can subscribe.
1:35.8	It'd be cool if you did.
1:37.2	How are you doing?
1:38.2	What's going on in your world?
1:39.6	What are you thinking?
1:40.4	What are you feeling?
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