Pizza Toast – A YA Books and Media Podcast

This week, Christy and Phil sit around holing hands with their best friends as Claudia sadly bids good-bye to Mimi: grandma, Buddhist, biker bar aficionado. Is it handled well? Yes. Does it stand out like a weird thumb after the Nickelodeon goofiness of the last few episodes? OH YES? Is Janine dating Ashley? You’ll just […]

This week, we’re talkin’ about DAWN; we’re talkin’ about MARY ANNE; we’re talkin’ about CLOWNY! It’s “Dawn and the Wicked Stepsister” but it’s REALLY “Poor Mallory.” That’s right! It’s another SWITCHEROO! So… enjoy it, I guess.

The Netflix “The Baby-Sitters Club” continues its “switch-er-oo streak” with “Mary Anne and the Great Romance!” It’s pretty great, but is there a romance? Does Logan exist? Is Karen related to Lizzie Borden? Find out!

This week, Jessi takes center stage (get it? because she’s a dancer?) in “Jessi and the Superbrat.” They really rework the book in a major way, but it works! I like it a lot! Also, Christy gets very ill during the recording and by the end is about to fall over. So, it’s shorter than […]

On this week’s preamble-free episode of “Pizza Toast” Christy and Phil watch “Stacey’s Emergency!” What’s the emergency? Diabetes! Can she beat it? Mmmmmmmmmaybe? Also, Mallory gets a ton more screen time, Jessi is ableist, a teacher has a crush on a student(?) and WHY SO MANY HOT PARENTS?

This week, we take a look at a long awaited fan-favorite story “Claudia and the New Girl!” Only, it’s not quite “Claudia and the New Girl” it’s mostly “Claudia and a New Girl” but the titular New Girl from the books does make an appearance only she’s pretty much a different character and the New […]

Netflix has done it again! And by “it” I mean “produced a season of The Baby-sitters Club.” And Christy and Phil are here to talk about the first episode of the new season “Kristy and the Snobs!” Who are the titular snobs? Why do dogs get heart cancer? Did Christy get a new job? Are […]

Well, it’s about time! Netflix has dropped a two minute trailer for Season 2 of “The Baby-Sitters Club” so Christy and Phil spend fifty minutes talking about it!

This, my friends, is a heavy one. The toughest episode we’ve ever recorded. The tragic and tear-jerking “Sisterhood Everlasting.”

What do you get when you set a book in the same universe as an existing series and tell essentially the same story with a few twists and also have it act as a commentary on, and refutation of, the original series? You get “3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows” of course!

This week, Christy and Phil finish out the Sisterhood saga with the second movie that adapts the second, third and fourth books in a glorious mish-ash that, honestly, works more often than not. It’s “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2!”

When is the end not THE END? When the final book of your series is really the fourth book of a six-part series! It’s “Forever In Blue: The Fourth Summer Of The Sisterhood!”

As we return from our weeklong vacation – and prepare for yet another weeklong vacation – it’s time to dive in to the third book about those girls in pants titled “Girls In Pants.” Carmen is put off! Tibby is guilty! Lena is … fine actually. Bridget gets sick! It’s the Third Summer of the […]

This week, Pizza Toast is continuing its “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” coverage with the second book about the second summer of the Sisterhood called “The Second Summer of the Sisterhood!” Why is Carmen so horrible? Who is Eugene? Why can’t Kostas keep it put away? Will Tibby ever come to terms with Bailey’s death? […]

This week, Christy and Phil take a look at the movie adaptation of “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” called “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants!” Along the way, we talk about non-Greek actors, 25-year-old 16-year olds, and POLICE SURGEON! Did we cry? You’ll have to listen to FIND OUT!

In the beginning, there was pants. This week, Christy and Phil begin their exploration of the world of Ann Brashares’s The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants with book number one: “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants!” Who is in this sisterhood? What of the pants? Why is Carmen the only fully sympathizable character? Why is […]

Hot off our fresh takes on “Harriet the Spy” Christy and Phil are tackling another mid-nineties wasn’t-a-classic-at-the-time-but-boy-it-sure-is-now, “Matilda!”

We’re back for a special episode about a mid-nineties movie that actually succeeded where “The Baby-sitters Club” may have failed. It’s 1996’s “Harriet the Spy!”

Are you sick and tired of hearing Christy and Phil talk about stuff? Well, today is your lucky day! We’re taking a break between seasons again BUT you might hear from us in the interim talking about a couple of OTHER things! So, stay tuned.

Word on the street is, Christy and Phil have run out of things to talk about regarding the 1995 movie “The Baby-sitters Club” because now they’re just making stuff up! In this episode, Christy and Phil pitch their own ideas for a “Baby-sitters Club” movie. Christy goes Hawaiian and Phil gets spooky! And, check out […]

It’s time to talk about the Peter Lerangis novelization of the Dalene Young screenplay of the Ann M. Martin movie “The Baby-Sitters Club!” Does Lerangis add any value to the tale? Do we find out more backstory on our friends? Do Sam and Charlie exist? Well, let’s find out, okay?

In what might be our most complex episode yet, Christy and I tackle the music of the Baby-Sitters Club Major Motion Picture Soundtrack Album! So, get ready for some heavy thoughts on music from 1995, ya’ll!

In response to a recommendation from a dedicated listener, we have decided to try to actually talk about the movie “The Baby-Sitters Club” this week. Ever hear of it? It’s about a Baby-Sitters Club.

Here’s something we’ve never talked about before: a book! Yes, it’s  “The Baby-Sitters Club” by Teddy Slater Margulies based on the fun new movie from Beacon and Columbia Pictures based on the best-selling series by Ann M. Martin! Who would have known?

I have no idea what this episode is about! Christy and Phil presumably talk about the cultural significance of Jackie Rodowsky. I guess?