Buffering The Vampire Slayer | A Buffy The Vampire Slayer Podcast

Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! Jenny and Kristin are back after a summer spent shopping in Los Angeles! Who will they smugly dance with at The Bronze? Who will look on sulkily (and undoubtedly also silkily) from the shadows, near the hanging egg chair, while Cibo Matto performs their sultriest song?! Tune in to find out!! JK. This show is about Buffy, and she is currently going through it (and acting out big time). Join us as we join her on a closure arc that ends as all closure arcs should: with a sledgehammer.  We couldn’t be more excited to share with you (as two newly published authors!!!) our second coverage, with spoilers, of the season two premiere of "When She Was Bad." IN EPISODE LINKS Interview with Sophia Crawford & Jeff PruittMy Little Pony's "I'll Go It Alone" OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS HEEEEERE! ⁠buf

Producer, Special Agent, and Very Special Guest LaToya Ferguson joins us for our Watcher's Diary this week!! We discuss all of her thoughts on Season 1 (it is GOOD, actually ...and Marcie was in love with CORDELIA, actually), we finally uncover What Dawn Was Doing while the events of "Prophecy Girl" unfolded, and we learn that LaToya's favorite episode of the entire series falls in Season 2! We also spend copious amounts of time trying to decode how to match up Buffy characters with Friends characters.  We are returning to you with our Season 2 coverage THIS WEDNESDAY, May 7th!! (a)Woooooooo! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS HERE-ORDER NOW! ⁠⁠bufferingcast.com/book⁠⁠ LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; ⁠⁠jennyowenyoungs.com⁠⁠ Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; ⁠⁠kristinnoeline.com⁠⁠ Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | ⁠⁠bufferingcast.com/music⁠⁠ PATREON | ⁠⁠

In our third Watcher's Diary we are talking about vampires and CPR, continuing to investigate what instrument Angel plays, and reminiscing about that time Jenny was on a plane with Kenny G. Plus, Kristin learns about the band Celtic Woman and we find out what Dawn was doing in "Out of Sight, Out of Mind." We will be back with our coverage of Buffy Season 2 (for the second time, *with* spoilers) on May 7th!! Join us in Boston (and virtually!!) on Tuesday, April 29th: https://www.wbur.org/events/989600/buffering-the-vampire-slayer-live IN EPISODE LINKS: Celtic Woman Paintings Like That One in Giles' Office from Genevieve -Abraham Pether's Evening scene with full moon and persons (1801): the closest match I could find in terms of composition. -Louis Douzette's Winter Full Moon Landscape (1869): for that gorgeous lunar glow -Aert van der Neer's Moonlit Landscape with Bridge (1648-50): this dude loved a landscape, I highly recommend checking out his other stuff. -John Atkinson Grimshaw's Reflections on the Tha

Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! The end is pretty seriously nigh, prophecies are prophesying, the Master is at peak drama (giving Angel a run for his money), Cordelia drives her car through the hallways of Sunnydale High, the Hellmouth cracks open, and Buffy just keeps fighting. We couldn’t be more excited to share with you (as two newly published authors!!!) our second coverage, with spoilers, of the season one finale of Buffy: “Prophecy Girl.” OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS HEEEEERE! bufferingcast.com/book JOIN US IN LA & BOSTON FOR UPCOMING LIVE EVENTS: bufferingcast.com/slayers LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com ALL THE SHOWS WE COVER Buffering the Vampire Slayer | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast SPOTIFY

Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! Clea Duvall is here (though mostly invisible), there's a sepia filter on the camera lens, and HARMONY FALLS DOWN THE STAIRS (she's okay, don't worry). LOOK LISTEN AND LEARN as we discuss Buffy S1E11: "Out of Mind, Out of Sight." JOIN US IN LA & BOSTON FOR UPCOMING LIVE EVENTS: bufferingcast.com/slayers MORE ON BUFFY PROM, OUR BOOK RELEASE EVENT IN TORRANCE, and NO & LOW COST TICKETS: bufferingcast.com/prom OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS UP FOR PRE ORDER! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com ALL THE SHOWS WE COVER Buffering the Vampire Slayer | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast SPOTIFY • APPLE • AMAZON • YOUTUBE The eX-Files | Covering The X-Files SPOTIFY • AP

It is time for our second Watcher's Diary — and this entry has it *all*! We've got emails about Xena, Painted Dogs (the saga continues!), the ongoing mystery of Where Jenny Calendar Dangles It, and also the succulent topic of eating spiders. We opine on What Dawn Was Doing in the episode "Nightmares," and we have a special segment where we share some of the most wonderful Buffy Prom stories of all time from our listeners. Enjoy! See some of you this weekend at PROM! JOIN US IN LA & BOSTON FOR UPCOMING LIVE EVENTS: bufferingcast.com/slayers MORE ON BUFFY PROM, OUR BOOK RELEASE EVENT IN TORRANCE, and NO & LOW COST TICKETS: bufferingcast.com/prom OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS UP FOR PRE ORDER! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | buffering

Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! Today we are joined by extra special guest Hrishikesh Hirway as we confront our many subconscious fears: public performance, MURDER CLOWNS, bad hair days, and more! Now if it were us, we'd simply never start collecting live spiders, thus removing the threat they might one day accidentally perish under a left-on-too-long heat lamp and eventually seek their spidery vengeance... but to each their own, right Wendell? This episode has something for everyone: There's camp! There's laughs! There's a father’s — I mean Watcher’s — love for his daughter — I mean Slayer! So meet us (and the rest of the Chess Club) for Season 1 Episode 10: “Nightmares.” IN EPISODE LINKS: Hrishikesh Hirway | hrishikesh.co Companion Soundtrack | lnk.to/CompanionSDTK Song Exploder | songexploder.net JOIN US IN LA & BOSTON

Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! We are currently conducting a survey to determine what, definitively, IS the greatest love of all… Is it our collective love for the hilarity and chaos of campy season one Monster-of-the-Week episodes? Is it Principal Snyder’s love of hating the children he is charged with educating? Is it our love for the fact that this is the only episode of Buffy that features a ventriloquist’s dummy, or perhaps our love for the peerless Shakespearean performance we get during the credits? Or are all of these tied for second place, and is the GREATEST love of all our love for Cordelia??? Lay back, relax, and let us strap you in to our guillotine for Season 1, Episode 9, “The Puppet Show.” JOIN US IN LA & BOSTON FOR UPCOMING LIVE EVENTS: bufferingcast.com/slayers MORE ON BUFFY PROM, OUR BOOK RELEASE EVENT IN

Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! Online dating can be MURDER, am I right?! Moloch has entered the chat (literally), Jenny Calendar has entered the chat (figuratively… and also literally), Buffy goes undercover, Willow engages in the type of romance that’s swiftly becoming the Scooby standard (brief, violent, supernatural), and we’re all left wondering if that’s not where it dangles… where EXACTLY does it dangle??? Thanks for logging on to Season 1, Episode 8, “I, Robot... You, Jane.” If you’re not jacked in, you’re not alive. JOIN US IN LA & BOSTON FOR UPCOMING LIVE EVENTS: bufferingcast.com/slayers MORE ON BUFFY PROM, OUR BOOK RELEASE EVENT IN TORRANCE, and NO & LOW COST TICKETS: bufferingcast.com/prom OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS UP FOR PRE ORDER! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Yo

Welcome to our very first Watcher's Diary!! In this very sacred space we will read and chat about some of our very favorite listener emails, and sometimes also tackle our world-renowned segment, What Was Dawn Doing.  In this first installment, we will dig into What Dawn Was Doing during the episode "Angel" (and along the way ponder on what kind of cologne Angel wears...) and hear about hyenas (and their clitorises), wild painted dogs, brothers kissing sisters in 7th Heaven, and the "Malleus Maleficarum," also known as "The Hammer of Witches" (super chill, nothing to worry about). JOIN US IN LA & BOSTON FOR UPCOMING LIVE EVENTS: bufferingcast.com/slayers MORE ON BUFFY PROM, OUR BOOK RELEASE EVENT IN TORRANCE, and NO & LOW COST TICKETS: bufferingcast.com/prom OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS UP FOR PRE ORDER! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure

Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! It is TIME for BUFFY and ANGEL to KISS!! TWICE!!! Which means it is *also* time for Joanna Robinson to guest host with us! We will discuss the first kiss, which ends in Angel throwing himself out the bedroom window. We will discuss the drama that ensues, which ends in Angel being thrown out of the living room window. And we will discuss the final kiss, which ends in Angel feeling that kind of pain that can only come from being a vampire in love with a giant-cross wearing vampire Slayer — that burning, searing, sizzling kind of D E S I R E and P A S S I O N. Yes, it is Season 1, Episode 7, "Angel." So happy to be here with you all. JOIN US IN LA & BOSTON FOR UPCOMING LIVE EVENTS: bufferingcast.com/slayers MORE ON BUFFY PROM, OUR BOOK RELEASE EVENT IN TORRANCE, and NO & LOW COST TICKETS: bufferi

Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! You know that feeling where you're possessed by the spirit of a hyena and your hunger cannot be satiated by hot dogs alone?! Your sense of smell heightened, your need to be MEAN skyrocketing, and your cackle enhanced beyond recognition??!! A traditional high school rite of passage! Let's get into Buffy's S1E6, "The Pack." Hide your piglets and your principals. IN-EPISODE LINKS Tumblr on Thurl Ravenscroft... JOIN US FOR UPCOMING LIVE EVENTS: bufferingcast.com/slayers OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS UP FOR PRE ORDER! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials ALL THE SHOWS WE COVER Buffering the Vampire Slayer

Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! Sure, FINE, maybe we need to deal with some Anointed One rising from the ashes of five or whatever, but have you SEEN WHAT A HUNK OWEN IS?!?! Surely seems like he should be allowed some of our focus despite any pending apocalypses. We are here this week to discuss Buffy's "Never Kill A Boy on the First Date," and also to implore the residents of Sunnydale to do a better job blockading their doors when vampires or demons descend (leave the floor lamps and the couch pillows out of this!!). JOIN US FOR PROM 2025 AT SUNNYDALE HIGH bufferingcast.com/prom OUR BIGGEST SALE EVER?! 50% OFF THROUGH JANUARY 18TH http://www.bufferingcast.com/shop OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS UP FOR PRE ORDER! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoun

Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! You CLEARLY know that feeling when you develop a crush on your new substitute teacher who then turns out to be a giant praying mantis, right?!?! A high school rite of passage. Today we get to revel in all of the glory that is Ms. French aka the She-Mantis as we cover Buffy's S1E4 "Teacher's Pet" for the second time... this time with spoilers. *The* episode that spawned the legacy of Buffering's praying mantis mask. What a day. JOIN US FOR PROM 2025 AT SUNNYDALE HIGH bufferingcast.com/prom JUST A FEW DAYS LEFT TO SCOOP HOLIDAY MERCH! http://www.bufferingcast.com/shop OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS UP FOR PRE ORDER! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering:

Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! Buffy wants to be a cheerleader! Cordelia wants to be a cheerleader! Amy's mom, who has swapped bodies with Amy, wants to be a cheerleader AGAIN! Hands are aflame, mouths are being witchily erased, Cordelia loses her sight, and there's a CAULDRON of GREEN BUBBLING LIQUID. So beginneth monster-of-the-week episodes in the Buffyverse, and we could not be more thrilled. Join us — once more, with spoilers — for S1E3 "Witch" JOIN US FOR PROM 2025 AT SUNNYDALE HIGH bufferingcast.com/prom OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS UP FOR PRE ORDER! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials ALL THE SHOWS WE COVER Buffering the Va

Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! Buffy is grounded, we’ve got a cymbal decapitation, Giles is taking his glasses off, and Luke — may his precious biceps rest in peace — is giving us the gayest shit we have ever seen. We love it *almost* as much as Darla. It’s S1E2 “The Harvest”… once more with spoilers!!! IN EPISODE LINKS Steven Smith Interview (at 24:00 into "The Pack") https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/buffering-the-vampire-slayer-a-buffy-rewatch-podcast/id1711251247?i=1000630860934 SUBMIT YOUR PROPHECY GIRL RECORDING bufferingcast.com/prophecygirl OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS UP FOR PRE ORDER! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on soci

Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! November 6, 2024 seems like a fitting day to say "Welcome to the Hellmouth," so let us get right to it. Darla is using her combination princess-voice and killer fangs to upend expectations, Cordelia is Cordelia-ing out, Giles has ALREADY CIRCLED A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE IN RED MARKER, Buffy takes her first trip to the Bronze after encountering a dark and brooding stranger in a nearby alley, Joyce's hair is so short, and Luke is BIG. OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS UP FOR PRE ORDER! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials ALL THE SHOWS WE COVER Buffering the Vampire Slayer | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast SPOT

Join us — Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs — this November as we head back into the Buffyverse for Buffering the Vampire Slayer: Once More, With Spoilers! We’ll be discussing all 144 episodes of Buffy for a second time (!!!), but this go-round *with* spoilers — a never-before-attempted feat of love and chaos! In the meantime... JOIN US FOR OUR FIRST EVER HALLOWEEN HOOTENANNY October 27th at The Miracle Theater in Washington, DC bufferingcast.com/live OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS UP FOR PRE ORDER! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials ALL THE SHOWS WE COVER Buffering the Vampire Slayer | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast SPOTIFY • APPLE • AMAZON • YOUTUBE The eX-Files | Covering The X-Files SPOTIFY • APPLE • AMAZON • YOUTUBE Angel on Top | An Angel Podcast SPOTIFY • APPLE • AMAZON • YOUTUBE Doomcoming | A Yell

Here, as a special treat, is our first episode covering the Buffy Season 9 comics as released by Dark Horse — specifically the first 5 issues of Angel and Faith: "Live Through This." This episode went up for all of our $5+ patrons last month, but we wanted to share it here in the main feed so that those of you who might be curious can hear what we get up to over in the patron pod feed! If you like what you hear, our next Season 9 comics episode is live over there *right now.* JOIN US FOR SEASON 9 OF BUFFY >>> CLICK HERE

Laya DeLeon Hayes sat down to talk with Kristin all about playing our badass new slayer Indira in Slayers: A Buffyverse Story. We talk about how she has just started watching Buffy for the first time (they had her start with THE BODY?!), how her in-studio relationship with Charisma mirrored many of the ways that Indira and Cordelia relate to each other, her beginnings in the industry as the voice of Doc McStuffins, and our shared interest in getting the answer to the question: is Queen Latifah a Buffy fan?! Find Laya on Instagram at @layadeleonhayes +++ Come to Buffy Prom 2024: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/buffering-a-rewatch-adventure-presents-buffy-prom-2024-tickets-770304570707?aff=odwdwdspacecraft LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on twitter, facebook, and instagram MUSIC Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs. PATREON