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! Angel loves to lurk, Buffy is ice skating, a girl with a gorgeous and seemingly singular shirt has just arrived at the Sunnydale airport (!!!), and the only thing we hate more than a man who wants to kill Buffy is a man MADE OF WORMS who wants to kill Buffy?! Live from Brooklyn’s Bell House it’s S2E9 “What’s My Line,” featuring special guests Frankie Casano-Antonellis & Stephan Nance of Sparkbird!!! Join us for our last live event of the year THIS WEDNESDAY with Joanna Robinson & Alba Daza in Burlington, VT at Higher Ground! Tickets at ⁠bufferingcast.com/live⁠ Stephen's new album Head Like a Nest is coming out Nov 14! Learn more about ⁠Sparkbird and their upcoming album/tour here⁠! Download the "Enemies" cover featuring Sparkbird at the end of today's episode ⁠here⁠! Listen to the Live Kendra Jingle ⁠here⁠! Hey! Our original coverage of "What's My Line Part 1" with no spoilers aired on March 15, 2017 and you can find it here: ⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2-09-whats-my-line-part-1-a-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-podcast/id1150241800?i=1000382644951⁠

Alan Cumming’s incredible outfits, wooden boxes that are 5x5(x5), Spike’s unwavering honesty, another gutting reveal on what Dawn was doing, and a theory on LARPing LARPers — here is our Watcher’s Diary for “Lie to Me”!

Jenny's battle to have us pod about Xena continues and we also get into the very rich topics of: sitting on bathroom floors, the Buffy reboot pilot, Nancy Botwin selling weed, the myth of sterile urine, and what Dawn was doing for Halloween...

Today we are thinking about shadow selves, Xena Warrior Princess, Dawn's love of the Backstreet Boys, and Cordelia's dad's tax evasion. Plus, Jenny made new friends?! It's our Watcher's Diary for "Reptile Boy"!

The wonderful, brilliant Lani Diane Rich is with us today in defense of Buffy's "Reptile Boy"!! We go deep into what makes a good episode of Buffy (can you hear us, new Buffy writers room?!), consider various snakes-as-penis-demons throughout the show, and discuss what may be at the core of the series — a little sentiment called "to the pain"!!!

It's so nice to look back to the 90s and be reminded of what the patriarchy was like now that we live in a world so free of its presence! We've got a snake (who's not the mayor), silk AND chiffon (in this economy?!), Willow *dragging* Angel and Giles (YOU LOVE TO SEE IT), and girls chained up in the basement (must be a Tuesday!). It's S2E5 "Reptile Boy"!!

So many *incredible* Inca Mummy Girl emails, plus Jenny gives us a stunning rundown of everything important that has ever happened on Love Island?! Plus, stratovolcanoes, what Dawn was doing in Inca Mummy Girl, and our very first recording for Pet Sounds, "Toe Bean."

When Sunnydale has a cultural exchange dance and brings an Incan Mummy to town, you know we are going to have a lot to unpack. Here is our full conversation with the one and only Alba Daza where we discuss the concept of “cultural exchange,” dig more into the history of the Incan people, bring some much-needed correction to the terminology and the dress of Inuit people, and so much more.

Everyone’s favorite episode of Buffy is upon us, where cultures are exchanged in respectful ways and indigenous folks are humanized! Just KIDDING, but wouldn’t that be so great?! Today, in addition to 90s-flavored racism, we do at least have the introduction of Devon (!), Jonathan(!!!), and OZ (!!!!!!!!) *plus* a segment with our beloved Alba Daza!!! It’s Season 2, Episode 4 “Inca Mummy Girl” — so please open your desiccated eye sockets and join us as we discuss.

We are back with another Watcher’s Diary and chatting about leaf miners, shoulder cartilage, Memphis gay bars, and a cat who goes by the nickname "Toe Bean." We also cover what Dawn was doing during the events of “School Hard,” and discuss some choice moments of revivification in Outlander…

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! No one stands a chance against his cheekbones and today's special guest Joanna Robinson would save him all her mini marshmallows — because mmm ba ba ba ba SPIKE LOOKS GOOD! It's Season 2, Episode 3 "School Hard," and we want to know, was Drusilla in the trunk of that car with all her dolls when it blasted through the Welcome to Sunnydale sign or what?!

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! Xander is jealous of Angel! Angel is jealous of Xander! Giles is slightly closer to learning where Jenny Calendar dangles it! And teen boys are dismembering dead girls to build a Frank— er, FRANCINE-enstein!! Classic. Also, tomato is a fruit but we still want to hear your science report, Cordelia.  It’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 2, Episode 2: Some Assembly Required… and Angel is wearing a BEIGE JACKET LOLOL

We're BACK with our first Watcher's Diary of Season 2!! We've got information on bones and wrestling and barbecues and knowing your chickens — plus some discussion on Buffy reboot rumors AND excitement about the return of Fallout. And of course, we find out what Dawn was doing during "When She Was Bad"...

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!

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. 

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."

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!

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.”

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.”