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.

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 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.”

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.

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).

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.

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.

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!!).

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.

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"

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!!!

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.

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! See you right here in the Buffering: Rewatch Pod Feed and in our dedicated Buffering the Vampire Slayer pod feed on November 6th with "Welcome to the Hellmouth" (AGAIN!)!! Ahhhhhhh!!!