If The Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me

Welcome to Miss Edith, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we long for forgiveness and love in “Beneath You.”In this episode, we talk Plot and Firsts (1:40) Initial Thoughts (18:00) We Gotta Talk Spike… (23:00) Our Withholding Slayer (32:20) Selective Lucidity? (37:00) Does the Soul Change Anything? (43:45) Final Scene (46:45) Blaming Xander (51:00) Nancy Sucks (57:00) Yelling (1:00:00) Watches (1:20:45) Rankings (1:29:00)/ Full show notes at our website/ @beepmepod on Twitter | Instagram | Tumblr/ Beep Me Hyphen Funtime Playlist for Podcast Fans, Season 7/ Next episode: I missed you so much when I couldn’t find you.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beepmepod/support Get full access to If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me at beepmepod.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to Big Freaky Cereal Boxes of Death, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week, we learn some things about ourselves in Season 7’s premiere, “Lessons.”In this episode, we talk Plot and Firsts and Endurance Facts (2:45) Initial Thoughts — and a treatise on power (24:15) What’s the deal with magic? (31:15) Who the f**k are you? (38:15) The New Scoobies (43:30) Logistical Roundup: Spike, Xander, Angel, First (46:30) Yelling (58:30) Watches (1:31:45) Rankings — and our season premiere rankings(1:38:15) BOMBSHELL HEAD CANON ENDING (1:47:00)/ Full show notes at our website/ @beepmepod on Twitter | Instagram | Tumblr/ Beep Me Hyphen Funtime Playlist for Podcast Fans, Season 7/ Next episode: Beneath you, it devours--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beepmepod/support Get full access to If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me at beepmepod.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to Lesbian Gay-type Lovers, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we close out Season 6 by trying to resurrect the temple of Proserpexa in your local beer cooler!In this episode, we all, together, in the same room (!), discuss: Plot and Firsts (3:30) Initial Thoughts (19:30) Spike — The Twisted Tale of a Monkey’s Paw that Isn’t (29:30) The Mind — Giles’ Plan (38:30) The Spirit — Willow’s Motives & Morality (53:00) The Heart — Xander (Him?) (1:00:00) The Hand — Buffy and Epiphanies (1:07:00) Yelling (1:14:00) Watches (1:30:30) Rankings (1:36:00) Final Chat on Highs and Lows of Season 6(1:43:00)Full show notes at our website and we're @beepmepod on Twitter, Instagram Facebook, Tumblr for all the good stuff. We have a season-long playlist that grows by the episode featuring the music of Buffy and this podcast at Beep Me — Funtime Playlist for Podcast Fans Season 6. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: You are. In the end, we all

Welcome to Less Confusing Waffles, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we accelerate our descent into Willow’s dark heart with “Two to Go.”In this episode, we have a few points: Bill Norton, Plot and Firsts (1:40) Initial Thoughts (18:00) The Plot Demands We Talk About the Plot Demands (23:30) More about Buffy’s “line” — Beyond vengeance (31:30) Buffy’s lame attempt convincing Willow that “there’s so much to live for” (38:50) Willow’s psyche — bullying, “addictive personality” (43:30) Anya’s weird (56:40) Was Dawn in danger of returning to a ball of energy? (58:30) Buffy v. Willow (1:04:30) Yelling (1:10:00) Watches (1:31:20) Rankings (1:35:30)Full show notes at our website and we're @beepmepod on Twitter, Instagram Facebook, Tumblr for all the good stuff. We have a season-long playlist that grows by the episode featuring the music of Buffy and this podcast at Beep Me — Funtime Playlist for Podcast Fans Season 6. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing

Welcome to The Lover’s Wiccas, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we explore grief with Willow in “Villains.”In this episode, we get heated about Plot and Firsts and “Contested Facts” (2:20) Initial Thoughts + talking this episode in the era of prestige TV (21:45) We all agree we wished this was “scarier” & was it intentional? (35:30) Magic as drugs redux (41:00) Morality Play: “we don’t kill humans” or do we? (48:00) Strange reactions to Tara’s death? Caulk it up to shock! (1:05:00) Yelling (1:17:00) Watches (1:48:00) Rankings (1:54:00)Full show notes at our website and we're @beepmepod on Twitter, Instagram Facebook, Tumblr for all the good stuff. We have a season-long playlist that grows by the episode featuring the music of Buffy and this podcast at Beep Me — Funtime Playlist for Podcast Fans Season 6. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: Willow's a junkie. The only thing Willow was ever good for...the only thing I ever had going

Welcome to The Big Pineapple, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week the episode and try not to cry… as Kelly says, “When I was 14, these two characters, Willow and Tara, meant more to me than real-life human beings…”In this episode, we waddle through: Plot and Firsts and Benson Quotes (1:45) Initial Thoughts (16:00) Tropes on Tropes [?] (20:00) — Psycho Lesbian, Bury Your Gays, Fridging A Woman Kelly’s Read A Lot of S**t & Death of the Author [?] (35:30) Personal Business? Xander v. Buffy (46:00) You Know… That Scene (51:00) Our first experience with the episode & Tangent #18 — The Kitten Board (1:02:00) Tara is the price? or, a low-key Angel update… + you could feast on this forever, if you were inclined (1:08:00) Yelling (1:18:00) Watches (1:29:45) Rankings (1:34:20) Ending (1:42:00)Full show notes at our website and we're @beepmepod on Twitter, Instagram Facebook, Tumblr for all the good stuff. We have a season-long playlist that grows by the episode featuring the musi

Welcome to Urn of Ishtar, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we confused entropy with atrophy and talk about a twenty year old television show.In this episode, we talk Plot and Firsts (2:00) Initial Thoughts (10:20) Xander Unloading (17:45) Does Xander hate demons, or love Buffy? (34:00) Spike: He spilled the beans (40:30) Should Tara have taken Willow back?! (48:15) Yelling (1:01:30) Watches (1:25:00) Rankings (1:32:00)Full show notes at our website and we're @beepmepod on Twitter, Instagram Facebook, Tumblr for all the good stuff. We have a season-long playlist that grows by the episode featuring the music of Buffy and this podcast at Beep Me — Funtime Playlist for Podcast Fans Season 6. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: Your shirt--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beepmepod/support Get full access to If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me at beepmepod.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to A Treatise on the Mythology and Methodology of the Vampire Slayer, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we create a latticework of discussion around the great “Normal Again.”In this episode, we screw up the courage to discuss: Plot and Firsts (2:00) Initial Thoughts (8:30) Ambiguity — Is Sunnydale Real? — Joyce & Hank — Why people don’t like this episode — Todd & Suzanne — realness of the asylum (13:30) Joss and Marti — Lost — the implications (30:00) Episode 8?! or 9?! or 22?! (40:00) Spike (44:45) Buffy, Spike, and the Antidote (50:00) Yelling (55:30) Watches (1:19:00) Rankings (1:26:30)Full show notes at our website and we're @beepmepod on Twitter, Instagram Facebook, Tumblr for all the good stuff. We have a season-long playlist that grows by the episode featuring the music of Buffy and this podcast at Beep Me — Funtime Playlist for Podcast Fans Season 6. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: I'm the embarrassing mom

Welcome to Interfector Mortis, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we celebrate love and loss in the wedding of the century with “Hell’s Bells.”In this episode, we vow to discuss: Plot and Firsts (2:00) Initial Thoughts (11:20) We Can’t Go Back? Xander Harris (19:15) Oil and Water: The Harris Family (28:00) The Visions (& Xander/Buffy & Stuart Burns) (31:00) Anya as vengeance demon (39:00) Yelling (44:30) Watches (1:11:30) Rankings (1:21:00)Full show notes at our website and we're @beepmepod on Twitter, Instagram Facebook, Tumblr for all the good stuff. We have a season-long playlist that grows by the episode featuring the music of Buffy and this podcast at Beep Me — Funtime Playlist for Podcast Fans Season 6. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: “I’m not even there, am I?”--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beepmepod/support Get full access to If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me at beepmepod.substack.co

Welcome to Ferula Gemina, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we go robot commando with our bestie Riley and his boo in “As You Were.”In this episode, we talk: Plot and Firsts (2:00) Initial Thoughts (9:30) Why does this episode exist? (13:00) Is this a fantasy? Less person than parody! (16:00) Have we shown up at ex’s place of work? How do we feel about it? (22:30) Conspiracy time: Sam is the Doctor! Spike is an international arms dealer! (26:00) Yelling (33:00) Watches (59:00) Rankings (1:06:30)Full show notes at our website and we're @beepmepod on Twitter, Instagram Facebook, Tumblr for all the good stuff. We have a season-long playlist that grows by the episode featuring the music of Buffy and this podcast at Beep Me — Funtime Playlist for Podcast Fans Season 6. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: “They were supposed to be my light at the end of the tunnel. I guess they were a train.”--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spoti

Welcome to Twilight Compendium, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we go to a “party” with new friends in “Older and Far Away”In this episode, we talk: Plot and Firsts (1:25) Initial Thoughts (9:00) Dawn’s shoplifting in response to abandonment? (18:15) Anya’s meltdown (24:10) Willow should’ve used magic (27:10) Halfrek debacle (35:30) Yelling (43:45) Watches (1:02:45) Rankings (1:09:00)Full show notes at our website and we're @beepmepod on Twitter, Instagram Facebook, Tumblr for all the good stuff. We have a season-long playlist that grows by the episode featuring the music of Buffy and this podcast at Beep Me — Funtime Playlist for Podcast Fans Season 6. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: “My hat has a cow”--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beepmepod/support Get full access to If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me at beepmepod.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to Hebron’s Almanac, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we dedicate our productivity to a CLASSIC episode, “Dead Things.”In this episode, we talk: Plot and Firsts (1:30) Initial Thoughts (9:45) False Memories (16:00) Friends better off if Buffy never came back? (38:20) Naive Rapists (41:00) Willow and Tara (50:40) Buffy turning herself in (56:50) Yelling (1:09:00) Watches (1:34:30) Rankings (1:40:00)Full show notes at our website and we're @beepmepod on Twitter, Instagram Facebook, Tumblr for all the good stuff. We have a season-long playlist that grows by the episode featuring the music of Buffy and this podcast at Beep Me — Funtime Playlist for Podcast Fans Season 6. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: A muscle cramp, in your pants?--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beepmepod/support Get full access to If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me at beepmepod.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to Order of Taraka, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we see how well the cow and the chicken get along over at the Doublemeat Palace, in “Doublemeat Palace.”In this episode, we talk: Plot and Firsts (1:30) Initial Thoughts (8:30) Fast Food Scandals (plus Macheezmo Mouse aside) (14:30) Have you worked fast food? (29:00) Amy/Willow (37:15) Anya/Xander/Halfrek (41:50) Yelling (46:30) Watches (1:08:10) Rankings (1:12:50)Full show notes at our website and we're @beepmepod on Twitter, Instagram Facebook, Tumblr for all the good stuff. We have a season-long playlist that grows by the episode featuring the music of Buffy and this podcast at Beep Me — Funtime Playlist for Podcast Fans Season 6. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: It’s like candy. Juicy pulsating candy.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beepmepod/support Get full access to If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me at beepmepod.substack.com/subscrib

Welcome to The Black Chronicles, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we haunt the arcade in “Gone.”In this episode, we talk Plot and Firsts (2:30) Initial Thoughts (7:30) Invisibility (12:30) invisibility spells (21:00), invisibility tech (25:00), social invisibility (30:45) Buffy’s instinct (34:00) What would you do when invisibile? (36:00) Dawn’s issues (42:00) Yelling (50:30) Watches (1:17:45) Rankings (1:23:40)Full show notes at our website and we're @beepmepod on Twitter, Instagram Facebook, Tumblr for all the good stuff. We have a season-long playlist that grows by the episode featuring the music of Buffy and this podcast at Beep Me — Funtime Playlist for Podcast Fans Season 6. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: We're here to support your subsistence-level employment. Bravo!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beepmepod/support Get full access to If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me at beepmepod.substack.c

Welcome to The Idol of Oofdar, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we wake up in our fucked down house and jump in a car with Willow in “Wrecked.”In this episode, we talk: Plot and Firsts (1:45) Initial Thoughts (8:00) Operation Artichoke (12:00) Dawn (24:10) Willow (29:10) Rack & The Rules of Magic (38:10) Ending (54:05) Yelling (1:03:00) Watches (1:24:20) Rankings [plus Daniel’s breakdown of a “bad” Buffy episode] (1:28:30)Full show notes at our website and we're @beepmepod on Twitter, Instagram Facebook, Tumblr for all the good stuff. We have a season-long playlist that grows by the episode featuring the music of Buffy and this podcast at Beep Me — Funtime Playlist for Podcast Fans Season 6. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: A man shouldn't use immortality as an excuse to let himself go. You gotta keep fit for killing!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beepmepod/support Get full access to If the A

Welcome to Meteors and You, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we f**k a house down with “Smashed”In this episode, we marvel at this being better than we thought: Plot and Firsts (2:30) Fun Facts, from Stacia! (6:30) Initial Thoughts (11:00) Buffy//Willow talk (20:00) Spike’s character & soul (23:00) Divorced Tara & Dawn / Willow / Trio (30:45) How much is too much magic? (38:00) F*****g Down the House & The Bronze (44:20) Amy as Big Bad (52:30) Yelling (58:00) Watches (1:25:25) Rankings (1:31:15)Full show notes at our website and we're @beepmepod on Twitter, Instagram Facebook, Tumblr for all the good stuff. We have a season-long playlist that grows by the episode featuring the music of Buffy and this podcast at Beep Me — Funtime Playlist for Podcast Fans Season 6. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: ...if you could be... you know, plain old Willow or super Willow, who would you be?--- Support this podcast: https://podca

Welcome to Blood Rite and Sacrifice, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week, we lose our memories and wipe the slate clean with “Tabula Rasa.”In this episode, we talk: Plot and Firsts (1:30) Initial Thoughts (7:00) Memory and Memory Loss (12:30) A Huge Dive into Tara, Willow, and the rules of magic (30:30) Giles leaving (43:45) Post-spell questions (50:00) Yelling (55:00) Watches (1:14:00) Rankings (1:22:30)Full show notes at our website and we're @beepmepod on Twitter, Instagram Facebook, Tumblr for all the good stuff. We have a season-long playlist that grows by the episode featuring the music of Buffy and this podcast at Beep Me — Funtime Playlist for Podcast Fans Season 6. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: “Nobody asked you... Ellen”--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beepmepod/support Get full access to If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me at beepmepod.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to The Book of Tarnis, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week, after five years of waiting, the great “Once More, With Feeling.”In this episode, we go way too deep on: Plot and Firsts (2:00) Initial Thoughts (9:30) The TV Musical — pre-Buffy, animation, “musical” in name only, fleeting musical elements, musicals of the imagination, and musicals of magic— as well as musicals vs. dreams (12:00) Favorite/Least Favorite Songs (34:30) Going Through Motions (of each song, in order) (48:23) Yelling (1:43:00) Watches (1:53:00) Rankings (1:59:30)Full show notes at our website and we're @beepmepod on Twitter, Instagram Facebook, Tumblr for all the good stuff. We have a season-long playlist that grows by the episode featuring the music of Buffy and this podcast at Beep Me — Funtime Playlist for Podcast Fans Season 6. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: “I must be a noble vampire, on a mission of redemption. I help the helpless. I’m a vampire wi

Welcome to The Sunnydale Class of ‘99, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week...In this episode, we talk: Plot and Firsts (2:00) Initial Thoughts (7:00) Mr. Kaltenbach (10:00) Candy scares, Glico (13:10) Parking with Vampires (30:45) Bad, Bad Willow (46:45) Was this the first time Willow poisoned Tara? (55:00) Yelling (1:00:00) Watches (1:19:00) Rankings (1:23:45)Full show notes at our website and we're @beepmepod on Twitter, Instagram Facebook, Tumblr for all the good stuff. We have a season-long playlist that grows by the episode featuring the music of Buffy and this podcast at Beep Me — Funtime Playlist for Podcast Fans Season 6. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: Life’s a show--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beepmepod/support Get full access to If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me at beepmepod.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome to The Word of Valios, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week, we try to make ourselves productive in the workforce in “Life Serial.”In this episode, we talk Plot and Firsts (1:45) Initial Thoughts (9:30) What are jobs? Well, a job. Saturation divers (12:30) What would Buffy be good at? (27:00) College and auditing classes (30:00) Buffy at the Magic Box (37:15) Spike and “Bad” Buffy (47:00) Giles Foreshadow (53:00) Yelling (55:00) Watches (1:18:30) Rankings (1:23:00)Full show notes at our website and we're @beepmepod on Twitter, Instagram Facebook, Tumblr for all the good stuff. We have a season-long playlist that grows by the episode featuring the music of Buffy and this podcast at Beep Me — Funtime Playlist for Podcast Fans Season 6. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: I blocked it from my memory, much as I will Xander's vigorous use of his tongue.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beepmepod/suppor