If The Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me

Welcome to The Shadow Men, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we fix the leak without Tito in “Flooded.”In this episode, we discuss: Plot and Firsts (2:00) Plumbing (11:15) Initial Thoughts (27:30) Feeling protective of Buffy (36:00) Big discussion of finances & Anya’s suggestion (40:00) Should Buffy tell Giles about heaven? (55:00) Angel Update (57:00) Yelling (1:03:00) Watches (1:21:00) Rankings (1:27:00)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 5. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: “I'm going to marry Bob Dole and raise penguins in Guam.”--- 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/subsc

Welcome to This One Starbucks Town, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we sit in the shade as Buffy contemplates her renewed existence in "After Life."In this episode, we discuss: Plot and Firsts (2:00) Initial Thoughts (8:00) Ghost Hunters — the Warrens (13:00) Our smothering friends (36:00) Should Buffy just tell her friends (41:00) Giles Factor (48:00) Spike's Foreshadowing & Willow's Culpability (53:30) Yelling (1:02:00) Watches (1:13:00) Rankings (1:20:00)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 supportive! I'm totally supportive! I'm a flying buttress of support."--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beepmepod/support Get full a

Welcome to A Town-wide Epidemic of Laryngitis, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we continue the resurrection of Ms. Summers with Part 2 of "Bargaining."In this episode, we end our season premiere: Plot and Firsts (2:00) Initial Thoughts (10:00) Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov (17:00) Grieving & Our Friends (31:00) Did Willow Know The Stakes? (35:30) How would you possibly comfort Buffy? (44:00) Final Scene (55:00) How is Stacia feeling about Xander? (59:00) Yelling (1:02:00) Watches (1:25:00) Rankings (1:29:00)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: "No, I'm sure you looked really glamorous cutting up your face."--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.c

Welcome to Arashmahar, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we return to Sunnydale, like Buffy, with "Bargaining, Part 1"In this episode, we discuss: Plot and Firsts (3:00) Angel Update (12:00) Initial Feelings (16:00) Dadaism (21:30) Giles (31:00) Better not to resurrect Buffy & Slayerettes expected to maintain (36:00) When did we decide to bring her back — and how selfless is it? (44:00) Yelling (51:00) Watches (1:14:00) Rankings (1:22:00)Full show notes at our website and we're @beepmepod on Twitter, Instagram Facebook, Tumblr for all the good stuff. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: It's not a bug, it's Tara--- 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

Just when you thought things couldn't get worse for Buffy and Co, Beep Me Pod will be delayed for about a month. Look for weekly episodes in November as we sprint to catch up with the season! Thanks for understanding!--- 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 Betty Louise Plotnick of East Cupcake, Illinois, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week, we've finally made it to the end of Season 5, "The Gift."In this episode, we talk: Plot and Firsts (2:00) Angel Update (9:30) Initial Thoughts (20:00) Talkin' Prophecy Girl Blues (26:00) The episode: Opening scene (30:00), Blood is the Blood (36:00), Giles as pragmatist? or cruel? (38:00), the killing of Ben and Buffy's philosophy (42:30), Xander proposes (51:00), Spike's gesture (52:45), Buffy Bot (55:00), what if Dawn did jump? (57:30),We close Season 5 with yelling (1:00:00), watches (1:36:00), rankings (1:40:00) and a final Season 5 retrospective (1:53:00)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 5. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your t

Welcome to I'm Not Wearing Underwear, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week, the penultimate fifth season episode, "The Weight of the World."In this episode, we're disappointed in the following order: Plot and Firsts (1:30) Initial Thoughts (10:00) Ben and Glory b******t (25:00) Catatonic states (29:00) Buffy's visions (41:00) What's in the Doc's box? (46:00)We close with yelling (48:00), watches (1:02:00) and rankings (1:07:00)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 5. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: She's a hero, you see. She's not like us.--- 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 I'll Bring the Marshmallows, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we aim for the horsies in "Spiral."In this episode: Plot and Firsts (2:00) Initial Thoughts (7:00) The timeline (9:30) Knights Questions (18:00) Buffy, the realist — Scoobies on the Run (23:30) Horse Facts: Creatures of Movement (28:00) Buffy: As Badass MF (40:00) Knights: As LARPers, as People (45:45) Stacia's Deep Thoughts: Conversations on the Soul (54:00)We closed with yelling (1:00:00), watches (1:23:30) and rankings (1:27:00)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 5. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: Is everyone here very stoned? Ben! Glory! He's a doctor, she's the beast. Two entirely separate entities sharing one body. Like a

Welcome to Black Frost, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we swim with a cast of extras against some multicultural fair in "Tough Love."In this episode, we discuss: Plot and Firsts (2:00) Initial Thoughts (9:00) Kelly thinks about Season 1 (18:00) Twinkie Defense (25:30) Crux of this episode — its basically the first half of Tabula Rasa's second half (39:00) Talking Dawn and Hank; guardianship and what's best for Dawn and Buffy (42:00) Willow and Tara (52:15) Yelling (1:03:00) Watches (1:18:30) Rankings (1:23:15)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 5. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: Aim for the horsies!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beepmepod/support Get full access

Welcome to You Have Something Face, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week, we return to the robotics realm with "Intervention."In this episode, we discuss: Plot and Firsts (2:00) Initial Thoughts (11:00) Balancing humor and seriousness (14:00) Hokey Pokey (19:00) Buffy's job as a Slayer (30:30) Buffy Bot (41:30) Buffy forgiving Spike (51:00) Yelling (55:00) Watches (1:12:30) Rankings (1:15:30)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 5. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: "You know, I'm really sorry that I didn't establish my lesbo street cred before I got into this relationship"--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beepmepod/support Get full access to If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me

Welcome to Late Night Stormtrooper Pal, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week, we keep it intense with the "Forever."In this episode, it breaks down like this: Plot and Firsts (2:30) Monkey's Paw (10:00) Initial Thoughts (17:00) Scene-by-Scene: Casket & Meeting (24:00) Scene-by-Scene: Spike (30:00) Scene-by-Scene: Funeral (32:00) Scene-by-Scene: Xander & Anya (34:00) Scene-by-Scene: Willow and Magic (36:00) Scene-by-Scene: Doc (47:00) Scene-by-Scene: Buffy/Angel & Short Angel Update (50:00) Scene-by-Scene: Ben (53:30) Scene-by-Scene: Spike & Dawn (55:30) Scene-by-Scene: Finale (1:00:00) Yelling (1:04:00) Watches (1:14:00) Rankings (1:20:00)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 5. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if tha

Welcome to Draconian Katra, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we try to keep ourselves together as we discuss the masterful sixteenth episode of Season 5: "The Body."In this episode, we meander through: Plot and Firsts (2:00) Initial Thoughts and our first time watching this (12:00) Our first attempt through "The Body" — takeaways and negative space(22:00) A more structured breakdown of our friends in this episode (33:00) TV deaths that are memorable but not as much as this (41:30)We closed with the usual yelling (54:00), a short watch (1:03:00) and the ranking of "The Body" in the Buffy canon (1:04:00).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 5. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: "Who's going to take care of us?"-

Welcome to The Seed of Wonder, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week, the one before the one, "I Was Made to Love You."In this episode, after our plot and firsts (1:30) and initial thoughts (6:00), we dive in scene-by-scene: Training room (10:00) Joyce/Dawn/Buffy scene (19:00) Transition scene with Anya and Tara (23:00) The party scene (24:30) Babysitting scene (34:45) Back to the Magic Box (36:25) Warren (41:00) Spike in the Magic Box (47:30) Buffy vs. April scene (58:30) Xander and Buffy (1:04:45) Final Scene (1:09:00)We conclude with yelling (1:11:30), watches (1:20:00) and ranking this episode of television (1:22:00).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 5. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: "We'll go, we'l

Welcome to The Seal of Danzalthar, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week, we reunite with the OG Black Beauty, Drusilla, in "Crush."In this episode, we talk: Joss Whedon revelations (2:00) Plot and Firsts (9:30) Angel Update (14:30) Hunchback of Notre Dame (20:00) Episode — including creepy Spike, a soul versus a chip and ask how Spike hadn't been disinvited earlier (37:00)We close, as always, with yelling (1:00:00), watches (1:20:00) and ranking the episode (1:24:00)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 5. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: "I'm not that bendy. I could lean..."--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beepmepod/support Get full access to If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me at b

Welcome to I'm Eating This Banana, Lunch Time Be Damned, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we finally get to the bottom of all this Key talk with "Blood Ties."In this episode, we talk: Plot and Firsts (2:00) Initial Thoughts (10:00) Dawn and adoption (13:30) Different approaches to Dawn (22:00) Knights(27:00) Clearing up misconceptions of the Monks and Ben/Glory timeline – including the origins of the Order, is Ben the latest in Glory's string of Ben's?, is Ben immortal?, and the logistics of Ben is Glory, Glory is Ben (40:00)We closed with yelling (55:00), watches (1:11:30) and rank the episode (1:15:00)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 5. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: "This is the face of my salvati

Welcome to Ms. Barton's Performance Review, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we have a very special episode! Because Kelly and Stacia's audio died tragically, Daniel narrates "Checkpoint" as a stop gap.In this episode, we (Daniel as all characters) talk: Plot and Firsts (2:00) Unstructured episode talk — quick cuts, the theme of power, shadowy organizations and if the Council is one (5:00) Rasputin — well, Daniel's reaction to Stacia's now gone deep dive (17:00) Daniel yelling with himself (19:00) Watches (33:30) Rankings (36:30)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 5. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: "I'm not lurking. I'm standing about. It's a whole different vibe."--- Support this podcast: https://podc

Welcome to Unidentified Telepath Demons, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week, we hang with Olaf and get to know Anya better in "Triangle."In this episode, we discuss: Initial Thoughts (12:00) Trolls (16:00) Willow vs. Anya - over love of Xander (32:30) Yelling (45:00) Watches (1:07:45) Rankings (1:12:00)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 5. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: "She's a God"--- 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 5 by 5, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week close out the long Season 4 with "Into the Woods."[This is our first remote episode of a small suite of episodes – to S5E13, "Blood Ties" – that'll feature overdubs or complete recreations. Please, do not be alarmed!]In this episode, we talk: Context (2:00) Initial Thoughts (6:00) Buffy and Riley breakup and the ending (9:30) Xander ruins the day and Buffy’s idea of love (16:30) Spike and Stalkers (26:00) Forever Love (38:00) Yelling (42:00) Watches (58:30) Rankings (1:00:00)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 5. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: Whatcha doing? Playing soccer.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beepmepod

Welcome to Espresso Pump, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we listen to fear with "Listening to Fear."In this episode, we talk Plot and Firsts (2:00) Tunguska event (6:40) Initial Thoughts, like how this is a Season 2 episode with the emotional weight of 5 years of friendships (15:30) Daniel's Monk Dunk is blocked (26:00) Yelling (45:30) Watches (1:06:30) Rankings (1:08:30)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 5. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: "You know, fine, take her side instead of mine even though I'm the one who sleeps with you, and feeds you, bathes you..."--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beepmepod/support Get full access to If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me at bee

Welcome to Besieged, Bedeviled, and Beheaded, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week marks our first ever remote episode (which you can tell by Daniel's mic slowly becoming more robotic, but not unlistenable!) but hardly the first "Shadow" on our podcast record!In this episode, we discuss: Plot and Firsts (2:00) Initial Thoughts (i.e. why we don’t like this episode) (4:00) Character interactions – Spike and Riley (10:00) Summers Ladies (13:00) Riley & Vampires/Cheating (16:00) Carousels (25:00) Yelling (39:00) Watches (59:00) Ranking (1:02:30)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 5. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: "I don't believe in tiny Jewish Santa anymore"--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters