If The Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me

Welcome to Sid the Wily Dairy Gnome, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week, we go deep with Spike in the classic "Fool for Love"In this episode, we discuss: Plot and Firsts (2:00) Initital Thoughts (8:00) Buffy confronting death & the Council (10:00) Beat-by-beat episode (22:00) Spike (30:00) Angel Update (38:00) Boxer Rebellion (41:00) Spike’s monologues (51:00) NYC 1977 (55:00) Spike’s obsession with Slayers (1:02:00)We close the show with yelling (1:12:00), watches (1:20:00) and rankings (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: "'Let' isn't really a factor when she sets her mind to something. You know that."--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotif

Welcome to Fire Bad Tree Pretty, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we pour it all out for Tara in this very special episode all about "Family."In this episode, we get into: Plot and Firsts (1:30) Initial Thoughts (7:30) Sappho (15:00) Family (27:00)We close the show with our usual yelling (45:00), watches (1:05:00), and our rankings (1:07:30).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 there are quite a few American beers that are highly underrated. This, unfortunately, is not one of them."--- 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 Electric Kool-Aid Funky Satan Groove, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we learn about keys and dunk on Joyce in "No Place Like Home."In this episode, we discuss: Plot and Firsts (2:00) The Dagon Sphere (5:00) Initial Thoughts (14:30) Dawn and the Monks — including big questions: If you don't care for Dawn after this, will you ever?;  the cause of Joyce's aneurysm; and Monks making Joyce a good mom to Dawn, assumed she was good mom to Buffy (16:30)We close with yelling (33:00), the watches (46:00) and our rankings (47:30).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 so happy you're moving back into the house. This is the source of my gladness."--- Support this

Welcome to Reliable Dog Geyser Person, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we talk Castro, knitting and rock punching with "Out of My Mind."In this episode, we talk: Plot and Firsts (1:30) 638 Ways to Kill Castro (10:30) Initial Thoughts (24:00) Spike Knits? Other hobbies? (29:00) Initiative still exists (35:00) If Spike got chip removed, would he have killed Buffy and would Buffy have killed him?(38:00) Real podcast (42:45) Yelling (44:00) Watches (1:05:30) Watches (1:05:30)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 can't help it. I just have all this involuntary empathy for Dawn."--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beepmepod/support Get fu

Welcome to Yam Sham, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we get double the Xander with "The Replacement."In this episode, we talk: Plot and Firsts (2:00) Twins (9:00) Initial Thoughts (21:30) Episode Talk (28:00) — including: Xander becoming foreman? Can you heat up Spaghetti-O's on a dryer? Would Toth have succeeded in killing Buffy if he hit her instead of Xander? And would "strong" Buffy take care of "weak" Buffy? Yelling (47:30) Watches (1:07:00) Rankings (1:09:40)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 5. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: "I will know your blood Slayer. I will make your neck my chalice. And drink deep."--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beepmepod/support Get

Welcome to Maple Court, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we get to hang out with our regular, recurring, series-long favorite character, Buffy's sister, Dawn! It's wild that she's feel no one knows the "real" her, she's been here the whole time!In this episode, we discuss: Context (2:00) The Game of Life (7:00) Initial Thoughts (12:30) The world through Dawn’s eyes (21:00) Yelling (1:00:00) Watches (1:18:00) 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 5. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: "People say they're recycling. They're not recycling."--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beepmepod/support Get full access to If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me at beepmepod.substa

Welcome to The Many Faces of Jeff Kober, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week WE BEGIN SEASON 5 OF BUFFY with the iconic "Buffy vs. Dracula."In this episode, we discuss: Context (2:00) Dracula (12:00) Initial Thoughts (29:00) Dawn (34:00) Our friends and Dracula (40:00) Yelling (55:30) Real Podcast and Watches (1:06:00) Rankings (1:10:30)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: "Just cause she can do backflips — like that's a crucial job skill in the real world?!"--- 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 If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me, also known as the world's second favorite Buffy podcast. This podcast follows Buffy the Vampire Slayer in real-time, 20 years after the series' original airing. In each episode, we contextualize, talk, teach, yell, watch and rank each episode. Season 5 begins on September 26 but there's time to start from the beginning. Well, maybe not from the beginning beginning. The first two seasons of this podcast are in "listener-beware" territory until we hit our stride sometime in Season 3. And if you don't have time and want to start fresh, our rankings and general show notes are on our website.Thanks for listening!--- 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 Spordilla, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week, we listen to the divisive classic, and Season 4 finale, "Restless"In this episode, we talk: Plot and Firsts (2:00) Dreams (7:00) Initial Thoughts (21:30) Pre-Dream (23:00) Willow's Dream (28:00) + an aside on Joss Whedon Xander's Dream (43:00) + other TV dream sequences Giles Dream (1:04:00) Buffy's Dream (1:11:00) If this was the series finale (1:28:00) Yelling (1:35:00) Watches (1:41:00) Rankings (1:44:00)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 4. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: "I think you're drawing a lot of crazy conclusions about the Unholy Prince!"--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beepmepod/support Get full

Welcome to Daphne Blake, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week, we close our penultimate finale with Buffy's penultimate finale, "Primeval."In this episode, we talk Plot and Firsts (2:00) Initial Thoughts (8:00) + Vampire Diaries aside Finale talk (14:00) What if we took the Initiative out? (25:30) Yelling (38:00) Watches (57:00) Rankings (1:03:00)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 4. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: "I walk, I talk, I shop, I sneeze, I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you've moved out and I don't sleep on a bed of bones. Now give me back my friends."--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beepmepod/support Get full a

Welcome to The Box of Gavrok, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week, we watch our Slayerettes dissolve before our eyes in "The Yoko Factor."In this episode, we talk Plot and Firsts + reboot news and Dolly Parton (1:30) Initial Thoughts (6:00) Spike's Manipulations (10:30)Giles (11:00)Willow/Tara (16:00)Xander (24:30)Legendary Angel Update (33:00)Angel/Buffy/Riley (41:00)Yelling, including Yoko Ono (52:00), Watches (1:12:30) and Rankings (1:14:00)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 4. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: "Spike's working for Adam? After all we've done for... nah, I can't even act surprised..."--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beepmepod/support Get full access to If the

Welcome to Jeff Orkin, Rest in Peace, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we see what happens when Oz returns in "New Moon Rising."In this episode, we talk Plot and Firsts (2:00) The importance of this episode, in general (5:00) Gay TV (10:00) Back to Buffy (41:30)We close, as usual, with some  yells (46:00) watching (1:04:00) and  ranking (1:06:00), where we talk relationships (Willow/Tara, Willow/Oz, etc.) in-depth.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 4. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: "He's all Billowy coat, King of Pain and girls really love that"--- 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 Sofa in Hell, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week, we brave the orgasm wall to bring you Season 4's eighteenth episode, the close of the Tracey Forbes trilogy, "Where the Wild Things Are."In this episode, we talk Plot and Firsts (2:00) Initial Thoughts (6:30) Georgia Tann and early 20th century adoption (12:30) Buffy/Riley/Orgasm Wall (24:00) Xander/Anya (26:00) Willow/Tara (31:30) Giles (35:00) Anya/Spike (41:00)We close this one out by yelling (43:50), watching (1:00:00), and ranking (1:02:00)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 4. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: "The woman in Tibet traded it to me for the Radiohead record."--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/

Welcome to Chapter 11, Assassination and Infiltration, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we spend a day with the world's most interesting man, star of The Matrix, living legend, Jonathan! In this episode, we talk: Our first week of quarantine (1:00) Plot and Firsts (2:30) Is Jonathan.com a real website; is Space Jam? (11:00) Initial Thoughts in a COVID world (17:00) The most interesting man in the world (26:00) Yelling (35:30) Watches (53:00) Rankings (55:30Full 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 4. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!Next episode: Orgasm Wall!--- 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 The Fruit Roll Ups of Love, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week, we conclude our cliffhanger with Season 4's sixteenth episode, "Who Are You."In this (long) episode, we talk: Plot and Firsts (3:30) Body Swaps (6:30) Initial Thoughts (20:00) SMG as Faith (23:00) Joyce (27:30) Scooby Meeting (31:00) Jumping to end with Faith pretending to be good — Faith on Angel — how many times are we gonna do this?! (36:30) Willow/Tara/Spike (41:00) Faith and Riley (45:00) Faith as Buffy/Forrest (52:00) Faith as Buffy/Buffy as Faith fight (53:00) The Council (55:00) Buffy as Faith/Giles (57:00) Yelling (58:30) Watches (1:22:00) Rankings (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 4. You can email us at beepmepod@gmail.com too, if that's your thing!

Welcome to Happy Burger, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we're so lucky to catch up with our friend Faith as she calmly wakes up to a show that's passed her by and doesn't make much of a fuss about it at all: Season 4, episode 15, "This Year's Girl."In this episode, we talk Plot and Firsts (1:30) Initial Reactions (8:00) Kelly and Faith (10:00) All Faith, including our newest attraction: A TIMELINE OF FEELING TRAPPED BY SEASON 3: NOTES FROM THE NEW SUNNYDALE SIX FLAGS COASTER DEDICATED TO THE LIFE AND LOVES OF DEPUTY MAYOR ALLAN FINCH (14:30) Yelling (35:15) Watches (58:30) Rankings (1:03:30)Full show notes at our website and @beepmepod on Twitter, Instagram Facebook, Tumblr for all the good stuff and beepmepod@gmail.com for general chitchat!Next episode: "You know why I don't do it... CAUSE IT'S WRONG."--- 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 Whirlwind, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week, we conclude the introduction of Adam with Season 4, episode 14: "Goodbye Iowa"In this episode, we talk: Plot and Firsts (2:30) Pre-Code Era Movies (8:00) Initial Thoughts (19:00) Adam and Super-soldiers (23:00) Riley breakdown, do you feel sympathy, are we the bad guys? (32:00) Yelling (43:00) Watches (57:30) Rankings (1:00:00)Full show notes at our website and @beepmepod on Twitter, Instagram Facebook, Tumblr for all the good stuff and beepmepod@gmail.com for general chitchat!Next episode: "We're dumb."--- 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 Smelly Cheese Night, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week, we hang out with the Initiative, the first of two parts, with Season 4, episode 13, "The I in Team."In this episode, we discuss Plot and Firsts (2:00) Initial Thoughts (7:30) Relationships — Giles/Spike, Anya/Xander, Willow/Tara and Riley/Buffy in the Initiative and their motives (10:00) Yelling (41:40) Watches (55:00) Rankings (1:01:00)Full show notes at our website and @beepmepod on Twitter, Instagram Facebook, Tumblr for all the good stuff and beepmepod@gmail.com for general chitchat!Next episode: "It's not like he was in the 'Nam. He was GI Joe for one night."--- 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 Ruff, Bad Dog, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week, we hang out with Giles and his eyes in Season 4, episode 12's "A New Man."In this episode, we talk: Plot and Firsts (2:00) Our thoughts? (10:00) All about Giles – Giles and Maggie, his reactions as a demon, and interactions with Spike (14:00) Buffy & Riley (27:30) Yelling (30:45) Watches (43:45) Rankings (48:45)Full show notes at our website and @beepmepod on Twitter, Instagram Facebook, Tumblr for all the good stuff and beepmepod@gmail.com for general chitchat!Next episode: "Irony's kind of ironic that way"--- 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 Mr. Pointy, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we talk "Doomed" and bring as many people to talk about this episode as it took to write it.In this episode, we talk plot and firsts (2:00), thoughts (9:00), the "doomedness" of all relationships on the show (13:00), including: Buffy (Scott Hope, Billy Fordham, Parker, Owen, Angel, Riley, Spike) Forrest and Riley Giles (Jenny, Olivia, Joyce) Xander (Cordelia, Ms. French, Ashanti, Anya) Willow (Malcolm, Oz, Tara, Kennedy, Snake Demon)We end by yelling (39:00), watching (1:00:00), and ranking this mess (1:03:00)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: "I like pancakes cause they're stackable. And waffles cause you put things in the little holes if you wanted to."--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beepmepod/support Get full access to If the Apocalyp