Buffering the Vampire Slayer | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast

We would prefer to take this week's episode — S2E11 "Excelcis Dei" — and stuff it down a volcano with Bradley Whitford, so that it would either combust from the heat of the lava or the heat of Volcano Bradley's sexiness...but alas, it is our JOB to talk about EACH AND EVERY EPISODE. So, come with us now as we get very, very mad at Fox Mulder.

Producer LaToya Ferguson gives "Excelcis Dei" 1.15/5 Mushrooms We Take To Speak To The Dead

CW: Sexual Assault

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This week we have a special appearance by special guest LaToya Ferguson who is here to help us discuss one of the most wild(ly bad) episodes of The X-Files to date: S2E10 "Red Museum"! Luckily, this episode was ALSO intended as a crossover with Picket Fences, so we get to talk about Tom Skerritt's mustache! We also get a true gift from the heavens: Scully eating ribs in a white suite and OOPS getting some BBQ sauce on her face... however will she get it off?!?!?!

Producer LaToya Ferguson gives "Red Museum" 1.4/5 Kids As Guinea Pigs

Time Stamps for Picket Fences Spoilers: 37:06 - 43:45

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It's not a space bug frozen in ice or an LED bug that only comes out at night, but it IS a fungus that looks like a stalk of asparagus and it WILL use you as its host!!!!!! We are in our casual clothes on remote location in the Pacific Northwest where volcanologist BRADLEY WHITFORD has discovered a new life form and a way to remain looking hot despite (because of??) being covered in volcanic ash! Mulder still finds time to caress Scully's shoulder while dodging mushroom spores! We find LaToya in her volcano-adjacent lair!!! 'Tis Season 2, Episode 9 "Firewalker," so please come on board our cute little yellow helicopter and join us at the Earth's molten core.

Producer LaToya Ferguson gives "Firewalker" 1.5/5 Seriously, We *Still* Have “Ice” At Homes

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Mrs Scully and Papa Scully and Sister Scully are all here this week because DANA HATH BEEN RETURNED! Mulder spends the entire episode sprinting and screaming in search of the truth, Nurse Owens is actually perhaps AN ANGEL, Cigarette Smoking Man gets an actual cigarette slapped out of his actual mouth, and Skinner looks hot, is hot, remains hot. This is a doozy of an episode!! It is Season 2, Episode 8: "One Breath," and we hope you have some tissues to handle the strength of Mulder's beliefs!!!

Producer LaToya Ferguson gives "One Breath" 1/5 Controlled Slides That Would Make Elena Gilbert Proud

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"Mushroom Suit" by Zach Jones & The Infinity Bits

House of R "Tropes Course: Vampyres" with Joanna Robinson

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VAMPIRES?! Scully is gone ONE WEEK and we have VAMPIRES!?!?! With veterinary needles!??!

Join us as we discuss how normal the name Kristen is when spelled with an "E," our outrage at John The Son's inability to wipe his mouth off after feeding or clean under his fingernails, the proper way of shaving someone else when you do not own any mirrors, and how deeply Mulder enjoyed being yanked out of a sunroof by none other than the Unholy Spirit herself. It's time for Season 2, Episode 7, "Blood" SORRY NOPE we meant "3."

Producer LaToya Ferguson gives "3" 1.75/5 Writings On The Wall Written In The Victim’s Blood

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THE X-FILES ARE RE-OPENED, SMUG BITCHES! Daddy Skinner said let's goooooooo!! Also: Scully is somewhere in the sky, Mulder's hair has one fleeting non-duckling moment while drenched in rain, and Duane Barry answers the question on all of our minds — "Who took Scully?" — very clearly: THEMMMMMMM!

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The FBI needs someone who can act like aliens are all a bunch of hooey to help get some hostages freed, so they call in the best candidate for the job: Famous Non-Believer Fox Mulder! Also, Scully writes a check for $11.14, the perfect dog from "Ice" is back and no one tells us if he is okay, and C.C.H. Pounder as Agent Kazdin is the best Smug Bitch that we've ever met.

Producer LaToya Ferguson gives "Duane Barry" 1.5/5 Psychopaths Who Took a Bullet in the Head

STROBE LIGHT TIMESTAMPS FROM "DUANE BARRY"

8:40-19:02 • 22:09-22:14 • 22:41-23:00 • 30:01-30:08

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We are BACK! Mr. X has a scandalous meeting with Mulder and an envelope, Scully is BURNING with jealousy over Mulder's new partner, The Smoking Man smokes, and the incredible Tony Todd is here to grace us with his talents.

Producer LaToya Ferguson gives "Sleepless" 1.5/5 Different Dyssomnias & Parasomnias

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We are two weeks away from Buffy Prom in Brooklyn — April 19th - 21st! — and so we thought we'd re-share our conversation with Ira Madison III on Buffy's Season 3, Episode 20: "The Prom"! We recorded this just a few days before throwing our first ever Buffy Prom back in 2018 <3

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To mark the 25th Anniversary of Buffy's Season 3, Episode 19: "Enemies," we are rebroadcasting our Buffering episode from back in 2018 — with special, beloved guest (and velvet choker owner), Hrishikesh Hirway. In re-listening to this episode we also learned that our conversation on "Enemies" also marks the very first time that Jenny told us the now-infamous tale of The Woman Who Had Two Pennies.

Please enjoy, and take this opportunity to kiss your best gal pal on the forehead.

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