Buffy Boys

Deep social awkwardness is in the air as Xander engages in lightly fatal rope-play with a passing demon and Robin reveals his tragic backstory in the most Freudian way possible. The Buffy Boys have had enough of smother - MOTHER - in S07E14 "First Dates".

Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:

• The Ashanti Paradox - using the empty set to unpack the swirling themes of Season 7
• Motherhood and the Slayer and Robin's emotional inheritance
• The Measure of a Man: shifting definitions of redemption through the eyes of Spike and Andrew
• "Confidentially, a lot of her people are murderers"

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Yours in Slaying,

The Buffy Boys

In an Unexpected Lesbian Sidequest, Willow suffers some grief-lust induced Warrenification and the Gang (plus Andrew) drive hours out of town just to touch Giles. The Buffy Boys show some Initiative in S07E13 "The Killer in Me".

Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:

• Hit Remix on that Lore - Amy Madison, Riley Finn, and Warren Mears, an unlikely narrative blend
• The inviolable dad in the desert: Giles and the threat from within
• A Chip with Intent: concluding Spike's defanged arc
• "Now wait a minute, you think I'm evil if I bring a group of girls on a camping trip and don't touch them?"

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Yours in Slaying,

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The Potentials get some field training from General Buffy and her trusty hound Spike. Like all gifted teens, Dawn learns a harsh lesson about being pretty normal after all. The Buffy Boys celebrate mundanity in S07E12 "Potential".

Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:

• Transmuting Teen Self-Discovery: Dawn's burgeoning identity in the kiln of Slayer-adjacent angst
• Reinscribing before the Fall - Buffy's imitation of a Watcher as a step to a new paradigm
• The Demon/Gay intersectional nightlife axis - are the Potentials giving hen party vibes?
• "They're demons! It's a demon bar. It's like a gay bar, only with demons"

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Yours in Slaying,

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The Summers all-inclusive Potential and Scooby summer camp is open for business. Buffy unspools a razor-sharp plan as Evil lurks among us, y'all. The Buffy Boys play with those little coin operated bus station TVs in S07E11 "Showtime".

Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:

• Extradimensional Exegesis: Baljoxa's Expositionary Eye
• Potential Tokenism and identifying the Chosen by their One personality trait
• Military-grade Slayer: Welcome to Operation Hellmouth, maggots
• "If we all do our parts, believe it, we'll be the ones left standing. Here endeth the lesson"

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Yours in Slaying,

The Buffy Boys

Giles returns to Sunnydale with a new zeal for personal space and three Slayers-in-waiting in tow. Buffy faces down the anti-Slayer. Anya and Dawn prepare to scald Andrew. The Buffy Boys get drafted in S07E10 "Bring on the Night".

Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:

• Cavalcade of Calamities - the pile-on of Season 7 character, conflict and strife
• Slayer Seccession: divesting heirarchial power from the established lines of play
• The Case for Kennedy - reexamining the trope of the sapphic interloper 20 years on
• "Sorry to barge in. I'm afraid we have a slight ... apocalypse"

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Yours in Slaying,

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Andrew and Spike make a classic "interrogated in adjoining rooms" odd couple as the OG übervamp rises and the Watchers Council suffers a minor setback. The Buffy Boys bury the dweeb in S07E09 "Never Leave Me".

Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:

• Deconstructing the Patriarchy - With Explosives!
• Synthesis of Superimposition and the layering portrayals of the reflective First
• Robin Wood's Unfixed Aegis: the cryptic principal mystery
• "He's primed. I'll be pumping him in no time"

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Yours in Slaying,

The Buffy Boys

Spike's freshly minted soul hangs in jeopardy as newbie sired vampires crop up with his dental fingerprints all over them. But is it regular evil or you know, Evil? The Buffy Boys party in the basement for S07E08 "Sleeper".

Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:

• The Monstrous Man Inside Me: Duality of Spikes
• Check out this Fit...of Pique! Recontextualising the domestic vampire
• I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up Because I'm the Undead - elder care attitudes in the supernatural community
• "Actually, Billy Idol stole his look from...never mind"

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Yours in Slaying,

The Buffy Boys

Hell is empty and the dead walk the Earth - and they won't shut up about it! The First bears down on the gang with fighting words and the Buffy Boys break the Seal in S07E07 "Conversations with Dead People".

Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:

• Eschewing wordy promo blurbs because of the limitations of long episode titles on character counts - A Life in 280 Charac-
• The Immaterial Coil: Codifying a formless Big Bad
• Marshmallow Manifestations - Slasher callbacks with D. Summers
• Spotting an Undead Phony in the Mirror - the Holden Ruminations
• "Well,I still care about them. That's why I'm here"

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Yours in Slaying,

The Buffy Boys

The Scoobie ladies are bewitched and bewildered by Sunnydale High's star quarterback('s jacket) - and now they'll spare no embarassment or military ordnance to get him. The Buffy Boys caterwheel into a very serious episode with S07E06 "Him".

Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:

• The Paranatural Penis Problem - and whether Willow can work around it
• Final Girl by way of a staircase and a good shove
• Buffy's Hands-on Counselling Modality
• "You're older and hotter and have sex that's rough and kill people. I don't have any of that stuff"

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Yours in Slaying,

The Buffy Boys

Anya's demon exploits lose their laugh track when a dozen frat boys get the heart-ripping-spider-demon treatment. She's set for a showdown with Buffy where only one outcome is certain - everyone's hair looks great. The Buffy Boys feel a bit Aud in S07E05 "Selfless".

Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:

• Buffy as supernatural Judge, Judy, And Executioner - justice under the Slayer code
• Swedish Synecdoche: Anyanka's intrinsic outsider nature
• From Beneath You, It Makes You Cry: The unfinished tale of Anya Jenkins, real American
• "All this talk of breeding... it makes me want to breed!"

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Our theme song is an acoustic cover of the Title Theme to Buffy The Vampire Slayer by Alex Heflin (originally by Nerf Herder).

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Yours in Slaying,

The Buffy Boys