Buffy Boys

The Buffy Bot comes to peppy life causing a string of events that appropriately end with Spike being thrashed to ribbons. Buffy goes on a vision quest, as you do. The Buffy Boys bundle up for the desert in S05E18 "Intervention".

Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:

• I'm seeing double - Four Buffys! Shadowselves in the midday sun, Buffy Bot and Other Buffy
• Relitigating quasi-sentient robotic sex slavery
• Adulthood, emotional chitin, and sororal substantiation
• "The Slayer forges strength through pain"

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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

What do you do the day after the worst day of your life? Buffy arranges Joyce's funeral while Dawn dabbles with the God of Death. The Buffy Boys are wearing black in S05E17 "Forever".

Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:

• The Great Lists of 2020
• The magical commercialisation of grief
• Triptych Buffy - mother, daughter, saint
• The last episode of the year - Happy Holidays folks!
• "I have to do these things, 'cause... 'Cause when I stop, then she's really gone"

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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

It's time. We considered leaving out the opening music for this one - The Buffy Boys watch S05E16 "The Body".

Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:

• Negative space and the ineffable absence of trauma
• A gay kiss at the boundary of life and death
• "Where did she go?"

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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

Buffy has her first encounter with World's Greatest Monster, Warren Mears and his indescribably creepy 'girlfriend robot' April. The gang have a merry old time beating up the patriarchy. Then a bad thing happens. The Buffy Boys steel themselves in S05E15 "I Was Made to Love You".

Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:

• The Queasy Familiar and the mundane evil of Warren's misogyny
• Group dynamics and the character of setting in Season 5
• Retroactive Dawn: the quasi-sister's memory of Ted and Ted-like things
• Next week, it's time
• "Maybe he's a gigolo? Was his shirt all shiny?"

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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

Drusilla arrives back in town on Ye Olde Sunnydale Rail to celebrate the Bronze's grand re-opening. Just kidding, it's actually all about Spike's creepy obsession with the Slayer. The Buffy Boys are lounging in chalked outlines in S05E14 "Crush".

Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:

• Misreading the Quasimodo: The skewed interpretation of Spike's toxic behaviour in the shipping wars
• What's Past is Premonition - the exit of Drusilla
• A drop of monstrosity and the shared otherness of Spike and Dawn
• "Go hit on Giles."

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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

Dawn finds out she's the Key. The Scoobs learn they're fighting a Hell god. It's Buffy's 20th birthday - time for trauma. The Buffy Boys are collecting shells from the existential beach in S05E13 "Blood Ties".

Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:

• Little Miss Drama - the reality altering implications of the Key
• Glory/ Ben: Siblings, Mirrors and distorted humanity
• Sisters, Spies, and Strategy in the Slayer's suburbia
• "Glory is evil. And powerful. And in no way prettier than me."

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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

The Watchers Council of Great Britain descends on the Magic Box with a power play - Buffy passes their tests and she gets crucial info on Glory. But who watches the Watchers? Heh. The Buffy Boys stock up on tweed in S05E12 "Checkpoint".

Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:

• Spike: A Thesis, and the parodying of academic Buffy Studies in-universe
• The performative co-dependence of Slayer as instrument/Council as master
• Plot armour - the compliant pacing of Glory's scheme
• "We're in love. W-we're lovers. We're lesbian, gay-type lovers."

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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).

Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/alexheflin

Yours in Slaying,

The Buffy Boys

Another classic caper from Willow/Anya as their bickering hits a bewitching boiling point and a threatening troll (Anya's hexxed ex) is released to rage through sleepy Sunnydale. The Buffy Boys bite down on that onion blossom in S05E11 "Triangle".

Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:

• Displaced despair - Buffy deals with heart break by breaking baddies
• Schrödinger's lesbian: Willow's sexuality and the trouble of over-identification with queer icons
• Manners maketh Humanity - Anya's selective civility and the demonic Overton window
• "You want credit for not feeding off bleeding disaster victims?"

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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

We say goodbye to Riley Finn. Buffy discovers his secret shame as a recreational blood donor and he reacts as we all would, re-joining the army and taking a midnight helicopter to Belize. The Buffy Boys take the escape hatch in S05E10 "Into The Woods".

Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:

• Normal Boyfriend - the quandary of a quiet Slayer home life
• Unpacking messy and misaligned parallels between vampirism and sex work
• Sympathetic resonance and the return of Xander's quarantine mop of hair
• "I'm sorry, Willow. Thank you for making time in your busy life to come in here and get in the way of mine."

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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

What to say about this one folks? There's a earwig demon that comes down from space in a meteor to menace Joyce. Riley hangs out in a "vampire drug den". Buffy cries at samba music. And the Buffy Boys slither on through in S05E09 "Listening to Fear".

Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:

• The Thing from Another Genre: Schlock sci-fi meets small town travails
• Ensemble, Assemble - the roving mid season point of view
• Paracasual sorority and the paradox of the remembered child
• "I'd rip it in half and stick it in bed with me."

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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