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)

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/ Beep Me Hyphen Funtime Playlist for Podcast Fans, Season 6

/ Next episode: I'm going to marry Bob Dole and raise penguins in Guam.

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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)

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/ Beep Me Hyphen Funtime Playlist for Podcast Fans, Season 6

/ Next episode: I'm supportive! I'm totally supportive! I'm a flying buttress of support.

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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)

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/ Beep Me Hyphen Funtime Playlist for Podcast Fans, Season 6

/ Next episode: No, I'm sure you looked really glamorous cutting up your face

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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)

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/ Beep Me Hyphen Funtime Playlist for Podcast Fans, Season 6

/ Next episode: It's not a bug, it's Tara

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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!

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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)

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/ Beep Me Hyphen Funtime Playlist for Podcast Fans, Season 5

/ Next episode: We got trouble, right here in Hellmouth City.

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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)

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/ Beep Me Hyphen Funtime Playlist for Podcast Fans, Season 5

/ Next episode: She's a hero, you see. She's not like us.

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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)

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/ Beep Me Hyphen Funtime Playlist for Podcast Fans, Season 5

/ 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 bloody sitcom. Surely you remember.

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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)

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

/ @beepmepod on Linktree | Twitter | Instagram | Tumblr

/ Beep Me Hyphen Funtime Playlist for Podcast Fans, Season 5

/ Next episode: Aim for the horsies!

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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

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/ Beep Me Hyphen Funtime Playlist for Podcast Fans, Season 5

/ Next episode: You know, I'm really sorry that I didn't establish my lesbo street cred before I got into this relationship

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