If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me

Welcome to Late Night Stormtrooper Pal, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week, we keep it intense with the "Forever."

In this episode, it breaks down like this:

Plot and Firsts (2:30)

Monkey's Paw (10:00)

Initial Thoughts (17:00)

Scene-by-Scene: Casket & Meeting (24:00)

Scene-by-Scene: Spike (30:00)

Scene-by-Scene: Funeral (32:00)

Scene-by-Scene: Xander & Anya (34:00)

Scene-by-Scene: Willow and Magic (36:00)

Scene-by-Scene: Doc (47:00)

Scene-by-Scene: Buffy/Angel & Short Angel Update (50:00)

Scene-by-Scene: Ben (53:30)

Scene-by-Scene: Spike & Dawn (55:30)

Scene-by-Scene: Finale (1:00:00)

Yelling (1:04:00)

Watches (1:14:00)

Rankings (1:20:00)

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

/ Next episode: I wanna hurt you, but I can't resist the sinister attraction of your cold and muscular body!

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Welcome to Draconian Katra, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we try to keep ourselves together as we discuss the masterful sixteenth episode of Season 5: "The Body."

In this episode, we meander through:

Plot and Firsts (2:00)

Initial Thoughts and our first time watching this (12:00)

Our first attempt through "The Body" — takeaways and negative space(22:00)

A more structured breakdown of our friends in this episode (33:00)

TV deaths that are memorable but not as much as this (41:30)

We closed with the usual yelling (54:00), a short watch (1:03:00) and the ranking of "The Body" in the Buffy canon (1:04:00).

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

/ Next episode: Who's going to take care of us?

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Welcome to The Seed of Wonder, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week, the one before the one, "I Was Made to Love You."

In this episode, after our plot and firsts (1:30) and initial thoughts (6:00), we dive in scene-by-scene:

Training room (10:00)

Joyce/Dawn/Buffy scene (19:00)

Transition scene with Anya and Tara (23:00)

The party scene (24:30)

Babysitting scene (34:45)

Back to the Magic Box (36:25)

Warren (41:00)

Spike in the Magic Box (47:30)

Buffy vs. April scene (58:30)

Xander and Buffy (1:04:45)

Final Scene (1:09:00)

We conclude with yelling (1:11:30), watches (1:20:00) and ranking this episode of television (1:22:00).

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

/ Next episode: We'll go, we'll deal, we'll help. That's what we do. We help Buffy

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Welcome to The Seal of Danzalthar, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week, we reunite with the OG Black Beauty, Drusilla, in "Crush."

In this episode, we talk:

Joss Whedon revelations (2:00)

Plot and Firsts (9:30)

Angel Update (14:30)

Hunchback of Notre Dame (20:00)

Episode — including creepy Spike, a soul versus a chip and ask how Spike hadn't been disinvited earlier (37:00)

We close, as always, with yelling (1:00:00), watches (1:20:00) and ranking the episode (1:24:00)

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

/ Next episode: I'm not that bendy. I could lean...

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Welcome to I'm Eating This Banana, Lunch Time Be Damned, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we finally get to the bottom of all this Key talk with "Blood Ties."

In this episode, we talk:

Plot and Firsts (2:00)

Initial Thoughts (10:00)

Dawn and adoption (13:30)

Different approaches to Dawn (22:00)

Knights(27:00)

Clearing up misconceptions of the Monks and Ben/Glory timeline – including the origins of the Order, is Ben the latest in Glory's string of Ben's?, is Ben immortal?, and the logistics of Ben is Glory, Glory is Ben (40:00)

We closed with yelling (55:00), watches (1:11:30) and rank the episode (1:15:00)

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

/ Next episode: This is the face of my salvation. She delivered me from mediocrity

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Welcome to Ms. Barton's Performance Review, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we have a very special episode! Because Kelly and Stacia's audio died tragically, Daniel narrates "Checkpoint" as a stop gap.

In this episode, we (Daniel as all characters) talk:

Plot and Firsts (2:00)

Unstructured episode talk — quick cuts, the theme of power, shadowy organizations and if the Council is one (5:00)

Rasputin — well, Daniel's reaction to Stacia's now gone deep dive (17:00)

Daniel yelling with himself (19:00)

Watches (33:30)

Rankings (36:30)

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

/ Next episode: I'm not lurking. I'm standing about. It's a whole different vibe.

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Welcome to Unidentified Telepath Demons, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week, we hang with Olaf and get to know Anya better in "Triangle."

In this episode, we discuss:

Initial Thoughts (12:00)

Trolls (16:00)

Willow vs. Anya - over love of Xander (32:30)

Yelling (45:00)

Watches (1:07:45)

Rankings (1:12:00)

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

/ Next episode: She's a God

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Welcome to 5 by 5, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week close out the long Season 4 with "Into the Woods."

[This is our first remote episode of a small suite of episodes – to S5E13, "Blood Ties" – that'll feature overdubs or complete recreations. Please, do not be alarmed!]

In this episode, we talk:

Context (2:00)

Initial Thoughts (6:00)

Buffy and Riley breakup and the ending (9:30)

Xander ruins the day and Buffy’s idea of love (16:30)

Spike and Stalkers (26:00)

Forever Love (38:00)

Yelling (42:00)

Watches (58:30)

Rankings (1:00:00)

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

/ Next episode: Whatcha doing? Playing soccer.

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Welcome to Espresso Pump, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week we listen to fear with "Listening to Fear."

In this episode, we talk

Plot and Firsts (2:00)

Tunguska event (6:40)

Initial Thoughts, like how this is a Season 2 episode with the emotional weight of 5 years of friendships (15:30)

Daniel's Monk Dunk is blocked (26:00)

Yelling (45:30)

Watches (1:06:30)

Rankings (1:08:30)

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

/ Next episode: You know, fine, take her side instead of mine even though I'm the one who sleeps with you, and feeds you, bathes you...

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Welcome to Besieged, Bedeviled, and Beheaded, also known as If the Apocalypse Comes, Beep Me! This week marks our first ever remote episode (which you can tell by Daniel's mic slowly becoming more robotic, but not unlistenable!) but hardly the first "Shadow" on our podcast record!

In this episode, we discuss:

Plot and Firsts (2:00)

Initial Thoughts (i.e. why we don’t like this episode) (4:00)

Character interactions – Spike and Riley (10:00)

Summers Ladies (13:00)

Riley & Vampires/Cheating (16:00)

Carousels (25:00)

Yelling (39:00)

Watches (59:00)

Ranking (1:02:30)

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

/ Next episode: I don't believe in tiny Jewish Santa anymore

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