Still Buffering

By Sydnee McElroy, Rileigh Smirl and Teylor Smirl

Comedy

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A cross-generational guide to the culture that made us, by Sydnee McElroy, Teylor Smirl, and Rileigh Smirl. New episodes every Thursday.

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Still Buffering: "Perfect M...

03.20.2023

It's here, we've found the worst dating show/reality show of all time: Perfect Match. It's absolutely jam packed full of our favorite Netflix stars(I guess?) and stacked to the brim with bad editing and Nick Lacheys. Come join us!

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03.20.2023 Still Buffering: "Perfect Match" (2023) It's here, we've found the worst dating show/reality show of all time: Perfect Match. It's absolutely jam packed full of our favorite Netflix stars(I guess?) and stacked to the brim with bad editing and Nick Lacheys. Come join us!
03.13.2023 Still Buffering: Me First and the Gimme Gimmes An all punk cover band that does covers of musical theatre songs?? How have we never talked about this before?? It's quite literally all of our most important musical interests combined into one cohesive art form.
03.03.2023 Still Buffering: "That Thing You Do!" (1996) It's truly astonishing that it's taken us 3 years of talking about media that made us to finally have Sydnee bring up That Thing You Do, but here we are at last. It's basically the Tom Hanks of films, if ...
02.27.2023 Still Buffering: Lizzy McAlpine Rilo's brought us some more hip new Gen Z tunes but the only thing we seem to be able to talk about is how the heck do we say McAlpine and have we all been saying McElroy wrong this whole ...
02.13.2023 Still Buffering: "Batman: The Animated Series" (1992) There have been many Batmans (Batmen, Batmi??) but to Teylor, there's one true Batman and one true Joker iteration that they love most, and it's this one, so let's talk about it!
02.06.2023 Still Buffering: King's Island Okay yes it's not technically media BUT it at one time was full of pop culture references that were important to all of us, and also blue ice cream, it's King's Island!
01.30.2023 Still Buffering: Miley Cyrus Well, it took us three whole tries to get this episode finished and out to you all, but it's worth it to get to talk about Miley and all her eras for an hour. And also to expose all the ...
01.22.2023 Still Buffering: The Ergs! It's always special when we can take a week to watch something or listen to something that was exceptionally meaningful to one of our siblings, and that was definitely what we got to do this week, so come join in ...
01.17.2023 Still Buffering: "The Sandlot" (1993) Sydnee had an interesting choice of movie for her first ever date (and our dad was there too) so of course we all had to take a look back at it together. Like all 90s movies it has some...interesting takes, ...
01.08.2023 Still Buffering: "Wednesday" (2022) This show blew up and broke the internet for a couple of weeks, so of course we had to revisit the world's favorite ooky and spooky family and take a week to talk all about Wednesday!
01.01.2023 Still Buffering: "Gremlins" (1984) To round out the year of 2022 and the holiday season, it's time for that classic holiday (?) film featuring all the holiday (?) goo you could ask for, it's Gremlins!
12.17.2022 Still Buffering: "Home Alone" (1990) It's time to dive into another holiday classic that somehow we have never talked about before: Home Alone! Also, since the holidays are the time of year to share your most controversial opinions with family, we all decided that meant ...
12.01.2022 Still Buffering: "Falling for Christmas" (2022) It's the most wonderful time of the year once again: the one where our screens and streaming services are jam-packed with holiday movies full of the cliches we know and love so well. Without a Vanessa Hudgens holiday movie with ...
11.28.2022 Still Buffering: The Menzingers How did Sydnee and Rileigh not know that their middle sibling was friends with a super cool and famous band and hosted shows for them in their living room back in the day?? They don't know how they missed this ...
11.20.2022 Still Buffering: "The Wedding Singer" (1998) Apparently Rileigh was only aware of silly goofy movie dad Adam Sandler, while our older Smirl siblings were fully aware of young, romantic lead, SNL Adam Sandler, so of course they had to expose Rileigh to him walking down an ...
11.07.2022 Still Buffering: Taylor Swift - "Midnights" Once again, it's that magical time of year where our littlest sibling gets to force her big sibs to listen to an entire Taylor Swift album and then listen to her talk about it for 45 minutes. And of course ...
10.31.2022 Still Buffering: "May" (2002) Rounding out our month of spook is a horror cult classic brought to us by our resident spooky movie sibling expert: Teylor! Tey's sisters had never heard of this one before, so it was up to them to introduce them ...
10.24.2022 Still Buffering: "I Know What You Did Last Summer" (1997) It's still spooky season, so we're still deep in the spooky movie genre! This week, we're sticking with Sarah Michelle Gellar and looking back at that classic teen slasher complete with hooks and haircuts and Janny Jaleckies!
10.16.2022 Still Buffering: "Do Revenge" (2022) While not technically a spooky movie, Do Revenge is Rileigh's newest obsession, and it's the classic teen girl, rom-com, mashup of the century. Also, teenagers are scary enough, so I think that counts as a spooky season movie.
10.09.2022 Still Buffering: "Battle Royale" (2000) It's spooky season! In celebration of this wonderful time of year, we at Still Buffering always take a couple weeks to celebrate the spooky and scary media that make this season even better. To start, we're looking back at the ...
10.04.2022 Still Buffering: "Sister Act 2" (1993) We know our oldest Smirl sibling has a thing for sequels, but this time Sydnee is having us jump right into number 2 in the Sister Act series. From the fashion trends to the relatability for every show choir/theatre kid, ...
09.27.2022 Still Buffering: "Dated and Related" (2022) If you know us, you know how much we love messy reality shows on Netflix, and especially when they include dating or sibling teamwork. So, when we saw Netflix had made a show that FINALLY combines both, well, we had ...
09.19.2022 Still Buffering: "Airheads" (1994) It seems like culturally we're all once again looking at Brendan Frasier, so why not take it back to one of his older movies that maybe didn't get all the same hype as the Mummy: Airheads! Also, Steve Buscemi is ...
09.13.2022 Still Buffering: Carole King Since we decided last week it's basically already fall, it's time to set the cozy mood with some music, and who better to help out than Carole King? Although, we did discover this week Sydnee has some weird personal affiliations ...
09.02.2022 Still Buffering: "Scream" (2022) We've talked about Scream before, but one of our favorite horror franchises just keeps coming back for more, so obviously we had to talk about the newest one! Featuring radicalized Gen Z horror fanatics, old favorite characters, and a weird ...
08.29.2022 Still Buffering: "Broad City" (2014) It's time to go deep into the world of female friendship, living in New York City, and (once again) how unrealistic those apartments in Friends were, because we're talking all about Broad City!
08.23.2022 Still Buffering: "A League of Their Own" (1992) It's the sports movie that makes everyone (well, really mostly Sydnee, if we're being honest) cry every single time without fail, and just in time, because it's getting the reboot treatment this year, as well! It's A League of Their ...
08.16.2022 Still Buffering: "Not Okay" (2022) It's the newest streaming hit that is spilling all the tea on how Gen Z actually is using social media, what influencer parties are like, and why guinea pigs sometimes cause social media mayhem, and we're all obsessed with it, ...
08.11.2022 Still Buffering: Elliot Smith We love talking about music and all our favorite artists on our show, and sometimes it's because their work means a whole lot more to us than we even realize, and that's true for Tey this week as we dive ...
08.01.2022 Still Buffering: Wayne's World (1992) Oh, this episode? It's Wayne's World. Wayne's World. It's party time, while also being excellent. Get ready for an extreme close-up on this classic!
07.22.2022 Phoebe Bridgers This week we're discussing singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers and the impact her music has had on Rileigh.
07.17.2022 Don Hertzfeldt This week we're exploring the work of Don Hertzfeldt, a wildly influential animator and two-time Oscar nominee.
07.05.2022 Still Buffering: "Death Becomes Her" (1992) It's time for another one of those somewhat spooky, kinda gross, pretty funny, and surprisingly meaningful movies from the 90s that all the Smirl siblings were introduced to at maybe too young of an age, it's Death Becomes Her!
06.27.2022 Still Buffering: "Whodunnit?" (2013) It was a weird reality/fiction/murder mystery/game show that only aired for one season on ABC when Rileigh was 12, but that doesn't mean she wasn't (and frankly still is) obsessed with it; it's Whodunnit! There's just...a LOT to unpack here, ...
06.20.2022 Still Buffering: Ani DiFranco It's still Pride Month, but this time it's Pride: Secret Contraband Music Edition instead of Pride: Pirate Edition! So, of course, we're listening to the quintessential secret message music of Teylor's youth: Ani DiFranco.
06.15.2022 Still Buffering: "Our Flag Means Death" Happy Pride Month! To celebrate this joyous time of year, we're diving into the pirate-filled adventure that is Our Flag Means Death, because it's gay pirates! How could we not?
06.06.2022 Still Buffering: "Harry's House" Well, if Rileigh doesn't have a new Taylor Swift album to make her siblings listen to, she's gonna find the next closest thing, which is of course, a new Harry Styles album! From sad jams to no thoughts just vibes ...
05.30.2022 Still Buffering: "Chip and Dale: Rescue Rangers" (2022) It's yet another super influential media moment from the younger years of the older Smirl siblings that's been rebooted for the modern age: it's Chip and Dale! Sydnee and Teylor both had STRONG feelings about this one back in the ...
05.23.2022 Still Buffering: "Goldeneye 007" It was the multiplayer video game experience that defined the younger years of the older Smirl siblings, complete with such classic bits as DK mode and slappers only: it's Goldeneye! (Those GRAPHICS though...) CW: This video game is a first ...
05.16.2022 Still Buffering: "One Day" (2011) Rileigh felt a need to introduce her siblings to a movie she watched incessantly with friends in high school, neglecting to remember just how ridiculously sad it is, so she's sorry about that. Also, discussion on weird British party games ...
05.09.2022 Still Buffering: "The Last Unicorn" (1982) We've done it, we've found and discovered and dissected the meaning of the 80s cartoon movie: "The Last Unicorn." It's not all rainbows and unicorns, but it IS full of mystical scenes and musical numbers.
05.02.2022 Still Buffering: "Mermaids" (1990) Even though Sydnee brought this one to the table, it's a movie that the Smirl siblings have long associated with their mom, and there are a lot of reasons why. So, to celebrate only one week until Mother's Day AND ...
04.24.2022 Still Buffering: "Into the Woods" It's that time of year for summer theatre again for Rileigh, so why not take some time to talk about this year's musical? We're going into the woods and out of the woods and all over the woods for a ...
04.18.2022 Still Buffering: Against Me! - "Transgender Dysphoria Blues" Teylor is always introducing their sisters to cool, meaningful, and just overall really good stuff from their life, and this week is certainly no different. This album was new to Sydnee and Rileigh, while packing a whole lot of meaning ...
04.11.2022 Still Buffering: "Dogma" (1999) It's honestly remarkable that we haven't talked about Kevin Smith movies yet, so we had to start with Sydnee's all-time favorite out of them all. Plus, little kid fight club.
04.04.2022 Still Buffering: Katy Perry She was making some of the world's most popular pop music of the early 2010s, when Rileigh was probably too young to be listening to some of it, but that didn't stop her from becoming one of her biggest fans; ...
03.27.2022 Still Buffering: "Perfect Blue" (1997) As usual, Teylor has introduced their siblings to a really great anime they had never heard of before, and this time it's a spoooky one! Well, more so unsettling and thrilling than spook, but great nonetheless.
03.21.2022 Still Buffering: "No Doubt" Rileigh legitimately had no clue that Gwen Stefani was in a band before she went solo...like really no idea. So obviously her siblings had to rectify this massive gap in her late 90s and early 2000s education.
03.14.2022 Still Buffering: "(500) Days of Summer" (2009) We all know that Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon Levitt are eternally quirky-cute and boyish-cute, respectively, so we simply must take a look back at one of Rileigh's first favorite non-love story love stories. Because who DOESN'T love The Smiths ...
03.07.2022 Still Buffering: "Jack*ss" Well, we did it, we FINALLY said a bad word on this show. Actually a lot of times, because we're talking about Jackass! It's time to dive in and answer all the important questions, like would you rather have to ...

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Still Buffering: "Perfect Match" (2023)

Still Buffering: Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

Still Buffering: "That Thing You Do!" (1996)

Still Buffering: Lizzy McAlpine

Still Buffering: "Batman: The Animated Series" (1992)

Still Buffering: King's Island

Still Buffering: Miley Cyrus

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Still Buffering: "The Sandlot" (1993)

Still Buffering: "Wednesday" (2022)

Still Buffering: "Gremlins" (1984)

Still Buffering: "Home Alone" (1990)

Still Buffering: "Falling for Christmas" (2022)

Still Buffering: The Menzingers

Still Buffering: "The Wedding Singer" (1998)

Still Buffering: Taylor Swift - "Midnights"

Still Buffering: "May" (2002)

Still Buffering: "I Know What You Did Last Summer" (1997)

Still Buffering: "Do Revenge" (2022)

Still Buffering: "Battle Royale" (2000)

Still Buffering: "Sister Act 2" (1993)

Still Buffering: "Dated and Related" (2022)

Still Buffering: "Airheads" (1994)

Still Buffering: Carole King

Still Buffering: "Scream" (2022)

Still Buffering: "Broad City" (2014)

Still Buffering: "A League of Their Own" (1992)

Still Buffering: "Not Okay" (2022)

Still Buffering: Elliot Smith

Still Buffering: Wayne's World (1992)

Phoebe Bridgers

Don Hertzfeldt

Still Buffering: "Death Becomes Her" (1992)

Still Buffering: "Whodunnit?" (2013)

Still Buffering: Ani DiFranco

Still Buffering: "Our Flag Means Death"

Still Buffering: "Harry's House"

Still Buffering: "Chip and Dale: Rescue Rangers" (2022)

Still Buffering: "Goldeneye 007"

Still Buffering: "One Day" (2011)

Still Buffering: "The Last Unicorn" (1982)

Still Buffering: "Mermaids" (1990)

Still Buffering: "Into the Woods"

Still Buffering: Against Me! - "Transgender Dysphoria Blues"

Still Buffering: "Dogma" (1999)

Still Buffering: Katy Perry

Still Buffering: "Perfect Blue" (1997)

Still Buffering: "No Doubt"

Still Buffering: "(500) Days of Summer" (2009)

Still Buffering: "Jack*ss"

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