We are back with another Watcher’s Diary to find out what Dawn was doing in “Surprise,” meet a hamster named Grimace, learn more about ass jerky, and talk about Hooking Up vs hooking up (neither of which are any of Jenny’s business). IN EPISODE LINKS wilhelm eagle vs red tailed hawk belles and chimes inkblot podcast OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS HEEEEERE! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs ; jennyo...
Jan 21, 2026•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 214
Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers , where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer , one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! Get in losers, we’re going to Sephora because HE’S! HERE! Angelus is BACK, not a soul to be seen! We revisit the origin of Hellmath this week with the equation as old as time: True Love + Orgasm = -1 Soul What a time to be (un)alive. Our original coverage of "Innocence" — with ...
Jan 14, 2026•2 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 214
Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers , where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer , one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! Somehow the biggest surprise on the pod today has nothing to do with Buffy turning 17 and everything to do with Grimace — the beloved (party throwing?) (Gemini?!?!) purple BEST FRIEND of Ronald McDonald. In Sunnydale, Jenny is revealed as Janna, Cordelia is revealed from behind...
Jan 13, 2026•1 hr 47 min•Season 2Ep. 213
We’ve got egg babies, Xena and Callisto feelings, Dawn making little baskets, f*ck marry kill: cylon edition, plus some wisdom from Kristin’s therapist. TWAS THE SEASON. Fallout Coverage can be found in the Beyond Buffering feed! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS HEEEEERE! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs ; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline ; kristinnoeline.com...
Jan 07, 2026•59 min•Season 2Ep. 212
Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers , where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer , one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! The eggs are here and they are NOT GOOD, folks! In addition to Kristin's horror at the skittering offspring in Buffy's bedroom and Jenny's horror at Kristin's request to be called "Mama Bezoar," we also chat about sex & responsibility, the arrival of the Gorch Brothers (!),...
Dec 10, 2025•1 hr 30 min•Season 2Ep. 212
A veritable kitchen sink of topics in today's Watcher's Diary — including but not limited to: microscopes and MDMA, Dawn's whereabouts in both What's My Line Part 2 & Ted, Kristin's rage at a particular airline, Alderic's trip to the movies, smashing demon lizards for Christmas, and Jenny's new choir directing gig... How I Met Your Mother finale spoilers: 16:00 -17:50 OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS HEEEEERE! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenn...
Dec 03, 2025•46 min•Season 2Ep. 211
Our beloved Alba Daza is with us to chat about her Season 2 pick, "Ted"! We revel in Buffy slamming Ted in the face (WITH HIS OWN WEAPON!), we gasp at a reveal regarding Joyce's dress (it was her only dress?!), we try not to talk too much about robot sex (whoops), and so much more! Alba Forever <3 LEARN MORE ABOUT ALBA DAZA ! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS HEEEEERE! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs ; jennyowe...
Dec 02, 2025•23 min•Season 2Ep. 211
Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers , where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer , one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! LIVE from Burlington, VT's Higher Ground , today we are talking about the John Ritter of it all in S2E11 of Buffy : "Ted"! Apart from robot boyfriends, patriarchy jingles, and Angel's widdle hand bandage, we also chat about what kind of pizza toppings Angel and Spike might choo...
Nov 29, 2025•1 hr 27 min•Season 2Ep. 211
We've got Freudian Slayers, a healthy RANT on the use of AI, more Xena (of course), and Kristin's introduction to Marcus and Robert. Plus, Dawn is loaning Mr. Gordo to Angel in our What Was Doing installment, thoughts on tarot, and why hate-listening to our podcast might just make you gay... OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS HEEEEERE! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs ; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin...
Nov 26, 2025•40 min•Season 2Ep. 210
Our very first LIVE Watcher's Diary, where we catch up on What Dawn Was Doing in "The Dark Age," find out some absolutely wild facts about the way priests are buried, get reality TV updates from Jenny (and our listeners), have our brains melted in finding out the tune that Buffy was aerobicizing to in the library, and delight in the pet sound for Esme the Cat! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS HEEEEERE! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs ...
Nov 24, 2025•52 min•Season 2Ep. 210
Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers , where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer , one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! LIVE from Philadelphia, we are here — and joined by special guest Ian Carlos Crawford of SLAYERFEST '98! — to discuss What's My Line Part 2! There are vampire throuples, there are monkeys with pants, Angel's shirt comes unbuttoned a minimum of two times, Jenny cannot stop talki...
Nov 12, 2025•1 hr 28 min•Season 2Ep. 210
Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers , where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer , one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! Angel loves to lurk, Buffy is ice skating, a girl with a gorgeous and seemingly singular shirt has just arrived at the Sunnydale airport (!!!), and the only thing we hate more than a man who wants to kill Buffy is a man MADE OF WORMS who wants to kill Buffy?! Live from Brooklyn...
Oct 27, 2025•1 hr 20 min•Season 2Ep. 209
Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers , where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer , one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! Ripper and Rayne REUNITE!! The past is coming back to haunt Giles in the form of Eyghon! Diedre boarded a plane as a corpse?! Jenny Calendar wants to make Giles squirm! NO ONE CAN EVER HAVE ANYTHING NICE!! Plus, Buffy learns that even adults were kids once. It's S2E8 "The Dark ...
Oct 15, 2025•1 hr 29 min•Season 2Ep. 208
Alan Cumming’s incredible outfits, wooden boxes that are 5x5(x5), Spike’s unwavering honesty, another gutting reveal on what Dawn was doing, and a theory on LARPing LARPers — here is our Watcher’s Diary for “Lie to Me”! IN EPISODE LINKS Bo Built - Five x Five Studio Bluey, Background Jazz, and the 'Best' Metal Guitar Solo Giles, Ethan, & Rihanna Alan Cummings Outfits NOBODY MESSES WITH OUR BOYFRIEND TOUR!! bufferingcast.com/live OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS HEEEEERE! buffering...
Oct 01, 2025•52 min•Season 2Ep. 207
Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers , where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer , one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! Lying liars are lying their lies all over Sunnydale this week, and most of them are doing it while lit from below with a full face of makeup! Buffy’s best LA pal Ford (have you heard of him? because we sure haven’t!) has come to town to die young in an attempt to stay pretty, D...
Sep 24, 2025•1 hr 42 min•Season 2Ep. 207
Jenny's battle to have us pod about Xena continues and we also get into the very rich topics of: sitting on bathroom floors, the Buffy reboot pilot, Nancy Botwin selling weed, the myth of sterile urine, and what Dawn was doing for Halloween... IN EPISODE LINKS Shoes Is Urine Sterile? NOBODY MESSES WITH OUR BOYFRIEND TOUR!! bufferingcast.com/live OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS HEEEEERE! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoung...
Sep 17, 2025•53 min•Season 2Ep. 206
Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers , where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer , one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! Ethan has come to Sunnydale to get scolded by his card-cataloging boyfriend, Oz is wondering who that girl is, Cordelia is a great big cat, Buffy doesn’t know what a Slayer is (my stars!), Jenny is thinking about applying for Survivor, and Kristin has officially proven that our...
Sep 10, 2025•1 hr 45 min•Season 2Ep. 206
Today we are thinking about shadow selves, Xena Warrior Princess, Dawn's love of the Backstreet Boys, and Cordelia's dad's tax evasion. Plus, Jenny made new friends?! It's our Watcher's Diary for "Reptile Boy"! IN EPISODE LINKS Passion of the Nerd The Insect Reflection NOBODY MESSES WITH OUR BOYFRIEND TOUR!! bufferingcast.com/live OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS HEEEEERE! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs ; jennyowe...
Aug 27, 2025•45 min•Season 2Ep. 205
The wonderful, brilliant Lani Diane Rich is with us today in defense of Buffy 's "Reptile Boy"!! We go deep into what makes a good episode of Buffy (can you hear us, new Buffy writers room?!), consider various snakes-as-penis-demons throughout the show, and discuss what may be at the core of the series — a little sentiment called "to the pain"!!! LEARN MORE ABOUT LANI DIANE RICH The Year of Writing Magically Still Pretty + Still Dead IN EPISODE LINKS Passion of the Nerd OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR B...
Aug 20, 2025•44 min•Season 2Ep. 205
Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers , where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer , one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! It's so nice to look back to the 90s and be reminded of what the patriarchy was like now that we live in a world so free of its presence! We've got a snake (who's not the mayor), silk AND chiffon (in this economy?!), Willow *dragging* Angel and Giles (YOU LOVE TO SEE IT), and g...
Aug 13, 2025•1 hr 48 min•Season 2Ep. 205
So many *incredible* Inca Mummy Girl emails, plus Jenny gives us a stunning rundown of everything important that has ever happened on Love Island?! Plus, stratovolcanoes, what Dawn was doing in Inca Mummy Girl, and our very first recording for Pet Sounds, "Toe Bean." IN EPISODE LINKS cindi altrive's keynote giles' house in miniature OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS HEEEEERE! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs ; jennyoweny...
Jul 23, 2025•56 min•Season 2Ep. 204
When Sunnydale has a cultural exchange dance and brings an Incan Mummy to town, you know we are going to have a lot to unpack. Here is our full conversation with the one and only Alba Daza where we discuss the concept of “cultural exchange,” dig more into the history of the Incan people, bring some much-needed correction to the terminology and the dress of Inuit people, and so much more. Learn more about Alba Daza!! IN EPISODE LINKS North of North OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS HEEEEERE! ...
Jul 02, 2025•42 min•Season 2Ep. 204
Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers , where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer , one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! Everyone’s favorite episode of Buffy is upon us, where cultures are exchanged in respectful ways and indigenous folks are humanized! Just KIDDING, but wouldn’t that be so great?! Today, in addition to 90s-flavored racism, we do at least have the introduction of Devon (!), Jonat...
Jul 02, 2025•1 hr 52 min•Season 2Ep. 204
We are back with another Watcher’s Diary and chatting about leaf miners, shoulder cartilage, Memphis gay bars, and a cat who goes by the nickname "Toe Bean." We also cover what Dawn was doing during the events of “School Hard,” and discuss some choice moments of revivification in Outlander … IN EPISODE LINKS fuck me, ray bradbury OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS HEEEEERE! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs ; jennyowenyoungs....
Jun 18, 2025•40 min•Season 2Ep. 203
Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers , where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer , one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! No one stands a chance against his cheekbones and today's special guest Joanna Robinson would save him all her mini marshmallows — because mmm ba ba ba ba SPIKE LOOKS GOOD! It's Season 2, Episode 3 "School Hard," and we want to know, was Drusilla in the trunk of that car with a...
Jun 04, 2025•1 hr 54 min•Season 2Ep. 203
We are back with another Watcher's Diary, and we have Jenny opining the best place to perform in the "new Sunnydale," Kristin on defending yourself from vampires with a sharpie, listener thoughts on rotator cuffs, hunting vs patrolling, singing to your cats, and more — and, of course, our What Dawn Was Doing segment for "Some Assembly Required"! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS HEEEEERE! bufferingcast.com/book JOIN US IN LA & BOSTON FOR UPCOMING LIVE EVENTS: bufferingcast.com/slayers...
May 28, 2025•35 min•Season 2Ep. 202
Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers , where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer , one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! Xander is jealous of Angel! Angel is jealous of Xander! Giles is slightly closer to learning where Jenny Calendar dangles it! And teen boys are dismembering dead girls to build a Frank— er, FRANCINE-enstein!! Classic. Also, tomato is a fruit but we still want to hear your scien...
May 21, 2025•1 hr 41 min•Season 2Ep. 202
We're BACK with our first Watcher's Diary of Season 2!! We've got information on bones and wrestling and barbecues and knowing your chickens — plus some discussion on Buffy reboot rumors AND excitement about the return of Fallout . And of course, we find out what Dawn was doing during "When She Was Bad"... OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS HERE-ORDER NOW! bufferingcast.com/book LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs ; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo ...
May 14, 2025•35 min•Season 2Ep. 201
Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers , where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer , one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers! Jenny and Kristin are back after a summer spent shopping in Los Angeles! Who will they smugly dance with at The Bronze? Who will look on sulkily (and undoubtedly also silkily) from the shadows, near the hanging egg chair, while Cibo Matto performs their sultriest song?! Tune in...
May 07, 2025•1 hr 46 min•Season 2Ep. 201
Producer, Special Agent, and Very Special Guest LaToya Ferguson joins us for our Watcher's Diary this week!! We discuss all of her thoughts on Season 1 (it is GOOD, actually ...and Marcie was in love with CORDELIA, actually), we finally uncover What Dawn Was Doing while the events of "Prophecy Girl" unfolded, and we learn that LaToya's favorite episode of the entire series falls in Season 2! We also spend copious amounts of time trying to decode how to match up Buffy characters with Friends char...
May 05, 2025•48 min•Season 2Ep. 113
