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Buffy back on Hulu, Hulu Plus that is

Jason — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:23:10 +0000

http://www.hulu.com/plus

All seven seasons of Buffy and all seasons of Angel along with you know, current TV shows and stuff for $9.99

Homecoming

Jason — Sat, 08 May 2010 04:41:17 +0000

Buffy and Cordelia compete for Homecoming Queen and are hunted in a competition of a different kind; Willow and Xander’s friendship takes a turn.

Directed by: David Greenwalt
Original Air Date: November 03, 1998
Guest Stars:
Harry Groener (Mayor Richard Wilkins III)
Fab Filippo (Scott Hope)

Trivia:

Sarah Michelle Gellar broke a bone in her hand while filming this episode.
Chad Stahelski plays the bone knife throwing deamon Kulak. Chad was also David Boreanaz’s stunt double in both Buffy and Angel.

Quotes:

Mr. Trick: “We all have the desire to win, whether we’re human… vampire… and whatever the hell you are, my brother. You got spiny looking head things. I ain’t never seen that before.”

Key Events:

The first time that the mayor appears
Xander and Willow kiss

Rating:

Jason: 3 out of 5 stars

Kathleen: 3 out of 5 stars

Troy: 2.5 out of 5 stars

Overall Score: 2.83 out of 5 stars

In Other News:

Nick Brendon Day!

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Nicholas Brendon appearance

Jason — Mon, 03 May 2010 19:29:52 +0000

The Watchercast crew was out in force at the Nicholas Brendon appearance for Free Comic day. In a crazy turn of events Jason ended up doing the official event photography. (If you were there, he was the one in the yellow shirt running all over taking photos.) This turn of fortune allowed us to be there for breakfast with Nicky and at Pack Rat comics for his whole signing event.

We’re going to have a special episode where we will recount our meeting of Nicholas, ‘Nicky’ as he asked to be called. In the meantime here are some of the photos of the event.

Nicky makes a friend

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Decals!

Jason — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:00:04 +0000

They are ready! You can now get your very own Watchercast vinyl decals! 7 colors to choose from for only $5.00 each, Check it out over in the new Goodies page.

Yay Buffy!

The Becoming Part 1 & 2

Jason — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:17:05 +0000

Part 1: Angel prepares a ritual to awaken a demon that will suck the world into hell; Buffy prepares to kill him, but is torn when Willow discovers the ritual that could restore Angel’s soul.

Part 2: Buffy’s life is a mess when her mother discovers her secret life, and she’s expelled from school and forced to make a heart-wrenching decision when both Angel’s and Willow’s rituals succeed.

Directed by: Joss Whedon
Original Air Date: May 12, 1998 / May 19, 1998
Guest Stars: Bianca Lawson (Kendra)
Max Perlich (Whistler)

Trivia:

Al Franken is mentioned in this set of episodes.
If angel had been 241 as he stated in previous episodes he would have been born in 1755 or 1756 yet he’s sired by Darla in 1753?
The Claddagh ring Angel gave Buffy shows up again in these episodes. Claddagh was a small fishing village near Galway, where Angel was sired.

Quotes:
Xander: “And almost sixty-five percent of that was actual compliment. Is that a personal best?”

Spike: “It’s a big rock. I can’t wait to tell my friends. They don’t have a rock this big “

Key Events:

Buffy reveals her slayerhood to her mother, Joyce
Angel gets his soul back just in time to be killed (in order to save the world) by Buffy
Buffy gets expelled from school
Kendra is killed by Dru and Buffy is implicated in her death
Willow completes her first MAJOR spell, the gypsy curse that gives Angel his soul back
Spike takes Dru and leaves town
Buffy and her Mother fight and Joyce tells Buffy ‘If you walk out that door don’t you even think of coming back.’ and… she doesn’t. Buffy leaves town.

Rating:

Jason: 5 out of 5 stars

Kathleen: 5 out of 5 stars

Troy: 5 out of 5 stars

Overall Score: 5 out of 5 stars

In Other News:

Thanks to those who watched us record this episode live!
The Watchercast laptop is fixed and we’re rolling again.

Watch both episodes here…

Part 1

Part 2

Thank You Apple

Jason — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:55:24 +0000

I did contact Apple Care and spoke with a few people and Apple FedExed me a box to send the MacBook Pro back to them, pre-paid all handled. They would run some tests and if the problem was in coverage of the known Nvidia issue they would fix it no charge. If it wasn’t they would let me know what the issue was and how much it would cost to fix it. Within 48 hours after I had FedEx pick up the box I got an email that my repair was complete. A day or so later the MacBook comes back to me with a new logic board and $0 cost for the fix!

From the Watchercast crew, Thank you Apple.

Now that we have it back we’re going to be recording a double episode. That’s right, The Becoming part I & II all in one super sized episode. We’re going to be recording tomorrow night (Tuesday July 7th), we’re going to start watching the episodes around 7pm EST. As we’re getting setup I’ll twitter and update facebook. We’ll should have everything setup to ‘Live Stream’ the recording session. We may even have open chat at the end of the recording for anyone who wants to gab about season 2 of Buffy.

Apple saves the day?

Jason — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:30:03 +0000

I don’t want to jinx it but Apple may have really come through for us. Shannan and I were planning to make and sell Watchercast decals to help raise the money to fix ‘Buffy’ (Yes, I named my laptop Buffy). These would NOT be cheap-o bumper stickers but cut vinyl decals made the same way I added this logo to ‘Buffy’.

But a friend of the show offered some advice on contacting Apple Care. We may not have to do the telethon just yet.

MacBook Pro Video Issue. Dark times.

Jason — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:25:39 +0000

This podcast is produced on an Apple MacBook Pro. (15″ 2.2ghz Core 2 Duo, model A1226, manufactured mid 2007 with the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics chip to be exact) This father’s day morning I lifted the lid of the MacBook Pro … and saw nothing. The screen was black but the keys were lit and when I tried to raise the volume or brightness I heard the familiar ‘Dwak Dwak’ sounds. But nothing. Plugging in an external monitor also offered no look at what was actually happening on the computer. I know it is running, I even plugged in my backup drive and could see that Time Machine started running it’s backup (So all the data is safe).

Trying not to panic I used my iPod touch to Google around and found this on the Apple site: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377 It looked like Apple was going to make good and this wasn’t going to be a disaster. Everything about my MacBook Pro meets all of the requirements listed on the Apple site. We have an Apple Store over at Easton so I made an appointment and took it in to get fixed.

Now the guy at the Genius Bar had an external drive, plugged it into my MacBook Pro and booted it into target disk mode. Still nothing came up on the screen. He takes the drive off of mine and plugs it into his Mac and brings up a report that simply stated “No eligible graphics chip found”. So even though The Watchercast MacBook Pro matches everything on the site and it’s doing exactly what is described on the site, that it isn’t covered by the no cost repair and since it is no longer covered by a warranty it will cost $310 to have the logic board replaced.

So here is the sad part. With Shannan only weeks away from giving birth to our second son, we just don’t have the money to get the laptop fixed right now. So for now The Watchercast is on hold and the laptop will sit until we have the extra money to get it fixed.

We’re trying to figure out some options to raise the money to have it replaced. Until then we’ll keep you all posted on any progress we make. We appreciate each and every one of you that listen to us and are so engaged in this show with us. Thanks for sticking with us as we try to fix this.

No Malware Here

Jason — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:08:05 +0000

So a new exploit was out for Wordpress and we got hit like many other sites. We’ve yanked out the offending code and have taken steps to avoid getting hit and making it easier for us to remove the nasty code when it does get in. So if you got a warning that this site might hurt your computer that was why and we’ve fixed it.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer – The Sequel! (but wait…)

Troy — Wed, 27 May 2009 01:26:15 +0000

The first time I saw it was as a headline. “Buffy the Vampire Slayer Remake”.

The first thing that runs through my head is, “Oh my God, they’re going to let him do season 8 on TV!!!” Yeah. No such luck (and honestly, how COULD they? That comic is fairly epic in scope, and would be a bitch to translate to the TV…) OK, but still, another Buffy movie!? Hope SMG has stayed in fighting shape! And then I continue to read…

Now, I’m not going to dismiss the movie yet, just because they aren’t going to do exactly what I want them to do. That would be silly. However, isn’t it also silly to make a Buffy movie without Joss Whedon?! C’MON, people?! He’s Joss! She’s Buffy! They go together like peanut butter and jelly!!! How can you do one without the other?

Apparently, Fran Rubel Kuzui and her husband, Kaz Kuzui, the directors of the first Buffy movie, are planning on making number two. However, they “have yet to reach out to Joss”. OK, well what are you waiting for?! Don’t they realize that the only reason anyone watches their movie at all is because they became rabid fans due to the Buffy TV series?!

On top of no Joss, neither will we have Xander, Willow, Giles and it sounds like we may not even have a Buffy…from what I’ve been able to put together so far, the producers want to continue in the “every generation has their own slayer” theme and move onto an entirely different cast. I suppose that would actually be for the best, considering the amount of baggage that people have for Buffy herself, but the last thing we need is another lame “Twilight” wannabe.

Joss’ response is, of course, classy and awesome. “I hope it’s cool.” he is quoted as saying.

Me too, Joss. (But, I kinda doubt it will be…)

Joss Whedon on NPR’s This American Life

Jason — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:20:05 +0000

Return To The Scene Of The Crime

The episode is fantastic and I highly recommend all our listeners listen to the whole thing. I got a special kick out of watching Ira Glass running the board during the live show and seeing parallels to my fiddling with our soundboard while we’re recording The Watchercast.

So for those who want to just jump into it skip to 27:48 into the episode when the start act two and Ira runs a short clip from Dr. Horrible and introduces Joss. At 33:02 Joss Whedon takes the stage and sings one of the songs from the musical director’s commentary of Dr. Horrible’s DVD.

As Joss continued his song I sunk down a little deeper in seat and thought to myself “I’m glad we didn’t make Watchercast T-shirts….”

Thanks Alice!

Don’t call it a come back -L.L. Cool J

Jason — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:12:16 +0000

I wanted to let everyone know what’s going on with the cast. In the last few months there have seen some big happenings with us and are lives.

We know you guys have had to wait a long time between episodes of The Watchercast and that’s not something that we’ve done on purpose. We’ve heard you and are working out our schedules so we can reliably release episodes every two weeks.

What’s My Line, parts 1 & 2

Troy — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:32:04 +0000

It’s a two-fer this time on the Watchercast, as we discuss the two-part horror that is Kendra, the Vampire Slayer. She arrives in town at the same time as the Order of Taraka, sometimes human (sometimes bug) assassins that have been hired by Spike to keep the Slayer busy as he tries to find a cure for his creepy girlfriend, Drusilla. And, as with most things that take place on the Hellmouth, this cure requires a sacrifice…in this case, the sire of Drusilla, Angel. And Xander and Cordillia kiss. A lot.

Directed by: David Solomon (part 1) & David Semel ( part 2)
Original Air Date: November 17, 1997 (part 1) & November 24, 1997 (part 2)

Guest Stars:
Bianca Lawson (Kendra)
Kelly Connell (Bug-sassin)
Saverio Guerra (Willy)
Spice Williams (Policewoman Assassin)

Trivia:

We get several visits to “Willy’s Tavern” in these episodes, a shady bar that caters to the shadow-y supernatural type.
We get the second slayer showing up in this episode because, even it was for a short time, Buffy did die in the final episode of Season 1.

Quotes:

Angel: “You’re in danger, do you know what this ring means?”
Buffy: “I just killed a Superbowl Champ?”

Buffy: “You and bug people, Xander…what’s up with that?”

Key Events:

Xander and Cordilia kiss!

Rating:

Jason:

Kathleen:

Troy:

Video Clips
Bug Guy

Slayer vs. Slayer

Spike vs. Organ

The Missing Episodes

Jason — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:56:38 +0000

We’re going to re-record the vanished episodes this weekend. I think we may need to call an internet circle to dispel a demon from my computer.

Forums are down

Jason — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:20:09 +0000

Something went odd with the forums and we’re looking into it.

Lie To Me

Troy — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:40:18 +0000

Buffy is pleasantly surprised when a friend from her old high school shows up in Sunnydale. Then, she’s unpleasantly surprised when Ford catches her staking a vampire. Then she’s pleasantly surprised again when he tells her that he already knows she is The Slayer. Then she’s unpleasantly surprised when he tries to kill her by trapping her for Spike. Also, Willow sneaks Angel into her room and Giles goes to a Monster Truck Rally.

Directed by: Joss Whedon
Original Air Date: November 3, 1997

Guest Stars:
Julia Lee (Chanterelle)
Jason Behr (Billy ‘Ford’ Fordham)

Trivia:

Jason Behr (who played Ford) reunited with SMG in 2004’s The Grudge
The fake vampire who greets Buffy when she visits the Sunset Club is actually Todd McIntosh, the show’s make-up supervisor.

Quotes:

Buffy: “It was terrible. I moped over you for months. Sitting in my room listening to that Divinyls song ‘I Touch Myself’…Of course, I had no idea what it was about.”
(minutes later…)
Willow: (realizes) “Oh, that’s what that song is about?!”

Buffy: “Does it ever get easy?”
Giles: “You mean life?”
Buffy: “Yeah. Does it get easy?”
Giles: “What do you want me to say?”
Buffy: “Lie to me.”
Giles: “Yes, it’s terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.”
Buffy: “Liar.”

Key Events:

Buffy tells Angel she loves him for the first time in this episode.

Rating:

Jason:

Kathleen:

Troy:

Dollhouse trailer and the “Halloween Post-Game”

Troy — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:31:26 +0000

Hey all! As per usual, I’ve listened to the finished podcast and realized that we had left out pretty much everything that we promised to put into the show notes. So, let’s try and fix that, shall we?

First up, “TurdBoy Brown-Eye”. I’ve included a screen shot of the poor kid…and I’m still not sure what he’s supposed to be. It’s so sad. What kind of whacked out parent sews eyes and a mouth on a potato sack, and completes the look with two brown oven mitts for Halloween? Only on the Hellmouth, people. I’ve tried to look up the character that Kathleen and Jason were talking about in the Watchercast episode but I can’t find anything on a brown pillow in Willow’s room anywhere on Google…anybody else know what they might be talking about?

Next, we also mentioned an article about how the FCC was OK with nudity on TV, as long as it’s Alyson Hannigan. We, at the Watchercast, heartily agree.

Finally, here is the link to Podcamp Ohio, which is also included on the sidebar to the right. PodCamp Ohio will be held at the ITT Technical Institute in Hilliard, Ohio on June 28, 2008 from 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM. I would love to run into any of our listeners there!

Finally, we didn’t mention it on the episode, but Joss’ new show, Dollhouse, has a trailer out online that looks just great! I can’t wait!

Update! So, Kathleen remembered that the pillow that she and Jason were talking about showed up in the episode “The Body”, so I hit компютриScreenCap-Paradise.com, and there it was!

What’s more, one of you guys knew exactly what Jason and Kathleen were talking about! Brent E. Engle had a comment waiting for me when I was preparing this update (in the comments for the Halloween episode)

The doll the Whedons love so much is called (in English) ‘Burnt Bun Boy’. In his native language, it’s ‘Kogepan’. (Thanks, Brent!)

A quick Google Image search verifies that is, indeed, exactly the same character as the pillow. Brent also speculates that turd boy isn’t supposed to represent Kogepan, and the fact that the costume has pupils seems to back that up. So, it must be, indeed, SpongeBob Turd-Boy as Jason states in the episode.

(I have no idea why this became such a big deal…I was just totally intrigued by the whole thing!)

Halloween

Troy — Thu, 29 May 2008 06:15:58 +0000

Buffy and the Scoobies are volunteered by Snyder to show kids around for Halloween. Luckily, Halloween is the one night a year that evil lays low in the Buffyverse. Unluckily, Ethan Raine, a shady character from Giles past, never got the memo, and casts a spell that causes everyone that bought a costume in his shop to transform into whatever they are wearing. Buffy turns all powerless and weepy. Xander, luckily, turns into a hardnosed soldier. Willow turns into a scantily clad ghost (nice!) and everyone else turns into monsters. Oh yeah, and Spike shows up. Neat!

Directed by: Bruce Seth Green
Original Air Date: October 27, 1997

Guest Stars:
Robin Sachs (Ethan Rayne)
Larry Bagby (Larry Blaisdell)

Trivia:

Xander’s transformation into a soldier in this episode is the excuse used in numerous upcoming episodes when military knowledge is needed.
This is the first episode where we hear Giles referred to as “Ripper”.
Writer Carl Ellsworth was fired by Joss Whedon immediately after completing the script for this episode. (via IMDB) … (this was just a bit too interesting, so I had to look a little deeper. Found some more information here)

Quotes:

Spike: “This is just…neat!”

Willow: “She couldn’t have dressed up as Xena!?”

Drusilla: “Do you love my insides? The parts you can’t see?”
Spike: “Eyeballs to entrails, my sweet!”

Key Events:

First appearance of Ethan Rayne

Rating:

Jason:

Kathleen:

Troy:

Pete:

Jodi:

Video Clips:

Thinks you’re a babe…

Willow the dish

I could watch this over and over -Jason

“… the ghost of what?”

The first appearance of “Ripper”

Season Two of Buffy on Hulu! FREE!

Jason — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:35:13 +0000

Now you can review the episodes we’re covering in the podcast even if you don’t own the DVDs! Hulu has added the second season of Buffy to their site. As an added bonus we’ll be using Hulu to add in some of our favorite moments of the episode into the show notes.

How cool is this?!

I’ll also be adding clips to some of our older episodes show notes.

UPDATE: Video clips added to each of our season two episode show notes.

Last season on Buffy The Vampire Slayer:

Reptile Boy

Troy — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:12:08 +0000

Buffy, in her never ending quest to try and just be a normal high schooler, gets caught up in Cordelia’s newest obsession…College Frat Guys. While this is always a bad idea, it’s an especially bad choice in Sunnydale, where we learn that the Delta Zeta Kappa guys sacrifice their dates once a year to an Evil Snake God.

Directed by: David Greenwalt
Original Air Date: October 13, 1997

Guest Stars:
Greg Vaughn (Richard)
Todd Babcock (Tom)
Jordana Spiro (Callie)
Robin Atkin Downes (Machida the Snake God)

Trivia:

Jordana Spiro, who plays Callie, the third girl captured for the sacrifice to Machida, currently stars as P.J. Franklin in the TBS sitcom “My Boys”. Kathleen spotted her instantly.

Quotes:
Willow “Well, why do you think she went to that party? Because you gave her the brush-off…And you never let her do anything except work and patrol. And I know she’s the Chosen One, but you’re killing her with the pressure. I mean, she’s sixteen going on forty…And you! I mean, you’re gonna live forever. You don’t have time for a cup of coffee?…Okay, I don’t feel better now, and we’ve gotta help Buffy.”

Cordelia “You guys! I just hate you guys! The weirdest things happen around you!”

Key Events:

er…not a lot. This is kind of a filler episode (though Willow telling off Giles and Angel rocked!)

Rating:
Jason:
Kathleen:
Troy:

Shannan:

Extras:

As promised, Ballywood Superman!

Nimoy sings The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins

Shatner sings Rocketman

Video Clips

BRB: Reptile boy sound issue

Jason — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:25:03 +0000

OOPs! Ok something goofy happened with the sound on reptile boy. We’ll have that episode back up soon.

Inca Mummy Girl

Troy — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:11:23 +0000

Xander’s luck in women looks like it’s turning around as he falls for the beautiful foreign exchange student Ampata, who is staying at Buffy’s place. But wasn’t Buffy’s exchange student supposed to be a guy? And what about that mummy that seems to have escaped from the local museum? And is that an actual Incan warrior running around Sunnydale?

Directed by: Ellen S. Pressman
Original Air Date: October 6, 1997

Guest Stars:
Ara Celi (Ampata Gutierrez)
Seth Green (Daniel ‘Oz’ Osbourne)
Danny Strong (Jonathan Levinson)

Trivia:

Xandar and Ampata had to eat up to ten twinkies each for each take of the scene in which they are eating lunch. Life is truly cruel on the hellmouth. (ugh!)

Quotes:
Willow “Well, you know, I have a choice. I can spend my life waiting for Xander to go out with every other girl in the world until he notices me, or I can just get on with my life.”
Buffy “Good for you.”
Willow “Well, I didn’t choose yet.”

Giles “You can’t go to the dance, you have responsibilities that other girls do not.”
Buffy “Oh! I know this one! Slaying entails certain sacrifices, blah, blah, bitty blah, I’m so stuffy, gimme a scone.”

Key Events:

Oz makes his first appearance!
Jonathan makes his first (very short…no pun intended, Jonathan!) appearance!

Rating:
Jason:
Kathleen:
Troy:

In Other News: Come join us in our newly updated and snazzy forums!

Video Clips

Twinkies:

Johnathan:

Forums Back

Jason — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:42:10 +0000

Our forums have been upgraded to a fresh install of the super-new super-cool PHPbb 3.0!!! So it should be a lot easier to raise shields and fend off all those spammer accounts.

The bad news? The Buffy-ised theme I hacked together didn’t transport well to the forum’s new home.

The good news? All the posts and accounts are still there! Yay for our side!

The Watchercast Network

Jason — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 05:07:53 +0000

The Watchercast is now on:

If you’re on any of these, friend the show and we’ll keep everyone in the loop with the show and what we’re up to.

Forums Suspended

Jason — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:51:24 +0000

We’re going to suspend the forums for a bit while I try and upgrade the PHPBB to version 3 and address the problem with spam accounts. We love having the forums so don’t go to far.

Some Assembly Required

Jason — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:35:29 +0000

Chris and Eric, two students at Sunnydale High, have an exciting new Science Fair project: they’ve brought back Chris’s brother, Daryl, from the dead. The project complete they start on a new venture – making Daryl a perfect girlfriend from old body parts. They have their eye on Cordelia’s head as the perfect finishing touch.

Directed by: Bruce Seth Green
Original Air Date: 22 September 1997
Guest Stars:
Angelo Spizzirri (Chris Epps)
Michael Bacall (Eric Gittleson)
Ingo Neuhaus (Daryl Epps)

Trivia:

Fondren High is revealed to be a rival school
Cordy is almost a member of the Scoobies by this episode

Quotes:

Giles: “Grave robbing? That’s new. Interesting.”

Buffy: “I know you meant to say ‘gross and disturbing’.”

Giles: “Yes, yes, yes of course. Uh, terrible thing. Must, must put a stop to it. Damn it.”

Willow: “Love makes you do the wacky.”

Key Events:

Xander saves Cordy from a burning building
Giles asks out Ms. Calendar

Rating:

Jason:

Kathleen:

Troy:

Video Clips
Cordi and Angel:

In Other News:
Trying something new on this episode, see if you can tell what it is.

Forums!

Jason — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:02:07 +0000

The Watchercast now has forums! Be sure to read the “READ THIS FIRST!” post before signing up and posting. We’re still working out what type of threads we’ll have so post any ideas as comments to this post.

Speaking of comments, please continue to comment on each of the episodes via their post here on the blog. We love to hear what you think.

When She Was Bad

Troy — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:44:01 +0000

Buffy’s back for the first episode of Season 2!After a summer with her father in L.A., Buffy returns to Sunnydale noticeably less sunny. Her near death experience at the hand of the Master months before has given her a serious case of the wiggins, and she’s not handling it well. (Highlight of the episode, watch poor Xander squirm while Buffy tries to seduce him with the dance of the veiled bitca!)

Meanwhile The Annointed One has hatched a plan to resurrect The Master…unfortunately for our Scoobies, that requires the sacrifice of everyone that had been in the vicinity of The Master when he died…in this case, Willow, Miss Calendar, Giles and Cordelia. Buffy realizes the importance of her friends when she is forced to save them and her less bitchy, more quippy self returns.

Directed by: Joss Whedon
Original Air Date: September 15, 1997
Guest Stars: Dean Butler (Hank Summers)
Trivia:

David Boreanaz became a regular cast member as of this episode.
Apparently, Giles, Willow and Xander (it is assumed) figured taking the Master’s bones from the library and burying him three feet deep in the Sunnydale Cemetary covered in soil watered with holy water was a good enough defense to keep him from coming back. Silly Scoobies.

Quotes:Cordelia: Whatever is causing the Joan Collins ‘tude, deal with it. Embrace the pain, spank your inner moppet, whatever, but get over it.

Willow: That’s what it was! I mean, why else would she be acting like such a b-i-t-c-h?

Giles: Willow, I think we’re all a little too old to be spelling things out.

Xander: A bitca?

Key Events:

Season 2 starts.
Joss directs his second episode
Buffy totally confuses poor Xander by dancing seductively with him at the Bronze.

Rating:

Jason:

Kathleen:

Troy:

Video Clips:

Buffy nightmare:

Buffy Sexy Dance:

In Other News:
Buffy Live
Ciba Motto

Prophecy Girl

jason.anderson — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:06:45 +0000

Giles discovers a prophecy that Buffy will face the Master and die. Terrified, she wants to quit as a Slayer but an incident in the school, which upsets Willow, makes Buffy decide to face her destiny. The Master drowns her but she’s resuscitated by Xander. Buffy finally kills the Master.

Directed by: Joss Whedon
Original Air Date: June 02, 1997

Guest Stars:
Mark Metcalf (The Master)

Trivia:

The demon coming out of the Hellmouth at the end of “Prophecy Girl” was supposed to be frightening, however, seeing as how most mid-season replacements don’t have that big a budget, Joss had to make do with several people each wearing a “tentacle” costume and wiggling around.
This is the first Buffy episode directed by Joss Whedon.

Quotes:

The Master: You were destined to die, it was written.
Buffy: What can I say? I flunked the written.

Buffy: You have fruit punch mouth.

Key Events:

Buffy dies for the first time.
Buffy comes back to life for the first time.
The Master dies.

Images:

[Coming Soon]

Out Of Mind, Out Of Sight

jason.anderson — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 03:31:43 +0000

Marcie Ross is a quiet, unpopular girl in school who is ignored so much that she becomes invisible. She blames Cordelia and sets out to ruin her and her friends by hurting them in different ways. Cordelia is forced to turn to Buffy and her friends for protection, against all their wishes.
(Brought to you by The Buffy and Angel Triva Guide)

Directed by: Reza Badiyi
Original Air Date: May 19th 1997

Guest Stars:
Clea Duvall (Marcie Ross)
Mercedes McNab (Harmony Kendall)

Trivia:

Clea stared in Can’t Hardly Wait with Seth Green and Amber Benson
Clea is also stars as FBI agent Audrey Hanson on Heroes
Buffy’s line “Crush! Kill! Destroy!” comes from the classic Lost In Space TV show. Robot says it.

Quotes:

Snyder: ” There are no dead students here. This week.”

Giles: “I’ve never actually heard of anyone attacked by a lone baseball bat before.”
Xander: “Maybe it’s a vampire bat? I’m low on that one, huh?”

Key Events:

Cordelia is proven to actually be human!
The first time we see a government agency get invloved with the happenings on the Hellmouth.
We see alot of the school.

Rating:
Jason

Kathleen

Troy

Images:

Photos!

Jason — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:55:44 +0000

Yes you can now see the hosts of The Watchercast on the About page. More info coming soon, including some exciting events coming up.

Nightmares

jason.anderson — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:34:18 +0000

Sorry for the chipmunking of the web player. I’ll have it fixed tonight. -Jason

A young boy is put in a coma and his nightmare world begins to take over Sunnydale. Everyone’s nightmares start to literally come true. Buffy rushes to help the boy before the world goes completely crazy – whilst having to deal with her own nightmare: she’s (temporarily!) become a vampire.

Directed by: Bruce Seth Green
Original Air Date: 12 May1997
Written by: David Greenwalt

Guest Stars:
Dean Butler (Hank Summers)
Jeremy Foley (Billy Palmer)
Johnny Green (Way Cool Guy)

Trivia:

Giles speaks and reads five languages, on a good day
First visits to the hospital
Nerf Herder (the bad who did the theme) logo appears in Willow’s locker

Quotes:

The Master: “A dream is a wish your heart makes.”

Key Events:

Deepest darkest fears of the Scoobies are revealed
This is the first time The Master meets Buffy

Images:

Theme Update

Jason — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:37:27 +0000

I’m playing around with some themes to get ideas for the next version of the site so it may look odd once in a while.

The Puppet Show

jason.anderson — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:31:29 +0000

Sunnydale High’s new Principal – Snyder – forces Giles to run the school’s annual talent(less) show. Things start to go wrong when a demon begins to steal body parts from those taking part. Things get worse when the Scoobies realise a ventriloquist’s dummy may be to blame. (Description provided by The Buffy and Angel Trivia Guide)

Directed by: Ellen S. Pressman
Original Air Date: 5 May 1997

Guest Stars:
Kristine Sutherland (Joyce Summers)
Armin Shimerman (Principal Snyder)
Tom Wyner (Sid’s Voice)

Trivia:

Julie Benz will be in the upcoming Rambo film (Image Link)
“REDRUM!” was an ad lib by Nicholas Brendon
Willow running off the stage in the credits sequence was also not in the script
According to Joss the reading of Oedipus Rex took a long time to shoot because the actors couldn’t keep from cracking up

Quotes:

Xander: “I have my pride. Okay, so I don’t have a lot of my pride, but I have enough so that I can’t do this.”

Key Events:

Principal Snyder first appears
Direct mention of previous slayers
Cordelia sings

Rating:
Jason:

Kathleen:

Troy:

Images:

Other links:
Jetwolf’s top 100 moments in Buffy

Hang in there…

Jason — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:06:25 +0000

More episodes are coming. The FriedGeek Studios (AKA Jason’s place) has moved to it’s new, Permanent location. The last few weeks have been crazy with buying a house, moving, and having to travel for the day job. I’ll have the gear setup in the next few days and as soon as my home Net connection is up new episodes will start rolling out.

Stay tuned loyal listeners.

iTunes feed

Jason — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:41:02 +0000

The iTunes feed should be fixing itself and the rest of the episodes should be showing up in iTunes soon.

The Pack

jason.anderson — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 02:08:19 +0000

While enduring the annual field trip to the zoo, Xander and several other students enter the quarantined Hyena pen and become possessed by the spirit of the wild animals. Buffy notices that Xander is acting different, more aggressive and mean, but she must figure out what happened and how to reverse it before something terrible happens.

Directed by: Bruce Seth Green
Original Air Date: 7 April 1997

Guest Stars:

Ken Lerner (Principal Flutie)
Eion Bailey (Kyle)
Brian Gross (Tor)
Jennifer Sky (Heidi)

Trivia:

Rumor has it, Alyson Hannigan went to de-pants Nick Brendon in the dodge ball game and got more than just his shorts… she got his undies down as well.
The gym is a seperate gym from what we’ve seen in previous episodes.

Quotes:

Gym Teacher: “God this game is brutal. I love it.”

Xander: “We just saw the zebras mating! Thank you, very exciting…”
Willow: “It was like the Heimlich, with stripes!”

Buffy: “I cannot believe that you, of all people, are trying to Scully me. There is something supernatural at work here. Get your books! Look stuff up!”

Key Events:

Flutie is eaten. The first principle to die on the show.
We see many different parts of the school
First inter scoobie fighting

Images:

Feed isseus

Jason — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:00:21 +0000

Currently there is something odd with our feed, not all of the episodes are showing up in itunes. We currently use podPress but something seems to be odd with it. I really hope I don’t have to revert to manually witting the feed but if it comes down to it I will.

Sorry for any confusion, I’ll keep you up to date.

UPDATE: The main technical issues that have kept the newest episodes from being posted have now been resolved. We’ve also moved our stuff to use Libsyn to fix our feed issues. New stuff will come out over the weekend, I promise.

Upgrading Podpress

Jason — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:09:54 +0000

I’m upgrading Podpress and with luck it shouldn’t goof the feed. If it does, have no fear, I’ll roll back.

UPDATE:
I upgraded WordPress to the latest version and it killed my custom theme. Still working out the issues.

UPDATE:
Update Podpress: CHECK
Update WordPress: CHECK
Update W.C. Theme: Hmmm. maybe I’ll make a new one. The last one got a bit narrow once we started casting.

This week’s episode will be edited on Linux.

UPDATE:
Theme back up!

Never Kill a Boy on the First Date

jason.anderson — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:20:39 +0000

Buffy goes out on a date with the much sought-after Owen, but a vampire-related emergency arises, forcing her to take him along to the local mortuary. Meanwhile, the Master’s brethren await the coming of the Anointed One, who Buffy believes she has killed… but she’s in for a big (or rather small) surprise.

Directed by: David Semel
Original Air Date:31 March 1997

Guest Stars:
Andrew J. Ferchland (The Anointed One)
Christopher Wiehl (Owen)

Trivia:

Giles is knocked out for the second time
The Buffy house was originally shot on location in Torrance CA. Later the entire house, interiors and front and back exteriors were built on a sound stage. If you compare some of the shots in this episode with the later episodes you’ll see the dinning room seems to move.
First time a vampire is dusted and leaves something behind.
Geoff Meed, the ‘Pork & Beans’ vampire, also played Mag, one of the biker-demons in season six’s Bargaining, Part One and Two.

Quotes:

The Master:“…and one of the brethren shall go out hunting the night before and get himself killed because he couldn’t wait to finish his job before he ate. Oh wait” *chokes minion* “…that’s not written anywhere.”

Buffy: “Two points for the slayer while the watcher has yet to score”

Xander: “So Buffy, how’d the slaying go last night?”
Buffy: “Xhander!”
Xander:“I mean… how’d the laying go. NoIDon’tMeanThatEither.”

Cordelia : “Hello, salty goodness.” (upon seeing Angel)

Key Events:

Cordelia sees angel for the first time
A student comes into the library to actually get a book
Buffy actually read, or at least looked at the pictures, in one of the watcher books and remembered the symbol on the ring

Images:

Special Thanks to Cat from the Lipstick Aliens podcast for being a special co-host on this episode.

Special Episode Coming

Jason — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:59:56 +0000

The next episode of The Watchercast, “Never kill a boy on the first date”, will feature a few special guest host(s). And we’ve got about three more episodes locked and loaded!

Angel Season SIX News!!!

Troy — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:48:40 +0000

With the success of the Joss Whedon penned Buffy Season 8 comic, IDW Comics are following suit with an “Angel” series, picking up right where Season 5 left off!

At the Wizard World Los Angeles convention, Chris Ryall, editor of IDW Comics, made the following announcement (as reported on Newsarama):

…Joss Whedon said in the new issues of Buffy/Angel magazine, “I am talking to Brian Lynch, about doing sort of a ’season 6 of Angel‘. After (the current Angel mini-series) Shadow Puppets, we will be doing some new Angel books, with Brian and Joss, picking up where the show left off. They will be post-show, and definitely canon, and co-written by Joss.”

More Great Roles for the Buffy-Cast!

Troy — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:18:01 +0000

In keeping with the spirit of our “Teacher’s Pet” episode, I thought I would post on something I read on Newsarama.com today…there is some VERY exciting news for us comic book / Buffy fans ahead!

Bruce Timm, the genius behind Batman the Animated Series, has been tapped to create some direct to DVD cartoons of some of the most famous storylines from the DC Universe! Much like what Marvel has been trying to do with it’s direct to DVD cartoons such as Ultimate Avengers except that these should be…you know…good.

First up is Superman: Doomsday the story of the Death of Superman at the hands of “Doomsday”, an alien from space that came to Earth and, basically, beat the tar out of Superman with his bare fists. The story wasn’t as cool as it sounds, in my opinion. I mean, for SUPERMAN to get BEAT UP…it’s just so…common. The death of Superman should have been EPIC, and at the hands of Lex Luthor or Braniac…not some alien monster from out of the blue who punches him to death.

That having been said, I’m still excited by the possibility of these DVD’s. Bruce Timm has proven again and again that he knows comics, and what makes a story cool, and the fact that he’s behind these videos gives me all KINDS of reasons to be excited. And the fact that the second video out of the gate is the BRILLIANT Darwyn Cooke comic DC: The New Frontier gives me all kinds of happy feelings. It’s going to be awesome.

ANYWAY (I’m rambling! Sorry!) the cool news on top of THIS cool news is that many of the biggest roles in these cartoons are being voiced by Buffy vets…from Superman:Doomsday we have Adam Baldwin as Superman and James Marsters as Lex Luthor, and then in DC: The New Frontier, David Boreanaz will be playing the pivotal Hal Jordan (Green Lantern) character.

Keep an eye out…these promise to be very cool videos. And rest assured, I will be talking about them in future episodes of the Watchercast!

Teacher’s Pet

jason.anderson — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:25:06 +0000

Xander falls for a new substitute teacher in school called Miss French, who, amazingly, seems to like him too. It turns out she’s a man-eating Praying Mantis in human form and is after Xander’s virgin sperm for fertilization. No, really. Xander is saved by Buffy, but his pride is lost somewhere in the process

Directed by: Stephen Cragg
Original Air Date:25 March 1997

Guest Stars:
Ken Lerner (Principal Bob Flutie)
Musetta Vander (Natalie French)

Trivia:

Xander reveals to Mrs. French that his middle name is Lavelle
The accent that Mrs. French has is South African, not ‘The Land of Sexy’ as stated in the podcast
Mrs. French received a split vote between “Smoking hot” and “Meeeh” in this episode of the podcast
A serial box can be seen displaying a promotion for the movie “The Mask” in the grocery bags Mrs. French is carrying

Quotes:

Xander: “It’s funny how the Earth never opens up and swallows you when you want it to.”

Giles: “Recording bat sonar is something soothingly akin to having one’s teeth drilled.”

Key Events:

This is the episode where Angel gives Buffy his jacket
It’s established that Xander is a virgin
There are somethings that even vampires are afraid of
It becomes obvious that Willow has feelings for Xander, if it wasn’t already obvious

Images:

Special thanks to all the positive feedback we’ve received on the podcast. You keep subscribed and we’ll keep doing the episodes. “Yay Buffy!”

Also check out the Does My Geek Look Big In This podcast and the Lipstick Aliens podcast

Two more in the can

Jason — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:38:49 +0000

Two new episodes are in the can and are being edited. Watch for a new episode soon.

The Witch

Jason — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:36:08 +0000

The first non vampire episode where a witch tries to take out cheerleaders to get on the squad. Oh and since Buffy tries out, it just get’s kind of Freaky Friday.
Written by: Joss Whedon

Directed by: Stephen Cragg
Original Air Date:17 March 1997

Guest Stars: Elizabeth Anne Allen (Amy Madison)

Trivia:

The sign in the gym reads 1996 Cheerleading Tryouts” but the show wasn’t aired till 1997.
Amy’s mom gets trapped in the trophy and since the first school blew up…
Xander’s first draw to magic is the partial nude woodcuts in the magic books.

Quotes:

Giles: “But that’s the thrill of living on the Hellmouth! There’s a veritable cornucopia of, of fiends and devils and, and ghouls to engage… Pardon me for finding the glass half full.”

Xander: “I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away.”

Key Events:

We see Giles’s car a crappy Citroen

The first bit of Witchcraft shows up and establishes that when you are doing bad magic your eyes go all black

Railroad spike through the head makes it’s first appearance

Images:

Buffy…Season 8?!!

Troy — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 02:23:32 +0000

* WARNING * for those of you who haven’t seen Season 7 yet, you may want to hold off on reading any further…there be some slight spoilage ahead…

Wait! Stop the Watchercast! There is one more season of Buffy to come!

That’s right. Season 8 is coming! OK, it may not be in quite the same format as we all came to know and love (on the TV for those of you who don’t remember) but Joss is creating Buffy Season 8, as we speak. It’s canon, it’s Buffy, it’s one-eyed Xander, it’s Willow…it’s the whole crew!

And it’s a comic!

Now, for some of you, this may be as exciting to hear as “Buffy is undergoing a sex change operation!”, but for me, this is music to my ears. As a HUGE comic nerd (20 long boxes, baby!) I can’t be more excited! I mean, look at that beautiful Buffy cover for issue #1. Just LOOK at it! That was done by series artist, George Jeanty. Now, I’m not terribly familiar with his stuff, but from what have seen, it looks like the man can draw. He’s just never drawn anything that I wanted to read before. But all that has changed!

Ok, so here is the scoop. This isn’t just some piddly little 6 issue mini that he’s offering to us…from what I’ve seen, this story is going to last for TWENTY to THIRTY issues(!), picking up right where we left off at the end of Season 7. There is now an entire world of slayers, there are even 3 Buffys! (I know that doesn’t make sense…that’s why you have to read the first 4 pages, which are being previewed for us by the nice people at TV Guide, right here.)

It’s Joss, it’s Buffy…what more do you need?! Get thee to a Comic Book Shop!

The Harvest

jason.anderson — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 08:00:45 +0000

The second half of the pilot for Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Buffy and the soon to be Scoobies learn of the Harvest and the Master.
Written by: Joss Whedon

Directed by:John T. Kretchmer

Original Air Date:10 March 1997

Guest Stars: Mercedes McNab (Harmony Kendall)

Trivia:

An earthquake did hit the Torrance High School in 1933.
Brian Thompson who plays Luke makes a return to Buffy as The Judge in episodes Innocence and Surprise. He’s truly a ‘working actor’ staring in such blockbusters as The Terminator, The Xfiles, Dragonheart, Alien Nation, and scores of others.
If it’s no cover night at the Bronze… why is the bouncer taking money at the door??

Quotes:

Giles: “A Slayer hunts vampires; Buffy is the Slayer; don’t tell anyone.”

Giles: “Maybe you could wrest some information from that dread machine. That was a bit, um, British, wasn’t it?”

Joyce Summers: “The tapes say I should get used to saying it… no.”
Key Events:

Giles lays down the ground work for the entire Buffyverse mythos.
Everyone’s roles are set within the group by the end.
The master’s goal is revealed.
Cordelia wears a very short skirt to the Bronze.

Images:

What Would Buffy do?

jason.anderson — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 16:08:43 +0000

I was shopping for stuff to make the family feel better after we all got our ass kicked by the stomach flu and saw this sitting on the book shelf.

Welcome To The Hellmouth

jason.anderson — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:00:11 +0000

The first episode of season one!

Quotes:
“What is your childhood trauma?” - Cordillia

Trivia:

The unaired pilot stared a different principal and a different Willow.

The High School that was used for Sunnydale High is Torrance High School. The courtyard seen throughout the series is actually the Senior Patio. Uber-Buffy fans will also note that there is no ‘bell tower’, the one where Johnathan was confronted by Buffy. The school is very popular with film makers as it has been used in all of the following:

Beverly Hills 90210
The Wild Life
Not Another Teen Movie
Bring It On
Whatever It Takes
Cursed
Less Than Zero

The area around Torrance High did experience a real earthquake in 1933, a fact that made it’s way into the story of The Master.

The school charged around $7,000 a day for filming.

“It eats you starting with your bottom?”

jason.anderson — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 22:45:23 +0000

The blog theme is in place, the first two episodes have been recorded. Once I have them edited the show will officially launch!

“Into each generation a slayer is born.”

jason.anderson — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 04:49:18 +0000

Coming soon, The Watchercast. A hand full of serious Buffy fans sit down and go episode by episode and discuss the finer details of Buffy The Vampire Slayer.