Tabula Rasa, B!tches!: A Buffy Rewatch Show

Buffy is enjoying a rare night off with Willow and Xander, while across town, a young woman is pursued by men in robes. The next day, Giles scolds Buffy for what he believes is her letting her Slayer training fall by the wayside. Cordelia introduces Buffy to two fraternity guys, one of whom sucks, the other who sucks even more, but we find that out later. After an upsetting, angsty run-in with Ang...

It’s foreign exchange student time at Sunnydale High, and Buffy is hosting a male student from South America. Xander isn’t thrilled until it seems Buffy is actually hosting a girl, not a boy. Unbeknownst to the Scoobies, this girl, who takes on the name Ampata, is an ancient Incan mummy sacrificed by her people. She’s brought back to life and must drain the life force of other people in order to r...

Principal Snyder has sentenced Buffy, on pain of expulsion, to set up the upcoming Parent/Teacher Night. Meanwhile, two new vampires have moved into Sunnydale - a cheerfully homicidal maniac named Spike and his spacey girlfriend, Drusilla. They tell the Anointed One they’ll ‘take care’ of his Slayer problem. Buffy tries to keep her mom from meeting Principal Snyder at Parent/Teacher Night, but the...

Someone is digging up the corpses of women in Sunnydale - but for what purpose? While the gang investigates, Giles adorably struggles with asking out Jenny, and Angel and Buffy deal with their jealousy after Buffy’s sexy dance with Xander last episode. Chris and Eric, two science geeks, are overheard saying Cordelia would be “perfect for us.” It’s revealed Chris and Eric are putting together the p...

After spending the summer with her dad in L.A., Buffy returns to Sunnydale very unsunny. It seems her take-down of The Master and dying and coming back to life are still affecting her. To make matters worse, the Anointed One and his minions have a plan to bring The Master back. Buffy keeps pushing everyone away as she avoids dealing with her trauma. Things come to a head when the Anointed One’s go...

Xander finally gets the nerve to ask Buffy out, and she feels bad when she has to tell him that she doesn't feel that way about him. Things get far worse, though, when she overhears Giles and Angel discussing a prophecy saying that the Master's ascension is at hand and that she will die trying to stop him. At this, she shouts out, telling Giles that she quits. But the vampires are growing stronger...

Cordelia's friends are being attacked by a mysterious force, and nobody is sure what is happening or who is behind it. After one attack, Buffy hears an ominous laugh and follows but finds no one. The gang concludes that it may be an invisible person, and the prime suspect quickly becomes Marcie Ross—a girl no one seems to remember, even though she was in everyone's classes, including several with...

Everyone's nightmares seem to be coming true at Sunnydale high—Xander goes to class in his underwear, Giles loses the ability to read, and time flies during Buffy's surprise test. Buffy keeps seeing a young boy around campus and begins to make a link when a student is attacked by a strange monster who keeps saying, ‘Lucky nineteen.’ Buffy discovers that the boy she sees is an astral projection, as...

Giles has been put in charge of Sunnydale High's annual talent show by the new student-hating principal, Principal Snyder. Buffy, Xander, and Willow find Giles’ new gig very amusing until they too are forced into participating by Snyder, who sees them, especially Buffy, as trouble makers. Things get worse, however, when a member of the cast is found with her heart removed, leading Giles to suspect...

While helping with a library project, Willow accidentally releases a demon called Moloch the Corrupter from his book prison into the Internet. The next day, Willow is giddy over a boy she’s begun talking to online, while Buffy and Xander are skeptical that this boy is who he says he is. Moloch starts causing havoc in his new home on the Internet and recruits two of Buffy’s fellow students to kill...

In Ep. 107 of Tabula Rasa, B!tches! , Allie and Nick discuss “Angel.” After saving Buffy from a group of fierce vampires called “The Three,” Angel hides out in Buffy’s house until the coast is clear. The next night, the two share a kiss, and we learn that Angel is, in fact, a vampire! Meanwhile, Darla and the Master hatch a plan to bring Angel back to the dark side. Darla sneaks into Buffy’s house...

In the latest episode of Tabula Rasa, B!tches! , Allie and Nick discuss “The Pack.” On a school field trip to the zoo, Xander and a pack of four other students are possessed by the spirits of hyenas. Xander and his pack begin acting cruelly to Willow and other students. Although Giles initially brushes off Buffy’s concerns about Xander, he changes his mind when the school’s new mascot and Principa...

In episode 105 of Tabula Rasa, B!tches! , Allie and Nick discuss season one, episode five of Buffy , “Never Kill a Boy on the First Date.” Buffy is thrilled to be receiving attention from Owen, a brooding cutie who has a love both for poetry and for danger. In the course of trying to thwart the prophecy that foretells the coming of the Anointed One, Buffy has to learn the painful lesson that not e...

In this episode of Tabula Rasa, B!tches! , Allie and Nick discuss the…interesting…episode that is “Teacher’s Pet.” When one of Buffy’s favorite teachers turns up dead, students wonder what happened. Students quickly move past their concerns when an attractive new substitute teacher, Ms. French, arrives and starts flirting with the male students in class. Ms. French, who we later learn is a She-Man...

In Buffy the Vampire Slayer season one, episode three, “Witch,” Buffy is trying to hold onto cheerleading - a pre-Slayer piece of her life she loved. At tryouts, cheerleaders begin dropping like flies - Buffy herself is targeted! - and the Scoobies suspect a powerful witch is behind the attacks. The gang rallies to get everybody back in their right bodies just in time and pig out on brownies. We l...

“The Harvest” picks up right where the pilot episode left off. Buffy saves her friends for the first, but not the last, time, and the gang experiences their first of many losses. The Scoobies rally and use their unique talents to thwart The Harvest and stop (or delay? Hmm…) the Master from being released and bringing about the end of the world. Tune in for a discussion of this episode, fight chore...

Connect with us on social media! Email: tabularasabpod@gmail.com Twitter, Instagram, Facebook: @tabularasabpod Connect with Allie on social media: Twitter, Instagram: @Daughterpick Tiktok: @futureblackcat buymeacoffee.com/AlliePress We begin at the beginning with “Welcome to the Hellmouth,” the Buffy the Vampire Slayer pilot episode. We meet the titular character, Buffy, and a slew of others who b...

Welcome to the Hellmouth, b!tches! Oh, wait, that's Episode 1. Welcome to Tabula Rasa, B!tches!: A Buffy Rewatch Show ! Super-besties Allie and Nick are ecstatic to share their favorite show with all of you. Each episode of this show will discuss an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer , spoilers and all. So it's perfect for the Buffy newbie to watch along with or for the Buffy fan to hear takes th...