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

Spike returns to Sunnydale and kidnaps Willow so she can create a magic spell that will make Drusilla love him once more. Credits Hosted by Allie Press & Nick Mercer Edited by Allie Press Music by InflatonCult Artwork by Charlotte Fleming Design Consultation by Evo Terra Connect with us on social media! Email: tabularasabpod@gmail.com Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok: @tabularasabpod Conne...

With help from Faith’s new Watcher, Buffy tries to destroy the legendary Glove of Myhnegon before it falls into the hands of the demon Lagos. Credits Hosted by Allie Press & Nick Mercer Edited by Allie Press Music by InflatonCult Artwork by Charlotte Fleming Design Consultation by Evo Terra Connect with us on social media! Email: tabularasabpod@gmail.com Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok: @...

Sunnydale’s adult population begins acting like immature teenagers after eating candy bars being sold to finance new high school band uniforms. Guest Links! See Bruce Press's work on Instagram: @brucefpphoto Donate to Dad's favorite charity, Planned Parenthood: www.weareplannedparenthoodaction.org/KDlEsm4r6EizP0SdpEj8Fg2?fb=true Support Maryland community theatre: @silhouettestages Credits Hosted...

As Buffy and Cordelia vie for the Homecoming Queen title, they are targeted by a group of killers preparing for "SlayerFest '98." Credits Hosted by Allie Press & Nick Mercer Edited by Allie Press Music by InflatonCult Artwork by Charlotte Fleming Design Consultation by Evo Terra Connect with us on social media! Email: tabularasabpod@gmail.com Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok: @tabularasabp...

Buffy’s fear that Oz could have killed a student during a full moon is compounded when she runs into Angel, violent and feral, during her nightly patrol. Credits Hosted by Allie Press & Nick Mercer Edited by Allie Press Music by InflatonCult Artwork by Charlotte Fleming Design Consultation by Evo Terra Connect with us on social media! Email: tabularasabpod@gmail.com Twitter, Instagram, Faceboo...

A charismatic Slayer named Faith shows up in Sunnydale and quickly wins over Buffy’s mother and all of Buffy’s friends - but Buffy herself is slower to warm. Credits Hosted by Allie Press & Nick Mercer Edited by Allie Press Music by InflatonCult Artwork by Charlotte Fleming Design Consultation by Evo Terra Connect with us on social media! Email: tabularasabpod@gmail.com Twitter, Instagram, Fac...

A Nigerian mask that Buffy's mother has acquired from the gallery has the unique power of resurrecting the dead. Credits Hosted by Allie Press & Nick Mercer Edited by Allie Press Music by InflatonCult Artwork by Charlotte Fleming Design Consultation by Evo Terra Connect with us on social media! Email: tabularasabpod@gmail.com Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok: @tabularasabpod Connect with A...

Now living in the big city, Buffy helps a woman whose boyfriend has mysteriously disappeared, while back in Sunnydale, her friends battle the forces of evil on their own. Credits Hosted by Allie Press & Nick Mercer Edited by Allie Press Music by InflatonCult Artwork by Charlotte Fleming Design Consultation by Evo Terra Connect with us on social media! Email: tabularasabpod@gmail.com Twitter, I...

Angelus hatches a plan to bring about the end of the world. This rising power draws an old friend back to Sunnydale. The Scoobies discover Jenny’s plan. Buffy falls for a trap that has disastrous and fatal consequences for her friends. Credits Hosted by Allie Press & Nick Mercer Edited by Allie Press Music by InflatonCult Artwork by Charlotte Fleming Design Consultation by Evo Terra Connect wi...

Angelus hatches a plan to bring about the end of the world. This rising power draws an old friend back to Sunnydale. The Scoobies discover Jenny’s plan. Buffy falls for a trap that has disastrous and fatal consequences for her friends. Credits Hosted by Allie Press & Nick Mercer Edited by Allie Press Music by InflatonCult Artwork by Charlotte Fleming Design Consultation by Evo Terra Connect wi...

The Sunnydale High School swim team is on its way to the state championship - but members of the swim team keep turning up dead. It turns out the swim team coach is giving them performance-enhancing drugs that cause a demon to hatch from within them. Buffy stops the coach just in time, and the swimmers-turned-demons escape into the sea. Credits Hosted by Allie Press & Nick Mercer Edited by All...

Buffy wrestles with guilt over Angelus’ destructive actions. A tragic story gets recreated with a new ending. Spike is…healed!? This episode features friend-of-the-pod Frances from The Podcast Diaries! Credits Hosted by Allie Press & Nick Mercer Edited by Allie Press Music by InflatonCult Artwork by Charlotte Fleming Design Consultation by Evo Terra Connect with us on social media! Email: tabu...

Allie and Nick discuss Buffy season 2, episode 18, “Killed by Death.” Buffy is sick with a nasty bout of flu that lands her in the hospital. While delirious with a fever, she sees an ugly demon creeping through the hallway after a small boy. The next day, the gang wonders if the demon is merely a manifestation of Buffy’s childhood fear of the hospital. Spoiler alert: it’s not, and Buffy realizes s...

Allie and Nick discuss Buffy season 2, episode 17 “Passion.” Angelus' tormenting of the Scoobies heats up, coming to a dramatic head when he kills Jenny just as Giles and Jenny are making up. Giles goes on a vengeance-fueled attack at Angelus' hideout and is saved by Buffy just in time. The gang is devasted - and in a shuffle of papers, the instructions Jenny found to magic Angelus' soul back into...

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In this episode of Tabula Rasa, B!tches!, Allie and Nick welcome their friends from the Buffy Gays to discuss season 2, episode 15 of Buffy, “Phases!” A mysterious dog, which is later to be discovered as a werewolf, is on the loose. The werewolf, it turns out, is Oz! A werewolf hunter is on the prowl hoping to bag himself a pelt to sell. Willow, who is dating Oz, wants some “smoochies,” but when s...

The Judge is recovering his full powers, and Spike’s impatient to get with the killing. Angel and Buffy did the deed, and it turns out the sex was so good that the curse that put his soul in place was broken. Angel rises from the ground as Angelus, and his first act is to kill his first human victim in over 100 years.  The news about the Judge is not good - at full power, he can kill with jus...

The episode starts with Buffy having a horrible nightmare where an empowered Drusilla stakes Angel before wishing Buffy a happy birthday.  Buffy and Angel have a preschool makeout the next day where Angel comforts and reassures Buffy, and they share with each other that their feelings are intensifying.  At school, Willow asks Oz to go on a date with her to Buffy’s surprise party at the B...

On a mom-sponsored shopping trip to the mall, Buffy’s errand to pick up clothes from the tailor is interrupted by Lyle Gorch, one of two vampire brothers from the Wild Wild West. Buffy and Lyle fight, but he gets away, cryptically saying, “this ain’t over.”  The next day in school, Xander and Cordelia continue to keep their relationship secret - at least out loud *suspicious side-eye*. ...

Buffy returns from a night out with Xander and Willow to find Joyce kissing a man called Ted. Ted is charm personified and bakes superbly, impressing everyone but Buffy. Buffy recognizes she may be biased against men her mom is dating, but something about Ted feels off to Buffy.  Ted and Joyce take the gang mini-golfing, and Ted and Buffy have an unpleasant confrontation over the rules of tha...

We pick up from the last episode with Kendra and Buffy facing off. Buffy calls a truce, and they go and confirm Kendra is indeed a Slayer, called when Buffy died at the hands of the Master. Trapped in a cage from his battle with Kendra, Angel is minutes from death by sunlight when he is saved by Willy - only to be delivered to Spike.  Cordy and Xander are attacked by the Bugman Tarakan and ba...

Career Week looms over Sunnydale High, and Buffy is reminded once more that her career is likely to be unpaid, antisocial, and short. Angel suggests the two of them go ice skating to cheer Buffy up. Spike and Drusilla are planning something big, but they need to keep Buffy occupied, so they send for the Order of Taraka, deadly semi-human assassins. The first assassin attacks Buffy and Angel at the...

It’s late at night in the Sunnydale library, and Buffy is driving Giles crazy with her workout beats. Outside, a man is frantically looking for Giles, but as he is banging on the library door, a zombie woman strangles him to death before falling to the ground and melting.  Police question Giles, as the dead man was carrying a paper with Giles’ name and address. When Giles sees the body, he re...

The episode opens with Angel saving a kid from Drusilla’s clutches and urging her and Spike to leave town. Unbeknownst to them, Buffy is out patrolling and observes and misconstrues the interaction.  The next day in school, Buffy and the gang learn that Billy "Ford" Fordham, Buffy’s fifth-grade crush, has transferred to Sunnydale High. Xander is, unsurprisingly, jealous, and Angel is as well...

Allie and Nick welcome guest host Colleen to discuss Buffy season 2, episode 6, “Halloween.” It's Halloween, which - surprisingly - means it’s the quietest night of the year for the undead. The Scoobies would be relaxing, but they’re bullied by Principal Snyder into babysitting the kids of Sunnydale while they trick or treat. The gang buys their costumes at a new place run by a mysterious Englishm...