Buffy the Gilmore Slayer: A Buffy and Gilmore Girls Podcast

Gilmore Girls S5 E6 "Norman Mailer, I'm Pregnant!/Buffy S5 E6 "Family" Both Rory and Tara don't love the way their dads have handled things with their moms and decide to make it known. We learn Tara's family hasn't been super cool to women, and apparently neither has Normal Mailer. Both Buffy's dad and Sherry have fled to Europe, fully abandoning their paren...

Buffy S5 E5 “No Place Like Home"/Gilmore Girls S5 E5 "We Got Us a Pippi Virgin" Buffy and Emily discover that Giles and Richard own some unusually flashy garments, and the ladies do NOT approve. To keep herself safe, Emily buys a panic room, and Buffy learns that in a way, Dawn is a panic room. Spike and Zack take some time to process their new romantic feelings. Buffy meets perhaps...

Gilmore Girls S5 E4 "Tippecanoe and Taylor, Too/Buffy S5 E4 "Out of My Mind" Despite bringing some DTF blondes home, Spike and Zack are abruptly given news that romance may lie elsewhere. Spike and Jackson impulsively seize opportunities that don't work out the way they wanted. Riley's heart's beating faster than Hep Alien's new anthem, and he'll burst if he...

Buffy S5 E3 “The Replacement"/Gilmore Girls S5 E3 "Written in the Stars" Xander is on the tail of what he believes to be his evil twin, and Emily is on the case of where Richard could possibly be going at 7:30pm!? While Xander finds himself split down the middle, the people of Stars Hollow worry they're have to split down the middle if Luke and Lorelai's relationship goes...

Gilmore Girls S5 E2 "A Messenger, Nothing More"/Buffy S5 E2 "Real Me" Rory's got a message for Dean; Harmony's got a message for Buffy: both very different, but both deliveries do result in something flying through a window. While both Rory and Dawn express their feelings through writing, both Buffy and Liz have their meditation interrupted by a sibling. Every Europea...

Buffy S5 E1 “Buffy vs. Dracula"/Gilmore Girls S5 E1 "Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller" We kick this season off with surprise visits from Dracula: one in Sunnydale, and one at the Dragonfly? Buffy and Rory convince themselves last night won't happen again, but alas, they're under the thrall of Dracula and Dean respectively. Sookie and Willow are asked to keep secrets, and boy, a...

In this special episode, we recap our general thoughts on Season 4 of both shows. We count down our top 5 moments, discuss our least favorite moments, reveal our favorite episodes, share some predictions, AND decide which show we thought was better overall. We try one more time to make sense of whatever The Initiative was supposed to be. We take a good chunk of time to break down our feelings abou...

Buffy S4 E22 “Restless"/Gilmore Girls S4 E22 "Raincoats and Recipes" Starting out on this journey, we never could have predicted that both Season 4 finales would address such a heavy subject as individual cheese slices, yet here we are. While the Scoobies and Kirk are all being followed by something scary in their dreams, Buffy and Lorelai process the significance of unmade beds. Xa...

Gilmore Girls S4 E21 "Last Week Fights, This Week Tights"/Buffy S4 E21 "Primeval" As Liz and TJ, as well as the Scoobies, join together in beautiful union, Adam also plans a gathering to perform his own idea of marriage. While Adam attempts to create a whole new race of bad guys, Emily tricks Rory into a bad date with the Beer Bad guys. Resident bad boys, Spike and Jess, are on...

Buffy S4 E20 “The Yoko Factor"/Gilmore Girls S4 E20 "Luke Can See Her Face" Sunnydale's hottest new couple has a brand new cat, and whether she likes it or not, Stars Hollow's hottest new spinster's got a couple of 'em. Luke seeks out self-help books to fix the problems with his life, and whether Spike likes it or not, a very "Tony Robbins" Adam tells h...

Gilmore Girls S4 E19 "Afterboom"/Buffy S4 E19 "New Moon Rising" Lorelai and Willow make a difficult choice and say goodbye to the men in their lives. And while Oz and Willow stay up all night talking, Lane creepily watches her mom sleep. In order to rescue Oz, the Scoobies go undercover and sneak into The Initiative, and in order to save Friday Night Dinner, Emily goes undercov...

Buffy S4 E18 “Where the Wild Things Are"/Gilmore Girls S4 E18 "Tick, Tick, Tick, Boom!" Bombs are dropped, eggs are lost, and secrets are out on Gilmore Girls, but not as big as the secret that Giles is doing an open mic!? P.S. Buffy and Riley also aren't so secretive when it comes to romantic activities. Both Spike and Dean work on their cornering girls in an alley techniques....

Gilmore Girls S4 E17 "Girls in Bikinis, Boys Doin' the Twist"/Buffy S4 E17 "Superstar"  Johnathan, now known as Doyle, is back as Johnathan, only now with twin girlfriends! Oh, and everyone's obsessed with him. Spring-break-obsessed Madeline and Louise are also back and ALSO dealing with twin girlfriends. Madeline and Louise use their charm to get free drinks, while J...

Buffy S4 E16 “Who Are You"/Gilmore Girls S4 E16 "The Reigning Lorelai"  Due to a recent body swap incident, Buffy and Faith aren't quite themselves this week. Meanwhile Emily and Richard get straight-up wasted. Willow has finally decided to stop keeping Tara a secret, and Emily uncovers a juicy juicy secret about her own relationship. Adam converts a whole gaggle of gullible va...

Gilmore Girls S4 E15 "Scene in a Mall"/Buffy S4 E15 "This Year's Girl"  Emily's shopping spree has her Aaron Sorkining her way through Bloomingdales, meanwhile Faith prefers to procure her apparel by assaulting hospital visitors and moms. Faith moves out of her dungeon-of-a hospital room, and Lane moves into an apartment with a similar vibe. As the Gilmore Girls teach...

Buffy S4 E14 “Goodbye Iowa"/Gilmore Girls S4 E14 "The Incredible Sinking Lorelais"  When the Gilmore Girls realize achieving their dreams is maybe more than they can handle, they both take solace in the arms of forbidden men. Meanwhile when Riley starts to question reality and truth, he takes solace in a little scarf. Both the Scoobies and the Yalies are living 5 to a tiny room with...

Gilmore Girls S4 E13 "Nag Hammadi is Where They Found the Gnostic Gospels"/Buffy S4 E13 "The I in Team" Liz is still in town, and she's making steak dinner for her guys! Meanwhile one of Maggie Walsh's guys is doing a little staking of his own. While Buffy nearly dies seeking the approval of The Initiative, Luke nearly dies after drunkenly trying to fix a window. Spik...

Buffy S4 E12 "A New Man"/Gilmore Girls S4 E12 "A Family Matter"  While Giles gets an unwelcomed visit from his old pal, Ethan, Luke is reunited with his historically-problematic sister, Liz. Both rehash their pasts over drinks, and while one visitor might be staying a bit longer, the other is maybe going away forever? Buffy celebrates her birthday by getting physical with Riley...

Gilmore Girls S4 E11 "In the Clamor and the Clangor"/Buffy S4 E11 "Doomed"    Lane finally comes clean to her mom, while Buffy and Riley mostly come clean to each other. And while Riley can't accept that Buffy won't date him, Lorelai can't accept that Luke is living with his wife. A funeral and subsequent bequeathal brings the town of Stars Hollow together, while...

Buffy S4 E10 "Hush"/Gilmore Girls S4 E10 "The Nanny and the Professor"    While some creepy, friendly-faced gentlemen float around Sunnydale stealing hearts, another creepy, friendly-face gentleman floats around Yale robbing cradles. Giles and Olivia's/Lorelai and Jason's romantic evenings both involve eerily silent onlookers. (The Gentlemen/Cyrus) And as Rory spats w...

Gilmore Girls S4 E9 "Ted Koppel's Big Night Out"/Buffy S4 E9 "Something Blue"    Buffy and Spike are getting married!... or so it seems. Also seems as if Richard has been hiding a huge secret his entire marriage. Regardless, delicious bloody beverages are flirtatiously consumed by all. Both Buffy and Lorelai end up on outdoor first dates with very persistent men, but not b...

Buffy S4 E8 "Pangs"/Gilmore Girls S4 E8 "Die, Jerk"    Slightly late, yet still topical, Buffy struggles with Thanksgiving, both the meal preparation and the general concept. While Buffy decides how to appropriately deal with a vengeance spirit, Rory deals with a vengeance... ballerina? A thirsty Anya insists on watching Xander dig, and a thirsty Digger insists on a date with L...

Gilmore Girls S4 E7 "The Festival of Living Art"/Buffy S4 E7 "The Initiative"    Both shows reveal very impressive large-scale operations: one carefully developed by scientists over time, the other pulled together by some kooky townsfolk in under a week. Lane must decide if an older man is a good fit for her band, while Willow must decide if an older man is a good fit for her f...

Buffy S4 E6 "Wild at Heart"/Gilmore Girls S4 E6 "An Affair to Remember"    This week's episode of Gilmore Girls might be called "An Affair to Remember," but the Buffy episode certainly features a much bigger affair. As much as he wants to resist, Oz just can't keep his paws off a new mystery woman, while in Stars Hollow, a different new woman mysteriously ca...

Gilmore Girls S4 E5 "The Fundamental Things Apply"/Buffy S4 E5 "Beer Bad"    Both Rory and Buffy are weirdly pressured into interacting with a group 4 dorky college guys, but from there these episodes take MUCH different paths. Both women struggle with rejection and the fact that not every relationship needs to be immediately serious. While Tana explains the power of a woman&ap...