Sunnydale Nation: A Buffy Rewatch Podcast

This week we are tearing up our apartments looking for surveillance equipment while we discuss “E.B.E.”! We’re talking that tasty paranoia, the Deep Throat Lore Drop, and the introduction of the Lone Gunmen! We laugh at Mulder faceplanting, Scully’s responsible snack choices, and Mulder’s ugliest tie to date. We posit a Mulder and Lone Gunmen game night, probably offend Jerry Hardin with our awful...

This week we are stopping at a gas station for some salamander jerky before we hit the road with “Young at Heart”! We’re talking flirty handwriting experts, the danger of misdirected air kisses, and advocating for DC statehood. We make fun of salamander hands, score some theme music for the most 90’s man alive (Reg-gie!), puzzle over the incredibly dramatic Gregorian chanting in the background, an...

This week we are trying to cover up our ill-advised tattoos while we discuss “Lazarus”! We’re talking how embarrassing it is when your Bonnie-and-Clyde thing is only one-sided, how you shouldn’t wear jeans in the house, evil Bible salesmen, and buckwild audio detective work. We check in on Jack Willis on the campaign trail, check out Rat Forum.com to deal with the very real epidemic of rats smokin...

This week we are stroking webs and tossing pheromones all over the place to discuss “Gender Bender”! We’re talking great set design, how cool it would be to change bodies at will, how much of a hussy Jehosophat is, how disgusting it is to slather apple sauce all over dead bodies, and why Mulder is always touching goo. On the serious side, we have some beef with the episode's regressive gender...

This week we are thrown for a loop at the drastically different tone of “Beyond the Sea”, but we make enough time to gush over Brad Dourif. We’re talking the excellent direction and lighting cues, Gillian Anderson’s fantastic acting, the Zodiac vibes, the interesting flipping of the standard “Mulder = Believer, Scully = Skeptic” formula, fancasting Boggs in Rectify, and petitioning Fox to let Aman...

This week we are dodging fireballs and sexy ex-girlfriends while we talk about “Fire”! We’re swooning over the cool arson specialist, complaining about the problematic writing of female characters (thanks, Chris Carter), trying to avoid parasocial relationships with Mark Sheppard, freaking out about Mulder and Phoebe going to town on ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE’S GRAVE?!?!, and pretend not to laugh about M...

This week we are adopting two evil, murderous clone children and talking “Eve”! We’re talking about top secret experiments, how only evil people watch C-SPAN, the return of our Very Trustworthy boy Deep Throat, scenery chewing, a very cool truck stop that we would drop everything to be able to visit, and Mulder’s very chill, very sneaky skullduggery, as well as Scully’s bone-deep horror whenever s...

This week we are ducking under laser fences and sneaking past armed guards to discuss “Fallen Angel”! We spend most of the episode mourning Deputy Squint (pour one out, he went too soon), but also get around to discussing Scully’s stash of Mulder bail money, issue a lot of totally heartfelt apologies, talk about inner tube chases at Wisconsin Dells, pitch a new season of Queer Eye: Alien Edition,...

This week we are dodging CGI alien ghost faces as we blast off into “Space”! We are bringing the tone down for this very somber, incredibly serious episode that is not in any way silly or nonsensical at all. We’re talking director Will Graham’s (definitely real) wild career, NASA stock footage, Mulder fangirling hard, the painful reality of ghost breakups, terribly-named file names, the case of th...

This week we are bundling up in our parkas and flannels and thermal blankets to dig into “Ice”! We have a lot of fun with this one, giving love to director David Nutter, discussing how to have cool and informational last words, mourning the passing of Surfer Bro, legislating the intent to maul, ogling sexy Infection Inspections, and freaking out over how gross tapeworms are. Blazer Watch is thrivi...

This week we are firing up our floppy-disc-powered computers to watch “Ghost in the Machine”, the episode most likely to make you nostalgic for the time we were all worried about computer-controlled door bells. We’re talking about whether or not the episode is horribly dated, dunking on Silicon Valley, trying to avoid the blatant 2001 ripoff… ahem, I mean, references, suggesting new professions fo...

This week, we will be trying to not fall asleep as we revisit “Shadows”! Remember this episode? Yeah, we didn’t either. We’re talking extraneous Grunge Teens (TM), Scully’s trip to Blockbuster, gossippy caretakers, Scully’s strange insistence on identifying murder suspects through really bad ghost photography (like, really bad), and the dangers of face blindness. We also compensate by making up el...

This week we’ll be slathering mud all over our faces and putting little sticks and leaves in our hair to look our best for our date with “The Jersey Devil”! We talk about the coolest crew of side characters that never show up on the show again, Scully’s terrible date with Instant Nuclear Family Divorcee Man, the egotistical philosophical underpinnings to this episode, the objectively cooler story...

This week we are packing up our knapsacks and taking the camper out to Lake Okobogee to discuss “Conduit”, which was definitely filmed in flat, flat Iowa and not the pine-ridden landscape of British Columbia. Ignore the mountainous hills in the background of the shot and you’ll be fine. We’re talking new info on Samantha Mulder’s disappearance, the power of slideshows, Daniel Sackheim’s cinematic...

We are slorping our way down into the sewers this week not to discuss everyone’s favorite child-eating clown, but instead the liver-eating janitor you just love to hate, Victor Eugene Tooms! Yes, we’re talking “Squeeze”, baby. We’re talking the troubling epidemic of bullying in the FBI, suspiciously plot-relevant necklaces, the weird psychosexual antagonism some people feel towards Mulder, Breakin...

Join us as we talk about “Deep Throat!” No, not the whistleblower of the Watergate scandal. No, not the subtly-named adult film the whistleblower of the Watergate scandal was named after. We’re talking about government conspiracies covering up the existence of alien technology (allegedly)! We giggle about the Most Obvious Wire-Tapping Ever (TM), alienate our hordes of listeners who are Packers fan...

Join hosts Ella and Amanda as we discuss the pilot episode of the X Files. We talk the show’s real-life and cinematic influences, we talk the introduction of iconic characters Mulder and Scully, we talk the comforting nostalgia of The X-Files and 90s procedural TV, and we talk most importantly about steamy motel room scenes. Do we break the story that the “Mulder is Bigfoot” plot reveal was foresh...