Sunnydale Nation: A Buffy Rewatch Podcast

This week we are heading back to the 50s to check in with Mulder’s dad while we discuss “Travelers”! We’re talking Mulder’s floppy flashback hair, Arthur Dales mansplaining HUAC, spend a lot of time discussing Mulder’s mysterious wedding ring (which is exactly what Duchovny wanted! Curse you!), Arthur Dales’s primary character motivation being Conflicted™, and Bill Mulder’s Olympic snorkeling care...

This week we are caught in the middle of an alien war while we discuss “The Red and the Black”! We’re talking the Backroom Boys’ evil observation lobby, how Krycek spends half his life handcuffed to things, wonder what the black oil tastes like, the medics being All Over Scully, talk about Mulder and Krycek’s storm-tossed relationship, and for some reason talk about Milf Manor a lot. We mourn the...

This week we are investigating alien lighthouses while we discuss “Patient X”! We’re talking Mulder being addicted to people hating him, Amanda chemical burning all her meat, Jeffrey Spender’s fear of becoming Spooky Spender, Scully very reluctantly admitting to aliens, and welcome back the greatest boy Krycek. Alex Krycek: every line a clunker. We spend a lot of time missing the cool Amish aliens...

This week we are confronting the slippery nature of truth down in Texas while we discuss “Bad Blood”! We’re talking the all-important question of whether Cowboy Sheriff Luke Wilson is hot or not, how much we love Scully’s version of Mulder, whether FBI HR has a battle plan in the event of Mulder and Scully getting together, how the only thing Scully loves more than snacking is working, how Mulder...

This week we are nurturing nascent AI in the artificial slime of the Internet while we discuss “Kill Switch”! We’re talking Scully shooting a Roomba, discuss Mulder and Scully’s respective goth-jock-nerd-prep alignments, we wish that this episode’s unfortunate misogyny could just be chalked up to Scully and Invisigoth’s jock-goth rivalry, we get jump-scared by multiplying sexy Silent Hill nurses,...

This week we are tossing haunted dolls in microwaves while we discuss “Chinga”! We’re talking Vacation Scully™, how insane it is that Mulder and Scully have to coordinate to take a weekend off, why Jane should go back to school for Panopticon Studies, Scully white-knuckling her way through a relaxing bubble bath, why Scully needs to set up a decoy voicemail, and why the alternate title for this ep...

This week we are being dragged into muddy traps by tree roots while we discuss “Schizogeny”! We’re talking inhaling mud like a siphon, our new beloved Orchard Freak, what a shame it is that kids these days are too busy on their phones to share their cellar milk with corpses, the return of We’re Done Here (!!!), how horrible it is that there is no David Duchovny “Got Milk?” poster, and really puzzl...

This week we are pushing our way through this episode while we discuss “Kitsunegari”! We’re talking the return of Skinner HQ, Mulder sprinting like a maniac, Cajun Vampire time, how Linda has serious Marita vibes (a blonde woman on quaaludes), our new beloved character that nobody else cares about: Todd!, and bad TV CPR. We have some serious issues with this episode messing with the canon that Ski...

This week we are trying to save our alien daughter (but not that hard…) while we discuss “Emily”! We’re talking Gillian Anderson getting sand-blasted on set, Mulder negging Scully’s baby, miracles that were never meant to be, Emily growing one singular man arm, Donkey Kong Scully, and wonder where the propellor hat is on this alien baby? We spend a lot of time hating on this episode (sorry to all...

This week we are beset by visions of our dead family members while we discuss “Christmas Carol”! We’re talking Boy Detective’s real chemistry with Scully, Scully’s laser eyes pointed at this baby the whole episode, the best anime glasses scene transition to date, sad Christmas vibes, and have an extremely heated debate over Bill Jr. We spend so much time talking about Mulder’s absolutely insane pi...

This week we are reanimating the dead in black and white while we discuss “The Post-Modern Prometheus”! We’re talking how all fumigation tents are Breaking Bad references, Chris Carter’s murder hands, mad scientists, insane decor, the lack of Cher cameos, and the all-important question: Who IS the real monster? We’re talking the gaze to end all gazes, the farm animal in the room, how sad it is tha...

This week we are trying to avoid getting forest-snatched AND trying to avoid team-building conferences while we discuss “Detour”! There's a lot to avoid. We’re talking Skinner hobnobbing at team-building conferences, Mulder’s determination to make this an X-File if it kills him, Scully risking her life for snacks, flirting on a log (log-flirting? No, probably not that), how the tree people ca...

This week we are heading back to 1989 while we discuss “Unusual Suspects”! We’re talking how Byers is as easy a mark as Mulder, giant cell phones, Reggie references (!!!), that Mulder wants to arrest Susanne because he hates liars, how Daddy needs a new Sword of Wounding, and most importantly of all, the return of Mr. X! We unpack some Detective Munch lore, refine our Vince Gilligan impression: si...

This week we are accusing our bosses of being an evil mole while we discuss “Redux II”! We’re talking how much we enjoy Mulder being sad, how Scully’s family had to force her to not work while dying in a hospital bed, Bill Jr.’s unfortunate Stan Beeman energy, Mulder’s intense puppy-dog eyes, how out of the loop Skinner is, Teena taking 20 Benadryl before coming to Mulder and Scully’s wedding, and...

This week we are losing our faith in extraterrestrials while we discuss “Redux I”! We’re talking how the surveillance apartment above Mulder’s has to be a timeshare, the development of Evil Skinner, Scully being mad as hell and not going to take it anymore, the insane amount of voiceover and monologues, and FBI Wrapped: The Boo Crew has gotten into 12 violent confrontations with their boss this ye...

Just a reminder that we are taking a short break this week to catch up on our recording schedule. If you would like, please hop on over to our Instagram and participate in our December Ladness bracket to vote on the best X-Files minor characters. The bracket will be starting on December 14th! Otherwise, we will be back to our regular release schedule next week for Season 5! Send us an email at scu...

This week we’re taking a breather after all this emotional turmoil and taking a look at Season 4 as a whole in this extra-long episode (sorry, guys). We discuss special features, answer some emails/questions, rank the episodes (it gets a little heated in the middle!), and introduce our December Ladness bracket. We’re talking Amanda being personally victimized by Chris Carter, our seasonal insect s...

This week in our one-hundredth episode (!!!), we are mourning the very-real and very-permanent death of Mulder while we discuss “Gethsemane”! We’re talking the shocking Scully betrayal that shook the world, how it took them four entire seasons to reschedule this meeting, how they’re definitely ripping off Lord of the Rings, the betrayal boardroom, the continuing mystery of the missing Scully broth...

This week we are blasting lasers into our eyeballs and doing ketamine to remember our traumatic childhoods while we discuss “Demons”! We’re talking Scully breaking the laws of space and time to drive to Rhode Island, comical cobwebs, Teena about to go full A24 Dinner Scene Monologue on Mulder’s ass, Scully having to trick Mulder like a dog going to the vet, and Cigarette Smoking Man baby daddy rev...

This week we are pretending we didn’t see a ghost while we discuss “Elegy”! We’re talking bowling alleys being sovereign nations, the watch Mulder has that tells him how late in the episode it is, Scully suffering from ‘End-of-Season-itis’, whether or not the wig is making Nurse Innes evil, and most importantly of all, The Return of Ellen Bledsoe (!!!!!). Yes, that’s right, the beloved character t...

This week we are sneaking through abandoned warehouses like Mike Ehrmantraut while we discuss “Zero Sum”! We’re talking the very last Howie episode, whether the evil body disposal warehouse is just Skinner’s orgy pad, how Scully is not in this episode because she’s still embarrassed about last week, the Cigarette Smoking Man’s cabana boys, and where in the everliving Skinner’s wife is(?!). We addr...

This week we are avoiding our feelings for our coworkers while we discuss “Small Potatoes”! We’re talking the triumphant return of our boy Darin Morgan(!!!), whether Amanda will be claiming this episode’s Amanda, Vince Gilligan’s interest in plumber butt, Mulder being assigned cool at birth but transitioning to loser, how disappointing it is for Eddie to choose the lamest tall, handsome man possib...

This week we are straining our brains trying to figure out these time travel rules while we discuss “Synchrony”! We’re talking the Howiest of all Howie episodes, Cry Biology, how The X-Files loves to make old men run around, how cute it is that Mulder memorized Scully’s thesis, try to discern anyone’s motivation, and how Oppenheimer and Ben Franklin definitely share custody of the moon. We’re talk...

This week we are being levitated out of planes mid-air while we discuss “Max”! We’re talking the abundance of low-speed chases, how Scuba Bill is a never-nude (scuba suit always in place under his clothes), say goodbye to Puppy Dog Pendrell and complain that Chris Carter personally spoiled this plot point for Amanda, propose a freak reveal party, and get very indignant that they pulled Skinner out...

This week we are welcoming back old friends and then losing them again very quickly while we discuss “Tempus Fugit”! We’re talking Skinner’s PTO (Patriotic Time Off), the return of our boy Max, why weather is just a government psyop, Max’s emotional support plutonium, the very canonical Bisexual Pendrell reveal, and obviously the most important part of the episode, and maybe of the whole show (for...