Sunnydale Nation: A Buffy Rewatch Podcast

This week we get locked in a bunker with an alien craft while we discuss “Apocrypha”! We’re talking Baby-Faced Bill Mulder, Mulder and Scully’s loyalty to Lariat, Mulder getting way too into being black-oiled, which Lone Gunman is the best skater, and a Phil the Phone Guy/Kimberly the Orgy Coordinator love connection. We wonder where Skinner’s family and friends are, get black-bag dropped off for...

This week we are picking up some black oil on our diving expedition while we discuss “Piper Maru”! We’re talking the introduction of the black oil, Hot Cousteau, the infinite doors leading into Skinner’s office, whether stealing mail is an intergalactic crime, and Mulder and Krycek’s embarrassing rough-housing. We track Gillian Anderson’s warmth towards her castmates on a scale from cockroaches to...

This week we are painting gargoyles while we discuss “Grotesque”! We’re talking horse revolution in this Very Serious Episode, the important representation for people who are always bleeding somewhere, the dad from That 70’s Show, the important differences between AM, PM, and BM Brew Crew, and how Mulder is not Will Graham no matter how much he wants to be. We drag Howie a lot, get excited about o...

This week the stars are making us fight while we discuss “Syzygy”! We’re talking about how Mulder and Scully are not the Boo Crew this week, attempt to solve the mystery of the horny beast, freak out about Mulder making the most depressing drink of all time, and cancel Mulder forever because he makes fun of Scully’s little feet. We’re hyping up Bob’s Mob, talk about how Rob Bowman has one ass shot...

This week we are avoiding getting eaten by cockroaches while we discuss “War of the Coprophages”! We’re talking CMB (Classic Mulder Behavior), how delightful it is to watch Mulder and Scully just hanging out, Mulder’s girly scream, revise our Scully snack policy, but most importantly, welcome back Scully’s dog! We gush over Darin Morgan’s writing as per usual, wonder whether Scully and Kim Wexler...

This week we are running up that hill and making a deal with God as we discuss “Revelations”! We’re talking Scully getting her turn to have an insane Mulder moment, the long-awaited Grandpa Fight, the Boo Crew breaking the laws of physics to show up at a crime scene, and Mulder flying down the Lil Nas X stripper pole to hell and getting scooped up by aliens. We derail the climax by talking about M...

This week we are trying to decipher door codes on alien trains while we discuss “731”! We’re talking Mr. X being covered in dog hair, starting work meetings by begging people not to kill you, Chris Carter’s strange cameo, Mr. X carting Mulder around ass-first, and the insane way our shadow man recites numbers. We unveil our new name for the cabal of evil old men, talk about how dangerous atomic bl...

This week we are chasing down autopsy trains while we discuss “Nisei”! We’re talking the shoe-horned autopsy tape they aired on the FOX Network, Skinner being a beacon in the night, Scully getting inducted into the Lesbian Convention, how Mulder jogs everywhere like a video game character, and track the most important subplot: whether Mulder’s $29.95 was well spent. We discover that Amanda is a Fr...

This week we are desperately trying to reach the bars of our prison while we discuss “Oubliette”! We’re talking Mulder projecting hard (no, really, no one has ever projected harder), how middle school is like being locked in a basement with a murderer, how creepy and evil oubliettes are, and whether Scully is actually the Monster of the Week? We’re unpacking Amanda’s repressed TV show trauma, retu...

This week we are astrally projecting and murdering people who have wronged us while we discuss “The Walk”! We’re talking Scully’s love of investigating people for whatever, the general’s extremely dark office, how Mulder is a cryptid hipster, if Ghost Ben Franklin is a Twitch streamer, and boggle at how one of the characters straight-up gets away with murder. We talk about the mail robot in The Am...

This week we are rolling up into goo cocoons while we discuss “2Shy”! We’re talking the on-the-nose named Detective Sexism, how Scully should get one free punch in every episode, the hottest new move The Gookis, Mulder’s Italian accent, and how 2Shy doesn’t disrespect women, he just murders them. So it’s fine! We discuss the baffling discovery that there are only 37 academics in Cleveland, how you...

This week we are making a lot of ironic statements about death row while we discuss “The List”! We’re talking absolutely baffling execution methods, excessive chest rubbing, Mulder being an NPC, and the EDEGS (Extremely Dark, Extremely Green Showers). We discuss the construction of Moon Vernon, the return of Mulder’s love of goo, guillotine tattoos, Green Mile comparisons, and how everything, when...

This week we’re getting visions of our own deaths while we discuss “Clyde Bruckman’s Final Repose”! We’re talking The Stupendous Yappi’s stupendous eyebrows, how the villain is Remy Linguine, a man with a rat on his head, how Darin Morgan likes to (lovingly) bully Mulder, and fate vs. free will. You know, just light sleepover chats. We get both a Mulder Death Lore Drop (which we don’t snicker abou...

This week we’re getting a little… electric while we discuss “D.P.O.”! We’re talking our love for Jack Black, the unseen but still-beloved group of lightning scientists down at the local diner, crushes that can be seen from space, and how Darren should have thrown it all away and joined Tenacious D. We continue the saga of really condescending character names, discover that lightning don’t discrimi...

This week we are outrunning government agents chasing us away from secret mining facilities while we discuss “Paper Clip”! We’re talking how Mulder’s dad created Clippy, the ridiculously ineffectual assassins, how Skinner is a tank built to beat up people for Mulder and Scully, and Krycek’s clown shoes. We struggle to come up with team names for both the good guys and the bad guys, get disgusted t...

This week we’re taking a nap in the afterlife while we discuss the Season 3 premiere “The Blessing Way”! We’re talking The Mulder Problem, Skinner tracking Scully down in a helicopter because she missed a meeting, Frohike’s love for watermelon vodka, and our new favorite sitcom “3 Hosteens and An Alien Baby”. We struggle to come up with a team name for all these evil old men, welcome back Deep Thr...

This week we’re doing things a little different while we look back on Season 2! We’re talking Gillian Anderson being top dog in this playground, what does and doesn’t tickle our fancy alien bones, grading on a curve for Howie, when Tony Todd’s slap made the USSR fall, get really excited about our 2 seconds of Toby Lindala, and: Krycek President? We still can’t get over the time they arrested a wor...

This week we are badly searching box cars before blowing them up while we discuss the Season 2 finale “Anasazi”! It’s definitely super sad that Mulder is dead forever, so we memorialize his newfound obsession with water, discuss whether or not the Cigarette Smoking Man has a good butt, and get excited about the hotly-anticipated sequel to Dad Fight: Boy Fight. We’re tracking Krycek’s transformatio...

This week we are carrying around a bucket of fried chicken while we discuss “Our Town”! We’re talking why you’re in trouble if you have a custom decapitation device, celebrate the return of Mulder’s Dork Sunglasses, and derail the episode by talking about Lord of the Rings instead of Bones (for once). We take a break from giving disrespectful nicknames to the crew by giving disrespectful nicknames...

This week we’re outrunning our own shadows in “Soft Light”! We’re talking the arrival of our main man Vince Gilligan, how messed up it is to see a man taller than Mulder, Hugh Dancy taking pictures of airport carpets, and that it’s fine to point a gun at your romantic partner if it’s fun and a little sexy. We briefly doubt Vince’s writing prowess and then feel bad when we discover that, as usual,...

This week we are rolling up to a crime scene 8 hours late with our rifles out while we discuss “F. Emasculata”! We’re talking inmates that only look cool in complete darkness, embarrassing safety procedures, Dean Norris playing Season 1 Hank Schrader, and reversible U.S. Marshals-bowling league jackets. We discuss how the Cigarette Smoking Man is not a communications major, why Skinner is freaked...

This week we are hanging out with the coolest crew of old Romanian ritualists in “The Calusari”! We’re talking the return of our beloved ‘Enhance That Image’, somehow completely forget a man’s death two minutes after he gets strangled by a garage door opener, are unimpressed by Chuck: the King of digital images, and talk about how basement folding chairs are Protestant culture. We’re talking evil...

This week we are unpacking our luggage and our biases while we discuss “Humbug”! We’re talking how Mulder is somehow both a weirdo and a normie, Dr. Blockhead’s Gob Bluth energy, Mulder and Scully’s combined sleep schedules, Scully’s magician skills, and how you shouldn’t talk to the FBI unless you have a good zinger. We heap love on Darin Morgan’s love letter to abnormality, advocate for bullying...

This week we head out into the Norwegian sea for “Død Kalm”! We’re talking pirate whale propaganda, whether or not rats are sexy, hurkin’ and splurkin’, and somehow completely miss a violent murder. Our hot young thangs are hot no longer, so we talk about really bad makeup, convenient Norwegian flags, Alex Gansa daring to show his face again, and how much we hate The Notebook. If you suffer from O...

This week we hunker down for black hole season while we discuss… *checks notes* Oh, that’s right: “Fearful Symmetry”! We’re talking James Bond villain boardrooms, 100% bang rates, how the monster-of-the-week aliens are definitely the B Team, how buff Frohike is, and Kyle XY for some reason. Remember Kyle XY? There’s not a whole lot going on in this one, so we spend a lot of time talking about the...