Previously: We discovered that Xander is surprisingly toned under his baggy outfits, that Little League coaches are terrifying, and that I have WAY weirder nightmares than anyone in Sunnydale without...
Previously: Sid the Pervy Dummy reminded me a lot of Slappy the Dummy. More importantly, Sid was a hunter trying to find a organ harvesting demon. Also, Giles was in...
Previously: It’s really not worth recapping the demon-bot story because it’s the worst of the eight episodes we have recapped so far. The Snark Squad does not approve of that...
Previously: We finally learn why Angel broods all the freakin’ time, Buffy’s mom “falls on a barbecue fork” and Darla is staked in a rather anti-climatic fashion. All in a...
Previously: Sunnydale had a zoo. LOL. — Angel Kirsti: We start with the Master moping to Darla about how Buffy kills all his minions, and WAH. The Annointed says that...
Previously: Buffy went on a date, but unfortunately, slaying and dating don’t mix well. Something tells me this will be a reoccurring theme. — The Pack Lorraine: We open the...
K: We open at the cemetery. Buffy is fighting a vampire, as she’s known to do. She slays, and Giles judges, telling her that she should adopt a “plunge and move on” approach. I’ll take “Things you shouldn’t say to teenage girls when you’re a creepy old dude” for $200, Alex.
Lor: And it's the Daily Double!
Despite the Giles creepiness, though, he has a legit point. Mid-vampire ass whooping, Buffy quips SO SO MUCH. During this fight? "We haven't been properly introduced. I'm Buffy, and you're history."
Uuuugh.
Previously: A super powerful witch uses her powers to go back to being a cheerleader in high school. Because that’s pretty much what we’d all use witch-y powers for, am...
Lor: I was never a cheerleader. I could attribute this to my two left feet, distaste for most group activities and propensity for alienating people, but the truth is that I never tried cheerleading because my mother deemed the skirts too short, and we all know short skirts are the devil.
K: I was never a cheerleader, because we don’t do that shit in Australia.
And also because of all the reasons Lor said. (Except for my mother thinking short skirts were the devil. She grew up in the 1960s and so was ALL about the short skirts...)
I feel like we should start this second post of Buffy recaps with a disclaimer. We will not be devoting an entire post to each episode. Because that would be CU-RAAAAZY, and I’m pretty sure both Lor and I would go insane after the 144 posts that would require.
At the end of “Welcome to the Hellmouth”, Buffy is trapped in a tomb with a huge, ugly vampire dude, and he’s about to bite her.
Which bring us to...
“The Harvest”
So apparently the huge, ugly vampire dude (whose name is Luke) has really terrible aim when it comes to necks. Or he was trying to bite her boobs? Either way, he ends up with a mouthful of the enormous crucifix necklace that Angel presented Buffy with in the last episode.
Lorraine: I’ve never watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Well, I’ll annex: I once saw the first part of the pilot, “Welcome to the Hellmouth.” I got up to the line...