Lyla: Don't go thinking about me when I'm gone
Wesley: I wasn’t think about you when you were here
Continued conversations about Angel Season 3, episodes 14-22
“It was me who took you out of the earth. Now the earth wants you back.” Darth Willow has everyone on the ropes, Buffy’s stuck in a hole, Xander’s KO'd, Anya is about to die trying to save the nerd duo, when she’s saved by a handsome former watcher from the UK. Giles is back and he’s all juiced up with magic and ready to fight Dark Willow. Only to be immediately taken down and all his borrowed magic absorbed into the now Super Saiyan Dark Willow (her power level is over 9 thousand!), she’s powered up like never before and ready to destroy the world. But first she sends some swamp-thing elemental dirt monsters after Buffy and Dawn, you know so they can fight and talk. Meanwhile at burning man Spike is tripping out, hallucinating that he’s fighting the fire dancers and then that he’s cover in bugs. Giles, now dying, tells Anya that Willow has absorbed the essence of true magic, whatever that means, and that’s the opportunity for a good boy to reach her. Willow is channels the magic into the remains of a satanic church, which we all know is how you destroy the world, when her bff Xander shows up. Using his heart and a story about kindergarten Xander emotionally breaks Willow so hard she loses all her powers and falls to the ground an emotional mess. Hooray, the world is saved! Oh, yeah and Spike, who is totally unaware of all this, gets his soul back
“You saw her, she's a truck driving magic mama, and we've got maybe seconds before Darth Rosenberg grinds everybody into Jawa burgers and not one of you has the Midi-chlorians to stop her!"
Multiple KOs, from cops to Anya, one literal and figurative jail break, grand theft cop car and truck possession, 1 warlock and 1 Mortal Kombat character
Dark Willow wreaks vengeance upon Warren in this ep of Buffy.
Buffy Virgin welcomes back Maia Kobabe to discuss Buffy Season Six Episode 19: Seeing Red.
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Buffy: “What kind of syrup do you want?”
Dawn: “Syrups have kinds?”
Anya & Spike have a thing and we talk about breakfast foods.
“Lets not listen to Spike. Might get a bit of truth on you.”
Killing your delusions makes sense unless all your delusions are your friends!?
Anya and Xander have a wedding, and maybe they get married.
“Don’t you want your garbage?”
Alert the National Forestry Service - Buffy hits rock bottom and Riley Finn returns!
It's Buffy's Birthday! It's today! It's Buffy's Birthday, so why do demons lunge out at her? ...She's not the only duster her mother raised.
Buffy: Is this a new rug?
Spike: No it just looks different when you’re under it
Spike: I may be dirt ... but you're the one who likes to roll in it, Slayer.
Cartoonist David Yoder joins this episode, where we discuss Smashed.
“Welcome to the Nancy Tribe”
In this episode we discuss Tabula Rasa with special guest Maia Kobabe.
WILLOW
We thought it was just us! It was bizarre.
GILES
Well, I sang but I had my guitar at the hotel and I…
TARA
We were talking and then it was like—
BUFFY
Like you were in a musical!
GILES
That would explain the huge backing orchestra I couldn’t see and the synchronized dancing from the room service chaps.
WILLOW
We did a whole duet about dinner last night
ANYA
And we were arguing and then everything rhymed and there were harmonies and the dance with coconuts.
WILLOW
There was an entire verse about the cous-cous.
XANDER
It was very disturbing.
In That Vision Thing, Wolfram & Hart blackmails Angel with an assault on Cordelia’s psyche. The only way to save her is to rescue a mysterious man from a hell dimension.
In That Old Gang of Mine, this is the episode where we ask ourselves are there any good monsters and we learn why Gunn is never allowed back to Caritas, when his old crew takes on the demons.
In Carpe Noctem, Angel body swaps with a horny old man at a retirement home.
In Fredless, Winnifred’s family shows up at the hotel, and we say goodby to Winnifred...or do we? Bug monsters assault Angel’s hotel and Winnifred shows up to fight them just in time.
In Billy, there’s this guy named Billy and if he touches you – you commit misogynistic violence.
And finally, in Offspring, Angel struggles with his relationship with the very pregnant Darla and learns that not only is he a dad, but that there’s something about that baby.
Dawn meets up with a vampire but will she go all the way?
Buffy: don’t blame me if we have this same conversation over and over and over again.
“Social phenomena don’t have unproblematic objective existences. They have to be interpreted and given meaning by those that encounter them.” - Willow
“Well, I know I’m back in America now – I’ve been knocked unconscious.” -Giles
"I found one of those 24 hour places for coffee. Remember that bookstore? Well, they became one of those books and coffee places, and now they’re just coffee.
It’s like evolution but without the getting better part."
Demon: Big Ax you got there
Xander: All the better to cut you down to size Grandma
Willow vomits a snake and Giles is no longer in the intro in this, the first episode of Season 6 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer