

Buffering the Vampire Slayer | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure
Hosts Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs are heading back into the Buffyverse for Buffering the Vampire Slayer: Once More, With Spoilers! After a critically-acclaimed, spoiler-free watch of the series from 2016-2022, your hosts are returning to the Hellmouth to discuss all 144 episodes of Buffy for a second time, but this go-round *with* spoilers — a never-before-attempted feat of love and chaos!Buffering the Vampire Slayer is part of the Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure network of podcasts.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Nov 12, 2025 • 1h 28min
2.10 What's My Line Part 2 | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers!
LIVE from Philadelphia, we are here — and joined by special guest Ian Carlos Crawford of SLAYERFEST '98! — to discuss What's My Line Part 2! There are vampire throuples, there are monkeys with pants, Angel's shirt comes unbuttoned a minimum of two times, Jenny cannot stop talking about laying pipe, and there's even some Britney Spears in the mix.
Hey! Our original coverage of "What's My Line Part 2" with no spoilers aired on March 22, 2017 and you can find it here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2-10-whats-my-line-part-2-a-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-podcast/id1150241800?i=1000382943918
IN-EPISODE LINKS
find ian on instagram
more on slayerfest 98
OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS HEEEEERE!
bufferingcast.com/book
LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET
Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com
Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com
Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials
MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music
PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast
MERCH | bufferingcast.com/shop
PODCAST SCHEDULE & EVENTS | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar
Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya Ferguson
Edited by: Kristin Russo
Logo: Kristine Thune
We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 27, 2025 • 1h 20min
2.09 What's My Line Part 1 | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers!
Angel loves to lurk, Buffy is ice skating, a girl with a gorgeous and seemingly singular shirt has just arrived at the Sunnydale airport (!!!), and the only thing we hate more than a man who wants to kill Buffy is a man MADE OF WORMS who wants to kill Buffy?! Live from Brooklyn’s Bell House it’s S2E9 “What’s My Line,” featuring special guests Frankie Casano-Antonellis & Stephan Nance of Sparkbird!!!
Join us for our last live event of the year THIS WEDNESDAY with Joanna Robinson & Alba Daza in Burlington, VT at Higher Ground! Tickets at bufferingcast.com/live
Stephen's new album Head Like a Nest is coming out Nov 14! Learn more about Sparkbird and their upcoming album/tour here!Download the "Enemies" cover featuring Sparkbird at the end of today's episode here!
Listen to the Live Kendra Jingle here!
Hey! Our original coverage of "What's My Line Part 1" with no spoilers aired on March 15, 2017 and you can find it here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/2-09-whats-my-line-part-1-a-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-podcast/id1150241800?i=1000382644951
OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS HEEEEERE!
bufferingcast.com/book
LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET
Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com
Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com
Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials
MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music
PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast
MERCH | bufferingcast.com/shop
PODCAST SCHEDULE & EVENTS | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar
Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya Ferguson
Edited by: Kristin Russo
Logo: Kristine Thune
We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 15, 2025 • 1h 29min
2.08 The Dark Age | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers!
Ripper and Rayne REUNITE!! The past is coming back to haunt Giles in the form of Eyghon! Diedre boarded a plane as a corpse?! Jenny Calendar wants to make Giles squirm! NO ONE CAN EVER HAVE ANYTHING NICE!! Plus, Buffy learns that even adults were kids once. It's S2E8 "The Dark Age," and as usual we have oh-so-many feelings.
Hey! Our original coverage of "The Dark Age" with no spoilers aired on March 8, 2017 and you can find it here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/buffering-the-vampire-slayer-a-buffy-the/id1150241800?i=1000382350549
COME SEE US IN NYC, PHILLY & BURLINGTON!
bufferingcast.com/live
OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS HEEEEERE!
bufferingcast.com/book
LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET
Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com
Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com
Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials
MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music
PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast
MERCH | bufferingcast.com/shop
PODCAST SCHEDULE & EVENTS | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar
Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya Ferguson
Edited by: Kristin Russo
Logo: Kristine Thune
We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oct 1, 2025 • 52min
2.07 Watcher's Diary: Episode Extras
Alan Cumming’s incredible outfits, wooden boxes that are 5x5(x5), Spike’s unwavering honesty, another gutting reveal on what Dawn was doing, and a theory on LARPing LARPers — here is our Watcher’s Diary for “Lie to Me”!
IN EPISODE LINKS
Bo Built - Five x Five Studio
Bluey, Background Jazz, and the 'Best' Metal Guitar Solo
Giles, Ethan, & Rihanna
Alan Cummings Outfits
NOBODY MESSES WITH OUR BOYFRIEND TOUR!!
bufferingcast.com/live
OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS HEEEEERE!
bufferingcast.com/book
LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET
Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com
Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com
Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials
MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music
PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast
MERCH | bufferingcast.com/shop
PODCAST SCHEDULE & EVENTS | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar
Produced by: Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs
Edited by: Kristin Russo
Logo: Kristine Thune
We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples.
Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at
bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 24, 2025 • 1h 42min
2.07 Lie to Me | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers!
Lying liars are lying their lies all over Sunnydale this week, and most of them are doing it while lit from below with a full face of makeup! Buffy’s best LA pal Ford (have you heard of him? because we sure haven’t!) has come to town to die young in an attempt to stay pretty, Drusilla is hanging around the blackb’ry patch, and Willow and Angel are forging their forbidden love! Today we’re talking about Season 2, Episode 7: Lie To Me.
COME SEE US IN NYC, PHILLY & BURLINGTON!
bufferingcast.com/live
OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS HEEEEERE!
bufferingcast.com/book
LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET
Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com
Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com
Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials
MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music
PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast
MERCH | bufferingcast.com/shop
PODCAST SCHEDULE & EVENTS | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar
Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya Ferguson
Edited by: Kristin Russo
Logo: Kristine Thune
We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 17, 2025 • 53min
2.06 Watcher's Diary: Episode Extras
Jenny's battle to have us pod about Xena continues and we also get into the very rich topics of: sitting on bathroom floors, the Buffy reboot pilot, Nancy Botwin selling weed, the myth of sterile urine, and what Dawn was doing for Halloween...
IN EPISODE LINKS
Shoes
Is Urine Sterile?
NOBODY MESSES WITH OUR BOYFRIEND TOUR!!
bufferingcast.com/live
OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS HEEEEERE!
bufferingcast.com/book
LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET
Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com
Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com
Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials
MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music
PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast
MERCH | bufferingcast.com/shop
PODCAST SCHEDULE & EVENTS | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar
Produced by: Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs
Edited by: Kristin Russo
Logo: Kristine Thune
We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples.
Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at
bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sep 10, 2025 • 1h 45min
2.06 Halloween | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers!
Ethan has come to Sunnydale to get scolded by his card-cataloging boyfriend, Oz is wondering who that girl is, Cordelia is a great big cat, Buffy doesn’t know what a Slayer is (my stars!), Jenny is thinking about applying for Survivor, and Kristin has officially proven that our Ripper/Rayne pairing have dabbled in some S S S and M M M. It’s S2E6 “Halloween”!!!!
IN EPISODE LINKS
Sweetums
You Must Remember This: Montgomery Clift & Liz Taylor
COME SEE US IN NYC, PHILLY & BURLINGTON!
bufferingcast.com/live
OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS HEEEEERE!
bufferingcast.com/book
LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET
Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com
Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com
Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials
MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music
PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast
MERCH | bufferingcast.com/shop
PODCAST SCHEDULE & EVENTS | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar
Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya Ferguson
Edited by: Kristin Russo
Logo: Kristine Thune
We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 27, 2025 • 45min
2.05 Watcher's Diary: Episode Extras
Today we are thinking about shadow selves, Xena Warrior Princess, Dawn's love of the Backstreet Boys, and Cordelia's dad's tax evasion. Plus, Jenny made new friends?! It's our Watcher's Diary for "Reptile Boy"!
IN EPISODE LINKS
Passion of the Nerd
The Insect Reflection
NOBODY MESSES WITH OUR BOYFRIEND TOUR!!
bufferingcast.com/live
OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS HEEEEERE!
bufferingcast.com/book
LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET
Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com
Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com
Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials
MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music
PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast
MERCH | bufferingcast.com/shop
PODCAST SCHEDULE & EVENTS | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar
Produced by: Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs
Edited by: Kristin Russo
Logo: Kristine Thune
We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples.
Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at
bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 20, 2025 • 44min
Penis, Demon, Money, Snake: Lani Diane Rich on "Reptile Boy"
The wonderful, brilliant Lani Diane Rich is with us today in defense of Buffy's "Reptile Boy"!! We go deep into what makes a good episode of Buffy (can you hear us, new Buffy writers room?!), consider various snakes-as-penis-demons throughout the show, and discuss what may be at the core of the series — a little sentiment called "to the pain"!!!
LEARN MORE ABOUT LANI DIANE RICH
The Year of Writing MagicallyStill Pretty + Still Dead
IN EPISODE LINKS
Passion of the Nerd
OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS HEEEEERE!
bufferingcast.com/book
LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET
Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com
Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com
Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials
MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music
PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast
MERCH | bufferingcast.com/shop
PODCAST SCHEDULE & EVENTS | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar
Produced by: Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs
Edited by: Kristin Russo
Logo: Kristine Thune
We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples.
Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at
bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aug 13, 2025 • 1h 48min
2.05 Reptile Boy | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
Welcome to Once More, With Spoilers, where Kristin Russo & Jenny Owen Youngs revisit every episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one at a time — for the SECOND time! — this time discussing each episode with spoilers!
It's so nice to look back to the 90s and be reminded of what the patriarchy was like now that we live in a world so free of its presence! We've got a snake (who's not the mayor), silk AND chiffon (in this economy?!), Willow *dragging* Angel and Giles (YOU LOVE TO SEE IT), and girls chained up in the basement (must be a Tuesday!). It's S2E5 "Reptile Boy"!!
Join us next week in conversation with Lani Diane Rich!
IN EPISODE LINKS
Pehla Nasha Clip
REPTILE BOY LIMITED EDITION MERCH
https://bufferingthevampireslayer.merchnow.com/
OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS HEEEEERE!
bufferingcast.com/book
LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET
Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com
Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com
Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials
MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music
PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast
MERCH | bufferingcast.com/shop
PODCAST SCHEDULE & EVENTS | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar
Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya Ferguson
Edited by: Kristin Russo
Logo: Kristine Thune
We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples.
Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at
bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices


