Fans actually coined the term "Sunnydale Syndrome" to describe people who remain steadfastly skeptical in the face of overwhelming evidence of the supernatural/unexplained.
I was elated you finally started watching this, but I am surprised you guys are taking the campiness of season 1 in stride to the extent that you are. I'm having more fun than I even expected watching it with you guys. 💕
@@schuettjoel Yea I cringe whenever someone starts watching from Season 1, just because I know that the show's legacy is defined by how good it gets after the initial trial season concludes. Episode 4 especially is one of the worst ever IMO. Hang in there Normies the show is about to get worse before it gets even better!!
My favorite moment was when Rana said " She just told her Mom that she is a Buffy slayer!" Love that you all are watching this show, it only gets better.
Buffy is one of the shows that actually brought fight scenes and stunts on T.V. to a whole other level, but you'll have to wait until season 2 to see it with the arrival of Jeff Pruitt. They get so much more ambitious as time goes on (and the budget goes up).
So funny thing when Cordelia makes fun of the one chick calling her a Laker Girl. The actress was actually a cheerleader in real life for the San Diego Chargers.
Fun fact: SMG actually auditioned for the role of Cordelia. Also, this show is pretty much the 1st time the term "Google" was used as a verb on such a public platform. That episode is coming up.
@@yasminemixon9340 100%. With Harvey Weinstein and other accusations of impropriety against other people in Hollywood, its hard for some people to make a distinction between an asshole (like Joss) and a sex offender. Joss also "liked" Nathan Fillion, Alan Tudyk, and Adam Baldwin (all male actors) which is why he cast them multiple times...
@@yasminemixon9340 He didn't assault women, but he was chauvenistic and slept with a lot of female crew members and chased skirts, cheated a lot. So yeah, he WOULD hire a female actor just be cause he wanted to sleep with her too. Wouldn't surprise me. But I think in this case he legit liked her as an actress, she just wasn't the best for the role of Buffy.
So much of Buffy is about adolescent issues (like an overbearing parent living through you vicariously) and turning them into a literal monster to beat up and succeed against. The catharsis is so good, because irl, you don't really get to do that.
The fact that this campy, quippy, low budget 90s teenager show will turn into one of the greatest and most impactful tv series of all times is crazy to me. No one could guess that from these three episodes. It doesn't "get better", it gets "annoyingly good" and I love it. Every single edgy CW series that takes themselves waaay too seriously would kill to become %10 of what this show becomes.
The parents don't understand because of social differences is so real. I'm a clinical counselor but only in my mids 20s and I had to bring down my 40+ year old colleagues with teens and be like hey you can't just tell them no internet stop doing that because they literally don't know a world without it. It's part of their identity and primary means of socialization because it's the age of technology and they were in the womb tweeting lol bout to be born. It's a matter of getting on a level and working towards communication and understanding
Yeah the fight scenes in season 1 were “okay” at best. But the fight scenes improve tremendously in season 2, and continues to get better as the show goes on! Buffy was actually praised highly for their amazing fight scenes for that time for a television series
"Savannah", a soap opera created by Constance M. Burge ("Charmed") and produced by Aaron Spelling ("Dynasty") was the show Buffy replaced, and the WB (now CW) Network execs had a love/hate relationship with the show.
It's really fun watching a group reaction to this show. Think over the years I've only really seen solo reactions or reviews to Buffy/Angel. The group dynamic is new and refreshing.
I don't know if it's apocryphal, but I've heard that a lot of the vocabulary around (at least on the internet) for shows and movies -- like "Monster of the Week Episode" and "Season Big Bad" -- comes from the way the tropes began being described on Buffy message boards / communities. (TVTropes originated as a wiki of Buffy tropes in particular.)
@@calvinallen3424 Might as well come from the Japanese super sentai shows which predate that but yeah maybe not for the english term used by English speaking people.
Mickey: "I love that low budget, like , Power Rangers type, like , production, like , super low budget..." Well then he'll like the next episode for sure ! 😁
I loved this show. I love all the guesses that you guys are doing and all the side comments. Keep track of all your guesses. Its going to be so rewarding when you find out what really happens.
The first season had a very small budget and it shows. For example when a student is walking down a school hallway and turns the corner it’s edited and the students are turning to walk into the same hallway. They didn’t have the money for more than one hallway. This is my favorite TV show of all time and in my 65 years of life I’ve seen a lot of TV.
When asked about this show, Sarah Michelle Gellar ALWAYS brings up that they were a "mid-season replacement on a newly-launched network with no audience based on a less-than-successful movie". Like, this show was NOT supposed to be a hit and it had basically no budget. It's why I kind of love the first season even though it's a bit cheesy, it shows that whether it has its season 5-6 budget or its season 1 budget, it's made by people who know how to tell a good story that is entertaining, has great characters, subverts your expectations and has something real to say despite all the monsters.
Great job, guys! I adore this ep and I love that you are enjoying Buffy so much. I'm glad you picked up on the playfulness of the title. It's not called "The Witch" It's just "Witch" meaning "Which". It's a pun! There's a ton of camp here so all the LOLs are totally valid, but I can't wait to see the reactions when it gets a bit darker in season 2. There will be little less 😂🤣and a little more 😳🤯from the couch comity. And I'm here for it!
I remember seeing you guys react to Hush and the pilot episode years ago hoping one day you'd get around to reacting to the series. The first season is pretty rough, the most episodic, and the most dated in some respects but there are a couple good episodes like this one and there's much better and so much more still to come. Hope you guys stick with it.
I just did a rewatch of season 1 and even though most of it is episodic, there is character and relationship development as well as a shit ton of hilarity. Season 1 is still better than most of Supernatural (and the first two seasons of Lucifer I tried to watch.... but thats just my opinion.. I felt like Lucifer was trying too hard to be Buffy/Supernatural vibes but not as well executed.)
This actually happened to me at work where a woman i was helping said " I guess congratulations are in order" and i was like "for what?" and the woman was like "You're pregnant." i was like "oh no honey I'm just fat" she was horrified LOL I just laughed.
Re: 37:30 The technological jump from the 60s to the 90s was more stark than from the 90s to the 2020s. In 1960 TV and radio was not recordable at home, phone calls were prohibitively expensive, there were no computers at home. By 1990 you could be recording the radio on your home personal computer with an ISA expansion card, while talking on a long distance telephone call to a friend in another country, and monitoring a satellite weather feed while watching a home recorded movie on your video player. The only real difference in 2020 from 1990 is that you can be doing those things on your mobile phone. That's a technological refinement rather than a paradigm shift
My 80s ghetto had a new feature where you could skip to the next song on the tape. It was so awesome. Within a few years, CDs were out and the skipping was instant. The concept was not new, but the lack of waiting was appreciated. Then we waited for movies to take the leap. After that, it was not tech so much as the changing industry and distribution would actually put out TV shows on tape/disk and movies out within months after the premiere. Now, streaming. But, I still like hard copy of my very favorite shows to get around services losing the broadcast rights.
They had Driver's Ed cars with passenger side brakes before '97. I took it in 1990, and our '87 Chevy Caprice had them. They had to be installed by a mechanic obviously, but they did have them. And this was in middle of nowhere South Dakota, so I doubt a school in California couldn't have them as well.
Love that you guys are taking this season well. BTVS is one of my favourite shows, but when I tell people to watch it, I always have to add the disclaimer that you need to get through season 1 before it really takes off. Thats not to say Season 1 doesnt have its great moments, but it can be incredibly campy and a little cringe, then its just constant improvement from there on.
Mark 15:09. Hmm. I graduated in, 1982. The, "DE", car didn't have two steering wheels, but the instructor did have his own set of brakes. A foot pad on a bar connected to the actual brake pedal. I learned that bit was there when he thought I was going to cross the railroad crossing tracks too fast. So yeah, where is his brake? 🤔
Thank you so much for you watching this show. It is so good! Chris the weirdness not acknowledged by students gets talked about in a later season.. in a funny way too. Appreciate this watch along so much I will check out your Patreon.
Mark 7:23. Oh yeah! With the first episode, your party began talking about how close, Giles, gets to the others, and maybe the others got close too, but they weren't him, so you didn't care. Well, back then, it was still analog television, not digital. Television sets, were still mostly square boxes, with cathode ray tubes inside them, not the monitor screens of today, that are used for computers and do double duty as television screens. Though the mechanical knobs were replaced with buttons by then, and the transition from VHF to UHF channels, became unnoticed. The point is, the picture ratio was smaller, and people needed to be closer together for some scenes, so they looked to be in kissing range, if that's what's making you uncomfortable. However, a song, "Don't Stand So Close to Me!", in retrospect, I suppose did help to spread the message out there about the relatively new concept of, "Personal Space". That violating it was skin to violating a nation's airspace. 🤔
Funny thing, there is a Supernatural episode where a rich married couple of witch and warlock are trying to hurt each other in with crazy collateral damage...Who plays them ? James Marsters aka Spike and Charisma Carpenter who play Cordelia, both in Buffy !! It's pretty hilarious !! The episode is " Shut up Dr. Phil.
Mark 5:55. Charisma Carpenter.... ...she was also a part of a song-and-dance troupe which performed in the Las Vegas Valley when she was nine years old. After high school graduation, Carpenter traveled throughout Europe. When she returned to San Diego, she worked as a video store clerk, an aerobics instructor, and in property management. In 1991, she worked as a cheerleader for the, "San Diego Chargers", football team. In 1992, she moved to Los Angeles, California. 👯 So, "Cordelia Chase", has that in her favor! 🤓
hold up that rapid fire exchange between chris and spidey lmfao "i've seen too much true blood is what i'm gettin at" "i've never seen it heard it was a good show" "it's not" *show starts*
For the pronunciation of Giles you use a J sound. Like juice or jump. So excited that you are watching Buffy! The first season is pretty campy but season 2 is when it gets good! I can’t wait for you to see!
Awww man hurts my heart to hear Chris hate on True Blood. I say this not to yell at Chris but rather try to get people like Spidey to still give it a chance even though they may hear negative things about it. I mean the criticism is definitely valid in later seasons but there is still plenty of reason to give it a watch because it is just sooo damn fun! It is an absolute off the rails wild ride which I personally find hilarious and entertaining as hell. True Blood is pretty incredible! And is rather amazing that they pulled off something no many shows are able to do. Which is have a modern Sci fi show with interesting likable characters, with crazy cliffhangers/twists and turns, and really intriguing mysteries BUT at the same time walking a line between serious and campiness that is over the top and ridiculous. Or at least they did for the first several seasons. But I think even some of the crappy parts of True Blood are still great…in the so bad it’s good sort of way. True Blood a comedic campy sci fi show that actually has some really interesting characters and twists in the writing well 75% of it is anyway give or take. The last few seasons are quite a mess and make some really cheesy choices in the story? But honestly I think there is still some real great entertainment in that haha… Sorry just had to stick up for one of my guilty pleasures for a sec haha
this was my favourite episode in season 1 and the only i remembered later. keep going, though, it stays fun and gets better. Buffy really is a fun show to go through.
Fun fact: Nosferatu was created because the film makers couldn't get the IP rights for Dracula. The IP owners sued them and the court ordered all copies of the film destroyed, which would've happened if a single copy of the film hadn't made it to the USA where the court order didn't apply.
39:14 _"Because I fucking know what's good for you that's why!"_ *~Micky* Shortly after my daughter was born I was given *the absolute best parenting advice* by a neighbor who was a kindergarten teacher. It's saved my ex-wife and I from the headaches most other parents deal with. She told us _"Try not to say _*_'no'_*_ to your child, but rather, explain _*_'why not'_*_ as your initial answer._ If you say _"no,"_ you open yourself up to all that _"but whyyyy?"_ and _"because I said so!"_ crap. But if you get into the habit of trying to explain *why not* right from the start, I tell you it's a much more peaceful way of parenting. My daughter is 34 years old now, so I can tell you _this is doable._ 😊
24:34 In a line that I think was cut Giles even said "If I had the power of the black mass I'd set my sights a little higher than making the pep squad."
When I started my career my librarian colleagues and I were pleased when Giles & Buffy appeared on the cover of the journal American Libraries. By the way Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia) is a former San Francisco Chargers cheerleader.
This is now the highlight of my youtube week!! Love your reactions, and great to see Pat and Spidey on board as well! Edit: And now I had to sign up on Patreon, I need more!!
I kind of love the hate for Cordelia just because I know her journey. I feel like almost every major cast member will get hate at some point. They are all beautifully flawed characters. Cordelia never loses her wit but becomes so much more interesting than a queen bitch.
Mark 26:10. "Ouija", is the French word for, "Yes", combined with the, German word for, "Yes", to form the trademark name of, spirit board, manufactured by, "Parker Brothers". (They may have a new owner by now.) 🧐😎🤓🤔
This episode was the first to really provide a glimpse of what the show will become. This episode took a fucked-up aspect of American culture -- that some parents want to live vicariously, through their children, and subject their kids to some ugly abuse, thereby -- exaggerated it, and then added a dash of supernatural horror. That's what made Buffy such a cultural phenomenon. It holds up a funhouse mirror to some particularly twisted parts of our culture (Why do we like to see attractive young people brutally slaughtered in slasher flicks, just because they had sex?) and makes some clever, and quite sharply pointed, comments about that. The group's reaction to the next episode should be quite interesting. The production values, in it, are not great, but it can illustrate some weird double-standards. 😀
Giles got knocked out. Someone start the counter.
I tried to count that once... western mathematics does not have a number high enough to encompass it.
@@legaultrants
Try geometric algebra. It handles real numbers, complex, quaternions, vectors, Pauli spin matrices,… it might be able to keep up.
Ok! One! 😝
@@myleneschanck5268 😂 Been watching Passion of the Nerd?
not enough numbers comprehendible to human minds - have to ask spike to keep count
Funny you mentioned “pre-google” the first time the term “googled” was ever used on tv was on Buffy.
Actually it was the first time anyone had used the word “googled”
@@spikejr3113jr Is this a "the word 'googlible' is not in the dictionary" bit?
I actually googled this to check that it was true, and it is! I love when I find even more reasons to love this show
🤯🤯
In the Buffy universe, anyone can do magic in theory. What makes someone a witch is having a real talent for it and a lot of power.
Taking the time to study is vital in this world.
"Those that forget their history are doomed to repeat it.... in summer school..." - Buffy Summers
Glad I managed to avoid summer school.
Fans actually coined the term "Sunnydale Syndrome" to describe people who remain steadfastly skeptical in the face of overwhelming evidence of the supernatural/unexplained.
and the show gave us the perfect answer to that
I was elated you finally started watching this, but I am surprised you guys are taking the campiness of season 1 in stride to the extent that you are. I'm having more fun than I even expected watching it with you guys. 💕
I think it helps that they are watching in a large group.
@@HighQueenChelsea Just wait till next week...
@@schuettjoel Yea I cringe whenever someone starts watching from Season 1, just because I know that the show's legacy is defined by how good it gets after the initial trial season concludes. Episode 4 especially is one of the worst ever IMO. Hang in there Normies the show is about to get worse before it gets even better!!
they watch anime, peopel who watch anime can handle these type of shows better
Dude they love mortal kombat, they def love the campy 90s shows and films. Its a staple of the time
Welcome to the 'Cordelia is sassy' squad. Sometimes you "don't like her" but you end up loving her.
If you think about it, Amy's mom got exactly what she wished for. She got to relive her glory days of high school cheerleading, forever.
My favorite moment was when Rana said " She just told her Mom that she is a Buffy slayer!" Love that you all are watching this show, it only gets better.
Buffy is one of the shows that actually brought fight scenes and stunts on T.V. to a whole other level, but you'll have to wait until season 2 to see it with the arrival of Jeff Pruitt. They get so much more ambitious as time goes on (and the budget goes up).
My man with the Power Rangers experience
@@DigiCount Yes!
So funny thing when Cordelia makes fun of the one chick calling her a Laker Girl. The actress was actually a cheerleader in real life for the San Diego Chargers.
Fun fact: SMG actually auditioned for the role of Cordelia. Also, this show is pretty much the 1st time the term "Google" was used as a verb on such a public platform. That episode is coming up.
Fun Fact: The actress who plays Amy was the runner-up to play Buffy. Joss liked her so much he created the role of Amy for her.
we now know what that meant, when Joss 'liked' a girl on set😆
@@dtmt502 what does it mean?
@@Micheal93k their comment doesnt make sense, joss never assaulted anyone on any of his shows, he was just an asshole to actors he didnt like
@@yasminemixon9340 100%. With Harvey Weinstein and other accusations of impropriety against other people in Hollywood, its hard for some people to make a distinction between an asshole (like Joss) and a sex offender. Joss also "liked" Nathan Fillion, Alan Tudyk, and Adam Baldwin (all male actors) which is why he cast them multiple times...
@@yasminemixon9340 He didn't assault women, but he was chauvenistic and slept with a lot of female crew members and chased skirts, cheated a lot. So yeah, he WOULD hire a female actor just be cause he wanted to sleep with her too. Wouldn't surprise me. But I think in this case he legit liked her as an actress, she just wasn't the best for the role of Buffy.
I finally find myself agreeing with Pat and his love for Cordelia
RANA IS RIGHT: "CARMILLA" WAS PUBLISHED BEFORE DRACULA
Every time they talk about Cordy I hear music from Hamilton... "Just you wait, just you wait"
So much of Buffy is about adolescent issues (like an overbearing parent living through you vicariously) and turning them into a literal monster to beat up and succeed against. The catharsis is so good, because irl, you don't really get to do that.
Loving the discussions here. So many guesses are so right but even better so many are so so wrong.
The fact that this campy, quippy, low budget 90s teenager show will turn into one of the greatest and most impactful tv series of all times is crazy to me. No one could guess that from these three episodes. It doesn't "get better", it gets "annoyingly good" and I love it. Every single edgy CW series that takes themselves waaay too seriously would kill to become %10 of what this show becomes.
The parents don't understand because of social differences is so real. I'm a clinical counselor but only in my mids 20s and I had to bring down my 40+ year old colleagues with teens and be like hey you can't just tell them no internet stop doing that because they literally don't know a world without it. It's part of their identity and primary means of socialization because it's the age of technology and they were in the womb tweeting lol bout to be born. It's a matter of getting on a level and working towards communication and understanding
The Laker Girl quip was because Charisma (Cordelia) WAS a cheerleader for the Chargers.
Edit: Not a Laker girl.
Was she? I thought she cheered for the Chargers?
@@MrLorenzovanmatterho You're right, my bad.
Yeah the fight scenes in season 1 were “okay” at best. But the fight scenes improve tremendously in season 2, and continues to get better as the show goes on! Buffy was actually praised highly for their amazing fight scenes for that time for a television series
I love this show so much and you guy are already the best. I love the amount of laughter you bring. It’s only gonna get more amazing!
I'm looking forward to when they stop thinking so much- "This is a 90's show"
Me too
Buffy also started as a mid-season replacement for another show, so it had truly no budget
"Savannah", a soap opera created by Constance M. Burge ("Charmed") and produced by Aaron Spelling ("Dynasty") was the show Buffy replaced, and the WB (now CW) Network execs had a love/hate relationship with the show.
The original unaired 25 minute Buffy pilot looked like it was shot on either super 8mm or 16mm film. Talk about a low budget.
It's really fun watching a group reaction to this show. Think over the years I've only really seen solo reactions or reviews to Buffy/Angel. The group dynamic is new and refreshing.
I don't know if it's apocryphal, but I've heard that a lot of the vocabulary around (at least on the internet) for shows and movies -- like "Monster of the Week Episode" and "Season Big Bad" -- comes from the way the tropes began being described on Buffy message boards / communities. (TVTropes originated as a wiki of Buffy tropes in particular.)
I heard freak/monster of the week came from X-file fans
@@calvinallen3424 That would certainly make a lot of sense, too.
Big Bad definitely came from Buffy
@@calvinallen3424 Might as well come from the Japanese super sentai shows which predate that but yeah maybe not for the english term used by English speaking people.
This was when Internet fandom really took off.
Mickey: "I love that low budget, like , Power Rangers type, like , production, like , super low budget..."
Well then he'll like the next episode for sure ! 😁
The technological jump between the sixties and the nineties was a hell of a lot bigger than between the nineties and now.
there have never been more buffy ractors then there are since covid started. i'm 200% here for it
Great Buffy reaction guys this is going to be a fun series
Loved the yassification of vampires discussion at the beginning 👌
The amount of foreshadow in this i never noticed before is amazing
3:31 legit made me laugh out loud. "it's not." lmfaoo, just the way it was delivered
Buffy is such a good show. This was my show growing up as a teen in the 90's.
I loved this show. I love all the guesses that you guys are doing and all the side comments. Keep track of all your guesses. Its going to be so rewarding when you find out what really happens.
my rule of thumb for the pregnant vs. fat conversation: if it's your business, you'd already know and if you don't know, it's none of your business.
This was my show in middle school. It came on twice before school and twice after. Good times.
The first season had a very small budget and it shows. For example when a student is walking down a school hallway and turns the corner it’s edited and the students are turning to walk into the same hallway. They didn’t have the money for more than one hallway. This is my favorite TV show of all time and in my 65 years of life I’ve seen a lot of TV.
“Watch the show like it’s an anime” I think is FANTASTIC advice to get someone skeptical to find a good frame of reference for Buffy season one.
The first time anyone ever says "I'll google it" on TV is in season six of Buffy
When asked about this show, Sarah Michelle Gellar ALWAYS brings up that they were a "mid-season replacement on a newly-launched network with no audience based on a less-than-successful movie". Like, this show was NOT supposed to be a hit and it had basically no budget. It's why I kind of love the first season even though it's a bit cheesy, it shows that whether it has its season 5-6 budget or its season 1 budget, it's made by people who know how to tell a good story that is entertaining, has great characters, subverts your expectations and has something real to say despite all the monsters.
Not to worry: the fight choreo (like everything else about this show) levels up in future seasons.
Great job, guys! I adore this ep and I love that you are enjoying Buffy so much. I'm glad you picked up on the playfulness of the title. It's not called "The Witch" It's just "Witch" meaning "Which". It's a pun! There's a ton of camp here so all the LOLs are totally valid, but I can't wait to see the reactions when it gets a bit darker in season 2. There will be little less 😂🤣and a little more 😳🤯from the couch comity. And I'm here for it!
41:50 Ask a woman a question about womanhood and three men will loudly answer you at once.
Kudos to Spidey for being the only guy who listened.
👀👀😁
Season One is camp nonsense compared to the brilliance of later seasons but I am having a lot of fun watching it with you guys.
Can't wait for them to get to season 4, things are gonna change so drastically
I remember seeing you guys react to Hush and the pilot episode years ago hoping one day you'd get around to reacting to the series. The first season is pretty rough, the most episodic, and the most dated in some respects but there are a couple good episodes like this one and there's much better and so much more still to come. Hope you guys stick with it.
I just did a rewatch of season 1 and even though most of it is episodic, there is character and relationship development as well as a shit ton of hilarity. Season 1 is still better than most of Supernatural (and the first two seasons of Lucifer I tried to watch.... but thats just my opinion.. I felt like Lucifer was trying too hard to be Buffy/Supernatural vibes but not as well executed.)
Such an iconic episode, one of my all-time favorites! So happy y'all are reacting to BTVS
hurray!!! keep these reactions coming! the Buffyfandom is alive and well, and we will be watching!
The abundance of occult books in the high school library is probably due to Giles being the librarian.
This actually happened to me at work where a woman i was helping said " I guess congratulations are in order" and i was like "for what?" and the woman was like "You're pregnant." i was like "oh no honey I'm just fat" she was horrified LOL I just laughed.
1:29 LMFAO RANA “name them.” SHES QUEENIE IM SORRY LSMDLSMDOQMSLS
Re: 37:30 The technological jump from the 60s to the 90s was more stark than from the 90s to the 2020s. In 1960 TV and radio was not recordable at home, phone calls were prohibitively expensive, there were no computers at home. By 1990 you could be recording the radio on your home personal computer with an ISA expansion card, while talking on a long distance telephone call to a friend in another country, and monitoring a satellite weather feed while watching a home recorded movie on your video player. The only real difference in 2020 from 1990 is that you can be doing those things on your mobile phone. That's a technological refinement rather than a paradigm shift
My 80s ghetto had a new feature where you could skip to the next song on the tape. It was so awesome. Within a few years, CDs were out and the skipping was instant. The concept was not new, but the lack of waiting was appreciated. Then we waited for movies to take the leap. After that, it was not tech so much as the changing industry and distribution would actually put out TV shows on tape/disk and movies out within months after the premiere. Now, streaming.
But, I still like hard copy of my very favorite shows to get around services losing the broadcast rights.
Anyone who isn’t immediately anti the S1 campiness/production value is in for a *ride*, bc they deserve JUST how good it’s gonna get 🥰
They had Driver's Ed cars with passenger side brakes before '97. I took it in 1990, and our '87 Chevy Caprice had them. They had to be installed by a mechanic obviously, but they did have them. And this was in middle of nowhere South Dakota, so I doubt a school in California couldn't have them as well.
My friends dad was a drivers ed teacher in the 60s-80s and he always had a passenger brake
Love that you guys are taking this season well. BTVS is one of my favourite shows, but when I tell people to watch it, I always have to add the disclaimer that you need to get through season 1 before it really takes off. Thats not to say Season 1 doesnt have its great moments, but it can be incredibly campy and a little cringe, then its just constant improvement from there on.
Mark 15:09. Hmm. I graduated in, 1982. The, "DE", car didn't have two steering wheels, but the instructor did have his own set of brakes. A foot pad on a bar connected to the actual brake pedal. I learned that bit was there when he thought I was going to cross the railroad crossing tracks too fast.
So yeah, where is his brake? 🤔
This is why vampires have two faces on Buffy. It’s Love,Hate,Sex,Pain. What you know of sexy vampires Buffy helped cultivate the image
28:00 not wrong, this show introduced the real Scarlet Witch
frikkin cordelia man 🤣. And Suraj laughing like a Witch
Buffy is one my fav series of all time , but 1 episode per week ? really? I'll be a grandad for the finale...
Now they're on season 3. Lol
I like how many twists they squeeze into this episode.
Thank you so much for you watching this show. It is so good! Chris the weirdness not acknowledged by students gets talked about in a later season.. in a funny way too. Appreciate this watch along so much I will check out your Patreon.
Buffy and Angel are two of my favorite shows of all time, but just a warning… The next few episodes are ROUGH!
Legit! Though, teacher's pet is campy fun, and I actually like The Pack. They're digging some of the camp, but I've got a countdown to School Hard.
Ep 7 is pretty good and 10 is scary but 11 and 12 are good and SMG's performance in the season finale is next level
Fun fact, Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia) was really a cheerleader for the Chargers.
Mark 7:23. Oh yeah! With the first episode, your party began talking about how close, Giles, gets to the others, and maybe the others got close too, but they weren't him, so you didn't care.
Well, back then, it was still analog television, not digital. Television sets, were still mostly square boxes, with cathode ray tubes inside them, not the monitor screens of today, that are used for computers and do double duty as television screens.
Though the mechanical knobs were replaced with buttons by then, and the transition from VHF to UHF channels, became unnoticed.
The point is, the picture ratio was smaller, and people needed to be closer together for some scenes, so they looked to be in kissing range, if that's what's making you uncomfortable.
However, a song, "Don't Stand So Close to Me!", in retrospect, I suppose did help to spread the message out there about the relatively new concept of, "Personal Space". That violating it was skin to violating a nation's airspace. 🤔
Find myself waiting for this reaction series. Such a good show and the vicarious first time experience is incredible with you guys.
Funny thing, there is a Supernatural episode where a rich married couple of witch and warlock are trying to hurt each other in with crazy collateral damage...Who plays them ? James Marsters aka Spike and Charisma Carpenter who play Cordelia, both in Buffy !! It's pretty hilarious !! The episode is " Shut up Dr. Phil.
Mark 5:55.
Charisma Carpenter....
...she was also a part of a song-and-dance troupe which performed in the Las Vegas Valley when she was nine years old.
After high school graduation, Carpenter traveled throughout Europe. When she returned to San Diego, she worked as a video store clerk, an aerobics instructor, and in property management. In 1991, she worked as a cheerleader for the, "San Diego Chargers", football team. In 1992, she moved to Los Angeles, California. 👯
So, "Cordelia Chase", has that in her favor! 🤓
hold up that rapid fire exchange between chris and spidey lmfao
"i've seen too much true blood is what i'm gettin at"
"i've never seen it heard it was a good show"
"it's not" *show starts*
The novels are at least decent, the series starts out ok, then take very weird turns.
@@biocapsule7311 but the Intro is perfect!
"Buffy broke from the standard sexy vampire genre" lol you are not prepared for the fangbanging in this series
Rana's outfit is amazing! the docs and that coat 🔥
Season 1 always gets me excited! The feels I'm in right now! Thanks for this.
Robin Riker showed her acting chops with the two roles she played. She was perfect with the show's twist.
For the pronunciation of Giles you use a J sound. Like juice or jump. So excited that you are watching Buffy! The first season is pretty campy but season 2 is when it gets good! I can’t wait for you to see!
Little do we know Spidey did some interdimensional shiz and was the UPS driver trying to kill Cordelia. haha
Awww man hurts my heart to hear Chris hate on True Blood. I say this not to yell at Chris but rather try to get people like Spidey to still give it a chance even though they may hear negative things about it.
I mean the criticism is definitely valid in later seasons but there is still plenty of reason to give it a watch because it is just sooo damn fun! It is an absolute off the rails wild ride which I personally find hilarious and entertaining as hell.
True Blood is pretty incredible! And is rather amazing that they pulled off something no many shows are able to do. Which is have a modern Sci fi show with interesting likable characters, with crazy cliffhangers/twists and turns, and really intriguing mysteries BUT at the same time walking a line between serious and campiness that is over the top and ridiculous. Or at least they did for the first several seasons. But I think even some of the crappy parts of True Blood are still great…in the so bad it’s good sort of way.
True Blood a comedic campy sci fi show that actually has some really interesting characters and twists in the writing well 75% of it is anyway give or take. The last few seasons are quite a mess and make some really cheesy choices in the story? But honestly I think there is still some real great entertainment in that haha…
Sorry just had to stick up for one of my guilty pleasures for a sec haha
this was my favourite episode in season 1 and the only i remembered later. keep going, though, it stays fun and gets better. Buffy really is a fun show to go through.
Giles was THE father figure everyone wanted
I'm so looking forward to watching episode 4 with the Normies. The guys are gonna have so much fun.
Thanks for bringing this show into the rotation.
We actually had some books on Wicca and stuff in our library in high school lol
Fun fact: Nosferatu was created because the film makers couldn't get the IP rights for Dracula. The IP owners sued them and the court ordered all copies of the film destroyed, which would've happened if a single copy of the film hadn't made it to the USA where the court order didn't apply.
I just realized that Rana is the only girl on the couch reacting.
Marketa shows up later but I can't remember which ep
39:14 _"Because I fucking know what's good for you that's why!"_ *~Micky*
Shortly after my daughter was born I was given *the absolute best parenting advice* by a neighbor who was a kindergarten teacher. It's saved my ex-wife and I from the headaches most other parents deal with.
She told us _"Try not to say _*_'no'_*_ to your child, but rather, explain _*_'why not'_*_ as your initial answer._ If you say _"no,"_ you open yourself up to all that _"but whyyyy?"_ and _"because I said so!"_ crap. But if you get into the habit of trying to explain *why not* right from the start, I tell you it's a much more peaceful way of parenting.
My daughter is 34 years old now, so I can tell you _this is doable._ 😊
24:34 In a line that I think was cut Giles even said "If I had the power of the black mass I'd set my sights a little higher than making the pep squad."
When I started my career my librarian colleagues and I were pleased when Giles & Buffy appeared on the cover of the journal American Libraries. By the way Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia) is a former San Francisco Chargers cheerleader.
Its Sunnydale people in that town just know crazy stuff happens and accept it.
This is now the highlight of my youtube week!! Love your reactions, and great to see Pat and Spidey on board as well!
Edit: And now I had to sign up on Patreon, I need more!!
In the prequel movie she is the head cheerleader at her old high school
I kind of love the hate for Cordelia just because I know her journey. I feel like almost every major cast member will get hate at some point. They are all beautifully flawed characters. Cordelia never loses her wit but becomes so much more interesting than a queen bitch.
The editor putting the gold face trophy on the screen, just reminded me how creeped out I was about this episode.
Mark 26:10. "Ouija", is the French word for, "Yes", combined with the, German word for, "Yes", to form the trademark name of, spirit board, manufactured by, "Parker Brothers". (They may have a new owner by now.) 🧐😎🤓🤔
This episode was the first to really provide a glimpse of what the show will become.
This episode took a fucked-up aspect of American culture -- that some parents want to live vicariously, through their children, and subject their kids to some ugly abuse, thereby -- exaggerated it, and then added a dash of supernatural horror.
That's what made Buffy such a cultural phenomenon.
It holds up a funhouse mirror to some particularly twisted parts of our culture (Why do we like to see attractive young people brutally slaughtered in slasher flicks, just because they had sex?) and makes some clever, and quite sharply pointed, comments about that.
The group's reaction to the next episode should be quite interesting. The production values, in it, are not great, but it can illustrate some weird double-standards. 😀
FINALLY!! New Buffy reactions!!! I watched Buffy like 5 times during pandemic 😅and I loved it!!
I love this show!!!!!
Yeeesssss!!!! Thank you for the reaction!
Cordelia is THE original Mean Girl… You love to hate her 😜
Or hate to love her lol
My man said, "Nobody wears horizontal striped shirts." I'm dead!
The confidence with which Pat assumed she was pregnant LMFAO and he says he is scared hahaha..