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Buffering the Vampire Slayer

2.04: Inca Mummy Girl

Buffering the Vampire Slayer

Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure

Tv & Film, After Shows, Tv Reviews

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2017

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Mey Rude (Trans Editor at Autostraddle.com) joins us to talk about this episode, which centers around how hard the dating scene can be when you're a 500-year-old mummy. Kate Leth returns with what is arguably the greatest installment of Buffy FashionWatch ever! We also touch on Cordelia-on-Cordelia fanfic (which is a thing! that totally exists! because of course it is!). This week we're discussing s2e4: Inca Mummy Girl. Read a zillion amazing things Mey Rude has written on Autostraddle, and give her a shout on twitter @meyrude! Jenny Owen Youngs is @jennyowenyoungs on twitter, and you can check out some of her non-Buffy songs at jennyowenyoungs.com/buffering. Kristin Russo is @kristinnoeline on twitter. Learn more about the resources she creates for LGBTQ individuals and their families at everyoneisgay.com and mykidisgay.com. Get to know Buffy FashionWatch correspondent Kate Leth better at kateleth.com, or give her a shout on twitter (@kateleth). Buffering the Vampire Slayer is on twitter @bufferingcast and on facebook facebook.com/bufferingcast. You can now support the show on Patreon! We've also got a rad merch store over at bufferingthevampireslayer.bigcartel.com, where you can find a Buffering tee and Slayerette/Cordette pins... and that's where you can grab a Buffering the Vampire Slayer: Songs From Season One CD (we've still got a few copies left). You can also snag the album on iTunes or wherever you get your digital music! Logo: Kristine Thune, kristinethune.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

If you're listening to this episode the day it goes up and you live in the LA area, please be advised that we are doing a live taping

0:07.0

Tomorrow, Thursday, February 2nd at the Nerdist Showroom in Los Angeles. Please join us. You can find tickets and info at nerdmeltla.com

0:18.0

Did I say everything else was this I think so?

0:30.0

Hello and welcome to buffering the Vampires Slayer, a podcast where we're watching and discussing every episode of Buffy the Vampires Slayer one at a time. I am Jenny Owen Youngs.

0:54.0

I'm Kristen Russo and this week we're discussing season 2 episode 4 Inka Mummy Girl. Stay tuned at the end of this podcast every week for an original song written by us recapping the Buffy episode we're discussing.

1:07.0

Inka Mummy Girl was written by Matt Keane and Joe Rankamire and directed by Ellen Pressman. It originally aired on October 6th 1997.

1:15.0

The summary of this episode is a beautiful Inka Princess who was buried alive in a tomb 500 years ago is brought back to life. The little image which they're really getting me every week with the little images here is just a close up of Rodney's mummified face.

1:36.0

Cool, so fun surprise. We have somebody with us today.

1:42.0

We really do. Who is it? Do you know? I would love it if you would explain it to me slowly and in great detail. Okay, well her name is Mayroad. Oh my god. I love Mayroad. I mean I love Mayroad too. You may know if you follow us on Twitter you probably already know Mayroad.

2:00.0

Also if you listen to our live episode, not a live episode but our songs from season 1 live show from Union Hall that's up on our Patreon page you heard May just answering a few hot hot questions that we asked.

2:16.0

Yes, and you may also know you may also know May, did you like that? If you are familiar with Auto Strattle where May is the Trans and Music Editor.

2:27.0

May, will you tell us what Auto Strattle is? For those of us, I mean Jenny and I have like kind of an idea. We've heard of it once or twice. But yeah, will you tell our listeners in case they don't know what Auto Strattle is?

2:39.0

Yeah, Auto Strattle is the Internet's number one website for queer women and feminists, news and culture and essays.

2:48.0

It's the best. I think we've talked about it on here before, right? No doubt. Yeah, so welcome May.

2:54.0

Thank you. Thanks for joining us. May texted us while she was watching this episode for the first time a little while ago and was like, please tell me you're going to talk about how fucked up this episode is.

3:07.0

And we were like, well, why don't you talk about it with us? Why don't you come on over? We can all talk about how fucked up this is.

3:15.0

We're not ready for it yet, but soon we'll get into the fashion watch where I think that even Kate gets in on. Yeah, how fucked up this episode is.

3:24.0

Good. Cool. So let's jump right in then shall we? First of all, did you have like Jenny and I talked and we watched this the first time. Did you have like a cultural awareness fair or anything like that in your school when you were in high school or middle school?

3:37.0

We had a lot of fun in the sixth grade. We did country reports where each student got a country and you had to do a port on it and then we had like a fair in the gym where everyone dressed up.

3:50.0

Yeah, and you had like a poster board and food in a country. Right. Yeah, same. That's exactly what we had to. So when I was watching this, I was like, this is like pretty spot on.

4:01.0

I don't think we had anything like that. Although it's possible that like anything that didn't involve like capes activity was I just blocked out. You could have picked a cape country. Yeah.

4:13.0

What exactly are the cape country? Yeah. Where?

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