2.08 The Dark Age | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast

Buffering the Vampire Slayer | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast

Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure

After Shows, Tv Reviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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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

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's Kristen and Jenny.
0:03.1	And we're here to tell you that nobody, and we mean nobody, messes with our boyfriends.
0:07.5	That's canonically true.
0:11.0	We're going on tour.
0:13.0	What are we doing, Jenny? Where are we going?
0:15.0	The Nobody Messes with My Boyfriend Tour is stopping in New York on October 18th, Philadelphia on October 19th, and
0:23.5	Burlington, Vermont for the first time ever on October 29th. We are doing live tapings of
0:29.6	In Order, What's My Line Part 1? What's My Line Part 2? And Ted. Everyone's favorite episode, Ted.
0:36.5	I'm so excited to talk about Ted in front of a live audience.
0:39.5	It cannot even begin to express it.
0:41.4	It's going to be great.
0:42.4	You can find out all of the information you need to know at bufferingcast.com slash live or check out our calendar where our events always live.
0:51.5	Tickets go on sale for our patrons only tomorrow Thursday, August 28th. And then on
0:59.7	sale to the general public Friday, August 29th. So come on out. Join us for some live tapings that
1:07.2	will be a hoot and possibly a nanny. And, uh, you know, we'd love to see you try to mess with our boyfriends.
1:16.1	Bufferingass.com slash live.
1:18.6	Hello, Ripper.
1:20.0	I thought I told you to leave town.
1:21.8	You did.
1:22.6	I didn't.
1:23.7	Shop's leases paid till the end of the month.
1:26.3	Why did he call him Ripper?
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