5.22: The Gift

Buffering the Vampire Slayer

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4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2020

⏱️ 110 minutes

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We will not watch this episode or discuss it due to Clause 47 in our contract which specifically states that no episode shall be produced when there are simply "TOO MANY FUCKING FEELINGS." Just kidding, let's all cry together! Willow will always find Tara! Spike is a monster but oh no he is treated like a man! Glory just wants to go home! Giles puts his GLASSES ON! Buffy knows that the bravest thing we can all do is *sounds of muffled sobs* Yeah, fuck everything, it is the Season 5 finale, "The Gift," and no one is or ever will be ready. LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs: @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo: @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering the Vampire Slayer: @bufferingcast on twitter, facebook, and instagram Also hey, here's our website with schedules, resources, events and such: bufferingthevampireslayer.com SPECIAL GUESTS Alba Daza: instagram.com/alba.daza +++ Produced by: Alba Daza, Kristin Russo, and Jenny Owen Youngs +++ Anti-Racism Book Spotlight: When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrice Khan-Kullors and Asha Bandele The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall Learn about our commitments to creating + maintaining an anti-racist base here at Buffering the Vampire Slayer at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting +++ JOIN OUR PATREON FAMILY!! Advance Music, Bonus Episodes, Live Concerts, Book Clubs, wheeeee!! patreon.com/bufferingcast WHY ARE MEN HOODIES, TANKS, & CROP TOPS: HOORAY! bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop Logo: Kristine Thune Edited by: Kristin Russo

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0:00.0	Hey everybody!
0:06.0	I refuse to accept that we have arrived at this episode therefore I refuse to introduce it!
0:15.0	Yeah me too! We're on strike!
0:18.0	If we just stand here with our hands planted firmly on our hips, we never have to finish season 5.
0:25.0	We are here with the gift for you so we can all cry together.
0:31.0	But first we have to do an introduction!
0:34.0	Hey so we're gonna talk about this episode which will rip all of our beating hearts from our chests.
0:40.0	Jenny and I are gonna talk to you about all the things plus we have a segment.
0:45.0	Don't we Jenny? We have a we have a theology based segment.
0:49.0	Producer Alba joins us today for a segment on theology.
0:53.0	Hell yeah! Very excited about that.
0:56.0	A little later in the episode.
0:58.0	I'm very excited about that as well and you know what I'm fucking not excited about?
1:01.0	God damn it everybody is the God damn results from our last actual tension award poll.
1:06.0	I have to say you know these are some of the finest results I've ever beheld in the entire history of the sexual tension awards.
1:15.0	I can only think of one round of sexual tension awards that was as good as these results.
1:22.0	And here's why in fourth place, understandably, with 5% of the vote, it's Joel Gray and his own tongue.
1:30.0	Then in third place we've got Ben and Glory. They took 14% of the vote.
1:38.0	Well that's because 86% of the remaining voters probably couldn't remember that they had a connection.
1:45.0	We do suspect they have some kind of connection but who can say what it is?
1:50.0	Then miraculously bumped down into second place with a paltry 34% of the vote relative to the first one.
2:01.0	I'd spike in Zander and we love to see spike in Zander getting a good chunk of the vote.
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