Once More, with Podcast: The Buffy Boards Podcast

In the second of our two-part episode on Oz, we talk New Moon Rising, and about how quickly Oz returns from Tibet, especially as we can't see to find a way on Google Maps to get there. Willow doesn't have a new man, but she does have a new woman. Oz doesn't take it well!

In the first of a two-part episode on Oz, we talk Phases and how chill Aunt Maureen is that her son Jordy is a werewolf; and that he's going round biting people. Kid needs some serious discipline. This is one family heirloom Oz didn't want to inherit. Or maybe he did; he's just so damn cool all the time!

We wanted to put something out there to explain our sudden leave of absence. Athena's cat also has something serious to say about the situation! We have had some serious gremlins going on - we mean the bad kind, not the cute mogwai kind! Our Skype recording software has given up the ghost which means trying to find an alternative that works for us being in different countries. It also means the episode we recorded is almost completely inaudible.  Basically Cordelia pressed Del for Deliver!

This fortnight we talk about Smile Time, an episode of Angel we both adore. Puppet Angel is literally the greatest version of Angel ever, even if his nose is made of felt and comes off. Why is Angel so much more comfortable as a puppet than as a soulless vampire human hybrid? I guess once you go felt, it's the hand you're dealt. Nina loves Puppet Angel so much he needs a Gepetto. That is not a euphemism.

It's the Puppet Show, with our special guest star.... US! And Sid! He's creepy, he's pervy and he's full of innuendo about wood; Athena loves Sid. Taake just thinks he's creepy and pervy. Time's up for you too, wee little puppet pervert!

Welcome to the final part of our Faith four-part adventure where we look at the Angel Season 1 episode 'Sanctuary'. It seems like only yesterday we met Faith, she was so deadly, so evil, so into torture.... and now she's so innocent and naive, and under Angel's protection.

Part 3 of our Faith four parter This episode we pull on our backless braless tops and dance with other girls' boyfriends in clubs, as Faith rocks up in Los Angeles and does a rather rubbish job of not standing out like a sore thumb!

Welcome to part 2 of our epic Faith four-parter! This fortnight, we're talking about Who Are You. But who are we all? Are we Buffy? Are we Faith? Are we human? Or are we dancer? Find out in this fortnight's episode.

Welcome to part 1 of our epic Faith four-parter! This fortnight, we're talking about This Year's Girl. Yep - we're putting out two episodes a month now for your audible pleasure. We're excited, but we get over it, honestly!

(aka It's all very great and erotic!) Guys. We really love Firefly! Like, we can't stress enough how much we love it. It's cowboys.... in space! It's so damn good. So we recorded a 15th anniversary show to literally fangirl all over it. And fangirl we did. It's smart, it's funny, it's dark, it's sensual, it makes us laugh and it makes us cry like babies. But enough about the podcast, this is about Firefly dammit!

In this months podcast, we discuss the mooted spin-offs of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Faith the Vampire Slayer Ripper Spike Slayer School Buffy: The Animated Series and we also chat a little about Fray, and how much we'd both love to see an adaptation of that particular story.

The Best Big Bad on Buffy!

(This is our first live-watch episode, watching Season 4's Beer Bad! So if you want to watch along with us, prep your DVD. We start the episode about 10 minutes in) Coming at you live from Stockholm! This was actually our first time meeting face-to-face, so this show is kind-of a big deal. Like Ron Burgundy. We also have many leather bound books and Taake's apartment smells of rich mahogany. We also drink. Not bad beer, but good wine. Drunken podcasts are usually not advised, however luckily we have no advisors. So, we met up and we recorded a podcast whilst watching Beer Bad and drinking wine. It actually turned out pretty funny, and we're surprisingly proud of this episode. But we digress. We had a great time together (Athena mentions this many times!) and hopefully we'll do it again soon. Just FYI, as this was a completely live recording, there is no editing at all. Everything happens in real time (like an episode of 24) so there is some mild drunken language. Listener discretion is advised. Turns out Beer Bad is actually a really fun episode to discuss while drinking. Who'd have thunk it?! We also have fun discussing: Xander's caterpillar Willow's Oscar Buffy's golden bits We also find out that: Taake wants to climb farmer Riley like a tree. She still stands by this statement. Athena's brand new single "Emo Song" is probably (not) coming to a record store near you soon. And we ask the age old question: Would Taake create a stupid Athena-bot, or a smart Athena-bot? Thanks so much for listening to us for the last year. To celebrate our anniversary, we created an Instagram. Find and follow us at @oncemorewithpodcast. Find us, and join a great community of like-minded Buffy, Angel and Whedonverse fans, at Buffy-Boards.com. You can also email us with podcast feedback, comments & suggestions to [email protected] Taake & Athena

In this month's episode, we take on the gargantuan task of redeeming two episodes designated as 'the worst' by the Buffy-Boards members: Gone and Get It Done. Two epic fails of episodes which, like Jurassic Park's Dinosaur Supervisor, should have known better. You had one job, Phil! Can we redeem these episodes? Or should we just Invisibility Ray them out of canon? Sadly, we can't do that, but we do at least try to look at the positives of these heinous episodes. In this slightly fruitier-language-than-normal episode, we discover that: Phil, aka Taake, thinks Spuffy is just fanfiction (don't worry Spuffy fans, Athena puts her straight!) but most importantly, Season 7 should just stop trying to make 'fetch' happen! Thankfully, Norway DID give votes to Sweden at Eurovision - PHEW! Athena's a big fan of the 'Rachel' haircut (it's still in fashion, right?) but an even bigger fan of Spike's abs and she's definitely not The First Evil (just regular ol' human evil!) And we still don't find out where Sunnydale's docks or airport actually are. Whilst Taake & Athena disgree on pretty much everything the other says, the one thing we can agree on is that Invisibuffy is truly AWFUL as is Get-It-DoneBuffy. Bad Buffy = bad episode. Thankfully, we have Dawn. We never thought we'd ever say that! Special appearance from the DivaCat in the background, miaowing her disappointment at our attempts to redeem these episodes. She could have done it so much better, obviously. We had one job, Phil.... Find us, and join a great community of like-minded Buffy, Angel and Whedonverse fans, at Buffy-Boards.com. You can also email us with podcast feedback, comments & suggestions to [email protected] Taake-Phil & Athena-Phil

Welcome to another aptly named episode of Once More with Podcast, the large and unfrosted Buffy's bathroom window into your soul. This episode we're talking all about the number one in Buffy Boards recent top 144 - Becoming Part 2; but because Becoming Part 1 is rather essential to the story, we stick that in the mix too. Why is Becoming so beloved in the Buffy Boards community? We wanted to discuss and find out! We also learn that: Athena can't pronounce An-jealous, or is it Anj-eluss? She does it both ways basically, and that she thinks Giles is a phantom of knowledge (I think she meant 'fountain') Taake wouldn't say no to being in an Angelus-Spike-sandwich... whatever that means, and she admits that Spike is actually right about wanting the world to be saved (there's a first time for everything!) And that bullets travel faster than humans. Don't say we're not educational! Special appearance by Morgan Freeman. Mr Freeman, we're such big fans, feel free to buy us some milk anytime. Britney, Beyonce & Shakira also get a mention, in a Buffy podcast, because why not?! You podcast listeners are just lucky that our breasts are small and humble, so you don't confuse them with mountains. All together now! Atheeeena, Athena Taaaaakeeee, Taake This episode is sponsored by Acathla; he wants to swallow your world. Find us, and join a great community of like-minded Buffy, Angel and Whedonverse fans, at Buffy-Boards.com. You can also email us with podcast feedback, comments & suggestions to [email protected] Taake & Athena

Happy 20th anniversary Buffy! 20 years ago you were born to this world and we salute you, in the only way we know how: with a total 90s love-in! In this episode of the podcast, we look back on 20 years of Buffy, and we also find out that: Velvet is back in fashion in Sweden Athena dresses like Clarissa and looks forward to playing Sid, no that's not a euphemism Taake & Athena go deep. No, that's also not a euphemism Missteppy missteps are the way to go, but not during Two to Go We also go back in time and talk Saved by the Bell, Sweet Valley High and various other random 90s stalwarts. We also discuss Orphan Black's tenuous link to Buffy, as we discuss BtVS's legacy. Orphan Black seemed like a worthy successor to the Buffy crown. This podcast is sponsored by Miami Sound Machine. Bad bad bad bad boys; they make us feel soooo good! Find us, and join a great community of like-minded Buffy, Angel and Whedonverse fans, at Buffy-Boards.com. You can also email us with podcast feedback, comments & suggestions to [email protected] Taake & Athena

This episode, Taake & Athena have the long-awaited and promised discussion on Dollhouse. A show that's flawed, yet is interesting in its premise and execution. We both like it a lot, but it's safe to say we both have issues too.

The New Year is here, which means a new roster of Once More, with Podcast. Taake and Athena are back after the Christmas break, fully revived and ready to go.... and then Taake got sick! So, unfortunately our planned episode had to be replaced last minute. And so, we discuss our top five Best and Worst Buffy & Angel episode titles. Some of the choices are controversial, some of them are just words out of the dictionary. But, we think we're onto a winner, with the topic suggested by one of our board members, GwenRaiden, where we discover: Athena doesn't understand the phrase "There's no I in team", or is it "There's no me in team"? and Taake really really loves Olaf the Troll, but really hates Harmony. (Olaf, call her!) Special shout out to the Germans, who are as wonderful as they are literal. Anya would be proud! But most importantly of all, it would appear that hell will literally freeze over if Taake and Athena agreed on anything. So, in order to stop the apocalypse, we will try not to for the foreseeable future. Find us, and join a great community of like-minded Buffy, Angel and Whedonverse fans, at Buffy-Boards.com. You can also email us with podcast feedback, comments & suggestions to [email protected] Taake & Athena

It's Christmas (ok, well it's sort of not, but Athena hasn't been well over the festive period and therefore we're a bit late getting this out, but it was meant to be out on Christmas Day!) and to celebrate this festive period, and also our podcast 6 month birthday, we wanted to do something bigger than usual. So in our infinite wisdom decided to take on Marvel's The Avengers and (to a lesser degree) Age of Ultron, both written & directed by Joss Whedon and basically have a nice big discussion about them.   Turns out, they takes a while to talk about, so this episode is a slightly extended Christmas & New Year bonanza. Consider it our gift to you fine people, for downloading and listening to us for six whole months - we are very grateful.    We discover that:   -We both love a Hulk with a hairy chest. We're also sharing custody of Loki; one week in England, one week in Sweden for the foreseeable future.   -Don't mess with Norse Gods, it angers Taake quite a bit   -Athena's 5 and a half other pages of notes made excellent kindling for a Christmas fire   Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year from us both! Thank you for listening (it's a long old slog but it's worth it, we promise!) and see you in 2017! Find us, and join a great community of like-minded Buffy, Angel and Whedonverse fans, at Buffy-Boards.com. You can also email us with podcast feedback, comments & suggestions to [email protected] Taake & Athena

  Buffy as a show has some great one-off characters. Sometimes those characters only need one appearance, or deserve one appearance. So we tasked ourselves with thinking of characters who only appeared once, but deserved to stick around for a little while longer.... Athena chose Sunday, the vampire from The Freshman, who makes a supremely sassy entrance, manages to kick Buffy's ass twice(!!) and then unfortunately is dusted by Buffy. And then Taake cheated and chose Kathy Newman, who was in two episodes (The Freshman and Living Conditions), but we let her have it on a technicality (that, and she really loves Kathy!). Kathy is sadly returned to her demon dimension after attempting to steal Buffy's soul. The fact we chose two sequential Season four episodes was a complete coincidence! We also discover Athena has a rather unfortunate thing for puppets and didn't recognise Oberyn Martell, and Taake's Mum made excellent certificates, but don't ever leave your used chewing gum near her. Also, Paake is not, and never will be, a thing. But who was better? Sunday or Kathy? Kathy or Sunday? Hopefully this podcast will go someway to finding out, but we'll also post a poll on the boards too, to find out once and for all who did deserve to be in the show for longer. Find us, and join a great community of like-minded Buffy, Angel and Whedonverse fans, at Buffy-Boards.com. You can also email us with podcast feedback, comments & suggestions to [email protected] Thanks so much for listening! Taake & Athena

There are spooooooky goings on at Once More, with Podcast HQ. Taake's wearing a black hat and riding round on a broomstick and Athena's grown fur and is regularly howling at the moon. There's only one explanation: it's HALLOWEEN! To celebrate the day when all the demons of Sunnydale stay home, we put up a poll at buffy-boards.com asking which Halloween-based episode we should podcast about. In the end, there were two winners, both from Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 2's Halloween and Season 4's Fear, Itself We faced our fears, to watch and discuss these two episodes and aimed to answer the following burning questions: Which is the better episode? How much do we wish we'd seen more of Ripper and Ethan Rayne? How cute are fear demons? and What exactly was Willow's costume underneath the ghost outfit? Sexy goth chick? Sexy rock chick? (Because as we all know, every outfit for women on Halloween must be sexy) Find us, and join a great community of like-minded Buffy, Angel and Whedonverse fans, at Buffy-Boards.com. You can also email us with podcast feedback, comments & suggestions to [email protected] Thanks so much for listening! Sexy Witch & Sexy Werewolf

This episode, Taake and Athena take sides on the overrated/underrated debate on Season 3, Episode 13 'The Zeppo' (naturally, they have to agree to disagree!).  We have zombies, cake baking, a 1957 Chevrolet Belair (thanks, Uncle Rory!) an apocalypse going on in the background and Xander Harris, the 'everyman' of BtVS taking centre stage. Taake thinks the episode is underrated, Athena thinks it's overrated and for some reason, the innuendo starts flowing! Will Taake be able to convince Athena of the brilliance of The Zeppo? Ding ding, round 1 of the first in our series of "Overrated/Underrated"!  Find us, and join a great community of like-minded Buffy, Angel and Whedonverse fans, at Buffy-Boards.com. You can also email us with podcast feedback, comments & suggestions to [email protected] Thanks so much for listening!

This episode, Taake and Athena dust off their scrunchies and neon leotards and travel back in time, to 1992. A time when a movie came out which would change history as we all know it - quite literally. Because without this movie, there would be no BtVS or AtS and we wouldn't be here doing this podcast! Yes, we're talking about the completely non-canon Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie. We discuss the troubled production and our shared dreams of graduating, visiting Europe, marrying Christian Slater and dying. (Ok, so we both live in Europe, so that's one we've both got sorted!) Only one of us can legally marry Christian, so Athena will probably be happy with Luke Perry instead. We also talk about the performances in the movie and just how fantastic Kristy Swanson actually was - yes, we did actually agree on something! We also discuss the differences between the finished product and the much superior original script, which is available here for anyone interested in reading Joss' original vision for this movie. Find us, and join a great community of like-minded Buffy, Angel and Whedonverse fans, at Buffy-Boards.com. You can also email us with podcast feedback, comments & suggestions to [email protected] Thanks so much for listening!

Memory Loss. It happens to us all at some stage in our lives, but not usually by a spell! In this very first official episode of Once More, With Podcast, Athena and Taake discuss two landmark episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel which tackle memory loss (or memory regression), both of which caused by a good intention spell-gone-wrong! Taake prefers Spin the Bottle, episode 6 of Season 4 of Angel, in which Lorne attempts to bring back the Cordelia we all know and love but instead they all become seventeen again, and the government gives her bad hair... Athena prefers Tabula Rasa, episode 8 of Season 6 of Buffy, where a lonely, depressed Buffy is wiped along with all the Scoobies by a well-meaning Willow; Spike becomes Giles' son and we meet a lone loan shark... Find us, and join a great community of like-minded Buffy, Angel and Whedonverse fans, at Buffy-Boards.com. You can also email us with podcast feedback, comments & suggestions to [email protected]