: Buffy the Vampire Slayer DeepWatch: Season 2, Episode 4: “Inca Mummy Girl” (airdate: Monday, October 6, 1997): Part 2 of 3

15:01 – 30:00 Previously on \m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/ . . . The Cultural Exchange Program has arrived in Sunnydale, California. Many students, including Buffy Summers, will be hosting foreign exchange students for two weeks. Meanwhile, a South American exhibit, which includes an actual Inca mummy girl, arrives at the Sunnydale Natural History Museum. Ne’er-do-well Rodney Munson, […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer DeepWatch: Season 2, Episode 4: “Inca Mummy Girl” (airdate: Monday, October 6, 1997): Part 1 of 3

00:00 – 15:00 What were you doing on Monday, October 6, 1997? I don’t remember either. I wasn’t watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer yet. We’ve talked about this before, you and I. That came much, much later, after the series was off the air and I was married to a different woman. I wasn’t working […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer DeepWatch: Season 2, Episode 3: “School Hard” (airdate: Monday, September 29, 1997): Part 3 of 3

30:01 – THE END Previously on \m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/ . . . As it turns out, Spike can’t wait until the Night of St. Vigeous, that huge Maguffin all the vampires are chanting about, to kill the current incarnation of the Slayer. Instead, he leads a group of bloodsuckers in a raid on Sunnydale High’s Parent-Teacher […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer DeepWatch: Season 2, Episode 3: “School Hard” (airdate: Monday, September 29, 1997): Part 2 of 3

15:01 – 30:00 Previously on \m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/ . . . Buffy Summers, the Slayer, and newly-introduced bad girl Sheila were ordered to prepare for the upcoming Parent-Teacher Night by Principal Snyder. It’s some sort of punishment, or perhaps a contest to find out which girl the principal is going to expel. In the interim, a […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer DeepWatch: Season 2, Episode 2: “Some Assembly Required” (airdate: Monday, September 22, 1997): Part 2 of 3

15:01 – 30:00 Previously on \m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/ . . . While patrolling the cemetery, Buffy and Angel discovered that a body had been stolen from one of the graves. It turns out the body belonged to Meredith Todd, a cheerleader from Fondren High (located on the other side of Sunnydale, maybe?), who died in a […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer DeepWatch: Season 1, Episode 12: “Prophecy Girl” (airdate: Monday, June 2, 1997): Part 3 of 3

30:01 – The End Previously on the \m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/ … The prophecy contained in the Pergamum Codex seems to be coming true. The Master is gaining strength and is about to break free of whatever it is that is confining him to his underground lair. This action will result in the Hellmouth opening and the […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer DeepWatch: Season 1, Episode 12: “Prophecy Girl” (airdate: Monday, June 2, 1997): Part 2 of 3

15:01 – 30:00 Previously on the \m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/ … Because this is the final episode of the season, we had to ramp up the action pretty quickly. Rupert Giles discovers an unsettling prophecy about Buffy in the Pergamum Codex, an ancient volume of prophecy that Angel brought to the librarian in a previous episode. At […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer DeepWatch: Season 1, Episode 12: “Prophecy Girl” (airdate: Monday, June 2, 1997): Part 1 of 3

00:00 – 15:00 When the Season 1 finale episode “Prophecy Girl” first aired in 1997, it was two weeks after the penultimate episode of the season “Out of Mind, Out of Sight.” I’m not sure when Joss Whedon and crew knew that the series had been renewed for a second season, but I think it […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer DeepWatch: Season 1, Episode 11: “Out of Mind, Out of Sight” (airdate: Monday, May 19, 1997): Part 3 of 3

30:01 – 45:00 Previously on \m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/. . . In the first two parts of this annotated synopsis of the penultimate episode of Season 1 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, “Out of Mind, Out of Sight,” we learned that high school kids can be cruel sometimes. Being ignored and marginalized in Sunnydale can, apparently, lead […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer DeepWatch: Season 1, Episode 11: “Out of Mind, Out of Sight” (airdate: Monday, May 19, 1997): Part 2 of 3

15:01 – 30:00 Previously on \m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/. . . We learned that an invisible girl is wreaking petty havoc on the Sunnydale High campus. She attacked Cordelia’s boyfriend Mitch with a baseball bat in the boys’ locker room, putting him in the hospital. She also pushed Harmony Kendall, the main sycophant in Cordelia’s mean girl […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer DeepWatch: Season 1, Episode 11: “Out of Mind, Out of Sight” (airdate: Monday, May 19, 1997): Part 1 of 3

00:00 – 15:00 Two days after this episode aired for the first time, the band Radiohead released the album OK Computer. I mention this particular fact for two reasons, neither of which is the fact that I’m a huge Radiohead fan. Sure, I liked “Creep.” Who didn’t? Well, Thom Yorke perhaps, if the rumors are […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer DeepWatch: Season 1, Episode 10: “Nightmares” (airdate: Monday, May 12, 1997): Part 3 of 3

30:01 – The End Previously on \m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/ . . . Twelve-year-old Billy Palmer is in a coma, but he’s somehow causing everyone’s nightmares to manifest in Sunnydale. Rupert Giles suggests that Billy is somehow experiencing astral projection. We’ve seen nightmares such as spiders pouring forth from a textbook, students showing up unprepared for a […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer DeepWatch: Season 1, Episode 10: “Nightmares” (airdate: Monday, May 12, 1997): Part 2 of 3

15:01 – 30:00 It’s not unusual in Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the teaser and first act of an episode to conclude at about at the fifteen-minute mark. It is rare for Act I to end at exactly the fifteen-minute mark, though, and that’s what it did this time. This is apropos of nothing. Just […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer DeepWatch: Season 1, Episode 10: “Nightmares” (airdate: Monday, May 12, 1997): Part 1 of 3

00:00 – 15:00 Welcome back to the Sunnydale High library, my fellow Scoobies. Rupert Giles, the librarian who pulls double duty as Buffy Summers’ Watcher, is over there in his book cage, looking for some dusty ancient text probably bound in human skin. Willow Rosenberg, likely the smartest student at Sunnydale since that ventriloquist student […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer DeepWatch: Season 1, Episode 9: “The Puppet Show” (airdate: Monday, May 5, 1997): Part 3 of 3

30:01 – The End We were still in Act II of “The Puppet Show” the last time our little club met here in the Sunnydale High School library. This means the entirety of Acts III and IV are squeezed into Part 3. The set up of the story has been leisurely, and a bit confusing. […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer DeepWatch: Season 1, Episode 9: “The Puppet Show” (airdate: Monday, May 5, 1997): Part 2 of 3

15:01 – 30:00 During Part 1 of our 15-Minute Hellmouth exploration of first season episode, “The Puppet Show,” we were introduced to the new principal of Sunnydale High School, the very Ferengi-like Mr. Snyder, who has positioned himself as the Anti-Flutie, a man placed in charge of children who seems to, in fact, hate children. […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer DeepWatch: Season 1, Episode 9: “The Puppet Show” (airdate: Monday, May 5, 1997): Part 1 of 3

00:00 – 15:00 On May 1, 1997, a mere four days prior to this episode’s first appearance, Tony Blair took over John Major’s spot as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. For the first time in eighteen years, the Labour Party is in control of UK government. The day after this episode—Tuesday, May 6, 1997—the […]

**\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer DeepWatch: Season 1, Episode 8: “I, Robot . . . You Jane” (airdate: Monday, April 28, 1997): Part 2 of 3**

15:01 – 30:00 Previously on 15-Minute Hellmouth . . . Moloch was a demon who, in the year 1418, was trapped in a book by a group of Italian priests who formed something known as a Circle of Kayless. Don’t know what that is? It doesn’t matter. Because I am an unrepentant nerd, this made […]

**\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer DeepWatch: Season 1, Episode 8: “I, Robot . . . You Jane” (airdate: Monday, April 28, 1997): Part 1 of 3**

00:00 – 15:00 It has been two weeks since the mythically important episode “Angel” aired. We both liked that one a lot, you and me. Any episode that followed would suffer in the comparison. Case in point: “I, Robot . . . You Jane.” I mean, my issues with this episode begin with the title, […]

**\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer DeepWatch: Season 1, Episode 7: “Angel” (airdate: Monday, April 14, 1997): Part 3 of 3**

30:01 – The End You remember what happened last time, don’t you? After Buffy Summers and Angel share their first kiss, Angel involuntarily goes all wrinkly faced and Buffy learns that he’s a vampire. The consensus among the Scooby Gang is that Buffy’s role as the Slayer means that she is obligated to kill him. […]

**\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer DeepWatch: Season 1, Episode 7: “Angel” (airdate: Monday, April 14, 1997): Part 2 of 3**

15:01 – 30:00 In Part 1 of this BTVS DeepWatch, Buffy Summers and the mysterious guy known as Angel finally spend the night together in Buffy’s bedroom. No, not like that. It’s more of a chaste, mostly-innocent sleepover. Buffy takes Angel to her home, inviting him inside, which is important because he’s a—you know—vampire, a […]

**\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer DeepWatch: Season 1, Episode 7: “Angel” (airdate: Monday, April 14, 1997): Part 1 of 3**

00:00 – 15:00 Before this episode begins, we get a “Previously on Buffy…” segment. I believe this was the first, but I could be mistaken. The title of this episode is “Angel,” and this “Previously on…” segment seems to be about Angel, in part. Go figure. The rest is about the Master and the Anointed […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer DeepWatch: Season 1, Episode 6: “The Pack” (airdate: Monday, April 7, 1997): Part 3 of 3

30:01 – The End The library at Sunnydale High School is the perfect place for us to meet to talk about these episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Yes, I know this is one of our main sets for only the first three seasons. But, I liked the library, with all of its musty old […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer DeepWatch: Season 1, Episode 6: “The Pack” (airdate: Monday, April 7, 1997): Part 2 of 3

15:01 – 30:00 The last time you and I got together to talk about this episode of BTVS, I mentioned that it wasn’t one of my favorite episodes. And, it’s not. But, as I watched it this time, with what I think is more clinical detachment, I began to wonder why this was the case. […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer DeepWatch: Season 1, Episode 6: “The Pack” (airdate: Monday, April 7, 1997): Part 1 of 3

00:00 – 15:00 On this date in history, Georgi Shonin, a Russian cosmonaut who flew on Soyuz 6, passed away. As did Tomoyuki Tanaka, the Japanese movie producer and creator of the Godzilla franchise. Puff Daddy remains at the top of the US recording charts, with “Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down,” which is just bad […]

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