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This episode really toes the line between text and subtext, what with the girls who get roofied at a frat party and sacrificed to a snake-like demon. 😅
So this- this is a big part of why I still appreciate Buffy. Despite all its flaws, all the ways its dated, and how Joss Whedon is, lets' be honest, a horrible person, it still gets people talking and thinking about these really serious real things like sexual assault, harassment, etc. in a way that very few other shows do.
Knowing the writers were told to right about the worsed thing that happened to them and then throw a demon into it makes this episode so much more sad.
OMG! The way everyone stopped and looked at Rana when Cordelia crashed her car…. I’m dead!!! 🤣🤣😵. Poor Rana! Marketa, I have also been there. ❤️🤗 Although in my case, it was more a case of me getting black-out drunk. Which is why I’m now 8 years sober! Willow’s rant is 😍 *chef’s kiss* You guys make even the least favorite episodes enjoyable!
This show finished when I was in middle school, and it was EVERYTHING to me. Back then it wasn’t as popular to be a Buffy fan and I had no one to enjoy it with. I love seeing this group enjoying it the way I always have. Y’all are awesome.
Really? The show was popular among high schoolers and college students during its original run. The notorious SMG (yes, she MUST be called that) was like an icon along with Lucy Lawless (Xena) and Gillian Anderson (X-Files).
Been drugged twice. Both times living in Nashville. Once was by the bartender himself who was good friends with a lot of the guys who would come in. Learned later he’d done that to several other women. I was found passed out on a bench outside by kind strangers after I stumbled out of there. The other time a girl told me she saw someone drop something in my drink after I’d already taken a sip. Managed to get home before it hit and it wasn’t that bad. It. Sucks.
Sorry that happened to you. There was a news special years ago where that happened to a girl at a bar & the police were able to trace it back to a guy she met at the bar through a surveillance camera.
@@Madbandit77 Her company, Sandollar Entertainment, was one of the producers on the movie, but I don't think she had any involvement with the show. Maybe she's credited just because of her role in movie (like the Kuzuis), but nothing more.
@@Madbandit77 That's what I'm saying. The Kuzuis are also credited, but only because they held the rights to BtVS, they didn't actually work on the show. I'm thinking it's the same thing for Dolly.
Chris spilled some Saved by the Bell opening on that shirt of his - love it. Okay, we're through the weaksauce ones for a bit (although the analogy in this one was disturbingly spot-on in a lot of ways), time for this season to really start ramping up with the next stretch -- really looking forward to it.
Yeah, I love the right side of the couch making fun of Xander's t-shirt color, while you have Mr. Saved by the bell t-shirt, Mr. salmon color t-shirt, Mr. Shamrock & pastel purple t-shirts at the end. lol
KUDOS to Chris for being there for/with Marketa. Saved the day. And as you keep getting deeper and deeper into this show, they bring up and specify on certain subjects that needed then AND Now to be talked about or at least mentioned. That is something that I liked all through this series.
Editor's going to get a lot of use out of that Chris clip this season Also there was a reddit/tumblr/twitter/something posy about a group of girls that had developed a series of hand signals to indicate their level of comfort with the current romantic attention they were receiving
I was also roofied before, and I like that Buffy covers this stuff - like it feels good that even Buffy can go through something like this because people are constantly victim blamed for this stuff. But I understand how it's triggering for others.
I’m so sorry that happened to you, Marketa. Love the environment you guys have created here. Especially giving space for the girls voices in episodes like these ! It is very evident that you guys love and respect each other. I think you will get a lot out of this show! There’s a lot more like this in the show (metaphorically speaking), hope you enjoy! :)
This is the best group to watch Buffy with ! When tv series were 20+ episodes there were quite a few filler episodes, but at least with Buffy they are fun. Cordelia on point as usual.
I want more of you guys watching BUFFY (and eventually Angel) ASAP! It's so much fun as someone who loved this show for years to see new and old fans react. Thank you for the important and fun discussions:)
Richard Anderson was played by Greg Vaughan. Greg also appeared as Dan Gordon, Piper's boyfriend in "Charmed". He also was in 612 episodes of "General Hospital" as Lucky Spencer and 589 episodes of "Days of Our Lives" as Eric Brady. Speaking of "Charmed", since you are all loving Buffy so much I suggest you all should react to another 1999 supernatural series, "Charmed", about three sister witches. Also, you can begin reacting to the BtVS spin-off in 39 episodes ( April 20, 2023 ) time in 9 months, come the SE4 premiere.
Omg!! I LOVE that you guys are watching this. I've seen this show thousands of times over the years. Seeing you guys get hyped for this every time is awesome 👌 👏.
The advice about sticking to bottled drinks is great-- also it's way easier to keep track of how many you've had, so it's easier to slow down when you want to. Great party safety tips!!
8:10 The pledge going through the initiation is played by Coby Bell from "The Game", "Burn Notice" and "The Gifted". He's currently on the "Walker: Texas Ranger" reboot.
First season and a half has LOTS of messages that seem sort of after school-specially if not for the monsters and demons. That sort of starts to drop off after a while.
Had a friend back in the day whose girlfriend got roofied. Which confused him because she hadn't got a drink. Eventually realized she'd been drinking his beer and that he was the intended recipient. Point is 'Everyone should watch their drinks '.
The metaphor hit a little hard and a little dark on this one. I mostly just wanted to give Marketa a hug the entire episode and I'm glad things did not go way worse in her real life. Glad we're getting into some really good, classic Buffy episodes starting with the next one. Bring back our campy yet awesome season arc villains instead of the pervy, too-close-to-reality-frat-boy villains.
I'm sorry that happened to you Marketa. It happened to me too (a long time ago) but I did end up being assaulted. It's sad that this episode first aired in 1997 and is still totally relevant today.
Drink out of glass bottles. They are a lot harder to spike because the opening is so small. They can only really get stuff into them if they are stationary and unattended.
“Reptile Boy” is a metaphor about College Frat boys befriending high school girls inviting them to fraternity parties. Yes. Thank you Chris. This is a cautionary tale. Markita I’m so sorry to hear you passed out from a drink. Thanks for sharing your personal story.
Cordelia Chase is/was the first Mean Girl character on tv in 1998 on the WB network. There were other Mean Girls on Dawson’s Creek and One Tree Hill, also on the WB.
I'm really glad you had that discussion after the episode. The world sucks tbh. Specially for women. And I'm not American but everytime I hear about frats I'm just "how do people accept/allow that?". Sure, there may be a few good guys in there. But that entire culture is so toxic, rapey and abusive (towards men and women). It's crazy that the US is such a backwards country in so many things, while being great at other things (not frat/uni culture though). Funny reaction as usual btw.
Not just things like that but I heard on the news recently of a poor kid pledging a frat who ended up blind, paralyzed and unable to speak after a hazing ceremony where he was forced to drink large amounts of vodka and his heart stopped.
Commenting just to say - People that have seen the full show, look up The Evaluation Zone. Did a good write up about Xander, and why he's a good character basically.
I was drugged once in my early 20's....i literally had no control of my bodily functions and almost killed myself walking into an oncoming bus....when i pulled "my friends" about it at work they just laughed and thought it wa funny....suffice to say i never went out with them ever again and i didn't work there for very much longer....so please protect yourself in anyway that you can,only ever buy your own drinks and if you can make it bottle only and always have your thumb covering the top....Sorry that you had to go through that Marketa,we're not all monsters
hi i never comment but i love your reaction ! your make my day ! ( sorry for my bad english im french ) btw i laught so hard when chris try to say "la petite mort" haha very nice 😁
In response to this problem... the nightcap drink protector A scrunchie that doubles as a cover for your drink so you know no one is pulling any "slight of hand " Wish it came out at least 20 years earlier. Every girl going to parties should have 1
Love seeing your reactions. I watched this show when it originally aired. Love it to pieces. The season 2 finale is my favorite episode of the series. Can't wait for you guys to see it.
Fraternity experiences definitely vary from person to person. I was in a chapter of the largest fraternity in the country, yet we never did any hazing, the parties I personally hosted always had a couple sober women present who could walk the drunk ones home, etc. We got in trouble for hazing one time because pledges were asked to memorize the Greek alphabet (go figure), and the school used that excuse to write us up for breaking guidelines, which led to national HQ putting us on social probation for it. Yet, the smaller fraternity of influence on campus did all sorts of sketchy stuff. Routinely and openly hazed their pledges, women would often talk about uncomfortable experiences, etc but they would never get in trouble due to accusing the school of discrimination (it's a small Catholic private college, and around 1/4 of the actives in that fraternity were openly gay. An admittedly creative spin of the "do you know who my father is?" type of deflection from their wrongdoings, but I digress). Anyone who knows anything about the American collegiate Greek system can probably guess which fraternity this is, since all of my friends who went to colleges across the country with a chapter present of this particular fraternity told me that those chapters had similar dynamics and ways to weasel out of trouble regardless of what all they were doing literally out in the open. Two women I was friends with would still go to their parties, but would ask me to keep an eye on their locations and told me that if they were pinging at the house after 3am, assume something is wrong and come get them. To this day, they still keep their locations permanently shared with me for when they go on dates and tell me where they'll be and how long they should be there, but that whole routine originally stemmed from that one specific fraternity on campus and the sketchy things they would get up to without fear of reprimand...
I know Buffy fans like to malign Monster of the Week episodes, but rewatching this with the Normies mad me realize that, starting with Season 2, there is always something FORWARD MOTION with the main characters or bigger arcs in the show: When She Was Bad - centered on Buffy's PTSD Some Assembly Required - Giles and Jenny have a date, first hints of Xander/Cordelia School Bad - introducing Spike + Drusilla, Joyce siding with her daughter against Snyder, Angel was Spike's sire, the government is covering up vampires Inca Mummy Girl - Willow accepting she won't have Xander, introducing Oz and teasing Oz/Willow, tender friend(?) moment between Zander + Buffy at the end Reptile Boy - Willow finds the courage to speak her mind when it comes to Buffy, Giles realizes he shouldn't push Buffy too hard, Angel decides he'll date Buffy, Bangel "official" People always feel like they need to "apologize" for Season 1 which usually includes telling new viewers "Don't worry, it gets better in the second half of Season 2." But from the beginning of Season 2 it's clear that Buffy has "already started." If a new viewer has gotten to this point, they're in it for the long haul. So I'm for telling people to get to the last episode of Season 1 - it's a less onerous number of episodes to ask someone to endure a show "before it gets good." Plus, when they get to Season 2 and already are super fans from the clear jump in quality that's apparent from the beginning, they can get properly FLOORED when they realize that the show is phenomenal in ways they never expected.
When I was 18, I was at a Halloween house party and got wasted for the first time. (From the UK, so drinking age is 18) I was put in a bed and woke up to my friend pulling my ex off of me. I was still drunk, so I didn't know what was happening and didn't realise what had happened till I was shown the used condom the next day. My friend was furious and wanted to press charges, but I didn't do anything because I remember coming on to them while I was getting wasted. Also, I felt that I would have consented, so what most likely happened is I consented, passed out halfway through and forgot everything leading up to it. I also have been spiked, but I could feel the pill in the drink and spat it out straight away. It was a very thin, round pill, so you could tell it was homemade. It wasn't disoving quickly, so I figured it wasn't designed for spiking and was probably just the usual essay.
Mark 15:57. "Jerkwater", is the source of the insult, "jerk". Why? Well, when Railroading was new, steam power followed horse power. Steam, required water. Water meant having water towers placed along the routes at various intervals. Such towers required people to operate and maintain them. So the railroads had their men set up tiny villages. The men, when required, would jerk water from the towers to put in the boilers of the steam locomotives, that boil the water to make steam that would make the locomotive function. The men weren't meant to have families there, but they did anyway, despite the lack of public schools. Back then, public schools were also responsible for teaching manners and ettiquette, instead of only churches. Children that grew up in these jerkwater towns, lacked a proper education and didn't know how to properly behave in public, including when riding aboard trains. Educated passengers, could easily identify people from the jerkwater places, because of the bad behavior and general ignorance of anything not railroad related. They went from being called, "jerkwater people", et cetera, et al, to just being called, "jerks". (Like in, Steve Martin's movie, "The Jerk". He was the ignorant kind though, not the rude kind. Or both.) The college student, probably knew what I just explained to you, hence his usage of, "jerkwater". 🧐😎🤓🤨
Geez, I had a super senior roomate( white boy got kicked out of school and his parents spent thousands to get him back) and his first move back was to hit up parties and he just ran through the freshman(17-19) class at 25 years old. And my partner at the time had dated my former roommate who was a senior while she was a freshman and two years after he graduated she described "having sex when I didn't want to" several times. Obvious assault but she was in complete denial and obviously traumatized given her body language and behavior..not to mention they only got together because first week of school he got her drunk and brought her to his room and she was too timid to say no until he physically left after his graduation. Then there was a similar situation with a friend who said she's going to be a "srat ho" and sleep with as many guys as possible. She was sought after by all types of guys but since we were the group who met twice a week to play board games she found it easy to prey on a bunch of insecure guys and brand new freshmen who were convinced they would never get a chance to be with a woman. People are awful. College is a danger zone
Ted is so good! It’s not essential, but there are so many strong themes and relationship changes that are introduced in this episode. I skipped it on my first Buffy watch and I felt I missed out on so much context for Buffy’s ideals and relationships
I can't believe I'm coming back to watch this episode reaction. This used to be a pass over for me. I love that you guys are enjoying the rubber suit episodes. Buffy flip flops from RL Stine to George RR Martin in terms of story telling. This reaction confirms you are going to have a good time pretty much all the time. Also, its great watching characters grow on you. Cordy and Xander take a while to get. They have a lot of layers.
Mark 11:34. Howdy! 🤠. Wow! You were just interupted by an advertisement for the movie, "Prey"! I didn't know that was a thing! But hey, with a title like, "Predator", in the franchise, you need to have, "Prey", to cover the title options! But anyway, Josh Whedon, must've been paying attention to that other, "20th Century Fox", property. Because, wait until you see how, Buffy & Friends, cope with an alien threat for a change of pace! (No, not the trademarked ones!) 😎🤓
The handicap era of “the show is still finding itself” is over. From here on out the show becomes it’s best self. There are still some serious clunkers in each season, but from now on the highs out weigh the lows.
The girl saying "There's one who is nicer than the others. He's the one to watch out for" it hits something that I think underlines a lot of where we are as a society at this time on subjects like sexual violence. When the "Bear vs man" question started making it's rounds, the question itself wasn't that interesting. But men reacting to how many women were choosing Bear was. So many guys reacted to it like it was an afront to them. "NOT ALL GUYS ARE LIKE THAT LADIES!!!!" instead of asking why women are reacting that way. Most women know that not all guys are like this and the ones that are awful are fortunately not the majority. But we do feel that on the off chance that we come across the few that are, it's going to end horribly. So many "nice" guys, it's just a front and unfortunately its a very convincing front. To give an example, I was fortunately never roofied. But I did work in retail where I experienced a lot of unwelcome comments by much older men. The one that I always remember was an elderly gentleman who I was helping to find something. We'd been having an extremely friendly conversation for a long time while I assisted him, like I was talking to a grandparent. I'd actually hoped that he was a store regular because it was so nice to talk to him. A male coworker of mine (same age as me) came over and joined the conversation. He noticed I was trying to order guitar sheet music for the customer. He asked the man "So, you're a player?". The elderly gentleman responded "Yeah, but not guitars. I come to these places to hit up really pretty college students. You think this one would come home with me?" He proceeded to talk that way about me for a few minutes, in a specifically sexual manner, as though I was suddenly an object and he made fun of me for getting red in the face as I was getting furious and embarrassed (I didn't have the confidence at the time to just walk away or speak up; nowadays I would have said something); he didn't even have the dignity to say it to my face. He laughed, pointed at me and said "Look how red she's getting!". My coworker apologized to me after the fact for triggering that, showing he was a much better man than this guy. Again, there was no indication prior to that that this man would be like that. He'd been acting like a perfect gentleman. But as soon as the opportunity presented itself for him to show off to another male, he didn't hesitate to suddenly start demeaning me to my face. It's an experience that makes me distrust when a man is being overtly nice to me, because I always have the fear that they'll turn like that. My point of this is, while we know that most men aren't going to treat us this way, there is that lingering fear that we are misjudging the person or situation so that we are in a situation with the few who will.
Tom is creepier than Angel because Tom is manipulative. Angel respects Buffy’s agency and virtually always lets her lead and set the boundaries. The one regular exception is when it comes to their age difference, as in the scene in the graveyard, when he pushes back and tries to make their not-dating decision for her. The problem is that most men who end up with much younger women aren’t willing to follow Angel’s lead because it means giving up control over a partner, so it’s a big risk to trust motives.
Boy those frat boys revenge on Xander is some weird suppressed homoeroticism, there like “won’t it be funny if we dressed him up like a hot girl and danced around him and pretended he was hot, wouldn’t that be just funny”… like uuuuuh, I think you guys are going to discover something about yourselves lol
Thumb Up #850! 👍. Thanks for the fun, digital video recording, despite the mixed messages about, Alcohol. 🎬. ✌️😎🖖. (I'd like to bring back, Prohibition, but minus the sexism, racism, and religious undertones, that the original version was stuck with.)
In my high school, the junior and senior girls were the ones trying to prey on the young pilots right out of college and enlisted men at the AF base. Being in a small border town 3 miles from Mexico, that was their surest way of escaping the town and getting a spouse with good money and benefits.
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"You have a different perspective of who I am in your heads"
"Yeah, the one we witnessed." HELP. That burn was too good.
Angel and Buffy's romance is what Twilight tried to emulate.
Twilight did what it had to do even as cringe as it was lol
And the vampire diaries tried to remake
@@crapreact5989 The CW has been milking that cash cow for going on 2 decades now....
@@crapreact5989 The Vampire Dairies was book series that was made around the same time if not before Buffy.
yeah......Stephanie Meyer may have missed the mark on that one.
I'm so sorry that happened to you, Marketa
What happened
@@Jesus911 During the reaction, she says she was roofied once. =/
i love how big the group is getting for reactions. Buffy deserves the chaos and the love
This episode really toes the line between text and subtext, what with the girls who get roofied at a frat party and sacrificed to a snake-like demon. 😅
WOW I've watched this show like 5 times and never noticed the phallic symbolism of that snake creature lol
So this- this is a big part of why I still appreciate Buffy. Despite all its flaws, all the ways its dated, and how Joss Whedon is, lets' be honest, a horrible person, it still gets people talking and thinking about these really serious real things like sexual assault, harassment, etc. in a way that very few other shows do.
Lmao the quick flashback to Chris eating his words☠☠
They’re only on season two lol
@@Gunngirl Ikr? If he thought THIS was a surprising amount of sex then, he has another think coming!
Knowing the writers were told to right about the worsed thing that happened to them and then throw a demon into it makes this episode so much more sad.
Buffy is probably the most moral show ever. If you watch, there are repercussions for all the actions the characters take.
More moral than "Little House On The Prairie"?
OMG! The way everyone stopped and looked at Rana when Cordelia crashed her car…. I’m dead!!! 🤣🤣😵. Poor Rana!
Marketa, I have also been there. ❤️🤗 Although in my case, it was more a case of me getting black-out drunk. Which is why I’m now 8 years sober!
Willow’s rant is 😍 *chef’s kiss*
You guys make even the least favorite episodes enjoyable!
This show finished when I was in middle school, and it was EVERYTHING to me. Back then it wasn’t as popular to be a Buffy fan and I had no one to enjoy it with. I love seeing this group enjoying it the way I always have. Y’all are awesome.
Really? The show was popular among high schoolers and college students during its original run. The notorious SMG (yes, she MUST be called that) was like an icon along with Lucy Lawless (Xena) and Gillian Anderson (X-Files).
Virginia kids just didn’t have any taste I guess 🤷🏼♀️
Been drugged twice. Both times living in Nashville. Once was by the bartender himself who was good friends with a lot of the guys who would come in. Learned later he’d done that to several other women. I was found passed out on a bench outside by kind strangers after I stumbled out of there. The other time a girl told me she saw someone drop something in my drink after I’d already taken a sip. Managed to get home before it hit and it wasn’t that bad. It. Sucks.
Ugh I'm so sorry, glad you're okay
@@joeypotter6051 thank you so much, I appreciate you and that. 🥰
Sorry that happened to you. There was a news special years ago where that happened to a girl at a bar & the police were able to trace it back to a guy she met at the bar through a surveillance camera.
Wow, a BARTENDER!? Omg I hope he was brought to justice! Or at least stopped!
They say if you stare at *Chris's shirt* long enough, your soul will travel through a dimension of understanding...
I saw the time knife
That shirt gave me a seizure
*Fun fact:* Dolly Parton's company produced the *_BtVS_* movie!
I thought they produced the TV show. Foolish me...
@@Madbandit77 Her company, Sandollar Entertainment, was one of the producers on the movie, but I don't think she had any involvement with the show. Maybe she's credited just because of her role in movie (like the Kuzuis), but nothing more.
@@teraphIl1000 But Sandollar Entertainment is credited in the end credits of the show.
@@Madbandit77 That's what I'm saying. The Kuzuis are also credited, but only because they held the rights to BtVS, they didn't actually work on the show. I'm thinking it's the same thing for Dolly.
@@teraphIl1000I'll take your word for it.
Rana's heartfelt "Let it!" had me rolling. Kid's a romantic.
It's disturbing this episode came out more than 20 years ago and it's still relevant
PS: Editor, that Chris clip will be useful for literal seasons
Chris spilled some Saved by the Bell opening on that shirt of his - love it.
Okay, we're through the weaksauce ones for a bit (although the analogy in this one was disturbingly spot-on in a lot of ways), time for this season to really start ramping up with the next stretch -- really looking forward to it.
I couldn't decide if his shirt reminded me more of the Saved by the Bell opening or the Trapper Keeper I had in 5th grade.
Yeah, I love the right side of the couch making fun of Xander's t-shirt color, while you have Mr. Saved by the bell t-shirt, Mr. salmon color t-shirt, Mr. Shamrock & pastel purple t-shirts at the end. lol
KUDOS to Chris for being there for/with Marketa. Saved the day. And as you keep getting deeper and deeper into this show, they bring up and specify on certain subjects that needed then AND Now to be talked about or at least mentioned. That is something that I liked all through this series.
The make up and prosthetics of this show were ahead of their time.
@26:24 i REALLY thought that was a coffee scented candle, and then Pat started drinking it, like what?! 😂
Editor's going to get a lot of use out of that Chris clip this season
Also there was a reddit/tumblr/twitter/something posy about a group of girls that had developed a series of hand signals to indicate their level of comfort with the current romantic attention they were receiving
I was also roofied before, and I like that Buffy covers this stuff - like it feels good that even Buffy can go through something like this because people are constantly victim blamed for this stuff. But I understand how it's triggering for others.
I’m so sorry that happened to you, Marketa. Love the environment you guys have created here. Especially giving space for the girls voices in episodes like these ! It is very evident that you guys love and respect each other. I think you will get a lot out of this show! There’s a lot more like this in the show (metaphorically speaking), hope you enjoy! :)
This is the best group to watch Buffy with ! When tv series were 20+ episodes there were quite a few filler episodes, but at least with Buffy they are fun. Cordelia on point as usual.
I want more of you guys watching BUFFY (and eventually Angel) ASAP! It's so much fun as someone who loved this show for years to see new and old fans react. Thank you for the important and fun discussions:)
Richard Anderson was played by Greg Vaughan.
Greg also appeared as Dan Gordon, Piper's boyfriend in "Charmed".
He also was in 612 episodes of "General Hospital" as Lucky Spencer and 589 episodes of "Days of Our Lives" as Eric Brady.
Speaking of "Charmed", since you are all loving Buffy so much I suggest you all should react to another 1999 supernatural series, "Charmed", about three sister witches.
Also, you can begin reacting to the BtVS spin-off in 39 episodes ( April 20, 2023 ) time in 9 months, come the SE4 premiere.
Omg!! I LOVE that you guys are watching this. I've seen this show thousands of times over the years. Seeing you guys get hyped for this every time is awesome 👌 👏.
The advice about sticking to bottled drinks is great-- also it's way easier to keep track of how many you've had, so it's easier to slow down when you want to. Great party safety tips!!
Even tho u guys treat her like the Meg Griffin of the group, Rana is my favorite 😂❤️
8:10 The pledge going through the initiation is played by Coby Bell from "The Game", "Burn Notice" and "The Gifted". He's currently on the "Walker: Texas Ranger" reboot.
First season and a half has LOTS of messages that seem sort of after school-specially if not for the monsters and demons. That sort of starts to drop off after a while.
I haven't seen this episode in years and I'd forgotten how disturbing it is. Great reaction as always, folks.
Had a friend back in the day whose girlfriend got roofied. Which confused him because she hadn't got a drink. Eventually realized she'd been drinking his beer and that he was the intended recipient. Point is 'Everyone should watch their drinks '.
The metaphor hit a little hard and a little dark on this one. I mostly just wanted to give Marketa a hug the entire episode and I'm glad things did not go way worse in her real life. Glad we're getting into some really good, classic Buffy episodes starting with the next one. Bring back our campy yet awesome season arc villains instead of the pervy, too-close-to-reality-frat-boy villains.
The show picks up alot after this episode.
These Buffy reactions are what we all need. You have my gratitude.
I'm so sorry for what happened to you, Marketa. Things like that shouldn't happen.
I'm sorry that happened to you Marketa. It happened to me too (a long time ago) but I did end up being assaulted. It's sad that this episode first aired in 1997 and is still totally relevant today.
fun old internet fact: that pledge serving drinks is liam sullivan aka the creator of "shoes"
Drink out of glass bottles. They are a lot harder to spike because the opening is so small. They can only really get stuff into them if they are stationary and unattended.
This episode definitely should have been called "E-Reptile Dysfunction"
“Reptile Boy” is a metaphor about College Frat boys befriending high school girls inviting them to fraternity parties. Yes. Thank you Chris. This is a cautionary tale.
Markita I’m so sorry to hear you passed out from a drink. Thanks for sharing your personal story.
Cordelia's fake laugh reminds me of Monica's from Friends lol I wonder if the writer of the most recent Black Christmas remake watched this episode?
Come for buffy
Stay for the normies life lessons 👏👏👏
Cordelia Chase is/was the first Mean Girl character on tv in 1998 on the WB network. There were other Mean Girls on Dawson’s Creek and One Tree Hill, also on the WB.
I'm really glad you had that discussion after the episode. The world sucks tbh. Specially for women. And I'm not American but everytime I hear about frats I'm just "how do people accept/allow that?". Sure, there may be a few good guys in there. But that entire culture is so toxic, rapey and abusive (towards men and women). It's crazy that the US is such a backwards country in so many things, while being great at other things (not frat/uni culture though).
Funny reaction as usual btw.
I’m American & I really don’t get it either.
Not just things like that but I heard on the news recently of a poor kid pledging a frat who ended up blind, paralyzed and unable to speak after a hazing ceremony where he was forced to drink large amounts of vodka and his heart stopped.
@@Mokkari77 what the actual f... ._.
Willow at 17:00 shows one of many reasons why she's the best character.
Commenting just to say - People that have seen the full show, look up The Evaluation Zone. Did a good write up about Xander, and why he's a good character basically.
7:35 love how you stopped what he was trying to say🤭🥴🤭
I was drugged once in my early 20's....i literally had no control of my bodily functions and almost killed myself walking into an oncoming bus....when i pulled "my friends" about it at work they just laughed and thought it wa funny....suffice to say i never went out with them ever again and i didn't work there for very much longer....so please protect yourself in anyway that you can,only ever buy your own drinks and if you can make it bottle only and always have your thumb covering the top....Sorry that you had to go through that Marketa,we're not all monsters
Unlike most of the fans, I truly enjoy this episode. Good filler/Monster of the week one.
The metaphor didnt age at all.
13:32 Wait what happened at the Neon Cactus!? Wife and I used to go there when we lived in West Lafayette and were dating.
hi i never comment but i love your reaction ! your make my day ! ( sorry for my bad english im french ) btw i laught so hard when chris try to say "la petite mort" haha very nice 😁
I really felt Marketa's discomfort. I hope she'll forget.
The episode where they faced a reptile dysfunction.
Mark 24:01. I'm one of those people that yawn when others yawn. Marketa's husband just made me yawn too! I'm not ready to sleep though! 🥱
I’m so glad you all are doing Buffy. Love this
Rana jimming the crap out of the camera at 9:08
sorry, more like 9:05
In response to this problem... the nightcap drink protector
A scrunchie that doubles as a cover for your drink so you know no one is pulling any "slight of hand "
Wish it came out at least 20 years earlier. Every girl going to parties should have 1
Love seeing your reactions. I watched this show when it originally aired. Love it to pieces. The season 2 finale is my favorite episode of the series. Can't wait for you guys to see it.
Go off on them Willow.
Rana is Cordelia
Fraternity experiences definitely vary from person to person. I was in a chapter of the largest fraternity in the country, yet we never did any hazing, the parties I personally hosted always had a couple sober women present who could walk the drunk ones home, etc. We got in trouble for hazing one time because pledges were asked to memorize the Greek alphabet (go figure), and the school used that excuse to write us up for breaking guidelines, which led to national HQ putting us on social probation for it.
Yet, the smaller fraternity of influence on campus did all sorts of sketchy stuff. Routinely and openly hazed their pledges, women would often talk about uncomfortable experiences, etc but they would never get in trouble due to accusing the school of discrimination (it's a small Catholic private college, and around 1/4 of the actives in that fraternity were openly gay. An admittedly creative spin of the "do you know who my father is?" type of deflection from their wrongdoings, but I digress).
Anyone who knows anything about the American collegiate Greek system can probably guess which fraternity this is, since all of my friends who went to colleges across the country with a chapter present of this particular fraternity told me that those chapters had similar dynamics and ways to weasel out of trouble regardless of what all they were doing literally out in the open. Two women I was friends with would still go to their parties, but would ask me to keep an eye on their locations and told me that if they were pinging at the house after 3am, assume something is wrong and come get them. To this day, they still keep their locations permanently shared with me for when they go on dates and tell me where they'll be and how long they should be there, but that whole routine originally stemmed from that one specific fraternity on campus and the sketchy things they would get up to without fear of reprimand...
I know Buffy fans like to malign Monster of the Week episodes, but rewatching this with the Normies mad me realize that, starting with Season 2, there is always something FORWARD MOTION with the main characters or bigger arcs in the show:
When She Was Bad - centered on Buffy's PTSD
Some Assembly Required - Giles and Jenny have a date, first hints of Xander/Cordelia
School Bad - introducing Spike + Drusilla, Joyce siding with her daughter against Snyder, Angel was Spike's sire, the government is covering up vampires
Inca Mummy Girl - Willow accepting she won't have Xander, introducing Oz and teasing Oz/Willow, tender friend(?) moment between Zander + Buffy at the end
Reptile Boy - Willow finds the courage to speak her mind when it comes to Buffy, Giles realizes he shouldn't push Buffy too hard, Angel decides he'll date Buffy, Bangel "official"
People always feel like they need to "apologize" for Season 1 which usually includes telling new viewers "Don't worry, it gets better in the second half of Season 2." But from the beginning of Season 2 it's clear that Buffy has "already started." If a new viewer has gotten to this point, they're in it for the long haul. So I'm for telling people to get to the last episode of Season 1 - it's a less onerous number of episodes to ask someone to endure a show "before it gets good." Plus, when they get to Season 2 and already are super fans from the clear jump in quality that's apparent from the beginning, they can get properly FLOORED when they realize that the show is phenomenal in ways they never expected.
I became a Patreon after 3 years with them just for Buffy
When I was 18, I was at a Halloween house party and got wasted for the first time. (From the UK, so drinking age is 18) I was put in a bed and woke up to my friend pulling my ex off of me. I was still drunk, so I didn't know what was happening and didn't realise what had happened till I was shown the used condom the next day. My friend was furious and wanted to press charges, but I didn't do anything because I remember coming on to them while I was getting wasted. Also, I felt that I would have consented, so what most likely happened is I consented, passed out halfway through and forgot everything leading up to it. I also have been spiked, but I could feel the pill in the drink and spat it out straight away. It was a very thin, round pill, so you could tell it was homemade. It wasn't disoving quickly, so I figured it wasn't designed for spiking and was probably just the usual essay.
what kind of person has sex with someone who isn't conscious, though?
@@sgtmian A sex offender.
Types of people who can't give consent legally, children, animals & intoxicated/drunk/unconscious people. Sorry that happened to you.
Mark 15:57. "Jerkwater", is the source of the insult, "jerk". Why? Well, when Railroading was new, steam power followed horse power. Steam, required water. Water meant having water towers placed along the routes at various intervals. Such towers required people to operate and maintain them. So the railroads had their men set up tiny villages. The men, when required, would jerk water from the towers to put in the boilers of the steam locomotives, that boil the water to make steam that would make the locomotive function.
The men weren't meant to have families there, but they did anyway, despite the lack of public schools. Back then, public schools were also responsible for teaching manners and ettiquette, instead of only churches. Children that grew up in these jerkwater towns, lacked a proper education and didn't know how to properly behave in public, including when riding aboard trains.
Educated passengers, could easily identify people from the jerkwater places, because of the bad behavior and general ignorance of anything not railroad related. They went from being called, "jerkwater people", et cetera, et al, to just being called, "jerks". (Like in, Steve Martin's movie, "The Jerk". He was the ignorant kind though, not the rude kind. Or both.)
The college student, probably knew what I just explained to you, hence his usage of, "jerkwater". 🧐😎🤓🤨
Chaddy McChadderson III in the hizouse. Fckin' waspy mchamptons. I love this episode.
Girls should obviously be more careful but i think its worth reminding the guys out there to be safe too.
Geez, I had a super senior roomate( white boy got kicked out of school and his parents spent thousands to get him back) and his first move back was to hit up parties and he just ran through the freshman(17-19) class at 25 years old. And my partner at the time had dated my former roommate who was a senior while she was a freshman and two years after he graduated she described "having sex when I didn't want to" several times. Obvious assault but she was in complete denial and obviously traumatized given her body language and behavior..not to mention they only got together because first week of school he got her drunk and brought her to his room and she was too timid to say no until he physically left after his graduation. Then there was a similar situation with a friend who said she's going to be a "srat ho" and sleep with as many guys as possible. She was sought after by all types of guys but since we were the group who met twice a week to play board games she found it easy to prey on a bunch of insecure guys and brand new freshmen who were convinced they would never get a chance to be with a woman. People are awful. College is a danger zone
LET IT
lmao Rana! :D
Started watching it after seeing a reaction and I'm one episode ahead
Halloween episode is awesome
@@cheynedogg yeah I really liked it and so far I’m preferring season 2. Having a budget gave them space to really flesh things out and plan.
For the next Buffy reaction Rana should introduce herself as "Rordelia".
Queen R :)
Yayyy! New Buffy review. You guys are my faves! 🖤
Wow, you said Neon Cactus......I am from West Lafayette.. Boiler UP!
Ive always liked this episode lol. Like I said before y'alls reactions are making the mediocre episodes so much better. Let's see how ted goes
Ted is such an underrated episode tho. Really dark if you think about it. Now the egg one...
@@mizzdiiva92 I've only seen it once, I tend to skip it on rewatches. but maybe its time to give it another try
I looove Ted, it's so disturbing. I think they're will too.
Ted is a great episode, largely due to the guest star.
Ted is so good! It’s not essential, but there are so many strong themes and relationship changes that are introduced in this episode. I skipped it on my first Buffy watch and I felt I missed out on so much context for Buffy’s ideals and relationships
The story that Marketa told about the girls , what school was that ? is there a source to the news story ?
that shirt looks like "Saved by the Bell" in clothing form.
I love the messages in this show and 🤐🤐🤐🤐
Pfft. At this point both Xander and Buffy have been roofied by older predators.
I can't believe I'm coming back to watch this episode reaction. This used to be a pass over for me. I love that you guys are enjoying the rubber suit episodes. Buffy flip flops from RL Stine to George RR Martin in terms of story telling. This reaction confirms you are going to have a good time pretty much all the time. Also, its great watching characters grow on you. Cordy and Xander take a while to get. They have a lot of layers.
so Chris were you saved by the bell or nah?
Mark 11:34. Howdy! 🤠. Wow! You were just interupted by an advertisement for the movie, "Prey"! I didn't know that was a thing! But hey, with a title like, "Predator", in the franchise, you need to have, "Prey", to cover the title options!
But anyway, Josh Whedon, must've been paying attention to that other, "20th Century Fox", property. Because, wait until you see how, Buffy & Friends, cope with an alien threat for a change of pace! (No, not the trademarked ones!) 😎🤓
The handicap era of “the show is still finding itself” is over. From here on out the show becomes it’s best self. There are still some serious clunkers in each season, but from now on the highs out weigh the lows.
What if the reptile is actually a phallus and it's about not being hypnotized by it?
Chris got that shirt at Dan Flashes
Thats the woman from Ozark and the black guy from Smart Guy
omg delia is an aspiring cougar
Its also been reported that folks will just drop stuff in people's drink just to see them act wild and crazy.
Can't wait for next week!
The girl saying "There's one who is nicer than the others. He's the one to watch out for" it hits something that I think underlines a lot of where we are as a society at this time on subjects like sexual violence.
When the "Bear vs man" question started making it's rounds, the question itself wasn't that interesting. But men reacting to how many women were choosing Bear was. So many guys reacted to it like it was an afront to them. "NOT ALL GUYS ARE LIKE THAT LADIES!!!!" instead of asking why women are reacting that way. Most women know that not all guys are like this and the ones that are awful are fortunately not the majority. But we do feel that on the off chance that we come across the few that are, it's going to end horribly. So many "nice" guys, it's just a front and unfortunately its a very convincing front.
To give an example, I was fortunately never roofied. But I did work in retail where I experienced a lot of unwelcome comments by much older men. The one that I always remember was an elderly gentleman who I was helping to find something. We'd been having an extremely friendly conversation for a long time while I assisted him, like I was talking to a grandparent. I'd actually hoped that he was a store regular because it was so nice to talk to him.
A male coworker of mine (same age as me) came over and joined the conversation. He noticed I was trying to order guitar sheet music for the customer. He asked the man "So, you're a player?". The elderly gentleman responded "Yeah, but not guitars. I come to these places to hit up really pretty college students. You think this one would come home with me?" He proceeded to talk that way about me for a few minutes, in a specifically sexual manner, as though I was suddenly an object and he made fun of me for getting red in the face as I was getting furious and embarrassed (I didn't have the confidence at the time to just walk away or speak up; nowadays I would have said something); he didn't even have the dignity to say it to my face. He laughed, pointed at me and said "Look how red she's getting!". My coworker apologized to me after the fact for triggering that, showing he was a much better man than this guy.
Again, there was no indication prior to that that this man would be like that. He'd been acting like a perfect gentleman. But as soon as the opportunity presented itself for him to show off to another male, he didn't hesitate to suddenly start demeaning me to my face. It's an experience that makes me distrust when a man is being overtly nice to me, because I always have the fear that they'll turn like that.
My point of this is, while we know that most men aren't going to treat us this way, there is that lingering fear that we are misjudging the person or situation so that we are in a situation with the few who will.
Hey guys and gals will there be a full season 2 & full season 3 reations of Buffy series?
Tom is creepier than Angel because Tom is manipulative. Angel respects Buffy’s agency and virtually always lets her lead and set the boundaries. The one regular exception is when it comes to their age difference, as in the scene in the graveyard, when he pushes back and tries to make their not-dating decision for her. The problem is that most men who end up with much younger women aren’t willing to follow Angel’s lead because it means giving up control over a partner, so it’s a big risk to trust motives.
Just watch This show for Buffy and Angel romance ❤️ David And Sarah chemistry IS insane !
Boy those frat boys revenge on Xander is some weird suppressed homoeroticism, there like “won’t it be funny if we dressed him up like a hot girl and danced around him and pretended he was hot, wouldn’t that be just funny”… like uuuuuh, I think you guys are going to discover something about yourselves lol
Is this the snake sorority
Yes.
Thumb Up #850! 👍. Thanks for the fun, digital video recording, despite the mixed messages about, Alcohol. 🎬. ✌️😎🖖. (I'd like to bring back, Prohibition, but minus the sexism, racism, and religious undertones, that the original version was stuck with.)
idky they cringe at cordelias young guys line did yall forget shes in highschool too shes going after guys in her age group lol
In my high school, the junior and senior girls were the ones trying to prey on the young pilots right out of college and enlisted men at the AF base. Being in a small border town 3 miles from Mexico, that was their surest way of escaping the town and getting a spouse with good money and benefits.