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The best joke in the whole episode is when they go into the newspaper office and the camera shows all the newspaper headlines and the one says, “Apathy on the rise, no one cares”. That’s just brilliant
Xander with his mouth agape with a handful of jello, and lunch lady continuing to pour poison into the food, both making eye contact with one another before having time to think of what to do, might have been the funniest exchange I've ever seen.
Agreed
Yup..the pause with the woman looking just as awkward was hilarious.😅
I love that moment 🤣
comedy gold
Angel's "I'm a funny guy" is such a great line reading. Angel's dry humor is one of my favorite parts of Angel the show.
I didnt care much for Angel on Buffy but I love his personality on the Angel Show. He's such a petty baby and I love it.
@@Shoofyou10Angel show is awesome. I hope they react to it. Starts slow but picks up heavily.
David Boreanaz is by all accounts a really funny guy, he doesn't really get to show it on BtVS, but when it gets to Angel he is able to a bit more. His character on the unrelated series 'Bones' has a lot of humour too.
Rana: If Buffy isn't a legend at her school.....
Me: ahhhh one of my most favorite scenes of the entire series.
Waiting for them to see The Prom episode! 🎉
Yeah, that scene at prom hits hard.
@@murasasme It does go hard. And it also explains away some of the "amnesia" going on with Sunnydale. But when I first saw that scene it did bring tears to my eyes. Especially when they follow up with the cover of Wild Horses. So beautiful & touching.
Yes, this episode was originally set to air on April 27, 1999. The Columbine shooting occurred on April 20th and the network decided not to air it. If I recall, no detailed explanation was given, only that it was pulled due to recent events or something like that. I assumed the episode must have dealt with school shootings in some sort of inappropriate manner and that's why it was pulled. They finally did air it months later just before the start of Season 4 and when I saw it, I was surprised how well and how insightfully the episode dealt with such a difficult subject. I love Buffy's speech to Jonathan in the clock tower. This episode is one of my favorites of the whole series.
Fun Fact: I was so obsessed with Buffy when this and the season finale did not air when it was supposed to, I called the network to complain 😅...remember this was before social media ...I was determined lol. p.s. they were so nice to me they told me it was going to air later that fall.
Thanks for doing the Lord's work. Respect
To add to the humor, Glies running into the tree at the end was completely unscripted lmaoooooo
And its one of the best end scenes in Buffy!
That would explain why it ended so quickly after that. They had to cut out the entire crew, including Giles laughing their ass off. 😂
It wasn't fully unscripted. It wasn't in the original script, but Tony Head suggested it, and it got written in.
@@cirrustate8674 Oh, I love that!
@@cirrustate8674 that sounds more believable. I was about to say "prove it."
The actor who plays Jonathan, Danny Strong, later won many awards for screenwriting.
Two Emmys for the HBO political movies, Recount and Game Change. He also co-wrote The Butler and the last two Hunger Games films and co-created the hip hop drama Empire with Lee Daniels.
And Dopesick as well.
The thing I really love about Cordelia is she just says what's she's thinking
I love the scene in the library, they use Buffy's powers to perfectly display several characters. Oz is incredibly deep and thoughtful but displays very little of it on the outside.... Xander is your typical teenage hormone pile, and then my favourite, Cordy. She quite literally has no filter lol she says EXACTLY what she thinks haha
Oz: "I am my thoughts. If they exist in her, Buffy contains everything that is me, and she becomes me. I cease to exist".
Oz, the nonchalant hero.
Oz would still exist, but Buffy would be his doppelganger.
My favorites are Oz and his mental philosophy thoughts ("We think, therefore Buffy is"), his "that's fair" about the kid's review of his band (lol, Oz is so laid back), and how Cordelia says exactly what she's thinking at all times. Hilarious and awesome.
This episode was written by Jane Espenson.
This was her third episode of the series.
Her episodes so far have been ........
3x06 | "Bad Candy"
3x11 | "Gingerbread"
3x18 | "Earshot
She did a great job blending real life fears with the supernatural
Can we all just appreciate how Xander called it from the start? It was the lunch lady with the stew, like a twisted game of Clue.
Bars
Jonathan brought that gun because..maybe that was the gun at home that was available. I mean, obviously it was tv reasons for the tension of the time it took to assemble , but, we could rationalize it that way. Yes..another super classic episode. Cordelia’s instantly voicing her thoughts with no delay or filter is priceless..
Yeah, it's a hunting rifle, so more plausible for an ordinary family to have sitting around than a pistol or something. As for bringing it to school and up into the tower, blame Willow! "Sometimes we need to make them pay attention, don't we Jonathan?"
But didn't Jonathan also put the scope on the gun?
@@jp3813 yep..he was probably delaying, and..he’s a nerd besides, why wouldn’t he assemble the whole thing? We can rationalize it that way, while accepting the fact that it was a tv way of misdirecting us..
@@jp3813 the scope was already on it
Jonathan's gun was a hunting rifle, so actually more plausible for the average family to have sitting around than a pistol or something. As for bringing it to school and up into the tower, blame Willow! "Sometimes we need to make them pay attention, don't we Jonathan?" 😬
This episode has aged SO WELL, it's incredible. And Cordelia being so brutally honest is always hilarious.
The only part that didn't age well is Xander being distracted by the jello while trying to prevent a shooting, as evidenced by the reactions of these viewers.
Besides the part where it (and Xander) makes a joke about Xander being a potential school shooter T-T
I love how the topics and comedy of this show still hold up 20+ years later
Except for Xander getting distracted by jello while trying to find a shooter. These reactors definitely didn't find it amusing.
You are correct, Mickey, this is the episode that wasn't aired. Now I think everyone's on the same page about how much teenagers needed to hear this message at the time, and still to this day. The topic of debate is a lot more complex and there's a lot more we need to address when it comes to it, but at this point it seems like shootings are just as frequent as car accidents, but whatever, idk, I enjoyed your reaction as always.
Wanna give Angel a shoutout, he's had a lot of awesome moments this season: "...his name is Angel" in "Bad Girls," saving Xander from Faith with the baseball bat, and now getting that demon heart for Buffy. He's really trying to earn that spinoff
They also didn't air part 2 of the season finale until the next season was about to start.
@@corystanish Aired July 13 in the US. S4 started Oct 5.
@@visarr Ah okay I was going off of 24 year old memories.
So Earshot was originally supposed to have aired on April 27, but the Columbine Massacre happened on April 20th and they pulled the episode.
Earshot didn't air until September 21st.
Graduation Day Part 1 aired on May 18th, and they held off on showing Graduation Day Part 2 in the US until July 13. It was still a painfully long time to wait for part two of a season finale.
I’m from Australia and we got all the episodes in the right order. Pretty sure we got Earshot before the US.
@Casey V yeah, because we don't hand out military grade weapons to the people most likely to use them on kids.
Rat Poison absolutely used to come in boxes like that.
I'll never forgot this episode airing on TV months after the season finale of season 3. I remember thinking, "ummm, wait what? This seems out of place."
They even had a PSA afterward with Sarah Michelle Gellar narrating saying, "if you're having problems, you're not alone. Reach out to someone". Sad how relevant gun violence at school is still years later.
14:24 no mickey, Giles was calling Wesley a berk. It's slang for an idiot.
For cunt to be a bit more frank
Bit stronger than that. Well, more than a bit but I am British, so genetically predisposed to understatement.
A great Buffy episode that can easily go from comedy to drama and back again. I always like when Buffy shows off her abilities in a civilian setting like her flip to the roof.
These reactions are just damn delightful. Thank you.
Buffy is the best show ever.
The fact that Buffy had Jonathan in her hands is wild. I never noticed that. Those Slayer instincts with the telepathy she found the culprit immediately.
Except Jonathan wasn't the culprit. It was the lunch lady.
I was really worried about you guys taking on Buffy, I didn't think the group format would work for it. But I stand completely corrected, I love your reactions, and I think they're actually my favourite Buffy reactions on TH-cam. I've watched your reaction to Lovers Walk (3x8) literally 5-6 times now, it's wonderful. Thank you!
Oh Jesus, I'm way too high for that straw/butt edit.
EDIT: Glad they recognize and connect with Jonathon this early. A character who just continues to quietly pay off.
His episode in season 4 is one of my favourites, comedy wise.
I remember not being able to wait for this episode to finally air and going on eBay to buy a bootleg version from Canada since it aired over there…got it along with the season 3 finale which was also postponed till late in the summer and there was no way I was going to wait that long to see them 😝
I was in high school when Buffy originally aired. It's amazing how well this particular episode has aged.
No wonder Cordelia spends so much time in the library, because her mind is like a… open book lol
*an...
Brilliant Jane Espenson episode! She is definitely one of my favourite writers on Buffy. Normies are bang on about the lack of urgency when trying to find Jonathan.... I've watched this episode so many times that I don't even think about things like that anymore, but it was such a fair point.
In any case, this episode has it all. Brilliant comedic moments, incredible insight into an extremely sensitive topic, some sick stunts, and also has Xander wearing one of the ugliest shirts throughout the whole show.
Jane Espenson is hit and miss for me. She wrote some of the best episodes, but also some of the worst
@@bernardsoul5186 really? Curious, which ones didn't you like?
@@whedonobsessed "A New Man" (just my unpopular opinion), "Flooded," and "Doublemeat Palace" (that one you have to agree with lol)
@@bernardsoul5186 ahhh ok fair enough, I forgot about Doublemeat Palace! It's still has it's funny moments but yeah not the best.
@@bernardsoul5186 Espenson had the hots for the actor that played Jonathan. Any ep where she was the main writer, you get more of him. When she became a writer on the Gilmore Girls, he showed up there as well. It wasn't as bad as Marti Knoxon's epic lust for Spike/Marsters, which is why the poor guy had so many topless scenes, but it was still Weinsteining.
Fun fact, "Berk" is UK cockney rhyming slang, its short for "Berkshire Hunt", Rhyming slang works by rhyming the last word with another word but you only say the first part...
Close but not quite. Berk comes from Berkeley Hunt, which is Cockney rhyming slang for c***. However it is an old slang term and the word 'berk' now also stands on it's own and means idiot, fool, etc.
@@NeuroticNicky87 To be fair, though, so does "c***" in British Enlglish...
@@Blazingstoke it does but people don't tend to find berk as offensive, probably because most don't know where it's from. It also depends on context, you might call your friends c***s if you're from the UK or Australia, but use it to insult someone you don't like as well 😂
I love how Xander gets it absolutely right about whodunnit immediately, but it’s played off like a joke.
rewatch 15 of the entire series with The Normies is so great. watching you all see it for the first time reminds me how well written this show is. twists and turns and emotions and suspense and horror..
Cordy is 18 guys, the Wesley stuff is creepy but nobody is going to jail.
And he has the emotional maturity of a blueberry scone
@@godmagnus 😂😂🤣🙌
By the second kick, the lunch lady had already been banished to the shadow realm, just beating up a corpse after that
'berk' is cockney rhyming slang. 'berkshire hunt' rhymes with...
There have been school shootings in the US at least since the 1800's but only about one per decade with multiple deaths until the late 20th century. The observation tower shooting at University of Texas in 1966 was a major shock that caused some regulation changes but after that shootings and deaths increased every decade, from middle schools to colleges. In the late 90's there was an escalation with multiple incidents with more than a dozen injuries in 1997 and 1998. Columbine happened after this episode was recorded but before it aired.
I love the way Buffy discusses _Othello_ - the whole analysis of Iago as the manifestation of Othello's dark side is a perfect analogy for Faith.
Also, Willow's monologue when she's interrogating Jonathan? Put a pin in that, it's going to become *very important* later on.
I am confused for the last part.
This episode was so well written.
One of my favourite episodes from season 3, without question.
This season is so good. This episode is basically the equivalent of Go Fish from last season, but it's funnier, more disturbing and more relevant than that episode was. From here on we're into proper arc-based stuff, and it's going to be nuts
This is one of my favorite episodes but also a really clear illustration of how things have changed since Columbine.
For the record that wasn't Jonathon that was being bullied by the hyaena kids in The Pack. That was a kid named Lance. Jonathon didn't appear until the second season (unless you count the unaired pilot).
Danny Strong auditioned to play Xander, BTW.
25:05 remember the "Chloroform" bottle a few episodes ago?
this show stays giving joy....
A tiny yet significant detail in this episode, it’s when Willow interrogates Jonathan that he makes the decision to end things
It's been debated that Willow inadvertently pushed Jonathan over the edge with her budding magic, which would be ironic due to what happens in the later seasons of the show.
@@Madbandit77 I don't think it was magic, and I think he was already thinking of killing himself, but Willow definitely gave him the idea to do it that day, at school, and in the tower. "Sometimes we have to make them pay attention, don't we Jonathan?"
I grew up loving Buffy in a town where no one watched it. Being able to watch you guys react to it is filling that void from my childhood. Thanks for FINALLY getting around to watching it!
20:12 I fully agree with Rana here
She do speak facts sometimes
Hmm, no, the lunch lady needs a doctor too
32:55 Chris is right, Miss Martian (Megan) tried to read Bane's thoughts but he was thinking in Spanish!
I think Suraj might be remembering a scene from Heroes with Matt Parkman.
I love this episode so much
Yep! This epi didn't air on time in '99 (like other commenters have stated)... it did air eventually... right before Season 4 began
omg chris's internal monologue had me pause the video to laugh for like 5 minutes
I think it was in Heroes, where Claire Bennet's father (Noah Bennet) was thinking in a different language, so Matt Parkman wouldn't understand anything while mindreading.
Thanks to this vid I have just realised Buffy did all this before lunch as that's what the LUNCH lady was poisoning 😅
This was the first ep of Buffy I ever saw, still have a soft spot for it
One of my fav episodes of all time! 13:40 might be favourite funny moment of the episode, Cordelia’s delivery is so hilarious to me. Whenever I ask a random question to my family out of the blue and I get a look, I ALWAYS add with that sweet eyed shrug “oh, it’s for the yearbook”. The response is always an eye roll, lol 😂
"Burn that place to the ground, bro!" is going to age
Willow marries Wesley in real life, lol! And they have two daughters!!
Johnathan saved his money wisely
An produced empire
i read about that so cool
And earned two Emmys for writing two HBO movies. Danny Strong, aside from SMG, David, Alyson and Seth, is the most successful cast member of the show.
It's cool how he keeps popping up. He did very good for himself in the industry.
Been waiting so long for you guys to get to this episode! Season 3 is one of, if not, the best seasons but this episode is a standout. Hilarious but also some serious drama handled really well by everyone. Another great reaction guys!
This episode was originally scheduled to be broadcast on April 27th but was postponed following the Columbine High School massacre on April 20, 1999.
It eventually aired on September 21, 199, two weeks before the SE4 premiere on October 5, 1999.
Now take it easy guys. You can’t wig out about what a person’s thinking. A person’s thoughts are some of the only privacy left in this f’ed up world.
Mark 0:42. Oh, "derails", not, "details"! Serendipity then that I started it over! 😁
If there was ever a thing such a reaction reaction, someone needs to do a "Suraj playing with his beard" counter.
Speaking of the Rat Poison box...several years ago I was in a Chinatown grocery store and I saw for sale a small box of rat poison on the shelves. The packaging had a picture of a rat...well, actually it was a very slightly altered cartoon drawing of Mickey Mouse (slightly altered due to copyright, I assume).
Also Suraj would be happy to know that I have been binging his LOST REACTIONs with Nikki from like years ago
Rana, u gotta think twice about having this power. Just imagine EVERY male & some females thinking about u, ur body, positions, violations etc. Every time they look a u. And just imagine visiting an all boys high school. hahaha
this episode originally aired AFTER the season finale.... it was supposed to air on may 4th, 1999... the columbine school shooting was 14 days before that
One of my all time favorites right here.
When they started to talk about school shootings and they started to make noises I was singing in the 90s in the 90s getting down LOL
"Earshot" is the eighteenth episode of the third season of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It was written by Jane Espenson, directed by Regis Kimble, and was first broadcast out of sequence on September 21, 1999. The broadcast was postponed following the Columbine High School massacre on April 20, 1999.
It was supposed to air on April 27 initially.
I’m a funny guy is still a perfect moment for Angel
Love when Angel gets to show his personality outside of just being in love with Buffy.
I love this episode...one of my favorites. Quippy, fun, serious, exciting, some of the best jokes...
Earshot did air on time on the 27th on a Canadian(iirc) tv station however. Naturally someone recorded it and posted it to the internet via the primitive means available at the time. In this case, it meant an ultra low resolution RealVideo version of the episode broken up into several files. No such luck for the season finale though.
I bet it was a bitch trying to watch it...
The season finale was leaked as well. We got it off Usenet.
This episode made me want to leave inside Oz head rent free. The guy has the most philosophical thought right now and all that came out of it was "hmm!"
Jonathan was NOT the kid who was bullied by the hyenas
This episode was originally delayed as a real life school incident involving guns took place and the network wanted to be sensitive to the situation.
"Berk" is cockney rhyming slang for a word you couldn't say on 90s network TV. It rhymes with "Berkeley hunt."
Tonic water under a black light is how they made it glow
Your guys editing on this one was just 👏 👏 👏 🤣🤣🤣
They aired it but on a later date than when it was scheduled to release
I love the way Cordelia literally has no filter, she says exactly what she thinks. Oz, on the other hand, says little but has deep philosophical thoughts.
This episode was originally due to be shown soon after the Columbine school shooting, so they skipped and showed it just before the next season. SMG objected as it doesn't actually have anybody going on a shooting spree, only Johnathan intending to kill himself and the lunch lady trying to poison everyone, but it was considered too close. Fortunately it adds little to the overall arc of the season.
'Berk' is a British insult, I'm not sure it has a direct American equivalent, but it is probably closest to 'idiot' although that is used in Britain, too.
Bane was reciting futbol scores in Spanish in his head to block out a psychic in Young Justice
Point of fact this episode was due to air the week of the Columbine Highschool Shootings, because of that it was pulled from the air and didn't actually broadcast until just before the premiere of season four.
Mark 3:48. Okay, now you see actress, Charisma Carpenter, in character as, "Cordelia Chase". To the latter, that's her uniform, while to the former, it's just a, costume. She wears a similar costume in a commercial for, "Butterfinger". (What's the deal with wearing sweaters in a warm, sunny environment anyway? 🤔 )
My point here is, that prior to acting in the series, at some point she was a, professional cheerleader, with a much better (sexier) uniform, for the, "San Diego Chargers"! 🏈
Since I can't share those images with you, you will have to do your own searching. Others you might find, since someone made a list, are Katie Couric, Sandra Bullock, Teri Hatcher, and not all were professionals. (Do long sleeved sweaters compensate for the mini skirts or shorts? 🤔 )
Pretty sure the mind reading thing Suraj is talking about at the end is Young Justice. Miss Martian tries to read Bane's mind, and he's thinking in Spanish
Could also be Heroes. I remember a scene with Matt Parkman like that.
Mark 0:00. Okay, this is the episode that I warned you about, or alerted you to, et cetera. 😐
"Earshot" is the eighteenth episode of the third season of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It was written by Jane Espenson, directed by Regis Kimble, and first broadcast, out of sequence, on September 21, 1999. The originally scheduled broadcast was postponed following the Columbine High School massacre on April 20, 1999.
You are correct about this episode not airing on time.I was a huge fan of Buffy when it was originally on tv. I was a junior in high school when Columbine happened. It shook us all, and it breaks my heart that it's getting worse. All these years later.
I think the show where someone is reading a person who is thinking in another language is "Heroes," when Matt Parkman is trying to read the guy with the glasses and he thinks in Japanese.
11:36 Xander with the foreshadow
Interesting fact: a week before this episode was supposed to air, the Columbine Massacre happened. They didn't air this episode until september.
The scene Suraj was trying to remember was in Heroes. Matt Parkman was trying to read HRG, and he started thinking in Chinese, iirc.
It sucked that it didn't air at it's intended date but when it did months later it was nice getting a bonus season 3 episode and a look at last "Classic Buffy" before the season 4 premiere and the complete change in status quo.
The lunch lady in the kitchen with the poison - what a great Clue 2.
Don't worry about Jonathan, he goes on to be an award-winning writer.
Mark 17:56? Chris, thanks for pointing out what should have been obvious, even to him! 👍. By the way, I guess they went with what they had on hand. 🤔. The, "Henry U.S. Survival Rifle", can be stored in its own stock, so that it can be carried by hikers and campers in their backpacks, and easily stored in tents, next to sleeping bags. Bush Pilots, carry them too, in case they have to parachute out over the, Bush.
As they were talking about how prevalent (school shooting issues) were now, I was thinking this was originally supposed to air just before Columbine, only to be delayed because of it.
"I didn't see you so I should have known you were there." That says a lot about Angel's stalking and Buffy's Bella-like behavior of it.
Despite the fact that Buffy suggested earlier in the episode and many times earlier in the series that she just doesn't have time for schoolwork, Willow still considers her dumb when questioning in thought, "Buffy understood the reading."
8:38- 8:44 I wish that were true.
The Normies reaction to what Oz thinks is perfect. Although I find Wesley's thoughts disturbing (not amusing) considering Cordelia's underage.
Using the episode's humor and mind-reading to get an inner-view on personalities was great.
Cordelia's thoughts of saying what she thinks are played for humor, but she's also already stated she does this when the group tried to tell her to be tactful in S2's _Killed by Death_ and it shows she knows herself better than any of the others and is more comfortable with who she is than any of the others, while still being a little self-centered.
Xander was right with the lunch lady. I just wonder if the rat poison was actually going into Mulligan Stew.
I always assumed Jonathon grabbed the gun easily accessable to him aka his dad's.
@Buffy8Fan I would like you to explain to me, what is an aspect? I was confused in the earshot episode because of the demon's aspect, when I watched the episode for the first time I didn't know what an aspect was and I researched the aspect to know what it is, but I didn't It had nothing to do with someone's part or ability, I don't know if it's because here in my country the meaning of aspect is different in the USA.
@@user-wq1zy6ez1h The textbook definition of the word aspect means "a particular part or feature of something." In this episode's case that something is the demon with no mouth that has the ability to read minds. Buffy gains that aspect (ability, part) due to what happens in the first scene. I don't know the difference in definition between the USA and your country, but this is whst it means in the USA.
Yeah they pulled this episode from airing.