*Buffy The Vampire Slayer* Traumatizes Xander & Also Me (1x4) | REACTION
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- Опубликовано: 19 апр 2023
- I hope you enjoy my reaction to Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season One, Episode Four "Teacher's Pet". This one is.........uncomfortable.
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You: "I love characters processing trauma and character driven stories."
All Buffy fans: "Boy, are you watching the right show!" 😊
To which I'd add: "be patient."
"Please don't be evil."
Wish granted!
"Please don't die or be evil."
Well, hold on now, let's not get greedy.
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RIP Dr. Gregory, one of the greatest guest star characters in television.
Love that u were like "that thing they used to do on TV shows where the monster parallels their personal problems.." that is literally the basis of this show. High school as a horror movie. It basically invented that trope. This will happen a lot on ur journey. Someone will say like a phrase or something and you'll suddenly realise it was this show that coined the phrase lol
Your face when Angel took his jacket off 😂😂😂
I love that little moment between them.
"You're cold."
"You can take it."
"I mean you look cold."
*Takes off his jacket in a gesture that is both sweet and guaranteed to make 75-90% of the audience's jaws to drop*
26:12 "All of Sunnyvale is traumatized -- but they always bounce back." Now you're getting it! 😁
"You have to heal. Heal!"
Heal has 2 meanings and Flutie uses both. To heal as in to recover from an injury. and heal, as in to sit down. Which Buffy did when he said "Heal" the second time.
The giant mantis prop was rented. That's why Buffy fought it in shadows - they needed to get the security deposit back.
It was borrowed from the Babylon 5 set.
Your reaction to Angel in the tanktop was so funny! I feel like that's probably the kind of reaction the creators wanted.
Angel was one hell of a perk as a viewer, yes. I recall hearing that he'd been found on the street walking his dog and that's how he wound up on the show, just that good looking..lol
Hi Mom and Grace! Thanks for helping out! This is a great show with a massive community that has an tendency to accidentally spoil things by trying to be sneaky and/or hint at future events and not being nearly as subtle as they think they are.
Except that most of the time the hints are not actual spoilers until some busybody comes along & shouts "SPOILER"... Be careful you don't become part of the problem, is all I'm saying.
Thank you! I feel like this commenter talking about "busybodies" is almost definitely one of those who thinks they're subtle. If someone shouts "spoiler" at you... there's a reason, "is all I'm saying."
"Anybody who's new in Sunnydale, probably evil." There's a quote of the week for you.
You can tell it's a dream because the vampire didn't turn into dust when Xander staked it.
One the amazing things about Buffy the Vampire Slayer is that it invented or at least popularized most of the tropes we are familiar with. There's a huge difference between TV before Buffy and TV after Buffy.
"She would totally survive any horror movie..."
"I know what you did last summer?"
From experience I can confirm that sometimes it takes a day or two for the moderator role to kick in. I hope it gets solved sooner rather than later.
This week on High School is Hell: The teacher who seduces her students is a literal predator.
Joss Whedon has said that it was his intention with BtVS to present the various tribulations of high school, and then young adulthood, as monsters that Buffy would have to slay while the supporting characters learned to address those problems and grow.
The real Natalie French (the older lady) was played by Jean Speegle Howard - Ron Howard's mom. She also played Jim Lovell's mother in the movie Apollo 13. I guess I need to explain who Ron Howard is - Opie on the Andy Griffith show, Richie on Happy Days, Steve in American Graffiti, director of Splash, Cocoon, Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and the Da Vinci Code to name a few.
I think it's adorable how your family helps you mod!
I used to be a teacher - from 2011 to 2018 - and high school boys absolutely still tried that -_-
Fun fact: the mantis costume / prop was borrowed from another TV show: Babylon 5. On Babylon 5, it had been used for an alien named N'Grath, a reoccurring character throughout the first season that was a crime lord.
Oooh, cool fact! I've been a Babylon 5 fan and a Buffy fan since the 90s, and I didn't know this! Or I've grown so old that I'm forgetting things. ;)
Musetta Vander, the actress who played the hot teacher/praying mantis, also played one of the sirens in O Brother Where Art Thou by the Coen brothers.
I wonder, and have wondered, if the whole of Sunnydale are just used to this kind of thing to the point of it not being traumatic? The monsters were already here, after all, even as Buffy moved here. It is the "Hell-Mouth" after all.... Having said that, Giles and Joyce would be traumatic for Buffy! Really enjoying these reactions, especially the commentary! Looking forward to the next one!
"All of Sunnydale is traumatized, but they always bounce back, so" lol!
Ah. The episode where if you meet a praying mantis that size, you're the one praying.
Yes, Buffy would survive any horror movie, and I feel like every episode of Buffy is a horror movie in and of itself.
Oh, also, maybe start now with keeping a running tally of Sunnydale High School faculty and staff who get killed on the show. Dr. Gregory is, I believe, number one.
No spoilers, no spoilers, so I'll just say this: don't be scared to form attachments to characters when you feel a bond to them. I'm not gonna tell you that it's always gonna pay off or that it won't occasionally be painful (Jesse, anyone?), but I promise you it'll be worth it.
I'm also the type of person that likes to dive deeper into getting to know who the character's are. It is traumatizing what these kids are going through and not being table to talk about it with someone for guidance. I try to put myself in their shoes. Try to understand it from their perspective and what's their reasoning for the decisions they've made.
Yes, the monsters are used as metaphors but now imagine if we lived in a world like that. That would be hella scary. Especially knowing our town is a Hellmouth?? The forces of evil gravitate to this specific location so you're bound to come in contact with many different types of supernatural beings. We've already seen when vampires came to town during the Harvest and held people hostage at the Bronze. Most of those people, including Cordelia, saw them up close but convinced themselves that they just looked different. That's their response cuz it's almost unfathomable to accept that such things exist in this world. So it is interesting knowing there's a person who was chosen to protect and defend the world from evil and you can understand how much responsibility is put on their shoulders when they're only 15-16 years old.
Can't wait to hear more of what you're gonna think about certain things happening with the story and who/what will come up later on in the series. Lots of cool stuff for you to take note of 👍.
I think it would actually be a relief to live in the world of Buffy and be "in on it." I mean, if you *knew* that there really were evil demons and sorcerers moving through society, causing all the evil, and that people themselves were mostly good and decent except when being manipulated by these monsters, the world would be so much more black and white. And you can take direct action. Vampires are scary, but they're a physical threat with physical limitations and can be defeated by the correct application of physics. It's a lot easier to address a problem like a vampire (kill it. the solution is to kill it.) than a problem like, say, poverty. A cabal of evil wizards is a lot easier to attack than some nebulous concept like "the patriarchy."
So glad you're doing Buffy, and glad I re found you (I was along for the Game of Thrones journey) This is my favorite tv show of all time, enjoy the roller coaster ride.
"I'm just saying, when tragedy strikes, we have to look on the bright side, you know? Like, how even used Mercedes still have leather seats." 😝
RIP Dr Gregory. I did laugh when you said you weren't going to get attached to characters any more. I really enjoyed your reaction and looking forward to watching your journey with the rest of the season.
I know TV and movies rarely if ever cast actual teenagers as teenagers, but Blane looks like he has children in middle school
oooh, I'm so invested in your Buffy journey!! Can't wait for the next one!!
Oh my god, you're so understanding about how the show works. Same, about getting attached to characters and wanting to see more.
blaine wasn’t hurt, i think he said he saw her do it to someone else (unfortunately for them.)
Just recognised the original Ms French as Tom Hanks' mother in Apollo 13.
Well, the good news is that a character from Episode 3 came back. The bad news is Dr. Gregory didn't make it out of the teaser.
I don't think Blayne was actually raped. I think he just saw it happen to the guy before him and then he was terrified. (Maybe he's depressed that "Natalie" chose to mate with Xander over him?)
It's interesting to think the Buffy's description of Angel to Willow and Xander was "weird". Not even "gorgeous in an annoying way" as she said to Giles right after she met Angel, just "weird".
The actress playing "Natalie" was 33 at the time. So…yeah.
One of my favorite cut scenes comes from this episode. (They refuse to put deleted scenes on the DVDs, but I'm still hoping.). It's at the Bronze, while Xander is heading over to meet Blayne, we go upstairs and check in with Buffy and Willow:
BUFFY: Principal Flutie showed him my Permanent Record. Apparently I fall somewhere between Charles Manson and a really bad person.
WILLOW: And you can't tell Dr. Gregory what really happened?
BUFFY: I was slaying vampires? I'm thinking he might not believe me.
WILLOW: Yeah, he probably gets that all the time.
And then Cordelia shows up to complain about "my table" (it's where she and her group were sitting in episode 2) being "infested by losers", but Buffy wins the putdown battle and Cordelia turns and leaves. I just imagine how Alyson Hannigan would be playing Willow's reactions there. Oh, well.
And definite thanks to your mom and sis for pitching in!
My favorite characters are Buffy and Willow. I must say Buffy the Vampire is one of the most easily relatable as it is funnest shows to watch!! Definitely one of my top shows along with Chucky, yes the killer doll I'm a big fan and there is a tv show now goin on its third season this fall yay. And Nip/Tuck an FX show from the 2000 Era. Game of Thrones HBO, and Smallville the CW. Angel Buffys spinoff is great, but Buffy is magnifico for it is epic.
There are several kind of wonky episodes like this in season 1, especially the first half of season 1. Not the strongest by a long shot both in structure and execution and even for the time the budget was pretty low. That said, I remember watching this when it aired in the 90's and appreciating that the show wasn't sanitizing the motivations and actions of its literal demons. It might be draped in 90's cheese but there's no soft pedaling here like in the later Buffy imitators like Charmed or even Supernatural at times. The network that aired the show, WB, did limit what they could do- the whole reason Vampires have those faces and turn to dust on death is that the network didn't want Buffy looking like she was killing regular people every week- but the show was never afraid to push the limits and as they find their footing that ambition is part of what made the show so iconic.
Also I get the sentiment, the allegory is so unsubtle it's barely allegory at all, but in-narrative I couldn't help but chuckle when you said "jail" about the literal supernatural hell beast planning to eat children because it had the audacity to drug the prey it was hunting. It's like arresting an actual black widow.
Watch more Buffy! I love Buffy and I love good Buffy reactions!!!
Without looking it up, I'd bet that the actress playing Miss French was barely older than Charisma Carpenter.
ok, I wasn't that close...7 years difference
Sounds like you really should watch Lucifer as well, great characters with trauma that we get to see them process, and the humor and emotions are amazing ^^
Don't worry. Once the show gets less episodic, you'll also see people deal with events from previous episodes. :)
Everything I know about praying mantises, I learned from this show. And kinda wish I didn't.
My only input is that these uploads don't come soon enough 😂😂😂
Good stuff. Keep it up. Subscribed 👍
Oh god she’s serving him…JAIL🤣💀Legit
There are only 5 or 6 episodes that I skip, including this one. There's nothing wrong with it. I just don't find that I feel like watching it for the 20th time.
I don't think I'll skip any of your reactions though, cuz you're so fun and have such great thoughts about everything.
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I've already seen this one way too many times, so I have to skip. Except I always love seeing reaction videos for these early episodes. And this is where we learn Xander is a virgin, so hey, can't miss that!
I was 15 when this episode first aired I would like to think I would be able to rebuff Ms French's advances but no I would be in the cage next to Xander for sure 🤣🤣🤣
lol many of us dudes would.
I guess they explain it through pheromones, but I personally just never found her attractive.
Great job so far! I'll be sticking around for the whole ride!
"Get her Xander, okay you gotta keep going you can't just do whack and run.... See you can't do a whack and run you gotta whack, whack, whack, whack, whack"
That's some good advice for Xander.
I have raised praying mantises from egg to death, and they're great pets. One did bite my eyelid though...
just my opinion...i honestly really liked the idea of the She Mantis as a creature. it was really quite unique...but then i like a lot of the episodes that aren't about stereotype vampires, witches or other stereotypical monsters...and Buffy was one of the best shows for brining real diversity in terms of monsters. the whole parallel thing is kind of true XD but i think they often did that because it was a good way to get the viewer into the right mind set...and also it was a way for us all to be like "well that's ironic"
Keep in mind this show was not guaranteed to get a another season. This show was a replacement for another so a lot of the episodes are just meant to be one offs without any real follow up.
Also the show isn't about the guest characters. For the most part it's about Buffy, Xander and Willow. And maybe a little bit Giles and Cordelia.
This is a bit spolier-y. Let her figure out what the show is about for herself.
@@bigdream_dreambig and yet the actual moderator have said nothing about so I guess it's fine.
@@MrSupertallblackman If you watch the video, you'll learn that the moderators haven't been able to start their work yet. (Also, IIRC, noting potential spoilers was requested as an aid for those moderators.)
So excited to watch you experience the rest of the show
Re Buffy's father: in the last episode Buffy did mention that her parents were divorced, and that she sees her father "sometimes." Beyond that lies spoileriness 🤐.
When this episode first aired, I was already a fan of Buddy from the movie. I’d read that the show was being developed but I worked nights after school and mostly didn’t watch prime time TV. So this being the first episode of the show I saw damaged my opinion of Buffy on the whole. I didn’t watch again for two years. I always enjoy rewatching this episode with reactors, because it’s not exactly the best episode of the season, but it isn’t as terrible as I thought when I first came across it back in 1997!
I'm glad I stumbled onto your channel. Love BTVS and I'm really excited to see your experience and analyzing of the show! One thing I enjoy about BTVS is that they tackle uncomfortable things that happen in life, as they did in this episode with a sexual predator. I appreciate that they also made it a female predator, in stead of straight to a male one. It shows that monsters can be anywhere and anyone. Super excited to see you continue! 😀
13:55 that’s Ron Howard’s mother
My advice on the comment stuff: don't read comments at all and instead ask your mom and sister to pick out comments that don't spoil and give those to you and they can respond either for you or by using your account, depending on how you've set things up.
By the way: this has the added benefit that your videos don't loose traction with the algorithm since you don't have to delete comments anymore. Just leave everything and once you are done with the show completely, you can go look at everything.
Klaus Schwab approves of the Teacher's Lunch.
I'm not a huge fan of this episode BUT I do have to give it some acclaim for being one of the only pieces of media to present an adult female pursuing a student as creepy and predatory, especially in the culture of the 90's where every teen drama seemed to have some sort of teacher/underage student "consensual" relationship as a main plotline. It even bled into the 2000's (I'm glaring daggers at you, Pretty Little Liars). So it's nice that this was treated as it should have been--straight up demonic haha
in this school it's just not a good idea to open cupboards..
Even used Mercedes still have leather seats lmao
Love the reaction❤❤❤
Jail 🤣🤣🤣
5:20
I'm judging super hard
absolutely loving these I really appreciate it! (and yes this ep is a bit ugh)
lmao, in the UK the classic white tank top is so closely associated with sketchy dudes that it is LITERALLY called a "wife beater" 😂 You got issues girl...
Well done thank you.
Jsut want to point out. Once you've taken on Buffy, you have to take on Angel as well.
This episode marks the first of long running joke about Xander being a demon megnet. Pretty good for a low brow episode. I know you saw the episode Angel already, so it's not a spoiler to remind you Angel isn't under 18 either, so the whole male fantasy about an older woman isn't as gross as a female fantasy of older men is. Though in this case it does turn out to be gross lol.
Heheh this really might be your type of show. The more you talk about it, the more confident I am you'll like it even more going forward. Though you might also want to get one moderator who's seen the whole show, some spoilers can be tricky.
One thing I didn't think about when I first watched this was that Dr. Gregory, like all of the she-mantis victims, was also a virgin.
Oooh interesting! I took it more as she just killed him (in her usual beheading method) rather than mating with him first? Her preferred mates appear to be teenage boys, and the way the glasses fall off and he screams it felt like an immediate death scene. But this is interesting!
@@jaycievictory8461 I originally thought that she just killed him as well, but the eggs that are hatching at the end are in his classroom.
@@user-yf3ny4tz9k ohhhh! Good point!
This episode is, a lot!
"Everything takes so much longer in the 90s" ? Be glad you weren't around in the 60s. No internet, no cell phones, no microwaves, only 3 channels on TV, and don't even get me started on the politics (actually politics haven't gotten better). Of course everything was cheaper, so there's that; but wages were lower too so it kind of evens out.
Wages have remained relatively flat since the late 70's (after adjusting for inflation).
Just an hilarious reaction 😂😂😂😂❤❤🎉🎉🎉
Once you know what happened to Nickolas Brendon who plays Xander it’s even worse.
Your stunned face at the teacher serving a student alcohol and then the shot of her outfit, and the only thing you say being "Jail." had me wheezing.
All these early episodes are kind of refreshing because many of them I haven’t seen since the show ended.
I also like this episode because it was one of the more off-the-wall monsters. It’s not a traditional supernatural creature like vampire or demon. I like the show was very creative in choosing what Buffy and the gang face in terms of monsters week to week.
@@Swooshez90 I didn’t state the reveal and I think she has the impression there’s more to learn about Angel. But if you feel it’s spoilery, can you let me know which bit might be revealing too much, and I’ll edit it?
@mojo shivers yeah I get that, I just think it's best not to talk about any future "reveals" because then it sets up expectations. It's more interesting imo when reactors go in completely blind, you get the shock factor then! 😁
@@Swooshez90 Totally valid. I’ll edit it out.
@mojo shivers cool, I'll delete mine too 🙂
Good ups.
Team Cordy.
S1 as is always mentioned is weak due to its low budget, but it gets us to really know and love the characters, and 'the monster of the week' type format is evident throughout most of it. However, again it does provide an analysis of social comment, this time how the the experienced and mature adults can take advantage of the innocent and weak younger people. This time in the form of a mature female teacher who is being drooled over by all the teenage boys, and is using them for evil purposes.
I didn't watch it when it first aired, but I think it had been a replacement series midseason for why it's only 12 episodes? Gone are the days where studios had a few years to find their footing and gain an audience. Now, if your show isn't a hit within the first 5 minutes of streaming, it's a failure..
You have a little sister who's going to moderate your comments for spoilers? That's quite the surprising revelation.
So given what happened to Dr. Gregory in this episode, does that mean he was a virgin?
Heal!
Yeah, this episode is not a fan favourite. I think Blaine was probably just trying to look "tough" but it probably did traumatise him!
i really like this episode even though it is considered one of the worst by fans. it is also SO weird to me that xander's parents were okay with him going to his TEACHERS house at night. highly inappropriate imo.
Xander's parents are not the best.
That style of tank has a negative connotation. They are referred to as "wife beaters" because they are associated with men who abuse their spouses.
Will you ever start watching Breaking Bad again?
Forgot all about this episode, not one of the best of the series, that's for sure. Have you seen the movie for why they keep mentioning the school gym burning down? I have an affinity for the film, even though it's terrible, because Paul Reubens was hilarious as the villain and I love everything I've seen Donald Sutherland do as an actor. It's a fun watch.
10:11 I think the word you're looking for is "sex". Or, more likely, "conception" but that isn't as funny so I'm sticking with the first one.
As creepy is that seemed, just remember the actor who played Xander, Nicholas Brendon was 25 in season 1 😉
A common thing for high school shows, yeah. Charisma Carpenter's older than me and I graduated high school in 1992, 5 years before the show started.. lol
And here we get the tiniest glimpse of just how bad Xander's home life is. While his mother is able to tell Willow that he went to his teacher's, that is all the info she has. Didn't even do the basics of getting a phone number or address in case of emergency. That is just bad parenting no matter the decade.
He's 16 though. I dunno, I had very good parents who cared a lot, and definitely would have made sure of those things when I was a bit younger but by the time I was 16 they really didn't know where I was a lot of the time in the evenings. I grew up in the UK, not the US, so maybe there's a cultural difference, but 16 year olds are/were generally fairly independent.
@@whenwewereseventeen But, this is Sunnydale. Where in episode 1 we saw a newspaper article about missing boys and a dead body was found at the high school. So, obviously, parents wouldn't be extra diligent about keeping track of their kids in a place like that.
This is spoiler-y. Let her watch and get there on her own :)
Or maybe put a spoiler warning in first if it was more a note for ppl who have already watched the series :)
One of those"Buffy"episodes that I consider underrated.🖤I mean..how often do you see a _female_ sex predator represented in TV shows,let alone _teen_ shows?
02:37 I'm envying Xander right now.❤ 03:26 - 03:37 You're already getting used to the rules of this Universe!>;-D 💔
04:40 - 04:44 I'm SO envying Xander right now!!❣
I won't spoil,but I've heared you saying something that made me think:"Be careful what you wish for...!>;-/"
Again,don't mean to spoil anything,but along the way there _will_ be more"dealing with the aftermaths of things"...
Since I began to watch the show in S3 I got used to a series of ships that aren't necessarely the ones hinted in S1,but I can tell you this...yes:I *DO* ship Buffy&Angel!Very much!💛🖤And _kinda_ Giles&Joyce.
Minor spoiler: Not every new character in every episode is going to be a regular.
who leaves comments that need to be moderated?! 😤disgusting! shame on you
I think she's mostly referring to people leaving spoilers in the comments, which to be fair are usually left by dumb people rather than out of maliciousness.
BUFFY'S FATHER is not a monster, watch the origin movie.
I think this may be the very worst episode of Buffy.
Couldn't watch the show to be honest.
I actually appreciate that older shows like Buffy didn't obsess over the trauma. I think our modern society is really up its own ass with picking at scabs and wallowing in trauma, and a lot of modern television is just unwatchable because of it.
Since you asked for feedback, I think the video audio is too low compared to your voice. TY
That really bugs me with a lot of reactors, but I didn't notice it on this channel.