You know when doing these videos I get asked to do a whole bunch of different TV shows and movies or, like whatever
You know, but one show I've been getting since the very beginning of whatever this whole thing is was Buffy the Vampire Slayer now
I've never actually seen this show although pretty much everyone else in my family has and I do remember how much of a cultural phenomenon
It was back in the late nineties. Like for those of you don't remember Buffy was everywhere back in the day
So I mean, hey everyone loves Buffy the Vampire Slayer right? How bad could it be?
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Okay back to the show in every generation. There is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires
the demons and the forces of darkness
She is the Slayer
Well, yeah boy doesn't get more 90s than that intro does it?
Please move
Okay, never mind, yes it does
But you know skateboarding was such a late 90s early 2000 thing like I don't know if it's quite the same anymore
But for some reason like every kid on TV had a skateboard you got max from goof troop
You had rocket power on Nickelodeon you had this dude on Buffy
Like what the heck was with skateboards and every text book he ever got in school had some random kid on a skateboard
Jumping over some like weird zigzag or whatever and then underneath it would have something dumb like Unleash the knowledge!
Or like whatever the 90s were so weird
anyway
So the main character of this show is Buffy just a regular
Sixteen year old girl trying to get through life and survive her first day of school
Can I help you, thanks, I don't know you do I
I'm Buffy, I'm new
Xander is
Me hi. Oh, jeez. Just your luck. Huh Buffy? first day at a new school
And the first guy you meet is some skater named Xander. Well, at least your day couldn't get any worse ehh.
now while going through her day Buffy starts talking with the popular girl in school who gives her a test to see how cool
She really is which is a really weird way of doing things, but sure whatever. Go ahead
We do have to test your coolness factor. You're from LA so you can skip the written, but let's see
That nail polish
umm..
Over? so over James Spader he needs to call me
James Spader. Well, there's a random name. I haven't heard in a while Wow
Is he some kind of dreamboat back in the 90s or something?
Well shoot can you call me too?You passed! Oh
*laughter*
Willow
Nice dress good to know you've seen the softer side of Sears. Oh, well, my mom picked it up
No wonder you're such a guy magnet. Are you done?
ohh
Whuutt the popular girl isn't very nice
I'm shocked and you know, you got a lotta nerve making fun of willows clothes considering you're wearing snot green velvet pants
Like where did you go dumpster diving last night now Buffy realizes she doesn't have any school books
you know being the new girl and all that so decides to check out the library
Is anybody here?
Can I help you?
I was looking for some well books. I'm new. I'm mr. Giles
the librarian I was told you was having of course every show has to have at least one random British dude, right but like
Okay, could we just think about this for a second?
So this guy immigrated from the UK filled out all the paperwork jumped through all these hoops
Finally gets his visa just to become a high school librarian
but anyway shockingly turns out this librarian might not be just your average librarian, you know I'm saying so, um
I'm gonna need perspectives on 20th century
That's not what I'm looking for after this at lunchtime Buffy sits down and talks with willow
And of course Xander shows up yet again. You guys busy we interupting? we're interrupting. Hey
Hey
So, what'd he do for fun? What do you like? What do look for a man? Let's hear it
Okay, I see you trying to sneak in that last question there. Hey, yeah, what's your favorite food? What do you do for fun?
And do you like guys with floppy hair who may or may not be good at skateboarding?
Just asking for a friend now
This is where we learned that someone found a dead guy in the girls locker room
And there's a whole lot of jokes I could make about that, but I'll just let y'all fill in the blanks ourselves
Anyway, Buffy goes to investigate and surprise surprise. This dude was killed by a vampire
So she goes back to talk to senior creepy pants in the library
You heard about the dead guy, right the dead guy in the locker. Yes, because it's the weirdest thing
He's got two little little holes in his neck and all his bloods been drained
Isn't that bizarre, aren't you just going? Ooh?
What can we just watch that again? Isn't that bizarre? Aren't you just going Ooh? Oh boy, just really selling it there
Aren't you Buffy think of it in the history of this place you'll find a steady stream of fairly odd occurrences
I believe this whole area is a center of mystical energy things gravitate towards it that you might not find elsewhere. like Vampires? Like zombies.
Werewolves. Men who wear socks and sandals at the same time and people who ride motorcycles as loud as possible (At two O'clock in the freakin' morning??)
Now that night Buffy and I guess the entire school goes to a club where she finds willow sitting all by herself and they talk
about you know, like what every sixteen-year-old girl in the nineties talked about I assume. Boys. When I'm with a boy I like
It's hard for me to say anything cool or, or witty or at all
I can usually make a few vowel sounds and then I have to go away. Yeah, I hear ya
I mean, that's pretty much me all through high school
Some girl would ask me the most basic question and that was just too much for me. Excuse me
Do you happen to know how to get to the attendance office?
Ah, but after hearing this Buffy decides to share her own philosophy, like boys and stuff. life is short
Life is short? not original I'll grant you, but it's true
You know
Why waste time being all shy and worrying about some guy and if he's gonna laugh at you?
Seize the moment cuz tomorrow you might be dead
Okay, I'll just be over here talking to anyone else somebody. Hello..?
So at this club Buffy once again runs into the librarian, which really only makes him more creepy
Can you tell me if there's a vampire in this building?
Maybe..You should be able to sense them
Theres one.
W.Where? Right there. talking that girl look at his jacket
He's got the sleeves rolled up and the shirt deal with that outfit for a moment. It's dated. It's Carbondale.
Trust me only someone living underground for ten years would think that was still the look.
Okay, let me get this straight here. This guy is dressed in an out-of-date fashion. And that means he's a vampire
Can you imagine if they made the show today? Like Buffy just walks around San Francisco for five minutes. There's vampires everywhere
So this vampire dude takes off with willow and Buffy goes to look for him before he does all of his
You know vampire stuff now on the way out. She walks by this girl who spoilers also happens to be a vampire
wait, what did you say your name was?
Darla
pfft...hahaha....WHAT?
Darla you okay. Hey, what's your name Darlaa~~~
And in the end Buffy finds everyone hanging out in a mausoleum beats him up with some fantastic 90s choreography
But she isn't quite strong enough and things are looking too good
*screams*
*breathes like thot*
Amen..
*GROWLS*
Will she survive. Can she defeat this Star Trek next generation looking dude. Is this the end for Buffy?
Probably not since the show, you know goes on for like seven more seasons. I'm sure she's fine
So I gotta say and before I do I know it's only one episode and of course
It's the pilot which means things are a little more awkward than usual. But like honestly though the show is still actually quite good
I mean sure you gotta look past the corny 90s miss of it all and the special effects and all that are very 90s
let's just say the thing that this show does that for whatever reason no other high school team drama or whatever nowadays seems inclined to do
is the characters generally speaking and I realize I'm not that far into the show
But just stick with me for a second the characters act kind of sort of like real people like they have a sense of humor
They understand the ridiculousness of their situation
Although to be fair some of these lines that we get in the show get pretty cheesy pretty quick, but overall
it's nice to see characters who are at least semi realistic or at least interesting and like for example
Shadowhunters could have been the next Buffy if the characters weren't just so serious all the time and acted like wooden boards
But yeah Buffy the Vampire Slayer is kind of weird, but still pretty good
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I mentioned this at the very end of the video
but something that I want to kind of talk about
so Buffy the Vampire Slayer came out in kind of the mid to late 90s and
It was revolutionary
And a lot of ways, but one of the main things it did that a lot of people do now
is it kind of took on the whole idea of like being self-aware or like realizing that what's going on is kind of silly and
Ridiculous and like how would real people actually kind of react to this type of thing like nowadays?
You see that everywhere with like Adult Swim, you know
Like Rick and Morty and like Bojack horseman all these like things were like ridiculous things happen
But the characters are aware that they're weird
It's not like it's not like they're trying to hoodwink us or anything when that's overdone, you know
It can get really cringey and kind of annoying what it's like okay, we get it guys, you know
but like when you have something as ridiculous as vampire hunting or
superheroes or aliens or whatever like you need to kind of have a way to balance out the absurdity and so having that kind of
Extra thing of like, you know, yeah, we know this is kind of dumb, too
But just stick with us along for the ride kind of thing
It makes it so that the show is aware that the audience is smart, too
And it's not just a bunch of dumb people watching it and like believing
It's real, you know, although like I said, it can certainly be overdone to the point where it's kind of like annoying. Anyway, guys
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