: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 2, Episode 16: “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered” (airdate: Tuesday, February 10, 1998): Part 3 of 3

30:01 – THE END Previously on \m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/ . . . Part 1 & Part 2 Xander Harris wants Amy Madison to cast a love spell on Cordelia Chase, who broke up with Xander at the Bronze’s Valentine’s Day dance. Amy needs something personal that belongs to Cordelia, so Xander asks for the return of […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 2, Episode 16: “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered” (airdate: Tuesday, February 10, 1998): Part 2 of 3

15:01 – 30:00 Previously on \m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/ . . . Part 1 & Part 3 The students of Sunnydale High School are all pumped up about the upcoming Valentine’s Day dance at the Bronze. Willow Rosenberg is enjoying telling everybody that her boyfriend—Daniel “Oz” Osbourne—is playing in the band for the party. We find out […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 2, Episode 14: “Innocence” (airdate: Tuesday, January 20, 1998): Part 3 of 3

30:01 – THE END Previously on \m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/ . . . Part 1 … Part 2 Angelus breaks the Slayer’s heart, giving her the “Love ya, babe. I’ll call you” goodbye as he leaves her crying in his apartment. Angelus reveals himself to Xander Harris and Willow Rosenberg. He plans to kill them. Jenny Calendar […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 2, Episode 14: “Innocence” (airdate: Tuesday, January 20, 1998): Part 1 of 3

00:00 – 15:00 Part 2 & Part 3 On this day in history . . . Fans of the show didn’t have to wait a week for the conclusion of the story that began with “Surprise” on Monday night. The very next evening, “Innocence” aired, also marking the schedule shift from Monday to Tuesday nights […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 2, Episode 12: “Bad Eggs” (airdate: Monday, January 12, 1998): Part 3 of 3

30:01 – THE END Previously on \m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/ . . . Part 1 & Part 2 Lyle and Tector Gorch, the vampire cowboy brothers, are still out there somewhere, waiting to fulfill the promise of their introduction to the narrative. We have no idea what form this fulfillment will take yet. We saw Buffy Summers […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 2, Episode 12: “Bad Eggs” (airdate: Monday, January 12, 1998): Part 2 of 3

15:01 – 30:00 Previously on \m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/ . . . Part 1 & Part 3 While shopping at the Sunnydale Mall with her mother, Buffy Summers has a run-in with cowboy vampire Lyle Gorch. Lyle manages to flee the scene undusted, but Buffy did prevent him from dining upon a pinball playing young woman. Xander […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 2, Episode 12: “Bad Eggs” (airdate: Monday, January 12, 1998): Part 1 of 3

00:00 – 15:00 Part 2 & Part 3 On this day in history . . . Among the inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame were The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, The Mamas & the Papas, and Santana. I approve of this selection. The #1 song in the US was “Truly Madly Deeply” by […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 2, Episode 11: “Ted” (airdate: Monday, December 8, 1997): Part 3 of 3

30:01 – THE END Previously on \m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/ . . . Part 1 & Part 2 Buffy Summers didn’t like Ted Buchanan, her mom Joyce’s new boyfriend. Ted threatened to slap her after she cheated at miniature golf, and her mom didn’t believe her when she told her about it. Ted was waiting in Buffy’s […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 2, Episode 11: “Ted” (airdate: Monday, December 8, 1997): Part 2 of 3

15:01 – 30:00 Previously on \m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/ . . . Part 1 & Part 3 Joyce Summers, the mother of the one girl (possibly two girls) who stands alone (or possibly beside another) against the forces of darkness, finally has a boyfriend, and he is none other than John Ritter, although he prefers to be […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 2, Episode 11: “Ted” (airdate: Monday, December 8, 1997): Part 1 of 3

00:00 – 15:00 Part 2 & Part 3 On this day in history . . .On the same night this episode aired, the Spice Girls won the 1997 Album-of-the-Year Billboard Award for their album Spice, which also spawned the hit single “Wannabe.” Spend the remainder of this post trying to get that infectious tune out […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 2, Episode 10: “What’s My Line? Part Two” (airdate: Monday, November 24, 1997): Part 2 of 3

15:01 – 30:00 Previously on \m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/ . . . Part 1 & Part 3 The pretty Jamaican woman we thought was an assassin from the Order of Taraka turned out to be Kendra. She tells Buffy Summers that she’s the Slayer. Confusion ensues until Rupert Giles figures out that Kendra was activated after Buffy […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 2, Episode 9: “What’s My Line? Part One” (airdate: Monday, November 17, 1997): Part 3 of 3

30:01 – The End Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer . . . Part 1 & Part 2 Spike had one of his vampire minions steal the du Lac Cross from the du Lac mausoleum so that they can use it to decipher the text of the du Lac manuscript and use this translation to […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 2, Episode 9: “What’s My Line? Part One” (airdate: Monday, November 17, 1997): Part 2 of 3

15:01 – 30:00 Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer . . . Part 1 & Part 3 We were still in Act I as we arrived at the 15-Minute mark last time. The first act is considered to be the Set-Up of the story, right? What did the first fifteen minutes set up? Spike is […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 2, Episode 9: “What’s My Line? Part One” (airdate: Monday, November 17, 1997): Part 1 of 3

00:00 – 15:00 Part 2 & Part 3 On this day in history . . . Mario Lemieux enters the NHL Hall of Fame. That’s the only good news from this day that I can find on the Internet, which seems statistically unlikely, if you stop and think about it. More likely, bad news always […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 2, Episode 8: “The Dark Age” (airdate: Monday, November 10, 1997): Part 2 of 3

15:01 – 30:00 Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer . . . This is our first Giles-centric episode and a refreshing change of pace. A lot was packed into the first fifteen minutes of the episode, and we still haven’t made the turn out of Act I. During the teaser, an old friend of Giles—Philip […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 2, Episode 8: “The Dark Age” (airdate: Monday, November 10, 1997): Part 1 of 3

00:00 – 15:00 In my own personal drama, November 1997 was the month I resigned from Hills Department Stores (now consigned to retail heaven) and began working for Target. I would train for a short time in Tenessee, working with the store manager who recruited me, with whom I had also worked at Hills for […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer DeepWatch: Season 2, Episode 7: “Lie to Me” (airdate: Monday, November 3, 1997): Part 3 of 3

30:01 – THE END Previously on \m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/ . . . Our obligatory STUDENT WE’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE is Billy “Ford” Fordham, whom Buffy Summers had a DiVinyls sized crush on in the fifth grade back in L.A. It seems there’s still a spark between the two until Buffy and the Scoobies separately discover that […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer DeepWatch: Season 2, Episode 7: “Lie to Me” (airdate: Monday, November 3, 1997): Part 2 of 3

15:01 – 30:00 Previously on \m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/ . . . Buffy Summers saw Angel meeting with Drusilla at night in a playground. This made her jealous. Again. Angel was telling Dru to get out of town, though, not meeting up with a Tinder date. Angel later tells Buffy he was at home that night, reading. […]

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

15:01 – 30:00 Previously on \m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/ . . . Part 1 & Part 3 The Cultural Exchange Program has arrived in Sunnydale, California. Many students, including Buffy Summers, will be hosting foreign exchange students for two weeks. Meanwhile, a South American exhibit, which includes an actual Inca mummy girl, arrives at the Sunnydale Natural […]

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

00:00 – 15:00 Part 2 & Part 3 What were you doing on Monday, October 6, 1997? I don’t remember either. I wasn’t watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer yet. We’ve talked about this before, you and I. That came much, much later, after the series was off the air and I was married to a […]

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

30:01 – THE END Previously on \m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/ . . .Part 1 & Part 2 As it turns out, Spike can’t wait until the Night of St. Vigeous, that huge Maguffin all the vampires are chanting about, to kill the current incarnation of the Slayer. Instead, he leads a group of bloodsuckers in a raid […]

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

15:01 – 30:00 Previously on \m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/ . . .Part 1 & Part 3 Buffy Summers, the Slayer, and newly-introduced bad girl Sheila were ordered to prepare for the upcoming Parent-Teacher Night by Principal Snyder. It’s some sort of punishment, or perhaps a contest to find out which girl the principal is going to expel. […]

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

30:01 – The End Previously on \m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/ . . .Part 1 & Part 2 In time-honored fashion, two students we’ve never met before—Chris Epps and Eric Gittleson—are up to no good in the Sunnydale neighborhood, robbing graves of newly deceased young women in order to put their disassembled parts together and reanimate the results. […]

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

15:01 – 30:00 Previously on \m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/ . . .Part 1 & Part 3 While patrolling the cemetery, Buffy and Angel discovered that a body had been stolen from one of the graves. It turns out the body belonged to Meredith Todd, a cheerleader from Fondren High (located on the other side of Sunnydale, maybe?), […]

\m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/: Buffy the Vampire Slayer DeepWatch: Season 2, Episode 1: “When She Was Bad” (airdate: Monday, September 15, 1997): Part 3 of 3

30:01 – The End Previously on \m/15-Minute Hellmouth\m/ . . .Part 1 & Part 2 Buffy Summers has returned to Sunnydale from her summer with dad in Los Angeles, and now she seems to be competing against Cordelia Chase for Bitch-of-the-Year honors. And she’s the frontrunner. But the child-demon known as the Anointed One, along […]

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