S3E11: Gingerbread – Moms, Mobs & Illicit Smoochies
From Who Watches the Rewatchers · 00:46:01
Show by Alan O.W. Barnes and Jarrod Longbons
Joyce goes on patrol with a thermos, finds two dead children on a merry-go-round, and by the end of the week Sunnydale’s mothers are stacking books around their daughters and lighting the match. Alan and Jarrod (who recorded this one through a serious case of the crud) dig into “Gingerbread,” Jane Espenson’s take on the moral panic, where MOO (Mothers Opposed to the Occult) takes the town back from “monsters, witches and slayers.” They cover parents who protect their kids without ever seeing them, from Joyce’s lapel pins to Willow’s mom, who never noticed the haircut, and ask why witch hunts flare up in times of cultural upheaval. Jarrod explains the difference between cult and occult, why the 1649 Hansel and Gretel sighting counts as modern, and why fairies were scary long before Disney got hold of them. Plus: Snyder raiding the library (“Chess club branching out?”), handheld locker searches, Angel as stand-in Watcher, Cordelia slapping Giles awake and grinding toadstone in a moving car, Xander and Oz crawling through the air ducts for nothing, and Amy’s very long career as a rat. Also: Armin Shimerman as Kramer’s caddy, his novels, banned books from Maus to I Am Rosa Parks, Girard and the scapegoat, and why you should never eat the gingerbread house.#BuffyTheVampireSlayer #BtVS #Buffy #WhoWatchesTheReWatchers #BuffyRewatch #BuffyPodcast #Gingerbread #BuffySeason3 #JossWhedon #JaneEspenson #JoyceSummers #WillowRosenberg #AmyMadison #Giles #Cordelia #XanderHarris #Oz #ArminShimerman #MoralPanic #WitchHunt #HanselAndGretel #FairyTales #BannedBooks #TVPodcast #RewatchPodcast
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