Rupert Giles
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Nov 2, 2026
Episode 98 - Blurunning and Finions (Spiral)
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22:46MelanieHOST
Right? Okay.
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22:48MelanieHOST
There's an exchange between Xander and Giles about keeping Spike around.
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22:52MelanieHOST
This is after she makes her little speech about Spike needs to be there.
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22:57MelanieHOST
And Giles says she's been through a lot and she needs a chance to regroup.
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23:02MelanieHOST
She's got to get her shit together.
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23:04SeanHOST
I mean, I know we talked about this a little bit a few episodes ago, but in the last few months, she lost her boyfriend.
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27:57MelanieHOST
You guys, everybody that's listening to this needs to send in comments and recriminations to Sean that he needs to go and watch that.
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28:08MelanieHOST
So anyway, when you watch it, sorry, spoilers for you.
Patrick Stewart, Dolly Parton, Dolores Huerta: The Allies We Lost (Bonus)
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1:51Corinna BellizziHOST
To tell this story and cover these incredible seven people, this story will take us back to June 2026 with Anthony Head.
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2:00Corinna BellizziHOST
Most of you knew him as Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer or as Rupert, the oily ex-husband in Ted Lasso.
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2:07Corinna BellizziHOST
He was a touchstone of my generation.
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2:10Corinna BellizziHOST
He played villains brilliantly, and even a hero or two.
Episode 225-BTVS-(S5-Ep 3)-"The Replacement"
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9:52StevenHOST
I liked that he was being supportive of her.
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9:56StevenHOST
When Giles was like, the Toth demon said he wanted to slay her, he was like, well, where is it? We got to go kill it.
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10:02StevenHOST
He was ready to defend her.
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10:05StevenHOST
That's always good to
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39:05JamieHOST
Yeah, it worked out.
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39:06JamieHOST
No.
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39:07StevenHOST
Anya's like already planning what they're going to do she's like we can have the Scooby meetings here Giles can be over there talking about whatever and this and that and blah blah blah so she's like getting excited and then she walks over to Xander and the realtor and you know, after the realtor's like, you know, this is how much we need.
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39:26StevenHOST
She looks at the paperwork and she's like, we'll take it or he'll take it.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Halloween - BONUS Patreon Preview
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42:05Callum SinclairHOST
We won't be the first ones who have gotten into Ethan Reign.
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42:10Callum SinclairHOST
Ethan Reign is Giles' ex-boyfriend.
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42:13Callum SinclairHOST
110%.
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42:13Callum SinclairHOST
That is my headcanon, but that is...
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43:50Callum SinclairHOST
He is.
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43:51Callum SinclairHOST
Yeah, so it's all Ethan episodes.
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43:52Callum SinclairHOST
We get all of this about Giles' past.
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43:55Callum SinclairHOST
And I love that thing about the Watcher.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 7 Episode 14 - First Date
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34:20Jess SterlingHOST
Like a whole kerfuffle about it.
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34:21Sara FergensonHOST
Well, Giles can only speak Mandarin and she speaks Cantonese.
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34:25Sara FergensonHOST
That's what it is.
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34:26Sara FergensonHOST
Actually.
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34:38Sara FergensonHOST
You know what I mean? Yeah.
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34:39Sara FergensonHOST
But the problem
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34:40Jess SterlingHOST
was that the entire time Giles was like pretending to translate for her and he never actually fucking understood what she was saying.
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34:46Jess SterlingHOST
Yeah.
Episode 136 - The Rocky Horror Show Video Game
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15:28KeatonGUEST
I saw clips of a version where the late Anthony Stewart Head played Frankenfurter, and it was glorious.
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15:37KeatonGUEST
It was very bizarre to see Giles dressed like that and acting like that, but it was glorious.
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15:45LeathcoHOST
Well, the game we are talking about being released in the 2020s, there's actually been another Rocky Horror Show game.
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15:56LeathcoHOST
It was called the Rocky Interactive Horror Show, and it was actually narrated by Christopher Lee.
BtVS S4E3 The Harsh Light of Day
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19:39Lena ConatserHOST
And she says, my boyfriend is going to be so mad at you.
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19:42Lena ConatserHOST
And guess who the BF is? Spike! Xander is helping Giles with his library and all of a sudden, Anya shows up! And she has not stopped thinking about Xander.
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19:51Lena ConatserHOST
And girl, she wants him.
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19:54Lena ConatserHOST
Anya shows up to Xander's place and is like, if we have sex, I'll finally be over you.
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26:23Lena ConatserHOST
I see her so much.
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26:25Lena ConatserHOST
In that moment, too, where...
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26:28Lena ConatserHOST
She's talking to Oz and Willow and Giles.
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26:33Lena ConatserHOST
And they're like, what happened? What happened? And she's like...
3.05 Homecoming LIVE from Brooklyn | A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast
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11:08Joanna RobinsonGUEST
But here's the most important part.
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11:09Joanna RobinsonGUEST
I spent 100 years in hell, and then I go, Giles.
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11:17speaker_3UNKNOWN
Giles.
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11:19speaker_3UNKNOWN
Oh, yeah.
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11:20speaker_3UNKNOWN
Giles.
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11:20speaker_3UNKNOWN
Giles.
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11:23Jenny Owen YoungsHOST
I wish that it was as wistful as you're making it, as you're interpreting it.
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11:30Jenny Owen YoungsHOST
Alas, he is just a sad, sad, sad, sad boy, but I was wondering when he touches The collar, is it because she's wearing his duster? That
TWIG’s The Spellbook – Episode 34 – Shadowcon/Monster Of The Week
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34:44Mike AshquieHOST
Yeah.
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34:45Mike AshquieHOST
Giles is the, the glue that holds the group together.
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34:48Mike AshquieHOST
Um, Oz is the outsider as things go.
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34:52Mike AshquieHOST
And like I said, I love how the relationships are built in.
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56:34Mike AshquieHOST
natural yeah
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56:35Damien MorfitHOST
yeah yeah actually that's perfect yeah um the expert Um, I've dedicated myself or my life to the study of the unnatural and I know their habits and their weaknesses.
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56:46Damien MorfitHOST
So they're the, like they're the Giles.
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56:49Damien MorfitHOST
Yeah.
The Knave and the Moon – Sybil and Benji, Rory’s backstory and the tournaments – Book deep dive Chapters 1-15
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26:59AntoniaHOST
it's because it's just it's just two books if it was maybe if it were three books maybe
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27:04AmandaHOST
you know I honestly I think you need to be in the realm of five before this actually yeah he's off like the I'm trying to think one of the one of the things that is like come into my mind to explain what I mean is the spoilers for Buffy but you should know by now if you're listening to this pod I spoil Buffy all the time The very last episode, they have a scene where Giles, Xander, Buffy and Willow are all in the school and they're talking about the end of the world.
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27:39AmandaHOST
And then they all walk away and Giles says like the earth is definitely doomed.
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27:43AmandaHOST
And that's a direct reference to the very first season of Buffy.
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27:48AmandaHOST
I love that that was one of my most favorite parts about the finale is that they do do like they tie it all into like the end of I think it's the second episode because the first two episodes are a double and like a double part but I need time to have passed I need more story have to have gone by before you're trying to make me nostalgic about the previous book because I
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