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Rupert Giles

Rupert Giles

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Nov 2, 2026

MelanieHOST
22:46
Right? Okay.
MelanieHOST
22:48
There's an exchange between Xander and Giles about keeping Spike around.
MelanieHOST
22:52
This is after she makes her little speech about Spike needs to be there.
MelanieHOST
22:57
And Giles says she's been through a lot and she needs a chance to regroup.
MelanieHOST
23:02
She's got to get her shit together.
SeanHOST
23:04
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.
MelanieHOST
27:57
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.
MelanieHOST
28:08
So anyway, when you watch it, sorry, spoilers for you.
Corinna BellizziHOST
1:51
To tell this story and cover these incredible seven people, this story will take us back to June 2026 with Anthony Head.
Corinna BellizziHOST
2:00
Most of you knew him as Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer or as Rupert, the oily ex-husband in Ted Lasso.
Corinna BellizziHOST
2:07
He was a touchstone of my generation.
Corinna BellizziHOST
2:10
He played villains brilliantly, and even a hero or two.
StevenHOST
9:52
I liked that he was being supportive of her.
StevenHOST
9:56
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.
StevenHOST
10:02
He was ready to defend her.
StevenHOST
10:05
That's always good to

29 MINS LATER

JamieHOST
39:05
Yeah, it worked out.
JamieHOST
39:06
No.
StevenHOST
39:07
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.
StevenHOST
39:26
She looks at the paperwork and she's like, we'll take it or he'll take it.
Callum SinclairHOST
42:05
We won't be the first ones who have gotten into Ethan Reign.
Callum SinclairHOST
42:10
Ethan Reign is Giles' ex-boyfriend.
Callum SinclairHOST
42:13
110%.
Callum SinclairHOST
42:13
That is my headcanon, but that is...
Callum SinclairHOST
43:50
He is.
Callum SinclairHOST
43:51
Yeah, so it's all Ethan episodes.
Callum SinclairHOST
43:52
We get all of this about Giles' past.
Callum SinclairHOST
43:55
And I love that thing about the Watcher.
Jess SterlingHOST
34:20
Like a whole kerfuffle about it.
Sara FergensonHOST
34:21
Well, Giles can only speak Mandarin and she speaks Cantonese.
Sara FergensonHOST
34:25
That's what it is.
Sara FergensonHOST
34:26
Actually.
Sara FergensonHOST
34:38
You know what I mean? Yeah.
Sara FergensonHOST
34:39
But the problem
Jess SterlingHOST
34:40
was that the entire time Giles was like pretending to translate for her and he never actually fucking understood what she was saying.
Jess SterlingHOST
34:46
Yeah.
KeatonGUEST
15:28
I saw clips of a version where the late Anthony Stewart Head played Frankenfurter, and it was glorious.
KeatonGUEST
15:37
It was very bizarre to see Giles dressed like that and acting like that, but it was glorious.
LeathcoHOST
15:45
Well, the game we are talking about being released in the 2020s, there's actually been another Rocky Horror Show game.
LeathcoHOST
15:56
It was called the Rocky Interactive Horror Show, and it was actually narrated by Christopher Lee.
Lena ConatserHOST
19:39
And she says, my boyfriend is going to be so mad at you.
Lena ConatserHOST
19:42
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.
Lena ConatserHOST
19:51
And girl, she wants him.
Lena ConatserHOST
19:54
Anya shows up to Xander's place and is like, if we have sex, I'll finally be over you.

6 MINS LATER

Lena ConatserHOST
26:23
I see her so much.
Lena ConatserHOST
26:25
In that moment, too, where...
Lena ConatserHOST
26:28
She's talking to Oz and Willow and Giles.
Lena ConatserHOST
26:33
And they're like, what happened? What happened? And she's like...
Joanna RobinsonGUEST
11:08
But here's the most important part.
Joanna RobinsonGUEST
11:09
I spent 100 years in hell, and then I go, Giles.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
11:17
Giles.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
11:19
Oh, yeah.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
11:20
Giles.
speaker_3UNKNOWN
11:20
Giles.
Jenny Owen YoungsHOST
11:23
I wish that it was as wistful as you're making it, as you're interpreting it.
Jenny Owen YoungsHOST
11:30
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
Mike AshquieHOST
34:44
Yeah.
Mike AshquieHOST
34:45
Giles is the, the glue that holds the group together.
Mike AshquieHOST
34:48
Um, Oz is the outsider as things go.
Mike AshquieHOST
34:52
And like I said, I love how the relationships are built in.

22 MINS LATER

Mike AshquieHOST
56:34
natural yeah
Damien MorfitHOST
56:35
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.
Damien MorfitHOST
56:46
So they're the, like they're the Giles.
Damien MorfitHOST
56:49
Yeah.
AntoniaHOST
26:59
it's because it's just it's just two books if it was maybe if it were three books maybe
AmandaHOST
27:04
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.
AmandaHOST
27:39
And then they all walk away and Giles says like the earth is definitely doomed.
AmandaHOST
27:43
And that's a direct reference to the very first season of Buffy.
AmandaHOST
27:48
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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