-Enjoyed both 'Spin the bottle' and 'Tabula Rasa' episodes, but favor more on Tabula Rasa. Giles and Anya did it for me. As well as Willow and Xander....'Heyyyyy!'....'Uh...hey?"
-And Spike had his moments to, I agree that his comedy was quite consistent.
-The only thing that really stuck with me from 'Spin the bottle' was Fred asking for some weed and learning Angel's human name.
-I can see the creep factor with Cordy and Conner. But, i can also somewhat understand Conner's obsession with Cordy based on:
1) She's emotionally, the closest female to him.
2) He's at a time in his life were most young men would do it with anything.
3) He grew up in a hell dimension void of morality and social/societal expectations.
4) Did or was Holtz able to teach or explain the birds and the bee's to Conner?
And to the point of Giles's not communicating with the Scoobies on screen when he left for England, perhaps he spoke somewhat regularly with Dawn and Willow? Isn't this when Buffy was to busy living two lives and having sexy fun times with Spike? Maybe lingering resentment for leaving could also be the culprit on Buffy's part. Maybe, nobody know's.
Perhaps you two can record a similar podcast episode with 'Once more with feeling' and ...the puppet episode from Angel. I don't remember the name. Unless you already did and i completely missed it.
In any event. great episode. Keep them coming if you will. I am delighted that you two are speaking as average Jane's while in a discussion.
Cheers
P.S. Thank you for mentioning Buffy's wardrobe while trying to kill something!
