On the one hand, not having a Speaker of the House is indicative of very serious issues in the American populace. It shows a divisive political dialogue and a country in crisis. The last two times this happened both preceded horrible periods of disruption in our country by about 10 years, the Great Depression and the Civil War. So it's not a great look and does make one nervous about what is coming down the pipe
On the other hand it is genuinely so fucking funny
Watching this episode really hits hard when you've lost someone so sudden
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A popular Buffy reactor has provided an excellent video essay for the episode ‘The Body’. I wanted to post it here for you guys to check out for yourselves, Much of Liam’s perspective on ‘The Body’ aligns with my own in the recap I wrote for the episode. Personally, I see this episode as not so much the ‘perfect episode’ but the perfect example episode that makes Buffy much more than just a young adult supernatural TV show as it represents and portrays stark reality as professionally and effortlessly as it does fantasy. It’s an obvious departure away from what ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ is on the surface - literally a show all about the supernatural. But deeper - metaphorically a show all about growing up. And it is in the latter understanding that ‘The Body’ belongs in ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’. I will let Liam Duke explain exactly why ‘The Body’ is one of the greatest pieces of TV art/entertainment in all of TV history and therefore is so highly acclaimed despite it not receiving the awards it rightfully deserved.
I spent hours trying to transfer all the commentary in the video into captions for you all to read along with watching the video but Tumblr decided to be a dick and delete it just as I was ready to post it. So much of my time and energy wasted. So I’ll just leave it out. There is an option for turning captions on for the video but it’s not exactly word for word accurate whereas my effort would have been grammatically efficient.
Hearing a dog munching, crunching and chopping their jowels when eating can sounds cute. Hearing a human slapping their chops when eating is disgusting.