Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Hello class. Can you take your seats, please?

My name is Professor Hanton and I’m filling in for Dr. Maggie Walsh who seems to still be on her extended sabbatical. I’m not sure what you all may have been covering in class, as her notes are a little unclear...and her TA, Mr. Finn, seems to have withdrawn from the university due to illness.

As best I can tell, she wanted you to start discussing "The Psychological Impact of Wish Fulfillment and Wish Denial in 20th Century Popular Culture Narrative."

Did everyone get a handout? No?

Ah. I see, They seem to have stopped there with someone in the back row. I’m sorry I don’t know anyone’s name yet. Let me see the chart. Um. Summers? Is that Ms. Summers? Could someone please wake her up and get her to pass these along? Thank you.

First, we are going to focus on two verbs, which describe a process of dramatically engaging your audience by delighting them and then ruthlessly breaking their hearts. The terms are Jossing and Whedoning. I’ll just read from the handout here :

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