- Oz is looking at the cheerleading trophy, saying “It follows you wherever you go.” This is a reference to the events at the end of the episode “Witch”.
- “The little innocent schoolgirl thing is just an act, right?” “Yeah, she’s actually an evil mastermind.” Willow actually turns into an evil, super powerful villain in “Villians”, “Two to Go” and “Grave”.
- Larry shows off his sexuality suspiciously often, he’s so far into the closet.
- Xander can’t stop thinking about Oz and Willow. He admits his feelings for her while she’s unconscious in “Becoming: Part II” and acts on them in “Homecoming”.
- “There’s a beautiful full moon outside tonight.” Foreshadowing to the werewolf theme of the episode.
- “Is Willow sending out some sort of distress signal that only you can hear?” Willow develops the magic ability to send thoughts into other people’s brains like a conversation, shown particularly in “The Gift”, “Bargaining: Part I” and “Showtime”.
- “Oh don’t worry, they might not look it but bunnies can really take care of themselves.” Anya also feels like bunnies have capabilities that everyone underestimates.
- Xander completely over blows Oz’s actions toward Willow, just like how he did with Angel, Owen, and Ford when they seemed interested in Buffy.
- “I’ve been there man, my cousin Jordy just got his grown up teeth in, does not like to be tickled.” Foreshadowing for later when Oz discovers he’s a werewolf.
- Buffy loses her cool when Larry oversteps his boundaries. In “Go Fish” she uses violence to deny a male’s advances, this time getting her in trouble.
- In “Inca Mummy Girl” Buffy asks if she always uses violence to solve everything. The way she reacts to Larry’s actions in gym is a definite example of this tendency of hers.
- “In other words, your typical male.” Although the girls are joking a lot in this episode about the apparent uncaring nature of males, almost every male goes against that line. Oz is continually being a gentleman to Willow and tries to chain himself up to keep people safe, Giles is extremely annoyed at the hunter for treating Buffy in a sexist way, even Xander shows signs of actually caring about Cordy, not just wanting to make out with her.
- This is the first episode where sexist characters are shown as the bad guy. Other sexist characters include Tara’s father (“Family”), Warren (particularly in “Dead Things” and “Seeing Red”), and Caleb (“Dirty Girls” through “Chosen”).
- The hunter doesn’t care about the life of the werewolf most days. In “Unleashed” (ATS) Angel has to save Nina from a restaurant that serves werewolf meat by kidnapping human werewolves and keeping them hostage until the full moon nights.
- In “Unleashed” (ATS) Nina has heightened senses after being bitten by a werewolf. Oz walks through the hallways looking like something is upsetting to him. This is probably because he’s just freaked out about being a werewolf, but it also could be resulting from this.
- Willow and Xander reference when Xander was possessed by a hyena in “The Pack” and how he pretended not to remember what it was like.
- Xander accidentally gives away a secret, just like he does in “Pangs”.
- Even though Giles tells the group that the werewolf loses all consciousness and sense of self while in wolf form the group comes to conclusions on who the werewolf is via personality.
- Xander seems freaked out when Larry tells him he’s gay, as Buffy does when Willow tells her that she’s gay.
- Buffy encourages Willow to take the first move with Oz, which leads her to be in grave danger. Buffy’s encouragement with boys causes Willow to be in danger in “Welcome to the Hellmouth” as well.
- “Buffy you can’t blame yourself for every death that happens in Sunnydale. If it wasn’t for you people would be lined up five deep waiting to get themselves buried, Willow would be Robby the robot’s love slave, I wouldn’t even have a head…” In “The Wish” we learn just what would have happened if Buffy hadn’t shown up in Sunnydale. Xander is correct in thinking that in the Wishverse people are lining up to be eaten (the mass production of human blood), but he forgot that Willow is taken away as a gift to the Master and is turned, she then turns him into a vampire as well. His false predictions are referencing “I Robot, You Jane” and “Teacher’s Pet”.
- “It’s certainly gonna put a strain on the relationship.” Oz’s wolf nature is eventually the reason why Oz leaves in “Wild at Heart” and then has to continue to stay away from Willow in “New Moon Rising”.
- Oz suggests that he go away for a while to keep Willow safe, but she tells him that it isn’t necessary. The need for this becomes incredibly necessary, as mentioned above, in “Wild at Heart” and “New Moon Rising”.
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- Spike seems remarkably intent on destroying the world. In “Becoming: Part 2” he’s heavily against it.
- Buffy wakes up and Angel isn’t there. Being there in the morning after is definitely noted on in Buffy’s relationships. Parker isn’t there by coincidence but it’s taken as a symbol that he doesn’t have any lasting feelings for Buffy. Riley is right by her side the morning after, symbolizing his soon to be unwavering devotion to her. Spike has to be there (he can’t leave once the sun’s out) after their first time having sex, but Buffy leaves him alone with a note in “Touched” after they spend the night together without having sex.
- Giles’ logic in risk vs. reward shows when he decides that the best plan isn’t to try to save Buffy by going to the factory because they would die too. This logic of “one person you love versus millions you don’t” comes up in “The Gift” when he deduces that Dawn will die either way, either being killed by Buffy to keep the world from opening or dying with the rest of the world when all hell breaks loose. Also, in “A Hole in the World” (ATS) Angel also has to choose between Fred dying or thousands of others dying in her place and he chooses Fred dying.
- Buffy keeps vital information from the gang about Angel, just like she does in “Anne”, “Dead Man’s Party”, and “Faith, Hope and Trick” about Angel’s soul being restored.
- The test of the judge is used to confirm to the audience that Angel has completely lost his humanity, his soul. This very black and white test confirms to the audience that his soul is indeed gone. In “A Hole in the World” the man who cannot lie is the one who tells Angel that Fred cannot be saved, confirming to the audience that she is definitely doomed.
- Angelus kissed Spike on the forehead. Faith kisses Buffy on the forehead in “Enemies”.
- “Lighten up, it was a good time. It’s not like we have to make a big deal.” Parker feels this way about Buffy and him having sex in “The Harsh Light of Day”, as he explains in that episode and mentions in “The Initiative”.
- One moment of happiness takes Angel’s soul away. The gang believes that this is just having sex with anyone. After having sex with Darla in “Reprise” and not losing his soul Angel Investigations decides that perfect happiness is a lot harder to come by than just sex. The only other time his soul is taken away is when he is hypnotized to imagine everything going the way he wants to go and then sex with Cordelia, whom he loves. Other times Angel has sex are with Eve in “Life of the Party” (ATS) under mystical influence and with Nina in “Power Play” (ATS) which isn’t shown.
- “And now she will have to kill him.” She does have to kill him.
- “People are going to die.” When she means people she should say herself. Jenny Calendar dies in “Passion”.
- The lights go out, but it doesn’t look like Angelus had time to take them out and then be where he is mere seconds later. Who turned out the lights?
- “But she’s so cute and helpless, really a turn on.” Angelus shows attraction to Fred as well, a very Willow-like weak looking, nerdyish, cute girl, in “Soulless”.
- Angel turns evil after Buffy has sex with her. Parker seems nice to Buffy until they have sex in “The Harsh Light of Day”, then he doesn’t want anything more to do with her. She asks Willow later in that episode if guys always turn evil after you have sex with them.
- This is the first time Xander’s army training comes in handy. It comes in handy later in “Graduation Day: Part 2” and with the Initiative in season four.
- “To kill this girl, you have to love her.” Angelus still loves Buffy, but this causes him to want to hurt her more, finding her an extremely intriguing target. When Spike is in love with Buffy when he doesn’t have a soul he legitimately wants to help her, to be with her, and for her to be happy.
- Oz refuses to kiss Willow, she takes the initiative to kiss him first in “Phases”.
- Oz can tell that Willow wants to make Xander jealous and that she still has feelings for him. His hesitancy is well founded, since she cheats on him with Xander in “Homecoming” through “Lover’s Walk”.
- Buffy admits that she knows that she has to kill Angelus. The only time she really takes pains to seek him out and kill him is in “Becoming: Part 2” when he’s going to destroy the world.
- “I’ll give her a kiss.” Faith tells Angelus to “come out and give me a kiss” in “Savage” (ATS).
- Buffy calls the Judge “smurf”. Illyria mentions that Wesley called her a “smurf” in “Underneath”.
- The modernizing of weapons used on demons happens throughout the series. In “Graduation Day: Part 2” they blow up the school with explosives (instead of a volcano, which had previously been the only thing that could kill a real demon). The Initiative uses only the most modern of weaponry throughout season four.
- Angelus twists the truth to hurt Buffy’s feelings. Even though she knows he’s not Angel, the ideas that he puts in her head get under her skin. Angel warns Angel Investigations of this in “Awakening” (ATS), which the group has to keep reminding themselves of all during the time Angelus is alive. The things Angelus says during this time period get under the skin of that gang as well.
- Buffy can’t bring herself to kill Angelus. In “Savage” (ATS) Faith also has trouble getting herself to kill Angelus because of how much Angel had believed in her.
- “You can’t do it, you can’t kill me.” “Give me time.” In time, Buffy is able to take out Angel to save the world.
- Giles tells Buffy that she indeed acted “irrationally”. In “Lie to Me” Buffy admits that being impulsive is a flaw of hers.
- “The coming months are going to be hard, I suspect on all of us.” They are hard, details are mentioned above.
- The television musical has the lyrics “goodbye my love, my moment with you now is ending”, definitely relevant lyrics to the episode.
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- Buffy’s dream incorporates the Bronze. Her dream about Angel being killed in “Anne” is in the Bronze as well.
- The dish that Joyce is holding crashes to the ground. In “The Body” the pie falling to the ground is used as an important moment.
- Drusilla kills Angel in the dream. In reality, Angel’s death and metaphorical death is because of Buffy. Buffy accidentally causes Angel to lose his soul at the end of the episode, thus metaphorically “killing” him, and she has to kill him literally in “Becoming: Part 2”.
- In the dream, Angel is wearing the Claddagh ring he gives Buffy later in the episode.
- Buffy mentions the dream she had in “Nightmares” and that it came true in “Prophecy Girl”.
- “You still haven’t told me what you wanted for your birthday.” “Surprise me.” He does surprise her.
- “Carpe diem, you told me that once.” Willow is referencing when Buffy told her in “Welcome to the Hellmouth” that “life is short” which encourages Willow to talk to the vampire and almost get herself killed. This conversation pushes Willow to go to Oz’s house and make a move, thus putting her in danger of werewolf bite.
- “Speaking of wow potential, there’s Oz over there.” The “wow” potential Buffy is talking about is sex potential. Willow loses her virginity to Oz in “Graduation Day: Part 1”.
- The conversation with Xander and Cordelia over going to Buffy’s party together is done through a camera shot from inside the locker. The conversation where Xander wants his necklace back because they broke up in “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered” is also shot from the locker.
- “You know what, ‘nuff said. It must have been my multiple personality guy talking.” Xander’s personality is split in two in “The Replacement”.
- “It’s just I’ve had it with this place, nothing ever comes off like it’s supposed to.” Spike is right in his worries; nothing goes as he plans in Sunnydale. Most of his plans include killing Buffy, so that alone could be a candidate for not going correctly.
- “If this girl gives him one minute of happiness it is one minute too much.” This is the first indication that Angel can lose his soul, and how it works.
- “You ground his bones to make your bread.” He’s referencing Buffy destroying the Master’s bones in “When She Was Bad”.
- “Sorry, sacred duty yada yada yada.” She’s mocking Giles’ lectures to her, especially in “Welcome to the Hellmouth” and “Never Kill a Boy on the First Date”.
- “Every time I see you you’re stealing something.” She’s referencing seeing him in “What’s My Line?: Part 1”.
- Surprising is the main theme in this episode, things that are not expected. Surprise presents, surprise parties, surprise evil plans, and surprise Angel-turning-bad. The name “Surprise” is well earned.
- Buffy’s birthdays usually go badly. Angel loses her soul this year, she has to lose her powers for a slayer test in “Helpless”, and she gets caught inside her own house in “Older and Far Away”
- The Buffy/Angel love theme plays for the first time at the docks. It plays throughout the series during Bangel moments.
- In her dream Buffy is wearing the dress that Drusilla wore in “What’s My Line?: Part 1”.
- The Judge accuses Spike and Drusilla of having humanity because of their affection for each other. The vampire’s ability to love without a soul is questioned throughout the series, particularly in Spike’s love for Buffy before he gets a soul.
- Oh yes, sneak into Drusilla and Spike’s lair without ANY WEAPONS. GOOD CHOICE GUYS.
- This is the first time rain is shown in Sunnydale. The next time rain comes to Sunnydale is in “Buffy vs. Dracula” under Dracula’s mystical influence. In Los Angeles, rain falls when Faith shows up in “Five by Five” (ATS) and when he has sex with Darla in “Reprise” (ATS).
- When Angel wants to see the cut, he starts out by asking and then changes his words to a command. Anyone want to figure out what this means?
- Angel runs out into the rain when his soul starts to leave him, he does this after having sex with Darla in “Reprise” (ATS) even though he isn’t losing his soul.
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- The class discussion is about the negative consequences of sex. In the very next episode, “Surprise”, Buffy loses her virginity and gets a very different kind of consequence than what the class discusses.
- Willow’s egg is Jewish. In “Amends”, it is confirmed that Willow is Jewish, not just her egg.“
- I’m doomed to lead my mother’s life!” Buffy, in a way, leads her mother’s life after Joyce dies; she has to take care of Dawn.
- “Please, like Angel and I are helpless slaves to passion. Grow up!” In “Where the Wild Things Are” Buffy and Riley literally cannot bring themselves to stop having sex in the haunted frat house.
- Angel and Buffy’s relationship is getting increasingly more sexual, this leads up to them having sex in “Surprise”.
- Buffy brings up the subject of kids; Angel reminds her that she’ll one day want a family in “The Prom”.
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- “With Spike and Drusilla out of the way, we’ve really been living in mellow… and I am really jinxing the hell out of this place, am I?” Xander is referencing when he jinxes the parent/teacher night in “School Hard”, and he does it again in this episode. Spike and Drusilla are working on trouble as they speak.
- “This the finest pizza on earth, what’s your secret?” The secret is a tranquilizer and ecstasy.
- “Well, gosh.” These are the mayor’s last words.
- Buffy lets out her anger out on the vampire, just like Faith does in “Faith, Hope and Trick”.
- Whenever a character doesn’t enjoy a person in the series, they usually call demon. In other words, they are quick to think that said person is a demon. In most cases, they’re right. Buffy insists that Xander is possessed by a demon in “The Pack”, she thinks that the substitute science teacher in “Teacher’s Pet” is a demon, and she thinks her freshman roommate is a demon in “The Roommate”. One of the only times that the suspected party isn’t possessed by or is a demon is when Buffy is acting mean in “When She Was Bad” because of post traumatic stress disorder.
- Ted proposes a miniature golf trip and a picnic. The mayor shows interest in these things in “Earshot” and “This Year’s Girl”.
- “I’m not wired that way.” Foreshadowing that he is literally wired.
- “Nobody beats the machine.” Another play on words used as foreshadowing.
- “Or what, you’ll slay me? I’m real.” Buffy actually “slays” him twice, the first time believing she’d killed a human, the second time knowing that he’s a robot. And no, he’s not real.
- Joyce is going to fib Buffy off of the hook, but Buffy feels so awful about killing someone that she fesses up. She does this again in “Dead Things” when no one (Dawn, Spike) wants Buffy to confess that she accidentally killed a human. Buffy, again, can’t take the guilt and goes to confess.
- Buffy wears the same overalls that she wears when she leaves Sunnydale in “Becoming: Part II”. Overalls = emotionally overwhelmed Buffy?
- “He was a person and I killed him.” Again, Buffy feels horrible about believing that she killed human, just like in “Dead Things”.
- The rules for slayers killing humans are discussed. Faith argues about this with Buffy in season three, particularly in “Bad Girls” and “Consequences”, saying that they’re better than everyone else. Buffy replies that being a slayer does not give them a license to kill. Until “The Gift” (and then after she realizes that “death is your gift” isn’t what she thought it was) she keeps holding on to the idea that being a slayer is different from being a killer.
- “See, I had to shut down for a while to get you off my back.” This line passes quickly, but it’s another clue as to what Ted really is.
- Willow wants to keep some parts of the robot to study for science. She does this again after “Intervention” with the Buffybot, revealed in “The Gift”. It is revealed in “Bargaining: Part I” that she succeeds in bringing Buffybot back to working order sometime during the 147 days that Buffy was dead.
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- Angel is locked inside, doomed to burn when the sun comes up if someone doesn’t save him. Kate threatens this on him in “Sanctuary” (ATS).
- “A very dark power is about to rise in Sunnydale.” Kendra could have been warned of the rise of Drusilla, but she also could have been warned of the return of Angelus.
- Cordy and Xander barricade themselves in the basement. They do this again in “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered”.
- “I don’t take orders, I do things my way.” Buffy’s refusal to take orders from the council peaks in “Graduation Day: Part I” when she quits the council.
- Drusilla calls Angel “daddy” for the first time. She uses this name for Angelus, not Angel, for most of the series, especially in “Reunion” (ATS) and “Redefinition” (ATS).“
- Buffy, no one could replace you!” Buffy worries that Faith is replacing her in “Faith, Hope and Trick”.
- “You’re his slayer, the real slayer.” Buffy is the leader of the potential slayer army in season seven because she is considered the real slayer, while Faith is almost ignored as leader potential until “Empty Places”.
- “I wonder if it would be so bad, being replaced.” Buffy’s mother thinks that she could let Faith take over in “Faith, Hope and Trick”.
- Although Cordelia shows a certain amount of bravery and levelheadedness when it comes to vampires, but when it comes to worms she’s completely freaked out. Fred and Gunn have the same weakness in “Apocalypse, Nowish” (ATS) when they completely lose their cool over rats.
- Xander’s attracted to Kendra. “So, you’re a slayer huh? I like that in a woman.” Xander certainly does like that in a woman. He has a crush on Buffy in the first seasons, then loses his virginity to Faith in “The Zeppo”. Cordelia asks him in “Faith, Hope and Trick” “what is your deal with slayers?”
- Buffy references “Teacher’s Pet”.
- Buffy gets crazy focused when Angel is in trouble, saying “nobody messes with my boyfriend.” This is true; Buffy goes crazy when someone she loves is in danger. When Angel is poisoned she’s willing to kill a human being to save him, when Spike is taken down into the seal she’s willing to take any means to get him back in “Showtime”.
- Angel pisses off Spike by reminding him of how often he and Drusilla used to do it. Flashbacks of their sexual relationship can be found in “Destiny” (ATS).
- “It is as I feared, he clouds your judgment.” Buffy’s inability to concentrate on her slayer duties is used as a reason why Bangel wouldn’t work out in “I Will Remember You” (ATS).
- Why the back flips, Kendra? Just, why?“
- I’d rather be fighting you anyway.” “Mutual.” Spike has what Buffy calls “a weird fixation” with her, which apparently started early on.
- “You talk about it like it’s a job. It’s not, it’s who you are.” Buffy mentions to Riley the difference between fighting demons as a job and fighting demons for destiny in “Doomed”.
- “I’m a freak.” “You’re not the only freak.” “Not anymore.” Buffy attains a semi-normal life by not being “the only freak” anymore in “Chosen” when all the potentials become Slayers.
- Before this, she only wore white to symbolize her weakness. Now she’s fully healed and ready for some evil action, and she is wearing a black dress to symbolize that.
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- Spike gets annoyed at Drusilla for interrupting him when he’s working, but he feels bad about it when she sends him the guilt trip. This happens again with Harmony in “The Harsh Light of Day”, except he doesn’t care about her at all so the guilt trip has no effect.
- “It’s that bloody slayer everywhere I turn she’s mucking up the works.” In “Out of My Mind” Spike mentions that “She’s everywhere, she’s haunting me, Harmony!”
- “I’ll dance with you, pet, on the slayer’s grave.” Spike definitely does no such thing. When Buffy is dead and has an actual grave Spike and Drusilla are broken up and he’s in love with her.
- “One down…” Dark Willow says this at the end of “Villians”.“I want a normal life, like I had before.” Buffy’s wish for a normal life is a theme throughout the series, climaxing in “Chosen” when she becomes normal, not by being a normal person, but by creating others like her.
- Cordy gets “motivational speaker” as her career, which Xander find hilarious. Actually, in ATS she’s described as the heart of the group by Fred in “Fredless” (ATS), and shows quite impressive speaking skills in “Birthday” (ATS).
- “You and Angel are going skating? Alone?” “Unless some unseen evil shows up.” Some unseen evil does show up, good job Buffy.
- Willow’s name isn’t on the list for careers, she’s been chosen for the special computer career.
- “As long as I’m alive, there can only be one.” This is reminding us that the group believes that there is only one slayer at a time.
- “… I could be dead.” “That’s not terribly funny, notice I’m not laughing.” “What’s the dif?” Buffy’s life actually changes a lot after she’s brought back from the dead, and Giles actually finds the situations that occur to be hilarious.
- Spike is extremely annoyed with Buffy, calling her “the bloody thorn in my bloody side!” As mentioned previously, he finds her annoying again in “Out of My Mind” but because he’s in love with her.
- Buffy is annoyed that she can never get a different job other than slaying, complaining that no job would mix with hers like how being a librarian mixes with a watcher. Her job in season six as a fry cook fits in with her schedule as long as the Big Bad can’t go out in the daylight, but her job as a school counselor fits perfectly with her need to keep an eye on the school and the hellmouth.
- The first two members of the Order of Tarakah are introduced, and then Kendra is introduced. This fools the viewers into thinking she’s evil until the moment she announces that she is the slayer.
- Kendra uses the engine compartment of the plane to travel to Sunnydale. Buffy teachers her against this in the next episode.
- Kendra is portrayed by the same actress who plays Maya in Pretty Little Liars. Not a Buffy connection, of course, but it was a total brain blast for me. Any other Pretty Little Liars fans out there? If not, it’s actually a really good show. Not as good as the Whedonverse, but definitely worth checking out.
- “That’s untrue Buffy, you totally contribute. You bring snacks.” In “The Zeppo” Xander gets mocked by Cordelia for only being useful in bringing donuts to the gang.
- “Bowling is a vicious game.” In “The Gift” Anya says that Xander is “A hell of a bowler, he’s got is own shoes and everything.”
- Buffy throws Oz up against a wall, misidentifying him as an attacker. She does this with Cordelia in “Welcome to the Hellmouth”.
- “I just wish that we knew where she was.” Willow says this about Buffy missing in “Anne”.
- Angel beats up Willie the Snitch without any sign of remorse. The beat-up-for-information guy in ATS is treated with similar carelessness.
- The blood of Drusilla’s sire is needed to nurse her back to health. Blood is paranormally essential throughout the series. Buffy’s blood is needed for the Master to rise, Angel’s blood is needed to open the Acathla and to close it (“Becoming Part II”), a slayer’s blood (Faith is tried, and then Buffy) is needed to cure Angel (“Graduation Day Part I” and “Graduation Day Part II”), the Key’s (Dawn’s) blood is needed to open a hole in the fabric between dimensions (season five, especially “The Gift”), the Key’s blood is needed to be stopped to close said hole (Since the monks made Dawn out of Buffy, she sacrifices herself as substitute in “The Gift”), and a blood sacrifice is needed to open the seal (“Conversations with Dead People”, “Never Leave Me”, “First Date”, “Chosen”). That’s just in BTVS, ATS has countless other occurrences. Spike tells the group that “it’s always got to be blood… Blood is life… Why do you think we eat it? It’s what keeps you going. Makes you warm. Makes you hard. Makes you other than dead. Of course it’s got to be blood.” The only thing that doesn’t need blood is the ritual to close up the seal, in “Storytime” Buffy uses Andrew’s tears.
- “You must be number two.” She is correct that Kendra is number two, but she doesn’t know that she’s the number two slayer.
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- Buffy, Willow, and Xander come to the conclusion that Giles was always a total nerd as a kid. This conversation highlights the “don’t judge a book by its cover” and “every saint has a past and every sinner has a future” themes of this episode.
- “So what’s on tap tonight that’s so important, uprising, prophesized ritual, preordained death fest?” No uprising or prophesized ritual, but there’s definitely a death fest.This is the first time we see Giles’ apartment. It plays a bigger role in the gang’s life in season four.
- A green light from the eyes show that the man is possessed. The same green light in the eyes shows the hyena possession in “The Pack”.
- Giles drinking is used throughout the series to show when he’s really lost his cool, particularly in “The Yoko Factor” and “Forever”.
- Xander’s very first reaction when the dead guy escapes from the cage is to protect Cordelia. They already have some kind of feeling for each other.
- Without the Watcher, the group relies on a nerdy, socially awkward girl to do her best at replacing him as head researcher. This happens with Fred when Wesley is kicked out of the group in ATS.
- Cordy and Xander’s faces get extremely close when they’re fighting. When this happens again in “What’s My Line Part II” they kiss.
- After Giles’ secret past causes great pain to Jenny, she’s reluctant about the relationship. When Jenny’s past and secrets hurt Buffy, Giles cuts off the relationship then as well.
- Buffy says that Giles’ less than stellar past is something that they can finally relate to each other about, a way she can see him as human. Buffy and Giles’ relationship before this has mostly been him telling her what to do and her rejecting any kind of advice he gives her, this is the point where it turns to a more personal relationship and eventually a father/daughter relationship. This is one of the differences between Giles and Wesley. Wesley doesn’t have this past, or he just doesn’t show it, and he never connects to the slayers on a personal level.
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- “If you don’t leave it will go badly for all of us.” He speaks the truth, everyone involved loses in this season. Jenny Calendar dies, Giles loses his love, Angel dies, Buffy has to kill her lover, Joyce is no longer in the dark about her daughters duties, Spike loses Drusilla, and Drusilla loses Spike (he falls in love with Buffy, but doesn’t realize it).
- “My good boy’s gone all the way hasn’t he, to her.” “Who?” “The girl, the slayer.” “Your heart stinks of her.” Drusilla can feel his love for Buffy, this psychic ability causes her to realize that Spike is in love with Buffy before even he realizes.
- “Poor little thing, she has no idea what’s in store.” Drusilla is prophesying the Halloween spell, but she could also be foreseeing Angel losing his soul.
- Buffy continually has problems with communicating her jealousy. First with Owen in “Never Kill a Boy on the First Date”, then with Angel in “Halloween”, “Enemies”, “Earshot”.
- “I don’t have to constantly worry he’s gonna find out my dark secret, it just makes everything easier.” Buffy has this problem with her human love interests, especially with Own in “Never Kill A Boy on the First Date” and Riley before “Doomed”.
- “But I know people, and my gut tells me this is a wrong guy.” Angel does have an ability to tell people’s true intentions. He has the intuition to tell that Faith had the ability to be good, and that the girl in “Are You or Have You Ever Been” made only a mistake.
- “I have to go… away.” Willow mentions in the first episode that when she talks to a boy she likes she can only make a few vowel sounds, and then she has to go away for a while.
- Spike seems jealous of Drusilla meeting with Angel. He has a good reason to be upset, considering the triangle that ensued before between Angel, Spike, and Drusilla. His fears come true, Angelus and Drusilla get awfully friendly after he loses his soul.
- The door is being welded when Xander, Willow, and Angel go to the vampire club, Ford mentions to Buffy that it was made specifically to hold her inside.
- “Maybe I’m the one who should decide.” Buffy’s annoyance with Angel making all of the decisions in the relationship comes up throughout the first three seasons, such as in “Reptile Boy” and “The Prom”.
- The shot when Angel tells Buffy that she can’t trust Ford is shot from outside the house, through the curtains. The shot when Buffy and Willow learn that Jenny Calendar had been killed is also through the curtains of the house.
- “I’m rash and impulsive, it’s flaw.” Buffy isn’t lying, this flaw plays against her advantage in “Prophecy Girl”, “Fear, Itself”, “Bad Girls”, and others.
- Ford’s need to turn into a vampire is fueled by his short life expectancy. Darla is also put into this position in “The Trial” (ATS), but she has a much better idea on how this works.
- Buffy’s moral complication with Ford dying versus becoming a vampire is a very similar situation to Angel’s with Darla dying in “The Trial” (ATS).
- Spike drops everything when Drusilla is in danger. This choice of priorities is a reoccurring character trait with Spike, especially with Buffy in the later seasons.
- “I’m constantly trying to figure it out. Who to love or hate, who to trust… The more I know the more confused I get.” Buffy’s moral confusion over right and wrong is a reoccurring personal issue of hers throughout the series, especially in “The Gift”.
- This is the first person that Buffy really cares about who is killed by demon related forces on the show. She takes it relatively well, compared to the deaths of Jenny Calendar (“Passion”), Angel (“Becoming Part II”), and Spike (“Chosen”).
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- This is the first time on the show that evil has used surveillance to get an upper hand on the gang. Wolfram and Hart also uses this tactic by setting up cameras all through the hotel (except in the janitor’s closet) to watch Angel Investigations’ every move.
- Cordy makes Angel laugh, but he’s only interested in Buffy. These patterns are used as arguments with and against Cangel in the fandom. Those who support Cangel say that Cordelia can make Angel laugh and feel better, while those who support Bangel say that Angel will always love Buffy over all others, shown in “Chosen” when he and Buffy immediately fall back into their old pattern.
- “You’re… a terrible liar.” Actually, Angel shows strong long term lying capabilities often throughout the series and on ATS. He successfully convinces Faith that he’s Angelus in “Enemies”, fools the entirety of Wolfram and Hart in “Dad” (ATS) and “Power Play” (ATS).
- Xander is annoyed that Buffy’s stronger than him, feeling pretty unmanly. Although he gets over his own human limitations and discovers his strengths in later seasons, particularly in “The Zeppo”, “Grave”, and “Potential”, he has issues with Buffy and the others always having to pull his weight, such as in “Helpless” (the peanut butter jar at the end) and “Buffy vs. Dracula”.
- “Angel would never fall for her act.” “… You know what I mean, she’s not his type.” It’s only once Cordelia stops with her act that Angel starts having feelings for her, a few years later.
- “Most importantly, it would be wrong.” Faith makes fun of Buffy’s tendency to say stuff like this in “Who Are You?”.
- “Oh he’s a vampire, but the cuddly kind?” Cordelia calls Angel a “cuddly” vampire in “I Fall to Pieces” (ATS).
- “Oh, I don’t get wild. Wild on me equals spaz.” “Don’t underestimate yourself, you got it in you.” Joss has said that Willow going bad was always in the plan, so this line might have been legitimate foreshadowing. Willow has craziness, wildness inside of her, she’s just scared of letting it out. That plus the magic plus the death of Tara means Dark Willow.
- “I prefer my women in spandex.” Cordelia mentions in “Reptile Boy” that spandex is one of her trademark clothing choices, and she and Xander date during this season and the next until “Lover’s Walk”.
- “Why can’t I meet a nice girl like that?” Oz does meet a nice girl, he meets Willow.
- Buffy and Xander lose their memories of their lives in place of other memories. How did the vampire get into the house? It certainly wasn’t invited.
- Willow can walk through walls and can’t touch anything, just like Spike during the first part of season five of ATS.
- Larry is the pirate, but wouldn’t he be a gay pirate?
- “What no, hug?” Angel says this to Connor in his dream in “Deep Down”.
- Giles shows no sign of remorse as he tortures Ethan into telling him how to end the spell, even though Ethan is a human. He shows this trait, the willingness to hurt or kill humans to help the greater good, again in “The Gift” when he kills Ben when Buffy would not.
- Buffy is inches from being killed by Spike before Giles breaks the spell, just like in “Witch”.
- “Give it up Cordy, you’ll never get between those two.” Cordy most definitely gets between those two in ATS when Angel falls in love with her.
- “Who is that girl?” Oz is repeating a line he said in “Inca Mummy Girl”.
- The first two times Oz sees Willow are when she’s in costume. The next time he sees her in costume is when they’re costumes match in “Fear, Itself”.
- “I always wished I could meet someone exciting, interesting.” This desire for an adventurous woman lured Liam (pre-vampire Angel/Angelus) to Darla, who turned him into a vampire.
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