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Go Fish

Jason — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:35:39 +0000

Sorry for the odd edit. The full episode is now up! Please re-download if you have the clipped version.

The Sunnydale High School has finally got a winning sports team! That should be a red flag right there that something isn’t right with them. Is there some fish monster eating people, but leaving their skin, or is it more complex than that?

Directed by: David Semel
Original Air Date: May 5, 1998
Guest Stars:
Wentworth Miller (Gage Petronzi)
Danny Strong (Jonathan)

Trivia:

Sophia Crawford does most of the real heavy fighting as SMG’s stunt double

Quotes:
Buffy: “Those boys really love their coach”

Xander: “What am I gonna do?”
Cordelia: “You, you, you. What about me? It’s one thing to be dating the lame unpopular guy, but it’s another to be dating the creature from the blue lagoon.”
Xander: “Black lagoon. The creature from the blue lagoon was Brooke Shields.”

Cordelia: “Well, you could go out to the parking lot and practice running like a man.”

Key Events:

Willow will be finishing out the year as Jenny’s replacement

Rating:

Jason: 2.5 out of 5 stars

Matt: 3 out of 5 stars

Troy: 3 out of 5 stars

Overall Score: 2.83 out of 5 stars

In Other News:

A remake of V, the sci-fi mini series from 1983 is due to come out this year. Morena Baccarin (Inara Serra from FireFly/Serenity) will be playing Diana!
Laura Vandervoort (Kara/aka Super Girl from Smallville) also stars in the upcoming V reboot

The after school special that Jason randomly mentioned.

I Only Have Eyes For You

Jason — Tue, 19 May 2009 06:19:11 +0000

The Sadie Hawkins dance is coming up and Buffy is off the dating track… “forever”. There are two love birds that still have some issues to work out, to bad they are both dead. Giles thinks the ghostly activity is Jenny trying to finish up some unresolved issues while the rest of the gang just want to get the deadly incident to stop repeating. Eventually our dead star crossed lovers find the best hosts for their deadly rerun in Buffy and Angelus but not quite the way one might expect.

Watch the full episode right here!

Written by: Marti Noxon
Directed by: James Whitmore, Jr.
Original Air Date: April 28, 1998
Guest Stars: John Hawkes (George)
Trivia:

Joss Whedon mentions in the special features commentary that after David’s emotional performance in this episode he thought David could carry his own show. (a.k.a Angel)

The Sadie Hawkins dance is named after the Li’l Abner comic strip character Sadie Hawkins.

The mansion that Angelus, Dru, and Spike move into is actually the Ennis House, a real life home that has a huge history in movies

Quotes:
Xander: “I defined something? Accurately? Guess I’m done with the book learning”

Cordillia: “Over identify much?”

Angel: “Incoming, I love when she does this.”

Key Events:

Spike can walk
Willow is getting into the magics
Giles comes to grips with the fact that Jenny is really gone

Rating:

Jason: 3 out of 5 stars

Kathleen: 3 out of 5 stars

Troy: 4 out of 5 stars

Overall Score: 3.33 out of 5 stars

In Other News:

Dollhouse has been renewed

Killed By Death

Jason — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:48:09 +0000

After the flu puts Buffy in the hospital, she helps save sick children from Der Kindestod, a nightmare demon invisible to healthy people. When getting well means losing her ability to fight the demon, Buffy reinfects herself. In saving the other children, she also avenges her young cousin, Celia, and puts her own hospital phobia to rest.

Directed by: Deran Serafian
Original Air Date: March 3, 1998
Guest Stars:

Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Richard Herd as Dr. Stanley Backer
Willie Garson as Security Guard
Andrew Ducote as Ryan
Juanita Jennings as Dr. Wilkinson

Trivia:

When the gang takes Buffy for a walk around the hospital grounds, she tells them she saw “Death”. Xander advises her to refuse if Death offers to play chess with her. This refers to ‘Max von Sydow’’s epic chess match vs Death’s in Ingmar Bergman’s Det sjunde inseglet (IMDB)
Joss Whedon designed Der Kindestod himself. He was an amalgam of Freddy Krueger, Nosferatu, and the boogeyman.

Quotes:

Kathleen’s Fave Exchange:
Xander: “Cordy, you should go with Giles.”
Giles: “Why do I have to have…? Good thinking, I could do with a research assistant.”
Cordelia: “Let’s go, Tact-Guy.”

Troy’s Fave Exchange:
“Xander: “She fell.”
Willow: “The flu.”
Cordelia: “She fainted.”
Xander: “The flu, fainted and fell. She’s sick, make it better!”

Jason’s Fave Quote:
Cordelia:“Tact is just not saying true stuff…I’ll pass”

Troy’s Der Kindestod Rendition:

Rating:

Jason : 2.4 out of 5 stars

Kathleen : 2.5 out of 5 stars

Troy : 2 out of 5 stars

Overall Score: 2.85 out of 5 stars

The Watchercast Monster Rating: : 4.5 out of 5 stars

In Other News:

The Watchercast crew will be attending “This American Life Live” where Joss Whedon will be featured. Stay tuned for their thoughts.

Look forward to guest hosts in future casts. Listen to other Watchercast listeners take on the Buffyverse.

Voice comments are active! Comments, questions, cries of outrage??? Tell us all about it!!!!!

Video clips

The Flu Fall

You Game?

Passion

Jason — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:10:13 +0000

Angelus has murder on his mind and Buffy’s friends and family are his targets. Jenny Calendar is still on the outs with the scooby gang but gives Giles a spell book containing a ritual to keep Angelus out of the their homes, all the while she is secretly working on her own “special project”—a computer translation of the ancient Gypsy Ritual of Restoration, the spell which originally gave Angelus his soul back. She succeeds, but Drusilla senses Jenny’s intentions and Angelus pays Jenny a visit to destroy all her work and put an end to her life. With extra flair, Angelus uses his sick and twisted abilities to torture Giles. Though devastated as well by Jenny’s death, Buffy stops Giles from getting himself killed seeking revenge on Angelus. By the time Jenny is laid to rest, Buffy understands the full consequences of allowing Angelus to continue his reign of terror and finds herself, finally, ready to slay him.

Directed by: Michael E. Gershman
Original Air Date: February 24, 1998

Guest Stars:

Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers
Robia LaMorte as Jenny Calendar
Richard Assad as Shopkeeper
James Marsters as Spike
Juliet Landau as Drusilla
Danny Strong as Jonathan Levinson

According to Joss Whedon, Jenny Calendar’s death serves notice to fans, first, that no one is safe, death is scary and real, and second, that Angel is not “just a little evil,” he’s not “grouchy,” he’s truly evil and Buffy needs to address the situation. The series creator also jokes that the episode is a message to the actors: “Be very good, or I’ll kill you.”
In an interview with the BBC, Anthony Stewart Head says this is his favorite episode, “because it was a beautifully shot episode and a beautifully written one.
Although Jenny is killed off in this episode, the actress makes two further guest appearances: in the second part of the season finale where Drusilla hypnotizes Giles into thinking she’s Jenny and again in the season 3 episode Amends as a manifestation of the First Evil, intending to turn Angel evil again.

Quotes:
Kathleen’s fave quote: “Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah theory of battle?”–Xander

Troy’s fave quote:(exchange)

Xander: Excuse me, but have you ever heard of knocking?
Jonathon: We’re supposed to get some books. On Stalin.
Xander: Does this look like a Barnes & Noble?
Giles: This is a school library, Xander.
Xander: Since when?

Jason’s fave quote: “I’m sorry, but let’s not forget that I hated Angel long before you guys jumped on the bandwagon. So I think I deserve a little something for not saying I told you so long before now. And if Giles wants to go after the fiend that murdered his girlfriend, I say faster pussycat kill kill.”-Xander

Key Events:

The death of Jenny Calendar.
Buffy realizes that she must end Angelus once and for all before he hurts anyone else.

Rating:

Jason: 3.5 out of 5 stars

Kathleen: 4 out of 5 stars

Troy: 3.5 out of 5 stars

Overall Score: 3.67 out of 5 stars

In Other News:
Torrance High School showed up as “Coldwell High School” in the NBC show Medium.

We are just about finished with Season Two and we want to hear from you! Please send us your questions and comments about the podcast. How can we make it better- give us some Mr. Pointies.

Video Clips

Knocking?!?!

More about puppies??

This is where you get off

Upstairs

Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered

Jason — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 04:25:03 +0000

Valentine’s Day sucks in Sunnydale. Cordelia breaks up with Xander to make her silence the mocking of her friends, even though in her heart it’s not what she wants. In his heartbroken state, Xander blackmails Amy to cast a love spell, but it goes horribly awry and every woman in Sunnydale, except Cordy, becomes pathologically attracted to him. In an odd turn, a smitten Dru saves Xander from Angelus, but who will save Xander from the screaming horde of psycho women?

Directed by: James A. Contner
Original Air Date: February 10, 1998
Guest Stars:

Robia LaMorte as Jenny Calendar
Elizabeth Anne Allen as Amy Madison
Mercedes McNab as Harmony Kendall

Trivia:

Giles tells Buffy that one Valentine’s Day, Angelus nailed a puppy to something (we don’t find out as Buffy stops him before he can finish).

Quotes:

Troys fave quote: “Oz has his cool hair today. I think I’m a groupie!”-Willow

Kathleen’s fave quote: “Who died and made you Elvis?”-Cordelia

Jason’s fave quote: “Force is okay…”-Willow

Key Events:

Buffy is turned into a rat for a short time by Amy is hopped up by her own love spell (foreshadowing to Amy’s eventual demise)
After the love spell has been vanquished and all the girls of Sunnydale have returned to their disgust for Xander he is mocked once more by Harmony in the company of Cordelia. Cordy finally stands up to her friends and reconciles with Xander while her friends look on in horror.

Rating:

Jason:: 5 out of 5 stars

Kathleen:: 4 out of 5 stars

Troy:: 4 out of 5 stars

In Other News:

Anyone watching Private Practice? Both Emma Caufield and Amber Benson have guest starred on recent episodes. If only they would cast James Marsters as a hot doctor!

Video clips:

“Ok, not quite the reaction I was looking for” – Xander / Cordi in red/black dress

Got the Love

Quick! Block the door Xander!

Playing your cards right

Nice Shirt

“mmm.. Force is ok.” – Willow

Phases

Jason — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:53:59 +0000

There’s a werewolf stalking Sunnydale and Buffy and the gang discover that it’s one of their own. Buffy tries to protect Sunnydale from the beast’s appetite, and protect the nocturnal beast from a werewolf bounty hunter who doesn’t care that his trophy is human 27 days a month. Angelus starts some trouble. Willow convinces Oz she still wants to see him, despite everything.

Directed by: Bruce Seth Green
Original Air Date: January 27th, 1998
Guest Stars:

Seth Green as Oz
Camila Griggs as Gym Teacher
Jack Conley as Cain
Larry Bagby as Larry Blaisdell (as Larry Bagby III)
Megahn Perry as Theresa

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Trivia:

In the beginning of the episode, Oz fixates on the cheerleading trophy that contains Amy’s mom from the first season episode, “Witch”.
Giles’ first car seen on the show was an ancient silver Citroen, first seen in “The Witch”. The license plate was 2GPU947. During the filming of “Phases” the car refused to start so some members of the Buffy crew had to push the car from behind. They can be seen through the rear window in one scene.

Quotes:
Willow: “Well, I like you. You’re nice, and you’re funny. And you don’t smoke. Yeah, okay, werewolf, but that’s not all the time. I mean, three days out of the month I’m not much fun to be around either.”

Cordelia: “Sorry, we haven’t all perfected that phony ‘girl next door’ bit.”
Willow: “You could be the girl next door, too. If Xander lived next to a brothel!”

Key Events:

Oz becomes a werewolf in this episode, a defining characteristic of his character for the remainder of the series.
Zander discovers that Larry’s misogynist ways are a smoke screen…Larry is gay and he thinks Zander is also gay.

Rating:

Jason:

Kathleen:

Troy:

In Other News:

A Dollhouse podcast is in the works, stay tuned for details!

Video Clips

“Huh.”

Moonpie

More words…

Surprise / Innocence

Jason — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:07:16 +0000

Surprise:
Drusilla is back and all healed and throwing a party and reassembles the Judge, an unstoppable demon while Buffy and Angel consummate their relationship.

Innocence:
Angel loses his soul due to a moment of true happiness, and his demon self (Angelus) takes over; Buffy must deal with him and stop the Judge.

Directed by: Michael Lange
Original Air Date: 19 January 1998
Guest Stars:
Brian Thompson (The Judge)
Vincent Schiavelli (Uncle Enyos)

Trivia:

Brian Thompson also played Luke in the first two episodes of Buffy, The Harvest and Welcome to the Hellmouth
The Buffy and Angel theme, “Close Your Eyes” is first heard in this episode

Quotes:
Cordelia : “Well, does looking at guns make you want to have sex? ”

Xander : “I’m 17. Looking at linoleum makes me want to have sex.”

Cordelia: “Pieces? We get the pieces. Our job sucks!”

Key Events:

Really to many to list here but…
Angel loses his soul
Xander and Cordi are found out by Willow
Willow and Oz start to become a couple
Mrs. Calender is found out to be a gypsy plant to watch Angel

Rating:

Jason:

Kathleen:

Troy:

In Other News:
Dollhouse looked really interesting. We’ll have more details in later episodes.

Video Clips
Cordelia nose wiggle… (HOT) … and Willow big eyes…. (SAD)

Buffy breakdown

“I’m 17″

Willow and OZ

Bad Eggs

Jason — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 05:57:39 +0000

The scoobies are taken to “sitcom plot device land” as they are each given an egg to look after as an exercise in parenting. Of course, since this IS Sunnydale, the eggs do not contain sweet, fuzzy chicks, but rather vile, facesucking, mind-controlling “bezoars”. Luckily, Buffy and Xandor manage to avoid being taken over by the nasty creatures, and rush off to save their friends from…whatever that is under the school. Also, in this episode, we are introduced to two of the meanest, toughest, rootin-tootin-est vampires to ever walk the vast plains of California! (Those Gorch brothers rock!)

Directed by: David Greenwalt
Original Air Date: January 12, 1998
Guest Stars:
Jeremy Ratchford (Lyle Gorch)
James Parks (Tector Gorch)

Trivia:

Lyle and Tector Gorch where two characters from the 1969 movie “The Wild Bunch“, which starred William Holden and Ernest Borgnine.
We learn in this episode that Angel can’t have children.

Quotes:
Giles: “I suppose there is a sort of Machiavellian ingenuity to your transgression.”
Xander: “I resent that… or, possibly, thank you.”

Tector: “That the Slayer?”
Lyle: “Yep.”
Tector: “Ain’t that Angelus with her?”
Lyle: “Yep.”
Tector: “Well, how come she ain’t slayin’? And how come he’s about to make me blush?”

Rating:

Jason:

Kathleen:

Troy:

Ted

Jason — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:50:22 +0000

Joyce introduces Buffy to her new boyfriend, Ted. Everyone loves Ted! He can cook! He’s the best computer software salesman at his firm! He makes the best cookies ever! So what the heck is wrong with Buffy?

Watch the entire episode online

Directed by: Bruce Seth Green
Original Air Date: December 8, 1997

Guest Stars:
John Ritter (Ted Buchanan)

Trivia:

Ted takes the gang out to mini-golf, even though it has been established in another episode that Sunnydale doesn’t HAVE a mini-golf course.

Quotes:

Ted: “Do you want me to slap that smart ass mouth of yours?!”

Key Events:

Hmm…John Ritter guess starred? Not a lot key about this one.

Rating:

Jason:

Kathleen:

Troy:

In Other News:
Shannan guest stars with Jason, due to the haunted nature of this episode! (damn you, Ted!)

Video Clips

What’s My Line, parts 1 & 2

Troy — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:32:04 +0000

It’s a two-fer this time on the Watchercast, as we discuss the two-part horror that is Kendra, the Vampire Slayer. She arrives in town at the same time as the Order of Taraka, sometimes human (sometimes bug) assassins that have been hired by Spike to keep the Slayer busy as he tries to find a cure for his creepy girlfriend, Drusilla. And, as with most things that take place on the Hellmouth, this cure requires a sacrifice…in this case, the sire of Drusilla, Angel. And Xander and Cordillia kiss. A lot.

Directed by: David Solomon (part 1) & David Semel ( part 2)
Original Air Date: November 17, 1997 (part 1) & November 24, 1997 (part 2)

Guest Stars:
Bianca Lawson (Kendra)
Kelly Connell (Bug-sassin)
Saverio Guerra (Willy)
Spice Williams (Policewoman Assassin)

Trivia:

We get several visits to “Willy’s Tavern” in these episodes, a shady bar that caters to the shadow-y supernatural type.
We get the second slayer showing up in this episode because, even it was for a short time, Buffy did die in the final episode of Season 1.

Quotes:

Angel: “You’re in danger, do you know what this ring means?”
Buffy: “I just killed a Superbowl Champ?”

Buffy: “You and bug people, Xander…what’s up with that?”

Key Events:

Xander and Cordilia kiss!

Rating:

Jason:

Kathleen:

Troy:

Video Clips
Bug Guy

Slayer vs. Slayer

Spike vs. Organ

The Dark Age

Troy — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:04:55 +0000

A series of grisly murders of really stuffy British people lead straight to Giles, who gets drunk and pissy in response. Buffy and the gang rush to his rescue anyway, and Jenny Calendar becomes possessed by Eyghon, an ancient demon that Giles and his friends used to summon when they were younger to get high. (Man, and my parents said sniffing glue was dangerous!)

Directed by: Bruce Seth Green
Original Air Date: November, 10 1997

Guest Stars:
Stuart McLean (Philip Henry)
Wendy Way (Dierdre)
Michael Earl Reid (Custodian – EDDIE!!!)
Trivia:

In the game at the beginning of this episode, “Anywhere But Here”, Buffy wishes for a foot massage from Gavin Rossdale, who is the lead singer of the band “Bush”. Plus, he’s married to Gwen Stefani, which makes me hate him a little, due to extreme jealousy. Amy Yip, with whom Xander wants to visit a waterpark, is a sexy Hong Kong actress who is famous for having very large breasts. And everyone knows who John Cusack is…
The photo of Giles holding the bass guitar that Xander finds in Giles’ office was created by the Buffy staff by photohoping his head onto a picture of Sid Vicious.

Quotes:

Xander: “That’s it! Twelve years of you and I’m snappin’! I don’t care if you’re a girl or not, I’m throwin’ down!”
Cordelia: “I’ve seen you fight. And don’t think I can’t take you!”

Xander: “Giles lived for school. He’s actually still bitter that there are only twelve grades.”
Buffy: “He probably sat in math class thinking, ‘There should be more math. This could be mathier.’”

Key Events:

We learn Giles has a tattoo!
We get a good look at Giles’ less-tweed-y past.

Rating:

Jason:

Kathleen:

Troy:

Lie To Me

Troy — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 01:40:18 +0000

Buffy is pleasantly surprised when a friend from her old high school shows up in Sunnydale. Then, she’s unpleasantly surprised when Ford catches her staking a vampire. Then she’s pleasantly surprised again when he tells her that he already knows she is The Slayer. Then she’s unpleasantly surprised when he tries to kill her by trapping her for Spike. Also, Willow sneaks Angel into her room and Giles goes to a Monster Truck Rally.

Directed by: Joss Whedon
Original Air Date: November 3, 1997

Guest Stars:
Julia Lee (Chanterelle)
Jason Behr (Billy ‘Ford’ Fordham)

Trivia:

Jason Behr (who played Ford) reunited with SMG in 2004’s The Grudge
The fake vampire who greets Buffy when she visits the Sunset Club is actually Todd McIntosh, the show’s make-up supervisor.

Quotes:

Buffy: “It was terrible. I moped over you for months. Sitting in my room listening to that Divinyls song ‘I Touch Myself’…Of course, I had no idea what it was about.”
(minutes later…)
Willow: (realizes) “Oh, that’s what that song is about?!”

Buffy: “Does it ever get easy?”
Giles: “You mean life?”
Buffy: “Yeah. Does it get easy?”
Giles: “What do you want me to say?”
Buffy: “Lie to me.”
Giles: “Yes, it’s terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.”
Buffy: “Liar.”

Key Events:

Buffy tells Angel she loves him for the first time in this episode.

Rating:

Jason:

Kathleen:

Troy:

Halloween

Troy — Thu, 29 May 2008 06:15:58 +0000

Buffy and the Scoobies are volunteered by Snyder to show kids around for Halloween. Luckily, Halloween is the one night a year that evil lays low in the Buffyverse. Unluckily, Ethan Raine, a shady character from Giles past, never got the memo, and casts a spell that causes everyone that bought a costume in his shop to transform into whatever they are wearing. Buffy turns all powerless and weepy. Xander, luckily, turns into a hardnosed soldier. Willow turns into a scantily clad ghost (nice!) and everyone else turns into monsters. Oh yeah, and Spike shows up. Neat!

Directed by: Bruce Seth Green
Original Air Date: October 27, 1997

Guest Stars:
Robin Sachs (Ethan Rayne)
Larry Bagby (Larry Blaisdell)

Trivia:

Xander’s transformation into a soldier in this episode is the excuse used in numerous upcoming episodes when military knowledge is needed.
This is the first episode where we hear Giles referred to as “Ripper”.
Writer Carl Ellsworth was fired by Joss Whedon immediately after completing the script for this episode. (via IMDB) … (this was just a bit too interesting, so I had to look a little deeper. Found some more information here)

Quotes:

Spike: “This is just…neat!”

Willow: “She couldn’t have dressed up as Xena!?”

Drusilla: “Do you love my insides? The parts you can’t see?”
Spike: “Eyeballs to entrails, my sweet!”

Key Events:

First appearance of Ethan Rayne

Rating:

Jason:

Kathleen:

Troy:

Pete:

Jodi:

Video Clips:

Thinks you’re a babe…

Willow the dish

I could watch this over and over -Jason

“… the ghost of what?”

The first appearance of “Ripper”

Inca Mummy Girl

Troy — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:11:23 +0000

Xander’s luck in women looks like it’s turning around as he falls for the beautiful foreign exchange student Ampata, who is staying at Buffy’s place. But wasn’t Buffy’s exchange student supposed to be a guy? And what about that mummy that seems to have escaped from the local museum? And is that an actual Incan warrior running around Sunnydale?

Directed by: Ellen S. Pressman
Original Air Date: October 6, 1997

Guest Stars:
Ara Celi (Ampata Gutierrez)
Seth Green (Daniel ‘Oz’ Osbourne)
Danny Strong (Jonathan Levinson)

Trivia:

Xandar and Ampata had to eat up to ten twinkies each for each take of the scene in which they are eating lunch. Life is truly cruel on the hellmouth. (ugh!)

Quotes:
Willow “Well, you know, I have a choice. I can spend my life waiting for Xander to go out with every other girl in the world until he notices me, or I can just get on with my life.”
Buffy “Good for you.”
Willow “Well, I didn’t choose yet.”

Giles “You can’t go to the dance, you have responsibilities that other girls do not.”
Buffy “Oh! I know this one! Slaying entails certain sacrifices, blah, blah, bitty blah, I’m so stuffy, gimme a scone.”

Key Events:

Oz makes his first appearance!
Jonathan makes his first (very short…no pun intended, Jonathan!) appearance!

Rating:
Jason:
Kathleen:
Troy:

In Other News: Come join us in our newly updated and snazzy forums!

Video Clips

Twinkies:

Johnathan:

School Hard

Troy — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:19:08 +0000

Buffy is sweating Parent / Teacher conference night, and the best way to keep her mother away from Snyder. Little does she know, she has much bigger things to worry about when Spike and Drusilla hit town! (literally!)

Directed by: John T. Kretchmer
Original Air Date: September 29, 1997

Guest Stars:
James Marsters (Spike)
Juliet Landau (Drusilla)

Trivia:

It is hinted that Principal Snyder knows more about Sunnydale and its foolishness than he is letting on…
Though Spike refers to Angel as his sire, this is not technically correct. It was eventually shown (in Season Five’s “Fool For Love”) that it was actually Drusilla who sired Spike. For many of us, this was no surprise — Joss has been saying for ages that Dru was actually Spike’s sire. For example, on January 2, 1998 (about 3 months after “School Hard” aired), he said, “Angel was Dru’s sire — he made her — and she made Spike. But SIRE doesn’t just mean [the] guy who made you, it means you come from their line. Angel is like a grandfather to Spike.” Whether the line was originally intended with that interpretation, or whether it was a boo-boo that slipped through and Joss justifies that way, Joss has always maintained that in his mind (which is the only place the characters really live), Dru was Spike’s sire. – from BuffyGuide.com

Quotes:
Xander: “Does anybody else remember when Saturday night meant date night?”
Cordillia: “You don’t.”

Spike: “Women!”

Key Events:

First Spike!
First Drusilla!
The death of the Annoying one!

Rating:

Jason:

Shannan:

Kathleen:

Troy:

Video Clips:

Spike’s Background:

Spike/Angel Reunion part 1:

Spike/Angel Reunion part 2:

Some Assembly Required

Jason — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:35:29 +0000

Chris and Eric, two students at Sunnydale High, have an exciting new Science Fair project: they’ve brought back Chris’s brother, Daryl, from the dead. The project complete they start on a new venture – making Daryl a perfect girlfriend from old body parts. They have their eye on Cordelia’s head as the perfect finishing touch.

Directed by: Bruce Seth Green
Original Air Date: 22 September 1997
Guest Stars:
Angelo Spizzirri (Chris Epps)
Michael Bacall (Eric Gittleson)
Ingo Neuhaus (Daryl Epps)

Trivia:

Fondren High is revealed to be a rival school
Cordy is almost a member of the Scoobies by this episode

Quotes:

Giles: “Grave robbing? That’s new. Interesting.”

Buffy: “I know you meant to say ‘gross and disturbing’.”

Giles: “Yes, yes, yes of course. Uh, terrible thing. Must, must put a stop to it. Damn it.”

Willow: “Love makes you do the wacky.”

Key Events:

Xander saves Cordy from a burning building
Giles asks out Ms. Calendar

Rating:

Jason:

Kathleen:

Troy:

Video Clips
Cordi and Angel:

In Other News:
Trying something new on this episode, see if you can tell what it is.

When She Was Bad

Troy — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 14:44:01 +0000

Buffy’s back for the first episode of Season 2!After a summer with her father in L.A., Buffy returns to Sunnydale noticeably less sunny. Her near death experience at the hand of the Master months before has given her a serious case of the wiggins, and she’s not handling it well. (Highlight of the episode, watch poor Xander squirm while Buffy tries to seduce him with the dance of the veiled bitca!)

Meanwhile The Annointed One has hatched a plan to resurrect The Master…unfortunately for our Scoobies, that requires the sacrifice of everyone that had been in the vicinity of The Master when he died…in this case, Willow, Miss Calendar, Giles and Cordelia. Buffy realizes the importance of her friends when she is forced to save them and her less bitchy, more quippy self returns.

Directed by: Joss Whedon
Original Air Date: September 15, 1997
Guest Stars: Dean Butler (Hank Summers)
Trivia:

David Boreanaz became a regular cast member as of this episode.
Apparently, Giles, Willow and Xander (it is assumed) figured taking the Master’s bones from the library and burying him three feet deep in the Sunnydale Cemetary covered in soil watered with holy water was a good enough defense to keep him from coming back. Silly Scoobies.

Quotes:Cordelia: Whatever is causing the Joan Collins ‘tude, deal with it. Embrace the pain, spank your inner moppet, whatever, but get over it.

Willow: That’s what it was! I mean, why else would she be acting like such a b-i-t-c-h?

Giles: Willow, I think we’re all a little too old to be spelling things out.

Xander: A bitca?

Key Events:

Season 2 starts.
Joss directs his second episode
Buffy totally confuses poor Xander by dancing seductively with him at the Bronze.

Rating:

Jason:

Kathleen:

Troy:

Video Clips:

Buffy nightmare:

Buffy Sexy Dance:

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