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Ted
November 11th, 2008 | 
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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?
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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:
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In Other News:
Shannan guest stars with Jason, due to the haunted nature of this episode! (damn you, Ted!)
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What’s My Line, parts 1 & 2
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:
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Bug Guy
Slayer vs. Slayer
Spike vs. Organ
The Dark Age
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.
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Lie To Me
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.
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