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Anne
August 22nd, 2009 | 
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Unable to deal with the pain caused by being forced to kill Angel, Buffy heads to L.A. to try and leave it all behind…Sunnydale, her friends, even her name. There, she goes by “Anne” and works in a diner, waiting tables. But trouble has a way of finding Buffy, and this time trouble comes in the form of Lily (who was known as Chanterelle in “Lie To Me” last season). Lily has lost her boyfriend, Rickie, and has enlisted the help of Buffy to find him. Meanwhile, the scoobies in Sunnydale learn that it ain’t easy to slay vampires without a slayer. Let’s just hope Buffy can escape that creepy forced labor hell demension to get back to Sunnydale and give them all a hand once more.
Directed by: Joss Whedon
Original Air Date: 29 September 1998
Guest Stars:
Julia Lee (Lily)
Trivia:
- We learn in this episode that “Anne” is Buffy’s middle name. The Buffy Trivia Guide mentions that there is a chain of lingerie stores in England named Ann Summers, which I thought was funny enough to mention. =)
- According to IMDB, this is the first episode where they do the “Previously, on Buffy the Vampire Slayer” thing at the beginning. Really? How did I miss that?
Quotes:
Larry: “If we can focus, keep discipline, and not have quite as many mysterious deaths, Sunnydale is gonna *rule!*”
Key Events:
- Buffy returns to Sunnydale, after having been away for several months.
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In Other News:
Jason is the proud papa of Seth, surely a future Watcher.
And you can find out what Longaberger is here.
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Go Fish
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
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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
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:
- Spike can walk
- Willow is getting into the magics
- Giles comes to grips with the fact that Jenny is really gone
- Dollhouse has been renewed
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.”
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Killed By Death
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:
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