Archive for February, 2009

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:
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

I wanted to let everyone know what’s going on with the cast. In the last few months there have seen some big happenings with us and are lives.

We know you guys have had to wait a long time between episodes of The Watchercast and that’s not something that we’ve done on purpose. We’ve heard you and are working out our schedules so we can reliably release episodes every two weeks.