One of the things I love about that episode is that Jonathan, who isn't the killer, has the dramatic scene while the lunch lady, who is the would-be killer, has a comic-relief scene.
It hadn't occurred to me until you said that, how that gets reversed/paralled in Season 6 when no one takes the Trio seriously ("Are you trying to annoy me to death?") until Katrina's death. (Earshot and Normal Again have some other nifty parallels but that's another subject. Or maybe not. The "bad guy" isn't the demon per se but the Trio who are tormenting Buffy in that ep too.)
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It hadn't occurred to me until you said that, how that gets reversed/paralled in Season 6 when no one takes the Trio seriously ("Are you trying to annoy me to death?") until Katrina's death. (Earshot and Normal Again have some other nifty parallels but that's another subject. Or maybe not. The "bad guy" isn't the demon per se but the Trio who are tormenting Buffy in that ep too.)
Jonathan's death in S7 guts me btw.