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Homecoming (3.5)

So this is the third episode this season where, at the start, I've thought “Oh, it's THAT episode. Sigh.”

Whoa, Angel in a brown shirt. Is this the first – and possibly only – time we've seen him in a color?

Buffy: everything's different now. I'm a senior. … I'm even thinking about college.” Okay, Angel's just come off of centuries of torture. Think about how inane this must sound to him.

I love Alan Finch's dilemma. He accepts a job and thinks it's just going to be a regular job but suddenly he finds he's working for evil! I can relate.

I don't really believe that Buffy missed the yearbook photos. Oz: I don't think she was here the day they announced them. The day they announced them? Just one day? Are there really any high-schools that announce yearbook photos only once?

I'm not fond of the wanting to be prom queen conflict. SlayerFest '98 on the other hand, is brilliant.

I'm cringing at the Willow/Xander. I just … they're betraying Oz and Cordy and I just hate watching it.

Willow on why she's helping Cordy rather than Buffy. ”she needs it so much more than you do.” Huh?

There's a LitGal fanfic, Kin of the Heart where Blair (from The Sentinel) explains this whole prom queen in-fighting to Angel. It's amusing. Check it out.

When Faith tells Scott Hope that “the itching and the swelling and the burning should clear up but we gotta keep using the ointment.” Yay! I love that she takes Scott down a peg.

The spatula was wooden? I'm hoping that just the handle was wooden because I'm not really getting how a wooden spatula would work. Wouldn't it be too thick?

Band Candy (3.6)

The driver's ed “filmstrips with the blood and the death and the corpses.” I missed driver's ed that day. I had a violin lesson. I never got/had to see the blood, death, and corpses.

Cordelia: I had this philosophy book checked out from the library for, like, a year, and he made me pay the fine, even though it was huge. I friend of mine had multiple library books overdue for three or four weeks. This was back decades ago when the fines were still pretty cheap but still, that many books for that long, it added up. When she complained, I did some math in my head and told her the fine sounded about right for that many books and that long. She didn't complain about that to me again.

Joyce to Ripper: You've got good albums. Yes, yes he does. Actually it sounds like they're listening to Cream's Tales of Brave Ulysses. I had friends who took that to school and played it for their lit teacher. He was impressed by how well it followed the tale.
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Snyder: Call me Snyder. Just the last nam,e like … Barbarino. Snyder's self image:
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The kissing couple in the Bronze reminds me of couples kissing in Crybaby but since I can't find that scene online …
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Cerebus the Aadrvark comic has an issue with a giant snake that looks a lot like Laconis. Dave Sim once commented that he'd like to one day open the comic buyer's guide and see it listed as the giant penis issue.

Both the Saturday Night vid and the giant penis issue comments seem familiar. I'm now feeling I've reviewed this episode before.

Revelations (3.7)

I know this goes without saying, but Gwendolyn Post's antagonistic snips are just too delightful for words. “The pictures are fun to look at, Mr. Giles, but one really ought to read the nice words as well.”

Gwendolyn Post, Mrs. So she's a relaxed, hair down kind of a gal. My understanding is if she were really old school, she'd introduce herself by her husband's first name, i.e. Mrs. Roger Post.

Oh, I just realized that the Willow/Xander relationship parallels the Buffy/Angel relationship in terms of inappropriate attraction. That's why they're making me suffer through this. Well, also, probably, to break up Xander and Cordy so she can vanish into LA.

Demons Anonymous which parallels everyone ganging up on Buffy during Dead Man's Party. Yeah, let's all gang up on Buffy again. So are these gang ups to show that Buffy is isolated by being the Slayer, that she has to face situations and make calls that no one else can? Is that why we're seeing nobody get where she's coming from?

Gwendolyn: “A good Watcher must be awake and alert at all hours. Doesn't this sound like a quote from a Watcher's training manual? I think Gwendolyn's making a joke that in Sunnydale only she and Giles can share.

Fanfic, or at least the corner I read, has authors that make Buffy out to be self-centered, but is she? When Willow quizzes Buffy about the secrecy making the relationship seem sexier, Buffy realizes Willow's got something going on and calls her on it. Buffy: “What makes you think all this secret stuff is sexy, anyway?”

Gwendolyn: Tau freim! which translates as “Be free!”. Um, did anyone else hear “Ta Fleem”? Because I was sitting there and thinking “fleem? Really?” Because, honestly, fleem doesn't sound all that arcane.

Lover's Walk (3.8)

Pictures of Xander in Cordelia's locker. Oz giving Willow the witchy Pez. Gee, it's almost as if they were making the relationships just that much better right before they broke them.

On the love spell: Willow: “The supplies are basically the same, right?” Shopkeeper: “Basically. Although raven feathers tend to breed a little more discontent than canary.” The shopkeeper obviously knows more about love spells than Willow does so why is Spike kidnapping Willow rather than the shopkeeper?

Mayor Wilkins: “This year is too important to let a loose cannon rock the boat.” Since I've just scene The Martian where the character complains about disco music:
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Xander: “It smells like church in here.” For Halloween two years running now, I've been burning incense while waiting out for the trick or treaters. I wish I knew what the incense I have is because it smells wonderful. The chunks of incense are pale yellow, like a very pale citrine. My neighbor's daughter said it smells like church.