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Buffy the Vampire Slayer 3x06 - Band Candy

So we’ve established The Mayor as a sniffer

CORDELIA Actually, I’m looking forward to it. I do well on standardized tests. What? I can’t have layers?

Cordelia has layers, like a parfait.

GILES I’m doing it to test your awareness of an opponent’s location during a fight in total darkness. Now, wait five seconds and then throw the ball at me.
BUFFY You ran out of new training ideas about a week ago, huh? Okay. Five, four, three, two, one.
GILES It’s not that simple, is it… Ow. Ahem. Yes, well, very good.

I love this part.

Good costuming detail having Xander’s shoes untied

JOYCE You got good albums.
GILES Yeah, they’re okay.
JOYCE Do you like Seals and Croft?
JOYCE Yeah, me neither.

Is Cream really that badass, Giles?

WILLOW Are you okay, Ms. Barton?
MS BARTON Oh, I’m cool, Willow. Willow… That’s a tree. You’re a tree! Yeah, uh, uh, are there any nachos in here, little tree?

I just want to point out the lyrics to the Dingoes Ate My Babies song that’s playing during this scene.

the strangest things / i’ve always known / it slays me everytime / darkened fields / have overgrown / you want to lay me out? / tie me down? / tie me / our love / covered in my blood / is so violent

GILES Go away. We’re busy.

I took a lot of screencaps of Joyce and Giles making out. This is my favorite. Even more so than the one of them on a police-car.

BUFFY Look. A box full of farm-fresh chicken.

Ethan’s face is great and this line is so weird. Is it a commercial slogan or something?

BUFFY Uh, see if you guys can find something to tie him up with.
JOYCE Um…
BUFFY Never tell me.

STORY TIME: When I was about sixteen I was going through airport security with my girlfriend. The x-ray screener yelled bag check and I instantly remembered the fuzzy handcuffs in my bag that I’d forgotten about. Oops. Thank god this was before 2001 because there’s no way we would have made that plane these days.

This all seems like a hell of a lot of trouble for four babies. That’s not very many babies. They couldn’t have just like… found four babies laying around somewhere?

I had a test today so I’ve been studying most of the last 48 hours. I’m pretty sure it went well.