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Season 1 Episode 3

In the Dark

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Oz visits L.A. with a present for Angel from Buffy. It’s the Gem of Amarra, a ring which has been a vampire myth for millennia. While wearing it, a vampire is immune to crosses, stakes, and can even walk in daylight. It isn’t long before Spike arrives in town, searching for the ring. And he has no plans of leaving until he gets it.moreless
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  • In the dark

    6.0
    By joxerlives, Dec 28, 2011


    The Good;

    Spike mocking Angel is excellent, lovely to see Oz and a great rescue and final battle at the pier. Nice end coda too. The Cordy/Oz/Angel scenes are hysterical, as Willow observes both she and Buffy know the love of 2 taciturn men.



    The Bad;

    Very little, strong ep. Boy Spike is dumb but funnily so. Everyone at the pier seems to take the 2 guys jumping off the end on fire very calmly.



    Best line:

    Doyle (to Angel); Long time between sunsets huh?



    Jeez, how did they get away with that?

    Well, Angel get's tortured to nearly death for the majority of the episode. Spike also hints that Marcus has an interest in the kids beyond just eating them. Reputedly this is the ep that got the Angel season 1 dvd boxset an 18 rating in the UK. I don't disagree but what makes this worse than 'Hellbound' which only got a 15 rating?



    Apocalypses: 4



    Angel Cliches

    Damsel in distress; yep, that makes 2

    Inverting the Hollywood cliche; rather than play the unbreakable tough guy Angel admits that with a little more torture he'd have told Marcus everything. Cordy notes the Gem isn't in the freezer or toilet tank as it would be in the movies.

    In disguise; no

    DB get's his shirt off; no but we get some torso action, Marcus commenting he has 'little external damage'.



    Fang Gang in bondage: yep, Angel for virtually the whole ep

    Cordy: 5

    Angel: 5

    Wes: 1



    Fang gang knocked out:

    Cordy: 6

    Angel: 6

    Wes: 1



    Kills:

    Cordy: none this ep. 3 vamps, a demon from her time in Sunnydale

    Angel: Another vamp for Angel. So that gives Angel 8 vamps, 2 demons, 1 human.



    Fang Gang go evil:

    Cordy: 1

    Angel: 1



    Alternate Fang Gang:

    Cordy: 1

    Angel: 3



    Characters killed: only Marcus

    9;



    Total number of Angel Investigations:

    3, Angel, Doyle and Cordy



    Angel Investigations shot: no

    Angel: 4,



    Notches on Fang Gang bedpost:

    Cordy: 1?

    Angel: 1;Buffy



    Kinky dinky:

    Spike refers to Buffy as 'slutty the vampire slayer' and teases Angel over Buffy's affair with Parker.



    Captain Subtext;

    Spike's speech on Angel is full of ***phobia. He also asks if Angel and Marcus would like to be alone when running his hands over Angel's naked torso. Spike comments that Buffy is 'cute when she's hurting', you wonder did he always have a thing for her? Such a shame we never get to meet Doyle's wonderfully named friend 'Frankie Tripod'.



    Buffy characters appearing in Angel; (unless someone can correct me no original Angel character ever appears on Buffy?)

    4; Angel, Cordy, Oz, Spike



    Questions and observations;

    Why does Angel grab his neck when Marcus puts the chain around it? Surely he doesn't breathe? Marcus wears glasses which presumably like Dalton in Buffy are for sentimental reasons. Doyle has read Angela's Ashes and it reduces him to tears (the novel focuses on the shiftless father so it may appeal to Doyle who never knew his). Angel once again beats his way to what he wants, without Buffy's influence he tends to be a lot more brutal. It's a great performance from Kevin West who is a very familar face on TV (although I thought he was in Scrubs and Ally McBeal but he isn't, that's Robert Clendenin another actor with a similar look). Marcus wears a Bond style Nehru jacket. Angel knows Doyle's mother. This is Angel investigations first walk-in client and her problem for once is just a very human jerk ex-boyfriend rather than anything supernatural. Ok so the ring makes vamps unkillable, even if you cut their heads' off?

    Marks out of 5; 3/5

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  • A Ring of Endless Anti-Sunlight

    8.9
    By maxpower03, Sep 04, 2011
    The second part of a storyline started in the Buffy episode The Harsh Light of Day, In the Dark begins with Spike crashing into LA searching for the mystical Gem of Amarra, a ring which renders the vampire wearer invincible and able to walk in sunlight. Spike previously got hold of the ring but Buffy managed to retrieve it, asking Oz, who was heading to LA for a gig, to give it to Angel.



    As with the two episodes before it, In the Dark is another mix of comedy and gruesome horror. The opening scene, in which Spike narrates what Angel and his latest damsel in distress Rachel are saying is absolutely hilarious. His various quips, "off to the Angelmobile, away!" "I'm almost out of that nancy-boy hair gel I love so much" are so funny.



    Oz and Spike fit into the LA setting well and it only takes another 4 years for the latter to become a regular.



    Marcus is also a very creepy villain. A silent torturer with a thing for children, he eventually gets hold of the Gem and goes to a beach, planning to prey on little kids.



    There are also some hilarious scenes where Oz tells Angel how pale he is when he's in the sunlight and one where Spike's hair accidentally catches on fire.



    All the cast give brilliant performances and the final scene, in which Angel smashes the Gem, is heartbreaking. A stand-out episode and a real Angel classic.



    Director: Bruce Seth Green

    Writer: Douglas Petrie

    Rating: B+moreless

  • Hullo, Spoike. :)

    8.8
    By tjaman, Sep 04, 2011
    Episodes like this intrigue me.



    They make me ask questions like "How much did who know and when?"



    In the entire course of the episode, no one introduced Doyle to Spike as "Doyle."



    Fast forward to S5, when Lindsey is presenting himself to Spike as a connection to the PTB, he calls himself "Doyle" and of course Spike has no reference on the name.



    Is it even possible that in the third episode of "Angel," Joss actually had S5 storylines in mind?



    Or was Spike never catching Doyle's name just a strange coincidence?



    These are questions one asks oneself in a review of a mighty fine episode.



    I'd not remembered this one being this good. I enjoyed, as did everyone, Spike's rooftop color commentary on Angel and Rachel. And with everything going on in this episode, it's amazing they had the time they did to follow up with her, to talk about her addiction to the abusive relationship.



    "Addiction. Everyone's got one," Spike said to Angel as part of a strangely introspective episode, which raised the very good question: "You're a detective?" I loved that exchange. "What's next? Vampire cowboy? Vampire dentist? Vampire ballerina?"



    Which was blocked very badly because Angel saying he liked working with his legs too broadly telegraphed his next move in the fight. But beyond that one crappy lapse, most of the fight scenes were pretty intense. Certainly the torture scene was. And how contextually Angel was played on his way into that trap -- the "slip of the tongue" by one of Doyle's contacts, and then from there.



    I know Spike is the only one who knows where they've got Angel. But that needed to be said out loud once. There were too many good opportunities for someone to stake Spike and no one did.



    I hate that I got all the way to this paragraph before mentioning Oz, but thus has it shaken out. I loved Oz in this eppy. I think if they'd sent the ring with just about anyone else, Cordy and [whoever else] would have more to say to each other. But that was a good awkward point of illustration saying "Hey -- living some independent lives here on independent shows."



    That and Oz got to burst in and save the day. And then Angel, still in daylight, still recovering from soul-searing torture, saves the children from Marcus.



    Spike was very well written in this episode. His writing was much better than his makeup, which reminded me of the Insane Clown Posse. But y'know what? Damn' decent performance all the same. His itchiness with Marcus and his break-in at Angel's were some very cool scenes.



    No bothersome visions to overanalyze -- Rachel was a walk-in -- and Doyle's suggestion that they're not always going to be paid for the help they provide is an interesting point. But it's cool that they've tracked down enough of a small business loan for Cordy to have a computer on her desk and a printer. Go Cordy -- get that office set up with yo' bad self.



    I wish Angel hadn't smashed the ring. There's situations where it would've come in handy. But then, when your main character is entirely invulnerable, that can get boring to write and really boring to watch. All the same, which his rationalization was reasonably good storywise, I'm afraid the fact remains that Angel had a powerful weapon in his arsenal and he destroyed it.



    But then, that went in the direction of who he was, who he was going to be. He wasn't going to be Superman. He was going to earn his redemption the hard way. And part of that "forgiveness" he said he wanted, part of that redemption, was living the guilt and pain and experiencing the limitations of vampire existence as well as the benefits. Like I said -- nice bit of introspection.



    All in all, for all of my kvetching, I truly enjoyed this episode. Lots going on, good writing, nice ties to Sunnydale and good to see Spike and Oz on the soundstage.



    Well done, everyone. :)moreless

  • 'I don't know about you, but I had a nice day. You know, except for the bulk of it, where I was nearly tortured to death. '

    8.7
    By SleepTight, Sep 04, 2011
    ‘In The Dark’ continues the gem storyline that began in ‘The Harsh Light Of Day’, the episode is certainly not as good as the past two but is still better than the Buffy version.



    The intro was extremely fun to watch, a girl named Rachel is being chased by her abusive boyfriend but saved by Angel. While he and Rachel talk, Spike is watching them and imitates to be them. ‘Up, to the Angel mobile. Away!’



    Meanwhile Oz comes to visit LA. If Spike were smart, he’d attack Oz but he really isn’t. Anyway, Oz sees Cordy again and it’s so fun to see them together. He also meets Doyle and they make such a good team, too bad Oz never joined the cast because they would have been so much fun. But anyway, Oz gives Angel the ring but Angel reacts a bit strange. He stays alone behind and hides the ring in the sewers.



    After Angel gets a call from Rachel, he decides to save her but then gets a visit from his buddy Spike. They fight along and Spike meets Angel’s followers. But then Spike leaves after he realise he doesn’t stand a chance, while Angel goes to talk to Rachel, Doyle Takes Cordy over to his place. He asks Cordy if Spike is really someone to sweat over and she says that he really is.



    While Angel goes to clubs to find Spike, when he finally does someone captures Angel from behind. His name is Marcus, a torturer who loves children. He plays some bloody Mozart and bores Angel to death while he’s not poking him with hot pokers.



    Spike is tired of it and goes to find his ring, there he sees Doyle and Cordy. He tells them to give him the ring or he will kill Angel, they find it because of Doyle turning into the demon and Cordy says she could hug him, but he’s not lucky enough to be hugged.



    But what we learn about Angel and why he wants it the hard way, is that he really wants to atone for his crimes in the past, he wants forgiveness but not the hard way. Then he tries to kill Marcus and promises it but Spike comes along and saves Marcus, then they work together and torturing Angel.



    After Doyle and Cordelia go to save Angel, they make Spike fetch the ring and Oz comes in his van to save Angel, they escape but when spike goes to find his ring, it’s gone. Marcus took it to some kids. In the van, Angel tells Oz to turn back because he knows that Marcus likes little children. They go back and Angel jumps out of the car and becomes a vampire torch, he pushes Marcus into the water. They fight and then Angel puts Marcus on a stake, then takes off his ring and Marcus dusts.



    At the end of the day, Doyle and Angel are talking when the sun goes down. Angel says he doesn’t want the ring because he wants to save people at night, when it’s dark. And the ring just seems like it helps but it doesn’t, it’s too easy. Angel then destroys the ring.



    ‘In The Dark’ was a good episode, we learn a lot more about Angel’s feelings and it was a blast to see Oz in L.A. I wasn’t crazy about Spike however, but I did enjoy watching his hair on fire.



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  • SPIKE! w00t!

    10
    By jeffreyharrison, Sep 04, 2011
    Spike makes his first appearance on the show after losing the Ring of Amorra he chases after it, the episode starts off with some fantastic voice over from Spike after Angel saves some random girl (I notice they're always beautiful women, what about the ugly ones?)



    After a fight scene between Spike and Angel, Angel is captured and is being tortured until Spike gets the ring back, ultimately Spike loses the ring, his prisoner and his torturer and decides to leave. Angel gets the ring off of the other vampire and wears it and see's daylight for the first time in a long time. He watches the sun set and decides that the ring is just a fabrication of what he is fighting for and destroys it.



    I think it's one of the best episodes in the series mainly because of the fact that Spike and Angel collide.moreless
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  • TRIVIA (11)

    • Fire accelerant is visible on Angel's back when he runs into the sun and catches on fire.

    • When Oz and everyone is in Angel's apartment, Doyle leaves, then Cordelia turns to leave. As she does, the top of the tattoo on the small of Charisma's back can be seen. Her skirt appears to have been pulled up in an attempt to hide it.

    • When Oz crashes through the wall in his van, the barrels crash into Spike and knock him into the wall. But, when Oz pulls out the crossbows and yells, "Spike!" he's on the other side of the room.

    • Spike's reflection can be seen on Angel's car.

    • The first thing Marcus does to Angel is impale him with a hot poker. This poker is not pulled out until the crew is making a get-away in Oz's van. Yet, when Angel is fighting Marcus beneath the boardwalk, one can clearly see through the hole in the back of his shirt (made by the poker, originally) that there is no wound. Even Angel does not heal that quickly.

    • In the part where Angel is reaching for the piece of wood Spike threw down, when he gets it over to his area he is wearing tie shoes. Then while he tries to stake Marcus, Spike grabs his feet. Just for a moment or two you can see that they are different shoes. They are black zip-up boot shoes with no shoe laces.

    • Take a look at Angel's hands when he hanging in the chains. They are hooked into them with his fingers bent over the cuffs. If Angel were to straighten his fingers he woud be able to slip through the cuffs to get out of them.

    • Time Index 36:03, after Angel puts on the ring and the gang is talking to him - Boom Mic is visible near the top left-hand corner of screen.

    • Time Index 08:54 - The shadow of the boom can be seen on the wall in the top right hand corner of the screen.

    • It's not hard to see that when Marcus supposedly puts the poker into Angel's leg, he's aiming off to the side.

    • Marcus shoves a single red-hot poker into Angel, then the shot shifts to Spike. When it shifts back to Angel a moment later, he has two pokers in him.

  • QUOTES (30)

    • Angel: So, you and I duke it out, huh? This your big strategy for getting the ring back?
      Spike: I had a plan.
      Angel: You? A plan?
      Spike: A good plan. Carefully laid out. But I got bored. All that watching, waiting. My legs started to cramp. I hate to quip. Just tell me where the damn ring is.
      Angel: It wouldn't go with your outfit.

    • Spike: Cordelia, you look smashing. Did you lose weight?
      Cordelia: Yeah! Actually there is this great gym on...(catches on) HEY!

    • Doyle: So what, you don't get the ring because your period of self-flagellation isn't over yet? I mean think of all the daytime people you could help between nine and five.
      Angel: They have help. The whole world is designed for them, so much that they have no idea what goes on around them after dark. They don't see the weak ones lost in the night or the things that prey on them. If I joined them, maybe I'd stop seeing too.
      Doyle: (clearly moved, but at a loss for words) And who'd look out for all the insomniacs?

    • Cordelia: Oh! And this one time, he and Dru raised this demon that burned people alive from the inside. It was this whole weird thing with an arm in a box.

    • Angel: You're at a crossroads right now, I know. It's either go with the easy fix and wait for the consequences, or take the hard road and go with faith.
      Rachel: Oh God… You're not from that freaky church on Sunset, are you?
      Angel: In yourself . That -- that kind of faith.

    • Doyle: You got a real addiction to the brooding part of life, did anyone ever tell ya that?
      Angel: Once or twice.

    • Cordelia: (to Angel)It's daylight, and you're ringless. Unless you're changing the act to Human Torch, I don't think so!

    • Cordelia: How'd you do that?
      Doyle: Well, you gotta get lucky sometimes.
      Cordelia: I could hug you! (Doyle stretches out to hug her) Not that lucky.

    • Doyle: Where's Angel?
      Spike: Um, tall, brooding guy? Cave Man brow? He's having the living hell tortured out of him.

    • Cordelia: When you're through giving the place the full Johnny Depp-over, I hope you have the cash to pay for all this.
      Spike: Cordelia, love the hair.
      Cordelia: Wish I could say the same to you.

    • Marcus: What do you want, Angel?
      Angel: House in the country. A good pair of running shoes you can also wear out to dinner.

    • Marcus: His skin.
      Spike: Annoying isn't it? Still attached.
      Marcus: Over 200 years of living and so little external damage. What about internal?
      Spike: Do you two need to be alone? Or can we get on with the ouchie part?

    • Angel: Might as well go home, Spike. The Gem of Amarra stays with me.
      Spike: Why? Cuz you're Angel, Vamp Detective now? Ooo. I'm so scared. What's next? Vampire cowboy? Vampire fireman? Oh! Vampire ballerina!
      Angel: I do like to work with my legs.

    • Doyle: You know what'd feel really good right now? One of those mind-numbing, head-cracking visions that I get from time to time. Because that'd really kill me. What, is there some kind of trick to this?
      Cordelia: I think the trick is laying off the ale before you start quoting Angela's Ashes and weeping like a baby man.
      Doyle: Hey, that's a good book.
      Cordelia: So I've heard. But I doubt very much that the main characters are Betty and Barney Rubble, as you so vehemently insisted last night. Also, I don't think Oz appreciated being called My Little Bam Bam all night.

    • Cordelia: Hey, Buffy. How is good old Buffy anyway?
      Oz: She's....
      Cordelia: What? Still the brave little Slayer? Or is she moping around in the dark like... (notices Angel glaring at her) nobody around here.

    • Oz: You guys are, like, detectives?
      Cordelia: No. I'm an actress.
      Doyle: And quite a captivating one at that.
      Cordelia: And between my many gigs, I sometimes choose to help Angel.
      Doyle: He's the detective.
      Oz: Does he have a hat and gun?
      Cordelia: Just fangs.
      Oz: Well, that works.

    • Doyle: All I'm saying is, if you and I ever hope to take that cruise to the Bahamas together, we're going to need a lot more clients with means.
      Cordelia: And an alternate reality in which you're Matthew McConaughey.

    • Oz: (about Angel) He's very pale. Paler than most people.

    • Cordelia: I couldn't get comfortable in here if the floor was lined with mink. How can you live like this?
      Doyle: I didn't until last week. Then I saw what you did with your place and I just had to call my decorator.
      Cordelia: No way. My apartment is nowhere near this yucky. It smells like bong-water in here.

    • Doyle: Manny the Pig said he didn't know anything about a vampire called Spike.
      Angel: So?
      Doyle: Yeah, well that was before I said anything about Spike.
      Angel: I'll start with Manny the Pig then.

    • Cordelia: (on searching for the ring) This isn't a needle in a haystack. This is a needle in Kansas.

    • Spike: To quote a popular Sunnydale phrase, "duh!"

    • (after Angel gets a ring that makes him unkillable)
      Doyle: Why don't you put it on and I'll stake you. It'll be fun!
      Angel: Maybe later.
      Doyle: What, are you out of your mind?
      Angel: I said, maybe later.
      Doyle: Yeah, but...
      Angel: Doyle!

    • Angel: Oz.
      Oz: Angel.
      Angel: Nice surprise.
      Oz: Thanks.
      Angel: Staying long?
      Oz: Few days.
      (long pause)
      Doyle: (to Cordelia) They always like this?
      Oz: No, we're usually laconic.

    • Oz: Hello, LA.
      Cordelia: Oz? Oh my god. Oz. It's so good to see you. Good old Oz. Oz. Oz!
      Doyle: Lets me just take a stab at it, you'd be Oz?
      Oz: Good guess.

    • Cordelia: This is so cool! I mean, here you are in LA and you're the total embodiment of all things Sunnydale.
      Oz: It's a burden, but I manage.
      Cordelia: We have some serious catching up to do. How is everything? How's, how's the Bronze?
      Oz: The same.
      Cordelia: And the gang?
      Oz: They're good.
      Cordelia: Good? Good! Good.
      Oz: Are we done?
      Cordelia: Completely.

    • Spike: It's called addiction, Angel. We all have them. I believe yours is named Slutty the Vampire Slayer. Thank you. Speaking of little Buff...I ran into her recently. Your name didn't come up. Although, she has been awful busy...jumping the bones of the very first lunkhead who came along. Good-looking fellow. Used her shamelessly. She is cute when she's hurting, isn't she?
      Angel: I think she's cuter when she's kicking your ass.

    • Oz: Yeah. Your buddy Spike dug up Sunnydale looking for (the Gem). Got a fistful of Buffy and left it behind.

    • Angel: I don't know about you, but I had a nice day. You know, except for the bulk of it, where I was nearly tortured to death.
      Doyle: Yeah, well, you stood up.
      Angel: Oh, God. I was this close to telling him everything. I mean, one more hot poker and I was giving him the ring, your mom, everything.
      (pause) How is your mom?

    • Spike: (as Rachel) How can I thank you, you mysterious black-clad hunk of a night thing?
      (as Angel) No need, little lady, your tears of gratitude are enough for me. You see, I was once a badass vampire, but love and a pesky curse defanged me. Now I'm just a big, fluffy puppy with bad teeth. No, not the hair! Never the hair!
      (as Rachel) But there must be some way I can show my appreciation?
      (as Angel) No, helping those in need is my job, and working up a load of sexual tension and prancing away like a magnificent poof is truly thanks enough.
      (as Rachel) I understand. I have a nephew who is gay, so...
      (as Angel) Say no more. Evil is still afoot. And I'm almost out of that nancy-boy hair-gel I like so much. Quickly, to the Angel-mobile, away!

  • NOTES (3)

    • The opening scene where Rachel is cowering to Lenny is shown in the opening credits of each episode.

    • Music:
      As Oz is driving into town -- "Smoker's Revenge" by Professor Angel Dust & The PH Force

      While Angel is being tortured -- "Symphony No.41" by Mozart

    • This episode is the second part of the story begun in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "The Harsh Light of Day" (4x03). The two episodes were originally aired back-to-back.

  • ALLUSIONS (16)

    • Spike: 'Cause you're "Angel, Vamp Detective" now?


      This is a reference to the fictional character Nancy Drew, often referred to as "Nancy Drew, Girl Detective."

    • Spike: Someone's having shish kebab.
      Shish kebab is a dish consisting of cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer, usually with vegetables. Being a part of the Turkish cuisine, it has spread over the eastern Mediterrenean during the Ottoman rule to become a part of cuisines of Greece, Bulgaria and former Yugoslavia.

    • Angel: I was brought back for a reason, Doyle, and as much as I would like to kid myself, I don't think it was for 18 holes at Rancho.
      The Rancho Range And Golf Shop is a golf shop located in L.A.

    • Cordelia: It's daylight and you're ringless. Unless you're changing the act to human torch, I don't think so.
      The Human Torch is one of Marvel Comics' "The Fantastic Four." Johnny Storm, one of four astronauts caught in a cosmic ray storm, returned to Earth to find he had gained the superhuman power to burst into flame and fly with no harm to himself. This character was also referenced by Xander in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "The Witch" (1x03).

    • Spike: Lucy, I'm home.
      This is a famous quote from Desi Arnaz as Ricky Ricardo in the 1951 comedy TV series I Love Lucy, which he would often call to his wife Lucy as he walked into their home.

    • Cordelia: When you are done giving the place the Johnny Depp once-over, I hope you have the cash to pay for all of this.
      Johnny Depp is a photogenic Hollywood enigma renowned for turning down commercial scripts. Depp came to Hollywood with his Florida rock band The Kids, but ended up becoming a teen idol via Fox TV's fluffy teen-detective drama 21 Jump Street. While staying at New York's Mark Hotel in September 1994, he trashed $9,767 worth of furniture and was carted off before TV news cameras to spend a night in jail. Damages were paid for and no charges were brought.

    • Spike: Caught me fair and square, White Hat. I guess there is nothing to do now but to go quietly and pay my debt to society.
      The term "White Hat," meaning good-guy or hero, stems from the tradition that heroes in western films always wore white hats. Also used by the vampire Willow in episode "The Wish."

    • Rachel: I just start to jones for him. The way he jones for rock.
      Rock is another name for crack cocaine.

    • Doyle: Hey, Kizzy. Yeah, vamp named Spike. No? Okay. What, a C note? I absolutely paid that back, man! Hey, no, sorry, there goes my other line.
      A C note is another name for a hundred dollar bill. In Roman numerals C stands for 100.

    • Cordelia: No way! My apartment is nowhere near this yucky. It smells like bong water in here.
      A bong is slang for a simplified offshoot of the hookah, or waterpipe, and is generally reserved for pipes used to smoke Marijuana. The water acts as a filtering and cooling agent for the smoke, regardless of source, and tends to pick up residues and ash from the substance being smoked. It generally does not smell too good, especially as bongs often don't get their water changed out as often as they probably ought to, thus getting a strong mildewy smell.

    • Cordelia: But I doubt that the main characters are Betty and Barney Rubble as you so vehemently insisted last night. Also I don't think Oz appreciated being called "my little Bam-bam" all night.
      Betty and Barney Rubble are the neighbors of Wilma and Fred Flintstone in the cartoon The Flintstones. The Rubble's son, who is very strong, is Bam-bam.

    • Cordelia: I think the trick is laying off the ale before you start quoting Angela's Ashes and weeping like a baby man.
      Angela's Ashes is a 1996 book by Frank McCourt about an Irish family moving from Ireland to America, seen through the eyes of a child. In 1999 it was made into a film of the same name starring Emily Watson.

    • Oz: Yeah. Your buddy Spike dug up Sunnydale looking for it. He got a fist full of Buffy and left it behind. She wanted to be sure it was in good hands.
      A Fist Full of Dollars was a 1964 film starring Clint Eastwood. Plot: An anonymous, but deadly man rides into a town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojo's. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.

    • Cordelia: Okay, you're getting weird about this ring. Since when did you go all Versace about accessorizing.
      Versace is a brand of clothing, named after it's late designer.

    • Cordelia: And an alternate reality in which you are Matthew McConaughey.
      Matthew McConaughey is an actor, who appeared for example in the 1997 film Amistad along with Harry Groener, who played Mayor Richard Wilkins in seasons 3 and 4 of Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

    • Spike: Quickly, to the Angelmobile, away!
      The Batmobile is a vehicle used by Batman, a costumed crime fighter from DC Comics that inspired several TV shows, cartoons and films.

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Ep 22
To Shanshu in L.A.
Ep 21
Blind Date
Ep 20
War Zone
Ep 19
Sanctuary
Ep 18
Five by Five
Ep 17
Eternity
Ep 16
The Ring
Ep 15
The Prodigal
Ep 14
I've Got You Under My Skin
Ep 13
She
Ep 12
Expecting
Ep 11
Somnambulist
Ep 10
Parting Gifts
Ep 9
Hero
Ep 8
I Will Remember You
Ep 7
Bachelor Party
Ep 6
Sense & Sensitivity
Ep 5
Rm w/a Vu
Ep 4
I Fall to Pieces
Ep 3
In the Dark
Ep 2
Lonely Hearts
Ep 1
City Of

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