Beer Bad
The Good;
Okay there is some, Willow's Jerry Springer style confession (anyone ever read the hilarious Buffy Springer Show fanfic? Much of the Xander the bartender stuff is funny. Giles describing caveBuffy as walking with a 'sideways limp'. Willow's confrontation with Parker. Buffy's great dream sequence (is that chocolate chip cookie dough fudge he's holding?)
The Bad;
Everything else, possibly the worst Buffy episode ever?
Best line;
Xander; "Nothing can defeat, THE PENIS!" (how true!)
Character death;
Nope, no one dies at all
Knocked out
Yep, Willow, Xander (and Parker)
Women good/men bad;
The first thing the cavemen do is find a pair of pretty girls and drag them back to their 'cave'. Buffy's mooning after Parker does her no favours, he's treated her badly so she still wants him? When it comes to Parker and Buffy I always wonder what if the roles were reversed, if Buffy dumped Parker and then when she changes her mind and tries to apologise he knocks her out? What would we think then? And in fairness Parker does go to help Willow when the cavemen attack.
Kinky dinky;
Is it just me or does anyone else deep down want Parker to succeed in 'jumping Willow's bones'? And then mid-coitus she should turn the tables on him American Pie style. "Say my name bitch!". Also Willow seems to think that Buffy had group sex with the 4 students, love the way her mind works! Buffy calls herself a slut, Veruca thinks Willow is a groupie.
Calling Captain Subtext;
Willow tells Parker she's 'Tired of you men and your manliness'. CaveBuffy thinks Xander smells nice
Guantanamo Bay;
Parker tries to apologise to Buffy so she bashes him over the head with a lump of wood
Where's Dawn?
Apparently Joyce always said beer was evil which is weird when you see teenage Joyce in Band Candy and considering she wanted Buffy to be at a college with boys and keg parties?
Questions and observations;
Quite possibly the worst ever episode of Buffy although rewatching it is does have some quite good humour in it and SMG gives a tremendous performance as Cavegirl Buffy. Feels like an ep of Charmed. Again, not sure about Parker, he doesn't actually do anything wrong, he just doesn't want a relationship with her as he explains to Willow (in many ways he reminds me of Barney from 'How I Met Your Mother'). Willow compares Veruca to Faith (not a compliment in her book) Oz's growing attraction to her is clear to see.
Marks out of 10; 4/10
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Episode Summary
Still trying to come to terms with Parker's womanizing, Buffy starts to hang out at the college bar where she and a group of upper-class students drown their troubles in an excess of beer. It soon becomes apparent that the local brew really brings out the wild side of the Slayer.moreless
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Sarah Michelle Gellar
Buffy Anne Summers
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Nicholas Brendon
Alexander 'Xander' Harris
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Alyson Hannigan
Willow Rosenberg
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ADD TRIVIA- When Xander is ejecting Buffy from the bar, you can see a Florida Gator pennant and a Florida State Seminole pennant on the wall, near the jukebox. Edit
- When Xander chases the "cavemen" out of the bar with the lighter, he closes the door and then makes a motion like he is locking it. When Xander leaves the bar after talking with the bar owner about the beer, he just opens the door without unlocking it. Edit
- The beer is called Black Frost, but the beer is clearly a *light* ale. Edit
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Notes
ADD NOTES- Kal Penn (of "Van Wilder," "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle," and "The Namesake" fame) guest stars in this episode, one of his first appearances on the small screen. Edit
- The music video Buffy was watching was Luscious Jackson's video for "Lady Fingers." Jill Cunniff, one of the vocalists for the band, knew Joss Whedon as a child (as reported in an interview with Cunniff in issue #5 of the official BtVS magazine). Edit
- The name of Veruca's band is Shy, but the music is actually done by the real band THC. Edit
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Quotes
ADD QUOTES- Prof. Walsh: These are the things we want. Simple things. Comfort,sex, shelter, food. We always want them and we want them all the time. The id doesn't learn; it doesn't grow up. It has the ego telling it what it can't have and it has the superego telling it what it should want. But the id works solely out of the pleasure principle. It wants. Whatever social skills you've learned, however much we've evolved, the pleasure principal is at work in all of us. So, how does this conflict with the ego manifest itself in the psyche? What do we do when we can't have what we want? Edit
- Kip: The thing that the modern day pundits fail to realize is that all the socio-economic and psychological problems inherent to modern society can be solved by the judicious application of way too much beer. Edit
- Buffy: Want more singing. Want more beer! Xander: No, I've cut you off. Buffy: Did it hurt? Edit
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Allusions
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Xander: Well excuse me, Mr. 'I spent the sixties in an electric-kool-aid-funky-satan-groove.'
This is most likely a reference to the "electric kool-aid acid tests" of the sixties, which were reportedly staged events where hundreds of volunteers were given Kool-Aid spiked with LSD (i.e. Electric Kool-Aid) to see how it affected them. Electric Kool-Aid is also a cocktail consisting of Amaretto, Midori, Cherry Brandy, Southern Comfort, Triple Sec, sour mix, cranberry juice, and grenadine. Edit -
Cave Guy: Well, Thomas Aquinas...
This is a reference to Saint Thomas Aquinas who was an Italian philosopher and theologian, he is said to be the most influential thinker of the medieval period. Edit -
Lead Cave Guy: Evil, good. These are moral absolutes that predate the fermentation of malt and fine hops.
Malt and hops are two of the main ingredients of beer (along with water and yeast). Malt is a germinated grain, usually barley. Hops are the dried ripe conelike spikes of any female flower of the genus Humulus. Edit
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Xander: Well excuse me, Mr. 'I spent the sixties in an electric-kool-aid-funky-satan-groove.'
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