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Trivia
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For industrial applications, the size of the ventilation shaft that Xander and Oz are crawling through seems to be right, but in reality they are far too big for an office building.
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Ventilation screens are fastened in place, usually with several screws, yet Oz lightly hits the screen with the palm of his hand and the screen simply falls into the shaft.
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When we first see Buffy tied to the post talking to Joyce look at her arms. When the camera looks at Buffy her arms are free of the ropes from the elbows down, but when the camera is on Joyce Buffy's arms are restrained down to the elbows.
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Actress Elizabeth Anne Allen who plays Amy Madison on the show (girl turned rat turned girl) is allergic to cheese.
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When Willow enters her house where her mother wants to talk to her, she has long hair and different clothes for the exterior shot, the shot was taken from Season 1's "I Robot... You Jane".
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When the lockers are being searched Xander is worried that they'll find the playboys he has in his locker, implying that his locker hasn't been opened yet, when in fact it may very well have been. One of the cops is seen taking a red voodoo doll from one of the lockers, and in "I only have eyes for you" that same doll could be seen hanging in Xander's locker when the "locker-monster" attacked him.
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During the locker search, a cop is looking through a coin purse in the background. Later, we still see the same cop looking through the same coin purse.
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Quotes
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Willow: Prince of night, I summon you, come fill me with your black naughty evil!
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Giles: I just wonder if we're looking for a thing, the use of a symbol on a victim like this suggests a ritual murder and a cult sacrifice by a group. Buffy: A group of.. human beings? Someone with a soul did this? Giles: Yes, I'm afraid so. Buffy: Okay, then while you're looking for the meaning of that symbol thingy, could you also find a loophole in that "Slayers don't kill people" rule?
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Sheila: Willow, you cut off your hair. Huh, that's a new look! Willow: Yeah, it's just a sudden whim I had - in August!
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Buffy: Hey is Willow around? Xander: How can I convince you people that it's over? You assume that because I'm here, she's here. That I mysteriously know where she is. Buffy: Those her books? Xander: Yeah. She's in the bathroom.
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Willow: You've seen what we can do! Another step and you will all feel my power! Buffy: (quietly) What are you going to do, float a pencil at them?
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Xander: Wait, Hansel and Gretel? Breadcrumbs, ovens, gingerbread house? Giles: Of course. It makes perfect sense. Buffy: Yeah, it's all falling into place. Of course that place is nowhere near this place.
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Cordelia: I came over here to tell Buffy to stop this craziness, and found you all unconscious -- again. How many times have you been knocked out, anyway? I swear, one of these times, you're going to wake up in a coma. Giles: Wake up in a...? Oh, never mind. We need to save Buffy from Hansel and Gretel. Cordelia: Now, let's be clear. The brain damage happened before I hit you.
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Giles: There is a fringe theory, held by a few folklorists, that some regional stories have actual, very literal antecedents. Buffy: And in some language that's English? Oz: Fairy tales are real...
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Buffy: (to Joyce) Maybe next time that the world is getting sucked into hell, I won't be able to stop it because the anti-hell-sucking book isn't on the approved reading list.
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Willow: Mom, I'm not acting out, I'm a witch. I can make pencils float. And I can summon the four elements. Okay, two, but four soon. And I'm dating a musician! Sheyla: Oh, Willow! Willow: I worship Beelzebub. I do his biddings. Do you see any goats around? No, because I sacrificed them.
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Snyder: Just how is, um, "Blood Rites and Sacrifices" appropriate material for a public school library? Chess Club branching out?
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Giles: Ordinarily, I would say let's widen our research. Buffy: Using what? A dictionary and My Friend Flicka?
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Cordelia: You're going to be one busy little Slayer, baby-sitting them. Buffy: I doubt they'll have any more trouble. Cordelia: I doubt your doubt. Everyone knows that witches killed those kids, and Amy is a witch. And Michael is whatever the boy of witch is, plus being the poster child for yuch. If you're going to hang with them, expect badness. 'Cause that's what you get when you hang with freaks and losers. Believe me, I know.... That was a pointed comment about me hanging with you guys.
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Joyce: Are you embarrassed to be hanging out with your mother? I didn't hug you. Buffy: No, it's just... this hall is about school, and you're about home. Mix them, my world dissolves.
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Xander: Oh, man, it's Nazi Germany, and I've got Playboys in my locker.
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Joyce Summers: Mr. Mayor, you're dead wrong. This is not a good town. How many of us have lost someone who just disappeared? Or, or got skinned? Or suffered a neck rupture?
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Amy: Alright. You wanna fry a witch? I'll give you a witch! Goddess Hecate, work thy will! Buffy: Uh-oh. Amy: Before thee let the unclean thing crawl! (Amy turns into a rat) Buffy: She couldn't do us first?
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Willow: It's a doodle, I do doodle. You too, you do doodle too.
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Oz: So what do we do? Xander: I don't know about you, but I'm gonna go trade my cow in for some beans.
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Buffy: My mom said some things to me about being the Slayer. That it's fruitless. No fruit for Buffy. Angel: She's wrong. Buffy: Is she? Is Sunnydale any better than when I first came here? Okay, so I battle evil. But I don't really win. The bad keeps coming back and getting stronger. Like that kid in the story, the boy that stuck his finger in the duck. Angel: Dyke. It's another word for dam. Buffy: Oh. Okay, that story makes a lot more sense now.
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Notes
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When Joyce mentions "skinning" in her speech, she is referring to the skins that were left after the fish-men had "hatched" in "Go Fish."
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As stated below, Giles calls Snyder's people that are taking the books away 'Marauders'. Armin plays Quark on DS9 and played the first Ferengi on the last outpost (tng). The only known Ferengi ship is called a Marauder.
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Giles speaking German: He says "Ich beschwöre die Macht der Hekate, sie mag den Weg bereiten. Das Böse soll das Gesicht des Bösen tragen!" Which translates to "I call the power of Hecate, it may clear the path. Evil shall wear the face of evil." Before he demaskerades the demon: "Verbergt Euch nicht hinter falschen Gesichtern" [do not hide behind false faces (literally translated)]. In the German dubbed version Giles uses a German (pseudo)dialect called 'Althochdeutsch'['Old German'].
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After two and a half seasons, we finally get to see Willow's mother Sheila (played by Jordan Baker).
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Jordan Baker worked with Alyson Hannigan before in an episode of Picket Fences called "To Forgive Is Divine."
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Allusions
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Xander: What's with the grim? While he might have just meant the serious looks on the men's faces, Xander might also have been making a pun on Grimm. "Hansel and Gretal" is one of the fairy tales recorded by the Brothers Grimm.
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Buffy: Is Sunnydale any better than when I first came here? This may be an allusion to the episode The Wish, in which we saw exactly how Sunnydale would be if Buffy had never come there.
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Giles: It happened in Salem, not surprisingly.
Giles refers to the Salem Witch Trials in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, where almost every man or woman who did something out of the ordinary was accused of being a witch. Nineteen men and women were eventually convicted of witchcraft and were hanged while hundreds of others awaited trial in prison until the panic subsided. -
Snyder: I love the smell of desperate librarian in the morning!
Robert Duval's character in Apocalypse Now (a marine commander) says "I love the smell of napalm in the morning". The film is frequently referenced in other episodes (e.g. Xander's dream sequence in Restless, in which Snyder also appears). -
Xander: I don't know about you but I'm gonna go trade my cow in for some beans.
Xander makes a reference to another fairytale Jack and the Beanstalk in which the title character trades a cow for some magic beans which grow into the title beanstalk. -
Xander: Wait, Hansel and Gretel? Breadcrumbs, ovens, gingerbread house?
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Buffy: I'm like the kid in the story. The boy who stuck his finger in the duck.
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Willow: The last time we had a conversation over 3 minutes it was about the patriarchical bias of the Mr. Roger's show.
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Buffy: Using what a dictionary and My Friend Flika?
My Friend Flika is a children's story about a boy and his horse written in 1941 by Mary O'Hara.
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