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The Good;
ALL OF IT! Just wonderful, love it to death, amongst many favourite bits have to be Dawn falling off the audience stands, Dawn's lapdance, Dawn's catfight, Buffy seducing RJ, the split-screen stuff, Spike and Buffy wrestling over the rocket launcher, Buffy subtly screwing Dawn over for RJ's affections, Xander's KISS plan for getting the jacket back, the list goes on!
The Bad;
Nada, it's all terrific! Actually rather stupid that D'Hoffryn has just 'changed his mind' and now wants Anya killed. BUT he might have just wanted her to suffer for a while or might be in league with The First? Then again the demon might be sent by someone else Anya wronged now that D'Hoffryn no longer protects her?
Best line;
Xander (reminding Spike of their 'plan') "Grab it!"
Women good/men bad;
RJ's dad used his enchanted jacket to seduce the girls (in fairness to RJ and his brother they don't know that, they just think they're popular because they're goodlooking football stars). One question that occurs, 23 year old teaching assistant Buffy seduces 16 year old RJ (statuatory rape in California) and it's every schoolboy's fantasy. Imagine if that was Dawn and a male staff member, what would we think?
Jeez!;
I know it's hysterically funny and a little bit sexy but Dawn's cheerleading routine just makes me cringe, you feel for her every time. Which of us haven't embarassed ourselves trying to impress the object of our affections? You also feel bad for Buffy when a distraught Dawn cuts up her outfit. Buffy implies that Joyce would be ashamed to see how Dawn is acting but rapidly realises that this is a step too far and takes it back. Then again when you look at Buffy and Spike and 'teenage' Joyce and Ripper on the hood of the police car in 'Band Candy' you wonder if she'd actually be shocked at all? Maybe it runs in the Summer's family?
Kinky dinky;
Dawn in a cheerleader costume (Xander hopes Buffy get's a new one), giving RJ a lapdance then has a great big girly catfight complete with hair pulling, scratching and rolling around on top of one another. Buffy puts on her plaid schoolgirl skirt and a blouse (to make herself look younger?) and get's it on with RJ on the school desk. Buffy describes Dawn as a slut-bag/hussy and thinks should go down to the docks and wait for the fleet to come in. Is that how she supported herself in LA prior to getting her waitress job in 'Anne'? Or maybe why she no longer seems to need to work at the DMP despite her counsellor job only being part time? (for the cheap seats I am IN NO WAY serious! No more so than the bleached blonde Angel says Wes had sex with in season 2 actually being Spike or Willow and Cordy being in the closet together in School Hard means they're both gay so please don't whinge. Although come to think of it Willow....?) Buffy almost seems to indulge in ahem, self-stimulation when RJ walks away for the first time after putting the whammy on her. Xander thinks back nostalgically to the events of 'Bewitched, bothered and bewildered', nice to see Jenny, Joyce and human Harmony again (and the last time we'll see CC in any way on Buffy). Xander smiles at the memory of BBB, Willow looks uncomfortable whilst Anya gives a little look of jealousy. Xander confesses a sexual attraction to Dawn but feels guilty about it (although he says he misses when Dawn used to have a crush on him). Weirdly he says 'Daddy likes' even after he told Warren off for a similar phrase. Buffy says Snyder was always 'on her' and 'riding her'. Buffy alludes to porn star Anna Nicole Smith. Dawn thinks Buffy is hot and is seemingly envious that she has 'sex that's rough'.
Captain Subtext;
In a riposte to the evidence for being Bi Willow wants to turn RJ into a girl so she can love him. Then again Willow says her attraction isn't about physical presence which is interesting when you think of her later comments to Kennedy that she fell in love with 'A woman rather than women'. When Anya points out that RJ's 'physical prescence has a penis' Willow says she can work around it. Like Xander she confesses a sexual attraction to Dawn 'Right there with you buddy!". Spike is meanwhile back in the closet, at Xanders? RJ's brother was worried that he found poetry under his younger brother's bed. Spike seems fascinated by the 'Angel' figurines at Lance's house.
Apocalypses; 7,
Scoobies in bondage: unless Buffy and RJ got up to some?
Buffy: 8
Giles: 4
Cordy: 5
Will: 4
Jenny: 1
Angel: 4
Oz: 1
Faith: 3
Joyce: 1
Wes: 1
Xander; 2
Dawn; 4
Scoobies knocked out:
Buffy: 19
Giles: 12
Cordy: 6
Xander: 14
Will: 8
Jenny: 2
Angel: 6
Oz: 3
Faith: 1
Joyce: 3
Wes: 1
Anya;5
Dawn; 4
Tara; 1
Kills: one demon for Buffy at Anya's
Buffy: 109 vamps, 62 demons, 6 monsters, 3 humans, 1 werewolf, 1 spirit warrior & a robot
Giles: 8 vamps, 2 demon, 1 human, 1 god.
Cordy: 3 vamps, a demon
Will: 6 vamps + 3 demons +1 fawn+1 human.
Angel: 3 vamps, 1 demon, 1 human
Oz: 3 vamps, 1 zombie
Faith: 16 vamps, 5 demons, 3 humans
Xander: 6 vamps, 2 zombies, 1 a demon,
Anya: 1 vamp and 1 a demon
Riley; 18 vamps + 7 demons
Spike; 8 vamps and 6 demons
Buffybot; 2 vamps
Tara; 1 demon
Dawn; 1 vamp + 1 demon
Scoobies go evil: not evil but mad with lust certainly
Giles: 1
Cordy: 1
Will: 3
Jenny: 1
Angel: 1
Oz: 1
Joyce: 1
Xander: 4
Anya; 1
Dawn; 1
Buffy; 1
Alternate scoobies:
Buffy: 8
Giles: 4
Cordy: 1
Will: 5
Jenny: 2
Angel: 3
Oz: 2
Joyce: 2
Xander: 4
Tara; 1
Dawn;1
Spike; 1
Anya; 2
Recurring characters killed: 12
Jesse, Flutie, Jenny, Kendra, Larry, Snyder, Professor Walsh, Forrest, McNamara, Joyce, Katrina, Tara
Sunnydale deaths;
99
Total number of scoobies: 6, Anya and Spike back in the fold
Xander, Buffy, Dawn, Willow, Anya, Spike
Xander demon magnet: 5(6?)
Preying Mantis Lady, Inca Mummy Girl, Drusilla, VampWillow, Anya (arguably Buffy & Faith with their demon essences?), Dracula?
Scoobies shot: Buffy produces the rocket launcher Xander procured for her in 'Innocence'. You can't help but think that might have been useful against Glory and Adam and especially The Beast which AI are currently battling.
Giles: 2
Angel: 3
Oz: 4
Riley; 1
Buffy; 1
Tara; 1
Notches on Scooby bedpost: so exactly how far does Buffy go with RJ? Her blouse is off, her bra is on, she's straddling him but we've no idea what's going on beneath the skirt for either of them or what happened before Xander interrupted? Come to think of it Xander tells her to get off RJ but then just walks out leaving them to it (check out the little look Buffy and RJ trade, as if to say "We've still got time!") She later refers to him as her 'lover' so I'll put him down as a possible. Equally we've no idea what RJ and Dawn got up to before dancing at the Bronze but without any definite evidence (and RJ denies they did anything even though she was so hot) I think we'll safely assume that Dawn is still 'hymenally challenged' as they said on Clueless, even in the Bill Clinton sense.
Giles: 2; Joyce & Olivia, possibly Jenny and 3xDraccy babes?
Cordy: 1?
Buffy: 4 confirmed; Angel, Parker, Riley, Spike. 2 possibles, Dracula+RJ(?)
Angel: 1;Buffy
Joyce: 1;Giles, 2 possible, Ted and Dracula(?)
Oz: 3; Groupie, Willow & Verucca
Faith:2 ;Xander, Riley
Xander: 2; Faith, Anya
Willow: 2;Oz and Tara
Riley; 3; Buffy, Sandy and unnamed vampwhore
Spike; 2 Buffy and Anya
Anya; 2 Spike and Xander
Dawn in peril; 13 but self inflicted this time. Again Buffy's love for Dawn seems to overcome the power of the spell implying a deeper connection between her and Dawn than just sisters.
Dawn the bashful virgin; 9 NOT ANY MORE! Joyce's little girl is all slutted up and hot to trot! It's a bit much that Buffy criticizes Dawn's outfit considering some of the stuff SHE used to wear in season 1&2, the leopardskin miniskirt from BBB as exhibit A (and that was BEFORE she got hit with Xander's love whammy!)
What the fanficcers thought;
The cliche of an enchanted object or spell going wrong making one character irresistable to all is a feature of more fics than you can shake a stick at!
Questions and observations;
Note Buffy still drives Joyce's Geekmobile. Badly! Oz's old favourite 'The Theme from a Summer Place' is used for when the girls fall in love whilst when we switch to split screen the music get's very Charlie's Angels (who doesn't love a bit of funk guitar?). We know that CC doesn't have a sister but wouldn't it be wonderful if the head cheerleader was her cousin or something? Did RJ's brother know Daryl Epps?
If Xander was on the SDH swimteam shouldn't he have his own athletics jacket? Dawn refers to Monty Python's Spanish Inquisition sketch, been hanging with Xander WAAAYY too much! Buffy's hair looks very similar to SMG's porn star character's in Southland Tales.
Marks out of 10; 10/10, I know a lot of people don't like this one too much but I love it, in a pretty serious season it's such a fun, amusing romp, could only be better if Faith, Joyce and Tara were present. The first ep I watched this season and then immediately went back and watched it all again then watched it for a third time the morning after. All hail the pushy queen of slut-town!moreless
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Dawn's simple crush on Sunnydale High's star quarterback RJ Brooks starts to become obsessive, leading Buffy to investigate the boy herself. When Buffy, and all the other women who see RJ, also fall in love with him, Spike and Xander must team up to discover the source of this attraction. But first they have to keep the women from doing anything crazy in their competition for RJ's affection.moreless
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Thad LuckinbillRJ Brooks
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Yan EnglandO'Donnell
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Brandon KeenerLance Brooks
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Emma Caulfield
Anya
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James Marsters
Spike
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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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Michelle Trachtenberg
Dawn Summers
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TRIVIA (9)
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When Dawn is talking to Buffy and Principal Wood, you can see her backpack on the chair, but when she walks out she does not take the bag, yet in the next scene in the school hallway she has the backpack on her shoulder.
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At the railyard Buffy is wearing a white sweater. After she jumps off the railcar she slides on the ground on her back, yet the sweater stays clean. She jumps off the tracks with Dawn, landing on her side. When she stands up the sweater is still clean. The camera angle changes to a closeup of Buffy and Dawn and suddenly Buffy's sweater has areas of dirt all over it, front and back. The dirt is also the wrong color. The blotches are a reddish brown, despite all of the ground consisting of grey gravel. Gravel is the basic material used by railroads as the roadbed for the rails.
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Dawn is lying on the tracks, yet the train makes absolutely no attempt to stop and just blows its horn. The locomotive is the same vintage diesel seen in Crush, as are the passenger cars. It makes no sense that one of the freight cars Buffy runs along side is blowing smoke or steam. The freight cars Buffy climbs upon have running boards along the center of the roof. This design feature was phased out beginning in 1967. As Xander drives up to the tracks several vintage freight and passenger cars can be seen in the background, including locomotives, 'heavyweight' passenger cars, not built since the 1930's and a caboose. Cabooses were phased out beginning in the early 1980's. As in Crush these scenes were likely filmed at a railroad museum.
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Apparently the wearer of this jacket can control which women are under his spell. Several times RJ has the jacket on, such as the school hallway, cheerleader tryouts and the Bronze, and apart from a select few, the women pay him no more attention than they would any other guy.
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Xander's flashback of girls scrambling towards him calling his name is from the episode Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered (2x16) in which a love spell backfires and causes every female who comes near him to fall in love with him.
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Buffy, Willow, Dawn and Anya are stood behind the front door of the house deciding how to win RJ's heart. As they go off in different directions to execute their plan, the camera focuses on Anya going out the front door and pans back to show Willow running up the stairs. For a second before the camera cuts to Buffy we see a woman standing behind Dawn on the stairs, not Alyson Hannigan. In the next shot she is gone.
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When Buffy throws herself and Dawn off the tracks, they are already easily clear of the train and in total move the sum of about 2 inches. Considering they were bang in the middle of the tracks just before the camera changed, they shouldn't have cleared the path of the train by a long shot.
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When Xander and Spike are waiting next to the electronics store on Main Street for R.J. to walk by, Spike's reflection is clearly visible in the store's large window.
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In RJ and Lance's house, when Spike points out that they wore the same jacket, you can clearly see Spike's reflection in the picture frame.
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Willow: But you don't even know him! Anya: Yes, I do. I looked into him and saw his soul. Willow: He was walking away, so unless his soul was in his ass - Anya: A.J. is my best friend and my dearest darling - Willow: It's R.J. And what you were picking up on was his deep caring and devotion to me.
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Xander: (referring to Spike) Once you get back the soul, doesn't that mean you start, like, picking up your own wet towels off the floor?
Willow: No, but maybe you start to feel really bad about leaving them there. Buffy: At least he's showering. That's a refreshing and delightful change. -
Xander: Welcome to the Hellmouth, where even outerwear isn't safe.
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Willow: Damn love spell. I have tried every anti-love spell, spell I can find. Anya: Even if you found the right one, guy would probably just do an anti-anti-love spell, spell... spell. Willow: What?
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Xander: What the hell are you doing? Willow: Proving I love R.J. the most. Xander: Will, honey, R.J.'s a guy. Willow: Well, I did notice that, yeah. That's why I'm doing my spell because, you know, he doesn't have to be.
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Willow: Hey Anya, you never told us what you "can't believe you almost...". Anya: Almost who now? Willow: No. You can't be the only not-embarrassed one. What did you do? Anya: I, uh, wrote a poem. An epic poem comparing him to a daisy and a tower and a lake. Radio Announcer: And now the latest on Sunnydale's late-night bandit who is still at large. A masked thief held up a number of... (Anya switches off radio) Anya: Okay. Great. Ice cream. My treat?
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Buffy: You realize Anya is probably seducing R.J. even as we speak. Willow: My god, you think so? Buffy: Well I wouldn't put it past her, she's recently evil you know. Willow: Well so am I, why should I miss out?
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(Xander rushes into classroom) Xander: Buffy, I think Dawn needs you... (walks in on Buffy & RJ) Buffy: Xander hi, this is RJ. RJ: Hi guy, it's called knocking. Xander: I'm sorry it's just checkout time was an hour ago, we were hoping to make up the bed, and also it's a classroom you chowderhead! Now get off the boy, Buffy, we're going home.
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Buffy: Whoa, hang on there Slappy. I'm not done with you yet.
R.J.: Oh man like its not bad enough I got that guy riding my back all the time, now I gotta deal with you too?
Buffy: Actually I'm a bit more formidable than Mr Wood, you might come to look fondly on his back riding. -
Xander: Remember when she used to have a crush on me, I miss the much cuter me crush.
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Dawn: The quarterback is the most important member of the team, he is like the rudder that guides the ship (short pause) RJ: Right
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Anya: Well, I guess you guys could use my help. Willow's not very good with the practical strategizing... except when she's evil. And Dawn, she's not really good for anything.
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Buffy: Dawn, I'm sorry that you feel so bad. OK, but in the morning this won't seem so terrible. You don't even know this R.J. Not really.
Dawn: I do know him. I know his soul.
Buffy: Really? Dawn, he wasn't even on your radar yesterday.
Xander: It's the jacket. It's true. Something about the big letter on the chest makes girls get all swoony and crushy. I saw it all the time in school. And you couldn't just pin any old felt letter to your coat and get play- not that I tried. -
Buffy: You shredded my outfit. Dawn: I'll buy you a new one. Buffy: That's not the point. I don't want a new cheerleading outfit. Xander: Now, now, let's not be hasty.
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Dawn: Oh my god, I'm the pushy queen of Slut Town!
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Buffy: Willow, you're a gay woman. And he isn't! Willow: This isn't about his physical presence. It's about his heart. Anya: His physical presence has a penis! Willow: I can work around it!
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Anya: Well you're going to have to do better than that. I'd kill for him. Willow: You'd kill for a chocolate bar.
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Buffy: Yes, kill for him. I'm the slayer. Slay means kill. Oh! I'll kill the principal. Anya: Hard to top.
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Willow: Yeah, well I have skills. I can prove my love with magic. Anya: Yeah right, what are you going to do, use magic to make him into a girl? (Willow smiles) Anya: Damn.
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Buffy: Xander, be honest. You didn't, you know, think about slipping that jacket on just a little bit?
Xander: I refuse to answer that on grounds that it didn't fit.
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The weapon that Buffy tries to use against Principal Wood is the rocket launcher that Xander gave to her in the season 2 episode Innocence.
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The music that plays when the girls fall in love with RJ is the theme from A Summer Place.
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Back to the beginning reference: For her cheerleading tryouts, Dawn uses Buffy's old cheerleader uniform (seen in the episode The Witch).
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The musical group The Breeders appears in this episode while Dawn is dancing with R.J. in the Bronze.
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Featured Music: The Shins - "New Slang" (Dawn's cheer tryout) Coldplay - "Warning Sign" (Buffy and R.J.'s makeout scene)
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Cheryl: Or we could all use chairs. Like the Laker Girls.
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Dawn: Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition...
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Buffy: Not the homework, Mr. Wizard.
Mr. Wizard (nee Donald Jeffry Herbert) hosted Watch Mr. Wizard and Mr. Wizard's World, two TV programs - targeted to children - about science that showed that it is accessible to everyone. -
Dawn: Is sitting there drinking soda some kind of Zen non-answer?
Zen is a branch of Mahâyâna Buddhism. It is regarded as religion and philosophy that focuses on spiritual concentration.
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