Suprise
The Good;
Everything! Buffy's opening dream is superb. The fight, the Judge, Dru and Spike and THAT ending! Also the clever way you think Jenny is leading Buffy astray but is actually just leading her to the party. Love Oz's reaction to discovering the truth about Sunnydale
The Bad;
Are you crazy, this is Buffy at it's best!
Best line;
Dru; (after the Judge burns Dalton) "Do it again! Do it again!"
Questions and observations;
Xander mentions giving Buffy a 'pre-birthday spanking', a display of kinkiness that will become apparent in all the Scoobies to a greater and lesser degree over the course of the series. Jenny back in the gang but with her true self revealed, all the Scoobies keeping secrets over the years. Buffy loses her virginity, as the age of consent in California is 18 this is technically statuatory rape. Oz refers to past groupies although he doesn't have any now
Spike in a wheelchair, he seems reluctant to release the Judge, again showing his more human side. The Judge senses it, commenting that Spike and Dru share jealousy and affection (love Spike's confrontation with him "Yeah, what of it mate!?" as though the judge has spilled his pint or something). Dalton also seems to have retained some humanity (enough for the Judge to burn him), perhaps because he was sired by Dru or Spike? The fact that reading is considered sufficently un-demon like behaviour to warrant a fiery death speaks volumes as to why humanity rules the Earth and demons don't any more ('fire, TV and opposable thumbs'). Dru hates the flowers, I thought roses were supposed to repel vamps anyway? Brian Thompson back again and the wonderful Vincent Schavelli.
Why not just sink the Judge's arm into the Pacific? Why does Dalton still need his glasses, surely as a vamp his eyes would have healed up like Darla's heart condition and Spike's mum's tuberculosis? Maybe they're just for effect? Small point that Xander says "Hello mom" on the phone and then still needs to say "It's Xander". Does he have siblings or is she just too drunk to understand what he said?
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Episode Summary
Buffy's seventeenth birthday arrives, and the Scoobies prepare a surprise birthday party for her. But when the gang discovers that Spike and Drusilla are planning their own party, Angel may have to leave Sunnydale to keep Dru's party guest, the Judge, from painting the town red.
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Sarah Michelle Gellar
Buffy Anne Summers
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David Boreanaz
Angel
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Nicholas Brendon
Alexander 'Xander' Harris
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ADD NOTES- Featured Music: When Drusilla says "more music" prior to piecing together the Judge is "Transylvanian Concubine" by Rasputina. During Buffy's dream in the teaser an original song called "Anything," plays. It is written by the shows composers Shawn K. Clement and Sean Murray and performed by Cari Howe. Edit
- This is the only time we see Joyce at the Bronze throughout the whole series. Edit
- This is the last time Buffy airs on Monday, from the next episode on, it airs on Tuesdays. Edit
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ADD QUOTES- Buffy: You almost went away today. Angel: We both did. Buffy: Angel, I feel like I lost you. You're right though, we can't be sure of anything. Angel: Shh... I... Buffy: You what? Angel: I love you. I try not to, but I can't stop. Buffy: Me too. I can't either. (they start to kiss) Angel: Buffy, maybe we shouldn't. Buffy: Don't. Just kiss me. Edit
- Willow: Do you guys, uh... have a gig tonight? Oz: Oh, no. Practice. See, our band's kinda moving towards this new sound where... we suck, so... practice. Edit
- The Judge: (to Spike and Dru) You two stink of humanity. You share affection and jealousy. Spike: Yeah. What of it? Do I have to remind you that we're the ones who brought you here? Edit
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Allusions
ADD ALLUSIONS- Xander: You ground his bones to make your bread. This is what the Giant planned to do to Jack in the classic fairytale Jack and the Beanstalk. The full line is "Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread." Edit
- Xander: What the vamps version of "snakes in a can?" Xander refers to the old gag where a fake can of peanut brittle contains spring "snakes" which pop out when it is opened. Edit
- Giles: Discretion is the better part of valor. From Shakespeare's King Henry IV, Part 1 Act V Scene 4 "The better part of valour is discretion." This, in turn, was based on a far earlier quote by Cicero: "Rashness is the characteristic of youth, prudence that of mellowed age, and discretion the better part of valor." Edit
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