Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S7/E11 Showtime

Buffy struggles to win the trust of the Potentials.

"Torg: You broke my heart, Anyanka.
 * Badass Boast: Buffy declares herself "the thing that nightmares have nightmares about". And then demonstrates why.
 * Bait and Switch:
 * Bizarre Demon Biology

Anya: Don't be so dramatic, Torg. You don't even have a heart. Six spleens, two stomachs, half a brain maybe, but no heart."

"Andrew: Six times. But the book was scarier than the movie 'cause instead of crushing his foot with a sledge hammer, Kathy Bates chops it off with-- (sees Buffy staring evenly at him, and swallows) I'll be good."
 * Bring Me My Brown Pants / Brick Joke: The Scoobies untie Andrew from his chair and tell him to go wash as he's smelling rather ripe. After their confrontation with the First, Andrew rushes off saying he needs to go wash again.
 * Buffy Speak: Kennedy says that magic sounds "new age-y". Willow replies that what she practices is definitely "old age-y".
 * Chained to A Rock: Spike as the Distressed Dude.
 * Continuity Nod
 * The use of telepathy by the Scoobies, seen in "The Gift" and "Bargaining".
 * "I wouldn't touch you for all the kittens in Korea." Demons were shown gambling with kittens in "Life Serial". They're delicious.
 * Conveniently Timed Attack From Behind: Buffy saving Xander from an axe-wielding Bringer.
 * Cut His Heart Out With a Spoon: Well, there's no need when you're threatening a geek who's seen Misery.

"First!Buffy: Dreaming of me again?"
 * Daydream Surprise: As a Bringer walks over to carve up Spike with his knife, Spike snaps his neck with his legs, breaks the chains and escapes through the tunnels until he runs into Buffy, effulgent in her white blouse and Hair of Gold. Lovestruck!Spike takes a step towards her...and is brought up short by his chains.

"Rona: (taking a sword from Buffy) Like this'll do any good. I mean, what's the point?
 * Deadpan Snarker: Kennedy shows she has what it takes to be a Slayer.

Kennedy: (points to the tip of Rona's sword) It's this end right here. Just stick that in the bad guys. Any more questions?"

"Willow: Last time I tried using magic, The First...it turned it around on me. Got inside. I felt it just surging through me, every fiber of my being. Pure, undiluted evil. I could taste it.
 * Description Cut; "If I wanted to sleep, I'd be downstairs with the other girls." Cut to the other girls keeping Xander awake with their yakking.
 * Evil Tastes Good

Kennedy: How's evil taste?

Willow: (makes a face) A little chalky."

"Andrew: Careful, that's my joystick hand.
 * Extra Eyes / Faceless Eye: Beljoxa's Eye. It's nothing but eyes! In the shape an eyeball and attached tendons. Hate to think what the rest of Beljora looked like.
 * Get Out: Doesn't work on an incorporeal being, Buff.
 * Getting Crap Past the Radar: Xander is untying Andrew's bonds.

Xander: Not going there."

"Torg: Ugh, please, you're human. The way you look now, I wouldn't touch you for all the kittens in Korea.
 * Ghost Story: Molly telling the other Potentials what happened to Annabelle.
 * Happy Ending: The Ubervamp is defeated and Buffy rescues her not-boyfriend.
 * Holy Burns Evil: Buffy lets Andrew have a bottle of holy water (which he can use to defend himself but not harm anyone else). Andrew isn't happy when Buffy grabs it off him later and tosses it into the Ubervamp's face -- neither is the Ubervamp.
 * Humans Are Ugly: Anya tries to get help from a demon, who starts complaining that she walked out on him after a one-night stand. Anya promises to sleep with him again, but the demon isn't interested.

Anya: You're rejecting my offer of sexual bribery? (to Giles) What am I, a leper in this town? I can't even give it away!

Torg: Come back when you're a leper."

"Buffy: What is Botox's eye?
 * Improvised Weapon: The inevitable result of fighting in a construction site.
 * Ironic Echo Cut: When First!Buffy realises Spike keeps saying "She'll come for me" she taunts him by replying, "No, I won't." Cut to Anya asking a demon, "Why not?"
 * Let's Split Up Gang
 * Malaproper

Giles: Beljoxa's Eye. It's an oracle-type creature that exists in a dark dimension."

"Buffy: Try picking on somebody my own size."
 * Meaningful Echo: "Here endeth the lesson" was said by Spike to Buffy in "Fool for Love".
 * Nice Job Breaking It Hero: Giles asks Beljoxa's Eye why the First has waited till now to try and kill off the Slayer line. Turns out he/she's just seized the opportunity provided by the Scoobies bringing Buffy back from the dead.
 * Off With His Head / Absurd Cutting Power: Buffy garottes the Ubervamp with a length of barbed wire until his head comes off.
 * Once More With Clarity / Unspoken Plan Guarantee / Telepathy
 * Pink Means Feminine: Torg reminisces over Anyanka wearing pink. Anya points out it was entrails.
 * Ripped From the Phone Book: A Potential steps off a bus and goes to a public phone to look up Buffy's address, only to find the page ripped out. Having identified herself by turning to the torn page, the Bringers move in to kill her.
 * Running Gag: SMG's height now becomes a Bond One Liner.
 * Running Gag: SMG's height now becomes a Bond One Liner.

"Baljox's Eye: "The eye sees not the future, only the truth of the now and before."
 * Sarcasm Mode

Anya: "Yes, we've all got that. It's called MEMORY!.""

""You help us, and the Slayer won't kill your clientele and burn your establishment to the ground.""
 * Shame If Something Happened: When Torg turns down Anya's offer of sexual bribery, Giles comes up with a better offer.

""I have an inner ear infection.""
 * Sickly Neurotic Geek: Andrew climbing down into the construction site.

"Willow: Caerimonia Minerva, saepio, saepire, saepsi...
 * Some Kind of Force Field: Willow tries to use a protection spell against the Ubervamp.

Andrew: Um, deflector shields—deflector shields up!"

"Baljox's Eye: It cannot be fought, it cannot be killed. The First Evil has been and always will be. Since before the universe was born, long after there is nothing else, it will go on.
 * Sophisticated As Hell

Giles: I refuse to believe that. There must be some way to destroy it.

Baljox's Eye: (irritated) What, am I talking to myself here? There's no way!"

"Kennedy: If I wanted to sleep, I'd be downstairs with the other girls."
 * Stop Helping Me: Buffy's response to Andrew's support.
 * Sunnydale Syndrome: Averted; Xander notes that tourism is down because it's apocalypse season.
 * Survival Mantra: Spike repeating "She'll come for me". Willow saying "Facing my fear. I'm facing my fear. Hear that, Fear? I'm facing you."
 * There Is Only One Bed: Willow spends an uncomfortable night on the floor even though Kennedy is more than willing to share the bed with her.


 * Vampire Invitation: Turns out the Ubervamp only needs an Open Says Me.
 * What the Hell Is That Accent: Eve's Southern drawl.