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'''Giles:''' "Right, yours was best." }}
'''Giles:''' "Right, yours was best." }}
* [[Electrified Bathtub]]: Buffy is set up to shut off the water in a locker room shower just as the puddle reaches a live wire. She sees the trap and jumps out just in time, with only [[Messy Hair|static-frazzled hair]] to show for it -- much to her annoyance.
* [[Electrified Bathtub]]: Buffy is set up to shut off the water in a locker room shower just as the puddle reaches a live wire. She sees the trap and jumps out just in time, with only [[Messy Hair|static-frazzled hair]] to show for it -- much to her annoyance.
* [["Everybody Laughs" Ending]]: When Xander and Buffy tell Willow not to be too upset that her dream guy turned out to be a demon because Xander's crush [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)/Recap/S1 E4 Teachers Pet|turned out to be a giant praying mantis]] and Buffy is in love with Angel, the three conclude that they have no chance of having a normal relationship, ever, and then start laughing...[[Subverted Trope|and then descend into awkward silence when they realize the significance of this conclusion.]] Cue credits.
* [["Everybody Laughs" Ending]]: When Xander and Buffy tell Willow not to be too upset that her dream guy turned out to be a demon because Xander's crush [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S1 E4 Teachers Pet|turned out to be a giant praying mantis]] and Buffy is in love with Angel, the three conclude that they have no chance of having a normal relationship, ever, and then start laughing...[[Subverted Trope|and then descend into awkward silence when they realize the significance of this conclusion.]] Cue credits.
* [[Haunted Technology]]
* [[Haunted Technology]]
* [[I Comma Noun]]
* [[I Comma Noun]]
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* [[Kubrick Stare]]: Fritz
* [[Kubrick Stare]]: Fritz
* [[Last-Second Word Swap]]: "You're a computer geek...genius."
* [[Last-Second Word Swap]]: "You're a computer geek...genius."
* [[Leaning On the Fourth Wall]]
* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]
{{quote| '''Buffy:''' He's gone binary on us.<br />
{{quote| '''Buffy:''' He's gone binary on us.<br />
'''Xander:''' Okay, for those of us in our studio audience, who are me -- you guys are saying that Moloch is in this computer? }}
'''Xander:''' Okay, for those of us in our studio audience, who are me -- you guys are saying that Moloch is in this computer? }}
* [[Literary Allusion Title]]: To ''[[I Robot (Literature)|I Robot]]'' on the one hand and to ''[[Tarzan]]'' on the other.
* [[Literary Allusion Title]]: To ''[[I, Robot]]'' on the one hand and to ''[[Tarzan]]'' on the other.
* [[Make It Look Like an Accident|Make It Look Like A Suicide]]: When Dave won't go through with Buffy's murder, Moloch prints out a [[Goodbye, Cruel World|suicide note]] and has Fritz kill him. Buffy finds him hanging from the roof of the computer lab with the note attached to his chest.
* [[Make It Look Like an Accident|Make It Look Like A Suicide]]: When Dave won't go through with Buffy's murder, Moloch prints out a [[Goodbye, Cruel World|suicide note]] and has Fritz kill him. Buffy finds him hanging from the roof of the computer lab with the note attached to his chest.
* [[Mailer Daemon]]
* [[Mailer Daemon]]
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* [[Remote Body]]
* [[Remote Body]]
* [[Rewriting Reality]]: Jenny types in the evocation that Giles is reading aloud.
* [[Rewriting Reality]]: Jenny types in the evocation that Giles is reading aloud.
* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]: in a book, in this case.
* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: in a book, in this case.
* [[Self -Harm]] / [[Madness Mantra]]: Fritz carves an "M" in his arm while saying, "I'm jacked in. I'm jacked in. I'm jacked in."
* [[Self -Harm]] / [[Madness Mantra]]: Fritz carves an "M" in his arm while saying, "I'm jacked in. I'm jacked in. I'm jacked in."
* [[Sinister Surveillance]]
* [[Sinister Surveillance]]