Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S2/E02 Some Assembly Required
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"People don't fall in love with what's right in front of them. People want the dream. What they can't have. The more unattainable, the more attractive." |
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A mad scientist student is trying to make a girl for his Frankenstein's Monster of a brother, a old boyfriend of Cordelia's
Tropes
- All Guys Want Cheerleaders
- Buffy-Speak: It can even be used for dating!
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Buffy: You might wanna avoid words like 'amenable' and 'indecorous', y'know. Speak English, not whatever they speak in, um... |
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- Came Back Wrong
- Call Back: To the movie with Buffy catching a thrown knife.
- Cough-Snark-Cough
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Cordelia: Why are these terrible things always happening to me? |
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Buffy: It takes more than that to get rid of me! (falls in open grave) |
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Eric: You're gonna feel a little pinch, maybe some discomfort around the neck area. But don't worry. When you wake up, you'll have the body of a seventeen-year-old. In fact, you'll have the body of several. |
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- Grave Robbing
- Green-Eyed Monster: Buffy and Angel.
- Holding Hands: Buffy and Angel at the end.
- Hypocritical Humor: The girls watching the guys do all the hard work digging up a grave.
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Buffy: Sorry, but I'm an old-fashioned gal. I was raised to believe that men dig up the corpses and the women have the babies. |
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- Love Makes You Crazy and do wacky things like bring your brother back to life, or do the "sexy dance" with your best friend.
- Mad Doctor
- Mirror Scare
- Mix-and-Match Man
- Never Live It Down (In-Universe): Willow predicts this about Buffy's "sexy dance" with Xander in the previous episode
- Nightmare Fetishist: Giles again.
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Giles: Grave robbing? That's new. Interesting. |
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- Operation: Jealousy: Buffy admits this was the reason for her "sexy dance" with Xander.
- Porn Stash: The size of Eric's scares even Xander.
- Rescue Romance: Spoofed when Xander blows his chance to score with Cordelia without even realising it.
- Security Cling: Cordelia to Angel. Buffy is not pleased.
- Screaming Woman: Cordelia of course.
- Shout-Out: To Frankenstein
- Star-Crossed Lovers: The appeal of forbidden love is lampshaded by Xander. Buffy and Angel of course put it into practice.
- Strapped to An Operating Table: Cordelia
- Surrogate Soliloquy / Emotionally Tongue-Tied: Giles rehearsing asking Ms. Calender out for a date.
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Giles: W-w-w-what I'm proposing is, um... and I-I don't mean to appear indecorous, is, is, um, a, a-a-a social engagement, um, a, a, a, a-a date, if you're amenable. (to himself) You idiot! |
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