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{{quote|''"Are you probably noticing a theme here?"<br />
"As in '[[Vampire Vannabe|Vampires, yay]]'?"''|'''Xander''' and '''Willow'''}}
 
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* [[Arc Words]]: Giles' denouement is darkly ironic considering the events to come. This episode begins the metamorphosis of ''Buffy'' from fairly harmless teenage fun to something far more serious, continuing through "Surprise/Innocence," "Passion," and finally both parts of "Becoming."
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Arson, Murder and Wearing a Cheap Costume]]: Buffy lecturing "Diego" and the other cultists. "You're going to die! And the only hope you have of surviving this is to get out of this pit right now and ''my God'' could you have a dorkier outfit?"
{{quote| '''Ford:''' Gotta back her up on this one, D. You look like a big ninny.}}
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Julia Lee's character Chantarelle will later appear in episode 3.1 titled Anne, where she will go by the name Lily. Her character, in this episode and in episode 3.1, consistently has identity issues (shown through her third name change when she crosses over onto the Buffy spin-off ''Angel'').
* [[Bad Date]]: Jenny dragging Giles into attending a monster ruck truck rally.
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* [[Batman Gambit]]: Ford knows Buffy will work out he's lying to her, and has prepared his trap accordingly.
* [[Black and Gray Morality]]
{{quote| '''Buffy:''' Nothing's ever simple anymore. I'm constantly trying to work it out. Who to love or hate. Who to trust. It's just, like, the more I know, the more confused I get.}}
* [[Blatant Lies]]: Buffy bumping into Angel and asking what he did the previous night, to which he answers that he stayed in and read.
* [[Blondes Are Evil]]: Julia, who is freed by Ford and steals a book from the library for Spike.
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* [[The Cavalry Arrives Late]]: Angel, Willow, and Xander arriving just as the threat's ended. Buffy remarks they're "just in time." (Though her weary tone suggests she's glad to see them, nonetheless.)
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: Buffy lays it all out for Ford, explaining that he's what they in the trade call "the bad guy." Ford giggles and reckons she's 100% correct. [[Played for Drama]], as Buffy later realizes that she was just playing into his B-movie fantasies.
{{quote| '''Buffy:''' It'd be simpler if I could just hate him. I think he wanted me to. I think it made it easier for him to be the villain of the piece. Really, he was just scared.}}
* [[Cargo Cult]]: Buffy lampshades this by shouting "This is not the mothership" at the club-goers.
* [[Chekhov's Gag]]: Ford saying that he knows all of Buffy's dark secrets, to which Xander smugly adds, "Care to make a small wager on that?" The fact that Ford ''does'' in fact know Buffy's [[Secret Identity|darkest secret]] is a subtle irony.
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* [[Coincidental Broadcast]]: Buffy noting a photo of Drusilla among Giles' research materials.
* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: Cordy giving her own spin on the French bread famine.
{{quote| '''Cordelia:''' I just don't see why everyone's always picking on Marie Antoinette. I can ''so'' relate to her. She worked really hard to look that good, and people [[It's All About Me|just don't appreciate that kind of effort]]! And I ''know'' the peasants were all depressed...<br />
'''Xander:''' I think you mean ''oppressed''. }}
* [[Cordon Bleugh Chef]]: Oreos in apple juice.
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* [[Do Not Call Me Paul]]: Ford's flunky, Marvin. ("'''Diego!''' C'mon, man, it's Diego now!")
* [[Do You Trust Me?]]
{{quote| '''Angel:''' Do you love me?<br />
'''Buffy:''' What?<br />
'''Angel:''' Do you?<br />
'''Buffy:''' I love you. I don't know if I trust you.<br />
'''Angel:''' Maybe you shouldn't do either. }}
* [[Dresses the Same]]: Angel and a vampire groupie, to the former's embarrassment.
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* [[False Reassurance]]: Chantarelle getting jittery on the eve of the big night. She asks if Ford really thinks the vamps will "bless" them. Ford smiles that he knows they will.
* [[Flat What]]: Buffy trying to sell a story about two cats fighting, and Ford shrugging that he thought she was "just" slaying a vampire.
{{quote| '''Buffy:''' What? Whatting a what?}}
** Later, this is Giles' reaction upon learning that Ford knows the secret.
** Also, Spike's reaction to Ford's fanboy behavior. Ford gets this a lot from people.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Drusilla asking if Angel remembers the song her mother used to sing. He lowers his head in shame, and Dru gloats that he's [[Not Afraid to Die|run out of ways to hurt her]].
** Angel says to Drusilla, "If you don't leave it'll go badly. For all of us." Boy is Angel on the ball here. In fact, his retelling of [[Broken Bird|Drusilla's origin]] {{spoiler|foretells what he will later do to Buffy}}.
{{quote| '''Drusilla:''' Your heart stinks of her. Poor little thing. She has no idea what's in store.}}
** Ford popping "ritalin" in front of his entourage. He later grips his forehead in pain when Diego mentions he saw the Scoobies sniffing around.
** A truckload of foreshadowing in the kitchen scene between Buffy and Angel.
{{quote| '''Buffy:''' Buffy: I love you. I don't know if I trust you.<br />
'''Angel''': Maybe you shouldn't do either. }}
** The final exchange in the graveyard sets the tone for the remainder of Season Two. As you grow up things become more complicated; It's not as clear who's your ally and who's your enemy anymore.
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** "I-I-I'm gonna do work in the computer lab on school work that I have, so I cannot hang just now. Hi, Ford."
** Giles saying he's going out that evening, and giving Buffy Miss Calendar's beeper number, in case she needs "study help." Buffy breaks the news that Ford knows she's the Slayer.
{{quote| '''Giles''': You are not, by any chance, betraying your secret identity just to impress, um, cute boys, are you?}}
* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]: Spike tearing off Chanterelle's choker, presumably for Dru to wear instead.
* [[Idiot Ball]] / [[Parental Abandonment]]: Wow, that's some terrible mom to leave her kid alone so late.
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* [[Immortality Immorality]]: Ford wants to become a vampire so badly that he's willing to face off with the Slayer ''and'' Spike's entire gang. Now that's what I call serious dedication to one's career goals.
* [[Implausible Deniability]]: Chanterelle noticing that Willow and her friends are newbies.
{{quote| '''Willow''': "Oh, no! We come here... often."}}
** Poor Giles. The extremes he'll go to for love.
{{quote| "Uh, honestly, I've ''always'' been interested in, uh...monster trucks."}}
* [[Impossibly Tacky Clothes]]: Diego seems to be aiming for "[[Man of Wealth and Taste]]", hence the [[Bow Ties Are Cool|bowtie]], frilled shirt, and silk cape which looks like it was stolen from a failed LARPer.
* [[In-Series Nickname]] / [[Last-Name Basis]]: Billy "Ford" Fordham.
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Angel stops Drusilla from attacking a boy.
* [[It Has Only Just Begun]]:
{{quote| '''Angel:''' This can't go on, Drusilla. It's gotta end.<br />
'''Drusilla:''' Oh, no, my pet. This is just the beginning. }}
* [[Innocent Innuendo]]: Giles is unsure about Jenny's "surprise" for him, but finally stammers, "Alright, I put myself in your hands."
{{quote| '''Jenny''': That sounds like fun.}}
** Buffy moped over Ford for months, and would sit in her room listening to "[[Songs of Solace|I Touch Myself]]" by the Divinyls. She wisely shifts gears by saying she had no idea [[A Date with Rosie Palms|what the song was about]].
* [[It Never Gets Any Easier]]
* [[It's Probably Nothing]]: Willow discovering that Ford isn't actually registered at Sunnydale High.
{{quote| '''Willow:''' I-it's probably nothing.<br />
'''Angel''': [[Genre Savvy|That'd be nice]]. }}
* [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]]: Ford kneeling over Julia and menacing her with a stake and cross.
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* [[Leave Him to Me]]: When the vampires burst into the Sunset Club, Spike orders his mooks to kill the others, but to leave the Slayer for him.
* [[Lies to Children]]: Giles on life.
{{quote| "Yes, it's terribly simple. [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness|The good guys are always stalwart and true]], [[Card-Carrying Villain|the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats]], [[Sugar Bowl|and we always defeat them and save the day! No one ever dies, and everybody lives]] [[Happily Ever After]].}}
* [[Linked-List Clue Methodology]]: Willow expositing that all her searches on Ford turned up was an address, the "Sunset Club."
* [[Logical Weakness]]: Ford knew he couldn't defeat a Slayer with strength and so devised a way to lock her in his club. Once the doors are shut, not even someone with supernatural strength can break out.
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* [[My Name Is Not Durwood]]: Angel pointing out that Ford's lack of records and paper trail is incriminating enough. Xander says he agrees with "Dead Boy", and Angel snits not to call him that.
* [[Neck Lift]] / [[Perp Sweating]]: Buffy starts to tell Ford that vamps are kind of picky about who they sire -- then realizes that Ford meant to offer her up in exchange. None to happy with that she hoists him by the throat and shoves him against the wall.
{{quote| '''Ford:''' I don't think I wanna talk anymore.<br />
''(Buffy grabs him by the throat and shoves him up against a pillar)''<br />
'''Buffy:''' Yeah, well, I still feel awfully chatty! }}
* [[Nerves of Steel]]: Ford doesn't seem so tough until he finds himself trapped in the club and facing some steep odds.
* [[No One Could Have Survived That]]: Giles identifying Drusilla as a "sometime paramour of Spike's" who was killed by an angry mob in Prague. Buffy notes that they don't make angry mobs like they used to.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: The Oreos. Also, Willow slyly saying that Ford was telling them about the "ninth-grade swimsuit competition."
{{quote| '''Buffy''' The more people you tell, the more people I have to kill. }}
* [[Not Evil, Just Misunderstood]]: Chantarelle welcoming the Scoobies to her posse, saying it's cool they're interested in "the Lonely Ones." Willow isn't familiar with the term, but a bored Angel reappears and says that she's referring to vampires.
{{quote| '''Xander:''' Oh! We usually call them the 'nasty pointy bitey-ones'."<br />
'''Chantarelle:''' So many people have that misconception. But They Who Walk With the Night are not interested in harming ''anyone''! }}
* [[Not So Different]]:
{{quote| '''Ford:''' Too many people, they just lay back and take it. But us...<br />
'''Buffy:''' ''Us?'' We have something in common now?<br />
'''Ford:''' More than you think. }}
* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: Buffy spying on Angel and Drusilla, whom she assumes are sharing some sort of tryst.
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* [[Secretly Dying]]: Ford's been in constant agony from "nest of tumors" in his brain the whole time.
* [[Shaped Like Itself]]: Jenny keeping the details of her date with Giles a "secret."
{{quote| '''Giles:''' ''(suspiciously)'' What ''kind'' of a secret?<br />
'''Jenny''': The kind that's secret. You know, where I don't actually tell you what it is. }}
* [[Shout-Out]]: Ford's line "die young and stay pretty" is a reference to the line "live fast, die young and leave a beautiful corpse" from Humphrey Bogart's 1949 film Knock on Any Door. James Dean also quoted the line in an interview shortly before his death.
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** The movie playing at the Sunset Club was Dan Curtis' 1973 television adaption of Bram Stoker's ''[[Dracula]]'', starring Jack Palance.
* [[Sidetracked by the Analogy]]: Xander and Willow contrasting their own colorful dubs with the gloomy club atmosphere, and determining that they stick out like sore thumbs.
{{quote| '''Willow:''' Do they stick out? I mean, have you ever seen a thumb and gone, 'Wow! That baby is sore!'<br />
'''Xander:''' You have too many thoughts. }}
* [[Sixth Ranger Traitor]]: Ford being thrown into the group dynamic does make for some interesting tension.
{{quote| '''Xander:''' ''(as Buffy)'' This is Ford, my bestest friend of all my friends! ''(as himself)'' Geez, doesn't she know any fat guys?}}
* [[Slasher Smile]]
* [[Smash Cut]]: Buffy sadly making plans to retrieve Ford's body. We cut back to the club interior, where Ford lies dead and the vamps have flown the coop.
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* [[There Are No Coincidences]]: It is a pretty big coincidence, Ford knowing that Buffy's the Slayer and then "moving" to Sunnydale.
* [[This Is the Part Where]]: Ford blathering about some action-movie convention where Spike is supposed to "take out a watch" and give Ford got thirty seconds to convince you not to kill him.
{{quote| '''Ford:''' Oh, c'mon! Say it! It's no fun if you don't say it.<br />
Spike: What...? ''(exasperated sigh)'' You've got thirty seconds to convince me not to kill you.<br />
'''Ford:''' [[Big Yes|Yes!]] See, this is the best. }}
** "It's already happening."
* [[Title Drop]]: Giles and Buffy in the epilogue.
{{quote| '''Giles:''' What do you want me to say?<br />
'''Buffy:''' Lie to me. }}
* [[The Triple]]: Xander saying Buffy needs cheering up, and suggests a "crazed dance party at the Bronze." Buffy doesn't reply, and he downgrades that to "very calm dance party at the Bronze," finishing with "moping at the Bronze."
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* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: Ford swinging a crowbar at Buffy, knocking her down the stairs. He advances on her and hits her again, but is interrupted by Spike at the door.
* [[You Have Failed Me]]: Simultaneously subverting this and an "[[I Lied]]" moment:Spike detested Fordham, had no reason to honor his agreement and very good reasons not to.
{{quote| '''Ford''': ''(dazed)'' What happened?<br />
'''Spike''': We're stuck in a basement.<br />
'''Ford''': Buffy?<br />
'''Spike''': She's '''not''' stuck in the basement. }}
** That he did so is only revealed at the very end when Fordham rises and is immediately staked.
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