Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S2/E11 Ted: Difference between revisions

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'''Buffy:''' I'd feel like killing myself. }}

 

* [[Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are]]: Buffy goes hunting for [[Percussive Therapy|something to take out her frustrations on]], but she's too depressed to make an effort; we see her sitting on a [[Trauma Swing]] saying "Vampires? Heeeere vampires..."

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Angel gets a rare opportunity here, when [[Hypocritical Humor|Buffy keeps complaining to him about Ted being all anyone can ever talk about]].

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Children refusing to accept their separated parent's new love interest.

* [[Emotionally Tongue-Tied]]

* [[Facial Horror]]

* [[The Fettered]]

'''Cordelia''': "Right! Why can't we have one of those?" }}

* [[Florence Nightingale Effect]]: Buffy quite enjoys nursing Angel back to health.

* [[How Unscientific]]: The series brings in sci-fi elements, but without much comment from the characters. Arguable this was already done in "I Robot, You Jane" but that also involved a demon. Continuity is maintained however in that we see [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]] in later seasons as well.

* [[Hypocritical Humor]]

'''Cordelia:''' God! Is that [[All Men Are Perverts|all you ever think about?]] [[[Beat]]] Okay. }}

* [[Karma Houdini]]: A line at the beginning implies the Order Of Taraka (from the previous episode) simply backed off (three were killed over the previous two episodes, but most are presumably still out there).

* [[The Mirror Shows Your True Self]]: Ted's reflection in the window behind Buffy tells the audience he's not a vampire.

* [[Metaphorgotten]]

'''Giles''': Uh, uh, Buffy! I-I believe the... [[Subtext]] here is, is, rapidly becoming, uh, uh, text. }}

* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Buffy is delighted when Ted gives her an excuse to beat him up, until she knocks him down the stairs and breaks his neck.

* [[Peek-a-Boo Corpse]]: [[Gory Discretion Shot|Although we don't see them]], the (literal) skeletons Xander finds in the closet.

* [[Percussive Therapy]]: Buffy says she's OK about her mother taking up with a new man. [[Gilligan Cut]] to a shocked Giles watching Buffy beating the crap out of a vampire with a dustbin lid.

* [[Pocket Protector]]: Giles after getting hit by a crossbow bolt.

* [[Playing Possum]]: The vampire is laughing over how Giles got shot with his friend's crossbow, when Giles [[Annoying Arrows|yanks out the bolt]] and [[The Determinator|stakes him with it]].

* [[Puppy Dog Eyes]]: Giles has apparently learned some lessons from Buffy, as Jenny complains about him doing this.

* [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]]: Especially for one built in [[The Fifties]].

* [[Right Behind Me]]

'''Xander:''' Ted!<br />

'''Buffy:''' Of course, Ted. Who'd you think I was talking about?<br />

* [[Shout-Out]]: To ''[[The Stepford Wives]]'' (or perhaps one of the [[B-Movie]] sequels ''The Stepford Husbands'').

* [[Sorry to Interrupt]] / [[Book Ends]]: At the start of the episode Buffy walks in on her mother kissing Ted. At the end of the episode, Buffy walks in on [[Sealed with a Kiss|Giles and Jenny kissing]].

* [[Squee]]: Willow's reaction to Ted saying he can get her a free computer upgrade.

* [[Staircase Tumble]]

* [[Standard Fifties Father]]: Ted

* [[Tempting Fate]]: Lampshaded again.

'''Buffy:''' Yeah, but we'll let you off this time. }}

* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: Ted is deliberately nonchalant about his reappearance after leaving Buffy's home in a body bag.

* [[You Could Have Used Your Powers for Good]]

'''Buffy:''' Oh, Will, you're supposed to use your powers for good!

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