Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S2/E12 Bad Eggs

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There is revealed to be another Eldritch Abomination living under the school. This one using mind control over the students.

Tropes

Giles: I suppose there is a sort of...Machiavellian ingenuity to your transgressions.
Xander: I resent that. Or possibly thank you.

Willow: Kill them.

Angel: You really don't care what happens a year from now? Five years from now?
Buffy: Angel, when I look into the future, all I see is you! All I want is you.
(camera pans to a gravestone marked IN LOVING MEMORY)

    • Willow watches with a puzzled expression over how Xander and Cordelia are getting stuck into each other in Sex Ed class. When she finds out what's going on in "Innocence", Willow says she knew something was up because they were arguing far too much.
  • Enemy Mine: Averted. It looks like Lyle Gorch is going to fight the Mother Bezoar alongside Buffy (especially after his brother gets swallowed) but he blames Buffy instead.
  • Gas Leak Coverup: Spoofed when the Scoobies come up with this as a completely implausible explanation as to what happened.
  • Generation Xerox: Buffy is dismayed to find she hasn't been partnered with someone for her Egg Sitting. "You mean I'm a single mother?"
  • Giant Eye of Doom
  • Gilligan Cut

Willow: Maybe you could get Angel to help you find the Gorches.
Giles: Good idea. Strength in numbers.
Xander: Oh yeah. I see a lot of hunting getting done in that scenario.
Buffy: Please. Like Angel and I are just helpless slaves to passion. Grow up!
(Cut to Buffy and Angel making out in the cemetery)
Buffy: You know, this isn't hunting in the classical sense...

Cordelia: (about someone no-one else in the episode has registered as in danger) Well, his body could fall out of a closet somewhere. So we should check out some closets to see if he's in a closet?
Xander: You're right. There could be a closet. Let's go.

The sex drive in the human animal is intense. How many of us have lost countless productive hours plagued by unwanted sexual thoughts and feelings?
(Xander puts his hand up)
That was a rhetorical question, Mr. Harris. Not a poll.

Joyce: Honestly, don't you ever think about anything besides boys and clothes?
Buffy: Saving the world from vampires?
Joyce: I swear, sometimes I don't know what goes on in your head.

Joyce: (notices the books lying on the catalog) 'Bristow's Demon Index', 'Hell's Offspring'?
Giles: (takes the books) A hobby of mine, uh, but, uh, having nothing to do with Buffy in any way.

Well, you're a rough one, ain't cha! I like that!