Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S3/E20 The Prom: Difference between revisions

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'''Xander''': Yay? }}

 

** When Jonathan mentions all the weird things that have happened in Sunnydale, two of the students in the crowd shout out "Zombies!" (Dead Man's Party) and "Hyena People!" ("The Pack")

* [[Can't Have Sex Ever]]: Angel tells Buffy she deserves "someone who can make love to you". Buffy protests that she doesn't care about sex or having children.

* [[Catapult Nightmare]] / [[Man On Fire]]: Buffy and Angel are in a church getting married. As they exit the church, Angel is fearful of the sun, but it is Buffy that burns up and dies -- not him -- when they come in contact with the sun's light. Angel awakes from the nightmare in a cold sweat.

* [[Changed My Mind, Kid]]

* [[Class Clown]] / [[Assumed Win]]: At the awards ceremony, they begin to announce to the class clown award. Xander rubs his hands together in anticipation. He doesn't get it -- an obnoxious kid wearing a [[Tacky Tuxedo|polka dot vest]] and a hat made of balloons collects his prize.

* [[Continuity Nod]]: Joyce visiting Angel at the mansion to tell him she's worried about the effect he's having on her daughter. He lets her in, and they exchange awkward pleasantries. She notices the manacles on the wall from "Choices", and her jaw sets. Whoops.

* [[Convenient Slow Dance]]: The Sundays' remake of [[The Rolling Stones]]' "Wild Horses" starts up. Xander and Anya dance together; Wesley, following much cajoling from Giles, follows suit with Cordelia. Finally, Buffy turns and sees Angel standing in the door, tux and all.

* [[High School Dance]]

* [[Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday]]

* [[Hypocritical Humor]] / [[Tsundere]]: Anya's rant about witnessing "a millennium of treachery and oppression from the males" of Xander's species, and how she has "have nothing but contempt for the whole libidinous lot of them," to which Xander rightly asks why she's talking to him. Shifting from foot to foot, Anya admits she doesn't have a date for prom.

'''Anya:''' [testy] Men are evil! [vulnerable] Will you go with me? }}

* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: Angel realises he must leave Sunnydale so Buffy can have a chance at a normal relationship.

* [[Ironic Echo]]

* [[Lame Comeback]]: Back at Buffy's house, Buffy has just filled Willow in on her breakup. Willow dutifully calls Angel a "big dumb jerk person." Scratch that; he's a "'''super maxi'''-jerk" for dumping her right before prom. Buffy tells Willow it's okay, she doesn't have to vilify Angel on her account.

* [[The Last of These Is Not Like the Others]]: When Jonathan says that Sunnydale High is different from other schools and that students have already noticed that a lot of weird things, we hear scattered shouts of "Zombies!", "Hyena people!", and "Snyder!"

* [[Linked-List Clue Methodology]]

* [[Loners Are Freaks]]

* [[Love Hurts]]: Post-Breakup Buffy

'''Buffy:''' (sinks her head into Willow's lap) I can't breathe, Will. I feel like I can't breathe... }}

* [[Magical Security Cam]]: Averted and lampshaded

* [[Male Gaze]]: Lampshaded by Xander. Anya asserts that she ''knows'' he finds her attractive because she's caught him looking at her breasts. Xander lampshades it with, "[[Nothing Personal]], but when a guy does that, it just means [[I'm a Man, I Can't Help It|his eyes are open]]."

* [[Monster of the Week]]

* [[The Not-Secret]]

* [[Oh, Wait!]]

'''Xander:''' Be still my heart. Oh wait, it is. }}

* [[Ominous Multiple Screens]]: Tucker's lair. In addition to being caged, his hellhound's head is held in place so it's forced to see the TV (a la ''[[A Clockwork Orange (film)|A Clockwork Orange]]'').

* [[The Reveal]]

* [[Serious Business]] / [[Punctuated for Emphasis]]: When arguing about helping fight Tucker rather than go to the Prom.

'''Buffy:''' [[[Death Glare]]] Have. A nice. Time. }}

* [[Shout-Out]]: When Giles interrupts a conversation about the Prom to say they ought to focus on the mayor's Ascension, Buffy says, "Giles, we get it, miles to go before we sleep," a phrase from the famous [[Robert Frost]] poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening". Faith later quotes from the same line in a dream sequence in "Graduation Day, Part Two":

* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]

* [[You Are Too Late]]: Buffy closes in on Tucker, restraining him against a wall while belittling his evil plan. " Lucky for me you're an ''incompetent'' maladjust." She prepares to lock him in the other room, but upon opening the door, she sees three empty cages with TV screens in front of them. Tucker [[Slasher Smile|grins evilly]]. Uh oh.

* [[You Remind Me of X]]