Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S4/E05 Beer Bad
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It's nice. Foamy. Comforting. It's beer... |
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Buffy is still recovering from being dumped by Parker and finds solace with a bunch of guys who become her drinking buddies.
- Aesop: Too much beer is bad for you. Or perhaps all men are Neanderthals at heart.
- Accidental Innuendo: Buffy is talking about drinking with the four frat boys while Willow thinks she had group sex.
- All Men Are Perverts
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Willow: There are men, better men, wherein the mind is stronger than the penis. |
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- Asshole Victims: The frat boys.
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Xander: This will give them some time to ponder the geo-political ramifications of BEING MEAN TO ME! |
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- Bait and Switch: Willow appears to be falling for Parker's charms, but then she laughs and tells Parker what she thinks of him.
- Can't Get Away with Nuthin'
- Chekhov's Classroom: Professor Walsh's lecture on the id.
- Comically Missing the Point: Xander asking a customer if he wants his ice water on the rocks.
- Crash Into Hello: Buffy spills the beer of both Riley and the frat boys.
- The Casanova: Parker; confirmed by Riley.
- Daydream Surprise: Buffy keeps fantasizing a Rescue Romance with Parker. The second dream involves Parker with his shirt open, holding flowers and ice cream.
- Death Glare
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Xander: Giles, don't make Cave!Slayer unhappy. |
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- Drowning My Sorrows: Buffy distraught over Parker's lack of interest in her.
- Fur Bikini: Unfortunately averted, as Xander laments in "Something Blue".
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Buffy: Anyone remember when Buffy had the fun beer-fest and went One Million Years B.C.? |
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- Green-Eyed Monster: Willow is alarmed to notice the way Oz is staring at Veruca as she sings.
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Willow: Buff, have you heard of this Veruca chick? Dresses like Faith, voice like an albatross? |
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- Kick the Son of a Bitch: Cave!Slayer clubs Parker over the head again; Giles, Willow and Xander just shrug and walk off.
- Nubile Savage: The frat boys grow crooked teeth, heavy brow ridges, and plenty of extra hair. Buffy, who also had plenty to drink, looks like Buffy with sexy-unkempt hair (Xander did cut her off earlier).
- Perverted Sniffing: Cave!Slayer sniffing Xander.
- Phlebotinum-Induced Stupidity: A bar-owner brews up some cursed beer for some Jerkass college students that turn them into cavemen.
- Rescue Romance: Spoofed; Buffy keeps dreaming of earning Parker's eternal gratitude this way, but when the opportunity arises she's a cavewoman so she just clubs him over the head.
- Shaped Like Itself
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Willow: I'm tired of you men, and your...man-ness. |
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- Space Whale Aesop: The episode was written so the show could apply for funding from the National Office of Drug Control Policy, but they rejected it because the Fantastic Aesop was too fantastical.
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At least one show, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," was rejected after it showed itself to be immune to the drug office's worldview. "Drugs were an issue, but it wasn't on-strategy. It was otherworldly nonsense, very abstract and not like real-life kids taking drugs. Viewers wouldn't make the link to our message," says someone in the drug-policy office camp who read and helped reject it. [1] |
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Xander: And was there a lesson in all this? huh? What did we learn about beer? |
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- Technicolor Science: Brewing up the cursed beer.
- Tempting Fate
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Willow: I tell you, men haven't changed since the dawn of time! (cavemen burst in) |
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Parker: Buffy, I don't know what to say. After the way I've treated you, and now I owe you my life. |
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Buffy: Ow, oh, want beer. Like beer. Beer good. |
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