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{{quote| ''You think you know who you are, what's to come. You haven't even begun''.}}
 
The spirit of The First Slayer tries to kill The Scoobies in their sleep.
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* [[Cliché Storm]] ([[In-Universe]]): The war movie showing on television in Xander's dream.
* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: Anya as a stand-up comic.
{{quote| '''Heckler:''' You suck!<br />
'''Anya:''' Quiet! You'll miss the humorous conclusion. }}
* [[Creepy Basement]]: Dream!Xander's basement becomes this.
* [[Dark Action Girl]]: The First Slayer
* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]
{{quote| '''Xander:''' Sometimes I think about [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|two women]] [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|doing a spell]], and go and do a spell by myself.}}
* [[Death by Irony]]: The Scoobies are killed according to their roles in the Enjoining spell they performed in [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S4 E21 Primeval|the previous episode]]:
** Willow (the spirit) has the life sucked from her
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** Director!Giles' reaction to Harmony's attempts to bite him. "Stop that, it's very annoying."
* [[Does Not Like Men]]: In Willow's dream, [[The Roaring Twenties|Flapper!Buffy]] delivers a long tirade on the male sex to [[Cowboy]]!Riley.
{{quote| But what else could I expect from a bunch of low-rent, no-account hoodlums like you? Hoodlums, yes, I mean you and your friends, your whole sex, throw 'em in the sea for all I care, throw 'em in and wait for the bubbles, men with your groping and spitting all groin no brain three billion of you passing around the same worn-out urge. Men! With your ... [[Death of a Salesman|sales]]!}}
* [[Don't Explain the Joke]]: In Giles' dream, Anya is doing stand-up comedy and is so abysmal at it that she has to explain every joke just to get the crowd to laugh.
{{quote| '''Anya''': And then the duck tells the doctor that there's a man that's attached to my ass! You see, it was the duck and not the man that spoke.}}
* [[Double Entendre]]: Between Cowboy!Riley and Milkmaid!Harmony in the play. ("Would you like me to hold those [[Unusual Euphemism|milk pails]] for you?") And in the same scene, [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|Willow meeting Tara between the red folds]] of the curtains.
* [[Dreaming of Things to Come]] / [[Foreshadowing]]: Tons of it! For instance:
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* [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot]]: Xander fantasizes about Tara and Willow as porn-style [[Lipstick Lesbian|Lipstick Lesbians]].
* [[Government Conspiracy]]: Mocked with Buffy's dream of Riley and Human!Adam, where he says the government is planning World Domination through sentient coffee machines.
{{quote| '''Comm Voice:''' The demons have escaped. Please run for your lives.<br />
'''Human!Adam:''' This could be trouble.<br />
'''Riley:''' We'd better make a fort.<br />
'''Human!Adam:''' I'll get some pillows. }}
* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Kurz!Snyder to Xander.
{{quote| '''Snyder:''' Are you a soldier?<br />
'''Xander:''' I'm a comfortador.<br />
'''Snyder:''' You're neither. You're a [[Butt Monkey|whipping boy]], [[Abusive Parents|raised by mongrels]] and set on a sacrificial stone. }}
* [[Hong Kong Dub]]: Dream!Xander is confused when Giles and Anya try to tell him what's going on in poorly-synced French.
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* [[Pass the Popcorn]]
* [[The Power of Friendship]]: Rejected by the First Slayer.
{{quote| "No friends...just...the kill."}}
* [[Psychic Link]]: Confirmed - Buffy remembers Faith's dream from "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S4 E15 This Years Girl|This Year's Girl]]".
{{quote| "Faith and I made that bed."}}
* [[Riddle for the Ages]]: Cheese Man.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Principal Snyder as Colonel Kurtz, and Xander as Willard from ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''.
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