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(scoffs) ''"Dreams? That would be a musical comedy version of'' this."|'''Xander''' and '''Giles'''}}

 

* [[Baddie Flattery]]: The Master says Buffy is prettier than the last Slayer.

* [[Bad News in a Good Way]]: Laura's doctor says she'll recover -- a couple of shattered bones, a little internal bleeding. Compared to the first victim, she got off "pretty easy."

* [[Baseball Episode]]: A mild case, since none of the heroes actually play the game. Too dangerous.

* [[Batter Up]]: The Kiddy League Coach who beat Billy into a coma after he allegedly 'lost' a game. Billy's fear of his coach manifested as a disfigured creature with massive strength and a large club-shaped arm.

* [[Bland-Name Product]]: When Xander reaches down to pick up the candy bar (just before the clown attacks), it appears to be a Hershey Bar. But if you look closely, you can see that the name has been altered. Both H's are gone, and the R has been changed to a P. The name of the candy bar is now "EPS EY."

* [[Brick Joke]]: Cordelia is checking her make-up in a hand mirror when a shadow passes over her. She barks at Wendell to get out of her light. The Scoobies look on with bewilderment, and Willow is disconcertingly reminded of [[Evita|Eva Perón]]. She and Buffy have this prophetic exchange:

'''Willow''': It weighs heavy on the cerebral cortex. }}

* [[Brought Down to Normal]] / [[Curse of Babel]]: Giles nightmare; the man who knows five languages can no longer understand the printed word.

* [[Creepy Child]]: Billy.

* [[Creepy Sexy]] ([[In-Universe]]):

'''Willow:''' [[Vampires Are Sex Gods|Still dug her]], huh?<br />

'''Xander:''' I'm sick, I need help.<br />

* [[Last-Second Word Swap]]: Xander is still tugging on a sweatshirt as he and Willow stumble into the library. They tell Giles about Xander's impromptu streaking. Willow smiles and says, "Yeah, it was really" -- she catches a look from Xander -- "bad. It was a bad thing."

* [[Let's Split Up, Gang!|Let's Split Up, Scooby Gang]]

'''Willow:''' Oh, uh, faster, but... [[Genre Savvy|not really safer]]. }}

* [[Linked-List Clue Methodology]]: "''Lucky Thirteeeeeen....''"

* [[Produce Pelting]]: Willow's performance earns her an ovation of boos and tomatoes.

* [[Punch, Spin, Gape]]: It takes a real man to punch a clown.

* [[Put the Laughter In Slaughter]]: The clown.

* [[Race Against the Clock]]: The Scoobies finally escape the school. Giles tells them, "In a few hours reality will fold completely into the realm of nightmares."

** Giles asks Vamp!Buffy to hold it together so she can help them, and after a long pause, she says she's up to it. "Well, we better hurry," she [[Creepy Monotone|monotone]]s. "Because I'm getting hungry."

* [[Reality Warper]]

* [[Red Right Hand]]: The Ugly Man is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|just that]] -- a large bald man, with one eye gouged out and scars all over his face.

* [[Scully Syndrome]]: Xander thinks the theme of Wendell and the spiders could [[There Are No Coincidences|just be a coincidence]]...and pays the price.

* [[Serious Business]]: In keeping with Giles's theory about fears coming to life, Xander guesses that Wendell has a bad relationship with insects. Surpringly, Wendell snaps at them that they're ''arachnids'' -- He worships spiders, and dorks mistaking them for bugs is [[Berserk Button|a major sticking point]] for him.

** Buffy can't believe a coach would beat up a kid, and Xander observes that Buffy's obviously never played kiddie league. "I'm surprised it wasn't one of the ''parents''."

* [[Shout-Out]]: "[[The Wizard of Oz|I had the strangest dream]]...[[And You Were There]]...and you...who are you people?"

* [[Spiders Are Scary]]: Inverted with Wendell, whose love affair with spiders came to an untimely end thanks to a heating lamp.

* [[Tempting Fate]]: Xander boasts that all this supernatural stuff doesn't faze him anymore. He scurries his fingers around Willow's shoulder, pretending to be a spider.

** Xander's humiliation in front of his classmates strikes a chord with Willow. "Everyone staring? I would ''hate'' to have everyone paying attention to me like that."

* [[Thousand-Yard Stare]]: The Scoobies journey to the quad to find Wendell, who is semi-catatonic from the morning's events.