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=== Tropes: ===
* [[Actor Allusion]]: One of the movies that Tucker used to train the Hell Hounds is ''[[Pump Up the Volume]]'', which [[Seth Green]] and [[Juliet Landau]] were in.
* [[Anonymous Benefactor]]: On her way out, Cordelia's co-worker tells her not to forget her dress. Cordy says she hasn't finished paying for it, but the girl says someone picked up the tab.
* [[Awesome Moment of Crowning]]: Jonathan says that they have one final award -- a new category, and there were a lot of write-in ballots -- and asks if Buffy Summers is there. He then reads a prepared statement from the prom committee: it turns that Sunnydale High's students were actually aware of Buffy's actions when protecting them from the evils of the Hellmouth the whole time. Thus, Buffy is presented with the Class Protector Award.
* [[The Bait]]: Buffy attempts this at the school, trying to lure the hellhounds away from the gym. They give chase, but [[Subverted Trope|stop and turn around]] when they hear Kool & The Gang's "Celebration" coming from inside. D'oh.
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* [[Buffy-Speak]]: Buffy waking up at Angel's place with some serious bed-head. She notes that they got carried away with the "whole post-slayage nap thing."
** Giles being told to chill and let the Scoobies enjoy "a night of prom-y fun".
** Buffy notes that every time she brings up prom, Angel gets grouchy. He tells her it's nothing. "No," she observes, "you have something-face."
* [[Call Back]]: Buffy's reference to "Choices," saying that Angel shouldn't listen to what the Mayor said about outliving Buffy, because he's the bad guy and bad guys are not to be trusted. Angel reluctantly says [[Hannibal Has a Point|the Mayor was right]].
** 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")
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* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: Oz complimenting Xander on his "interesting" choice of taking Anya to the dance. Xander pleads that it was down to either Anya or [gestures with his hand like Señor Wences] "the sock puppet of love". Not even touching that one.
* [[Death Glare]]: Buffy scared her friends off to the Prom with one, when they refuse to let her fight Tucker alone.
* [[Description Cut]]: Buffy speaks for everyone when she tells Giles to put the Ascention on the back-burner for now. ''One'' night of fun; "Not too much to ask." Cut to a creepy, dilapidated house, wherein an unseen figure is attending to hairy demons in cages.
* [[Development Gag]]: Cordelia tells Wesley he'd look "way [[James Bond|007]] in a tux". The shooting script for "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S3 E14 Bad Girls|Bad Girls]]" describes Wesley as "thinks he's [[Sean Connery]] but he's pretty much George Lazenby."
* [[Digging Yourself Deeper]]: Angel telling Buffy that she deserves a real relationship, not this "freak show". This hits her like a slap in the face. He apologizes for that remark, and says this isn't an easy decision for him. Buffy explodes, demanding to know who gave him the right to make decisions for her.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Buffy asks Tucker what kind of sicko would want to ruin the happiest night of a senior's life. Tucker glowers and says he has his reasons. Cue a [[Flashback Echo]] of Tucker asking a girl to the prom, and her flatly saying, "No."
** Buffy gets this -- she is moping about Angel then when her friends start getting scared about going to the Prom thinks if she can't be happy at least she can make them happy, and gives the page quote.
* [[Distracted by the Sexy]] / [[Double Entendre]]
* [[Elephant in the Living Room]]: Buffy, Angel, even [[Shipper on Deck]] Willow -- know perfectly well that a long-term relationship between Buffy and Angel is impossible, yet Buffy still clings to the fantasy until Angel forces the issue.
** Jonathan's speech is a less heartbreaking version of this trope.
* [[Enhance Button]]: Cordelia asks Xander to "zoom in" on the security tape of the hellhound. "[[Lampshade Hanging|They do it on TV all the time]]."
** Moments later, Oz asks to pause on a shot of Tucker standing in the shop window. "Guys!!" shouts Xander, exasperated, "It's just a normal VCR, it doesn't -- [[Chekhov's Gag|oh wait. It can do pause]]."
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Joyce telling Angel that he's getting in the way of Buffy's future, and if Buffy can't see that, it's his responsibility to do something about it.
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* [[Monster of the Week]]
* [[Neck Snap]]: How Buffy kills the last hellhound.
* [[Never My Fault]]: Anya whining that Xander caused her current predicament by being unfaithful to Cordelia, resulting in Anya getting stuck in a high-school girl's body.
* [[The Not-Secret]]
* [[Oh, Wait!]]
{{quote|'''Anya:''' All I know is I really want to go to this dance and I want someone to go with me.
'''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]]'').
* [[Out of Order]]: Due to the episode "Earshot" not being aired out of respect for the victims of the Columbine massacre, television viewers of this episode were unaware of Buffy stopping Jonathan from committing suicide. The fact that Buffy saved his life makes his presentation of the Class Protector Award to her even more significant.
* [[Percussive Therapy]]: On prom's eve, Giles picks up on the fact that Angel isn't coming. He notes apologetically that this sort of thing is out of his depth, though he guesses the appropriate thing to do is offer Buffy ice cream. Aww. "[[Heartbreak and Ice Cream|Ice cream will come]]," Buffy notes stoically. But not tonight; "Great thing about being a Slayer; kicking ass is [[Comfort Food]]."
* [[Person as Verb]]: Buffy makes a comment about stopping a crazy from "pulling a ''[[Carrie]]'' on the prom".
* [[Rant-Inducing Slight]]
* [[Reverse Psychology]]: As Willow is describing her prom dress to Buffy, Wesley's voice cuts through the air, saying that they can't trifle with a school dance with the Ascension on the horizon. Cordy laments that it's too bad, because he would look "way [[James Bond|007]] in a tux." Buffy and Xander share a knowing look; [[Manipulative Bitch]] to the rescue! Wesley reconsiders it, then announces that on prom night he will be [[Got Volunteered|assisting Giles in "chaperoning duties."]]
* [[The Reveal]]
* [[Serious Business]] / [[Punctuated!
{{quote|'''Oz:''' Buffy it makes sense to...
'''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":
* [[Sunnydale Syndrome]]: Averted in a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]].
* [[Super Window Jump]]
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* [[What Could Have Been]]: Tucker Wells was originally to have been the [[Big Bad]] of "The Trio" in Season 6.
* [[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.
{{quote|'''Tucker:''' Gotta have [[Time for Plan B|a redundancy system]]. Any "[[Ironic Echo|incompetent]]" knows that.}}
* [[You Remind Me of X]]
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