Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S4/E22 Restless: Difference between revisions

* [[Anxiety Dreams]]: Willow dreams that she's turned up for a play and doesn't know her lines ("Your whole family is in the front row -- and they look really angry!"). Later she has to deliver a talk in front of a classroom of jeering friends. Xander realises the Initiative is taking notes while he takes a leak.

* [[Bad Bad Acting]]: Milkmaid!Harmony

* [[Blessed Are the Cheesemakers]]: The Cheese Man.

* [[Call Back]]: Willow asking if the play in "Madame Butterfly", refering to her [[Anxiety Dreams|Anxiety Dream]] in Season 1's "Nightmares". Xander says he was glad Snyder was eaten by a snake ("Graduation Day").

* [[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:

** Tara telling Buffy to "be back before [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S5/E01 Buffy vs. Dracula|Dawn]]."

** Tara telling Willow "You don't know everything about me". This relates to "Family".

** Giles' dream that he neglected his chance at a life with Olivia to be Buffy's Watcher. At the start of Season 5 he decides to return to England in the belief that Buffy no longer needs him.

** Buffy's bag of weapons turns out to contain mud and a path to the First Slayer; the same bag turns up in season 7 "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S7/E15 Get It Done|Get It Done]]", containing exposition on the source of the Slayer power. The brief shot of the First Slayer chained to the ground is also explained in that episode.

* [[Dream Within a Dream]]

* [[Driving a Desk]]: Anya and Xander in the ice cream truck.

* [[Gayngst]]: Subverted. Willow's dream first appears to be about this, but what she really fears is everyone discovering that underneath all her [[Character Development]], she's still the [[Shrinking Violet]] from Season 1.

* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: Buffy in Giles' dream, where he imagines Buffy is his daughter.

* [[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.

** Willow: "This drama class is just ... I think they're really not doing things in the proper way, and now I'm in a play and my whole family's out there, and ... why is there a cowboy in "Death of a Salesman" anyway?

** Buffy completing her [[Shut UP, Hannibal]] by critiquing the First Slayer's hairstyle.

* [[Like a Son to Me]]: In Xander's dream, Giles says that Spike is "like a son to me". Xander replies, "I was into that for a while."

* [[Like Brother and Sister]]: Dream!Xander [[All Love Is Unrequited|looks heartbroken]] when Buffy calls him 'big brother'.