He shows up again in season 4 episode 12 "A New Man."
Dawn: You're not fleeing. You're... moving at a brisk pace. Buffy: Quaintly referred to in some cultures as the Big Scaredy Run Away.
'Touched'
Buffy and Angel 1: BUFFYNANGLE4EVA!!!!!1!
Is it better the second time around? Or the third? Or tenth? This is the place to come when you have a burning desire to talk about an old episode that was just re-run.
dcp - Oct 16, 2025 7:20:48 pm PDT #10538 of 10601
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
DavidS - Oct 16, 2025 7:51:30 pm PDT #10539 of 10601
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
He's in A New Man (where Giles turns into a demon).
Jessica - Oct 17, 2025 4:54:26 am PDT #10540 of 10601
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Riiiiiight. Excellent.
Jessica - Oct 24, 2025 11:52:13 am PDT #10541 of 10601
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Reaction highlights roundup:
Revelations: "Oh this is the messy relationships episode" (The Willow/Xander subplot has caused GREAT consternation.)
Lover's Walk: Disappointment rivaling Spike's that Dru was not in this one.
The Wish: Within about three seconds of entering the Wishverse said "Ohhhhh the Master rose because Buffy wasn't there." Big big fan of Vamp!Willow (and, I mean, who isn't).
dcp - Oct 24, 2025 12:06:01 pm PDT #10542 of 10601
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Has "Bored now" entered her vocabulary?
-t - Oct 24, 2025 12:35:24 pm PDT #10543 of 10601
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Those are all extremely correct reactions
JenP - Oct 24, 2025 12:36:45 pm PDT #10544 of 10601
Has "Bored now" entered her vocabulary?
Right? It's such a beautiful phrase. If you're with a fan, they get it. If you're not, you get to be stealth vicious.
Jessica - Oct 29, 2025 5:22:46 pm PDT #10545 of 10601
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Upon seeing the demon Balthazar - "Moisturize me!"
-t - Oct 29, 2025 6:16:25 pm PDT #10546 of 10601
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ha!
Jessica - Oct 30, 2025 10:17:00 am PDT #10547 of 10601
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
We're still loving S3 (even Gingerbread is better than I remember, and Aeryn definitely wanted to know Does Amy Stay A Rat Forever?), just not posting as many reactions because we are Deep In Plot now. (The back half of S3 is just one banger after another. I mean Bad Girls into Consequences and then DOPPELGANGLAND??? Truly we are blessed. I predict this household will be big fans of the return of Vamp!Willow.)
I did start to wonder - is the reason A can predict so many lines/plot points because I absorbed the rhythms and phrasings of this show into the way I speak (and they, raised by me, have simply grown up assuming this is how people talk)? Or because so much media of the past three decades has been inspired by this show and so everything they've ever been a fan of was probably created by someone who watched the original run of this one?
(Or, you know, good old-fashioned neurodivergent pattern recognition which they ALSO got from me. Maybe being able to quip along with Buffy is literally genetic.)