Anya ,'Bring On The Night'
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.
The comparison between mother/daughter sets is a little heavy-handed, but there's a lot in this episode that lays groundwork for Buffy's relationship with Joyce.
There's a lot of groundwork for Buffy's relationships with everyone and thing. It's pretty neat.
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Poor Buffy. I want to feed her soup.
Cordy's failure in Driver's Ed gets played off again when she comes to the rescue in Prophecy Girl by car.
Again, I had to start late. Let me see if I can skip to where you folks are.
Also, Xander mentioning Willow driving home her point with a railroad spike! Heh. I never noticed that before.
Xander's hot for witches. They go back to that many times, but how did I miss that before?
Okay folks, help the nice goth. Where in the episode are we at? Cordy crashing the car?
After that, in the library, Willow on the computer.
I'm in the lab with the witch test and the girl who lost her mouth. (So. grotty.)
"Amy" just came home from school.
Hot for witches = hot for women with power, I think. Which would explain why he never felt anything for Willow until after she started messing with the black arts.