Hey, Alibelle, I thought about Happy Anniversary too after reading Nilly's messages about how Billy's freeze ray is just about finding the right time to approach Penny. However, I don't hate the ep.
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.
Tamara,
come on over to the tech thread, and put in your wishes and your budget and you'll likely have a computer picked out by 5pm.
I'm thinking I need to rent Into the Woods
Yeah you do.
I had repressed that Angel episode until just now.
I hadn't forgotten Happy Anniversary, but I don't see the similarities. Billy never wanted to use the freeze ray on Penny, he wanted to use it on Capt. Hammer.
Vortex - he use it on her, in a way. In the laundromat song, in his imagination.
But did he actually shoot her with the freeze ray or did he just sing to her while she wasn't moving? Which is a common musical tactic.
I don't know if we should hold metaphorical freeze-ray usage against him.
Vortex - given the subject matter of the song, I'd say shooting her with the freeze ray was implied.
Oh, now I remembered (iTunes doesn't like my country, so I have no way to watch it now) - he points at her while singing about his freeze ray, so I agree with tommyrot it was implied.