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Jeff writes up the show promos for Buffy, Angel, and Firefly; he also does the Previouslys. Love him muchly, for he sees what we don't and reports it back to us.


Jeff Mejia - May 20, 2003 9:29:23 pm PDT #82 of 121
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert

Here it is, the previously breakdown for the last Buffy episode, "Chosen":

(Giles) Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer...

We open with shots from "Beneath You". We first see Buffy standing in the chapel, staring in surprise towards Spike.

Cut to the shot of Spike draping himself over the cross.

Move to a shots from "Touched". We see Spike kneeling before Buffy and looking up to her

Spike: "And there's only one thing I've ever been sure of. "

Reverse to a shot from behind Spike looking up at Buffy.

Spike: "You."

Cut to a shot of Spike holding Buffy in his arms as she sleeps.

Spike (VO): " You're the One, Buffy."

Cut to a shot from "Dirty Girls", where Buffy and Faith are out on patrol together.

Faith: "Trying to turn a bunch of little girls into an army."

Cut to a shot from "Get It Done", where the Potentials are training in Buffy's back yard.

Buffy (VO): "They're potential Slayers."

Cue a shot from "Never Leave Me" as we see the First/Warren morph into the First/Jonathan, in front of Andrew.

We then see a shot from "Dirty Girls", where we see Caleb re-enacting one of his murders and the image of the girl he killed morph into the First as Buffy.

Anya (VO: "What we're dealing with a Big Bad that can be any dead person it wants."

Cut to shots from "End of Days". We see Dawn and Xander in the car, driving away from Sunnydale.

Dawn: "Where are we going?"

Cut to an angle in front of the car, as Xander hands Dawn Buffy's note to her.

Dawn: "What's this?"

Switch to a shot from behind Dawn as she reads the note.

Buffy (narration): "Dearest Dawn. Don't be angry with Xander. This isn't the place for either of you."

Cut to a close up of Dawn as she reads the note, then we see Dawn taser Xander and take over the car.

Cut to a power shot of the Axe.

Switch to Buffy talking to the Guardian in the pagan temple.

Guardian: "A scythe, forged in secrecy for one like you."

Cut to a close up of Buffy.

Buffy: "Does this mean I can win?"

Cut to a shot of Caleb as he comes rushing behind the Guardian.

Cut to the Guardian collapsing after Caleb snaps her neck, with the shot aimed at Buffy.

The Guardian collapses in a heap, then Buffy looks up towards Caleb.

Caleb (VO): "I was kinda hopin' it would go this way."

Caleb has the Axe in his hands and raises it up to bring it down on Buffy.

Caleb swirls around at the sound of someone shouting

Angel (OS): "Hey!"

Angel punches Caleb in the face, and Caleb reels backwards.

Cut to a shot of Buffy slicing Caleb in the stomach with the Axe.

Caleb collapses, and his face hits the floor.

Angel strides up towards Buffy.

Angel: "At least you can tell me you're glad to see me."

Buffy moves into Angel and they kiss.

Cut to Spike, lurking in the shadows of the temple as he sees Buffy and Angel kiss. The First as Buffy is behind him.

First/Buffy: "That Bitch!"

ELAPSED TIME - 0:38 (or 144 episodes).


Jeff Mejia - Sep 03, 2003 7:38:57 pm PDT #83 of 121
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert

Here is the promo that aired tonight during the Angel rerun of "Release":

Narrator: In four weeks....

We open on a shot of Angel, standing in the dark, looking over his right shoulder, as lighting brightens on him.

We get a flashy white jump cut, then switch to another shot of Angel in profile, this time from the left.

Narrator: ...LA gets a touch...

Cut to a shot of Spike standing in the dark and staring at the camera. Lighting brightens on him.

Narrator: ...of Sunnydale.

Cut to a shot of the Angel logo superimposed over the LA skyline at sunset.

Narrator: The season premiere of Angel.

Cut to a shot of Spike standing in what looks like the Hyperion lobby. He is wearing his duster. He is holding up his right hand and is screaming as if in agony. The camera zooms in on his face.

Narrator: October 1.

ELAPSED TIME - 0:10


Jeff Mejia - Sep 10, 2003 7:50:50 pm PDT #84 of 121
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert

Here is tonight's new promo footage, tacked on to the end of an Angel season 2 DVD ad.

After the ad, the WB announcer intones:

Narrator: Don't miss the season premiere...

We open on a shot of Spike suddenly appearing in an office lobby. He is standing up and holding his right arm up as he screams his lungs out. The camera swoops in for a close up.

Cut to a head shot of Angel, standing in an office (lobby?). He is looking downward, then his eyes grow wider as a glow grows stronger. The camera is doing that shaky thing like it is an earthquake or something.

Cut back to Spike in the lobby, only this time he is bent over, as in pain.

Narrator: ...Wednesday, October 1st on the WB.

Cue the infamous promo poster, with Spike (in profile) standing in front of Angel. An Angel Season Premiere logo is to the left of the picture.

ELAPSED TIME - 0:05


Jeff Mejia - Sep 17, 2003 7:26:07 pm PDT #85 of 121
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert

Here is the promo that aired for the season premiere of Angel on the WB this Wednesday night:

Narrator: 2 Weeks from tonight.

We open with part of the power shot from "Fool For Love"/"Darla", where we see Angel and Spike (Darla is behind them, but out of focus), strolling through the Chinese streets during the Boxer rebellion.

Narrator: Theirs was a brotherhood stained in blood.

Cut to a close up of of a grinning Spike, in vamp-face, after telling Angel that he just killed a Slayer.

Switch to a close up of Angel in vamp-face (and period wig (shudder)).

Angel (VO): Angel and Spike

Cut to a shot of William stomping through a London street, just after bumping into Drusilla, Darla, and Angelus.

Spike (VO): aka William the Bloody.

Cut to a shot of Spike standing in the gypsy family's wagon just after he massacred them.

We switch out of flashback mode and see a shot of the LA skyline at night. A bright light, like a meteor, is visible in the sky.

Fade into a shot of sunrise over Los Angeles.

Cut to a shot of Angel from the power shot in "Darla".

Narrator: Now, centuries later...

Cut to a shot of the sun quickly setting.

Cut to an aerial shot of LA at night.

We then see a shot of what appears to be Angel walking down an empty alley at night, near a parking garage.

Fade in on a shot of Angel, dressed in a dark grey suit jacket and black shirt (no tie) standing in an office, presumably at Wolfram & Hart.

Angel (VO): What do you want from me?

Cut to a shot of Spike walking through an office lobby. He is wearing his duster.

Cut to Spike standing in front of some windows with blinds. It is night, and there is no light on inside the location that he is in. He is talking to someone at the camera location.

Spike: "I want it to end."

Narrator: ...Angel has found salvation in the living.

Cut to a shot of Angle walking into an office (at Wolfram & Hart), during daytime. There are many, many windows in the office and there are no curtains visible, but the view of other buildings is.

Cut to a shot of someone (presumably Angel) swinging from a rope towards another building. He is at what appears to be at a high distance from the ground. The shot is at night (and looks very cool, from this transcriber's point of view).

Cut to a shot of Angel leaning against his desk in his office. A weapons cache is visible behind him as he rubs his chin and talks.

Angel: "We're going to change things."

Cut to Angle (dressed in the business attire) entering a darkened room where many people are standing and talking, like a cocktail party. Spike is standing next to Angel.

Cut to a shot of a brightly-lit corridor of some institution, where many (I count 6) soldier types with rifles are running around to set up an attack or something.

We then see a shot of Angel and Spike talking to each other in a lab of some kind.

Spike: "Another vampire with a soul."

Inside the lab, we see Angel (I think) do some kind of Matrix-y maneuver where he runs towards and up a wall, then spins and kicks some soldier-type in the face.

Narrator: The other is lost somewhere in between.

We see a shot of Spike standing in the doorway of an office, peering over the threshold to see if the coast is clear as the camera zooms in on him.

Fade to a shot of Spike standing in an office, looking perplexed.

Cut to a shot of Spike standing in a lab. Fred (in a lab coat) is behind him, holding a chart. Angel is further back, seated at a table. Gunn (in a suit) is standing next to Angel.

Fade to a shot of Fred (in a print dress) standing in the office with all the uncovered windows.

Fred (VO): Maybe he's here for a reason.

Cut to a close up of Spike standing while he glances down at the floor.

Fade to a shot of someone's feet and legs (wearing pants and black dress shoes) walking down a corridor.

Fade back to the Spike close-up, but this time he's talking to someone.

Spike: "The ground underneath me is pulling me in."

Cut to a shot of Spike hunched over in pain in an office.

Fade to black, then fade in on Spike standing in the office, holding his right hand up and screaming in pain.

Spike: Aaaagh!

A large, glowing SPIKE graphic appears on the screen.

Flash out, then flash in on the Angel season premiere logo, which is the normal logo superimposed over a shot of the LA skyline at dusk.

Narrator: The season premiere of Angel, 2 weeks from tonight on the WB Wednesday.

ELAPSED TIME - 0:30


Jeff Mejia - Sep 24, 2003 7:12:19 pm PDT #86 of 121
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert

Here is part 1 of the promo for next week's Angel premiere, "Conviction" :

The whole promo is backed by a driving rock guitar soundtrack.

We open on an aerial shot of LA at dusk as the camera quickly zooms around the central business district.

Cut to a shot of the sun quickly setting in the west.

Flash to an aerial shot of LA at night. Amongst the buildings, a bright light is visible in the sky.

Narrator: In the City of Angels...

Cut to a shot of Angel on a rooftop at night. He is looking down on the streets, and then turns his head over his right shoulder back towards the camera.

Switch to a shot of a seedy-looking guy talking to a blonde girl in an alley.

Narrator: no good deed...

Pull out to a shot from above the buildings, as we see a figure leap from the top of one building, across the alley, to another building. The figure is silouhetted against another building that is lit from below.

Cut to a close up of the seedy man and the wonam in the alley. The woman looks worried, like she is about to scream (or laugh?).

Narrator: ...goes unnoticed.

Cut to a shot from the ground, looking up at an angle towards a building around the alley. We can see a darkly clad figure swinging on a rope or cable down towards the ground (and the camera location). The figure casts a shadow on the wall next to him.

The seedy man appears to be attacking the woman. The swinging figure hurtles into the scene, plowing into the guy and causing him to flip over. The woman is huddled against the wall of the nearest building.

Switch to a shot from behind the seedy guy, as we see Angel (facing the camera) rear back to throw a punch. He clobbers the guy with a right cross.

Flash to a negative of the next shot, then it resolves into a shot of a guy in a suit pointing towards the left of the scene, while another guy is taking pictures with a professional flash camera. This appears to be in the alley.

Reverse to a shot of Angel standing in the alley (dressed in black suti coat and black shirt). He is blinking from the camera flash.

Pull back to see Angel standing and turning towards his right and back. The cameraman walks in the direction that Angel is looking, while a third guy is standing past Angel and looking in the same place.

Switch to a shot of Angel standing in the alley, talking to the blond girl and looking at a book or newspaper. A dark-haired girl is standing next to the blonde girl.

Blonde woman: "You did this for publicity?"

Quick cut to a shot of Angel kicking down a door to a warehouse or office.

Cut back to Angel talking to the blonde woman.

Angel: "I help the helpless."

Switch to a shot of the main lobby of Wolfram and Hart. Angel is walking towards the camera location, with a file folder in his hand. He is reading it while he is walking, then closes it. To the left and in front of him is Wesley. Wesley is wearing his ordinary shirt. Behind him is Gunn, looking sharp in a very nice suit.

Switch to a shot of Angel, standing in his office and drinking coffe as a blonde woman stands in front of him, looking on.

Narrator: So it's a good thing that Angel's well connected

Cut to a shot of an office lobby, where we see Spike un-dissolving from dust. He is holding his right arm up and he is screaming. One could theorize that he is in a similar position as when he was dissolving to dust near the end of "Chosen".

Cut to a shot of an office or hallway. Angle is closest, looking in the direction of the camera. He looks might pissed off. Wesley (sporting a tan leather jacket, perhaps) is behind him and looks on with concern.

Angel : "Spike."

Cut to a shot of Spike in the office, hunched over in pain.

Switch to (presumably) Spike's view of the office. We see ablurry image of Angel looking on, then the scene swings to the left to Wesley, then skips over and clears up on a shot of Fred. Somebody's right shoulder in a dark pinstripe coat is standing to Fred's left. The anlge swings around again and gets blurry, with another shot of Wesley appearing, then we swing back in the other direction blurrily to Fred, then we see that Gunn is the person next to Fred in the pinstripes, where it focuses again.

Narrator: It's a partnership made in-

We then see Harmony come charging into the office.

Harmony: "-hell are you doing here?"

Switch back to a shot of Spike, hunched over and reeling from the experience.

Flash a very quick arieal shot of LA in the daytime, then cut to an office scene. Angel is sitting or leaning on a desk and is looking towards Gunn, who is standing at the camera location and is talking to Angel.

Angel: "I'm in a meeting."

Cut to a shot of Spike, standing in front of some interior office windows.

Spike: "Oh I'm sorry,"

The shot stretches to a funhouse tall and skinny view, then snaps back to normal.

Spike; "I didn't care."

This next shot is a bit complicated to describe. In the office lobby, near the elevator doors, we see Angel grabbing another guy by the neck while the guy is standing behind him. Angel has actually run up the wall between the elevators, and does a complete flip while still holding on the the guy behind him. Angel ends up landing behind the guy and taking him down. Visible in the background as this is happening, we see people in suits on the ground floor looking on from office doorways, while we also can see that a second floor has a view of the lobby and people are standing next to the railing, looking down at the action.

Spike (VO): "I bet you're loving this."

Cut to ashot of an office or a classroom, where some guy wearing a woolen ski mask is attacking Angel, but he does the "run up the wall, turn, and kick the guy in the face" move that was in the previous promo.

Cut to a shot of Angel seated in his office chair.

Angel: "A dream come true.


Jeff Mejia - Sep 24, 2003 7:18:23 pm PDT #87 of 121
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert

And here is the remainder of the promo breakdown for next week's Angel episode, "Conviction" :

Reverse back to Spike, standing in front of the interior office windows.

Spike: "If a certain Slayer could see you now."

Switch back to Angel, where he gives one of his patented guilty looks.

Flash and cut to a scene of Angel, Wesley, and Gunn strolling through the lobby. Angel is in his office attire, Wesley is still in his mustart shirt and jeans, and Gunn is dressed down in street clothes and is holding a basketball as they stride through the shot.

Narrator: Angel, the new season begins, next week on the WB Wednesday.

Cut the Angel logo with the "LA at dusk" backing image.

ELAPSED TIME - 0:30


Jeff Mejia - Oct 01, 2003 9:00:11 pm PDT #88 of 121
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert

Here is the promo for next week's Angel episode, "Just Rewards" :

Narrator: Next week, on the WB Wednesday...

After seeing the WB Wednesday logo, we open on Spike, in Angel's office, hunched over in pain after he re-materialized.

Gunn: "This is Spike?"

We cut to a shot from Spike's point of view as he whirls around, looking at the MoG in the office.

Wesley: "He's a vampire,..."

Spike first looks at Fred (with Gunn's right shoulder to her left), then the shot cuts back to Spike, still in pain and looking very puzzled. The shot switches back to his point of view as we see Lorne looking on.

The shot focuses back on Spike, as he straightens up and looks pissed off as he stares at somebody off-camera.

Wesley: "...second only to-"

A close up of Angel appears. He looks a bit angry himself.

Angel: "-me."

Flash, then cut to Angel (in the driver's seat) and Spike sitting in a car. The shot is from the passenger side, closest to Spike. He is leaning back in the seat and talking to Angel, who is looking straight ahead and has yet another pissed-off look on his face.

Spike: "This'll be fun, eh? You and me together again."

Cut to a shot of Angel standing in what looks to be an office lobby of some kind, wiht red leather chairs in the background. Angel is waving his arms and hunching his shoulders in an almost "I give up" pose.

Cut to a shot of Spike standing in front of the interior windows of an office, as he leans against the wall and looks on with his eyebrows raised.

Switch to a shot of Angel kicking the doors of an office down.

Cut to another shot of Angel pummeling some guy in an office.

Cut to a reaction shot of Spike, looking on in indifference.

Narrator: There's a new dream team.

We see Angel and Spike walking down a corridor at Wolfram & Hart, with Angel out in front and Spike a bit further back.

Cut to a shot of Angel's office, as we see Angel in the foreground, with Gunn a little behind and to his right, and Wesley standing next to Gunn, directly behind Angel. Angel is talking to somebody off-camera.

Angel: "Out of my chair!"

Reverse to a shot of Spike seated in Angel's chair behind his desk. Three metal buckets are on the desk in front of him. There buckets look like the interior has been smeared with blood.

Spike: "Make me."

Cut to a shot of Angel and Spike standing together, apparently in somebody's home, in the foyer.

Angel: "I'm from Wolfram & Hart."

Reverse to a shot of a formally dressed man in a bow tie (perhaps a butler) as he wrinkles his brow. The sound stops for a beat.

Reverse back to Angel and Spike.

Spike: "I'm his date."

Angle rolls his eyes at this.

Narrator: An all-new Angel, next week on the WB Wednesday night.

Cue the new Angel logo.

Grr. Arrgh.

ELAPSED TIME - 0:20


Jeff Mejia - Oct 08, 2003 7:38:44 pm PDT #89 of 121
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert

Here is the promo breakdown for the next Angel episode, "Unleashed" :

Narrator: Next week on the WB...

We open on a shot of Angel walking in the corridors of Wolfram & Hart. People can be seen walking about.

Fade to a shot of Fred and Wesley standing next to each other, in Angel's office, looking serious.

Cut to a shot of Angel seated at his desk, as he tilts his head upwards and has a surprised look on his face.

Narrator: The man who loved Buffy, may be falling in love again.

Fade to black, then fade in on a close up of a blonde woman seated in the passenger seat of a car. (Recapper's note - she reminds me of a young Meredith Baxter.)

Switch angles to see Angel seated in the driver's seat of the car, looking over towards the woman.

Fade to white, then fade in on Spike standing in the lab. Wesley is next to him, working on a computer and looking at the very large flat-screen monitor.

Cut to a shot of Gunn, Wesley, and Fred in an office, each looking intently at something. Gunn is reading some document, Wesley is holding and examining a curved knife, and Fred is looking at something down on the desk.

Spike: "The moon's a-rising, ladies and gents."

Cut to a shot of the blonde woman, wearing a pink sweat suit, running at night (can't tell location, because it is dark).

Cut to a shot of Angel leaning against the doorway to an office, with Fred at 90 degree angle to him. Both look serious, Angel looks worried.

Cut back to Spike standing in the lab. People can be seen working in the background.

Cut back to the woman running.

We get a flash, then a negative shot that fades in and out, then a complete shot of a full moon.

As the image of the moon fades (but is still visible), we get an aerial shot of LA at night.

Narrator: But this attraction may not survive the night.

Cut to a shot of the blonde woman standing in a room of a house or apartment, at night, but with no lights on, illuminated by moonlight. The woman tenses up.

Superimposed over the next few shots is a full moon.

We see a shot of Angel standing outside of a house at night. He suddenly turns around back towards the house and looks up.

We see the woman crash to the floor on all fours.

Intersperse a shot of a werewolf snarling as it stands in the house.

Quick shot of the woman on the floor, but she has twisted around so that she is on her back. She is writhing in pain.

We get another quick shot of the werewolf.

We get the woman on the floor intercut with the werewolf two more times (very quickly), then the screen flashes white, and the shot of the moon is no longer superimposed over the picture.

Out of the flash, we get a full-on shot of the werewolf, from behind, as it spins aruing over its left shoulder towards the camera and the shot zooms in on it.

Fade to black, the come out with a shot of Gunn seated in Angel's office.

Gunn: "Werewolf girl. Think you got a shot?"

Cut to Angel, sitting casually in a chair.

Angel: "She gave me a look."

Cue the Angel logo.

Narrator: An all-new Angel, next week on the WB Wednesday night.

Grr. Arrgh.

ELAPSED TIME - 0:20


Jeff Mejia - Oct 09, 2003 7:47:04 pm PDT #90 of 121
"Don't think of yourself as an organic pain collector racing towards oblivion." Dogbert to Dilbert

Here is the breakdown of the previously that aired before "Just Rewards":

(Angel) Previously on Angel...

Note: All shots are scenes from "Conviction".

We open with Angel fighting a vampire in an alley as it attacks a blonde woman. After some quick cuts of the fight, we see Angle pull out a stake and dust the vampire.

The blonde woman appears in close up as she talks to Angel.

Nameless victim: "Who are you?"

Cut to a shot of commandoes rushing into the alley, then Angel reacting to all the camera lights, then he twirls around as the commando squad secures the area.

Cut to a shot of some woman funtionary talking to the victim as she reads off a document on a clipboard for the victim to sign.

Nameless funtionary: "OK, this is to confirm that you have been rescued by Angel, CEO and President of Wolfram and Hart."

Cut to a shot of another lawyer directing the group as a cameraman gets ready to take a picture.

Switch to a shot of Angel standing next to the victim, as she turns towards him.

Nameless victim: "You run a law firm?"

We get a quick intercut of Angel being illuminated by a camera flash, then come back to Angel answering the girl's question.

Angel: "Well, just lately."

Cut to a shot of the lobby of Wolfram and Hart. Fred, holding a box that contains some of her belongings, is talking to Wesley as people scurry by.

Wesley: "Why on earth are we here?"

Fred: "What, because we're crusaders against evil and now the law firm that represents most of the evil in the world has given us its L.A. branch to run however we want?"

Cut to a different shot of the lobby, as we see Angel, Wesley, and Gunn (twirling a basketball) stride through the establishment.

Angel: "We're turning this place inside out."

Cut to a different shot of the lobby, as Lorne is on his phone talking to a client, while an assistant is walking beside him, holding a folder full of papers and opening it so that Lorne can read them.

Lorne; "Yes it's perfect, it's the project you've been waiting for. Yea, it's Joanie Loves Chachi meets The Sorrow and the Pity."

We then switch to a shot of Angel seated at his desk as he looks up towards someone who has walked into the office.

Angel: "Harmony?"

Reverse to see Harmony, dressed in business attire, as she stands in front of the desk, eager to make a good impression.

Harmony: "Hey! Boss."

Cut back to Angel.

Angel: "You're my secretary."

What then follows is a quick visualization of the lab facilities at Wolfram and Hart. Various people in white coats stand in front of impressive-looking, metallic instruments, taking notes. We get a shot of a couple of workers in containment suits as the move objects around in a room enclosed by plexiglass. We then pull back to see the scope of the room, as various people wearing white coats are seated at metallic tables, working.

Fred (VO): "Have you seen my lab? It's giganimous, and I'm in charge."

Cut to Gunn's office, as Eve, standing up from her seated position on his couch, talks to him.

Eve: "Just wondering if you're ready for the next step."

Reverse to Gunn.

Gunn: "You don't know me or you wouldn't ask that question."

Quick cut to a shot of a shirtless Gunn strapped into the Insta-Lawyer-Matic. Gunn winces in pain as the machine operates.

We then get a quick shot of Gunn, now nattily attired in a pinstripe suit and carrying an expensive-looking briefcase, strides into the courtroom, adjusting his tie as he walks in.

Cut to a scene in Angel's office, as Eve explains what went on, while Gunn sits on a couch (he's chopping a cigar end) while Wesley hovers around, and Harmony exits the office.

Eve: "Charles agreed to let us enhance his mind with a comprehensive knowledge of the law."

Cut to a shot of Angel, chin in his hand, as he ponders the gang's next move.

Angel: "We're gonna change things. We came to Wolfram and Hart because it's a powerful weapon."

Cut to a shot of Angel ripping open a manila envelope, and a medallion pops out and hits the floor.

Angel (VO): "We'll deal with whatever comes next."

The medallion begins to glow, Angel steps back, then a whirling dust cloud emerges and resolves itself into the form of Spike.

Spike: "Aaagh!"

Switch to a shot of Angel and Wesley looking on as Spike appears.

Wesley: "Spike!?!"

Angel (very p.o'd.): "Spike."

ELAPSED TIME - 1:10


DXMachina - Oct 15, 2003 3:01:15 am PDT #91 of 121
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Here is the promo for today's Mejia episode, "Happy Birthday":

Narrator (who sounds a lot like Jon B.): Today, on the Phoenix Wednesday...

After seeing the Buffistas.org logo, we open on a group of Buffistas, gathered around a table, staring at something.

ita: "Where is he?"

We cut to a shot from Jeff's point of view as he glances back and forth from a TV to a computer screen around, occasionally rewinding the tape he's watching.

DXMachina: "I think he's working on tonight's promo..."

Jeff first looks at the TV, then the shot cuts back to the keyboard, where we see his fingers typing.

Nutty: "Well somebody go get him. That was the plan, right?"

Jeff, still typing and looking very puzzled. He cranes his head forward, listening intently to make sure he gets the dialogue right.

DavidS: "I brought him a bunch of early Buffy comics I picked up at the Amoeba..."

The shot switches back to Jeff point of view as we see some Buffistas (Teppy, Trudy, and Askye) in the background, doing Wednesday night episode discussion. He focuses again on the images on the screen.

Nilly: "It's his birthday, you know."

The shot focuses back on Jeff, as he straightens up and looks pleased. He hits the post key, and the newly minted Mejia appears in the thread. Behind him, we can see Perkins and Aimee wheel in a cake, while Emily and vw frantically work on getting the candles lit.

msbelle: "Ummm, pink frosting."

Cut to scene of amych wielding a saber.

amych: "I'll cut it."

Cut to scene of huge group of Buffistas raising their glasses in Jeff's direction.

All Buffistas: "Happy Birthday, Jeff!!!"

ELAPSED TIME - 1:10

(Cross-posted in Natter, but I don't know how often you visit there.)