Buffy: Beer Bad

Buffy: "If he were tied and gagged and left in a cave that vampires happened to frequent, it wouldn't be like I killed him, really."

It's tempting to say "episode bad!" but it wasn't, not really. It wasn't what I'd call great, but it was fun -- especially in a bashing-the-poophead sense. Plus we have the blatant comparison of male college students with prehistoric morons who really want nothing but booze and sex, which in the interest of not alienating a loved one of mine, I will tactfully pass over.

I hate beer. I learned how to drink beer in college, though, because it was cheap, and I suspect a lot of other female college students have done the same. (Actually, I like the expensive imported beers, but that defeats the purpose of drinking beer in the first place, at least for me.) What sort of a name is "Black Frost" for a beer? It sort of makes me picture a car hitting it and skidding into a tree. Maybe that was the point.

I especially liked the fantasy scene at the beginning, the corresponding scene at the end with the tree limb, and the scene where Willow took down Parker. An open shirt, a dozen roses, and a pint of Haagen-Daz? Works for me, as long as they don't come with Parker. I actually thought for a moment that Willow had succumbed to Parker's smarmy charms, and I was saying out loud, "No, Willow! No!" Three years ago she might have, but -- "Just how gullible do you think I am?" What a great scene.

Oz ignoring Willow and skipping classes? Say it isn't so! I might have to take back what I said earlier about Willow winning the virginity sweepstakes. Maybe they're realizing that love isn't enough and that they have conflicting lifestyles. sigh

Buffy Cave Slayer managed to hang on to her superhero impulses, while the smartypants guys were still acting like morons. I also couldn't help but notice that the guys had huge bony forehead ridges and gappy teeth, while Buffy looked pretty much the same and just had more, tanglier hair. All of this proving conclusively that women are more highly evolved than men, right? No, wait, I wasn't going to go there.

Bits and pieces:

-- Poor Xander, betwixt and between, and now he's out of a promising job. (I assume he is, since the bar burned down.) Ah, well. That ID wouldn't have held up forever, anyway.

-- What's with Oz's groupie? And what was her name? Beluga, as in caviar?

Quotes:

Buffy: "You know there's more to it than wiping and kicking. Mixing drinks, for instance."
Xander: "Well, I've seen Cocktail. I can do the hippy-hippy shake."

Xander: "How's the fugue state coming along?"

Willow: "You need to stop thinking about Parker. He's no good. There are men, better men, wherein the mind is stronger than the penis."
Xander (loudly): "Nothing can defeat the penis!"

Guy: "Beer. Had the earliest morality developed under the influence of beer, there would be no good or evil. There would just be kinda nice, and pretty cool."

Buffy: "It's nice, foamy, comforting... It's beer."

Buffy: "Want more singing. Want more beer!"
Xander: "No, I've cut you off."
Buffy: "Did it hurt?"

Giles: "But you knew it was beer."
Xander: "Well, excuse me, Mr. I-spent-the-sixties-in-an-electric-koolaid-funky-Satan-groove."
Giles: "It was the early seventies, and you should know better."

One out of four stakes,

Billie