![]() All Girls Want Bad Boys: Ripper gets Joyce all weak in the knees.Furter in the 1990-91 West End revival of that show at London's Piccadilly Theatre. Actor Allusion: When she and Willow find their teachers at the Bronze, Buffy makes a reference to "Let's Do the Time Warp Again," from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. ![]() He eventually goes the other way, shifting back towards his usual Received Pronunciation voice, when he realises he'd previously read about Lurconis and knows where to find it. Accent Slip-Up: Giles shifts to a lower-class accent, not all that dissimilar to Spike's accent, while under the influence of the candy and reverted to his Ripper days.Buffy puts the damage done to her mom's car in perspective by reminding Joyce and Giles, "At least I got to the two of you before you actually did something." Giles and Joyce hastily walk in opposite directions. ![]() Buffy, thinking quickly, rips open a gas line, forming a jet of fire that sets Lurconis ablaze.Īt school, a sober Principal Snyder commandeers Willow, Oz, Cordelia and Xander to help clean up some graffiti. A rumbling starts, and an enormous, snake-like head emerges from a nearby tunnel. He shoves Ripper into the Lurconis' feeding pool, distracting Buffy long enough for Trick to make his escape. Trick and Buffy get ready to rumble, but Ripper hauls off and throw a solid left to Trick's face - but he's unfazed. Buffy drops in and engages Trick's vampire minions in combat while Ripper and Joyce wheel the babies to safety. Down below, the ritual is underway, where hooded vamps chant ominously while the Mayor looks on. Ripper has a flash of memory: Lurconis is related to filth, so he probably resides in the sewers. We get an answer to that question as a troop of vamps enter an unsupervised maternity ward and steal all of the newborns. He says the candy was just to render the town helpless while Trick and his vampires collect a big tribute for some demon named Lurconis, but he doesn't know the what. Buffy and Ripper chase him down and make the weaselly warlock reveal the plan. Finally, Buffy jumps up onto the loading dock and finds Ethan inside the factory. Buffy wins a free trip to Therapyville as she sees Ripper and Joyce making out. a factory at which a crowd of people are clamoring for more candy. Oz and Willow head off to the library to research the problem while Buffy and Snyder head to the source, which is. Buffy grabs Snyder and asks if he knows where to get the candy, which he does. They quickly deduce that the candy is cursed, and that the whole exercise must be a diversion. He grabs the jacket and A Clockwork Orange-type hat as Joyce giggles mischievously.īuffy observes a lot of adults hanging out, and realizes that something's missing - namely, vampires. Joyce stops to admire a jacket in a store window ("Very Juice Newton.") Ripper swings a garbage can into the window, breaking it as the alarm goes off. Speaking of which: Giles - sorry, Ripper - and Joyce are downtown, behaving like a couple of lovestruck teenagers. They all pile back into the jeep to find Giles. Teen Snyder is fun, though a bit clingy to the "Scoobies." Buffy decides to find out what's going on, and Snyder tags along. Snyder comes up and puts his arms around the two of them (!), then snorts that the other teachers are wasted. Meanwhile, Buffy and Willow arrive at the Bronze to find it largely populated by adults acting like.well, teenagers. "No way!" says Giles, lighting up a cigarette as Joyce takes a bottle of Kahlua out from hiding. Joyce makes a "whew" face, and wonders if Buffy sensed anything amiss. Delighted, Buffy snatches the keys and leaves in a cartoon cloud of dust. Giles explains that they are rescheduling her activities to lessen her burden, and Joyce hands Buffy her car keys and invites her to drive herself home. Worried, Buffy goes to Giles' place and finds her mom sitting on the couch. The next day, Giles fails to show up for study hall. At a factory somewhere in Sunnydale, a workman is about to do the same thing, but Ethan Rayne stops him. After Giles steps in to mediate (telling them not to " freak out"), Buffy is sentenced to her room, leaving the adults to munch on chocolate bars. When she arrives home, Buffy finds her mother and Giles waiting for her. Sure enough, Buffy goes to the mansion to bring Angel some fresh blood. Buffy cops out of training early, explaining that Joyce is on the warpath, and breezily exists.
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