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2.12 Bad Eggs

Joyce: "A little responsibility is all I ask. Honestly, don't you ever think about anything besides boys and clothes?"
Buffy: "Saving the world from vampires?"

Question: What can you say about a sex education episode that alludes to "Aliens," "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," and "The Wild Bunch?" Answer: This should have been a much better episode.

The theme is that there are serious consequences to having sex. This is very appropriate, since Buffy and Angel are clearly heading in that direction and spend half the episode (the better half) passionately making out. It's very interesting that the consequences to having sex are discussed, in the very episode in which Angel tells Buffy that vampires cannot have children. Sex with Angel must appear as safe as can be.

Xander and Cordelia also need reminders, as they continue to steam up the utility closet at school and exchange veiled banter in front of their friends. Xander even starts pushing for their relationship to not be a secret any more.

I thought Buffy coming up from the pit looked a lot like a Jackson Pollock painting. There's an interesting coincidence here; the word "Pollock" can be found written unobtrusively on the ceiling during one of the monster scenes. Is this deliberate?

Bits and pieces:

-- Willow says that her egg is Jewish, confirming that Willow is, well, Jewish.

-- Lyle and Tector Gorch, the cowboy brothers, were funny enough, but they really didn't relate to the egg plot.

-- All Angel had to do in this episode is show up and kiss Buffy.

-- I've always liked the way Buffy just matter-of-factly drops the toolbox on the eggs.

Inconsistencies:

-- The whole partner thing in the egg exercise wasn't consistent. Were Xander and Willow partners? If they were supposed to share, why did they each have an egg?

Quotable quotes:

Willow: "He wanted me to give you this." (hands her an egg)
Buffy: "As far as punishments go, this is fairly abstract."

Giles: "I suppose there is a sort of Machiavellian ingenuity to your transgression."
Xander: "I resent that! Or possibly thank you."

Buffy: "So, your egg isn't acting odd or anything?"
Cordelia: "It isn't acting anything. It's an egg, Buffy, it doesn't emote."

One out of four stakes,

Billie





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