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6.12 Doublemeat Palace Buffy: "It's like Sleepless in Seattle, if Meg and Tom were, like, minced." With "Gone," we had Buffy Lite; this time, we got Buffy Gross-out. It's hard to laugh when you're gagging. No, that's unfair to a clever episode; I actually laughed a lot before I started gagging. The Buffy Powers That Be get points for even attempting to satirize fast food employment, urban legends and all; they put some serious thought into it and did a great job. Loved the grease in the ears, the bugs in the oil; the parody of the training video had Dan, a former Wendy's employee, in stitches. Buffy's cow/chicken uniform was a hoot, too. The whole vegetable secret was cool, too, although I was fairly certain throughout that the burgers did not contain either Gary or cats. (Although I started wavering when the body parts began showing up.) Good for Willow, resisting Amy's nasty little present and putting an end to their friendship. This is the second time in a row that Willow has figured out the big bad and saved the day. Go Willow, it's your birthday. (Except it wasn't.) Bad for Amy, though. De-ratting her might have been a bad idea; Amy was making some pretty negative sounds about her time in the cage. Did she take the cage home with her so that she could look at it and stay mad? Developments on the Xander/Anya front were overdue, and we finally got some as Anya, with the help of her demon friend Hallie, realized that Xander criticizes her constantly –- and Xander realized that Anya's current face isn't the real Anya. On the Buffy/Spike front, Spike was really very sweet to Buffy, wasn't he? He showed some real concern for her, telling her that she was "better than this." And we got another sex scene, although it was certainly an odd one; why was her face almost expressionless while they were doing it? (Did you notice that every time that Buffy tells Spike repeatedly to go away, she ends up having sex with him? Buffy, that strategy for getting rid of Spike is obviously not working.) If the Buffy/Spike relationship continues (yes, yes, let it continue please), I may have to put in a weekly double entendre section. The best one here was "You chose to be in the consumer service profession, and I'm a consumer. Service me." The big surprise was that Buffy was still a DMP employee at the end of the episode. I think Spike should pull off a bank job or rent himself out as an attraction, and support her. Bits and pieces: -- Absolutely loved the incredibly, preternaturally loud *thonk* of the timeclock. -- Spike's wardrobe is expanding. Is he trying to look better for Buffy? Or is James Marsters tired of wearing the same tee-shirt every week? -- On the Nerds of Doom front, their "natural habitat" has now been busted; wonder where they'll set up next. (Loved the bit about "pictures of the Vulcan woman on Enterprise.") -- The other Buffy Gross-out episode was "Go Fish" in season two, and did you notice that it got mentioned? -- The next time you watch this episode, take a close look at the wig lady head monster and notice its strong resemblance to a certain male body part. Unless you noticed it the first time; I didn't. Dan said that having Willow cut it off was way too symbolic. Quotes: Willow: "You should have seen their headquarters. It was like the nerd natural habitat." Willow: "Hey, respect the narrative flow much?" Anya: "Please continue the story of failure." Anya: "When I was a vengeance demon, I caused pain and mayhem, certainly. But I put in a full day's work doing it, and I got compensated appropriately." Xander: "Welcome to today's episode of 'Go Money Go!' I hear it daily." Buffy: "You hit so many buttons, it's like, button-palooza." Anya: "We're here to support your subsistence-level employment." Buffy: "Order something or go." Spike: "Give a bloke a chance for his eyes to adjust. Damn fluorescent lights. Makes me look dead." Buffy: "Repeat until insane." Philip: "It eliminates variation. Every burger at every DoubleMeat Palace is the same. People don't like variation." Buffy: "Got it. Variety is the spice of bad." This was another hard episode to rate. There was cleverness and grossness, good writing and gratuitous grue. The story really didn't work, though, and I'm flailing around for a rating, Billie |
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