Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S4 E5 Beer Bad

"It's nice. Foamy. Comforting. It's beer..."

Buffy is still recovering from being dumped by Parker and finds solace with a bunch of guys who become her drinking buddies.

"Willow: There are men, better men, wherein the mind is stronger than the penis.
 * Aesop: Too much beer is bad for you. Or perhaps all men are Neanderthals at heart.
 * Accidental Innuendo: Buffy is talking about drinking with the four frat boys while Willow thinks she had group sex.
 * All Men Are Perverts

Xander: NOTHING CAN DEFEAT THE PENIS!"

"Xander: This will give them some time to ponder the geo-political ramifications of BEING MEAN TO ME!"
 * Asshole Victims: The frat boys.

"Xander: Giles, don't make Cave!Slayer unhappy."
 * Bait and Switch: Willow appears to be falling for Parker's charms, but then she laughs and tells Parker what she thinks of him.
 * Can't Get Away with Nuthin'
 * Chekhov's Classroom: Professor Walsh's lecture on the id.
 * Comically Missing the Point: Xander asking a customer if he wants his ice water on the rocks.
 * Crash Into Hello: Buffy spills the beer of both Riley and the frat boys.
 * The Casanova: Parker; confirmed by Riley.
 * Daydream Surprise: Buffy keeps fantasizing a Rescue Romance with Parker. The second dream involves Parker with his shirt open, holding flowers and ice cream.
 * Death Glare

"Buffy: Anyone remember when Buffy had the fun beer-fest and went One Million Years B.C.?
 * Drowning My Sorrows: Buffy distraught over Parker's lack of interest in her.
 * Fur Bikini: Unfortunately averted, as Xander laments in "Something Blue".

Xander: Sadly without the fuzzy bikini."

"Willow: Buff, have you heard of this Veruca chick? Dresses like Faith, voice like an albatross?"
 * Green-Eyed Monster: Willow is alarmed to notice the way Oz is staring at Veruca as she sings.

"Willow: I'm tired of you men, and your...man-ness."
 * Kick the Son of a Bitch: Cave!Slayer clubs Parker over the head again; Giles, Willow and Xander just shrug and walk off.
 * Nubile Savage: The frat boys grow crooked teeth, heavy brow ridges, and plenty of extra hair. Buffy, who also had plenty to drink, looks like Buffy with sexy-unkempt hair (Xander did cut her off earlier).
 * Perverted Sniffing: Cave!Slayer sniffing Xander.
 * Phlebotinum-Induced Stupidity: A bar-owner brews up some cursed beer for some Jerkass college students that turn them into cavemen.
 * Rescue Romance: Spoofed; Buffy keeps dreaming of earning Parker's eternal gratitude this way, but when the opportunity arises she's a cavewoman so she just clubs him over the head.
 * Shaped Like Itself

"At least one show, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," was rejected after it showed itself to be immune to the drug office's worldview. "Drugs were an issue, but it wasn't on-strategy. It was otherworldly nonsense, very abstract and not like real-life kids taking drugs. Viewers wouldn't make the link to our message," says someone in the drug-policy office camp who read and helped reject it."
 * Space Whale Aesop: The episode was written so the show could apply for funding from the National Office of Drug Control Policy, but they rejected it because the Fantastic Aesop was too fantastical.

"Xander: And was there a lesson in all this? huh? What did we learn about beer?
 * Spoof Aesop

Cave Buffy: Foamy.

Xander: Good, just as long as that's clear."

"Willow: I tell you, men haven't changed since the dawn of time! (cavemen burst in)"
 * Technicolor Science: Brewing up the cursed beer.
 * Tempting Fate

"Parker: Buffy, I don't know what to say. After the way I've treated you, and now I owe you my life.
 * Think Nothing of It

Buffy: It's nothing.

Parker: It's everything. You're everything. And I'm going to do whatever it takes to get you to forgive me. Do you think that you might--

[Buffy snaps out of her daydream at the sight of Parker chatting up another girl]"

"Buffy: Ow, oh, want beer. Like beer. Beer good.
 * Title Drop

Xander: Beer Bad. Bad, bad beer. What the hell am I saying?"


 * You No Take Candle: Cave!Buffy-Speak