Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S2 E2 Some Assembly Required

""People don't fall in love with what's right in front of them. People want the dream. What they can't have. The more unattainable, the more attractive.""

A mad scientist student is trying to make a girl for his Frankenstein's Monster of a brother, a old boyfriend of Cordelia's

Tropes
"Buffy: You might wanna avoid words like 'amenable' and 'indecorous', y'know. Speak English, not whatever they speak in, um...
 * All Guys Want Cheerleaders
 * Buffy-Speak: It can even be used for dating!

Giles: England?

Buffy: Yeah. You just say, 'Hey, I got a thing, you maybe have a thing, maybe we could 'have a thing'."

"Cordelia: Why are these terrible things always happening to me?
 * Came Back Wrong
 * Call Back: To the movie with Buffy catching a thrown knife.
 * Cough-Snark-Cough

Xander: *cough* Karma! *cough*"

"Buffy: It takes more than that to get rid of me! (falls in open grave)"
 * Creepy Basement
 * Failed Attempt At Drama

"Eric: You're gonna feel a little pinch, maybe some discomfort around the neck area. But don't worry. When you wake up, you'll have the body of a seventeen-year-old. In fact, you'll have the body of several."
 * False Reassurance

"Buffy: Sorry, but I'm an old-fashioned gal. I was raised to believe that men dig up the corpses and the women have the babies."
 * Grave Robbing
 * Green-Eyed Monster: Buffy and Angel.
 * Holding Hands: Buffy and Angel at the end.
 * Hypocritical Humor: The girls watching the guys do all the hard work digging up a grave.

"Giles: Grave robbing? That's new. Interesting.
 * Love Makes You Crazy and do wacky things like bring your brother back to life, or do the "sexy dance" with your best friend.
 * Mad Doctor
 * Mirror Scare
 * Mix-and-Match Man
 * Never Live It Down (In-Universe): Willow predicts this about Buffy's "sexy dance" with Xander in the previous episode
 * Nightmare Fetishist: Giles again.

Buffy: I know you meant to say gross and disturbing.

Giles: Yes, yes, yes of course. Uh, terrible thing. Must, must put a stop to it. Damn it."

"Giles: W-w-w-what I'm proposing is, um... and I-I don't mean to appear indecorous, is, is, um, a, a-a-a social engagement, um, a, a, a, a-a date, if you're amenable. (to himself) You idiot!
 * Operation: Jealousy: Buffy admits this was the reason for her "sexy dance" with Xander.
 * Porn Stash: The size of Eric's scares even Xander.
 * Rescue Romance: Spoofed when Xander blows his chance to score with Cordelia without even realising it.
 * Security Cling: Cordelia to Angel. Buffy is not pleased.
 * Screaming Woman: Cordelia of course.
 * Shout-Out: To Frankenstein
 * Star-Crossed Lovers: The appeal of forbidden love is lampshaded by Xander. Buffy and Angel of course put it into practice.
 * Strapped to An Operating Table: Cordelia
 * Surrogate Soliloquy / Emotionally Tongue-Tied: Giles rehearsing asking Ms. Calender out for a date.

Buffy: Boy, I guess we never realized how much you liked that chair."