Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S1/E06 The Pack: Difference between revisions

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We open on a school field trip at the zoo. Buffy is harassed by four mean kids, but she brushes them off. The mean kids move on to harass some nice but nerdy kid, but Principal Flutie breaks it up. The mean kids decide to take the nerd to visit the hyenas, who are off limits for some reason. Xander goes after them to try to rescue him, but Buffy and Willow get stopped from entering the Hyena cage by some creepy zookeeper who says some creepy stuff about hyenas. Then the mean kids and Xander look into the green glowy eyes of the quarantined hyenas and get possessed by them. This all has something to do with Africa, as we learn from the insistent African-sounding soundtrack that goes on whenever the hyenas are around.

 

* [[You're Insane!|Are You Insane?]]: Flutie's [[Famous Last Words]].

* [[Attempted Rape]]: Hyena!Xander on Buffy, unfortunately. She fights him off.

* [[Bait and Switch Comment]]: Hyena!Xander appears to be making a [[Love Confession]] to Willow, but then he cruelly humiliates her.

* [[Battle Discretion Shot]]: Buffy drags in an unconscious Hyena!Xander.

'''Buffy:''' A desk. }}

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]

'''Giles:''' It's devastating. He's turned into a sixteen-year-old boy. Course, you'll have to kill him. }}

* [[Evil-Detecting Dog|Evil Detecting Pig]]: Herbert.

* [[Faking Amnesia]]: After Buffy and Willow save him, Xander tells them that he can't remember a thing and hopes he didn't do anything "too embarrassing". Giles, however, sees right through it.

'''Xander:''' [[Let Us Never Speak of This Again|Shoot me, stuff me, mount me]]. }}

* [[Fetish Fuel]]: Hyena!Xander

* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: The pack jumps on Principal Flutie and the camera pans to his photo on the desk, then cuts to Willow watching a documentary showing hyenas feeding.

* [[I Ate What?]]: Xander isn't happy hearing that he ate raw pig.

* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: Poor Principal Flutie.

* [[Self-Disposing Villain]]

* [[Scully Syndrome]]: Lampshaded by Buffy to Giles.

* [[Talking Your Way Out]]: Hyena!Xander tries talking Willow into letting him out of the book cage; fortunately Willow isn't as naive as she acts.

* [[Teens Are Monsters]]: Kyle, Tor, Heidi and Rhonda are already mean prior to the possession.

* [[Weirdness Censor]]: Flutie was "eaten by a pack of wild dogs".

** [[All There in the Manual|Supplementary material]] reveals that all four of them survived until Graduation, though, and one of the girls ended up becoming a vegan.

 

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