Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S4/E05 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.
- 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
Willow: There are men, better men, wherein the mind is stronger than the penis. |
- Asshole Victims: The frat boys.
Xander: This will give them some time to ponder the geo-political ramifications of BEING MEAN TO ME! |
- 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
Xander: Giles, don't make Cave!Slayer unhappy. |
- Drowning My Sorrows: Buffy distraught over Parker's lack of interest in her.
- Fur Bikini: Unfortunately averted, as Xander laments in "Something Blue".
Buffy: Anyone remember when Buffy had the fun beer-fest and went One Million Years B.C.? |
- Green-Eyed Monster: Willow is alarmed to notice the way Oz is staring at Veruca as she sings.
Willow: Buff, have you heard of this Veruca chick? Dresses like Faith, voice like an albatross? |
- 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
Willow: I'm tired of you men, and your...man-ness. |
- 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.
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. [1] |
Xander: And was there a lesson in all this? huh? What did we learn about beer? |
- Technicolor Science: Brewing up the cursed beer.
- Tempting Fate
Willow: I tell you, men haven't changed since the dawn of time! (cavemen burst in) |
Parker: Buffy, I don't know what to say. After the way I've treated you, and now I owe you my life. |
Buffy: Ow, oh, want beer. Like beer. Beer good. |