PrincessBuffy16
Scooby
School Hard
Writers: David Greenwalt (story & teleplay)
Joss Whedon (story)
Director: John T. Kretchmer
Trivia:
- Spike, was originally intended to last for a few episodes into the Second Season. However, his character was immediately embraced and loved by Buffy fans, which resulted in Joss Whedon's decision to keep him in the series.
- In the original script, Spike's car was intended to be a Cadillac. In reality, it is a Desoto Sportsman, California license plate number HIA-873.
- Juliet Landau didn't have to audition for the part of Drusilla. Joss Whedon had been very taken by her performance in Ed Wood (1994) that she was offered the part within an hour of meeting with Whedon.
- Joss Whedon said the main reason the writers killed off the Anointed One was because the young actor's voice had begun to change, and a vampire doesn't age after "dying".
- Spike's real first name is William, and he was once known as "William the Bloody."
- Though Spike refers to Angel as his sire, this is not technically correct. It was eventually shown (in Season Five's "Fool For Love") that it was actually Drusilla who sired Spike.
- St. Vigeous led a crusade of vampires through Russia, Persia, and "points east." On the Night of St. Vigeous, vampires' power is at its peak.
- Principal Snyder seems to know more than he lets on about what's really going on in Sunnydale, and his conversation at the end with the police chief indicates that the "gangs on PCP" explanation is a standard-issue cover story, rather than a legitimate theory.
- The Anointed One is the first vampire in the series to die from exposure to sunlight.
Goofs:
- When Drusilla is first introduced she cuts Spike on his cheek using her fingernail leaving a trail of blood. The tube through which the blood comes out is visible.
- Vampires don't have reflections. But in this episode, as Spike walks down the school hallway (29:22 on the DVD), we see his reflection in a glass case to his left (the viewer's right).
- Buffy and Willow are studying French and their notes are all over the table before they go to dance. However when Xander runs in to collect a stake from Buffy's bag later, all the notes are gone.
- When Spike throws Collin in the cage at the end of the episode, it's obvious he's throwing an adult stunt double down and not a 10 year old boy.
- Is Willow really strong enough to so easily pick up the bust she used to knock the vampire off Cordelia?
Best quotes:
- Spike: A slayer with family and friends. That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
- Xander Harris: Does anybody remember when Saturday night meant date night?
Cordelia Chase: You sure don't.
- Spike: How's the Annoying One?
- Willow Rosenberg: She was already smoking in fifth grade. Once I was lookout for her.
Xander Harris: You're bad to the bone.
Willow Rosenberg: I'm a rebel.
- Spike: I was actually at Woodstock. That was a weird gig. I fed off a flower person and I spent the next six hours watchin' my hand move.
Soundtrack:
- "Stupid Thing" - Nickel
- "1000 Nights" - Nickel
References:
- Woodstock, which Spike attended, was a musical festival held in a farmer's field in Woodstock, NY, the weekend of August 15-17, 1969. Featuring such acts as Jimi Hendrix, Ravi Shankar, and the Grateful Dead, the event immediately came to symbolize the bohemian atmosphere and hippie culture of the free-love late 1960s.
- The Boxer Rebellion, during which Spike killed a Slayer, was an anti-Westerner uprising in China that took place from 1900 to 1901.
- "People still fall for that Anne Rice routine?" Novelist Anne Rice single-handedly rejuvenated the popularity of vampires with her Vampire Chronicles, including Interview With The Vampire (1976) and The Vampire Lestat (1985), which portrayed vampires as tortured, romantic and sensual souls.
- "I haven't seen you in the killing fields for an age." It's unclear whether or not this is a deliberate reference, but "the killing fields" is the name given to the 1975 massacre of over one million Cambodians by the Communist Khmer Rouge government of that country, led by the recently-deceased Pol Pot. The story of the Cambodian upheaval was the subject of the Academy Award®-winning 1984 film The Killing Fields.
- "You were my sire, man! You were my... Yoda!" Yoda was the wizened, ancient Jedi master who taught Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker in The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return Of The Jedi (1983), the second and third movies in George Lucas' Star Wars trilogy.
- "Man, I can't believe this. You Uncle Tom!" This is a reference to the 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, the famous first novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
http://imdb.com
Writers: David Greenwalt (story & teleplay)
Joss Whedon (story)
Director: John T. Kretchmer
Trivia:
- Spike, was originally intended to last for a few episodes into the Second Season. However, his character was immediately embraced and loved by Buffy fans, which resulted in Joss Whedon's decision to keep him in the series.
- In the original script, Spike's car was intended to be a Cadillac. In reality, it is a Desoto Sportsman, California license plate number HIA-873.
- Juliet Landau didn't have to audition for the part of Drusilla. Joss Whedon had been very taken by her performance in Ed Wood (1994) that she was offered the part within an hour of meeting with Whedon.
- Joss Whedon said the main reason the writers killed off the Anointed One was because the young actor's voice had begun to change, and a vampire doesn't age after "dying".
- Spike's real first name is William, and he was once known as "William the Bloody."
- Though Spike refers to Angel as his sire, this is not technically correct. It was eventually shown (in Season Five's "Fool For Love") that it was actually Drusilla who sired Spike.
- St. Vigeous led a crusade of vampires through Russia, Persia, and "points east." On the Night of St. Vigeous, vampires' power is at its peak.
- Principal Snyder seems to know more than he lets on about what's really going on in Sunnydale, and his conversation at the end with the police chief indicates that the "gangs on PCP" explanation is a standard-issue cover story, rather than a legitimate theory.
- The Anointed One is the first vampire in the series to die from exposure to sunlight.
Goofs:
- When Drusilla is first introduced she cuts Spike on his cheek using her fingernail leaving a trail of blood. The tube through which the blood comes out is visible.
- Vampires don't have reflections. But in this episode, as Spike walks down the school hallway (29:22 on the DVD), we see his reflection in a glass case to his left (the viewer's right).
- Buffy and Willow are studying French and their notes are all over the table before they go to dance. However when Xander runs in to collect a stake from Buffy's bag later, all the notes are gone.
- When Spike throws Collin in the cage at the end of the episode, it's obvious he's throwing an adult stunt double down and not a 10 year old boy.
- Is Willow really strong enough to so easily pick up the bust she used to knock the vampire off Cordelia?
Best quotes:
- Spike: A slayer with family and friends. That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
- Xander Harris: Does anybody remember when Saturday night meant date night?
Cordelia Chase: You sure don't.
- Spike: How's the Annoying One?
- Willow Rosenberg: She was already smoking in fifth grade. Once I was lookout for her.
Xander Harris: You're bad to the bone.
Willow Rosenberg: I'm a rebel.
- Spike: I was actually at Woodstock. That was a weird gig. I fed off a flower person and I spent the next six hours watchin' my hand move.
Soundtrack:
- "Stupid Thing" - Nickel
- "1000 Nights" - Nickel
References:
- Woodstock, which Spike attended, was a musical festival held in a farmer's field in Woodstock, NY, the weekend of August 15-17, 1969. Featuring such acts as Jimi Hendrix, Ravi Shankar, and the Grateful Dead, the event immediately came to symbolize the bohemian atmosphere and hippie culture of the free-love late 1960s.
- The Boxer Rebellion, during which Spike killed a Slayer, was an anti-Westerner uprising in China that took place from 1900 to 1901.
- "People still fall for that Anne Rice routine?" Novelist Anne Rice single-handedly rejuvenated the popularity of vampires with her Vampire Chronicles, including Interview With The Vampire (1976) and The Vampire Lestat (1985), which portrayed vampires as tortured, romantic and sensual souls.
- "I haven't seen you in the killing fields for an age." It's unclear whether or not this is a deliberate reference, but "the killing fields" is the name given to the 1975 massacre of over one million Cambodians by the Communist Khmer Rouge government of that country, led by the recently-deceased Pol Pot. The story of the Cambodian upheaval was the subject of the Academy Award®-winning 1984 film The Killing Fields.
- "You were my sire, man! You were my... Yoda!" Yoda was the wizened, ancient Jedi master who taught Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker in The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return Of The Jedi (1983), the second and third movies in George Lucas' Star Wars trilogy.
- "Man, I can't believe this. You Uncle Tom!" This is a reference to the 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, the famous first novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
http://imdb.com
ILLYRIAN
The killing fields was also a reference to a battle in the first world war. That's why we buy Poppies.
