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| 61. Beer Bad" Original Air Date: November 02, 1999 Written by: Tracey Forbes Directed by: David Solomon Guest Cast: Adam Kaufman (Parker Abrams) Marc Blucas (Riley Finn) Lindsay Crouse (Prof. Maggie Walsh) Paige Moss (Veruca) Eric Matheny (Lead Cave Guy) Steven M. Porter (Jack) Buffy versus a gang of vampires for the life of... Parker Abrams. Fighting in a graveyard, Buffy bounces off headstones to give her kicks more kick and bounces a few vamps off headstones. She stakes the three nighttime attackers into ashes. A grateful Parker apologizes and grovels, until Buffy snaps out of her daydream, drawn back to reality by snickering between the real Parker and the next young woman he is seducing. Prof.Maggie Walsh, ironically, is lecturing on the selfish nature of the id. She reminds the Psychology class that there is a part of our minds that seeks pleasure, without concern for the consequences. Trying to avoid being tortured by the sight of Parker working his magic on another woman, Buffy re-lives her heroic daydream. This time imaginary Parker not only thanks her and apologizes, he offers her flowers and ice cream. Buffy and Willow are studying outside, when Xander arrives to tell them that he has gotten a job at the campus Pub, thanks to a fake ID. He tries to get them to cry in imaginary beers, so he can practice bartender chat, but Buffy cannot get over her Parker problem long enough to fake a problem. Buffy is still trying to come up with a theory that will explain how she and Parker can eventually find happiness together. Willow tells Buffy that she is fed up with Parker, even if Buffy isn't yet. Xander struggles to hear and keep straight the multitude of requests from thirsty, impatient college students, during his first night on the job. Buffy arrives, but she instantly focuses on Parker and his new prey, in a side booth. Fixated, she walks right into Riley Finn. When she tells him that she was looking at Parker, Riley is quick to mention Parker's loose reputation. Buffy rather rudely ignores Riley, as she watches Parker get into some heavy kissing action. Riley can take a cold shoulder like a gentleman, so he makes an excuse and leaves. Xander jumps to light the straw of a pretty coed, before he realizes it's not a cigarette. As they talk, her boyfriend arrives. When Xander doesn't take a hint to leave, the boyfriend tries to embarrass him. Xander is forced by his job and his natural insecurity to stand there as the boyfriend first insults Xander's intelligence, with a hodge-podge of technical terms, and then demeans Xander's future prospects when compared to those of college boys, like him. Later, Xander joins Buffy as she is finally passing from denial to anger and guilt over Parker Abrams. Xander is forced to tend to his job, so Buffy decides to leave. This time she walks right into a stranger. As she and the young man talk, his three friends join them. One of his friends is the boyfriend who insulted Xander. She is flattered by their attention and angry at seeing Parker leave with another woman, so she accepts their offer of free beer. At the Bronze, Willow and Oz talk about school. Oz has a strange feeling pass over him, right before Veruca takes the stage. Veruca is a smallish woman with short blonde hair. She is the lead singer for the band, Shy. During her haunting and sultry vocals, he seems so mesmerized that Willow looks worried. Meanwhile, Buffy is chugging beers with her new friends. When they aren't drinking beer, they talk about beer. The next morning, as Willow is expressing disdain for a certain lithe, blond singer, Buffy is absorbing music videos. In simple terms, Buffy explains that she drank the night away. Willow has to remind her to get dressed before they leave for Psychology class. In class, Buffy sees a girl eating a sandwich and decides to snatch it from the girl for herself. The girl makes to no trouble, but Willow is confused. In a laboratory somewhere, a collection of flasks with bubbling, multicolored fluids, produces a slow drip from a length of twisted tubing into a keg of Black Forest beer. That evening, Buffy and her drinking buddies are getting simple-minded on Black Forest beer. Behind the bar, Xander keeps a watchful eye, concerned to the point of rebuffing a pretty girl asking him to light her cigarette. Neither Buffy nor the men seem to have much of a vocabulary anymore. Oz finds Willow as she leaves her dorm room for the library, but she has no interest in going to another Veruca show with him. Near closing time, Xander decides to send Buffy home when she acts as if she has discovered the jukebox for the first time. Totally confused and talking almost entirely in single syllables, she protests when he lifts her off the jukebox and walks her to the door. Willow goes to the campus coffee shop and finding Parker there, confronts him. He shares his live-for-the-moment outlook on sex. He apologizes to her for Buffy. At the Pub, Buffy's barroom buddies are reduced to grunts and ape-like gestures. As one of the guys shuffles off to the restroom, Xander collects for their bill and a tip by taking the entire wad of $20's that one of them throws to him. A crashing sound from the restroom draws Xander's attention. Suddenly, a longhaired, large-toothed man breaks through the restroom door and knocks Xander to the floor, unconscious. Xander awakes to find a primitive man sniffing at his face. The other three students, with popping and cracking bones, undergo a painful transformation into creatures resembling cave men. Xander manages to scare off the gang with his lighter. When he finds the bar owner in the storeroom, Jack seems unconcerned by what has happened. The primitive men are frolicking across the campus grounds. One conks another on the head with a broken tree limb. Jack is telling Xander how much he hates college kids. Jack's brother-in-law, a warlock, showed him how to spike the beer. It will be a day or so before the victims recover from its effects. One of the four college cro-magnums is hit by a car and injured. The others attack the car after the driver flees. The remaining trio then begins to chase other students. Xander brings Giles to Buffy's dorm room, only to find her making cave drawings on the wall. In the quiet of the coffee shop, Willow and Parker are still talking. Parker says he is disappointed that he hasn't found the right girl - a girl to share quiet moments with. Willow wants to know if he thinks she is a fool. She tells him that she is wise to men who are only interested in getting satisfied. She knows that men have been like that since men began. Of course, at that moment, the primitive three break into the coffee shop, bearing two women captives. They quickly club Willow and Parker into unconsciousness. Giles and Xander watch Buffy's simple antics, until she becomes uncomfortably interested in Xander maleness. At the mention of the beer that caused her condition, she escapes from them, in search of more. The cave students have built a campfire in the coffee shop that spreads fire throughout the room. Xander finds Buffy, just before they both notice the fire. Buffy realizes fire is bad. Perhaps her heroic inclination to fight bad things overcomes the primitive instincts to flee, whatever the reason, Buffy rushes to the scene. Still unconscious, Willow is dragged by a cave man over to a safer part of the room, with the other two women. Buffy breaks through the barricade that the primitives put in the doorway to protect their territory. Unable to fight the fire with her hands or work a fire extinguisher, she is confused, until she sees Willow through the smoke and flames. She leaps over the flames to her friend's side. Giles is still searching for Buffy and Xander is unable to get through the smoke to reach her. Seeing a window high up on a wall, Buffy leaps to some overhead pipes and with some gymnastics pushes open the window. The ape-like men quickly climb out and the captive girls manage to climb out more slowly. Buffy carries Willow up to the window. Outside Xander is collecting people up as they emerge. The cave men obey him when he orders them to stay. Inside, Parker is now conscious, coughing and crying for help. Buffy whacks him over the head and carries his unconscious body out. As the firemen finish with the fire, Parker approaches Buffy and this time he is really sorry. When he asks for forgiveness, Buffy whacks him on the head, knocking him unconscious again. Summary by: OBCooke at EpisodeGuides.com |
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