| FLOODED The episode starts with Buffy walking down into a dark flooded basement. Then she meets her nemises Mr Drippy! She tries to fix the pipe but eventually makes it worse. Buffy and Dawn call a plumer, after which they discover they are broke. After suggestions from Anya on how to get money �You�re providing a valuable service to the whole community. I say, cash in!� Buffy decides that she needs to go visit a loan officer but he refuses to give the poor girl any money, even when she saves his life from a bank robbing demon. As the Scoobies discuss the demon in the Magic Box Giles enters the room and is overwhelmed to see Buffy. Meanwhile the demon is returning home to his employies (Jonathon,Warren and Andrew) Geeks from previous episodes. The demon wants his pay from the Geeks, he has been offered the head of the slayer. Instead Warren gives the demon Buffys name and address so he can do it himself. Back home Giles confronts Willow about the resurrection spell. He tells the shocked Willow that she was very stupid and was messing with powers she couldn't even imagine. The demon barges through the door but Buffy takes care of him, whilst being careful not to break anything! The next day the phone rings, its Angel and he wants to see Buffy. |
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| LIFE SERIAL Buffy's back from seeing Angel and does her best to get on with her life while villains, Jonathan, Warren and Andrew unwittingly put the Slayer through a series of tests in order to find her weakness. Buffy decides to go back to collage, but the geeks use a spell to speed up time which causes Buffy to black out and become totally confused. Deciding that collage wasn't the answer Buffy gets a job at Xanders construction site. But when the slayer starts attacking vampires that were sent by the geeks and injuring her fellow work men shes swiftly given the sack. Then Buffy tries her hand at shop keeper at the magic box. Back in the van, Jonathan explains that he has created a spell which has looped time. Buffy is aware of the loop, but no one else is. In order to break the loop, she must satisfy a customer. This takes some time and after she has sorted out the problem she walks straight out the door. Giles can see that Buffy is struggling with being the slayer and having to look after Dawn etc... so he decides to give her a nice big check. Buffys money problems are at least solved for now. |
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| ONCE MORE WITH FEELING Series creator Joss Whedon wrote, directed and composed the music for this episode in which a mysterious force impels the Scooby Gang to burst into song. Even Buffy devotees may be hard-pressed to find an episode as off-the-wall as this, as Sunnydale denizens become players in production numbers in which cast members do their own vocals. Hear Tara (Amber Benson) sing about her love for Willow (Alyson Hannigan)! See Xander and Anya (Nicholas Brendon, Emma Caulfield) perform a duet! Listen to Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) croon about her lack of life direction! Who's behind the music? Dawn (Michelle Trachtenberg) provides the key. A musical demon wants Dawn to be his queen and anyone who tries to stop him in his way ends up danceing until they catch on fire! Tara begins to get angry with Willow and how she uses too much magic, she also finds out how Willow had put a forgetful spell on her when they had an argument. During the emotional final song at the end of the episode the Scooby gang are shocked to hear Buffy sing about how she was pulled out of heaven by her friends. As the curtain so to speak closes on the episode Buffy and Spike kiss! |
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| TABULA RASA Despite Tara's misgivings about her overindulgence in witchcraft, Willow tries to cheer Buffy up by making the Slayer forget the idyllic afterlife she left behind. Alas, the spell goes awry and affects the minds of all the Scoobies. This leads to some funny situations where Giles believes he is Spikes brother and is married to Anya plus Willow and Tara have to discover they are lesbians once again. When the Scoobies are attacked by vampires they escape to the sewers and it is then Buffy and Spike find out that they are "superheros." |
| Eventually the spell wears off and Tara instantly knows what Willow has done. The episode ends with Tara packing her bags and leaving whilst Willow is left crying on the floor. |
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