Buffyverse Dialogue Database


Season: Episode 1 of Season 3
Original Air Date: 09/29/1998
Written by: Joss Whedon
Directed by: Joss Whedon

Notes:

Buffy, working as a waitress under an assumed name, foils a demon plot to enslave marginal LA youth.
Plot Highlights:

Scooby slayage sans Slayer. Ricky & Lily. First day of school: Oz didn't graduate, Cordelia & Xander's reunion flops & no Buffy. Lily remembers Buffy. Joyce blames Giles. Ricky goes missing, Lily turns to Buffy. Cordelia is bait; Cordelia-vamp-Xander sandwich turns cozy when the vamp dusts. Buffy & Lily visit 'Hell'. Buffy cedes her alias, her job & her apartment to Lily & returns home to her mother.
Quick Review:

Not one of the best season openers, but worth watching for the few truly classic BtVS moments that slip in (see below) between elements of the main story-line. Also interesting to watch in conjunction with Angel the Series' "Blood Money" and "Thin Dead Line", where Chanterelle AKA Lily AKA Anne reappears as the got-it-together manager of a teen shelter.
Memorable Moments:

Willow's "come & get it Big Boy" & Oz's offering of "this time it's personal"
Oz's attempts to pass failing-to-graduate off as cute & eccentric (with an option on cool).
Larry's brief but memorable assertion about Sunnydale football's potential for dominance -- as long as those pesky mysterious deaths don't interfere.
Joyce blaming Giles
Buffy's encounter with the nurse as she rifles through her files.
The Cordelia-n-Xander vamp sandwich dusting and ensuing kiss (complete with swell of cheesy romantic music)
The "I'm Buffy, the vampire slayer & you are?" scene and subsequent extended fight sequence.

Transcript Source:

Download from http://www.studiesinwords.de/35anne.html
Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson
(If the link above doesn't work, try looking here, under multimedia.)

There are 34 clips for this episode

AKAs

Willow referred to Oz as Mr. Test Scores

Xander referred to Cordelia as Bait

Cordelia referred to Xander as Mr. Faithful

characters

Story Arcs

NOTES ON EPISODE ART: CREATED 03/2003 ~In honor of finishing up all new collages for the rest of the season, I went back and did a new version of this one, replacing the original from october 2001. I've taken a new shiny copy of the semi-profile image of Buffy as my starter image. To suggest her relationship with Lily, I used the shot where she's resolutely trying to walk away from Needy Lily, which is of course also a reflection on what she's doing in the Big City waiting tables in the first place. Downcast Lily anchors the left side of the arrangment and suggests a certain kindredness with downcast Buffy (above, a little hard to see, I must admit) both changing their names and not wanting to talk about home. I've filled in the edges with various other caps of the scenery and texture of the episode, and overlaid both the "anne" name tag and Ken's "come home to Family Home" flyer. The coloring is a black-and-cyan-green-sparked-with-gold meant to evoke the city street at night, in keeping with the importance of the setting to the episode.

Caps used in this collage are courtesy of buffyverse.info & Jessica's Captures. Many thanks!

Notes: Buffy, working as a waitress under an assumed name, foils a demon plot to enslave marginal LA youth. Plot Highlights: Scooby slayage sans Slayer. Ricky & Lily. First day of school: Oz didn't graduate, Cordelia & Xander's reunion flops & no Buffy. Lily remembers Buffy. Joyce blames Giles. Ricky goes missing, Lily turns to Buffy. Cordelia is bait; Cordelia-vamp-Xander sandwich turns cozy when the vamp dusts. Buffy & Lily visit 'Hell'. Buffy cedes her alias, her job & her apartment to Lily & returns home to her mother. Quick Review: Not one of the best season openers, but worth watching for the few truly classic BtVS moments that slip in (see below) between elements of the main story-line. Also interesting to watch in conjunction with Angel the Series' "Blood Money" and "Thin Dead Line", where Chanterelle AKA Lily AKA Anne reappears as the got-it-together manager of a teen shelter. Memorable Moments: Willow's "come & get it Big Boy" & Oz's offering of "this time it's personal" Oz's attempts to pass failing-to-graduate off as cute & eccentric (with an option on cool). Larry's brief but memorable assertion about Sunnydale football's potential for dominance -- as long as those pesky mysterious deaths don't interfere. Joyce blaming Giles Buffy's encounter with the nurse as she rifles through her files. The Cordelia-n-Xander vamp sandwich dusting and ensuing kiss (complete with swell of cheesy romantic music) The "I'm Buffy, the vampire slayer & you are?" scene and subsequent extended fight sequence.
Transcript Source: Download from http://www.studiesinwords.de/35anne.html Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson (If the link above doesn't work, try looking here, under multimedia.)
There are 34 clips for this episode

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