Buffyverse Dialogue Database - EPISODE: 'Normal Again'

NOTES ON EPISODE ART: CREATED 03/2002 ~When I first started working on this collage, I thought that I was going to use all those crazy-Buffy extreme close ups as some sort of background to the medium-distance crazy-Buffy shots, but it got so interesting that I decided to just leave it as is. First I blended the images together using layer masking and a little judicious copy-stamping, then I played with colors and filters till it looked more or less as you see. Then I used some dust & scratches custom brushes to scuff everything up, plus some brushes from enfest.com to tear into the edges. If you want to see another piece I did based on this ep, check out the lyric gallery of Tangled Synthesis.


Season: Episode 17 of Season 6
Original Air Date: 03/12/2002
Written by: Diego Gutierrez
Directed by: Rick Rosenthal

Notes:

A demon's venom makes Buffy think she's in an insane asylum inventing her life as the Slayer.
Plot Highlights:

Buffy gets close to the nerds' lair, they send a poisonous demon after her. Willow sees Tara with another woman. Buffy starts seeing things at the Doublemeat. Buffy comforts Willow. Xander returns. Buffy tells Spike about Xander's wedding. Xander & Spike come to blows. Buffy blacks out, sees Joyce & Hank. Buffy tells Xander, Willow & Dawn about her asylum visions. The doctor talks to Buffy, Joyce & Hank about Buffy's condition. Jonathan gets antsy. Buffy tells Willow about her parents sending her to a clinic. Spike & Xander capture the demon. Dawn realizes she's not in Buffy's visions. Willow delivers the antidote, Spike calls Buffy on her self-inflicted misery-trip. Buffy doesn't drink the antidote, and on the doctor's advice, drags Willow, Xander & Dawn down into the basement and unleashes the demon. Tara arives, buys some time, while Joyce talks to Buffy. Buffy says goodbye and decides to return to reality, kills the demon.
Memorable Moments:

Xander confessing that he messed up big time by leaving Anya at the alter to Willow & Buffy
The Doctor describing Buffy's delusion (aka the BtVS premise) and implying that the nerds' patheticness symbolizes the coming apart of her make-believe world.
Buffy telling Willow about having been put in a clinic when she told her parents about the vampires she saw back when she was first called.
Spike sharing his assessment of Buffy's problem with a mute Buffy, declaring that her misery is self-inflicted because she won't reach out to her friends.
Buffy's chillingly going about subduing her friends; her slightly maniacal "that's ridiculous" at the notion of being a super hero.
Buffy beating her head against the wall in the asylum, and then finally calming as Joyce's words get through to her; her last "good-bye" to her mother before returning to reality.

Transcript Source:

Download from http://www.studiesinwords.de/117normalagain.html
Got tired of waiting to find a complete transcript to copy-paste from, so I typed these up myself.
(If the link above doesn't work, try looking here, under multimedia.)

There are 15 clips for this episode

AKAs

Warren referred to Jonathan as Midgetor

Spike referred to Xander as King of the Big Exit

Xander referred to Spike as Willie-wanna-bite

Spike referred to Xander as pathetic poof

Warren referred to Jonathan as Big Man

Warren referred to Jonathan as Spanky

Spike referred to Spike as Buffy's sodding sex slave

Xander referred to Buffy as Sane Girl

characters

Story Arcs

Notes: A demon's venom makes Buffy think she's in an insane asylum inventing her life as the Slayer. Plot Highlights: Buffy gets close to the nerds' lair, they send a poisonous demon after her. Willow sees Tara with another woman. Buffy starts seeing things at the Doublemeat. Buffy comforts Willow. Xander returns. Buffy tells Spike about Xander's wedding. Xander & Spike come to blows. Buffy blacks out, sees Joyce & Hank. Buffy tells Xander, Willow & Dawn about her asylum visions. The doctor talks to Buffy, Joyce & Hank about Buffy's condition. Jonathan gets antsy. Buffy tells Willow about her parents sending her to a clinic. Spike & Xander capture the demon. Dawn realizes she's not in Buffy's visions. Willow delivers the antidote, Spike calls Buffy on her self-inflicted misery-trip. Buffy doesn't drink the antidote, and on the doctor's advice, drags Willow, Xander & Dawn down into the basement and unleashes the demon. Tara arives, buys some time, while Joyce talks to Buffy. Buffy says goodbye and decides to return to reality, kills the demon. Memorable Moments: Xander confessing that he messed up big time by leaving Anya at the alter to Willow & Buffy The Doctor describing Buffy's delusion (aka the BtVS premise) and implying that the nerds' patheticness symbolizes the coming apart of her make-believe world. Buffy telling Willow about having been put in a clinic when she told her parents about the vampires she saw back when she was first called. Spike sharing his assessment of Buffy's problem with a mute Buffy, declaring that her misery is self-inflicted because she won't reach out to her friends. Buffy's chillingly going about subduing her friends; her slightly maniacal "that's ridiculous" at the notion of being a super hero. Buffy beating her head against the wall in the asylum, and then finally calming as Joyce's words get through to her; her last "good-bye" to her mother before returning to reality.
Transcript Source: Download from http://www.studiesinwords.de/117normalagain.html Got tired of waiting to find a complete transcript to copy-paste from, so I typed these up myself. (If the link above doesn't work, try looking here, under multimedia.)
There are 15 clips for this episode

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