Sorry but I’m stumped and so are all my friends, why is the second dvd of angel season 1 an 18??

We can’t figure it out, it just because that tape has everything like, its ok to have drink spiking but when you have drink spiking on the same tape as implicated romanian gypsy virgin rape, that makes it an 18?? I don’t get it!!

The episode “To Sanshu In L.A.” is named after William Friedkin’s movie To Live & Die in L.A. Wesley finds out Shanshu means “to live and die”.

During Giles’ song about leaving Buffy in OMWF at the point when Buffy is doing backflips past Giles as he sings, it’s quite obvious that it isn’t her and is a stunt double as she seems to be as tall as he is when in the standing position.

JaJulie Benz who played Darla and Ethan Erickson who played Percy West both star in this movie.

In the episode Doublemeat palace, in the the scene when Buffy goes back for her second day, Manny tells her that Gary has “Gone” and there is a big wadge of clocking slips on the wall in a box marked “Gone” a reference to the subsequent episode?

The body switching plot in “Carpe Noctem” is similar to a book by Anne Rice titled “Tale of the Body Thief”. In which an old man switched bodies with a young man in a comma. He then uses this handsome young mans body to entice Lestat, a charismatic vampire in the Anne Rice universe, to switch bodies with him for a short while. But the body thief has different plans and tries to steal the vampires body permanently.

‘City Of’ :
During Cordy’s meditation scene, the book in front of her (with a dollar sign on it) is called “Meditation : for a beautiful life” by Amanda Smith.

‘I fall to pieces’ :
Dr Ronald Meltzer has the same book in his personal library.

In Angel episode Blind Date, we see parts of the files Angel stole from Wolfram and Hart. Here’s the transcription.
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Wolfram and Hart
Secure Database

Welcome to the Wolfram and Hart Secure Database. If you are reading this screen, you have cleared security at the highest level and are qualified to read any file on this disk. As a security qualified employee you have agreed not to divulge any of the information contained herein. This Secure Database contains information of the highest sensitivity and it is imperative that this information not be known beyond security cleared employees of Wolfram and Hart. Any persons violating the confidentiality of this information will be subject to the highest levels of discipline available to the senior partners. Confidentiality is enforced by periodic mind readings, surveillance and all other means available to the considerable resources of the firm.
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Caseloads
Billing Records
Vanessa Brewer
Inventories
Tag file
Investigations
Associates
Lindsey McDonald
Los Angles Office
New York Office
Boston Office
Political Action
Chicago Office
Police Contacts
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Vanessa Brewer
Personal History

Operative currently based in Los Angeles Office. Lost her sight at age 21 on purpose. Spent 5 years in Pajaur studying with the Nanjin, an order of cave dwelling monks who believe that enlightenment is seeing with the heart, not with the mind. Brewer’s study with the Nanjin has made her uniquely useful to our purposes. Because of her frail, blind appearance, it is all but impossible to authorities to believe she is capable of any violence. However, due to her highly developed extra-visual perception, she is able to carry out even the most difficult and challenging assignments, able to penetrate even the most sophisticated defenses, and able to find even the most well-hidden subject. She entered our employ as an occasional operative in 1991 and is currently on a regular retainer.
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Vanessa Brewer
Personnel File

Personal History
Employment History
Qualifications
Compensation
Supervision
Current Assignment
Benefits
Defenses Against
References
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Vanessa Brewer
Current Assignment

Intercept and terminate the 3 seer children who have been found in remote locations around the world. The 3 blind seers together have the power to see into the heart of things. Individually their power is limited, but together their abilities increase exponentially. Moreover, their power is expected to increase as they mature, representing a severe threat to our interests. Fortunately we have been able to obtain details of their movements upon arrival in this country, making them uniquely vulnerable at this time.
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Vanessa Brewer
Current Assignment Details

The subjects are expected to arrive on the morning of 28 April 2000 and will be kept in a safe house apartment with a guardian until they can connect with their mentor, who will arrive from the East that night. It is imperative that these children be prevented from reaching their full potential and this threat warrants deploying our most trusted operative. They will be very difficult to reach once they have connected with their mentor. The safe house is at 317 Elisabeth Street, apt. 2C, Los Angeles. They will be at their most vulnerable during this one day, with only the single guardian to protect […]

Cordelia is supposed to be carrying two bags of art supplies, but when Vocah’s hand touches hers, we can see she isn’t, at least not with her left hand. However, when she collapses later, the bags are near her, like she just dropped them.

In Origin Hamilton tells Angel “Let’s be clear about this. Things run differently now. I’m not a little girl. You and I won’t be making love on this couch any time soon.” This is a reference to when Angel and Eve had sex in Life of The Party.

Seen at 45:17 in Bargaining Part 2. Buffy enters the scene twice.

At the end of Hells Bells, Buffy is wearing a tee shirt that says “I survived”. This is fitting for Buffy as (of course) she has died alot of times. Also in this episode it has been said that she had died again (later finding out that this was not true)giving the tee shirt all the more meaning.

Goof For Dead Man’s Party

Seen at 42.03 minutes:

The second time we see an overview of State Street. Anyone ever noticed that two cars on left should come right out of the carbage can behind them?
Also the whole scene seemes to be a copy of The Truman Show. “Take your begin position and start the day!”

Never Kill a Boy on the First Date

In the beginning of the episode, just before the theme rolls, the Master reads from a book. He says, “‘And in this time shall come the Anointed, the Master’s great warrior. And the Slayer will not know him, will not stop him, and he will lead her into Hell.’” This indicates that the Slayer will be around at the time of the Annointed One. Then why isn’t the Master prepared? In The Harvest, he seems surprised to find out she’s in town. (Luke: And there was a girl. She fought well and she knew of our breed.
It is possible that she may be…

Master: …a Slayer!)

Richard, the character who gets stabbed in the episode “Older and Far Away” was wearing a red shirt. This is a deliberate reference to the redshirts of Star Trek, as Drew Z. Greenberg confirms in issue #34 of the Official Buffy the Vampire Slayer magazine: “That was totally on purpose. It wasn’t just me - a group of us said, ‘Hey, a red shirt would be cool!’”

Source: The Official Buffy the Vampire Slayer Magazine #34 (June 2002)

In issue #34 of the Official Buffy the Vampire Slayer Magazine, Danny Strong reveals that another actor spoke his lines as a demon in the episode “Life Serial“: “I was supposed to do the voiceover for it, but when we were shooting it, I thought the guy playing the demon was hysterical and I told the director that they should use him and not me. The director agreed.”

Source: The Official Buffy the Vampire Slayer Magazine #34 (June 2002)

In ‘A Hole In The World’ when Fred’s first been infected by Illyria she worries about becoming a mummy. Spike tries to comfort her with: “I’ve fought plenty of mummies, and none of them were as pretty as you. Almost none.” This could be a small reference to Ampata in “Inca Mummy Girl“.

I missed one out when talking about Buffy’s deaths.

7) In Hells bells, Xander and Anya talk about how Buffy has died, and during that same battle Xander injured his back.

I was watching Doppelgängland yesterday and the scene when Angel comes to the library to tell the Scoobies that Willow is dead!
When he enters you hear footsteps that make it sound like he has high heels on… sounds more like Cordelia then Angel

Goof for Flooded

Seen at 40.06 minutes:

Not really a big goof, but one would imagin that the conversation between Buffy and Angel on the telephone would have been alot longer. For one, you’d have a lot of “hello’s” and then you would have to arrange to meet at a place. It would have taken longer than the 20 seconds or so that it did.

Goof For Flooded

Seen at 33.25 minutes:

Andrew turns on the parascope, however it is moving on the screen before he moves it from the basement. This is only for a brief second but its still a goof, if ever I saw one.

Goof for Flooded

Seen at 21.45 minutes:

The Troika are seen talking to M’Fashnik, and in the background there is a TV screen which has a computer game on it. It is a first person “shoot em up”. Noone seems to be playing it but it is moving as if someone were. It could be on “demo mode” however, on computer games there is usually some inication this is the case (usually with the words “demo” or the screen or “press start”) and there isnt on this.

In 3.13 of Angel, Waiting in the Wings, Groo comes back and mentions that the monarchy ended when someone did the Dance Of Revolution. This is an obvious nod back to Numfar which Joss Whedon played.

Goof for After Life

Seen at 4.56 minutes.

We see Dawn try to do up one of Buffy’s buttons in the bathroom, however when Buffy turns we can clearly see that it was not done up. But when Buffy enters the next room, this button is done up.

Xander says in the last series of Buffy that Buffy has died twice. This may be true, but lets look at this a different way:

1) Nightmares. Giles stands over Buffy’s grave.

2) Prophecy Girl. Buffy gets killed by the master.

3) The Wish. Buffy gets her neck broken by the master.

4) The Gift. Buffy throws herself off a tower created by crazy people.

5) Normal Again. At the end of the episode when it looks at the world that might have been, the doctor says that “we’ve lost her” indicating she had died.

6) Villains. Buffy gets shot and for a brief moment she flatlines (this one is a bit of a stretch, but I thought I’d put it in there)

So over all the audience has seen Buffy die a total of 5 (maybe 6) times.

Goof for Bargaining (Part 2)

Seen at 59.35 minutes:

Buffy leans on a car and the alarm goes off. A man comes outside with a shot gun. He fires the shot gun into the air. He only has one hand on the shotgun, and when he fires the gun he doesnt show that there is any kickback. Also, no flames (or whatever somes out the top of a gun when you fire it) came out of the top.

Goof for Bargaining (Part 1)

Seen at 33.39 minutes:

The demons are seen riding into Sunnydale just before the sun is about the set.
Willow, Tara, Xanda and Anya are in the woods, and it is said to be one minute to midnight.
Just after this scene it cuts to the demons entering the cntre of town. Cordelia says in Welcome to the Hellmouth that there isnt a whole lot of town here, so what was taking the bikers so long to get into the centre. Must have been 3 hours at least from sunset to midnight.

In the Angel episode The Price, there’s a visual reference to the movie The Mask. When Lorne enters the hotel at the beginning, he’s wearing a yellow-ish suit and a hat shadows his face. These, along with his green face, make him look alot like the manic super-hero in the film.

Buffy and Joyce’s grave stones (seen in The Weight of the World and The Gift) are the same font and design.

The ‘Veronica Mars’ fansite marsinvestigations.net has profiles on all of the characters on the show, including Kendall Shifflet Casablancas, who is played by Charisma Carpenter (who played Cordelia Chase). The first paragraph of her profile is:

“A shallow, bitchy cheerleader until she devoted her life to helping the helpless and seducing teenage boys on the side — wait, what? What do you mean, “wrong show”? It all looks right to me, except for — okay. I see. Gotcha.”

That is a reference to her Buffy/Angel character who went from a “shallow, bitchy cheerleader” to a person who “devoted her life to helping the helpless.” The last part is kinda self-explanatory.

Mars Investigations is a great site for ‘Veronica Mars’ fans. It’s clever and witty and thorough, much like our ole Trivia Guide.

In Fool For Love, we see how William turned into Spike. When he is fighting his first Slayer, he gets a scar on his left eye. Fine. Oh no, wait a minute not fine! Vampires shouldnt scar. If they do scar then Angel, Spike and probably Buffy would have their faces and body full of them from the ammount of times they have been slashed open. Especially Angel after the episode In the Dark where he waa tortured. But if we were going down that road, Spike got stabbed by Riley in Into the Woods” and the list goes on and on. In conclusion, one small cut should not be able to scar a vampire, when being stabbed does nothing.

I know that the scar is James Marsters’ originally and they had to give a reason for it being there, but you could have had him get it when he was a human which would have been more believable.

In the episode “The Initiative,” Willow says to Riley, “She likes cheese… I’m not saying it’s the key to her heart, but Buffy… she likes cheese.” This is probably a reference to the episode “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered” when Amy turns Buffy into a rat.

Goof for season 4’s Who Are You seen at 38:09

Willow, Tara, Giles and Faith (Buffy) come out of a van. A police man tells them they are not allowed to be there. Willow says: “but we cant, we gotta, you you dont understand!” she is on the left of the screen. Watch her lips, they do not move. They voice must have been dubbed over after it was shot.

Goof seen at 18:19 in The Witch

You can only hear Cordelia and the driving instructer screaming, why isnt the boy and the girl who are in the back of the car screaming as well, after all, if the car crashes so do they.

I don’t know if I’m doing this right, as I only found this site today. However, I didn’t see anywhere where Alexis Denisof’s date of birth is listed.

According to the IMDB, it’s 02/25/66, which makes him 22 days younger than me!

In Homecoming, the Mayor gives deputy Alan Finch some words of advice and encouragement. He says, “you have all my faith.”
This line foreshadows Faith’s future, as Alan Finch’s life is the catalyst that brings about Faith’s darkening.
Later, when Faith and the Mayor team up, the Mayor commonly refers to Faith as “my Faith”.

I noticed an interesting part in “Triangle“. It can be seen at 21:15 in the scene where Anya accused Olaf of cheating. When Olaf hammers the display case of goodies, the shelf did not break and some of the cakes aren’t even smushed. I thought the hammer was supposed to be powerful and heavy, but it didn’t disturb the shelf or the sweets.

Has anyone else noticed the similarities between Spike and the character Pike played by Luke Perry in the original Buffy movie? The hair-do, the leather jacket, the similar names: Pike vs. Spike….the whole motorcycle thing….I always wondered if Joss Whedon had maybe modelled Spike on Pike from the movie…

Goof seen at 46:01 in Bargaining Part 1

When the Hellions attack the Scoobies at Buffy’s grave and Xander tells Anya and Tara to run, the two are seen sprinting towards the woods at 45:58, but in the next shot they are still standing at the graveside, at 46:01.

Goof seen at 45:20 in Bargaining Part 1

When the Scoobies are gathered around Buffy’s grave doing the resurrection spell, the Buffybot runs into the scene and comes to a stop at 45:18, but in the next shot she is shown running and stopping again, at 45:20.

The character of Kate Lockley was originally going to be introduced in an abandoned episode called ‘Corrupt’, in which she was a cop deep under cover as a prostitute, and heavily addicted to drugs. This episode was abandoned two days before production was scheduled to begin, because the network said that it was ‘too dark’. Corrupt was then replaced by the Angel Season 1 episode, ‘Lonely Hearts‘.

Wesley explains that the word “shanshu” means “to live and die” (in other words, to live a mortal life). The episode’s title, “To Shanshu in L.A.,” can then be translated “To Live and Die in L.A.” — the title of both a rap song by Tupac and a 1985 film directed by William Friedkin.

Goof seen at 35:40 in Intervention

As Spike’s making his getaway from Glory, he heads towards the lift which pings and goes down. But who pushed the button for it? Spike wasn’t close enough to when it starts to move, and when he falls on top, through the hatch and it reaches the ground floor, we can see there’s no-one inside it or waiting. It works all by itself!

In the episode Sleeper Aimme Mann sings her song “Pavlov’s Bell”. The title of this song references Pavlov’s experiment with dogs, where he would ring a bell before giving them food. It got to the stage that every time the bell would ring the dogs would salivate in anticipation of the food, even when none was given to them. Thus the dogs were conditioned to the trigger of the bell, much like this episode shows that Spike has been conditioned to a trigger.

Willow’s wishes for Buffy then a million dollars in Triangle could be a reference to the pilot episode of Friends - Ross says he just wants to be married again and Rachel enters Central Perk in a wedding dress, and then Chandler says he just wants a million dollars

Goof seen at 29:09

In the episode Sacrifice, when Gunn & Fred come through the grate out of the sewers to look for Matthew, (29:09), Fred’s jacket is fastened, but then when we see them turn thew corner at 29:29, her jacket is now open.

Seen at 37:10

In Supersymmetry, if you look at the floor in the lab, you can see two marks on the floor. These are probably marks made so that the cast know where the special effects are going to be for the portal.

In “I Robot, You Jane,” Buffy makes a big deal out of how her hair looks after she was electrocuted. She then goes to the computer lab and discovers Dave’s body, but when she comes back, her hair’s back to normal. Surely she didn’t stop to brush it in the midst of all that was happening?

All of the TV shows Spike watches or references are soap operas: Passions, Dawson’s Creek, and Falconcrest.

In Hush, the whole of Sunnydale has gone silent. Joyce Summers is in Sunnydale. Why is it that Buffy doesn’t even once wonder how her mother is? The Gentlemen might have taken her heart when Buffy wasn’t there!

In The Witch, Amy in her mother’s body is eating something when Giles and Buffy turn up at her house. When she puts it down, we hear a packet rustle. When we see a shot of the food a bit later, there is no packet, and the brownies are just sitting on the plate. Why did they rustle???

In Prophecy Girl, Buffy is bitten by the Master before he opens the Hellmouth. Later, when she is revived, we see a few shots that show the side of her neck that got bitten, but there is no sign of a bite, and it doesn’t seem to hurt.

In Reptile Boy if you look carefully you can clearly see where the top and bottom halfs of the costume join.

This really isn’t a goof (I guess), just more of a thing that I don’t buy and that bugs me.

In The Dark Age, Giles wants Buffy to meet him outside the hospital at “8:30 sharp.” That night, Buffy has enough time to wait around for him, attempt to call him, fight the bad guys, talk with Angel, and run/walk to Giles’. When she gets there, they talk for minute and then he pushes her away. He then calls Deidre and says, “I realize it is 5 in morning there.” If it was 5:00AM in London, it would be 9:00PM in Sunnydale (southern California).

So all the time between Buffy getting to the hospital and Giles making the phone call was all in half in hour? It isn’t impossible, just improbable (Of course, I am assuming Deidre was still London which isn’t too farfetched).

In ‘The killer in me’, when the potentials have all gone off with Giles, Buffy goes down to the basement to chat with Spike, and revels in the fact that she has her bathroom to herself for 2 whole days.

I was under the impression there was only the one bathroom in the Summers house. The one with 2 doors, one leading into the main (now Buffy’s) bedroom, and one into the upstairs landing. If so where were Willow, Dawn, Andrew, Xander, Anya and Spike going to er… use the facilities?

Seen at 39.24 minutes:
Tara goes to the stairs with her hands fold to her chest. Then she passes by Willow with her hands down, and in the next cut to her the hands are fold again.

I swear there’s a visual reference to the movie Grease in the episode Flooded.
Towards the end of the episode, when Buffy steps out onto her back porch a lit cigarette butt lands at her feet, and she immediately knows who flicked it. Buffy extinguishes it with her (stylish yet affordable) shoe, in a manner very similar to Olivia Newton John at the start of the number “You’re the one that I want”.
Or maybe it’s just the flu delirium talkin’.

Alexis Denisof recently appeared in Alyson Hannigan’s sitcom How I Met Your Mother.

He plays the character Robin’s news co-anchor, Sandy Rivers, in the episode Nothing Happens After 2AM.

In As You Were, Anya says to Xander:

“Well, the Gnarals are teleporting in in twenty minutes”

This is very similar and pronounced the same as Gnarl from season 7’s Same Time Same Place.

In Surprise, Uncle Enyos says to Jenny, “The time for watching has past!” It can be seen as a parallel for Jenny and Giles because Giles is a watcher.

In Doomed when Buffy and the gang are fighting the demons at the High School, in the scene where Xander is against the wall fighting the demon (35:40), if you look behind him at Spike, you can see he is in vamp face but when we next see him he has his normal face on and doesn’t vamp out until he realises he can hurt demons.

In Killed By Death, when Buffy snaps Der Kindestod’s neck his hat fall of his hat and onto the pipe behind him (38:53 approx) but in the next shot the hat seems to have disappeared.

At the end of Never Leave Me when we see Spike being held over the seal, his positioning is not quite right.

When we see the camera angles from behind Spike, his position is not directly over the seal. From this position it looks to me as if it’s just his head and shoulders that are over the seal.

At 09:07 minutes into the episode The Wish in Season three. You see an extra in the background pictured between Anya and Cordelia. She obviously does not know she is in shot as she hesitates before deciding to walk.

Can anyone draw up a detailed floorplan for the Summers’ house? Upstairs & down. (Based, of course on what we see of the house). I can’t quite picutre how it’s laid out in my head. That would be really cool to have available here.

In The Witch, seen at 19:34.

Cordy puts on her seatbelt as soon as she gets in the car. When the teacher tells everyone to get out, she never undoes she seatbelt (and there isn’t time for her to do it offscreen), but next we see it’s undone.

In “The Initiative” (4-07), when Spike is in Willow’s room and the Initiative burst in and the big fight ensues, Spike is clearly fighting them off. The most blaintant part of the goof is when Spike uses the fire extinguisher to hit one of them in the head, and his chip didn’t go off.