The day the songs started

In Selfless, we see a flashback to a night that obviously is intended to have taken place during the musical Once More, With Feeling, on the first night that everyone began singing. Anya asks Xander if the coconut thing was weird. In the musical she told the gang, “We were arguing and, and then everything rhymed and there were harmonies and the dance with coconuts.” Outside Xander and Anya’s apartment we hear the neighbours singing: a man sings that he has mustard on his favourite shirt, and a woman suggests that he have it dry cleaned. The next morning in the musical, David Fury sang a brief song that he was pleased that the dry cleaners had got the mustard out. Marti Noxon and David Fury reprise their roles in Selfless. In the scene where Anya sings ‘Mrs’, Xander is holding the amulet that was used to summon Sweet in Once More, With Feeling.

   
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    4 Comments about “The day the songs started”

    1. Lilwenn says:

      Those are probably already listed somewhere, but I just didn’t see them.

      In Selfless, Xander mumbles something like “I just want… happy… ending…” which is a reference to Once More, With Feeling, where he said “I just wanted to make sure we’d work out. Get a happy ending.”

      Also, in “Mrs.”, Anya sings “I’m good with math”, but in Doppelgängland she told D’Hoffryn she was “flunking math”.

    2. Abby M. says:

      When she says she is good with math she probably means like with money. She is good at counting money and working the register. Just a thought.

    3. Lilwenn says:

      Yeah, I realize she was probably referring to her capitalist tendancies, but I think it’s an interesting link anyhow.

    4. southerngem65 says:

      If you look closely, you will also notice that there are four or five coconuts on the kitchen counter while Anya is singing ‘Mrs.’

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