After being possessed by Eyghon, Jenny says to Giles in The Dark Age, “I mean, I’m not running around, wind in my hair, ‘The hills are alive with the sound of music’ fine, but… I’m coping.” This is a quote from the title song of the musical The Sound of Music (1959) written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. It was made into a movie starring Julie Andrews in 1965.
Buffy also mentions the song in Beauty and the Beasts when she says, “Three-dimensional, Sensurround, The Hills Are Alive…”
In That Vision Thing, Lorne says, “You’re Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music.”
April 7th, 2006 at 7:21 am
I can’t remember exactly because I haven’t watched this episode in a while, but when Buffy says this line does Giles get a kind of, I don’t know, a wistful look or something? Like he was remembering Jenny saying that? Or am I just cracked?
April 10th, 2006 at 10:18 pm
In would have to check it out but I think that the episodes are close enough timewise where a line like that could bring up a memory of Giles’ about Jenny.