"SCHOOL'S OUT." BtVS Intertext/Allusion.

Track from shock rocker, Alice Cooper’s 1972 album School’s Out alluded to by Spike in the Season Seven finale "Chosen." The lyrics "School’s out for summer/School’s out forever/School’s been blown to pieces" are particularly apposite as Sunnydale High is completely destroyed in the final battle against the First.

 

The following dialogue is taken from the Buffy Dialogue Database:

 

SPIKE: Go on, then.

BUFFY: No! No, you’ve done enough! You could still—

SPIKE: No, you’ve beaten them back. It’s for me to do the cleanup.

FAITH: Buffy, come on!

SPIKE: Gotta move, lamb. I think it’s fair to say, school’s out for the bloody summer.

BUFFY: Spike!

SPIKE: I mean it! I gotta do this.

(Buffy reaches for his outstretched hand, their fingers lace, then burst into flame)

 

 

 

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