Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 3 Episode 6 (FULL REACTION)
Added 2025-04-06 17:37:10 +0000 UTC 
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Remember the song Giles and Joyce listen to in his apartment. It comes back :)
Mike Koziela
2025-04-09 13:36:24 +0000 UTCYessssssss!!! Love your comments! (Also, we'll get some funnies from this episode down the road a bit...)
Kirstie Brote
2025-04-07 17:22:01 +0000 UTCI love this episode so much, it also becomes even funnier/has some interesting character insights when you understand the different references. Also that is ASH's real accent (albeit perhaps dialed up a bit). Okay, let me see if I can remember all the references. Giles and Joyce listening to music together. Giles is jamming to Tales of Brave Ulysses by Cream off the Disraeli Gears album. When Joyce asks if he likes Seales and Croft, the 'WTF?' look he gives her is because Seales and Croft is about as far from Cream as you can get. Seales and Croft were a 70s soft rock duo, but think 'The Carpenters' if Karen and Richard Carpenter were two hippy Bah'ai practitioners who produced incredibly uninspired folky sounding 'rock' music. It's also interesting that Joyce almost immediately says, "Me neither' in response to the look Giles gives her, kind of indicating that at least when she was younger she was willing to pretend to be someone she wasn't in order for others to like her. Snyder talking about a one word name like Barbarino is referring to the character of Vinnie Barbarino (played by John Travolta) in the 70s TV show 'Welcome Back Kotter'. Vinnie Barbarino is a character who is both cool, but also kind of nerdy, a resident heart throb of the neighbourhood, who is also the leader of the cool gang in town and appears to get a lot of women. Snyder associating himself with a character like Vinnie Barbarino shows just how far removed the person he wanted to be or wanted to be seen as is from the person he actually was/became. The outfit Joyce admires in the shop window, when she calls it 'very Juice Newton' looks absolutely nothing like a Juice Newton outfit (I'd say more Stevie Nicks if anything). I think that's more of a writer and/or set dresser issue though. Two of Juice Newton's biggest/best known hits (Queen of Hearts and Angel of the Morning) would have come out around the same year Buffy was born, so Joyce may have had dreadful taste in music but it sounds like she kept up with the latest stuff at least (although having said that Queen of Hearts is catchy as f*ck). I also love how this episode essentially illustrates how ridiculous wars of the generations really are, because every generation that came after the previous one did stuff that was considered stupid, weird, not understood, to be mocked, was going to bring about the fall of western civilisation, etc etc. Every. Single. Generation. And yes that includes my own (Gen X). Younger people are supposed to question their parents generation, they're supposed to challenge the old order and figure things out for themselves; they're supposed to wear fashions and listen to music that older generations don't get. That's part of growing up, it's part of a young persons journey to figuring out who they are as a person. It's a good thing.
Claire Eyles
2025-04-07 13:28:04 +0000 UTC
