"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Fool for Love (2000)

User Rating:

8.9/10   

Director:

Nick Marck

Writers:

Joss Whedon (creator)
Douglas Petrie (written by)

TV Series:

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997)

Original Air Date:

14 November 2000 (Season 5, Episode 7)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Fantasy

Plot:

While patrolling the cemetery, the self-confident Buffy fights against a vampire, is stabbed with her stake and saved by Riley...

Plot Keywords:

Heroine | Woman's Neck Broken | Lesbian | Female Protagonist | Sister Sister Relationship

Cast

Sarah Michelle Gellar	...	Buffy Summers
Nicholas Brendon	...	Xander Harris
Alyson Hannigan	...	Willow Rosenberg
Marc Blucas	...	Riley Finn
Emma Caulfield	...	Anya
Michelle Trachtenberg	...	Dawn Summers
James Marsters	...	Spike
Anthony Head	...	Rupert Giles (as Anthony Stewart Head)
David Boreanaz	...	Angel
Mercedes McNab	...	Harmony Kendall
Julie Benz	...	Darla
Juliet Landau	...	Drusilla
Kristine Sutherland	...	Joyce Summers
Kali Rocha	...	Cecily Addams
Edward Fletcher	...	Male Partygoer

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-PG

Company:

Mutant Enemy

Trivia:

On the DVD commentary, episode writer 'Doug Petrie' says that the scene in which Spike and Angelus are fighting and trying to stake each other while Darla and Druscilla look on with glee is a not-very-subtle allegory for female enjoyment of male homoeroticism.

Goofs:

Boom mic visible: At 28:02, when the camera circles around Spike to pick up Buffy, you can see the tip of the boom microphone come into frame as well, bobbing above her head.

Quotes:

Xander: What's with the hand move? You see that? Does that, like, mean something?
Willow: It's code. I-I think it breaks down to 'Choo-choo!'
Anya: It probably means to follow him. That, or wait here for him.
Willow: [whispers] Ask.
Xander: [yells] Hey, Riley! What's the, uh -
[makes hand gesture]
Xander: all about?
Riley: It means yell real loud so the vampires who don't know we're comin' will have a sporting chance.
Xander: See, now he's all mad and sarcastic.
Willow: That's cuz you were doing all the yelling, Mr. Stealthy Pants.

Oh Lord -won't you buy me...

Easily in the top 10% of all episodes (144). The ark of Spike is told in a great epic flood of images over an incredible expanse of time. --At least for a 44 minute, small screen effort. The hoops used to needlework this yarn only require a thimble-full of Buffy-verse knowledge. The title (summary) I've chosen refers to a great chassis and body of work. The two women that have provided 60 episodes worth of counterpoint and vampirism between them (on Angel & Buffy) are BOTH in this episode. ---If you still need a clue, McNab & Julie are each a vehicle here. Mercedes & Benz. If Janis is rolling one in her grave over this, let her rise up and bite me.