"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" Go Fish (1998)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

David Semel

Writers:

Joss Whedon (creator)
David Fury (written by) ...

TV Series:

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997)

Original Air Date:

5 May 1998 (Season 2, Episode 20)

Genre:

Action | Drama | Fantasy

Plot:

When several members of the Sunnydale High swim team are mysteriously skinned alive, Buffy and the gang take it upon themselves to protect the remaining members, which results in Xander revealing a side of himself rarely seen.

Plot Keywords:

Sauna | Hero Gone Bad | Diving | Shower Scene | Heroine

Cast

Sarah Michelle Gellar	...	Buffy Summers
Nicholas Brendon	...	Xander Harris
Alyson Hannigan	...	Willow Rosenberg
Charisma Carpenter	...	Cordelia Chase
David Boreanaz	...	Angelus
Anthony Head	...	Rupert Giles (as Anthony Stewart Head)
Charles Cyphers	...	Coach Carl Marin
Jeremy Garrett	...	Cameron Walker
Wentworth Miller	...	Gage Petronzi
Conchata Ferrell	...	Nurse Greenliegh
Armin Shimerman	...	Principal Snyder
Danny Strong	...	Jonathan Levinson
Jake Patellis	...	Dodd McAlvy
Shane West	...	Sean

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-PG

Company:

Mutant Enemy

Trivia:

Wentworth Miller's first screen credit.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Xander: All I'm saying is, it's a stupid idea to have a victory party at the beach.

Movie Connections:

References The Blue Lagoon (1980)

Soundtrack:

Three Times a Lady

some thoughts on vampires, drugs and blood-sucking

//Also, I think that this may be the only time that we see a vampire tasting drugs in someone's system. Why is that never mentioned again? Is Angelus tasting the monster-y fish thing that's about to emerge or the steroids themselves? If vampire's can really taste drugs, then it's a shame Spike doesn't test Buffy like that when she thinks that she's in a mental institution in season six's "Normal Again." Or when Riley's all pumped full of super-pills in season four's "The 'I' In Team." Just a thought.//

Actually, in "School Hard" Spike bragged that he'd been at Woodstock and fed of a flower person, and then spent the next six hours watching his hand move. Hm. This doesn't tell us if he TASTED the drugs or if he merely got affected by them. Perhaps it wasn't the taste of drugs that made Angelus spit out the blood, because, you know, maybe these swimmer boys had changed so much from the "drugs" that they no longer had human blood. Human blood, fish blood, pig blood... big difference.