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Mostly Filler, Installment 28
2:16, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

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Dru, Amy, Buffy

Cordy, Jenny, lunch lady

and all the Cordettes

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Funniest Moment:

"There's just two other girls..." Ah, Harmony, way to have self esteem there. And also excellent grammar.

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Favorite Character: Cordelia

I'm not always the biggest fan of Charisma's acting, but she's at her best in this episode. The look on her face when it dawns on her that Xander's spell was for her is priceless. And her speech at the end - well I stand up and cheer every time.

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Best Dressed: Cordelia

This dress is exquisite. I want it.

Worst Dressed: Buffy

Fur is so out...

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Musings

• Jenny is just so graceful and so pretty, and darn it, I just hate that she really gets the shaft in this show.
• Good lines: Buffy: I just think you could find someone more... better. Xander: What, were you running low on dramatic irony? Xander: Quit with the Hecate! Spike: ...what rhymes with lung?
• I actually rather like Valentine's Day, which is odd, since I'm not a fan of Hallmark :)
• I love Harmony's complete and utter lack of wit. Her insults are so stupid they're funny, especially in comparison to the never-ending wit that the Scoobies have.
• What are the color-chart-looking poster things in Cordy's locker? Does anyone know?
• I love the music right after the spell is cast.
• Xander is great with his hopefulness and the crushing realization that it's a spell and Buffy is under it. Ouch.
• When Buffy says, I'll calm down when you explain yourself, she sounds just like her mother, which is a pretty cool touch (intentional? who knows) since we all channel our parents occasionally.
• It's interesting that the angriest Giles ever gets with the gang is whenever one of them misuses magic. I love the character development of Giles throughout the whole series, especially the explanations of his Ripper days, which is why he's so leary of magic abuse.
• Adding the lunch lady to the throng of Xander-admirers was a nice touch.

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Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered Fanart

Harmony, you're a sheep.

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Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered Drabble

They All Fell

But don’t you see? We were meant to be together. You and me, we share this bond. I mean, sure, there have been others. I’ve done pretty well for myself, actually. Lots of dates, some good times. But I see now that none of that was real. That was all just preparation, practice for finding my true love, which is obviously you, Xander. It’s been you all this time; I can’t believe I didn’t see it.

Look, I really…

No, don’t talk. Look in my eyes. I know you feel it, too.

Look, Larry, we talked about this. I’m not…

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Maybe it's a vampire bat

Mostly Filler, Installment #11
1:11 Out of Mind, Out of Sight

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unseen and crazy
out for popular revenge
flute playing trickster

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Funniest Moment:

"Me, me me! It's all about me!" And sure enough, it is.

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Favorite Character: Cordelia

I just can't help myself. And instead of trying to explain why, we'll just do the ever-popular Cordy Quote-a-thon.

No, C for Wilma, Little Brain.
I don't think I need the loony fringe vote.
My eyes are Hazel, Helen Keller.
Behold the weirdness.
...with you being so weird and all, hanging out with these total losers.
I was kind of hoping you were in a gang.

The epitome of insensitve. After all, tact is just not saying true stuff. And then her whole "it's so lonely to be me" speech. Too funny. And worrying about her prom pictures when her date's been beaten up? Wow. So she's not my favorite in a let's be best friends sort of way, but she's just so godawful, that you know she's got some growing to do. (Of course, when that happens, many of us realize that the tactless, biotch Cordy was really a lot less pedantic, but that's a musing for another day.)

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Best Dressed: Buffy

Behold the cuteness. I'm not normally a fan of pink, but this fabric is just yummy. I love that skirt length - so much better than this season's "is that a skirt or a belt?" thing Buffy has going on. Plain white T-shirt, but very feminine - gotta love that. This outfit is casual in a going to school sort of way, so much more logical than some of the less practical ensembles she sports throughout this season.

Worst Dressed: Cordelia and Harmony

Whoa, this is just too much seafoam green nausea in one place. I love monochrome outfits - but not in pastels. Ugh. And furthermore, why does Harmony have that lime green scarf with those pants? I just don't get it.

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Musings, in no particular order:

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  Hmmm, the first invisibility episode. I would have liked to see Marcie come back later. She could have fit into any subsequent season as a black hat or a white hat. Could have been working for the initiative. Could have been a potential. Could have been just incidental somewhere. Darn it.


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  While the "be my deputy" scene was awfully funny, it was painful, too. I mean, who hasn't been there, with that outsider, I am the biggest dork, feeling?


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  And speaking of that feeling, why on earth does our heroine still give two hoots what Cordelia thinks? Has she not yet figured out her extreme coolness factor? Come on, Buffy, pay attention.


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  Snyder. "There are no dead students here...this week." I can't help feeling sorry for the guy.


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  Harmony would not have tumbled the whole way down that flight of stairs. Give me a break.


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  The first (I think) indication that Xander's family is a little dysfunctional: "Do you guys even have a stove?"


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  Giles love! The guy all of a sudden has new respect for Angel when he offers to find him a book. Holy geek. And, "Once again, I teeter at the precipice of the generation gap." Ah, he has such a way with words.


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  I sincerely doubt that the little tape player with the flute tape in it would have sounded the whole way upstairs.


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  So, invisibility. I'll tell you what I wouldn't do, and that's make a little house in the ceiling. Ugh. What would you do? I want to know.

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Out of Mind, Out of Sight Icons - Willow and Xander goodness!

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Out of Mind, Out of Sight Drabble

What would you do if you could be invisible? A serious talk between slayer and watcher.

Well, I can’t say as I’ve given the possibility any thought, actually.

Come on, Giles, after the whole Marcie deal? You must have, a little. Xander wanted to sneak into the museum and see if the dinosaurs come alive at night. And our ever-adventurous Willow wanted to get her hands on her mom’s off-limits psychology books.

And you, Buffy? You’d use invisibility to enhance your slaying, no doubt?

Sure! The vampires wouldn’t know what hit ‘em. They’d be like, I smell a slayer, but where? You know, because of how evil things can smell stuff? And then, poof, dusty goodness.

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...but he was eaten!

Mostly Filler, Installment #9

1:9 Puppet Show

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organ harvest ew

inanimate or alive

many wiggins had

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Funniest Moment:

I actually found this whole episode pretty hilarious, but the end here is priceless.

"I don't get it."

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Favorite Character: Cordelia

Cordy really has her funny on in this one. There's the "something wrong with my hair!" moment. And the, "Ew, even Mrs. Franklin?" And don't forget, "But I didn't do the part with the sparklers."

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Best Dressed: Buffy

What can I say? I'm a total sucker for basic black and and updo.

Worst Dressed: Xander/Willow/Buffy

This trio of outfits is just,,,,wow. Poor Xander. Usually he's got the shirts of weirdness, and sometimes I like them, sometimes not. But here the poor guy just has road-sign-looking pajamas. And Willow, it's just too much. I mean, I like fabrics and patterns and sometimes mixing them in an unconventional way. But the fuzzy stripes with whatever those pants are is seriously making me seasick. And as for Buffy, a leopard-print mini-dress is just a bad idea, period. If I had to pick a winner (worst dressed, that is), it'd probably be Willow. But it's the combination of all three together that makes me wonder.

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Musings, in no particular order

• Enter Principal Snyder. Oh, he's fun. You can never really decide how to feel about him, at least I can't. He's obviously somewhat of a jackass who doesn't like kids. (I'm not equating those two traits, by the way - perfectly nice people can be not especially fond of children.) Principal Snyder's funny moment: "...that's the kind of wooly-headed liberal thinking that leads to being eaten." Principal Snyder's what the hey moment: He catches Buffy at the locker, tells her to go home and then walks away. When will these principals learn not to walk away from someone who's up to something? (I guess I'm stifling the plot here, eh?)


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  I laugh every time when Buffy sinks down into the auditorium seat and the tuba simultaneously sounds a low note. Well, right, all tuba notes are low. Still, it's funny.


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  Holy cardigan, batman! Giles is wearing a sweater instead of tweed for once.


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  I love it when Xander saves the day. It happens pretty often, but it's always sort of low-key, not all bravado like when anyone else is the day-saver.


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  Where the frilly heck was everyone during the demon fight scene at the end??


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  So Sid thinks Buffy is the demon. This is a nice bit of groundwork/foreshadow/whatever you want to call it for the eventual revelation of where slayer power comes from.

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Puppet Show Drabble

Morgan finds Sid

After the diagnosis, Morgan’s dad had tried unsuccessfully to cope with the stress of the hospital visits, the failed treatments, and ultimately the idea that his son would probably not live long enough to attend college. Now Morgan and his mom were just trying to enjoy life, before the brain tumor got the best of him. They spent a lot of time together, talking, bird watching, window shopping. Morgan rarely asked for anything on their shopping trips, so when he’d pointed to the wooden dummy on the antique store shelf, she’d laughed. Sure, why not? It’s a little creepy, though.

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Aren't you just going oooo?

Welcome to the very first installment of what promises to be a Buffy Blogging Extravaganza like no other. Sure, I know, lots of people have blogged or otherwise published their Buffy episode guides for the enjoyment of readers everywhere. But since there can never, you heard me, NEVER, be too much Buffy, welcome to MY episode guide, Mostly Filler, which will contain a fun combination of musings, quotes, art, drabble, best and worst dressed, and - you guessed it - haiku! Thanks for reading, comments are welcomed and appreciated, and please sign up to your right to get regular updates by email, because I know you'd hate to miss a single episode.

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Mostly Filler, Installment #1
1:1 Welcome to the Hellmouth

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dead guy in locker

no no not again says buff

but she's the chosen

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Funniest Moment:

"What did you do, send away for the Time Life series?"

"Actually, yes."

And this is the moment I fell in love with Giles. Oh Mr. Giles, you are so suave, so nerdy, so fashion challenged, and so British. Rupert, I will love you with all my heart forever. Or, um, until Spike shows up...

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Favorite Character: Cordelia

What?? OK, well, she wouldn't have been my favorite after the first watching, but we're on about number 42 now, and my perspective has changed. Knowing how our Cordy will grow later makes her all the more charming now. And she is the first "love to hate" character to show up. So far we're sympathetic to everyone else. Aw, Joyce, you're starting over and doing your bestest to be a good mom. Aw, Willow, you're an unloved geek. Aw, Xander and Jesse, I remember what it was like to be a social outcast. The Aw list goes on. But Cordelia ain't on it. Plus she's got some really great lines. "Morbid much?" "Way dead." (And the great tradition of Buffy-speak begins!) "I don't mean to interrupt your downward mobility, but I just wanted to tell you that you won't be meeting Coach Foster, the one with the chest hair, due to the extreme dead guy in the locker."

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Best Dressed: The Master

Whoa, holy Hitler outfit, yikes. Plus, it's obviously been sprayed with that stain repellant stuff, as evidenced by the way he rises from the pool of blood without so much as a drip.

Worst Dressed: unnamed "black death" teacher

Ummm...

(BTW, second place here goes to Buffy herself - what is with that honkin' purple ring??)

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Musings, in no particular order

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  Since when do kids check out textbooks for class from the library? Is this normal?


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  Joyce, dear, your kid burned down a gym not too long ago. Why is she allowed to go to a club right off the bat? And furthermore, why is there a club with kids and grownups at it? Is this normal? Perhaps it is and I just don't know about it because I lead a sheltered life. Or perhaps it's a California thing?


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  Why is it that in all TV classrooms the bell rings in the middle of a sentence and class ends? The teachers I had were all a little more organized than that. Just sayin'.


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  Intro to Willow, and you see right off the bat that she's in love with Xander. Oh, the angst. Just you wait, girl. Better times a-comin'. You don't know it now, but you're going to snag the coolest boyfriend AND the coolest girlfriend.


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  Principal Flutie, what's with the high-pitched girlie voice?


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  It floors me how good the writing is right off the bat and how well the personalities are established by what they say. Xander: Very suave, very not pathetic. Cordy: John Tesh? Buffy: The devil. (well duh!) Willow: Aren't you hanging out with Cordelia? Buffy: Can't I do both? Willow: Not legally. Xander: ...building a really little fence. Cordy: I have to call everyone I have ever met right now. Buffy: Can you vague that up for me? Buffy: It's a whole big sucking thing.


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  I didn't actually know what the Watchtower was, and yikes, now I'm sorry I looked it up. Scary religious people. Ugh.


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  The Master has slightly pointy ears. Is he part Vulcan? Hmmm.


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  Foreshadowing - Buffy: It's not like I have all these fluffy bunny feelings for them...


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  Angel is so boring at this point he's hardly worth a bullet point. Except to say that he looks soooo young, and he ages a whole bunch in later seasons. But they do a pretty good job of keeping him looking the same age after the first season.


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  The memory I get from this episode is back in high school, never being able to remember my gym locker combination. Seriously, I never could, and I hated gym so much and was so scared of the gym teachers that it was just a nightmare. I would write it down and then lose it. Gym class=major trauma. God, it's good to be old and have the badness that was high school and college fade more and more each day.

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Welcome to the Hellmouth Drabble (which, by the way, for any non-internet-junkies among you, is a little fiction of exactly 100 words)

Giles’ thoughts after meeting Buffy
Dear Lord, I traveled 7000 bloody miles* for this? She’s obviously not had any proper training. What does she mean retired? Wouldn’t you think with a calling as important as hers she might dress sensibly? And this weather. I have yet to see a raindrop. It’s a wonder everyone here hasn’t gone blind from the incessant brightness. Furthermore, I can’t remember when I last had a decent cup of tea. I should have just let the council send that Wyndham-Price fellow like they wanted to. Ah well, I expect she’ll come around. And at least no students visit the library.

*Here's a funny: Go to Google maps and type in "los angeles california to london England" – read number 30.

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