Episode Trivia
48 Hours
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Lorne references the 1982 film 48 Hours, starring Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte in 2.18 Dead End.
Lorne: “Two enemies, one case, it’s all coming together in a beautiful buddy movie kind of way”
Gunn: “They’re supposed to work together on this?”
Lindsey: “Work with him? Work with him?
Lorne: “Am I the only one who saw 48 Hours?”
David Greenwalt’s voice
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After Angel pays the delivery man in 2.18 Dead End, we hear the following off screen:
“Wow. A whole dollar just for me. I’m the luckiest delivery man ever.”
This is the voice of producer David Greenwalt. He told City Of Angel:
“And I also made him cheap, which I love, that this big hero who stands for ‘fight the good fight’ is also kind of cheap with a buck. You know, anything that humanizes him. It’s like he didn’t tip the delivery boy very well when he comes with [lunch] for Cordelia.” The scene David is referring to appears in ‘2.18 Dead End‘ as Angel hands the ‘delivery boy’ (whom you never see) a dollar at the front door of the Hyperion. The camera follows Angel through the shot as you hear, off camera, a voice saying, “Wow! A whole dollar just for me, I’m the luckiest delivery man ever.” David gladly confesses, “That was me. I did that voiceover. I really wanted to do that line.”"
How you doin’?
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A scene from 2.18 Dead End in which Cordelia, Wesley and Gunn observing Angel after his night out with Lindsey for signs of reversion to the dark side was cut for length:
Gunn: “How you doin’?”
Angel: (so dark and grim) “How am I doing’? How am I doin’? How’s it look like I’m doin’?
(The three exchange a look: uh-oh)
Wesley: “Angel… you need to get a grip on yourself”
Angel: “No, I need to get a grip on… (grabs Wes)… you!”
(I’m not saying Wes hollers like a girl as Angel bursts out laughing)
Angel: “That was so great, the look on your faces”
Cordelia: “That was not great. There was no greatness about that”
(She hits him with a book or something)
Angel: “What, I can’t have any fun?”
Gunn: “Didn’t fool me”
(Gunn slips the stake he had in his hand back under the reception desk).
Jetsons
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The following is from 2.18 Dead End:
Angel to Lindsey: “Oh, I really like this truck. ‘56, right? First year they had that wrap-around windshield. You know, back in the fifties we all thought life was gonna be like in The Jetsons by now. Air cars, robots. - I’d love to have an air car. Wouldn’t that be cool?”
The Jetsons is a prime-time animated television series that was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. It aired on Sunday nights on ABC from September 23, 1962 to March 3, 1963. Like The Flintstones, it was a half-hour family sitcom projecting contemporary American culture and lifestyle into another time period. While the Flintstones lived in a world with machines powered by birds and dinosaurs, the Jetsons lived in a retro-futuristic (although not retro at the initial date of production) utopia of elaborate robotic contraptions, aliens, holograms, and whimsical inventions.
L.A.
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Executive producer David Greenwalt wrote the song, entitled ‘L.A.’, that Christian Kane (Lindsay) sings in the episode 2.18 Dead End. Here are the lyrics:
Pretty girl on every corner
Sunshine turns the sky to gold
Warm, warm, it’s always warm here
I can’t take the coldStreets littered with diamond
Everyone is glistening
This whole world shines so brightly
I can’t see a thingShe is pretty as a picture
She is like a golden ring
Circles me with love and laughter
I can’t feel a thingSky’s gonna open
People gonna pray and crawl
Gonna rain down fire
Gonna burn us allSky’s gonna open
People gonna pray and sing
I can’t feel a thing
In 5.15 A Hole In The World, Lorne, Spike and Angel go to Lindsey’s apartment and find Eve there. Lorne tells Eve to sing for him and she sings a line from Lindsay’s song: “Pretty as a picture. She is like a golden ring”.
The lyric “Gonna rain down fire, gonna burn us all” could be a foreshadowing to 4.07 Apocalypse, Nowish, in which there is a literal rain of fire.
Under the influence?
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Spike and Angel inquire on the sobriety of the people around them in the following instances:
5.21 The Weight Of The World:
Spike: Uh … Will? Now, uh, don’t turn me into a horned toad for asking, but … what if we come across Ben?
Willow: I-I don’t think a doctor’s what Buffy needs right now.
Spike: Well, yeah, especially not one who also happens to be Glory.
Giles: What do you mean?
Spike: You know. Ben is Glory.
Willow: You mean … Ben’s with Glory?
Xander: “With” in what sense?
Anya: They’re working together?
Spike: No. No. Ben is Glory. Glory’s Ben. They’re one and the same.
Anya: When did all this happen?
Spike: Not one hour ago! Right here, before your very eyes! Ben came, he turned into Glory, snatched the kid, and pfft! Vanished, remember? You do remember…? Is everyone here very stoned?
Cordy to Lindsey: “Hi. You probably don’t remember me. Cordelia. I know you’re evil - and everything, but that was just so amazing.”
Gunn: “That was kind of tight.”
Wesley: “Terrific, really.”
Angel: “Is everyone drunk?”