CliffsNotes are a series of student study guides available primarily in the United States. The guides present and explain literary and other works in pamphlet form or online. Endorsers say the guides help readers understand complex works, while detractors say they let students avoid even reading them. CliffsNotes have been referenced on the following occasions:
2.09 What’s My Line? (Part One)
Buffy: “Right. Well, then you know it’s a whole week of ‘what’s my line’, only… I don’t get to play. Sometimes I just want…”
Angel: “You want what?”
Buffy pauses
Angel: “It’s okay.”
Buffy: “The CliffsNotes version? I want a normal life. Like I had before.”
Xander: “Oh! Call of the Wild. Aren’t we reading the CliffsNotes to this for English?”
Anya: (holds up a notebook she was reading) “Nothing…and nothing. (holds up two other books, one in each hand) CliffsNotes to nothing. Nothing abridged…”
Cordelia: “I don’t know. I just get the visions, not the CliffsNotes.”
Lindsey: “Well, you get a little speechy, all right? And I breeze out. I got the CliffsNotes- honour and humanity. Absolute good. I heard it. So here’s the plot twist—I’m in.”
Related episodes: 2.09 What's My Line? (Part One), 3.04 Beauty And The Beasts, 4.10 Awakening, 5.22 Not Fade Away, 7.10 Bring On The Night
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Bakatulip on February 8th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
There’s also Anya’s line in Bring on the Night: Nothing. And nothing. Cliff’s Notes to nothing. Nothing abridged.
Meghann on February 9th, 2008 at 4:43 am
Thank you! I’ll edit it now. ;o)
Jess on February 16th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Thanks, Meghann. I added in another one for What’s My Line.