![]() ![]() one which reminded the step-parent of their partner's former love, even more so. A stepchild would be more likely to be in for abuse, and a red-headed one, i.e. Justice for gingers :Lyle Gorch tells his brother that he's going to "beat him like a red-headed stepchild." Where this quite common phrase comes from is unclear, but what it means sadly isn't. They're still going, with varieties available including the Digital Doggie, Compu Kitty and Komputer Koala. When these became hard to obtain in the USA, a local company started to produce Giga-pets as a Tamagotchi rip-off. The classic electronic pet was, of course, the Japanese Tamagotchi. The demanding cyber-critters must be fed, played with, taken to the bathroom and so on, all managed by pressing the appropriate buttons. Giga-pets were electronic pets which consisted of an animation of a cute animal on a pocket-sized screen. Tamagotchi torture: Faced with caring for her egg, Buffy confesses to having killed her Giga-pet to show how unsuited she is for the task. It also crops up in Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire. It seems that vamps can get by on sewer chicken for quite a while - as will be revealed about Angel. They can't even find themself anything better to eat than rat. Rat kebab: Lyle and Tector Gorch seem to be either particularly cautious or particularly pathetic vampires. If you want to make a dreidel of your very own, here's a pattern. Children play a game with it, and sing the dreidel song, which goes: A dreidel is a small squarish spinning top used in the celebration of the Jewish festival of Hannukah. That doesn't sound too much like our cuddly cheerful Xander really - maybe Giles was being sarcastic.ĭear little dreidel: As Willow's egg is Jewish, Xander suggests she teach it "that dreidel song" instead. Lying, cheating and cruelty were all fine in Machiaveli's eyes, so long as they got the job done. Machiavelli lived in Italy in the fifteenth century and is mostly famed for writing a book called The Prince, about how to get into power and stay there. Well, it makes sense - he is dead after all.īut, without wanting to give too much away, can he really be 100 percent sure?Ĭheating as a road to success: On learning that Xander hard-boiled his egg, Giles admits his tactic has a certain "Machiavelian ingenuity." No diddy demons to dandle: The whole egg parenthood business prompts Angel to reveal to Buffy that he, like all vampires, can't have children. It was remade in 1978 with Leonard Nimoy - Spock from Star Trek - as one of the leads. The egg-evil's "neural clamping" also parallels the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Conspiracy, in which back-of-neck neural parasites infiltrate Starfleet command.įinally, the calm and collected subservience of the Bezoar-controlled people strongly calls to mind the classic '50s chiller Invasion of the Bodysnatchers. The creatures' taste for clamping the back of the neck is similar to the Tingler of William Castle's 1959 film of the same name - which played in theatres with seats rigged up to buzz people's bottoms and make them scream. The scene where the egg-creature whips around Buffy's bedroom is particularly reminiscient of a scene in Aliens, where Ripley only just manages to protect a little girl from an alien under the bed. Most obvious is Alien, another film where vile monsterspawn leap still wet from eggs to infest people's bodies. ![]() Horror movie homage: The plot of this episode makes a lot of movie references. Is there really anything out there that could make Buffy look fat? Even a flour sack would look good on her. Thin pickings: When told by her mum that she can't have an outfit because it makes her look like a streetwalker, Buffy protests "but like a thin streetwalker." Now come on.
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