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"Reptile Boy" is episode 5 of season 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
A girl jumps out of a second-floor window of a frat house and chased into a cemetery, where she is caught. Meanwhile, Buffy's gang are happy with the apparent lack of activity on the Hellmouth. Giles presses her to train harder, but she just wants to be a teenager. The next day at school, Cordelia introduces Buffy to two college guys, one of whom invites Buffy to a party. She turns him down, claiming she is involved with someone. Buffy goes on patrol and meets Angel, who smells blood on a bracelet on the ground. He says that their age difference is a problem and that she does not know what she wants in life. She runs off, upset.
Buffy decides to go to the frat party with Cordelia. She chooses not to tell Giles or Angel about her date. Later that night, Giles and Willow discover that the bracelet is from Kent Preparatory School, just outside of Sunnydale and where Buffy is partying. Angel appears and asks about Buffy. Willow tells the two men why Buffy lied to them. They then rush off to save Buffy and Cordelia.
At the party, Buffy tries to avoid drunken frat guys. Xander has sneaked in to protect Buffy, but other partygoers recognize him for a crasher and dress him up like a girl. Meanwhile, Buffy relents and decides to accept a drink. Drugged, she stumbles her way up to the bedroom where Cordelia is lying unconscious. When they wake up, they find themselves chained in a basement as an offering for a reptile demon named Machida. Cordelia is chosen as the first victim, but Buffy distracts the demon and breaks out of her chains.
Willow, Angel and Giles head to the frat party and meet up with Xander. They enter the house and beat up the frat guys. Buffy kills the demon, and the frat guys are arrested. Afterwards, everyone gathers at The Bronze. Angel appears and asks to have coffee with Buffy sometime. She plays it cool.
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[edit] Production Details
- Act of Faith - "Bring me on"
- Clement & Murray - "Devil's Lair"
- Clement & Murray - "Graffiti Sound"
- Clement & Murray - "If I Can't Have You"
- Clement & Murray - "Secrets"
- Clement & Murray - "Wolves"
- Louie Says - "She"
[edit] Cultural References
- The opening scene of this episode is reminiscent of an early episode of the sitcom Friends, in which the characters watch a show in another language and make up the words themselves.
- “You could join a fraternity of rich and powerful men…in Bizarro World.” – Bizarro World is a fictional world in the DC Universe on which everyone and everything are the opposite of Earth (Bizarro bonds lose money, which is considered a good thing on the world).
- Tom refers to the ‘drunken lout’ who charges Buffy as “The Hulk”.
[edit] Translations
- French title: "Dévotion" ("Devotion")
- Italian title: "Macabra festa" ("Macabre party")
- German title: "Der Geheimbund" ("The secret society")
- Japanese title: "気持ち悪い男の子" ("Kimochi Warui Otoko no Ko" - "Bad-Feeling Boy")
- Portuguese title: "O rapaz réptil" ("Reptile boy")
- Spanish title: "Chicos Reptiles" ("Reptiles Boys")
[edit] Quotes and Trivia
- In his DVD commentary for this episode, writer/director David Greenwalt says that when he wrote the episode he thought that he had invented a great demon name, Machida. He later realized that he had seen "Machida" written on a piece of filming equipment used on the show. Machida is the name of a city in Japan.
- The episode ends with the main villain frat-boy being led away by police while Cordelia upbraids him. In the original script, however, Machida emerges from the pit and eats him. This proved impossible for the production crew to do with the CGI of the time. David Greenwalt mentions in the DVD commentary that the CGI problems also ended plans for Machida to be a reoccurring villain.
[edit] Continuity
- Cordelia’s preference for older boys, first mentioned in The Harvest, is reiterated here, though by the end of the episode, Cordelia appears to have, at least temporarily, changed her mind.
- Angel is able to enter the fraternity house without an invitation as the fraternity brothers are only temporary residents.
[edit] Arc significance
- At the end of the episode, Buffy agrees to have coffee with Angel, which marks the beginning of their formal dating relationship.
- This episode marks the first of several fraternity-related supernatural incidents, most of which occur from Season Four to the end of the series.
- This episode also marks the first incident of students using magic to better their situation in life, which often occurs in later seasons.
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