The end BtVS & Angel‘s best joint year is nearly upon us. While it’s a shame we couldn’t ride this high for a while longer, nothing lasts forever–as Buffy (and everyone) learns the hard way. For those of us who were lucky enough to watch all this as it originally aired, at least there’s always the memory of this great season of TV. I didn’t mean that to sound like “ha ha, I can and you can’t!” It’s just nice to be able to remember the fun times of chatting about everything as it all unfolded. I’m kind of doing that now, too, so I guess I’ll have multiple BtVS chatty times to look back on.

Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer: A Retrospecticus…

And now, this…

Intervention

• Written by Jane Espenson / Directed by Michael Gershman
• Jane Espenson returns to rescue us all from sadness.
• Giles cooking dinner for Buffy and Dawn/spending the evening together is a scene I would like to see. I’m a sucker for all Buffy/Giles scenes (“And then I can beat up the cows”) and there’s lots of it in this whole opening.
• Warren pops up again for a moment and, while he’s awful and someone should have dropped him off a roof, he does give us the Buffybot in all its glory.

• More gourd humor. It’s reliable, after all. I always liked how Giles seems to almost fall over when hopping in and out of his gourd circle. And Buffy’s desert dreamscape reappears, courtesy her new cat friend. So, I guess Giles just had a quiet sleepout in his car while Buffy was vision questing?
• Oh yeah, Dawn’s wanton thievery starts here. That always slips my mind.
• Now’s a good time to commend SMG’s Buffybot performance. It’s a wonderful depiction of a cheery robot Buffy.

• All of Buffybot’s interactions with everyone are extremely amusing. Chatting with Anya about her money is always a favorite. Really, though, what in the world would Xander and Anya have done if they came across those three vampires without assistance from Spike and Buffybot? Die. The answer is that they would have died.
• “What are you kidding? She’s nuts” is Tara’s response to the Buffy/Spike pairing right now, but she’ll be more sympathetic about it when Buffy spills those beans in the future.

• Buffy’s chat with the First Slayer guide is also a high point.
• Spike gets captured by Glory’s minions way too easily, if you ask me.
• Buffybot’s view screens are hilarious, as is “Angel’s lame. His hair goes straight up and he’s bloody stupid.”

• So, if Spike can’t be the key because he’s a vampire then what would happen if someone vamped Dawn? There’s really no reason why Glory hasn’t just tried torturing Buffy until she talks. I don’t see one, anyway.
• The two Buffy’s meeting is also a wonderful scene. This is a great episode. Anya’s also always at her best with Jane Espenson.

• All the Bob Barker chat (“We will bring you the limp and beaten body of Bob Barker”) continues the fun.
• In the big fight at the end, why in the world does Buffybot throw her ax aside and try to grab one of the minions? I know she’s a robot, but still. This isn’t the best fight they’ve ever had, but it’s amusing enough.

• This last scene between Buffy and Spike is another brick in the road to their connection. Hopefully Spike just had a slip of the brain and didn’t realize Buffybot has no information on the Key (as opposed to him actually telling a robot that intel).

Dead End

• Written by David Greenwalt / Directed by James A. Contner
• Lindsay’s farewell episode begins with a lot of shots of that damn bracelet. What’s up with that?
• This random guy stabbing himself in the eye feels almost like a commercial before the horror unfolds. It also takes a lot out of Cordy, clearly. Charisma Carpenter does really well in that sequence and the aftermath.

• Lindsay should sit up straight at the doctor’s office. He’s very hunched. And this is an amusing combination of surgery with a creepy magic demon.
• So, now that Lindsay has two hands again does that mean more bracelets?
• Cordy’s clearly taking this one very hard and again I’ll say kudos to Charisma Carpenter on nailing it. And I wonder what two sandwiches she took. Trivia!

• Country music Lindsay debuts. Angel being jealous of Lindsay’s musical success is a nice touch. “I’m telling you what’s what, sugar. What you do with it is up to you.” Forceful Lorne doesn’t make an appearance often, but I appreciate when he does.
• Nice creepy framed photo of not-Holland Manners’ family.
• Lilah sure isn’t subtle in her rifling through all these haphazardly filled file cabinets.
• This guy who Angel lassos is a rather huge moron for sticking his head out the window.

• Lindsay has a solid couple of final scenes, first with Lilah and then one last goodbye (for now) with Angel–who gifts him with the “Cops suck” farewell.
• So, what parts was Lindsay’s hand donor missing, again, considering he’d rather die than live without. The hand for sure, maybe a couple feet? I don’t know, wanting to die seems rather dramatic. He’s never heard of prosthetics?

Tough Love

• Written by Rebecca Rand Kirshner / Directed by David Grossman
• Buffy drops all her classes, but she’ll miss her poetry class a bunch. Also, fun fact, her professor shows up again as a demon in a few episodes of Angel S5. And they finally address Ben’s work situation with him getting fired due to being MIA for weeks at a time.

• Dawn’s principal tries to instill fear into Buffy, instead of being helpful in some way. Would it kill her to be on a team with Buffy–a 20 year old recently forced into the head of household role due to her mother’s untimely death–instead of an adversary?
• “I’m thinking I’m probably gonna back next semester.” You will not, Buffy. You will never return to college as anything other than an observer.
• I always like the tone Buffy says “I do” in about believing she listens to Giles.

• Willow doesn’t leave the room like everyone else, who apparently got the hint it wasn’t a group discussion and more of a talking to. In fact, Willow keeps pushing back against everything Buffy says when all Buffy needs from her in that moment is silence.
• This Glory misdirect is obviously a misdirect, but it’s more about who Glory will be wrong about than her finding out it’s Dawn.
• This Willow and Tara argument comes about very naturally, from a point of sympathy to anger and other things in between. Nice shoutout to Willow’s bizarre college life, what with Maggie being both her professor and an evil government scientist.

• Slayer Sense Fail: I know the leprosy hobbits are just outside the window and not inside, but Buffy can’t at least see them scurrying about? I guess she’s a bit invested in folding things and trying to convince Dawn to stop being such a schmuck.
• Glory popping up next to Tara by holding her hand first is a good reveal.
• Giles finds his leprosy hobbit and manages to quickly convince him, offscreen, to spill the beans about Tara. Good moment for Giles, but it certainly puts Willow on high alert.

• Tara keeps her cool pretty well as Glory breaks her hand and promises unpleasantness, but really–Glory gives up pretty quickly. She doesn’t even try torture.
• Now’s a good time to mention it: Xander finally got a haircut and he looks much better. It was becoming a shaggy & unkempt mess, but at least that’s behind us now.

• Okay, honest confession, I do not think Amber Benson does a great job at being crazy Tara. I’m glad it only takes a few episodes before Willow undoes it. Everyone’s response seems a little muted, also. Aside from Willow, obviously, plus Giles is always more reserved–he’s British. Oh, and Willow vowing to take care of Tara until forever is a huge commitment for a 21 year old.
• I believe this is the first time Willow’s had both the drive and power to do something like this attack on Glory. Not the last time…

• Willow does better than Buffy does when it comes to laying into Glory (on her dry run for when she really lets loose a year from now). She actually manages to hurt her, even if only briefly, whereas Buffy’s best efforts have only mildly bothered Glory. The spit is gross, though. At least this showdown puts the rest of the season into motion once Glory rips the wall off the dorm in retaliation.

Belonging

• Written by Shawn Ryan / Directed by Turi Meyer
• The Gang has dinner out together. We don’t see that a lot. Cordy and the acting stuff always leaves my mind until they mention it again. Angel accuses some random lady of being a Valktar witch, but it doesn’t end as poorly as Cordy vomiting all over the place.

• Wesley speaks to his obviously very dickish father, who brings up being fired in the past when Wes tries to share good promotion news. Yay for parents.
• The commercial director is a complete garbage person and if there was ever anyone who should be eaten by a demon, it’s him. Cordy begrudgingly taking the abuse surely feeds into his ridiculously high opinion of himself (the director of a sun tan lotion commercial, let’s remember), but at least it only takes another 15 years or so before people many people finally come around to the idea that’s unacceptable behavior. And who let Angel on the commercial set in the first place? At least he gets to enjoy the faux-sun for a minute before making a scene.

• The no violence in Caritas spell obviously isn’t quite up to snuff, as there’s a bunch of violence when this demon portals in. Also, Lorne leaves a lot of info out when he gets Angel to go after the fresh demon from another world.
• There’s just something about this whole episode that feels rather slight and like this is mostly filler.

• Hey look, it’s Fred in a vision flashback. I wonder if she’ll show up again . . .
• Gunn loses a friend and there’s drama. I guess I could say more, but the series barely lingers on this storyline so I’ll follow that lead.
• Cordy reading from the book seems like an unwise choice, just considering the circumstance of why they’re even poking around the library in the first place.

• Cordy getting sucked through the portal doesn’t make any sense, but who cares. She goes to the land of dinosaur sound FX, which is fun.
• Not a lot to say about this one, really. It’s a fun enough tangent episode, which is fine with me.

Spiral

• Written by Steven S. DeKnight / Directed by James A. Contner
• Buffy throwing herself and Dawn through the dorm door seems unnecessary–couldn’t run through it? And Dawn really needs to work on her cardio as she manages to run for less than a minute before needing Buffy to literally carry her. 
• It’s weird how everyone acts like running away is some kind of dirty, unclean thought they must not entertain. Buffy’s right to flight.
• Ben’s scene with the leprosy hobbit goes on way too long. I know it’s delivering some exposition, but please just stop already.

• Buffy and Spike obviously stole this horrible RV, but I wonder from where. Spike’s face when Buffy tells Xander that Spike stays and to “Get over it” is quite amusing.
• So, was this Knight of Byzantium guy just going to stab some nurse to death in the middle of a hospital? Might be a little hard to walk away from that. Also, everything about the Renaissance Fair Gang wandering the wilderness is completely ridiculous. It makes zero sense in the world–how do they recruit? Do they live in society ever? How does any aspect of their whole life make sense?

• Spike’s not entirely incorrect that stealing a small & speedy car would have made for a better quick getaway. The rest of the gang could have just hid out somewhere and followed when they got a call telling them where to go.
• Michelle Trachtenberg saying “Wanna come watch the tears and recriminations?” to Buffy is one of those lines that doesn’t work coming out of her mouth.

• The RV assault appears to take place on some kind of dirt road–where the hell was the Scooby Gang going? There are actual roads out of town that are paved, imagine that. And despite having way more guys in their ranks than you’d think, the Knights only bother to send a handful (who suddenly disappear once the RV crashes) to battle.

• Willow proves impossibly helpful once again at their gas station hideout with the magic force field. You know who isn’t terribly helpful? Xander, who mostly hides in a corner and drags unconscious guys out of the way.
• General Gregor proves to be quite the exposition man and why Buffy wastes any breath trying to convince some zealot that he’s nuts is lost on me. He’s in charge of an army of god freaks with face tattoos who apparently live in the Middle Ages–“reason” doesn’t work.

• If Buffy thought Ben was just some nice, normal guy then the fact he’s so okay with *everything* about their utterly bizarre situation should really be a clue that he’s got some secrets of his own.
• Also, if Ben really cared so much about everyone’s safety he never would have driven out there in the first place, considering he is Glory and knows Dawn is the key and all that. Turning into Glory and taking Dawn was the only way his little trip would end. Idiot.

• More from General Exposition, woo. At least Glory will kill him soon.
• I’m always amused by Anya trying to pull Dawn back from Glory, as if there’s a chance in the world of that working. Also, they all really lucked out that Glory didn’t kill any of them before proceeding to slaughter every single one of the Renaissance Fair Gang.
• And now Buffy needs a little mental breather for a while.

Over the Rainbow

• Written by Mere Smith / Directed by Fred Keller
• Cordy’s not too bright to immediately start screaming in some random dimension. At least she recognizes that, albeit too late. She lucks out that nothing eats her.
• Wesley’s sure not wrong about wanting to figure out some specs on the hows of dimensional travel before they start dimension jumping.

• Cordy just kind of stands there while this old demon slowly and calmly takes control of her–no pushing back of any kind. Try, at least.
• This episode also feels like filler, a bit, in that it seems like it takes a while to get everyone on the same page–which we all know they will be so come on, stop wasting our time. The Gunn drama of him maybe not going, in particular, feels like wheel spinning.
• I think I’d be more on board with or amused by the Pylea stuff if it didn’t go on for three full episodes when there’s not really three episodes worth of story. That’s too much. We do get Fred out of all this, though, so at least there’s that trade-off.

• Hearing psychics or seers (or whatever) talk in movies/TV always is something I always roll my eyes at. It always ends up being the same faux-wise “knowledge” consisting of vague suggestions. Over it!
• Gavin, of W&H, makes his debut appearance and threatens lease law–scary stuff, indeed.
• Wes and everyone finally going through the portal certainly feels earned, perhaps a little over-earned, and the Jurassic Park dinosaur sounds continue. At least Angel’s having fun running around in the sunlight right away.

• These priest guys are nicely creepy. I wonder what tests they performed on Cordy with these tools they mentioned. She doesn’t have any bloody wounds when we see her again, so what’d they do?
• “I think we’re winning” smashcut to everyone tied up is hardly original, but it’s still amusing.

• Cordy revealed as princess is a nice change of pace from all the prisoner stuff, even if it goes on too long (like all of it) and she’s really foolish about a lot of what goes on.

The Weight of the World

• Written by Douglas Petrie / Directed by David Solomon
• Glory and minions talk too much in this opening scene. They always talk too much.
• Giles sure has improved from the spear to his torso quite a lot in the last half hour. He’ll pretty much be all better by the next episode, despite this all happening in a couple days. And do you think they ever told anyone about the dead Gregor tied to a pole in the back room?

• Spike’s not wrong about Buffy liking it rough (but he doesn’t get to know that yet), while Willow takes control of the situation as de facto second in command. Oh yeah, this is where the Ben is Glory chat originates. Spike proves useful again.

• A few of the season’s nutters reappear to help assemble the tower to nowhere and it has me wondering, what did they all get up to the next day? With Glory gone the steady flow of insane people decreased drastically, so maybe the hospitals were relieved.
• Willow doesn’t seem to have much trouble entering Buffy’s mind. I wonder how easily she could enter other minds if she chose to cross that line. Willow’s tour of Buffy’s thoughts is interesting enough, even if it’s a little like Restless-lite.

• Ben’s got a sad little back room in this fancy condo of Glory’s. He couldn’t just take a nicer room? It’s not like they could really do anything to him if he did.
• Hey look, it’s Joyce again for a catatonic cameo. Also Buffy’s crap dad appears for the first time in several years for just a second. 

• Giles, Xander, and Spike share a scene without any arguing. It’s like they’re just old pals at this point.
• The Glory and Dawn (then Dawn and Ben) scenes, while some are interesting, go on a bit too long.
• Ben and Dawn should have separated instantly. There’s no sense in Dawn sticking around him at all and her trying to knock him out is also a dim decision.

• The Xander and Spike buddy pair continues their duo to Doc’s house, where Spike doesn’t do very well against the guy (not for the last time) while Xander takes care of business–albeit temporarily.
• Buffy giving up while putting a book away for Giles being such a heavy, miniscule moment for Buffy (she just wanted it over) works well. Willow helps out with some blunt truths, taking Buffy with her back to reality when they’re done.

• Giles is already entertaining the idea of killing Dawn, which is apparent from his whole tone and demeanor. Harsh pragmatist Giles is perhaps my favorite Giles.

Through the Looking Glass

• Written & Directed by Tim Minear
• Cordy’s kind of cavalier about the “off with their heads” joke, considering they could have easily been killed. And they found her in another dimension pretty quickly, you’d think she’d be a little appreciative (just a bit).

• Angel’s obsessed with his hair immediately upon being able to see himself.
• The comshock, as Gunn predicts, is dirty.
• Lorne’s mother is genuinely horrid, but Numfar (Joss Whedon) provides some humor with his various dances–of joy, honor, etc.

• I don’t think you’d need the W&H connection to make the leap that the creepy priests are up to no good. I mean, I could go on quite a tangent about the evils of religion so I’ll restrain myself.
• Cordy’s quite dense to want to stay in Pylea (where it doesn’t seem like toilets, fridges, or other simple life pleasures exist). Even if the luxuries of modern life aren’t enough to convince her, what about the horrors of Medieval existence for people who aren’t a princess? She falls back on old narcissistic habits quite easily. She also veers wildly on the whole “comshock with the grousalugg” thing depending on whether or not she finds the sex mate attractive or not.

• Lorne certainly does all the heavy lifting (or singing) in Angel and Fred’s escape, which gets him left behind and–as we find out shortly–beheaded.
• Fred still has a vague Texas accent, for now. It disappears at some point in S3. I’ll keep you posted.
• The music of these Pylea episodes doesn’t quite work for me, either. It’s too dreamlike and fantastical for the most part. Fred’s reaction when she learns of Cordy being made a princess is humorously understated. 
• The grousalugg monster twist is amusing enough and, on a personal note, guys never look good with long hair.

• Everyone who isn’t Lorne is too cavalier about separating and hanging out in another direction. I mean, Wes and Gunn are at least trying to do something (whatever it is), but Cordy’s being rather obtuse and shortsighted (ditzy, even) about everything that happens.
• Gru bores me and Cordy falling for him instantly based on his being pretty is very simple.
• Angel’s drama about seeing his monster self is also kind of dull time filler, honestly. At least Fred is around to offset that boredom.

• Lorne’s head on a platter was quite a surprise at the time. I remember being bummed as Lorne had become a favorite already.

The Gift

• Written & Directed by Joss Whedon
• An old fashioned vampire slaying to get things started–and with a vampire doing his best Puddy voice. How’d Buffy even know any of that was going on? And Giles is still in the credits for one more episode. Simpler times.

• Giles is wonderfully blunt in this opening emotional exposition sequence, which certainly retcons a couple of things on the spot (Dawn was made from Buffy & Olaf being a troll god, for instance).
• I always enjoy an extended group scene where everyone gets in a good line or two while covering expositional mileage. And Xander’s not wrong that they could just kill Ben and not have to worry about what Glory might survive.

• Most of the first half of this episode is still and set in the Magic Box, but it all feels like it’s on the move and building to something.
• Giles and Buffy scenes are some of my favorites, so this one where the two of them discuss what happens if the ritual starts (and how many apocalypses they’ve seen) is way up there. Buffy’s so down and out already, she really needed a little while to be dead and at peace.

• Xander and Anya’s scene of humor and hope for a happy future (which they don’t get) was nicer at the time, before it had the added bummer note of how things don’t work out.
• Buffy re-inviting Spike in and the moment they share is well done and another brick in that road to the pairing that seems so impossible when you see where it started.

• The music by Christophe Beck is certainly going a long way to elevating the already very solid material.
• Buffy threatening to kill anyone who comes near Dawn is a nice added wrinkle. Sure, nothing really becomes of it, but it’s more about the moment and what it could mean.

• “She’s with me” is a great kickstart to the final battle and certainly seems to take a bit out of Glory. Good for Willow.
• Buffybot does pretty well, all things considered. Willow couldn’t float Dawn down from the top of the tower? Or float Buffy up? I’m sure putting Tara’s mind right was a hefty task, but Dawn seems like the priority.

• Xander has tremendous aim and timing with that wrecking ball.
• Doc showing up to be the one who gets the apocalypse going always felt so out of nowhere. He also proves to be more than Spike can handle, strangely enough.
• This scene of Giles patiently and gently killing Ben is one his best of the series, per me.

• What in the world happened with City Hall being turned into a demon apartment complex, or whatever that was? Seems like a pretty big deal, even for Sunnydale. And whatever became of that portal dragon?

• The music kicking in as dawn begins and Buffy realizes she can close the portal with her death still works wonders (Buffy’s speech doesn’t hurt). Also, Spike being a bundle of tears on the ground is as effective as Willow crying, if not more than.

There’s No Place Like Plrtz Glrb

• Written & Directed by David Greenwalt
• At least the Lorne being alive reveal comes right away, which offsets the sadness of the BtVS episode that just ended.

• Wes and Gunn are saved at the last second by a random party of troops looking to kill them, which is really a ridiculous contrivance. And swinging those huge, heavy blocks or wood/stone around on their necks seems too easy. It should have broken their necks, or something.
• I like Fred much better once she’s out of Pylea and has things to do aside from fret over Angel, who is often wounded with her in this cave.
• Angel was going to leave this guy tied up in the cave with Fred? Just kill him, he’s not going to come around to your POV with a good speech.

• “Why do people keep putting me in charge of things?” I’m sure essays could be (or have been) written on this very topic (Wesley being given authority), so I will just say this band of random rebels doesn’t appear to have much thought process in the selection of their leaders. 
• Wesley knows some of them will get killed, though, in his hard decision making process which has apparently solidified greatly in a matter of hours. He also gives Angel a little pep talk that he evidently doesn’t believe himself too much.

• The honor of the kingdom is at stake if one fighter guy doesn’t beat anyone who randomly challenges him to mortal combat? Everyone sounds like a genius in Pylea.
• How are Wes and Gunn so good at medieval warfare all the sudden?
• That’s very noble of Angel to say “We’re not gonna do this. We’re gonna find another way” when he’s the one who called Gru out to fight to the death in the first place. And Cordy loves Gru? She’s known him for a few hours.
• Also, how do they get Angel’s car out of Lorne’s bar? That’s got to be magic of some kind.

• The sudden, silent appearance of a grief-stricken Willow says a lot in a matter of seconds. I wonder how long she was waiting at the hotel.

There was so much news before the finale about how BtVS was moving from the WB to UPN. It reached the point where if you were a regular viewer there was no way the impending network change was unknown to you. Even with all articles from Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, The Washington Post, TV Guide, and every other entertainment news outlet still in business rambling about it was a done deal the show would be back next season there was a big part of me that couldn’t help but wonder if I’d just witnessed the end of things.

I know there are some who say the show should have ended with Buffy’s death at the end of S5, but I think Buffy’s story needed to end differently. She barely got to have a life or make her mark on the world yet. While S6 & S7 have their ups and downs (newsflash: so does every year), ultimately there’s way too much good stuff that’s lost if everything ends with Buffy’s tombstone. I’m getting ahead of myself, though, so back to this season.

I’d say that S5 proved to be a return to form after S4 wasn’t exactly universally beloved, except S5 forges ahead. What was great about this year had nothing to do with high school or college–it was seeing the different ways the Scooby Gang ventured into adulthood. Buffy, Willow, and Tara are still in college the majority of the season, sure, but it’s very much so on the back-burner as real life continues to intrude.

There’s obviously a lot of family stuff going on for Buffy, between suddenly having a teenage sister who’s actually a mystical ball of energy and Joyce’s health issues/death. Aside from all that, Buffy’s also actively pursuing slayer training and decides to take some time to herself post-Riley. The fact that Buffy is without a love interest once Riley leaves is something I very much appreciate. It’s quite alright for a 20 year old to not be in a committed relationship or actively seeking a forever mate.

As for non-Buffy people, Xander, Giles, and Anya are busy with employment and moving on up in the world–surely everyone’s favorite part of growing up. While Willow and Tara are both still in college, free of many life realities, they both certainly mature in various ways. Tara deals with her awful family and goes through some mental health issues late in the season, which has to put life in perspective to some degree. Willow advances magically and finds her confidence more, but, honestly, the more I think about the season the more I think Willow matures the least. It’s not a contest, or anything, I just never really thought about it much until now and that’s where I landed.

I think S5 feels like the most cohesive season from start to finish. Between Dawn and Glory, in particular, there’s a through line from start to finish that comes across as very well planned. S2 of Angel, on the other hand, is a bit of a different beast. The first half of the season is easily Angel‘s best run so far and, when all is said and done, one of the best Angel stretches of the show’s run. Darla just brings out the best & worst of Angel, plus we get the most Drusilla since S2 of BtVS, which is never a bad thing. Cordy, Wes, and Gunn all continue to grow in the ways I commented on during each episode, too, so the wealth is spread around.

Angel S2’s second half is less successful for me, but I still enjoy it. I think the way they introduce characters and then drop them suddenly prevents it from feeling very whole (Dru leaves off-screen after #11, Anne shows up in #12 & #14 before disappearing, Kate vanishes after #16, Darla’s wrapup in #16 is ho-hum, and more!). The whole Pylea tangent, as I said during the episodes themselves, comes across as especially underbaked. Again, I don’t find it awful, or anything, just not up to par with what came before.

Before wrapping up I just want to say that I know what you’re wondering–what about Fray?

Yes, Fray first hit the shelves between S5 & S6, but it didn’t end until after BtVS‘ series finale (thanks to the year+ wait with only a couple issues to go). In an effort to keep things as simple as possible, I’ll get to all the canon comics once the shows are over. Sorry for the comic tease, but it’ll be here before you know it.

So, now we say goodbye to BtVS‘ years on the WB and the heyday of the BtVS/Angel one-two-punch. Next time we dive into post-post-mortem life, but here’s some trivia until then.

1. What was the license plate number of the school bus that the last survivors of Sunnydale used to flee before the entire town was swallowed by the Hellmouth?
2. What was the name of the museum security guard who was frozen during a heist?

*Last week’s answers: 1) Dr. Ferris Carlyle, 2) The Evil Eye