History Recap / BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E1Anne

** Buffy running headlong into Ken. He inquires after her well-being, and [[AnAesop PSAs]] about kids on the street.

** At one point, Lily mentions that for a while, she was following this "loser preacher" around. Now, who is [[TheDragon of the seventh season?]]

-->--'''Buffy Summers'''

* MagneticHero: Buffy made an impression on Lily/Chanterelle by saving her from Spike's crew last season. Here she continues the trend by not only finding her kidnapped boyfriend, but by rescuing Lily, herself, and every other slave from a demon hell dimension and ending their slave trade for good. The result is that Lily rechristens herself as Anne (Buffy's middle name/alias in LA) in her honor and carries on her good works in LA, becoming a social worker dedicated to saving lost teens like herself, showing up a few times in the spinoff, ''Series/{{AngelTheSeries}}''.

* CrashIntoHello: Old!Rickie and Lily, unbeknownst to her. Her empty glare at the "rude" old man is definitely a case of HarsherInHindsight.

** Ken drops the anvil with this line: "This is not a good place for a kid to be. [[{{Foreshadowing}} You get old fast]] out here." Becomes HarsherInHindsight when [[spoiler: we see [[BrokenBird what happens]] to Cordelia [[{{Series/Angel}} once she moves to LA]].]]

* NotSoWeak: Lily. Just in time, too; she has no one but herself to rely on now. [[spoiler: She later goes on to become a tough independent lady on ''Angel''.]]

* YearInsideHourOutside: Time passing differently in alternate dimensions is introduced here; a hundred years in the hell dimension is only a day on Earth. This will become more relevant [[spoiler: with Angel's and later Buffy's return from the afterlife.]]

* HalfTruth: Xander whines over how weak and uncoordinated the gang is without a Slayer.
-->'''Oz''': ''(defensively)'' I dunno, I think we're getting a rhythm down.\\
'''Xander:''' We're losing half the vamps.\\
'''Oz:''' Yeah, but...rhythmically.

-->'''Lily:''' Can we get cake?
-->'''Rickie:''' Don't be stupid. We gotta eat healthy. [to Buffy] You got any pie?

*** [[spoiler: [[CharacterizationMarchesOn We'll see.]] When she appears in season 2 of ''Series/{{Angel}}'', she's is an administrator at a shelter for homeless teenagers, so by then she has a lot of people to help take care of. In the ''Angel'' comics she becomes a mother of a HalfHumanHybrid.]]

* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: The Family Home.

* ArtShift: With better ratings came a bigger budget for the show; this episode was the first to be shot on larger-format 35mm film instead of the 16mm of the first two seasons, leading to a visible jump in image quality, particularly in nighttime scenes. Nerf Herder's theme tune has also been re-recorded in better quality and the logo in the opening credits is the iconic version used for the rest of the series (see EvolvingCredits below).

* FridgeLogic: Though they are demons dressed somewhat like Nazi S.S. camp-guards and don't seem to have anything like barracks or feeding facilities for their human slaves, conditions in the demons' Smoke and Fire Factory must have been better than those in some labour camps run by evil humans. For example, in those of the Nazi concentration camps or sub-camps not dedicated to quick murder (e.g. Auschwitz-Monowitz or Dora, as opposed to Sobibor and Chelmno) few people lasted two years, much less the apparent decades (local time) at least a few people seem to have spent in the demons' pocket-dimension. This might be down to the demons' having a much smaller pool of potential slave-labourers, and in this wise being more practical than sadistic. (…or those few we see were like trustees/kapos receiving favourable treatment, though there is no diegetic sign of this and it would seem to go against the whole 'you are noöne' push).