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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: The frat boys end up devolving into neanderthals physically as well as mentally, but Buffy still looks the same. ''Slightly'' justified in that Xander sent her home while the frat boys kept drinking.
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** Also, Cave!Buffy picking up a fire extinguisher, looking at the fire, looking at the extinguisher, figuring something out... and then tossing the extinguisher at the fire and looking puzzled.

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** Also, Cave!Buffy caveman Buffy picking up a fire extinguisher, looking at the fire, looking at the extinguisher, figuring something out... and then tossing the extinguisher at the fire and looking puzzled.



* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Xander asking a customer if he wants his ice water on the rocks. Cave!Buffy and the fire extinguisher.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Xander asking a customer if he wants his ice water on the rocks. Cave!Buffy caveman Buffy and the fire extinguisher.



-->'''Xander:''' Giles, don't make Cave!Slayer unhappy.

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-->'''Xander:''' Giles, don't make Cave!Slayer caveman Slayer unhappy.



* HulkSpeak: Cave!BuffySpeak

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* HulkSpeak: Cave!BuffySpeakCaveman Buffy speak this way.



* KickTheSonOfABitch: Cave!Slayer clubs Parker over the head again; Giles, Willow and Xander just shrug and walk off.

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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Cave!Slayer Caveman Buffy clubs Parker over the head again; Giles, Willow and Xander just shrug and walk off.



* PervertedSniffing: Cave!Slayer sniffing Xander. At the end of the episode, Willow is seated on a park bench with Buffy crouched next to her and [[LesYay Buffy sniffs her hair as well]]. Note that Hyena!Xander sniffed Buffy in [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E6ThePack "The Pack"]], so the sniffing has gone full circle.

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* PervertedSniffing: Cave!Slayer Caveman slayer sniffing Xander. At the end of the episode, Willow is seated on a park bench with Buffy crouched next to her and [[LesYay Buffy sniffs her hair as well]]. Note that Hyena!Xander Hyena possesed Xander sniffed Buffy in [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E6ThePack "The Pack"]], so the sniffing has gone full circle.



* QuizzicalTilt: Cave!Buffy knows that fire extinguisher can help her with the fire, but just can't seem to work out how...

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* QuizzicalTilt: Cave!Buffy caveman Buffy knows that fire extinguisher can help her with the fire, but just can't seem to work out how...



* SwivelChairAntics: Cave!Buffy manages to fall off one.

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* SwivelChairAntics: Cave!Buffy caveman Buffy manages to fall off one.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The first mention of a "Cave-slayer" is elaborated later on, when the First Slayer (who actually talks in short sentences or not at all) arrives at the end of the season. Also Willow, when she announces that she is quite fed up with men in her conversation with Parker. Her transition to full-fledged lesbian can thus be said to begin in this episode.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: The first mention of a "Cave-slayer" is elaborated later on, when the First Slayer (who actually talks in short sentences or not at all) arrives at the end of the season. Also Willow, when she announces that she is quite fed up with men in her conversation with Parker. Her transition to full-fledged lesbian can thus be said to begin in this episode.
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-->At least one show, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," was rejected after it showed itself to be [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs immune to the drug office's worldview]]. "Drugs were an issue, but it wasn't on-strategy. It was [[FantasticAesop otherworldly nonsense]], very abstract and not like real-life kids taking drugs. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Viewers wouldn't make the link to our message]]," says someone in the drug-policy office camp who read and helped reject it. [[http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/13/drugs/print.html]]

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-->At least one show, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," was rejected after it showed itself to be [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs immune to the drug office's worldview]]. "Drugs were an issue, but it wasn't on-strategy. It was [[FantasticAesop otherworldly nonsense]], very abstract and not like real-life kids taking drugs. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint [[ViewersAreMorons Viewers wouldn't make the link to our message]]," says someone in the drug-policy office camp who read and helped reject it. [[http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/13/drugs/print.html]]
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* EverybodyLives: Buffy dusts three vampires in a dream sequence but otherwise no one die in this episode [[KarmaHoudini not even the bar owner]].

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* EverybodyLives: Buffy dusts three vampires in a dream sequence but otherwise but, other than that, no one die dies in this episode episode, [[KarmaHoudini not even the bar owner]].
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* CallBack: To [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E6ThePack "The Pack"]] when Willow appears to be falling for Evil!Xander's spiel, only to reveal she was playing him along.

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* CallBack: To [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E6ThePack "The Pack"]] when Willow appears to be falling for Evil!Xander's spiel, only to reveal she was playing him all along.

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* HulkSpeak: Cave!BuffySpeak



* YouNoTakeCandle: Cave!BuffySpeak

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* YouNoTakeCandle: Cave!BuffySpeakThrowEmToTheWolves: {{Discussed}} when Buffy ponders revenge on Parker
-->'''Buffy:''' If he were tied and gagged and left in a cave that vampires happen to frequent it wouldn't really be like I killed him, really.

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Buffy is still recovering from being dumped by Parker and finds solace with a bunch of guys who become her drinking buddies.

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\nBuffy is still recovering from being hurting because Parker Abrams dumped her after a one night stand. In a daydream during one of Professor Walsh's classes (about the role of the id in Freudian psychology) she saves Parker's life and he swears to do anything to get her back. A dialogue with Willow later shows how much Buffy is not over him yet.

In the real world, Xander uses a fake ID gets a job as a bartender at the on-campus pub. Buffy stops
by the pub and sees Parker entertaining a girl at one of the booths. She bumps into Riley, who gives her the lowdown on Parker's womanizing habits. Buffy pulls up a stool at the bar, where Xander is having some difficulty getting into the groove of the job. Fed up, Buffy is getting ready to leave when she is stopped by several college boys who insist that she join them in enjoying some beer. Meanwhile, Oz and finds solace Willow are in The Bronze together, but he seems to have a connection to the singer Veruca when she gets on the stage with her band Shy.

The next morning, Willow doesn't just have to cope with Veruca having called her
a bunch of guys "groupie" when Oz introduced them and the feeling that Oz is mentally absent, but also with Buffy -- who become seems to be suffering from "Black Frost" in more than the usual way. She seems to be dumbing down more and more just sitting watching a Luscious Jackson video. That evening when Buffy drinks herself further and further into idiocy we get a glimpse why: Jack has a chemical lab set up and is putting more into the beer than just malt.

Xander finally sends Buffy home, but
her four drinking buddies.
buddies decide to stay for a while longer. Colm leaves to go to the bathroom and soon emerges as a violent Neanderthal. The Neanderthal rushes at Xander and knocks him out. Xander wakes up to the Neanderthal leaning over him and the other three students cowering on the other side of the room. The Neanderthal emits a primal yell and the other three are overcome with violent convulsions. Backs hunch over, brows thicken, arms grow longer and more muscular, voices deepen, hair on their head and facial hair becomes long, dirty, and wild, and they gain hairy chests, backs, arms, legs. The four Neanderthals surround Xander, who chases them away with his lighter. The four Neanderthals are now loose in the world. Xander finds out that the owner of the pub has been brewing something as revenge for twenty years of college kids taunting him. While the boys escape to the streets of Sunnydale, Xander gets Giles to help. They find Buffy drawing cave paintings on her dorm wall saying "Parker bad!" Giles and Xander are unable to keep Buffy in her room when she gets a craving for more beer.

Meanwhile, Willow confronts Parker with what she says he has done to Buffy. He turns his charm on her, and she seems to be swayed by it, but then she reveals she has been playing along with a rant about how primitive men are — just when the four Neanderthal students burst into the room. They knock Willow and Parker unconscious and start a fire that rapidly burns out of control. Xander catches up with Buffy and when they see smoke from the Neanderthals' fire, they rush to help.

Though afraid of the flames and unable to figure out how to use an extinguisher anymore, Buffy saves Willow and — after hitting him — Parker. In the end, Parker thanks Buffy for saving his life, and apologizes just the way she had daydreamed it — just to get knocked unconscious by Buffy's club, much to the approval of the rest of the gang.



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

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

[[quoteright:210:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/btvs_s4_05_beerbad.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:210:"Want beer."]]
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* EverybodyLives: Buffy dusts three vampires in a dream sequence but otherwise no one die in this episode [[KarmaHoudini not even the bar owner]].
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** [[FantasticAesop Don't drink at college because the barman might be a secret warlock.]]

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-->''It's nice. Foamy. Comforting. It's beer''...

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-->''It's ->''"It's nice. Foamy. Comforting. It's beer''...
beer..."''
-->--'''Buffy'''



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-->'''Xander:''' Pfft. NOTHING CAN DEFEAT THE PENIS! [off their looks] Too loud. Very unseemly.

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-->'''Xander:''' Pfft. NOTHING CAN DEFEAT THE PENIS! [off ''[off their looks] looks]'' Too loud. Very unseemly.



* CallBack: To "The Pack" when Willow appears to be falling for Evil!Xander's spiel, only to reveal she was playing him along.
** Also to "Graduation Part 2," where Buffy says that her mind is so fried all she can process is "Tree pretty, ''fire bad.''"

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* CallBack: To [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E6ThePack "The Pack" Pack"]] when Willow appears to be falling for Evil!Xander's spiel, only to reveal she was playing him along.
** Also to [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E22GraduationDayPart2 "Graduation Day, Part 2," 2,"]] where Buffy says that her mind is so fried all she can process is "Tree pretty, ''fire bad.''"



-->'''Giles''': ''I can't believe you served Buffy that beer.''\\
'''Xander''': ''I didn't know it was evil!''\\
'''Giles''': ''You knew it was beer!''\\
'''Xander''': ''Well, excuse me, Mr. I-Spent-the-60s-in-an-electric-kool-aid-funky-satan-groove.''\\
'''Giles''': ''It was the early 70s, and you really should have known better.''

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-->'''Giles''': ''I -->'''Giles:''' I can't believe you served Buffy that beer.''\\
'''Xander''': ''I
\\
'''Xander:''' I
didn't know it was evil!''\\
'''Giles''': ''You
evil!\\
'''Giles:''' You
knew it was beer!''\\
'''Xander''': ''Well,
beer!\\
'''Xander:''' Well,
excuse me, Mr. I-Spent-the-60s-in-an-electric-kool-aid-funky-satan-groove.''\\
'''Giles''': ''It
I-Spent-[[TheSixties the-60s]]-in-an-electric-kool-aid-funky-satan-groove.\\
'''Giles:''' It
was the early 70s, [[TheSeventies 70s]], and you really should have known better.''



* DevolutionDevice
* DrowningMySorrows: Buffy distraught over Parker's lack of interest in her.

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* DevolutionDevice
DevolutionDevice: The beer.
-->'''Bartender:''' My brother-in-law's a warlock; he showed me how to do it.
* DrowningMySorrows: Buffy is still distraught over Parker's lack of interest in her.



* FurBikini: Unfortunately averted, as Xander laments in "Something Blue".

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* FurBikini: Unfortunately averted, as Xander laments in [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E9SomethingBlue "Something Blue".Blue"]].



* GetYourMindOutOfTheGutter: Buffy calls Willow 'Gutter Brain' when Willow takes Buffy's account of the previous night to involve group sex, not drinking beer with four guys.

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* GetYourMindOutOfTheGutter: Buffy calls Willow 'Gutter Brain' "Gutter Brain" when Willow takes Buffy's account of the previous night to involve group sex, not drinking beer with four guys.



* PervertedSniffing: Cave!Slayer sniffing Xander. At the end of the episode, Willow is seated on a park bench with Buffy crouched next to her and [[LesYay Buffy sniffs her hair as well]]. Note that Hyena!Xander sniffed Buffy in "The Pack", so the sniffing has gone full circle.

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* PervertedSniffing: Cave!Slayer sniffing Xander. At the end of the episode, Willow is seated on a park bench with Buffy crouched next to her and [[LesYay Buffy sniffs her hair as well]]. Note that Hyena!Xander sniffed Buffy in [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E6ThePack "The Pack", Pack"]], so the sniffing has gone full circle.



* QuizzicalTilt

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* QuizzicalTiltQuizzicalTilt: Cave!Buffy knows that fire extinguisher can help her with the fire, but just can't seem to work out how...



-->'''Willow:''' I'm tired of you men, and your...man-ness.

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-->'''Willow:''' I'm tired of you men, and your... man-ness.



* SophisticatedAsHell: The college boys
-->"All the socio-economical and psychological problems inherent in modern society can be solved by the judicious application of way too much beer."

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* SophisticatedAsHell: The college boys
-->"All
boys.
-->'''College Boy #1:''' All
the socio-economical and psychological problems inherent in modern society can be solved by the judicious application of way too much beer."



-->'''Willow:''' I tell you, men haven't changed since the Dawn of Time! ''(cavemen burst in)''

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-->'''Willow:''' I tell you, men haven't changed since the Dawn of Time! ''(cavemen ''[cavemen burst in)''in]''



* ThisIsMyBoomstick: Xander scares a quartet of college kids cum cavemen with his lighter. "Fire angry!"
* ThinkNothingOfIt

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* ThisIsMyBoomstick: Xander scares a quartet of college kids cum cavemen kids-cum-cavemen with his lighter. "Fire angry!"
* ThinkNothingOfItThinkNothingOfIt:



-->'''Xander:''' Beer Bad. Bad, bad beer. [[GotMeDoingIt What the hell am I saying?]]
* YouNoTakeCandle: Cave!BuffySpeak

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-->'''Xander:''' Beer Bad.bad. Bad, bad beer. [[GotMeDoingIt What the hell am I saying?]]
* YouNoTakeCandle: Cave!BuffySpeakCave!BuffySpeak
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'''Giles''': ''You knew it was beer!'\\

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'''Giles''': ''You knew it was beer!'\\beer!''\\
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** Also to "Graduation Part 2," where Buffy says that her mind is so fried all she can process is "Tree pretty, ''fire bad.''"
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Giles: ''It was the early 70s, and you really should have known better.''

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Giles: '''Giles''': ''It was the early 70s, and you really should have known better.''

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* CantGetAwayWithNuthin

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* CantGetAwayWithNuthinCantGetAwayWithNuthin: A common danger on the Hellmouth.
-->'''Giles''': ''I can't believe you served Buffy that beer.''\\
'''Xander''': ''I didn't know it was evil!''\\
'''Giles''': ''You knew it was beer!'\\
'''Xander''': ''Well, excuse me, Mr. I-Spent-the-60s-in-an-electric-kool-aid-funky-satan-groove.''\\
Giles: ''It was the early 70s, and you really should have known better.''
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** Buffy clubbing Parker instead of the expected GoldenMoment.

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* AnswerCut: "Where is Giles?"



* OverTheShoulderCarry

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* OverTheShoulderCarryOverTheShoulderCarry: As you do when you're a Neanderthal.
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* OverTheShoulderCarry


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* QuizzicalTilt
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* TheBartender: Xander gets a job as bartender and looks forward to acting as TheConfidant to pretty girls, only to get run off his feet and insulted by arrogant frat boys. When one pretty girl does look ready to pour out her troubles, Xander brushes her off because he's too busy worrying about Buffy getting plastered with those same frat boys. He ends up quitting his job in a huff just because the owner brewed up some cursed beer that turned those drinking it into Neaderthals. Some people just can't be satisfied.

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* TheBartender: Xander gets a job as bartender and looks forward to acting as TheConfidant to pretty girls, only to get run off his feet and insulted by arrogant frat boys. When one pretty girl does look ready to pour out her troubles, Xander brushes her off because he's too busy worrying about Buffy getting plastered with those same frat boys. He ends up quitting his job in a huff just because the owner brewed up some cursed beer that turned those drinking it into Neaderthals. Some people just can't be satisfied.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Xander asking a customer if he wants his ice water on the rocks.

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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Xander asking a customer if he wants his ice water on the rocks. Cave!Buffy and the fire extinguisher.

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* SophisticatedAsHell: The college boys conclude that all the world's problems can be solved by drinking.

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* SophisticatedAsHell: The college boys conclude that all boys
-->"All
the world's socio-economical and psychological problems inherent in modern society can be solved by drinking.the judicious application of way too much beer."

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* DeathGlare

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* DeathGlareDeathGlare: Buffy to Giles when he suggests she not drink beer.



* DeliciousDistraction: Several examples, though Willow's offer of soup fails to distract Oz from Veruca.



* EverybodyWasKungFuFighting: There's more vampire kung-fooey in Buffy's DaydreamSurprise than usual, including cheesy action music.



* GreenEyedMonster: Willow is alarmed to notice the way Oz is staring at Veruca [[ArousedByTheirVoice as she sings]].

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* GreenEyedMonster: HeldGaze: Willow is alarmed to notice over the way Oz is and Veruca are staring at Veruca each other [[ArousedByTheirVoice as she sings]].



* HypocriticalHumor: Willow was quite happy to be Oz's groupie; now she gripes over Veruca pigeonholing her as one.



* NoYou: Buffy and the drunk college boys. "No, ''you'' stupid!"



* PainfulTransformation

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* PainfulTransformationPainfulTransformation: The college boys turning into cavemen.


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* SophisticatedAsHell: The college boys conclude that all the world's problems can be solved by drinking.
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* BuffySpeak: Buffy is suffering the afterness of a [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment bad night of badness.

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* BuffySpeak: Buffy is suffering the afterness of a [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment bad night of badness.badness]].

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-->'''Xander:''' Pfft. NOTHING CAN DEFEAT THE PENIS! Too loud. Very unseemly.

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-->'''Xander:''' Pfft. NOTHING CAN DEFEAT THE PENIS! [off their looks] Too loud. Very unseemly.



-->'''Xander:''' This will give them some time to ponder the geo-political ramifications of BEING MEAN TO ME!
* BaitAndSwitch: Willow appears to be falling for Parker's charms, but then she laughs and tells Parker what she thinks of him.

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-->'''Xander:''' [[AndThisIsFor This will give them some time to ponder the geo-political ramifications of BEING MEAN TO ME!
ME!]]
* BaitAndSwitch: BaitAndSwitch:
**
Willow appears to be falling for Parker's charms, but then she laughs and tells Parker what she thinks of him.
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* GoldenMoment: Spoofed; Parker learns his lesson, only to get clubbed on the head.



* PervertedSniffing: Cave!Slayer sniffing Xander. Willow is seated on a park bench with Buffy crouched next to her and [[LesYay Buffy sniffs her hair as well]]. Note that Hyena!Xander sniffed Buffy in "The Pack", so the sniffing has gone full circle.

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* PervertedSniffing: Cave!Slayer sniffing Xander. At the end of the episode, Willow is seated on a park bench with Buffy crouched next to her and [[LesYay Buffy sniffs her hair as well]]. Note that Hyena!Xander sniffed Buffy in "The Pack", so the sniffing has gone full circle.


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* TheExitIsThatWay: Xander gently guides Buffy away from the other cave kids.
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* BuffySpeak: Buffy is suffering the afterness of a [[DepartmentOfRedundencyDepartment bad night of badness.

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* BuffySpeak: Buffy is suffering the afterness of a [[DepartmentOfRedundencyDepartment [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment bad night of badness.
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* BuffySpeak: Buffy is suffering the afterness of a bad night of badness.

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* BuffySpeak: Buffy is suffering the afterness of a [[DepartmentOfRedundencyDepartment bad night of badness.

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