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• Acting for Two: Averted as the second Xander was played by Nicholas Brendon's real-life identical twin, though Nicholas would play the main speaking role in each scene.
• An Aesop: Xander realises his inner potential. Again.
• An Axe to Grind: Buffy in the garbage dump.
• Applied Phlebotinum: Toth's "creepy stick thing", the ferula-gemina. "It splits one person in half, distilling personality traits into two separate bodies."
• Artistic License - Gun Safety: Averted; Xander unloads his pistol before handing it to Buffy.
• Badass Long Robe: Toth
  Buffy: He ran away, huh?
  Giles: Um, sort of more ... uh ... turned and swept out majestically.
• Butt Monkey: Scruffy!Xander
• Call Back: Willow, to the events of Doppelgangland, relating to the similarities and contrasts with the current episode.
  Willow: Xander. You already knew that he was taking over your life, and you didn't think of Anya until just now?
  Xander: Hey, you wait until you have an evil twin. Let's see how you handle it. (Exits)
  Willow: (Bemused, to herself) I think I handled it just fine.
• Captain Obvious
  Buffy: If Xander kills himself, he's dead. (frowns) You know what I mean.
• Continuity Cavalcade: Riley is helping Xander leave his parent's basement forever.
  Riley: Getting nostalgic?
  Xander: I don't know. At first it's just a place, then you start to make memories, and ... then you're like, (pointing) that's where Spike slept, and (pointing) there, that's where Anya and I drowned the Separvo demon. Oh! (points) and, and right there, that's where I got my heart all ripped out. (shakes head) I really hate this place.
• Damned by Faint Praise
  Xander: But I never help. I get in trouble and Buffy saves me.
  Willow: That's not true! Sometimes we all helped save you. (realizes that was unhelpful) And sometimes you're not in trouble.
• A Day in the Limelight: This applies to Xander twice over!
• Deadpan Snarker: Joyce shows that It Runs in the Family.
  Dawn: Mom, I can stand in the hallway, right?
  Buffy: She's watching us [Buffy/Riley smooching] like a big freak!
  Joyce: (sighs, puts hand to her forehead) This must be my "two teenage girls in the house" headache. I thought it felt familiar.
  Buffy: Good work, Dawn. You gave her a headache.
  Dawn: I did not! (to Joyce) Did I give you a headache, Mom? I'm sure part of it is Buffy's.
  Buffy: But part of it is Dawn's.
  Joyce: It's so nice you've learned to share.
• Description Cut: Willow re witch cliches. "Who uses a cauldron any more?" Cut to the demon using a bubbling cauldron for his incantation.
• Did Not Do The Bloody Research: In-Universe — Buffy assumes that "Toth" is British for "moron".
• Empathic Environment: It rains on Xander when he goes to get Buffy's help, only to find his other self has got their first and Buffy is fixing to kill him.
• Evil Twin: Suberted
• Eyes Never Lie: Averted; Anya can't tell the difference between the two Xanders, despite Scruffy!Xander's plea.
• Get a Room!: Xander opens a door in his new apartment to find Buffy and Riley making out. He tells them to go find a bedroom, then realises they're already in one.
• Hollywood Healing: Averted; Anya is still recovering from a dislocated shoulder, after being knocked down by Mort in the previous episode.
• Hypno Trinket: Xander notices his Evil Twin carries a shiny coin that appears to change everyone's attitude towards him.
• Improvised Weapon: Giles rummages in a box for something to ward off Toth. He finds a rabbit's foot, then a wooden statue.
  Toth: That is a fertility god. (Giles looks at it in dismay) Feeble man, you are not going to distract me— (Giles hits him with the statue)
• Literal Split Personality: Toth's weapon was meant to split Buffy into her human and Slayer sides — he would then kill the weaker human version, causing the other to die. Instead it seperates Xander into an "aggressive" Xander (charming, well-groomed, and confident; but hot-headed and impetuous) and a "passive" Xander (awkward, paranoid, and insecure; but with Xander's trademark sense of humor).
• Martial Arts Do Not Work That Way: Buffy complains about the unrealistic fight scenes in the chop-socky movie.
• Moment Killer: Dawn on the Buffy/Riley snog.
  My friend Sharon's older brother knows a girl who died because she choked on her boyfriend's tongue.
• Oh Crap
  Giles: Oh dear Lord. (Scoobies keep talking among themselves) I said, "Oh, dear lord."
  Buffy: You always say that.
  Giles: Well, it's always important!
• Pop Cultured Badass: Buffy's "bad ice-skating movie obsession".
• I Say What I Say
  Buffy: What if it doesn't work?
  Xanders: Kill us both, Spock!
  Willow: They seem more normal now.
  Giles: Yes, I think he's a bad influence on himself.
• Red Herring: The shiny coin the other Xander carries isn't used to hypnotize people, it's just a trinket. Also Spike's dummy appears to be about him plotting to kill Buffy, but it's actually foreshadowing his obsession with her.
• Shaped Like Itself: "It's an evil robot, constructed from evil parts that look like me designed to do evil!"
• Shirtless Scene: Our first sight of Suave!Xander.
• Shout Out: When they try to put the two Xanders back together.
  Anya: What do we do if this doesn't work?
  Both Xanders: Kill us both, Spock!
• Spot the Imposter: Xander does the Snoopy dance to prove he's the real Xander. Willow is rather confused, as she doesn't even know there's two Xanders walking around.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: Not that Xander is still into Buffy — not that he ever was.
• Taking the Bullet: Xander gets hit by Toth's magical blast when he shoves Buffy aside.
• Twin Threesome Fantasy
  Anya: So... you Xanders really do have all the same memories, all the same... (looking downward) physical attributes?
  Suave Xander: We're completely identical.
  Scruffy Xander: Yeah, we checked out some stuff in the car on the way over... (off Anya's look) Fingerprints!
  Anya: Well, maybe we shouldn't do this reintegration thing right away. See, I can take the boys home, and... we can all have sex together, and... you know, just slap 'em back together in the morning.
  Suave Xander: She's joking.
  Scruffy Xander: No she's not! She entirely wants to have sex with us together. Which is... wrong , and, and it would be very confusing.
  Anya: It's not like it'd be cheating. They're both Xander.
• Wham Line: "But she doesn't love me".
• What Do You Mean, It\'s Not Heinous?: One look at the dump and Riley continues to lose faith in humanity.
  Riley: People say they're recycling. They're not recycling.
• Your Door Was Open: Lampshaded when Willow bursts into Giles' place.
  Giles: I swear, this time I know I had that locked.