History Recap / BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E19IOnlyHaveEyesForYou

* TeacherStudentRomance: The ghost lovers are student and teacher.

* SpotOfTea: Giles pours tea for the Scoobies after the failed exorcism.

* IronicEcho: The dialogue between the ghosts once they possess Angelus and Buffy matches what Angel and Buffy would say to each other, if only they could.

%%* WhamShot: See ThrowingOffTheDisability. %%Zero Context Example

* {{Homage}}: The scenes where Cordelia deformed in front of the mirror and Willow is attacked by a hand going out of a whirlpool are tributes to the scenes where Marty peeled his face of and Diane was drowning in a river of skeletons respectively from ''Film/Poltergeist1982''.

** Also the ghost dialogue foretells "Becoming, Part 2", and Season 3. In "Becoming", [[[spoiler: Angel breaks up with Buffy so she can have a normal life, even though she doesn't care about not being able to have a normal relationship with him.]]

* ChekhovsGunman: The Mayor is mentioned for the first time, someone who proceeds to become the [[BigBad main villain]] of Season 3.

** Willow goes through Ms. Calendar's files, though by this point she hadn't yet found the ones saved on [[ChekhovsGun the floppy disk]], which would help her restore Angel's soul.
** Also the ghost dialogue foretells "Becoming, Part 2", and Season 3. In "Becoming", Angel breaks up with Buffy so she can have a normal life, even though she doesn't care about not being able to have a normal relationship with him.

** Cordelia wonders what would happen if the school closed down, which happened after the events of the season 3 finale.
** [[RewatchBonus With the benefit of hindsight]], Drusilla and Angelus's line about the night-blooming Jasmine flowers turns into this for ''{{Series/Angel}}'' viewers, as Jasmine is the name of the goddess that Cordelia gives birth to, fathered by Angel's son Conner many years later.

* WhamShot: See ThrowingOffTheDisability.

!Tropes:

* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Or in this case, DreamingOfTimesGoneBy. Buffy has a dream in which she sees Grace and James flirting. She matches that with their pictures in the Sunnydale High yearbook of 1955.

* [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim Why Don't You Just Bite Her?]]: Angelus has become bored with his mind games with Buffy and decides to finish her off once and for all. Fortunately the ghosts have other ideas for the two of them.

* TheReveal: The principal, the city council, and the Mayor know about TheMasquerade.

* GroundhogDayLoop: Done without the TimeTravel. The loop is broken when Grace's ghost inhabits Angelus, who can't be killed by gunfire and so survives to tell James that he needs to move on.

* BaitAndSwitch: The ghosts' reenactment appears to be about a male student who murders his older female lover [[IfICantHaveYou because she tries to leave him]]. When the roles are {{Gender Flip}}ped with Buffy possessed by James and Angel possessed by Grace, [[MeaningfulEcho everything takes on a new context]]. Both Grace and Angel, acting out of lust and loneliness, took advantage of a youth they were responsible for, with James and Buffy now doomed to suffer eternal guilt in the belief that ItsAllMyFault after having accidentally killed their OneTrueLove.

** Also the ghost dialogue foretells "Becoming, Part 2", and Season 3. [[spoiler:In season 3, Buffy forgives Angel for what he did this season. In "Becoming", Angel breaks up with Buffy so she can have a normal life, even though she doesn't care about not being able to have a normal relationship with him.]]

** [[RewatchBonus With the benefit of hindsight]], Drusilla and Angelus's line about the night-blooming Jasmine flowers turns into this for ''{{Series/Angel}}'' viewers, [[spoiler:as Jasmine is the name of the goddess that Cordelia gives birth to, fathered by Angel's son Conner many years later.]]