History Recap / BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E16TheBody

* VisibleBoomMic: When Buffy is in the living room with Joyce's body in the zoom up, the boom mike up in visible in the right hand corner.

* DuelingWorks: Comparing this with the episode of ''Series/TheXFiles'' ''[[Recap/TheXFilesS08E14ThisIsNotHappening This is Not Happening]]'', both episodes of both Fox shows (this episode of Buffy was aired on The WB) aired in 2001 and features a sad plot (Joyce's death in this episode, Mulder's death in that episode), with {{TitleDrop}}s said by main characters (Anya in this episode and Scully in that episode).

* WaxingLyrical: Willow's line "Strong like an Amazon?" refers to the song "Amazons" by Phranc, the "all-American Jewish lesbian folksinger" and record-holding Tupperware Lady. Willow is quoting the line of the chorus. Creator/JossWhedon reveals this in the DVDCommentary, but insists he didn't choose this song because of Willow's, Tara's, and Phranc's sexual orientation.

The coroner arrives, zipping Joyce's body into a black body bag. At school, Dawn is crying her eyes out. A friend comforts her, saying that it isn't that bad. Dawn disagrees, saying that [[BaitAndSwitch Kevin called her a freak in front of the whole class]]. They eventually decide to blame [[AlphaBitch Kirstie]] for spreading rumors that Dawn has been cutting herself, and head off to art class, where the art teacher tells the class not to draw the object, but the negative space surrounding it. Dawn is working next to Kevin, who is actually quite friendly, dissing Kirstie and telling Dawn he has also felt the need to do something extreme before. Dawn starts to tell an embarrassing story about Kirstie, only to see Buffy arrive. Buffy takes Dawn outside the classroom. Dawn, confused by what is happening, wants to know where Joyce is, since she was supposed to pick her up after school. Buffy responds that she would rather explain this somewhere more private, but this only prompts Dawn to get upset and demand to know what is going on. The camera stays with the students, who watch through the window. We don't hear Buffy actually tell Dawn, but we see Dawn break down in tears, and we hear her sobs and screams. The camera shows Dawn's negative space sketch, which looks like a crime-scene body outline.

* BaitAndSwitch: The first cut to Dawn shows her crying in her school bathroom. The audience is meant to assume she's crying about Joyce, but then her friend says she doesn't think it's a big deal, which is a strange thing to say about someone's parent dying. Turns out Dawn is crying about something another girl said in class, and hasn't heard the news about Joyce yet.