In which Buffy has an egg-citing, egg-stravagent, egg-straordinary, egg-venture with her freggs, Xandegg, Willegg, Cordeliegg, and pederegg Giles.
Buffy totally fails at staking a vampire’s dead ass, but Xander is having no problem sucking face with Cordelia. Man I’m getting really bored writing about what happens in these episodes. I think I’ve been spoilt by too many years of exclusively watching serialized television. So I guess what I’m saying is this episodic bullshit can go right ahead and blow me.
So far this episode has revolved around fierce make out sessions, cowboy vampires with Vanderbeek-esque accents, and the take-home-an-egg-and-pretend-its-a-baby school project that happens on tv but never in real life. Buffy names her egg, Eggbert. Ah, how adorable, I would have named mine breakfast. Egg, cheese and Taylor ham on a plain bagel, WITH LOTS OF MAYONNAISE, yes that is what the most delicious breakfast there is.
By the way, how is “beat you like a red-headed step child” not considered horribly racist? I mean I despise gingers as much as the next guy but when you couple that phrase with the fact that there are no black people in Honkeydale, and I’m pretty sure it adds up to a very, very racist tv show.
The eggs from the high school eggsperiment (all right, that’s enough of that), turn out to hatch nasty rubber monsters that look not at all dissimilar to the facehuggers that hatch from the eggs in the ALIEN movies. At least they picked a decent movie series to rip-off.
Speaking of rip-offs, as it so happens, these eggs are actually bezoars, which you may remember being featured predominately in the best selling graphic novel series, The Sandman, by Neil Gaiman. Though to be fair, alien bezoar neural linking and subsequent mind control of humans is more like the martian slugs that threaten to take over humanity in Robert Kirkman’s superhero comic, Invincible, which came out several years after Buffy. And really, everyone isn’t ripping each other off so much as supplementing the rich tapestry of pop culture science fiction. And also please stop me before I start sounding any lamer, if that’s possible.
The evil bloated organic blob monster that controlled all the bezoars was a nice touch, too. Although the cowboy vampires were a big waste of time. Fuck those puds.
Then Buffy’s mom grounded her forever. THAT BITCH. How the frig is she supposed to slay vampires now? I GUESS WE WILL NEVER KNOW.
Buffy totally fails at staking a vampire’s dead ass, but Xander is having no problem sucking face with Cordelia. Man I’m getting really bored writing about what happens in these episodes. I think I’ve been spoilt by too many years of exclusively watching serialized television. So I guess what I’m saying is this episodic bullshit can go right ahead and blow me.
So far this episode has revolved around fierce make out sessions, cowboy vampires with Vanderbeek-esque accents, and the take-home-an-egg-and-pretend-its-a-baby school project that happens on tv but never in real life. Buffy names her egg, Eggbert. Ah, how adorable, I would have named mine breakfast. Egg, cheese and Taylor ham on a plain bagel, WITH LOTS OF MAYONNAISE, yes that is what the most delicious breakfast there is.
By the way, how is “beat you like a red-headed step child” not considered horribly racist? I mean I despise gingers as much as the next guy but when you couple that phrase with the fact that there are no black people in Honkeydale, and I’m pretty sure it adds up to a very, very racist tv show.
The eggs from the high school eggsperiment (all right, that’s enough of that), turn out to hatch nasty rubber monsters that look not at all dissimilar to the facehuggers that hatch from the eggs in the ALIEN movies. At least they picked a decent movie series to rip-off.
Speaking of rip-offs, as it so happens, these eggs are actually bezoars, which you may remember being featured predominately in the best selling graphic novel series, The Sandman, by Neil Gaiman. Though to be fair, alien bezoar neural linking and subsequent mind control of humans is more like the martian slugs that threaten to take over humanity in Robert Kirkman’s superhero comic, Invincible, which came out several years after Buffy. And really, everyone isn’t ripping each other off so much as supplementing the rich tapestry of pop culture science fiction. And also please stop me before I start sounding any lamer, if that’s possible.
The evil bloated organic blob monster that controlled all the bezoars was a nice touch, too. Although the cowboy vampires were a big waste of time. Fuck those puds.
Then Buffy’s mom grounded her forever. THAT BITCH. How the frig is she supposed to slay vampires now? I GUESS WE WILL NEVER KNOW.
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