Reptile Boy
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| Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode | |||||||
| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 5 |
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| Written by | David Greenwalt | ||||||
| Directed by | David Greenwalt | ||||||
| Production no. | 5V05 | ||||||
| Original airdate | October 13, 1997 | ||||||
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"Reptile Boy" is episode 5 of season 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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[edit] Plot synopsis
A girl jumps out of a second-floor window of a frat house and chased into a cemetery, where she is caught. Meanwhile, Buffy's gang are happy with the apparent lack of activity on the Hellmouth. Giles presses her to train harder, but she just wants to be a teenager. The next day at school, Cordelia introduces Buffy to two college guys, one of whom invites Buffy to a party. She turns him down, claiming she is involved with someone. Buffy goes on patrol and meets Angel, who smells blood on a bracelet on the ground. He says that their age difference is a problem and that she does not know what she wants in life. She runs off.
Buffy decides to go to the frat party with Cordelia. She chooses not to tell Giles or Angel about her date. Later that night, Giles and Willow discover that the bracelet is from Kent Preparatory School, just outside of Sunnydale and where Buffy is partying. Angel appears and asks about Buffy. Willow tells the two men why Buffy lied to them. They then rush off to save Buffy and Cordelia.
At the party, Buffy tries to avoid drunken frat guys. Xander has sneaked in to protect Buffy, but other partygoers recognize him for a crasher and dress him up like a girl. Meanwhile, Buffy relents and decides to accept a drink. Drugged, she stumbles her way up to the bedroom where Cordelia is lying unconscious. When they wake up, they find themselves chained in a basement as an offering for a reptile god named Machida. Cordelia is chosen as the first victim, but Buffy distracts the demon and breaks out of her chains.
Willow, Angel and Giles head to the frat party and meet up with Xander. They enter the house and beat up the frat guys. Buffy kills the demon, and the frat guys are arrested. Afterwards, everyone gathers at The Bronze. Angel appears and asks to have coffee with Buffy sometime. She plays it cool.
[edit] Acting
[edit] Starring
- Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers
- Nicholas Brendon as Xander Harris
- Alyson Hannigan as Willow Rosenberg
- Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia Chase
- David Boreanaz as Angel
- Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles
[edit] Guest starring
- Greg Vaughan as Richard Anderson (as Greg Vaughn)
- Todd Babcock as Tom Warner
- Jordana Spiro as Callie
- Danny Strong as Jonathan Levinson
- Robin Atkin Downes as Machida
[edit] Co-starring
- Robin Atkin Downes as Machida
- Christopher Dahlberg as Tackle
- Jason Posey as Linebacker
- Coby Bell as Young Man
[edit] Music
- Act of Faith - "Bring me on"
- Clement & Murray - "Devil's Lair"
- Clement & Murray - "Graffiti Sound"
- Clement & Murray - "If I Can't Have You"
- Clement & Murray - "Secrets"
- Clement & Murray - "Wolves"
- Louie Says - "She"
- Nancy Sinatra - "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"
[edit] Trivia
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- In his DVD commentary for this episode, writer/director David Greenwalt says that when he wrote the episode he thought that he had invented a great demon name, Machida. He later realized that he had seen "Machida" written on a piece of filming equipment used on the show. Machida is the name of a city in Japan.
- This episode has Cordelia reiterate her belief that older boys are the ones she wants to date. This was first mentioned in "The Harvest" (season 1, episode 2).
- When Willow, Xander, Giles and Angel storm the Fraternity, Angel goes into the household without being invited, despite being a vampire. This is because the fraternity brothers are only temporary residents.
- Greg Vaughan, the actor who played Richard Anderson in this episode, was also in the short-lived series "Malibu Shores" with Charisma Carpenter.
[edit] Translations
- French title: "Dévotion" ("Devotion")
- Italian title: "Macabra festa" ("Macabre party")
- German title: "Der Geheimbund" ("The secret society")
- Japanese title: "気持ち悪い男の子" ("Kimochi Warui Otoko no Ko" - "Bad-Feeling Boy")
- Portuguese title: "O rapaz réptil" ("Reptile boy")
- Spanish title: "Chicos Reptiles" ("Reptiles Boys")
[edit] Timing
- Stories that take place around the same time in the Buffyverse:
| Location, time (if known) |
Buffyverse chronology: Fall 1997 - Spring 1998 (non-canon = italic) |
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| Sunnydale, fall 1997 | B2.01 When She Was Bad |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | Tales of the Slayers: Broken Bottle of Djinn, 1997 |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | B2.02 Some Assembly Required |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | Tales of the Vampires: The Problem with Vampires |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | Buffy graphic novel: Spike & Dru: The Queen of Hearts |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | B2.03 School Hard |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | B2.04 Inca Mummy Girl |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | B2.05 Reptile Boy |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | Buffy graphic novel: Dust Waltz |
| Sunnydale, October 1997 | B2.06 Halloween |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | B2.07 Lie to Me |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | Buffy book: Keep Me In Mind |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | Buffy book: The Suicide King |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | Buffy book: Colony |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | Buffy book: Night Terrors |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | B2.08 The Dark Age |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | B2.09 What's My Line, Part One |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | B2.10 What's My Line, Part Two |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | Buffy book: After Image |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | Buffy book: Carnival of Souls |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | B2.11 Ted |
| Sunnydale, 1997 | B2.12 Bad Eggs |
| Boston, December 1997 - June 1998 | Buffy book: Go Ask Malice: A Slayer's Diary |
| Sunnydale, 1997/8 | Buffy book: Blooded |
| Sunnydale, 1998 | B2.13 Surprise |
| Sunnydale, 1998 | B2.14 Innocence |
| Sunnydale, 1998 | B2.15 Phases |
| Sunnydale, 1998 | B2.16 Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered |
| Sunnydale, 1998 | B2.17 Passion |
| Sunnydale, 1998 | Buffy graphic novel: Ring of Fire |
| Sunnydale, 1998 | B2.18 Killed by Death |
| Sunnydale, 1998 | B2.19 I Only Have Eyes for You |
| Sunnydale, 1998 | B2.20 Go Fish |
| Sunnydale, spring 1998 | B2.21 Becoming, Part One |
| Sunnydale, spring 1998 | B2.22 Becoming, Part Two |
| Sunnydale, spring 1998 | Buffy graphic novel: Spike & Dru: Paint the Town Red |
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