2.2 Some Assembly Required

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Unusual Weaponry

Fighting in the graveyard, Buffy stakes a vampire with the handle of a spade he was attacking her with.

Quotes

	Buffy:	You don't just sneak up on people in a graveyard. You make noise when you walk. You stomp or...yodel
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	Angel:	Whenever we fight you always bring up the vampire thing!
	Buffy:	Well, I didn't come here to fight.
	(A vampire lunges at them from behind)
	Buffy:	Oh. Right. I did.
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	(practising)
	Giles:	W-w-w-what I'm proposing is, um... and I-I don't mean to appear indecorous, is, is, um, a, a-a-a social engagement, um, a, a, a, a-a date, if you're amenable.
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	Xander:	Ms. Calendar is reasonably dollsome, especially for someone in your age bracket. She already knows that you're a school librarian, so you don't have to worry about how to break that embarrassing news to her.
	Buffy:	And she's the only woman we've actually ever seen speak to you. Add it all up and it all spells 'duh'.
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	Giles:	Grave robbing? That's new. Interesting.
	Buffy:	I know you mean to say 'gross and disturbing'.
	Giles:	Yes, yes, of course...terrible thing. Must put a stop to it. Damn it.
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	Cordelia:	Eew! How come every conversation you people have has the word 'corpse' in it?!
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	Xander:	So we're set then. Say nineish? BYO shovel?
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	Willow:	By the way, are we hoping to find a body, or no body?
	Xander:	Call me an optimist, but I'm hoping to find a fortune in gold doubloons.
	Giles:	Um, body would mean flesh-eating demon, no body would point towards the, uh, army of zombies thing. Take your pick, really.
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	Cordelia:	Buffy? Well, she's, uh... big shock, she's at the graveyard.
	Angel:	She said she'd be home.
	Cordelia:	Well, she lied. Isn't she a rascal?
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	Buffy:	Somebody's been digging up the bodies of dead girls.
	Angel:	I know. We found some of them.
	Buffy:	You mean, like, two of the three?
	Angel:	I mean, like, some of them. Like parts.
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	Buffy:	Why go to all the trouble to dig up three girls only to chop them up and throw them away? It doesn't make any sense. Especially from a time management standpoint.
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	Giles:	You understand, in my capacity as school official, this search is completely unauthorized, and I, I cannot condone it.
	Buffy:	Fine, your butt's covered. Wanna grab a locker?
	Giles:	Uh, yes, yes, of course.
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	Eric:	If you take a life in order to make a life, the whole thing is a wash. No harm, no foul.
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	Jenny:	I don't know what it is about football that does it for me. I mean, it lacks the, the grace of basketball, the, uh, poetry of baseball. At its best it's unadorned aggression. It's such a rugged contest.
	Giles:	Rugged? American Football? (laughs)
	Jenny:	And that's funny because?
	Giles:	No. I just think it's rather odd that a nation that prides itself on its virility should feel compelled to strap on forty pounds of protective gear just in order to play rugby.
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	Jenny:	Is this your normal strategy for a first date? Dissing my country's national pastime?
	Giles:	Did you just say 'date'?
	Jenny:	You noticed that, huh?
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	Giles:	Sorry about all this.
	Jenny:	It's okay. Although a good rule of thumb for a first date is don't do anything so exciting that it'll be hard to top on the second date.
	Giles:	Believe it or not, since I've moved here to live on top of the Hellmouth, the events of this evening actually qualify as a slow night. (pauses) Did you just say 'second date'?
	Jenny:	You noticed that, huh?
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	Angel:	He gets to be there when I can't. Take your classes, eat your meals, hear your jokes and complaints. He gets to see you in the sunlight.

Pop Culture References

The episode name refers to a standard phrase used by furniture shops and catalogues, which indicates that the goods are flat-packed and need to be assembled into some sort of three-dimensional gubbins by the customer at home. Usually with two missing screws, and a strangely shaped piece of metal which doesn't appear anywhere in the instructions.

Buffy: "If you wouldn't mind a little Gene and Roger"
Referring to two film critics, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert, as she offers her opinion on Giles's pick-up line practice.

Buffy: "You just say, 'Hey, I got a thing, you maybe have a thing, maybe we could have a thing.'"
Giles: "Oh, thank you Cyrano"
Reference to Cyrano de Bergerac, a play by Edmond Rostand, in which the titular hero helps a handsome but less articulate friend to woo a woman he himself was in love with. Giles is suggesting, rather sarcastically, that Buffy's idea of a pick-up line is somewhat less than poetic.

Xander: That whole stork thing is a smoke-screen
Xander is referring to an old-fashioned explanation parents would give very young children in response to the age old 'where do babies come from' question. Akin to finding them in the cabbage patch.

Buffy: Sorry to interrupt, Willow, but it's the Bat Signal.
Doesn't really need an explanation, does it? Oh, go on then...
In the Batman comics, when danger threatened Gotham City, a huge spotlight would be used to project the image of a bat against the moon, to let the hero know he was needed. I must admit, I always wondered what they would do if there was danger in the daytime??

What We Learn

Angel is 241 years old.
A tomato is a fruit.

Nitpicks

Why go to all the bother of finding several dead girls bodies and then doing a mix-and-match? Wouldn't it be far simpler to find one body and re-animate the whole thing? They already know it would work, as they've been through that process with Daryl, and they'd have been far less likely to get found out.

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