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Episode Guide
The Freshman
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Trivia
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RILEY, YOU BIG LUG
A small shrine to the dumbest man on TV. This week:
We get to meet Riley for the first time in this episode, and he starts as he means to carry on.
He lurks. In a library.
Then he forgets Buffy totally, only managing to recall that she's "Willow's friend." Not a very good start.
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Armchair tourist: Xander refers to the 1991 movie Grand Canyon, directed by Lawrence (The Big Chill) Kasdan, and starring Steve Martin, Kevin Kline and Danny Glover. Watching it on cable was the nearest he got to touring the country.
Pop patriotism: Xander�s line about the "purple mountains majesty" of America is a quote from Katharine Lee Bates� 1893 hymn America the Beautiful,
which contains the lyrics:
O� beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain
Spot the reference: There's a lot of little nods to earlier episodes in the box of belongings Sunday rummages through. Amongst them is Buffy�s cuddly toy pig, Mr Gordo, introduced
in What�s My Line part one, the gold parasol presented to Buffy by her fellow students in The Prom in recognition of her role as class protector and her diary, as featured in Ted and Angel.
LA Calling: The scene where Buffy picks up the telephone,
but there�s no-one on the other end is a mini-crossover, linking this episode with the Angel first episode City of. Over in LA, Angel calls Buffy, but doesn't say anything. And, obviously, she can't hear his breathing down the line.
Movie mash: Xander�s "anger leads to hate" speech misquotes Yoda in Star Wars - The Phantom Menace. The final line Xander was grasping for is "hate leads to suffering". His other quote, "first you get the women, then you get the money" is a mangled version of a line from Brian De
Palma�s 1983 movie Scarface, delivered by Al Pacino�s character, Tony Montana. "[In] this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the woman".
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'Wait! I have weapons!'
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