Buffy the Vampire Slayer - TV Trope “Lame Comeback”
Lame Comeback: In a situation where the usual tropes call for a clever rejoinder, sometimes the absence of one can have the same effect (as far as the audience is concerned).
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer - TV Trope ”Brick Joke”
Brick Joke: A Brick Joke is a particular type of Chekhov’s Gun (or its variants) for which the payoff, but not necessarily the set-up, is a joke. Named after an old joke, which seems at first brush to be a pair of unrelated jokes. At the end of the first joke, a brick is tossed away, leaving the confused listener without a punchline. At the end of the second joke, the brick returns and the listener falls on the floor laughing. For bonus points, the teller can tell an actual unrelated joke in between. Sometimes, the Brick Joke structure — introducing a seemingly irrelevant feature only to return to it much later, after the audience has largely forgotten about it — can be used for drama as well as comedy.
Orb of Thesulah
2x17 Passion- 2x21 Becoming Part 1
Snyder
2x09 What’s My Line, Part 1 -4x22 Restless
Sex With Giles
3x06 Band Candy - 3x18 Earshot
Chaos Demon
3x08 Lovers Walk - 5x07 Fool for Love
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - TV Trope ”Smoking is Cool”
Smoking is Cool: If you’re badass, you smoke. For some reason, smoking is used as a shorthand in fiction to say that someone is a badass.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - TV Trope “Hard Work Montage”
Hard Work Montage: One or more characters is shown working hard at a particular task through a sequence of shots meant to imply time passing. This may often incorporate a signature piece of energetic or heroic music, or the characters themselves will sing as they work.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - TV Trope “Shaped Like Itself”
Shaped Like Itself: A tautology is a truthful phrase with no informational content. A = A is a tautology. Unnecessary repetition of words meaning the same thing. Usually, this is just used as a joke, but it’s often also used to describe something as boring.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - TV Trope “Title Drop”
Title Drop: If a line of dialogue is the title of the episode, movie, or book, it obviously must have some great significance. If it sounds completely random, that just means the true meaning of the title has yet to be revealed. So when a character is heard using the title in dialogue, the audience sits up and takes notice, because the scriptwriter has just planted a neon sign that flashes THIS CONVERSATION IS IMPORTANT.
Veronica Mars - TV Trope “Getting Crap Past the Radar”
Getting Crap Past the Radar: The practice — usually found on but not limited to comedies — of placing content inappropriate for the target age, such as profanity or sexual content past the network censors.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - TV Trope “Rhetorical Question Blunder”
Rhetorical Question Blunder: A Rhetorical Question Blunder is what happens when a character asks a question that they didn’t need an answer to… and then gets an answer anyway. That answer will almost always be contrary to the point they were trying to make. Occasionally this can lead down a slippery slope as the asker tries to salvage the original intention.
1x02 The Harvest
2x09 What’s My Line, Part 1
2x12 Bad Eggs
5x14 Crush
6x19 Seeing Red
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - TV Trope “7th Episode Twist”
7th Episode Twist: “So you’ve been watching a new show for a few weeks now, you like the characters and are just getting comfortable with the routine of how things work. You tune in expecting another Monster of the Week when all of a sudden the writers pull a fast one. This is done to either showcase something that’s been teased at, raise the stakes, or change the game somehow to keep things more interesting. It could also beplayed subtly, introducing something that seems like a regular Monster of the Week plot, but later on goes on to define the main plot. The repercussions of this episode will continue to be important for the rest of the arc or even series.”
1x07 Angel
The revelation that Angel is a vampire (with a soul).
2x07 Lie to Me
Angel reveals his connection to Drusilla.
3x07 Revelations
Faith loses her trust in people (which later leads her to join the Mayor)
4x07 The Initiative
Riley works for The Initiative
5x07 Fool for Love
Spike tells Buffy that “every slayer has a death wish”
6x07 Once More with Feeling
Spike and Buffy kiss.
7x07 Conversations with Dead People
The First confronts some of the Scoobies and we learn Spike has been feeding again.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - TV Trope “I call it Vera”
I call it Vera: Some people have really strong emotions about their weapons. So much so, they give it a name.
2x21 Becoming, Part 1
3x12 Helpless
3x19 Choices
4x01 The Freshman
4x02 Living Conditions
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - TV Tropes “Stupid Questions”
“Ask a Stupid Question”:…and you’ll get a stupid answer!
1. “Nun club”
1x01 Welcome to the Hellmouth
2. “The other cool place in Sunnydale”
1x02 The Harvest
3. “Clog dancing”
2x01 When She Was Bad
4. “Buffy, the dog-faced girl”
3x09 The Wish
5. “Playing soccer”
5x11 Triangle
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - TV Trope “Book ends”, Part 2
Book ends: Matching scenes at the beginning and end of a story, often to show how things have changed through the course of the episode, or to demonstrate that they haven’t changed at all.
1. The Earth is doomed!
1x02 The Harvest
7x22 Chosen
2. Coming back to life
6x02 Bargaining, Part 2
6x22 Grave
3. She’ll tell you…
7x04 Help
7x22 Chosen
4. It’s about power
7x01 Lessons
7x22 Chosen
5. Spike and the “Welcome to Sunnydale” sign
2x03 School Hard
7x22 Chosen
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - TV Trope “Book ends”, Part 1
Book ends: Matching scenes at the beginning and end of a story, often to show how things have changed through the course of the episode, or to demonstrate that they haven’t changed at all.
1. Buffy arriving from L.A. and then leaving Sunnydale
2x01 When She Was Bad
2x22 Becoming Part 2
2. Buffy getting kicked out from school
2x01 When She Was Bad
2x22 Becoming Part 2
3. Both liberal thinking and discipline lead to being eaten
1x09 The Puppet Show
3x22 Graduation Day, Part 2
4. Some lies are necessary…
2x07 Lie to Me
5. Love your enemy
3x17 Enemies
3x22 Graduation Day, Part 2
