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Wednesday, March 06, 2002 ( 3/06/2002 08:09:00 AM ) Bill S. SPOT THE COMICS REF: I - As regular visitors to Sunnydale, CA., both my wife and I take great pleasure with playing Spot the Esoteric Comics Ref on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. These references frequently come from the mouth of Xander Harris (Nicholas Brendan), the lone male Scooby Gang hold-out. So we fully were expecting at least one good one on last night’s ep – which focused on Xander’s impending wedding to ex-vengeance demon Anya (Emma Caulfield). Turns out, though, the story in question was a bit too grim to support the spare comics-themed quip (Xander gets cold feet after experiencing a cheerless ersatz vision of his future with Anya). So for now we’ll have to continue to mull over last week’s joke: it's currently in the running for the season’s best. In “As You Were,” demon-killing guerilla boy Riley Finn (Marc Blucas) returned to Sunnydale with his new wife - also given to wearing camouflage and carrying heavy artillery. Quip-ready Xander at one point refers to the couple as “Nick and Nora Fury,” a throwaway line that packs in double your pop refs for your bucks:
Most textured pop quip this side of a MST3K viewing: we can only hope that our man Xander (presently on the run from his spurned fiancé) pulls himself together soon enough to try and top it. I'll keep watching . . . # | |
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