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Him is the sixth episode of the seventh season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the one-hundred and twenty-eighth episode overall.

Guest Stars: Thad Luckinbill (RJ Brooks), Brandon Keener (Lance Brooks)

And: DB Woodside as Principal Robin Wood

Co-Stars: Yan England (O'Donnell), Angela Sarafyan (Lori), David Ghilardi (Teacher), Riki Lindhome (Cheryl)

Contents 1 Plot Overview 2 Notes 2.1 Monster of the Week 2.2 Body Count 3 Arc Advancement 3.1 Happenings 3.2 Characters 3.3 Referbacks 4 Trivia 4.1 The Show 4.2 Behind the Scenes 4.3 Allusions and References 4.4 Memorable Moments 5 Quotes 6 Reviews

[edit] Plot Overview

[edit] Notes

[edit] Monster of the Week

• Anonymous Demon: Although it barely gets any play in this episode, the demon that D'Hoffryn sent to kill Anya is the only monster to appear in this episode. He is unnamed and is not identified in the demon database. Not that it matters, because Buffy makes short work of him anyway.

[edit] Body Count

#	Whom	By Whom	How	Where
1	Anonymous Demon	Buffy	Axed	Anya's home

[edit] Arc Advancement

[edit] Happenings

[edit] Characters

[edit] Referbacks

• 4x03 - The Witch: Buffy was a cheerleader for all of about five minutes in an episode in the fourth season.

Buffy: You shredded my outfit.

• 5x02 - Real Me: Dawn's crush on Xander was first explained during her first appearance in which she narrated most of the episode.

Xander: Remember when she used to have a crush on me? I miss the much cuter "me" crush.

• 2x16 - Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered: Xander fondly recalls the time when a love potion gone wrong caused the entire female population of Sunnydale to mob him, even though the time nearly killed him.

[edit] Trivia

[edit] The Show

• Music: Several songs are played in this episode.
  • Theme from 'A Summer Place' by Percy Faith played when Dawn saw R.J. on the bleachers.
  • Handsome Drink by Aberdeen played while she was pacing outside the stairwell.
  • New Slang by The Shins played before Dawn's cheerleading tryout.
  • School Blood by King Black Acid plays while Dawn is moping in her room.
  • Little Fury and Son of Three by The Breeders play at the Bronze.
  • Warning Sign by Coldplay plays during the scene when Buffy takes R.J. into an empty classroom.

[edit] Behind the Scenes

[edit] Allusions and References

• The Spanish Inquisition: Dawn quotes a line from Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British sketch comedy show. The sketch was about a movie being filmed about the real Spanish Inquisition, but the actors kept fouling up dialogue. The actual Spanish Inquisition was used in order to drive the Jews and Moors from Spain so that Catholicism would thrive.

Dawn: No one expects the Spanish Inquisition.

• Anna Nicole Smith: Anna Nicole Smith is a former model and Playboy Playmate who is notorious for her marriage to a 90-year-old billionaire, J. Howard Marshall, who died a mere 14 months after they were wed. Smith was also the star of her own reality show called, aptly, The Anna Nicole Show.

Buffy: Anna Nicole Smith thinks you look tacky.

• Mr. Wizard: Before Bill Nye: The Science Guy, there was Watch Mr. Wizard, a show about science that aired on NBC between 1951 and 1965. The show featured Don Herbert as Mr. Wizard, a man who performs science experiments of an unusual variety on television for children. A revamped version of the series was also aired on Nickelodeon called Mr. Wizard's World.

Buffy: Not the homework, Mr. Wizard.

[edit] Memorable Moments

[edit] Quotes

• Buffy: Xander, be honest. You didn’t, you know, think about slipping that jacket on just a little bit?
  Xander: I refuse to answer that on the grounds that it didn’t fit.

[edit] Reviews

• Overall Grade: D
• Review Breakdown: A+: 0 A: 0 A-: 0 B+: 0 B: 0 B-: 0 C+: 0 C: 0 C-: 0 D: 1 F: 0

• Lord, where do I even start. This episode takes every annoying teen drama convention that a show like Buffy has spent so much time to cast aside and shoves it into this single terrible episode. It spends the majority of this episode setting up Charmed level teen drama garbage like the absurd love triangle, the use of popular music to transform scenes into melodramas and yet another stupid love potion plot. The only reason why this episode doesn't merit as a complete failure is because of the intensely amusing last quarter of the episode, from Buffy trying to kill Principal Wood forward. D --IndieRockLance 21:01, 3 April 2006 (EDT)