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Some Assembly Required is the second episode of the second season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the fourteenth episode overall. Buffy literally stumbles across an open grave and realizes that something, or someone, is stealing corpses of the recently dead out of their graves.

Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy Summers), Nicholas Brendon (Xander Harris), Alyson Hannigan (Willow Rosenberg), Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia Chase), David Boreanaz (Angel)

And: Anthony Stewart Head (Giles)

Guest Starring: Robia La Morte (Jenny Calendar), Angelo Spizzirri (Chris Epps), Michael Bacall (Eric), Ingo Neuhaus (Daryl Epps), Melanie MacQueen (Mrs. Epps)

Co-Starring: Amanda Wilmshurst (Cheerleader)

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

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Daryl Epps was a running back for the high school football team and was generally lusted after by the entire school population. He died when he fell during rock climbing and broke his neck, which sent his brother Chris into a state of delusional obsession. He sought to bring his brother back to life and succeeded. However, the episode mainly revolves around the creation of a mate for his undead brother.

The general plot of this episode is clearly inspired by Frankenstein, the classic science-fiction horror story written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in 1818. In the novel, a brilliant scientist named Victor Frankenstein dabbles in a taboo science of reanimating the dead. He succeeds, but is disgusted by the hideousness of his creation. Eventually, the creature confronts his creator and demands that he create a companion for him. Victor abandons his project and the two enter into a series of revenge killings that destroys them both. The monster resigning itself to suicide instead of living alone is a parallel which ends both the novel and the episode.

There are also elements of the film and television series Weird Science, which is built around the idea of two geeks making the perfect woman. She wasn't constructed out of corpses, however.

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#	Whom	By Whom	How	Where
1	Vampire	Buffy	Staked	Cemetery
2	Daryl	Himself	Burned	Warehouse

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[edit] Happenings

• Horror Lore: When Xander mocks Cordelia for caring more about cheerleading than the possibility of zombies eating her flesh, Giles corrects him. According to him, zombies do not eat living flesh, which is contrary to just about every popular depiction of zombies in film and television.

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• Angel: As of this episode, by his own admission, Angel is 241 years old. This would make his birthdate sometime in 1756.

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[edit] The Show

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