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The Replacement is the third episode of the fifth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the eighty-first episode overall, and is another episode in which Xander gets screwed. Kind of. When a Toth Demon is loose and attempting to kill Buffy, the bullet he took for her has created a mysterious second Xander. But is the other Xander really Toth in disguise?

Guest Stars: Amber Benson (Tara), Kristine Sutherland (Joyce), Michael Bailey Smith (Toth), Cathy Cohen (Building Manager), David Rivers (Foreman), Fritz Greve (Construction Worker), Kelly Donovan (Xander Double)

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

• Toth: They origins and mannerisms of the Toth demon aren't gone into in depth, but it is known that the demon is more sophisticated than the ones that they have faced previously in that he uses a weapon. Toth's weapon splits the person into two polarizing halves, in the case he had hoped for, he wanted to split Buffy and The Slayer.

[edit] Body Count

#	Whom	By Whom	How	Where
1	Toth	Buffy	Impaled	Xander's Apartment

[edit] Arc Advancement

[edit] Happenings

[edit] Characters

• Xander: Xander finally moves out of his parents' basement and into a high class apartment in this episode. He is also promoted to a carpentry crew when the boss calls his more confident half into his office.

[edit] Referbacks

• Passion: Willow and Xander's Christmas tradition was first mentioned in the referenced episode.
• Doppelgangland: Willow had an evil vampire twin from an alternate universe in the referenced episode.

[edit] Trivia

[edit] The Show

[edit] Behind the Scenes

• No Digital Processing: The scenes where the Xanders were standing next to each other in the same scene was easier than it looks, the producers had Kelly Donovan, Nicholas Brendon's stunt double and twin brother, stand in for him.

[edit] Allusions and References

• Babylon 5: Babylon 5 was a highly regarded, award winning science fiction series by J. Michael Straczynski that was aired on TNT between 1994 and 1998. The set of Babylon 5 commemorative plate referenced by Xander were planned, but never actually produced.

Xander: Not unless you want my collection of Babylon 5 commemorative plates.

• Star Trek: On the original Star Trek series, Captain Kirk demanded that Spock "kill them both" if he cannot tell them apart or rejoin them (in each instance). The first time this occurs was on the episode The Enemy Within, where Kirk was split into two people, one being his aggressive side and the other being his passive side. This is most likely where the reference came from. Additionally, on the episode Whom Gods Destroy, an insane Captain Garth shapeshifts into Kirk and Kirk demands that Spock shoot them both.

Both Xanders: Kill us both, Spock.

• A Charlie Brown Christmas: A Charlie Brown Christmas was first broadcast on December 9, 1965. The primetime special was the first to feature the Peanuts gang and is shown annually. The story retells Charlie Brown's purchase of a small and weak tree because he feels sorry for it. He is met with anger until the children figure out the true meaning of Christmas. The Snoopy Dance was the dance that Snoopy did on top of Schroeder's piano and during the opening dancing segment.

Xander: Every Christmas, we watch Charlie Brown together, and I do the Snoopy Dance.

[edit] Memorable Moments

• The Toth Demon fighting Buffy and the others in the dump, only to shoot Xander on accident.
• The Suave Xander being hit on by the woman renting out the apartment.

[edit] Quotes

• Riley: Owning this place does seem kinda dangerous.
  Giles: Toth.
  Riley: What?
  Buffy: He called you a toth. It's a British expression, it means, like, moron.
  Giles: No. Toth is the name of the demon.

• Lame Xander: On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!

• Anya: Well, maybe we shouldn't do this reintegration thing right away. See, I can take the boys home and we can all have sex together, and then, you know, just just slap 'em together in the morning.
  Confident Xander: She's joking.
  Lame Xander: No, she's not! She entirely wants to have sex with us together, which is... wrong, and – and it would be very confusing.
  Giles: We just need to arrange the candles. Also, we should continue to pretend we heard none of the disturbing sex talk.
  Willow: Check. Candles and pretence.

• Anya: What do we do if it doesn't work?"
  Both Xanders: Kill us both, Spock.
  Buffy: Okay, now they're starting to sound the same.
  Giles: Yes, he's cleary a bad influence on himself.

[edit] Reviews

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