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Triangle is the eleventh episode of the fifth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the eighty-ninth episode overall, and expresses the complications of Spike's feelings over Buffy, Buffy's feelings over Riley's departure from the previous episode, and the friction between Anya and Willow.

Guest Stars: Amber Benson (Tara), Kristine Sutherland (Joyce), Ranjani Brow (Young Nun), Abraham Benrubi (Olaf the Troll)

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

• Olaf the Troll: Olaf was once Anya's boyfriend, she turned him into a troll after she caught him cheating on her (an act that allowed her to be come a vengeance demon). He was later imprisoned in a crystal by a group of witches. It is unsure that his brutish nature is because of being a troll or if it was his original ways.

[edit] Body Count

#	Whom	By Whom	How	Where
1	Vampire	Buffy	Staked	Nun's Covent

[edit] Arc Advancement

[edit] Happenings

[edit] Characters

• Willow: This is the first time in the series which Willow refers to herself as gay.

[edit] Referbacks

• Homecoming: Anya talks about how Willow broke up Cordelia and Xander's relationship.

[edit] Trivia

[edit] The Show

• The Bronze: Because of Olaf's outburst in the Bronze, the club closes and reopens with an entirely new look in future episodes.
• Gay: Willow definitely refers to herself as gay. In previous episodes her sexuality was vague and generally danced around.

[edit] Behind the Scenes

• Credit Change: Beginning with this episode, Marc Blucas does not appear in the opening credits.

[edit] Allusions and References

• Wimple: A wimple is the part of the nun's uniform which looks like a close-fitting hood.

• SeaWorld: SeaWorld is a chain of amusement parks based on sealife and marine animals, there are currently four locations (Florida, Texas, California and Australia). The line refers to the shows where the bleachers set up have designated splash zones where the brave onlookers in the first few rows will most likely get wet.

Buffy: It's like being at SeaWorld - "the first five rows will get wet."

• Cat in the Hat: Although Willow explains what the fish is in the episode itself, the Cat in the Hat was a children's book published in 1957 by Theodore Geisel (otherwise known as Dr. Seuss). The story follows a cat in a hat causing rampant destruction in a house with the fish acting as the voice of reason, trying to get the children to not go along with the cat's mayhem.

Willow: The fish in the bowl, in The Cat in the Hat.

[edit] Memorable Moments

• Spike practicing asking out Buffy but getting pissed off and throwing things when he completely fails.
• Olaf attempts to make Xander choose whether he will kill Anya or Willow.

[edit] Quotes

• Anya: You're trying to make me feel left out, and you're stealing!
  Willow: I'm not stealing. I'm just taking things without paying for them. In what twisted dictionary is that stealing?
  Tara: Willow, maybe we should just pay.
  Willow: Anya, Giles would be totally fine with this. Come on, it'll be fun. We could show you how to do some stuff. You could be floating pencils by the end of the day!
  Anya: Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and have drugs!

• Xander: I'm gonna run get Buffy. Or maybe you could fight him.
  Spike: Yeah, I could do that, but I'm paralyzed with not caring very much.

• Olaf: You there! Do you know where there are babies?
  Spike: What do you think, the hospital?
  Xander: What? Shut up! Uh, listen...
  Olaf: I find myself very hungry. And when I am hungry, I grow short of patience.
  Xander: Well, we can take care of the hungry. So how's about you just sit down in one of the sturdier chairs and we could have a calm talk and something to eat?
  Olaf: Can it be babies?
  Xander: Well, not so much. But maybe some roast pigs... and stags... and much hearty grog!
  Spike: They've got this onion thing...
  Olaf: You cannot appease me!

[edit] Reviews

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