# Favorite Buffy pop-culture reference **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 27, 2012, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-buffy-pop-culture-reference/616929 "2012-03-27T04:35:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Three\_Packs\_a\_Day](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d2c977/32.png) [@Three\_Packs\_a\_Day](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Three_Packs_a_Day)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-buffy-pop-culture-reference/616929/1 "2012-03-27T04:35:03Z")
“Looks like someone slaughtered an Abercrombie and Fitch catalogue.” ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-buffy-pop-culture-reference/616929/2 "2012-03-27T04:44:08Z")
“I see somebody’s discovered the softer side of Sears.” Or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-buffy-pop-culture-reference/616929/3 "2012-03-27T04:59:18Z")
“Kiss rocks? Why would anyone want to kiss… Oh! I get it.” ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-buffy-pop-culture-reference/616929/4 "2012-03-27T06:09:52Z")
“You’re like my Q! Bond - not Trek.” ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-buffy-pop-culture-reference/616929/5 "2012-03-27T09:57:12Z")
um…uh…“Luke, I am your father.” ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-buffy-pop-culture-reference/616929/6 "2012-03-27T10:27:46Z")
## Spike: Do it, or Mr… (Checks label on action figure) Fett here will lose his head. Warren: Whoah, don’t say anything you can’t take back. ## Any references to Riley as “Smallville” or “Captain America” Anya: I’m pretty sure Spider-Man gets paid. Right, Xander? Xander: Action is his reward. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-buffy-pop-culture-reference/616929/7 "2012-03-27T13:33:59Z")
- **Andrew:** Think your little witch buddy’s gonna stop with us? You saw her! She’s a truck-driving magic mama! And we’ve got maybe seconds before Darth Rosenberg grinds everybody into Jawa burgers! And not one of you bunch has the midi-clorians to stop her! **Xander:** [after a brief silence] You’ve never had any tiny bit of sex, have you? **Anya:** The annoying virgin has a point. \* ---
**Author:** ![minionkat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@minionkat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minionkat)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-buffy-pop-culture-reference/616929/8 "2012-03-27T14:15:22Z")
Xander: “Boy, it’s a good thing no one ever wanted to check any of these books out, huh?” Giles: “Yes, very convenient.” Xander: “Come on, Olvikan. Hey… We’re gonna need a bigger boat.” ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-buffy-pop-culture-reference/616929/9 "2012-03-27T16:17:48Z")
**Andrew:** “He’s got that same look on his face, though. The one that he had that time I highlighted in his Babylon 5 novels.” ---
**Author:** ![Tanbarkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@Tanbarkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanbarkie)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-buffy-pop-culture-reference/616929/10 "2012-03-27T16:36:50Z")
Xander (regarding Giles): “Calm may work for Locutus of the Borg here, but I’m freaked out, and I intend to stay that way.” ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-buffy-pop-culture-reference/616929/11 "2012-03-27T16:37:19Z")
My memory is failing me, but when they went off to college, there was a vampire den working over the dorms. With each kill they collected a poster, and had a tallying board for the 3 most common artsy prints that Freshmen tend to post. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-buffy-pop-culture-reference/616929/12 "2012-03-27T16:39:37Z")
“The Freshman” I believe Gustav Klimt was in the lead. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-buffy-pop-culture-reference/616929/13 "2012-03-27T17:40:22Z")
Buffy: Trust me. Only someone who’d been underground for the last ten years would wear clothes like that. Giles: They’re dated? Buffy: Try cabon-dated. He looks like Debarge! ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-buffy-pop-culture-reference/616929/14 "2012-03-27T17:47:33Z")
In “Halloween”, when Willow laments about Buffy, “Why couldn’t she have come dressed as Xena?” In “Inca Mummy Girl”, when Xander says of his cowboy costume that he’s Italian pretending to be from Montana. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-buffy-pop-culture-reference/616929/15 "2012-03-27T17:51:08Z")
> [@Krokodil](#): > > Any references to Riley as “Smallville” or “Captain America” Referring to him and his wife as Nick and Nora Fury was a nice touch. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-buffy-pop-culture-reference/616929/16 "2012-03-27T18:25:40Z")
“Respect the crueller, tame the donut” It’s a throwaway line at the start of the scene and usually gets edited out in syndication. It’s from early season 6–maybe even the musical episode? I think it just stands out to me because I had just finished watching “Magnolia” before seeing that episode. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-buffy-pop-culture-reference/616929/17 "2012-03-27T20:13:53Z")
It’s from the musical - “Once More, With Feeling.” ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-buffy-pop-culture-reference/616929/18 "2012-03-27T20:28:05Z")
Giles: “Now Buffy, what have we learned about beer.” Buffy: “Foamy.” ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-buffy-pop-culture-reference/616929/19 "2012-03-27T20:58:47Z")
You’ve got to love the Season 6 nerd trio’s discussion about the merits of the actors who’ve portrayed James Bond: WARREN Connery is Bond. He had style. JONATHAN Yeah, but Roger Moore was funny. WARREN Moonraker? The gondola turns into a hovercraft? It’s retarded. Besides, the guy had like no edge. ANDREW Dalton had edge. In Licence to Kill he was a rogue agent. That’s edgy. And he was amazing in The Living Daylights. JONATHAN Yeah, which was written for Roger Moore, not Timothy Dalton! WARREN Okay, this is stupid! We’re wasting time. End of discussion. The other two nod and turn to their consoles, begin typing. Long beat. WARRENI mean, there’s a shot of like pigeons doing double-takes when the gondola blasted by! Moonraker is inexcusable. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2012, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-buffy-pop-culture-reference/616929/20 "2012-03-27T21:31:46Z")
Dawn: So what are you supposed to be? Anya: An angel. Dawn: Oh, shouldn’t you have wings? Anya: Um, no, this is a special kind of angel called a Charlie. We don’t have wings, we just skate around with perfect hair fighting crime. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-buffy-pop-culture-reference/616929.md?page=2)