Doublemeat Palace
- Episode aired Jan 29, 2002
- TV-PG
- 1h
When Buffy gets a job at the Doublemeat Palace, a local fast-food restaurant, she begins to believe that disappearing co-workers and the secret ingredient to the restaurant's hamburger may b... Read allWhen Buffy gets a job at the Doublemeat Palace, a local fast-food restaurant, she begins to believe that disappearing co-workers and the secret ingredient to the restaurant's hamburger may be connected.When Buffy gets a job at the Doublemeat Palace, a local fast-food restaurant, she begins to believe that disappearing co-workers and the secret ingredient to the restaurant's hamburger may be connected.
- Anya
- (as Emma Caulfield)
- Gary
- (as T. Ferguson)
- Mr. Typical
- (as Kevin C. Carter)
- Housewife Type
- (as Sara LaWall)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaJoss Whedon revealed that the portrayal of the fast food industry with the Doublemeat Palace caused sponsors to threaten to pull support: "The only thing that we've ever actually been stopped or asked to stop doing was the fast food run. When Buffy worked at the fast food joint it made the advertisers very twitchy. So apparently the most controversial thing we ever had on Buffy was a hamburger and chicken sandwich."
- GoofsWhen Phillip is giving Buffy a lesson on how to fry the double-meat patties, he has sanitary gloves on. Twice, in cutaway close ups, it shows Phillip's hands (without gloves) flipping the burgers, then hitting the timer button. When the long shot returns of Buffy and Phillip, Phillip has his gloves back on.
- Quotes
Buffy Summers: [serving Spike at her new job] I'm working. Go away.
Spike: Yeah, and you chose to be in the consumer service profession and I'm a consumer.
[suggestively]
Spike: Service me.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Buffy Goes to Work (2003)
I don't know if there's much to say about Doublemeat Palace that hasn't been said already. Its satire of the fast food industry is pretty on-the-nose. It's both funny and depressing. There are some colorful characters, and Buffy is more cheerful in the face of corporate ennui than I would have expected. Maybe because the grotesque mystery she encounters on the job activates her Slayer sense and gives her a sense of purpose beyond the dead-eyed stare into the deep fryer that her other co-workers have to look forward to. Anybody who's worked customer service can relate to the vacant enthusiasm of middle management. And as another reviewer noted, Buffy looks pretty cute in the Doublemeat Palace uniform.
One thing the show has yet to address is why nobody seriously considers charging for the services Buffy performs as Slayer. Anya brought it up earlier in the season and everybody acted as though she was morally corrupt for suggesting such a thing. I can understand why Dawn would feel that way--teenagers have no sense of financial reality and thus look down on anyone who does--but why didn't a more level-headed Scooby point out that police officers and firefighters get paid for their work and nobody looks down on them for it? Heck, Cordelia made a pretty solid argument for accepting payment from clients way back in season 1 of Angel. The writers of Buffy choose to take an avenue of complete ignorance on the subject and, by bypassing it completely, make the whole financial quandary that leads to Buffy's employment in a part-time minimum-wage job seem silly and wholly unnecessary. Then again, for all its virtues, BtVS has often handled season-long story arcs with something less than grace, so I guess it's not all that surprising given the context of the previous seasons.
- nightwishouge
- Sep 19, 2015
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- 3470 S Sepulveda Blvd, Westside Village, Los Angeles, California, USA(Double Meat Palace)
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