Spin the Bottle
- Episode aired Nov 10, 2002
- Unrated
- 44m
Lorne's spell to restore Cordelia's memory makes everyone think they're high school students who have been gathered to hunt a vampire: Angel.Lorne's spell to restore Cordelia's memory makes everyone think they're high school students who have been gathered to hunt a vampire: Angel.Lorne's spell to restore Cordelia's memory makes everyone think they're high school students who have been gathered to hunt a vampire: Angel.
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- TriviaAlexis Denisof and David Boreanaz began getting the giggles as the program progressed. It got to the point that when Angel runs back into the Hyperion Hotel to report that there are hundreds of demons outside (he means the cars on the freeway), the two could not look at each other without dissolving into laughter. Take after take was wasting the time of the crew and other actors. They decided they would simply, then, not look at each other. But between 32 and 33 minutes into the program, they had quick glances, and the viewer can watch them trying to hold in the laughter.
- GoofsWhen Connor appeared as a teenager in season 3, it is mentioned that he is sixteen years old, but in "Spin the Bottle," Cordelia says he is 18. It's impossible for him to have aged two years in a span of roughly three months without making another travel between dimensions.
- Quotes
[due to a spell, Angel can't remember anything past the age of seventeen]
Angel: I'm supposed to be evil, but they attack me without cause. They gang up on me because I'm different. They're as bad as my father.
Connor: Fathers. Don't they suck?
Angel: Say one thing then. "Be good. Fear God. Do as you're told." And the whole while I know good and well, he's had his share of sinning.
Connor: Sounds kinda like my father.
Angel: Is he a self-righteous bastard?
Connor: You'd be amazed.
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What drives the episode so wonderfully is the dialog and the performances, how the actors show their range past their usual selves (Boreanaz especially makes Angel, aka Liam, into a really wimpy character who constantly hates on the English, i.e. Wesley), and have to face the challenge of what's around them- like an AH DEMON! in Lorne- and themselves really. Whedon gives everyone a chance to shine, and it works completely. In a sense it's a little like a repeat of the episode from Buffy in season 6 when at the height of drama, just before Giles leaves for England, the characters' minds are wiped. Only this time, there's a lot more humor, naturally coming out of reactions and how we already see these characters (Wesley doing his vampire-hunting moves is a riot), and the framework of Lorne doing a one-man-show explaining everything (kind of like in Bob Fosses' Lenny).
I'm not sure if it's quite as daring as Whedon's stand-alone episodes at his best (then again, what can top Hush, Restless and The Body), but if you're looking for the sensibility of humor that Angel can excel at (quips and sarcasm and in-jokes, not to mention cultural hoots), then it's a must-see.
- Quinoa1984
- Apr 6, 2010
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- Harlem Pl & 4th St, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA(End of opening credits/intro. With his coat billowing, Angel marches towards the exit of Harlem Pl in the direction of 4th St)
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