Doublemeat Palace

Episode aired Jan 29, 2002
TV-PG
1h

IMDb RATING

6.7/10

2.9K

YOUR RATING

Sarah Michelle Gellar in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997)

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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.

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IMDb RATING

6.7/10

2.9K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
Joss 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."

Goofs
When 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.

Connections
Featured in Buffy Goes to Work (2003)

Soundtracks
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Theme
Written by Nerf Herder
Performed by Brandon K. Verrett

User reviews11

Review

Featured review

9/10

This episode's sooo spaced out...

**Please ignore the horrible pun. I usually avoid puns, but it was so fitting that I just kept it** (not that anyone will read this anyway)

This episode is very un-Buffy. Its a quirky Soylent Green meets Burger King episode filled with awkward dark humor, and there's a reason for this: Its very reminiscent to Daisy's half of the Spaced episode "Mettle", down to the awkward boss and "mysterious firings" (though the morale is ruining creativity vs. unhealthy food). Still cool that someone else appreciate awesome British TV shows.

Anyway, from the reviews, its a very underrated episode. The whole surreal nature of the episode works really well. Working in fast-food, the whole atmosphere is sadly realistic to how its really like. A great parody, really, and a great way to break up the season's depressing story arc. The biggest con is the effects of the baddie at the end is so low-budget it looks like something from Troll 2. I mean, its really laughably bad. Guess kinda fitting with the B-movie plot, but they really coulda tried a bit here...

Its really a love it or hate it kind of episode. I kind of get the complaints that its a one-off sort of plot that should of been a sidepoint rather than a whole episode. I mean, Spaced dedicated like 5 minutes of the episode on this, while the rest was robot wars. Then again, the Soylent Green aspect wasn't really there, and the show's a legit comedy.

Watch it, and you'll definitely form an opinion strong enough to go on IMDb and write a review. Whether you like it or not, its definitely a memorable episode.