Living Conditions
- Episode aired Oct 12, 1999
- TV-PG
- 42m
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
3.5K
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Buffy finds herself at odds with her new roommate and is troubled by a series of disturbing dreams involving a soul-sucking demon.Buffy finds herself at odds with her new roommate and is troubled by a series of disturbing dreams involving a soul-sucking demon.Buffy finds herself at odds with her new roommate and is troubled by a series of disturbing dreams involving a soul-sucking demon.
Anthony Head
- Rupert Giles
- (as Anthony Stewart Head)
Clayton J. Barber
- Demon #1
- (as Clayton Barber)
Walter Borchert
- Demon #2
- (as Walt Borchert)
Roger W. Morrissey
- Tapparich
- (as Roger Morrisey)
Paige Moss
- Veruca
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen Buffy tells Giles she is 'still going ick' from the last time he tried to recapture his youth, it is a reference to Band Candy (1998), where the adults turn into teenagers and Giles has sex with Buffy's mother.
- GoofsWhen Xander and Oz go to check if the rope holding Buffy is tight enough (which it isn't) Buffy bangs their heads together and knocks them out. Oz is on the left, Xander is on the right When the the camera cuts to see the boys out cold on the floor, they are on the opposite side to where they were before. Xander on the left & Oz on the right.
- Quotes
Buffy Summers: So then, Kathy's like, "It's share time," and I'm like, "Oh, yeah? Share this."
[she punches the air a few times]
Oz: So either you hit her, or you did your wacky mime routine for her.
Buffy Summers: Well, I didn't do either, actually... but she deserved it, don't you think?
Oz: Nobody deserves mime, Buffy.
- Alternate versionsDuring FX syndicated reruns, subtitles were inexplicably deleted between the two demons. Because of this, one of the episodes major plot points is missing. Orignally, it was made clear that the second demon was Buffy's demon roommate's father. She ran away from her home dimension and he went to take her back, to her dismay. ("I'm 3000 years old! When are you going to stop treating me like I'm 900?")
- ConnectionsFeatured in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Gift (2001)
- SoundtracksBelieve
Written by Brian Higgins, Stuart McLennon, Paul Barry, Steve Torch,
Matthew Gray and Timothy Powell
Performed by Cher
Featured review
Kathy go Home
Buffy is finding her college roommate increasingly irritating; she constantly plays music Buffy doesn't like; tries to set rules for their room; flosses her teeth in bed and borrows Buffy's clothes. Things aren't helped after the two of them are attacked by a demon while out on the campus at night even though Buffy manages to push Kathy away so she thinks it was just a mugger. After that they share a strange dream and Buffy gets more and more irritated by Kathy and decides she has to go... even if that means slaying her! Naturally her friends are concerned at her extreme behaviour.
This was a solid standalone episode even though most of it had nothing obviously more threatening than an annoying roommate. We do see demons who state that Buffy, or possibly Kathy, is the one they are looking for but they don't do much that is menacing. The more Buffy and Kathy snipe at each other the more obvious it becomes that something must be affecting them. The way Buffy's friends; Willow, Xander, Oz and Giles, help her was good after she had been effectively alone for much of the episode. The revelation at the end of the episode wasn't a total surprise nor was it too obvious... the method of exposure was a shock though! The acting was solid throughout as were the special effects in the aforementioned exposure scene. Overall a fine episode.
This was a solid standalone episode even though most of it had nothing obviously more threatening than an annoying roommate. We do see demons who state that Buffy, or possibly Kathy, is the one they are looking for but they don't do much that is menacing. The more Buffy and Kathy snipe at each other the more obvious it becomes that something must be affecting them. The way Buffy's friends; Willow, Xander, Oz and Giles, help her was good after she had been effectively alone for much of the episode. The revelation at the end of the episode wasn't a total surprise nor was it too obvious... the method of exposure was a shock though! The acting was solid throughout as were the special effects in the aforementioned exposure scene. Overall a fine episode.
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