A play on the old adage that a girl should never kiss a boy on the
first date.
Owen: I lost my Emily
... Dickinson.
The American poet Emily Dickinson is certainly
a favorite of the morbid and brooding set.
Owen: At least you don't have to eat
your Soylent Green.
Owen compares the cafeteria lunch to Soylent
Green (from the movie
and book of the same name). In the future world people depended on the food
substance Soylent Green for their survival.
Buffy: Clark Kent
has a job; I just want to go on a date.
The alter-identity of the comic book hero Superman, Clark
Kent was able to hold down a job and lead some semblance of a normal
life.
Cordelia: Pick up the phone, call 911,
that boy is going to need some serious oxygen when I
911 is the (mostly) nationwide phone number
for emergencies in the United States.
Owen: I was hoping we'd finish up at Ben
and Jerry's.
Ben and Jerry make some of the best (albeit most fattening) ice-cream
around.
