A two for the price of one cultural reference. Giles celebrates the
silence by quoting a line from Shakespeare's Hamlet. "The
rest is silence." are the last words spoken by Hamlet before his
death. For the curious, the line appears in Act V Scene 2. The quote is
especially relevant since (unbeknownst to Giles) Philip is dying just outside
the library doors.
The line is also used in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie. Buffy's
watcher Merrick utters the line just before his death.
Buffy: And I'm lying on my towel, and it's
just before sunset, and Gavin Rossdale is
massaging my feet.
Gavin Rossdale is the lead singer and
songwriter for the British rock group Bush.
Willow:
I've rented a scooter that's parked
outside, and I'm in a little restaurant eating ziti, and there's no more
tables left, so they have to seat this guy with me, and it's John
Cusack.
John Cusack is an American actor.
His most recent films include Grosse Pointe Blank and Con Air.
Xander:
Amy Yip
at the waterslide park.
Amy Yip is an actress from Hong Kong. She's most famous for her uhm attributes (they're fake). Xander no doubt picked the waterslide park location so that she'd be wearing a bathing suit.
Buffy: Mmm. Vampire Meals-On-Wheels.
Meals-on-Wheels is a organization
that arranges to deliver food to the elderly in their homes. The idea is
to assist those who have limited mobility while still enabling them to
live independantly.
Buffy: I'll bring the party
mix.
Party mix is any of several combinations
of Chex cereal, pretzels, peanuts and seasonings.
Buffy: All's well that ends with cute
ER doctors, I always say.
This is possibly just a generic reference to emergency
room doctors, but certainly calls to mind the television
show ER. The show is the most popular drama in the United States and
its doctors (namely George
Clooney) are highly regarded for their cuteness.
Cordelia: Yeah, when you've visited decaf
land.
Cordelia references the fact that caffeine
in coffee can make people jumpy and irritable.
This is likely a subtle inside joke, since the actor that plays Giles,
Anthony Steward Head, is also well known for appearing in a series of Taster's
Choice coffee commercials.
Buffy: Giles, who counts tardiness as like
the eighth deadly sin.
A reference to the seven deadly sins:
pride, idleness, gluttony, lechery, avarice, envy, wrath.
Xander: De-militarize
the zone between me and Cordelia.
After a war, an area can be set aside as a buffer between the formerly
warring parties. The best known de-militarized
zone is between North and South Korea.
Buffy: I care from you lost weekending in your apartment.
The 1945 movie The Lost Weekend is about an alcoholic who ends a period of sobriety with a weekend of binge drinking. Buffy is refering to the fact that the normally quite sober Giles had apparently been drinking heavily in his apartment.
Ms Calendar: I mean, I'm not running around,
wind in my hair, the hills are alive with the sound
of music fine, but ...
Ms Calendar refers to the famous scene from the move The
Sound of Music, where the character played by Julie Andrews, runs across
a field, her hair blowing and singing with joy.
Giles: Bay City Rollers,
that's music.
Bay City Rollers
are a pop band that was popular in the 70's. Their biggest U.S. hit
was the 1975 release "Saturday Night".