Xander: The Yankees.
Abbott and Costello. The "A".
Xander enumerates a list of teams. The New York Yankees
baseball team, the comedy acting team of Abbott and
Costello and TV's the "A Team".
Xander: Last month he's the freak with the
Jicama breath who waxes his back.
Jicama is a Central American vegetable
that is also known as a Mexican potato.
Buffy: So Cameron Walker, you
just won the state semi-finals. What are you
going to do next?
A play on the Disney commercial. The announcer asks the winner of a
sporting event what he's going to do next and the reply is "I'm going to
Disney World!"
Xander: In other words, this
was no boating accident.
A line from the 1975 movie
Jaws. The town sheriff tries to convince the mayor that a mangled body
was caused by a shark attack and not a boating accident.
Xander: Raise your hand if you feel
her pain.
A poke at the famous Bill Clinton line from the 1992 campaign "I feel
your pain."
Cordelia: It's another thing to be dating
the creature from the blue lagoon.
Xander: Black lagoon.
The creature from the blue lagoon was Brooke
Shields.
The Blue Lagoon was a 1980 movie
staring actress Brooke Shields. The
Creature From the Black Lagoon is the classic horror movie
of 1954. The fish man in this episode resembles the monster from the Black
Lagoon much more closely than it resembles Brooke Shields.
