A 'The Zeppo' Poll

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UPDATED: Thursday, June 8, 2006 20:42
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ZEEK

Tuesday, July 5, 2005 10:41 PM

F for me.

BIKISDAD

Wednesday, July 6, 2005 12:49 AM

I got it right away, but I was in my early 40's when I first saw it (47 now), so I should have gotten it.

The one I didn't get was from "The Puppet Show" where Xander asks, "So, does anyone else think we've been Kaiser Sosay'd?". It was several years before I saw the movie that that reference came from and I finally understood it.

The other really obscure one was from season four (sorry, I forget which episode) when Buffy says, "I'll pull a William Burroughs on him... Wasn't anybody else awake in English that day?" That one I had to look up on the internet...

And the piece de resistance was from season 7's "Empty Places" when Giles, while claiming not to be trying to put Spike's life in danger, sends him on a mission to a Mission in Gilroy, CA - one of the funniest in-jokes they ever did on the show. Look up Gilroy on the internet and you'll understand why.

Apathy on the Rise. No One Cares.

MER

Wednesday, July 6, 2005 2:22 AM

I still don't get it. Unless the injoke is the garlic festival in Gilroy.

I got the Zeppo joke, but I don't see how Zeppo is useless...but then again, I've always been more of a Laurel and Hardy girl than the Marx Bros.

BIKISDAD

Wednesday, July 6, 2005 2:38 AM

Yes, sending a vampire to "The Garlic Capital of the World", while claiming not to be doing anything to endanger him... Oh, well. I thought it was hilarious. Just me, then...

And Zeppo was the fourth Marx Brother - the less talented one. The ones that were usually in the movies were the other three - Groucho, Chico, and Harpo.

Apathy on the Rise. No One Cares.

MER

Wednesday, July 6, 2005 4:32 AM

Actually, I find it funny. I wonder how I'll react once I see that episode again. I hope I can hear over my screaming of a Spike & Andrew roadtrip.

JOEMO

Wednesday, July 6, 2005 4:46 AM

Just a couple of questions since its been some time since I have watched a lot of Buffy. I don't ever recall them validating the vampires hate garlic thing. And I vaguely recall them explaining the Zeppo reference in the Zeppo.

BIKISDAD

Wednesday, July 6, 2005 5:12 AM

Check out season two, when Angel "changes" and Buffy has garlic hanging all over her room - you know, when Willow comes over. It's probably not there because she likes the smell.

Apathy on the Rise. No One Cares.

ODDNESS2HER

Wednesday, July 6, 2005 5:35 PM

A, I got it. I was 34/35 at the time.

CALLMESERENITY

Wednesday, July 6, 2005 5:51 PM

I was
G) Don't remember it and don't remember if I cared at the time.

But I do get the reference, and I feel a bit bad for Zeppo. If you read a bit about him, you find that he was the understudy for most of the brothers and supposedly did a better "Groucho" than Groucho himself. And also I think he was the best looking. He deserves some credit.

Also, I remember laughing my head off at that William Burroughs line.

And I'm 27.

"Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us." ~Jerry Garcia

CAPTBAGGYTROUSERS

Wednesday, July 6, 2005 5:52 PM

A, got it, was probably in my mid-twenties at the time.

Does this make Dawn the Gummo?

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