XANDER: Respect the cruller. And tame the donut!
(Anya passes by en route to the counter.)
ANYA: That's still funny, sweetie.
In "Once More with Feeling," the Buffy musical, we find Xander in the Magic Box sitting at a table playing with his food and uttering the line above (with his bride-to-be Anya's approval).
I showed "OMwF" in my graduate cult television course this week, and am delighted to now have, thanks to my student Ariel, an explanation of this typically Whedon-naughty joke, which I now admit I never understood.
It's a reference to Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia, and here (thanks to Ariel) is the visual evidence.
1 comments:
I'm shocked to learn that this vital little pop culture allusion passed you by! Even I knew Magnolia when OMWF aired. I'm really not gloating, though. After all, I still haven't watched Deadwood!
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