The Prom

In which teenagers dress-up, dance, romance, get devoured by demon dogs. And Buffy *finally* gets some recognition.

Official back-of-box synopsis:

The only thing more worrisome than finding a date for the dance is whether or not the students are safe from the Hell Hounds, who have been unleashed by a kid in Oz's chemistry lab. Even though Angel breaks up with Buffy, he shows up at the prom to share her big night with her.

From the old WB Buffy website:

DEVIL IN A PROM DRESS - Spring has definitely sprung in Sunnydale as talk turns to all things Prom, and while Buffy and Angel grapple with the impossibility of a future together, she is determined on keeping a villain intent on crashing the Prom from ruining her friends' perfect high school moment. Meanwhile, a chance encounter between Xander and Cordelia may have reopened their lines of communication, but he is saddled with a demonic Prom date, while Cordy only has eyes for the new watcher Wesley.

Links:

This episode's page at http://www.restlessbtvs.com/, the Restless BTVS Trivia Guide

This episode's page at http://www.vrya.net/bdb/, the Buffyverse Dialog Database

Cross-reference:

episodes featuring big school events:

• Homecoming
  Buffy fights off an array of assassins, and takes on Cordelia in a battle to be Homecoming Queen
• Graduation Day (part 2)
  "Man, just ascend already." The class of 1999 are fully armed under their gowns...
• this episode
  Buffy promises the gang a good time even if she has to kill every single person on the face of the earth

episodes featuring dream sequences:

• Teacher's Pet
  Xander fantasises about being a rock god with Buffy at his feet
• When She Was Bad
  Buffy dreams that Giles attacks her
• Graduation Day (part 2)
  Faith gives Buffy hints on how to defeat the mayor, plus something about 7-3-0...
• Hush
  A spooky little girl with the answer to the mystery of the Gentlemen
• Restless
  The First Slayer invades the dreams of Willow, Xander, Giles and Buffy in turn
• The Weight Of The World
  Buffy's locked in a recurring dream from which Willow has to rescue her
• this episode
  Buffy and Angel in a nightmare wedding

episodes featuring literary references:

• Some Assembly Required
  "Thank you, Cyrano" -- Giles responds to Buffy's val-speak advice on wooing Jenny
• Band Candy
  The gang are getting "all Willy Loman" with the candy
• Bad Girls
  Faith, Lady-MacBeth-like, scrubs away at an already-clean shirt
• Enemies
  Faith is less punctual than Godot
• Fear, Itself
  Willow calls Oz "Brutus" and then has to explain the reference...
• New Moon Rising
  Buffy threatens to get William-Burroughsy with Colonel MacNamara
• Crush
  Dru riffs on Othello: "We can love quite well. If not wisely."
• The Gift
  Spike's "we band of buggered" echoes Henry V
• this episode
  Buffy quotes Frost -- "miles to go"

episodes in which there's dancing:

• When She Was Bad
  Bad!Buffy has Xander all hot and bothered
• Faith, Hope And Trick
  Faith is first seen dancing
• Bad Girls
  Buffy and Faith dance subtextily together
• Who Are You?
  Faith takes Buffy's body onto the dancefloor
• The Replacement
  The Snoopy Dance
• Once More, With Feeling
  Again with the "well duh!"
• Him
  Daddy like! Oh my god that's Dawn!
• this episode
  Buffy and Angel 4 EVA!!!

Cast:

• Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy
• Alyson Hannigan as Willow
• Nicholas Brendon as Xander
  

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• Anthony Stewart Head as Giles
• Charisma Carpenter as Cordelia
• David Boreanaz as Angel
• Kristine Sutherland as Joyce
• Seth Green as Oz
• Danny Strong as Jonathan
• Eliza Dushku as Faith
• Harry Groener as The Mayor
• Emma Caulfield as Anya
• Alexis Denisof as Wesley
• Bonita Friedericy as Mrs Finkle
• Brad Kane as Tucker Wells
• Andrea E Taylor as Sales Girl
• Mike Kimmel as Butcher
• Tove Kingsbury as Tux Boy
• Michael Zlabinger as Student at Mic
• Monica Serene Garnich as Pretty Girl
• Joe Howard as Priest
• Damien Eckhardt as Jack Mayhew
• Stephanie Denise Griffin as Tux Girl