Life Serial

"Life Serial" is the 5th episode of season 6 of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Buffy will soon be in serious need of money to support herself and Dawn, so she tries to focus on doing something useful and profitable. At first she tries going back to college, but it proves too daunting. Besides, Jonathan, Warren and Andrew are after her to make her life more difficult with their little devices and spells. After trying college, Buffy tries to work at the construction site with Xander, but the Nerds invoke some demons to kill her right there. She disposes of them, but freaks out the crew and Xander asks her to leave. After that, she tries to work at the Magic Box, but another spell of the Trio makes this impossible for Buffy, who finds herself trapped into a magick loop having to satisfy the same customer over and over again. Seeing that nothing works, she goes over to Spike's crypt and they go out for a drink, whereby she accidentally discovers that it's the Trio that are after her.

Quotes and trivia

 * "TNG" stands for Star Trek: The Next Generation. The episode in which the Enterprise-D continually explodes is "Cause and Effect".
 * There is a reference to Monty Python in the time loop sequence where one of the villains misquotes "this is an ex-mummy hand" - a take on the famous Parrot Sketch.
 * The Trio have a protracted argument over actors who have played James Bond: Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Timothy Dalton. Warren insists that Moonraker was inexcusable.