Angel 5.20 - The Girl in Question
Oh hello, gentle readers. This week's quipful episode more than made up for last week's mostly quipless one. The Apocalypse hasn't been mentioned for awhile now and this Buffy-centric episode doesn't really contribute to the pending apocalypse other than introduce The Immortal. And what about The Immortal? If he's so charimg and handsome, I want to see what he looks like.

Funniest parts (there were many):
-Spike in black and white 1950's Italy with Dru. "Ciao. Ciao. Ciao.."
-Spike: "How do you say Wank Off in Italian?"
-at Buffy's apartment, Spike and Angel try to squeeze through the door at the same time. Of course, Angel, fat as he is, ends up going through first.
-the entire scene where Spike and Angel try to figure out what happened to Darla. Best line of the night was Spike's "Son! Of! A! Bitch!" after he finds out The Immortal also slept with Dru
-in the night club, Spike and Angel fight slow motion to Italian music and end up throwing a couple of punches at each other
-the Italian CEO of W&H spitting at the gypsies.
-Angel: "Don't you guys have an Italian Wesley here?"
-Spike gets weepy over his jacket and gets a replica while Angel gets an Italian pimp jacket
-Spike and Angel needing helicopters, assault teams, and lots and lots of guns for the head exchange
-at the drop off point, Spike and Angel argue over who saved the world more. And both of them refuse to pick up the suitcase with the money even after the Italian guy says "Give us the money, we give you the head" like three times.
-Angel: "I?ve got to wait for her.. for her to finish baking ... in the meanwhile the Immortal?s eating cookie dough."
-Angel clearly not knowing what a strada was.
-the moped chase scene was too funny. -Spike: "Every time he shows up, I either get my girl stolen, beaten by an angry mob, or thrown in jail for tax evasion."

We only see Lorne for like 3 seconds in this episode. I wish he'd gone to Italy as well. It would've been even funnier. Gunn was back to his useless self. But Illyria turning back into Fred (complete with the slight Texan accent) was just freaky. Wes is torn up over Fred already. Illyria just kind of put him through the paper shredder again and again by looking and acting like Fred. Ouch. But Illyria was right about one thing: it was more convenient for the Burkles. How do you explain to those nice folks that their only daughter is still walking around looking exactly like Fred, but she's not actually there? Wouldn't have gone over well.

The latest incarnation of Andrew is disappointing. His bed head was cool though. Reminiscent of the old bumbling Andrew. Yes, he's grown up. Yes, he can speak Italian. Sort of. But Suave Andrew will never be as great as Nerdy Andrew. I miss him and his LOTR/Trekkie/comic book references already.

Wouldn't it have been more cool if the head was from Buffy instead of The Immortal? Hopefully The Immortal will become important later on because he got to distract Angel from The Apocalypse. Otherwise, this episode would've just been as "wait, do we need really to know this?" as the last one.