Tabula Rasa
- Episode aired Nov 13, 2001
- TV-PG
- 42m
While trying to find a way to make Buffy forget about her afterlife experience, Willow inadvertently casts a spell that erases everyone's memories.While trying to find a way to make Buffy forget about her afterlife experience, Willow inadvertently casts a spell that erases everyone's memories.While trying to find a way to make Buffy forget about her afterlife experience, Willow inadvertently casts a spell that erases everyone's memories.
- Anya
- (as Emma Caulfield)
- Rupert Giles
- (as Anthony Stewart Head)
- Vamp #4
- (uncredited)
- Michelle Branch
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen Willow tells Dawn about her attraction to women, she uses the exact same words she did in the season three's Doppelgangland (1999) to describe her evil vampire self: "And I think I'm kinda gay!".
- GoofsWillow is trying to hide that she was doing magic, but left the entire bag of lethe's bramble out in the open in the living room.
- Quotes
Rupert Giles: We'll get our memory back, and it'll all be right as rain.
Spike: Oh, listen to Mary Poppins. He's got his crust all stiff and upper with that nancy-boy accent. You Englishmen are always so... Bloody hell... Sodding. Blimey. Shagging. Knickers. Bollocks. Oh, God. I'm English.
Rupert Giles: Welcome to the nancy tribe.
Spike: You don't suppose you and I... We're not related, are we?
Anya: There is a ruggedly handsome resemblance.
Rupert Giles: A-And you do inspire a, um... well, a particular feeling of... familiarity and... disappointment. Older brother?
Spike: Father. Oh, God, how I must hate you.
Rupert Giles: What did *I* do?
- ConnectionsFeatured in WatchMojo: Top 10 TV Episodes Where Someone Has Amnesia (2015)
- SoundtracksGoodbye To You
Sung by Michelle Branch
The episode really goes hand in hand with the previous episode, written by Joss Whedon, "Once More With Feeling". It was a musical episode in which everybody is compelled, by a magical spell, to spew out their feelings in song. Tara finds out Willow is manipulating her mind with magic spells, and considering that in Season five she lost her mind temporarily due to that season's villain, Glory, Tara is particularly hurt by this.
But this week, despite her promises, Willow is back at it and casts a spell to make Buffy forget her troubles and snap out of her depression. The explanation of this is too involved to get into here. The spell goes awry, though, and ends up wiping the memory of everybody at the Magic Box, which is the entire Scoobie gang and Spike. They awake not knowing who they are, and strangely enough almost figure it out, with a few humorous mistakes - Anya and Giles think they are engaged, Giles and Spike think that they are father and son, and Xander and Anya feel no connection to one another whatsoever, although they are the pair that is actually engaged.
It has lots of clever one liners and rewards for people who have followed this series throughout the years, but if you are just tuning in for the first time it is humorous enough to enjoy on its own. I don't think that Buffy ever recovered this level of natural flowing dialogue and humor for the rest of the series, although Buffy at its worst was always worth watching.
- AlsExGal
- Jan 25, 2022