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"Band Candy" is the sixth episode of season 3 of the television show ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer''. ==Plot synopsis== Buffy combines her slaying with studying for the SAT in the graveyard with Giles. The SATs occupy a lot of Buffy's thoughts, and Buffy complains that that, along with her slaying duties, have resulted in her being scheduled 24/7 by her mother and Giles. She then gets another duty: Principal Snyder is handing out boxes of candy to all the students, which they must sell to pay for new marching band uniforms. Buffy sells half of her chocolate bars to her mom, and the two get into an argument because her mother refuses to let her learn to drive. Buffy then leaves for the library, telling her mother she will be studying with Giles for the night. She sells the other half of her quota of candy to Giles, then leaves, telling him her mother wants her home early. Instead, Buffy visits Angel, who is practicing T'ai chi. When she arrives home, Buffy finds her mother and Giles waiting, both of them angry that she lied to them about her whereabouts. They send her to bed and proceed to commiserate while eating the band candy. Meanwhile, at a local warehouse filled with workers packaging the candy bars, Ethan Rayne is revealed to be overseeing the operation. The next day, Giles fails to show up for study hall, where Xander and Willow are playing footsie. Giles' substitute, Ms. Barton, behaves oddly and dismisses the study hall. Worried, Buffy goes to Giles' place and finds her mom on the couch. Giles explains that they are rescheduling her activities to lessen her burden, and Joyce offhandedly gives her her car keys to drive home, to Buffy's astonishment. When Buffy is gone, Giles lights up a cigarette and Joyce pulls out a bottle of Kahlúa. Giles, now acting like he did as a teen, when he was known as "Ripper," invites Joyce out for some fun. Buffy frightens Willow with her driving. They find The Bronze packed with adults who are acting like teenagers, including Principal Snyder. Buffy and Willow leave with Oz and Snyder, who insists on tagging along, and decide to head over to Giles' place to find out what is going on. At the warehouse, Mr. Trick checks up on Ethan Rayne and the production of the chocolate bars. Trick suddenly (and arbitrarily) accuses one of the workers of eating the candy, and kills him as an example. He then leaves to perform the "tribute." Meanwhile, out on the town, Joyce and Giles are up to some hijinx. Giles robs a shop for a coat for Joyce, then he subdues the policemen who comes to stop them, stealing a gun in the process. Then he and Joyce start making out on the hood of the police car. Buffy gets into a car accident that dents her mom's car. Buffy eventually puts two and two together and realizes that the candy is making everyone act like immature teenagers. Buffy sends Willow and Oz to the library and drives to the warehouse after Snyder tells her where the band candy comes from. Upon arrival, Buffy finds her mother and Giles kissing in the middle of the street. Buffy tries to reason with her mother, but her mother acts sullen and hostile to Buffy's authority. She enters the factory, taking Joyce along; Giles and Snyder follow. Inside, Buffy finds and catches Ethan; her threat of violence easily persuades him to reveal that Trick needs to dull Sunnydale adults in order to collect a tribute that is so valuable that they need all of the adults to be incapacitated to take it. They do not know what the tribute is, but it is intended for a demon named Lurconis. Meanwhile, four vampires enter a now unguarded hospital to remove four newborn babies. Buffy and the wacked-out adults arrive at the hospital a little later, where Willow phones them from the library and relays to them the discovery that Lurconis eats babies. Giles remembers that the demon may be found in the sewers. Down in the sewers, the Mayor, Mr. Trick, and the four vampires are chanting in a ceremony to summon Lurconis. Buffy, Giles and Joyce crash the party underground, and the Mayor quickly flees unnoticed. Buffy defeats the vampires while Giles and Joyce retrieve the babies to safety. Trick escapes and the huge demon appears. Buffy pulls down a gas pipe, igniting a fire that kills Lurconis. Back at his office, the Mayor asks why Trick fled, allowing Buffy to kill Lurconis. Trick replies that he thought he did the Mayor a favor by having the Slayer kill the demon, leaving one less demon to whom the Mayor would owe tribute. The Mayor warns Trick against doing him any more such favors. The next day, the adults have returned to their senses. Snyder, reverted to his grumpy and misanthropic self, chooses Willow, Oz, Xander and Cordelia as "volunteers" to clean up the mess in the hall. Buffy complains to Giles about the SATs. They meet Joyce, and Buffy exclaims that they're lucky she stopped them before they did more than they did. Joyce and Giles then look very embarrassed, but Buffy fails to notice. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Band Candy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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