By Chris Snellgrove
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Music is an important part of Buffy The Vampire SlayerBut most of the show included more recent music than the characters and their young fans were going to vibrate. This includes everything, from the opening theme of the Rollicking series to the blackmail pieces of all these young trendy groups that appeared to bronze. However, the Buffy The episode “Out of Mind, Out of Sight” has shaken the modern musical trends in the series by hiding references to “Happiness is a hot pistol of the Beatles in a pivotal scene.
Buffy meets the Beatles
If you need a quick refreshment, “out of mind, out of sight” is the episode where Buffy and the Gang Scooby must face an invisible girl who uses her new powers to try to kill people. In a remarkably dark coda for this episode, we see that the invisible girl in question was recruited by the FBI and receives a manual with the disturbing name Assassination and infiltration. “Cool,” she said, and this Buffy The moment is SO Weird and shocking that it is easy to miss the references of beatles hidden in the manual.
For this particular Buffy Episode, the producers have chosen the perfect Beatles song: “Happiness is a hot pistol.” As with many songs from the emblematic group, the lyrics of the songs (which appear prominently in the assassination manual) are to be interpreted, but most take this song at their nominal value in the way he assimilates happiness and murder. Therefore, the words of the book are Perfect For an assassination manual that has just been given to a young girl who has just spent an entire episode trying to kill several people, including our favorite heroes.
However, Buffy Fans who pay particular attention to this scene will note that some of the lyrics in this beloved Beatles song have been modified. For example, the real line “Happiness is a hot pistol” has been changed into “Joy is a hot revolver”. This is one of the reasons why many fans have neglected this Beatles Easter egg, because the most recognizable line of the song was completely changed.
For Buffy Fans who take a look at this manual, there is a line that does not come from “happiness is a hot pistol” or any other song of the Beatles. The final line of visible text can be read as follows: “Because joy is a hot revolver, and it is afraid of monkeys which are in possession of digital skeletons of Swiss cheese.” This line of nonsense has always become unexplained, although the reference to cheese recalls the famous cheese of “agitated” cheese. Again, given the way Joss Whedon confirmed that there was no greater meaning to this character, there is probably No Greater meaning behind these fictitious cheese skeletons.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer And the Beatles make a strange combination, especially since the episode “once again, with the feeling” has stressed how much catchy air can be sinister. Nevertheless, this strange Easter egg makes “out of the mind, out of sight” much more captivating. This is an episode that confirms that the US government is recruiting super when it is and leads them to kill using words of the most dangerous weapon of all: John Lennon’s brain.
