I spotted a dig at Chimpy on last night's "Angel"

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There was a running sight gag on last night's "Angel" season premiere. When Fred was moving into her office at Wolfram & Hart she put up a Dixie Chicks poster. :)

FYI the character is from Texas, and Joss Whedon (guy behind the series) is a very vocal anti-Chimpy dude.

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1. Lorne also alluded to George Senior having

an eternal-soul pact with Wolfram & Hart.

(He said that Joe Kennedy tried to get out of his pact, which explains a lot, but George Sr. seemed to read the fine print.)

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2. LOL I missed that one

I was too busy giggling at the Joe Kennedy line and missed the reference to George Sr. I'll have to watch my tape again.

God I love Whedon.

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3. FANTASTIC Open

I'm not an avid "Angel" watcher, but I got right into it. How cool is it to have Harmony back? And Spike?

And what graphic violence! (I'm referring to the gun scene with plenty of wet.) I'm actually surprised the WB let it air. It's great to have some mature content on TV. (The scene was not gratuitous, though.)

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4. I took the blood on the wall as a shout-out

That W&H commando dude was totally a Faux Riley. I hated Riley, so naturally seeing that guy's blood splattered on the wall after Angel blew his head off was very satisfying.

I was never a big Harmony fan but man she was cracking me right the hell up last night. I'm glad she's filling the one-note bimbo role Cordy did in S2 before her character got all lame. She totally stole the entire episode with her "Blondie bear!" at the end. :)

Speaking of Blondie Bear...oh my. I'm a hardcore, unrepentant Spike fangirl from way back, and when I saw James Marsters in the opening credits I screamed and started doing the snoopy dance. I haven't stopped, btw.

This season is looking really interesting. I loved Gunn in his pimpin' Johnny Cochrane lawyer mode. Sweeeet.

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5. I'm New to "Angel," So...

...Got a short synopsis? Assume I'm fluent in the Buffyverse. (I watched "Buffy" for a while, fell out a bit, then rejoined with the musical and never stopped till the end. I think I even saw the series premiere along with about six other people. :-))

Although Josh seems to have realized there'd be a lot of "Buffy" refugees like me, so he put it enough (Harmony, Spike, the Cordy coma explanation) to hook me right in. Wesley, of course, is the watcher sent to replace Giles in "Buffy," so I know him. And Gunn is a former Army buddy of Riley's, right?

Also, was Fred's lab co-worker in one of the episodes in the last season of "Buffy" (or maybe second-to-last), as a "polite" vampire (talkative former classmate) that "Buffy" eventually dispatched? So how was that plot point reconciled? Or was it?

And who mailed the amulet that woke up Spike? I guess that'll be developed. Maybe Buffy mailed it, hmmm?

By the way, why's the WB counter programming it to the "West Wing"? I'll watch "Angel," but only just. "Angel" ought to be on Tuesdays, in the "Buffy" slot. ("Dawn's in trouble. Must be Tuesday." :-))

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6. You're close.

Fred's co-worker is played by the same actor, but isn't the same character. (Whedon recycles people.)

Gunn is actually a street kid, who led a bunch of other kids in the fight against evil. He joined Angel's group, first as a freelance "beat-em-up" guy, and then as a full-time "staffer," as it were.

No idea about the amulet, but it was Wolfram&Hart property, so I'd imagine it would get back there eventually.