Men are Evil -- Oh Wait, I Knew That

Episode 1.12: Expecting. Original Airdate: 1.25.00

“Angel and Wesley search for answers when Cordelia wakes up eight and a half months pregnant.”

Zelda’s Thoughts:

• As I said out loud, “Oh this is the fucking pregnancy episode.”
• Wes strolled by to show off his new Bavarian fighting axe, hoping Cordy had a vision, also toting a word puzzle game, and this poor boo is so lonely.
• Oh no, Cordy had a vision.
• Also wow Cordy’s friends are just there to be vampy (well not vampy-vampy, but) and hit on Angel and Wes, and gosh aren’t clichés fun?
• Speaking of clichés, we get the girls making a crack about Angel and Wes being gay.
• I like that Cordy’s able to pass along her vision details and then head out with her friends. Good job Cordelia!
• Also this is great: 

prat. fall.

• Wesley, yelling at two old folks: WHERE DO YOU LAY YOUR EGGS?
• Ah, shadow fighting. A nice way around special effects.
• Angel says they only just killed the baby. I forget, does mama show up?
• Wes, slutshaming Cordelia’s friends by calling them doxies, until Angel tells him they liked him, and just fuck all this.
• Daniel’s face on realizing Cordelia’s date is baby Ken Marino: too cute.
• Oh hey speaking of punishing women for their sexuality, let’s punish Cordelia for having sex with Ken Marino by making her super preggers.
• Aw Phantom Dennis is here! And he does not want Cordelia getting busy with Ken Marino.
• Heh, she threatens to play the Evita soundtrack. I ... kind of like ... that album?
• Hey look, telling the truth about having a ghost earns her a kiss. Honesty, kids. It’ll get you everywhere. Including getting punished for sex.
• There’s that pregnant belly.
• Good good, the boys have come to her apartment when she didn’t show up to work or answer her messages.
• Well, Wes is snarking but Angel is worried.
• Charisma’s doing a great job with Cordelia’s quiet vulnerability. She’s scared and sad and confused as she insists that the sex she had was “safe, it was all really safe.”
• Cordelia: I’m being punished. // Wes: You’re certainly not being punished. // Me: ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT? CUZ IT KINDA LOOKS LIKE SHE IS.
• I mean, Angel and Wes are saying the right things, but fuck this whole episode. Except for Wes and the axe.
• Hi bartender Josh Randall. Do y’all remember the show Ed about the bowling alley lawyer? I think I liked that show. [I WAS ON THAT SHOW-D] [YOU ARE THE COOLEST-Z]
• “You the boyfriend?” // “No, I’m family.” I do miss when they were family (Spoiler, I was never a Cangel shipper)
• Welp, she’s carrying at least six … somethings in her belly.
• We should have made a drinking game for every time we go to a new set and Daniel declares it to be the Hyperion.
• What the hell is up with the lighting in Serena’s apartment? Even more importantly, GASP Serena is also pregnant!
• Hot damn, the amniotic fluid ate through the linoleum floor.
• And here we get a new twist! Cordelia asks Wes protectively if the six whatevers in her belly looked healthy on the ultrasound.
• Oh there are seven of them. She can tell now and says they’re talking to her. This is some effed up Bella Swan shit.
• “Wesley, they’re not human.” // “I imagine that’s true.” I love their delivery of these lines.
• And there’s Cordelia downing a deli cup of blood.
• Angel uses his enhanced vampire nostrils to determine that Wilson is human and therefore not the father of her demon spawn. So who’s the daddy?
• And Cordelia whacks Wes twice in the head with the ancient demon tome, and why don’t we have a Wes Gets Knocked Unconscious stat?
• Ken Marino confidently shoots Angel three times in the gut. Angel, in vampface, “I really don’t like it when people shoot me”
• And here we are at Definitely Not the Old Factory from Buffy S2, Cordelia and her two pregnant friends and like three other rando pregnant ladies for a gestation party.
• Angel, digging bullets out of his belly while on a payphone.
• I love that even in this grouping, Cordelia is queen
• Wow, this shot is such Peter Jackson trickery of size. 

Very Large Demon.

• Cordelia’s really good at getting final killing strokes in. She took out Barney before, and now she shatters the nitrogen frozen demon babydaddy.
• “I learned men are evil. Oh, wait I knew that. I learned that LA is full of self-serving phonies. No, had that one down, too … sex is bad?” //  Angel: “We all know that.”
• “I learned that I have two people I trust absolutely with my life. And that part’s new.”

Daniel’s Thoughts:

• Neither of us are looking forward to this episode.
• Cordelia is going out with her pretty model friends.
• And they’re both crushing on Wesley & Angel.
• “The good ones are always gay.” Eye-roll.
• Hey Ken Marino?  Has anyone seen Medical Police on Netflix yet?  Ken Marino reprises his role from Children’s Hospital – but also, when we first see him, he’s just in a towel and, damn, man.
• Wow, he’s so young!  What a babe, too, wow. 

Look at that chin dimple

• And a charmer, too.
• Cordelia says she’s talking too much about herself.  And normally, I’d say, sure – classic Cordy – but I’m sure she left a lot out.
• Oh phantom Dennis trying to ruin Cordelia’s date.
• Cordelia’s like 8 months pregnant!  After one night of sex!  Sex is bad, kids!
• And only the first time Cordelia’s been supernaturally pregnant.
• Hey, look at all that direct sunlight coming into the room.
• Aww Phantom Dennis is so sweet, floating tissues over to her.
• Oh man, the ultrasound reveals 6 (or more) heartbeats.
• Serena, you shouldn’t drink when you’re pregnant…with a litter of demon babies…
• Wow, so Cordy has acid inside of her….that’s a thing.  Good visual effect on the acid on the floor, though.
• Where did Cordelia get maternity clothes already? Did she just already have big overalls? [Did she borrow Buffy's overalls of sadness? No, she's too tall to wear SMG's clothes ...  -Z]
• Charisma’s doing some great work here – the slow descent into madness.
• Eww, Cordelia’s drinking blood.
• Me in the middle of the night.:

• So all these bros find women without families to get them pregnant with demon spawn.  Just bros being bros.
• This bit of it is interesting.  The babies form a psychic connection that kind of possesses the mom.
• Relic from an older time: A phonebooth!
• Wesley is so British and Alexis, as an American, does a really amazing job.

Crossfire!

Angel: Featured word: Ass.

D, speaking the words in Z’s heart: I want that to be our title but we’d get too many bad hits.

Favorite Lines:

Zelda: I like to get to know my opponents, before I engage them in mortal combat. Do you have any hobbies? - Wes

Daniel: I learned that I have two people I trust absolutely with my life - Cordelia

Arc/Continuity:

Recurring: Phantom Dennis

Generally Known TV Face: Ken Marino (VINNIE VAN LOWE!), Josh Randall

Stats:

Cordelia’s Hair – windblown curls

Dead Humans – 0

Dead Undeads – 2 (and 42 fatal fetal demons)

Dead Flashbacks – 0

Dead Lawyers – 0

Cordelia Has a Vision – 1

Wesley Prat-falls – 1

Lawyered Ex Machina – 0

Evil Reveal – 0

Unevil Reveal – 0

Shenanigans Called – 0

Apocalypse Called – 0

Prophecy Called – 0