| abstract | - A demon accidentally fires something into Xander which creates a Xander clone.
* Acting for Two: Averted as the second Xander was played by Nicholas Brendon's real-life identical twin, though Nicholas would play the main speaking role in each scene.
* An Aesop: Xander realises his inner potential. Again.
* An Axe to Grind: Buffy in the garbage dump.
* Applied Phlebotinum: Toth's "creepy stick thing", the ferula-gemina. "It splits one person in half, distilling personality traits into two separate bodies."
* Artistic License Gun Safety: Averted; Xander unloads his pistol before handing it to Buffy.
* Badass Long Robe: Toth
* Butt Monkey: Scruffy!Xander
* Call Back: Willow, to the events of Doppelgangland, relating to the similarities and contrasts with the current episode.
* Captain Obvious
* Continuity Cavalcade: Riley is helping Xander leave his parent's basement forever.
* Damned By Faint Praise
* A Day in the Limelight: This applies to Xander twice over!
* Deadpan Snarker: Joyce shows that It Runs in The Family.
* Description Cut: Willow re witch cliches. "Who uses a cauldron any more?" Cut to the demon using a bubbling cauldron for his incantation.
* Did Not Do the Bloody Research: In-Universe -- Buffy assumes that "Toth" is British for "moron".
* Empathic Environment: It rains on Xander when he goes to get Buffy's help, only to find his other self has got their first and Buffy is fixing to kill him.
* Evil Twin: Suberted
* Eyes Never Lie: Averted; Anya can't tell the difference between the two Xanders, despite Scruffy!Xander's plea.
* Get a Room: Xander opens a door in his new apartment to find Buffy and Riley making out. He tells them to go find a bedroom, then realises they're already in one.
* Hollywood Healing: Averted; Anya is still recovering from a dislocated shoulder, after being knocked down by Mort in the previous episode.
* Hypno Trinket: Xander notices his Evil Twin carries a shiny coin that appears to change everyone's attitude towards him.
* Improvised Weapon: Giles rummages in a box for something to ward off Toth. He finds a rabbit's foot, then a wooden statue.
* Literal Split Personality: Toth's weapon was meant to split Buffy into her human and Slayer sides -- he would then kill the weaker human version, causing the other to die. Instead it seperates Xander into an "aggressive" Xander (charming, well-groomed, and confident; but hot-headed and impetuous) and a "passive" Xander (awkward, paranoid, and insecure; but with Xander's trademark sense of humor).
* Martial Arts Do Not Work That Way: Buffy complains about the unrealistic fight scenes in the chop-socky movie.
* Moment Killer: Dawn on the Buffy/Riley snog.
* Oh Crap
* Pop-Cultured Badass: Buffy's "bad ice-skating movie obsession".
* I Say What I Say
* Red Herring: The shiny coin the other Xander carries isn't used to hypnotize people, it's just a trinket. Also Spike's dummy appears to be about him plotting to kill Buffy, but it's actually Foreshadowing his obsession with her.
* Shaped Like Itself: "It's an evil robot, constructed from evil parts that look like me designed to do evil!"
* Shirtless Scene: Our first sight of Suave!Xander.
* Shout-Out: When they try to put the two Xanders back together.
* Spot the Imposter: Xander does the Snoopy dance to prove he's the real Xander. Willow is rather confused, as she doesn't even know there's two Xanders walking around.
* Suspiciously Specific Denial: Not that Xander is still into Buffy -- not that he ever was.
* Taking the Bullet: Xander gets hit by Toth's magical blast when he shoves Buffy aside.
* Twin Threesome Fantasy
* Wham! Line: "But she doesn't love me".
* What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?: One look at the dump and Riley continues to lose faith in humanity.
* Your Door Was Open: Lampshaded when Willow bursts into Giles' place.
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