Blanking on Buffy

I was watching Buffy, and a couple times in the episode the cable flickered out on me. Just for a second or two each time, but it was annoying. The first time was while the principal was talking to those two unnamed students in his office; I missed a bit of his dialog, but the overall sense of it was clear. The second time is a minor spoiler....

( Spoilers ho! )

Also, I totally forgot to watch Angel on Sunday. Was it a new episode?