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* LiteralMinded: Willow
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* CasualKink: Spike still has some of his chains from when he was dating Drusilla.

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* CasualKink: Spike still has some of his chains from when he was dating Drusilla.

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* DescriptionCut

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* DescriptionCutDescriptionCut: "A guy dating Harmony dead. Must be, like, the most tolerant guy in the world." Cut to DramaticUnmasking reveal that Spike is back in Sunnydale.
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* STDImmunity: Averted as Anya has condoms. Even black ones.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Loads naturally in an episode about sex.

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: DoubleEntendre: Loads naturally in an episode about sex.
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** [DING] "Fabric softener..."
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* SomethingElseAlsoRises: Xander turns around to offer Anya (whom he only knows as a weird ex-demon girl who makes a lousy prom date) a juice box, to find Anya has dropped her dress. Xander reacts by squeezing the carton he's currently holding, causing juice to spurt in the air.
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* CrossOver: What happens after Oz delivers the Gem of Amara to Angel is shown in the ''{{Angel}}'' episode "[[Recap/AngelS01E03InTheDark In The Dark]]".

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** Buffy stakes Spike (who's wearing the Gem). "Oh, do it again. It tickles. You know, in a good way."



* DramaticNecklaceRemoval

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* DramaticNecklaceRemovalDramaticNecklaceRemoval: Lampshaded and parodied when Spike dramatically rips a necklace off of a corpse.
-->'''Harmony:''' Ew. Like you're too good to work a clasp.



* EmpathicEnvironment: The Greek letters on the Frat house are Gamma Alpha Pi (ΓΑΠ) which, from the angle the shot is taken, look a bit like FAIL. The house in the background across the street bears the letters ΤΩA. Perhaps it's a sorority house?



* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The Greek letters on the Frat house are Gamma Alpha Pi (ΓΑΠ) which, from the angle the shot is taken, look a bit like FAIL. The house in the background across the street bears the letters ΤΩA. Perhaps it's a sorority house?

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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The Greek letters on the Frat house are Gamma Alpha Pi (ΓΑΠ) which, from the angle the shot -->'''Harmony:''' So is taken, it doing it? Do you feel it. I mean, you don't look a bit like FAIL. The house in the background across the street bears the letters ΤΩA. Perhaps it's a sorority house?different, if you were wondering. I thought maybe you'd look taller or glow or something.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything

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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnythingDoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Loads naturally in an episode about sex.
** "You love that tunnel more than me."
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* NighInvulnerability: The Gem of Amara makes vampires immune to all harm, including staking and daylight.

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* NighInvulnerability: The [[MacGuffin Gem of Amara Amara]] makes vampires immune to all harm, including staking and daylight.
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* PercussiveTherapy: Annoyed by Harmony's prattling, Spike tries to stake her.

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* PercussiveTherapy: Annoyed by Harmony's prattling, Spike tries to stake her. Furious at Spike's snarking, Buffy overcomes Spike.
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* WeWillMeetAgain: Spike calls a raincheck on fighting the Slayer, because he doesn't have the Gem.
-->'''Spike:''' It isn't time yet.

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->'''Spike:''' Love hurts baby.

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->'''Spike:''' Love hurts hurts, baby.


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* AManIsAlwaysEager

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Spike and the now vamped up Harmony are searching for a mythical gem which can make vampires invincible. Buffy sleeps with a boy named Parker who was just using her. Anya returns and sleeps with Xander.

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->'''Harmony:''' I don't know why I let you be so mean to me.
->'''Spike:''' Love hurts baby.

Spike and the now vamped up vamped-up Harmony are searching for a mythical gem which can make vampires invincible. Buffy sleeps with a boy named Parker who was just using her. Anya returns and sleeps with Xander.


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* PlotHole: How Harmony became a vampire.

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* AlmostKiss: Parker and Buffy's moment outside her dorm is interrupted by Willow and Oz running up to warm her about Harmony.



* BrutalHonesty: Anya re sex -- the start of a RunningGag with Xander.

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* BrutalHonesty: Anya re regarding sex -- the start of a RunningGag with Xander.Xander.
* CasualKink: Spike still has some of his chains from when he was dating Drusilla.



* DressHitsFloor



* FoolForLove



* HardWorkMontage

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* HardWorkMontageHardWorkMontage: Spike drilling through the crypt and Buffy waiting for Parker's call.


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* ItDoesntMeanAnything


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* SayingTooMuch: Harmony blurts out to Buffy that they're looking for the Gem of Amara.
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* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Harmony is this trope to a T.


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* DescriptionCut
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything


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* EvilMakeover: Averted.


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* HardWorkMontage


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* OhCrap: Spike has been trying to avoid letting the Slayer know he's back in town. Then he and Harmony bump into Buffy while carrying a neck-bleeding victim out of a frat party. Busted!
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* IronicEchoCut
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* BluntHonesty: Anya re sex -- the start of a RunningGag with Xander.

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* BluntHonesty: BrutalHonesty: Anya re sex -- the start of a RunningGag with Xander.

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* BluntHonesty: Anya re sex -- the start of a RunningGag with Xander.



* ConvenientSlowDance



* DramaticUnmask: Spike has returned!



* GameFace



* ManipulativeBastard / TheCasanova: Parker Abrams.
* NighInvulnerability: The Gem of Amara makes vampires immune to all harm, including staking and daylight.



* ShirtlessScene: Our first, [[{{Fanservice}} but not the last]], look at Shirtless!Spike.

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* PercussiveTherapy: Annoyed by Harmony's prattling, Spike tries to stake her.
* ReadyForLovemaking: Harmony in Spike's lair.
* ScarSurvey: Parker checks out Angel's bite scar on Buffy's neck.
* ShirtlessScene: Our first, [[{{Fanservice}} but not the last]], look at Shirtless!Spike.Shirtless!Spike.
* YourDoorWasOpen
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* GirlfriendInCanada
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* DramaticNecklaceRemoval
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* DoubleEntendre

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* FoeYay: Buffy laughs a bit too loud when rejecting the idea that [[HeIsNotMyBoyfriend Spike is a former boyfriend]].



* ShirtlessScene: Our first, [[{{Fanservice}} but not the last]], of Shirtless!Spike.

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* ShirtlessScene: Our first, [[{{Fanservice}} but not the last]], of look at Shirtless!Spike.
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* NotStayingForBreakfast: Averted in a deliberate CallBack to "Innocence" -- Buffy finds an empty bed, but then Parker turns out to be in the room after all. Then brutally subverted when it turns out Parker was just using her for sex after all.

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* NotStayingForBreakfast: Averted in a deliberate CallBack to "Innocence" -- Buffy finds an empty bed, but then Parker turns out to be in the room after all. Then brutally subverted when it turns out Parker was just using her for sex after all.all.
* ShirtlessScene: Our first, [[{{Fanservice}} but not the last]], of Shirtless!Spike.
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* NippleAndDimed: SMG had [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence visible nips during the fight]] [[FoeYay with Spike]].

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* NippleAndDimed: SMG had [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence visible nips during the fight]] [[FoeYay with Spike]].Spike]].
* NotStayingForBreakfast: Averted in a deliberate CallBack to "Innocence" -- Buffy finds an empty bed, but then Parker turns out to be in the room after all. Then brutally subverted when it turns out Parker was just using her for sex after all.
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* HannibalLectureHannibalLecture: Spike of course -- unfortunately it backfires.
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* HannibalLecture
-->'''Spike''': So you let Parker take a poke, eh? Didn't seem like you knew each other that well. What did it take to pry apart the Slayer's dimpled knees?\\
'''Buffy''': You're a pig, Spike.\\
'''Spike''': Did he play the sensitive lad and get ''you'' to seduce ''him''? That's a good trick if the girl's thick enough to buy it.\\
[They fight. Spike has the upper hand.]\\
'''Spike''': I wonder what went wrong? Were you too strong? Did you bruise the boy? Whatever. I guess you're just not worth a second go. Come to think of it, seems like somebody told me that. Who was it? Oh, yeah. Angel.\\
[Buffy proceeds to [[BerserkButton kick every square inch of his ass]].]

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* CoincidentalBroadcast: Giles tells them that watching TV isn't going to help them with their problem. Sure enough the news showed a clue to Spike's whereabouts.



* NippleAndDimed: SMG had visible nips during the fight with Spike.

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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The Greek letters on the Frat house are Gamma Alpha Pi (ΓΑΠ) which, from the angle the shot is taken, look a bit like FAIL. The house in the background across the street bears the letters ΤΩA. Perhaps it's a sorority house?
* NippleAndDimed: SMG had [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence visible nips during the fight fight]] [[FoeYay with Spike.Spike]].

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