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* OpenSaysMe: Spike gripes over how Buffy breaks open the door to his crypt instead of waiting for an invitation [[MustBeInvited like he has to]].

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* OpenSaysMe: Spike gripes over how Buffy breaks open the door to his crypt instead of waiting for an invitation [[MustBeInvited like he (typically) has to]].
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* ChekhovsGunman: Our introduction to Ben.

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* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Our introduction to Ben.]]



* WhoAreYou: The last thing Joyce says to Dawn before collapsing from her brain tumor. It's later revealed that Joyce's condition enables her to see past the change in reality that created Dawn.

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* WhoAreYou: The last thing Joyce says to Dawn before collapsing [[spoiler: from her brain tumor. It's later revealed that Joyce's condition enables her to see past the change in reality that created Dawn.]]
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** In Spike's EroticDream, he says a LoveConfession in response to dream!Buffy saying she ''wants'' him. This is a pretty good sum-up of their relationship in season 6, where Spike will mistake [[MasterOfTheMixedMessage Buffy's]] desire for him as love.

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** In Spike's EroticDream, he says a LoveConfession in response to dream!Buffy saying she ''wants'' him. [[spoiler: This is a pretty good sum-up of their relationship in season 6, where Spike will mistake [[MasterOfTheMixedMessage Buffy's]] desire for him as love.]]
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* ClosetGeek: Buffy's reaction to her new gym is to say the Scoobies are like her fairy godmother, Santa Claus, and Q. Most would think ''Film/JamesBond'', but she clarifies that she was not referring to the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' character, a reference so obscure it would go over most viewers' heads.

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* ClosetGeek: Buffy's reaction to her new gym is to say the Scoobies are like her fairy godmother, Santa Claus, and Q. Most Many would think ''Film/JamesBond'', but she clarifies that she was not referring to the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' character, a reference so obscure it would go over most viewers' heads.character.
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** Tara expresses surprise and concern over Willow's magical power.

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** Tara expresses surprise and concern over Willow's rapidly increasing magical power.
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*** Pretty ironic in hindsight...
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* FoeRomanceSubtext: The subtext finally becomes text.

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* FoeRomanceSubtext: The subtext finally becomes text.
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* FoeRomanceSubtext: The subtext becomes text.

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* FoeRomanceSubtext: The subtext finally becomes text.
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* ArmorPiercingSlap: Buffy slaps Spike when he cheerfully asks if Riley is likely to die.
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* MoodWhiplash: Joyce and Dawn go from having a nice, normal, fairly heartwarming family morning to Joyce spacing out, staring at Dawn and asking "Who are you?" before collapsing to the floor.
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* OpenHeartDentistry: Averted; the Initiative doctor doesn't have the skills or surgical tools to remove Spike's chip, so he just pretends to do so.

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* OpenHeartDentistry: Averted; the Initiative doctor is a heart surgeon, and doesn't have the skills or surgical tools to remove Spike's chip, chip from his brain, so he just pretends to do so.
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* RantInducingSlight

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* RantInducingSlightRageBreakingPoint
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* FreePrizeAtTheBottom: Dawn pours out multiple bowls of cereal so she can get the free prize, and then asks Joyce for eggs instead.
-->'''Joyce:''' You want the cereal prize, but you don't want the cereal. You ''are'' growing up.
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* CatapultNightmare: Spike vaults up in bed after dreaming of kissing Buffy.

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* CatapultNightmare: It's not a nightmare per se, but Spike vaults catapults to a sitting position with a choking gasp upon waking up from a dream in bed after dreaming of kissing Buffy.which he tells Buffy he loves her.

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* QuestionableConsent: {{Downplayed}} when Harmony thinks, incorrectly, that Buffy is hunting her down to kill her, she goes to Spike for a place to stay. Spike agrees, but makes it clear that if she's living there, he wants sex. Her reply is such a casual "sure, whatever" that it doesn't come off as coercive--it just ''would'' have been if she cared.



* ShapedLikeItself

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* ShapedLikeItselfShapedLikeItself:
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* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Buffy expresses doubts that Charlotte Corday really killed French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat--his death looked more [[BuffySpeak fangy than knifey]] to her.

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* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Buffy expresses doubts that Charlotte Corday UsefulNotes/CharlotteCorday really killed French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat--his death looked more [[BuffySpeak fangy than knifey]] to her.
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Directed by Creator/DavidGrossman

Written by Creator/RebeccaKirshner
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** In Spike's EroticDream, he says a LoveConfession in response to dream!Buffy saying she ''wants'' him. This is a pretty good sum-up of their relationship in season 6, where Spike will mistake [[MasterOfTheMixedMessage Buffy's]] desire for him as love.
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* CantYouReadTheSign: Spike lights up a cigarette while framed by a "No Smoking" sign. In a hospital, no less. Harmony, however, looks embarrassed and snuffs hers out when the sign is pointed out to her.

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* AntiClimaxCut

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* AntiClimaxCutAntiClimaxCut:



* DescriptionCut: Buffy is talking about Spike:
-->'''Buffy''': Hanging out in that crypt all day, you just know he's doing something nasty.
-->(cut to Spike and Harmony playing 20 Questions)



* DontExplainTheJoke
-->'''Willow:''' Should I be watching my occipital lobe?\\
'''Buffy:''' Your what?\\
'''Willow:''' Occipital, the lobe in the back of your brain? You know, like, should I be watching my back? But, you know, the back of your brain.\\
'''Buffy:''' Apparently not.

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* DontExplainTheJoke
-->'''Willow:'''
DontExplainTheJoke: Willow teases Buffy about her new-found academic prowess:
-->'''Willow''':
Should I be watching my occipital lobe?\\
'''Buffy:'''
lobe?
-->'''Buffy''':
Your what?\\
'''Willow:'''
what?
-->'''Willow''':
Occipital, the lobe in the back of your brain? You know, like, should I be watching my back? But, you know, the back of your brain.\\
'''Buffy:'''
brain.
-->'''Buffy''':
Apparently not.
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* UnknownRival: Harmony to Buffy.

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* ChekhovsGunman: Dr. Ben lets Dawn borrow his stethoscope to play with. She listens to Riley's heart and discovers his tachycardia.

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* ChekhovsGunman: Dr. Ben lets Dawn borrow his stethoscope Our introduction to play with. She listens to Riley's heart and discovers his tachycardia.Ben.

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