History Recap / BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E6Him

-->Where do I start with the bad? First, you told me you were going to the library. Second, you do not go out on a date without informing me first. Third, Creator/AnnaNicoleSmith makes you look tacky.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Buffy tries to kill Principal Woods, who'd been giving R.J. a hard time. While he's working in his office, we see Buffy through his window about to [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill blast him]] with a [[ContinuityNod rocket launcher]]. Spike tackles her, then she tackles him, then he runs away with the launcher.

* EatingTheEyeCandy: Xander and Willow are checking out Dawn at The Bronze, before they realize who she is.

* DontSneakUpOnMeLikeThat: After saying Spike is OK now he's got a soul, Buffy [[NotHelpingYourCase jumps when he touches her unexpectedly]].
* DoubleStandardRapeSciFi: Sure, the episode seems like a nice breather episode after the last episode where Buffy might have to kill Anya and the next one where the First begins to put its plan into motion… until you realize that RJ's magic jacket is manipulating the feelings of women against their will. What also increases the Squick factor is that if Xander hadn't stopped Buffy when she did she would have had sex with him, which means [[FridgeHorror Buffy has almost been raped twice in less then six months.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: Dawn lies across the railway tracks so that the train will run over her, in order to prove her "love" for RJ, and is only [[BigDamnHeroes saved at the last minute by her sister]].
* EatingTheEyeCandy: Xander and Willow checking out Dawn, before they realise who she is.

* BrotherSisterIncest: Willow and Xander ogling a girl, who turns out to be their surrogate little sister Dawn.

* BareYourMidriff: Dawn, the Pushy Queen of Slut Town.

'''Willow:''' ([[IncrediblyLamePun dawning realization]]) Buffy...\\

** RJ's friend hears about the cheerleader tryouts and asks if the girls are going to be [[JiggleShow jumping up and down a lot]].

* SheIsAllGrownUp: Joyce's "little pumpkin belly" and Buffy's living doll is now a blossoming teenage beauty and hot to trot.

* SheIsAllGrownUp: Joyce's "little pumpkin belly" and Buffy's living doll is now a blossoming beauty and hot to trot.

* AnAxeToGrind: Buffy vs. the demon that D'Hoffryn sent to kill Anya.

* DidTheyOrDidntThey: Fandom is actually somewhat divided over whether Buffy actually slept with RJ or was merely seconds away from it when Xander found them. The chief argument that they did not is that it's hard to believe the series would let Buffy actually seduce a minor, while the argument that they did suggests that when you combine the amount of time Buffy was left alone with RJ, the fact that her clothes are nearly off (and he seems to be doing up his fly) and that she refers to RJ as "her lover" (albeit she's BrainwashedAndCrazy at this point), it's not impossible to believe Xander interrupted them in the middle of the act, rather than just before they began. The {{novelization}} of the season openly depicts them having sex.

* GenderBender: Willow's solution to RJ is to turn him into a girl, thus eliminating her competition so she can him...err, her all to herself. It's the less extreme of the bids for his attention.

* LampshadedDoubleEntendre: Buffy tells RJ that she's pretty much the same age as him, "but with the sexual experience and stuff."

* {{Leitmotif}}: "Theme From A Summer Place" by Percy Faith is heard every time someone falls in love with RJ.

* MrFanservice: In universe example: RJ, while played by the quite attractive Thad Luckinbill, (unknowingly) relies on his jacket to woo girls.

* NoBisexuals: Willow being attracted to R.J. is treated as one of the signs that something is wrong. Her status as a lesbian apparently precludes her from liking guys as well, a point that is seemingly believed by all non-love-spell-bamboozled characters.

* BareYourMidriff / PaintedOnPants: Dawn, the Pushy Queen of Slut Town.

* CallBack / HistoryRepeats

* IncestIsRelative: Willow and Xander ogling a girl, who turns out to be their surrogate little sister Dawn.

** Anya: "It was a spell. We're not responsible for anything we did morally or, you know, legally…"

-->'''Xander:''' I refuse to answer that on the grounds that it didn't fit.

-->'''Buffy:''' You shredded my outfit.\\

'''Willow:''' ([[IncrediblyLamePun dawning realization]]) Buffy…\\

'''Xander:''' (horrified) Oh… oh no! Daddy no… I wasn't… when I was lookin' I wasn't… ''oh God!''\\

-->'''Anya:''' His physical form has a ''penis!''
-->'''Willow:''' I can work around that!

-->'''Xander:''' (smiling) [[NostalgiaFilter Good times…]]

-->'''Dawn''': I'm just so...the way I acted, the way I talked to you. I feel so stupid. All over a spell.

Xander and Spike return home just in time to stop Willow from completing her spell. They then head off to the high school to prevent Buffy from killing Principal Wood. After successfully distracting Buffy, the gang casts a locator's spell to find Dawn. They reach the train tracks just in time before a speeding train flattens the younger Summers. Buffy outruns the train and rescues her sister. Apparently, Dawn's attempted suicide knocks some sense into her, and in turn, Buffy tries to assure Dawn that no guy is worth her life. Dawn begins to see sense, and they return home that night. This time they try to hatch a plan to destroy R.J.'s letterman jacket. Without any trouble, Xander and Spike manage to take the letterman's jacket off R.J., before the Scoobies witness its burning in the Summers' fireplace.

* QuestionableConsent: Buffy and RJ's makeout session that was very clearly on its way to something much more intense if Xander hadn't interrupted, on both ends. Buffy, obviously because she was under a potent love spell and RJ, because he's likely a minor and Buffy is an authority-figure who works at his school.

* DoubleStandardRapeSciFi: Sure, the episode seems like a nice breather episode after the last episode where Buffy might have to kill Anya and the next one where the First begins to put his plan into motion… until you realize that RJ is essentially using his magic jacket to manipulate the feelings of other woman against their will. What also increases the Squick factor is that if Xander hadn't stopped Buffy when she did she would have had sex with him which means [[FridgeHorror Buffy has almost been raped twice in less then six months.]]