YMMV / Buffy The Vampire Slayer S 7 E 3 Same Time Same Place

• Crosses the Line Twice: Dawn facing potentially permanent paralysis? Horrifying. Buffy discovering that she's poseable? Hilarious.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Buffy kills a flesh-eating demon named Gnarl by poking his eyes out with her thumbs, a sight that Xander responds to with understandable and amusing disgust. (His exact words are "Eww, thumbs?") In "Dirty Girls", psychotic preacher Caleb drives his thumb into Xander's left eye. Earlier in the same episode (overlapping with foreshadowing), when describing the critical targets on a potentially unknown enemy:
  Xander: Go for the eyes. Everything has eyes.
  Xander: I'm the guy who sees everything.
  Caleb: So I hear you're the guy who sees everything. Let's fix that
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The plot with Willow getting off a plane only to find nobody waiting for her turned out to be very similar to an episode of Alyson Hannigan's later series How I Met Your Mother, except without the supernatural angle (on Buffy, her not meeting the gang turned out to be due to Willow's powers accidentally rendering her invisible to her friends, on HIMYM, it was due to the episode's storylines taking place on separate days with Ted neglecting to mention it until the very end). Had HIMYM aired before Buffy, this episode might have been seen as a darker supernatural take on Three Days of Snow.
• Les Yay:
  • Funnily enough, invoked by Anya—on doing a spell together, she says to Willow "It did get a little bit sexy, didn't it?"
  • The episode ends with Buffy and Willow meditating together. In their pyjamas.
• Nausea Fuel: The initial skinned corpse isn't that terrifying, but watching Gnarl strip Willow's skin off and eat it... EW EW EW. And then Buffy gouges the demon's eyes out with her thumbs.

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