History YMMV / BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E8IRobotYouJane

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The episode ends with Buffy, Willow, and Xander bemoaning how hard it is to have a nice, normal, happy relationship on the Hellmouth. It's fairly lighthearted as none of the character's failed relationships to date were actually that traumatic, but considering all that happens over the next seven seasons it's really painful. It also seems like a LampshadeHanging when, just after the characters have finished saying how hard it is to have a happy relationship, the episode closes out to Creator/JossWhedon's Executive Producer credit, but given that Whedon wasn't really known for putting characters through hell just yet, it's probably unintentional.

* HarsherInHindsight: Casual mentioning of total internet control comes down as pretty harsh in a time when the concept of "internet freedom" is under severe pressure.

** It wasn't known to the audience, but seeing as the executives had already shot down his plan to have Creator/EricMabius in the opening credits (later done with Tara instead) and he had planned to kill Joyce in Season One just to make Buffy's life harder, it's safe to say that the writing staff knew how cruel he was already.

** It wasn't known to the audience, but seeing as the executives had already shot down his plan to have Creator/EricMaibus in the opening credits (later done with Tara instead) and he had planned to kill Joyce in Season One just to make Buffy's life harder, it's safe to say that the writing staff knew how cruel he was already.

** It wasn't known to the audience, but seeing as the executives had already shot down his plan to have Jesse's actor in the opening credits (later done with Tara instead) and he had planned to kill Joyce in Season One just to make Buffy's life harder, it's safe to say that the writing staff knew how cruel he was already.

* HilariousInHindsight: A Joss Whedon production about a villain loose on the internet who later builds himself a robot body? Is this Buffy or Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron? Moloch's robot body even bears a resemblance to movie Ultron's.
* {{Narm}}: The entire episode was pretty bad even at the time, and has only grown worse with how dated all the references to the state of the Internet at the time have become. This is especially clear in the climax, where the villain's robot body deliberately looks ridiculous to illustrate how out of place he is in modern times, but it's now almost impossible to pick this out from all the unintentional silliness it's surrounded by.

* ValuesResonance: While the [[TechnologyMarchesOn technology itself may be dated]], the central message that you shouldn't blindly accept what or who anyone claims to be online is as relevant today as it was when the episode aired. Possibly even more so, due to online communication and social media being a lot more widespread, and a much bigger part of young people's lives, than it was in the late 90s.

* {{Narm}}: The entire episode was pretty bad even at the time, and has only grown worse with how dated all the references to the state of the Internet at the time have become. This is especially clear in the climax, where the villain's robot body deliberately looks ridiculous to illustrate how out of place he is in modern times, but it's now almost impossible to pick this out from all the unintentional silliness it's surrounded by.

* HilariousinHindsight: A Joss Whedon production about a villain loose on the internet who later builds himself a robot body? Is this Buffy or Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron?

* {{Narm}}: The entire episode was pretty bad even at the time, and has only grown worse with how dated all the references to the state of the Internet at the time have become. This is especially clear in the climax, where the villain's robot body deliberately looks ridiculous to illustrate how out of place he is in modern times, but it's now almost impossible to pick this out from all the unintentional silliness it's surrounded by.
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%%* UnfortunateImplications: While this episode as a whole is just a metaphor for the dangers of [[AdultFear kids meeting strangers on the internet who want to do them harm]], the prologue with the very male Moloch mesmerizing a bunch of teenage boys and telling them to profess their love for him, and then the monks calling him "the corrupter", comes across like a scene straight out of a 1950s "homosexuality is contagious / gay men are pedophilic predators" PSA.

* UnfortunateImplications: While this episode as a whole is just a metaphor for the dangers of [[AdultFear kids meeting strangers on the internet who want to do them harm]], the prologue with the very male Moloch mesmerizing a bunch of teenage boys and telling them to profess their love for him, and then the monks calling him "the corrupter", comes across like a scene straight out of a 1950s "homosexuality is contagious / gay men are pedophilic predators" PSA.

* {{Narm}}: The entire episode was pretty bad even at the time, and has only grown worse with how dated all the references to the state of the Internet at the time have become. This is especially clear in the climax, where the villain's robot body deliberately looks ridiculous to illustrate how out of place he is in modern times, but it's now almost impossible to pick this out from all the unintentional silliness it's surrounded by.

* HilariousinHindsight: A Joss Whedon production about a villain loose on the internet who later builds himself a robot body? Is this Buffy or Flim/AvengersAgeOfUltron?

* HilariousinHindsight: A Joss Whedon production about a villain loose on the internet who later builds himself a robot body? Is this Buffy or Flim/AvengersAgeOfUltron ?

* HilariousinHindsight: A Joss Whedon production about a villain loose on the internet who later builds himself a robot body? Is this Buffy or Flim/AvengersAgeofUltron ?