History Recap / BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E4OutOfMyMind

* PleaseIWillDoAnything: Subverted; Harmony takes it for granted that she'll have sex with Spike.

* DaydreamSurprise: [[spoiler:After yet another double-cross Buffy turns up at Spike's crypt determined to stake him once and for all. A pissed-off Spike [[OpenShirtTaunt rips off his shirt]] to [[ShirtlessScene expose his manly body]] and tells her to get on with it, whereupon they start making out passionately as Spike tells Buffy he loves her...only to wake up in bed with an expression of horror on his face.]]

* GetItOverWith: Spike [[ShirtlessScene bares his manly chest]] for Buffy's stake.

* DaydreamSurprise: [[spoiler:After yet another double-cross Buffy turns up at Spike's crypt determined to stake him once and for all. A pissed-off Spike rips off his shirt to expose his manly body and tells her to get on with it, whereupon they start making out passionately as Spike tells Buffy he loves her...only to wake up in bed with an expression of horror on his face.]]

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

* ShirtlessScene: Spike shows the future Buffy/Spike attraction isn't just FoeYay.

* AntiClimaxCut / VillansOutShopping

* AntiClimaxCut

* AllAmazonsWantHercules

* {{I Just Want to Be Special}}: Riley thinks Buffy will eventually leave him if he doesn't match her abilities.

* TantrumThrowing
-->'''Spike:''' Buffy, Buffy, Buffy! Everywhere I turn, she's there! That nasty little face, that ... [[HairFlip bouncing shampoo-commercial hair]], that whole sodding holier-than-thou attitude!
-->'''Harmony:''' Well, aren't we kinda unholy, by the--
-->'''Spike:''' She follows me, you know, tracks me down. I'm her pet project. Drive Spike round the bend. Makes every day a fresh bout of torture. (picks up a headstone and smashes it)
-->'''Harmony:''' Spike!
-->'''Spike:''' You don't understand. I can't get rid of her. She's everywhere. She's haunting me, Harmony! (quietly) This ... has got to end.

'''Harmony:''' I ''am'' a villain, Spike. Helloooo? [then coughs, ruining the whole thing]

* ITasteDelicious: Spike tasting his own nosebleed grosses Buffy out completely.

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

** [[spoiler:Buffy comment that if she wanted someone with superpowers she'd be dating Spike.]]

* WhoWouldBeStupidEnough: Willow uses magic to create light, and asks what doofus would use a torch. Cut to Buffy moving through the tunnels waving a torch.

-->'''Spike:''' Buffy, Buffy, Buffy! Everywhere I turn, she's there! That nasty little face, that ... bouncing shampoo-commercial hair, that whole sodding holier-than-thou attitude!

* {{Squick}} (InUniverse): Spike tasting his own nose blood grosses Buffy out completely.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Spike says that Joey will never love Pacey while watching DawsonsCreek.
** Spike's rant over how Buffy seems to be everywhere, haunting him [[spoiler:because Spike has fallen for Buffy and is therefore thinking about her constantly.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Graham tells Riley there's nothing to hold him in Sunnydale; that he's meant to be more than Buffy's LoveInterest. [[spoiler:Riley will leave Buffy after Graham offers him a job in a military demon-hunting unit.]]
-->'''Buffy:''' Do you think I spent the last year with you because you had superpowers? If that's what I wanted, then [[spoiler: I'd be dating Spike!]]

-->"I thought it was gonna be like in the movies -- you know, inspirational music, a montage: me sharpening my pencil, me reading, writing, falling asleep on a big pile of books with my glasses all crooked, 'cause in my montage, [[NerdGlasses I have glasses]]. But real life is slow, and it's starting to hurt my occipital lobe."

* ItsAllAboutMe: Spike smirks over Harmony's ludicrous belief that Buffy is making a special effort to hunt her down. After he fails to kill Buffy yet again, Spike starts ranting over how Buffy is making a pet project out of driving him insane.

-->Oh God, no. Please, no.

* [[RecklessGunUsage Reckless Crossbow Usage]]

-->'''Willow:''' (looking around the Magic Shop) I feel like a witch in a magic shop!

-->'''Spike:''' Harmony, if your incessant prattling bolloxes up this operation, I'm gonna personally yank out your pink and wriggly tongue.

Riley is deteriorating because of The Initiative's meds. Spike, again teamed up with Harmony, tries to get the chip in his head removed.

* CatFight: Averted; Riley fights Harmony and Buffy fights Spike.

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

* IronicEcho: Spike smirks over Harmony's ludicrous belief that Buffy is making a special effort to hunt her down. After he fails to kill Buffy yet again, Spike starts ranting over how Buffy is making a pet project out of driving him insane.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Harmony is convinced that Buffy is actively hunting her down.