History Recap / BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E7OnceMoreWithFeeling

* AmbiguousSituation: "Something to Sing About" can be read as either Sweet forcing Buffy to dance to death (that is his entire schtick) or as Buffy trying to commit suicide-by-demon. Spike saving her by stopping ''Buffy'' rather than attacking Sweet [[{{Applicability}} could be taken to suggest the latter.]]

* OpenTheDoorAndSeeAllThePeople: Subverted when Buffy has an entirely deadpan reaction to the CrowdSong outside.

* EverythingsBetterWithSparkles: Willow and Tara during "Under Your Spell". Tara produces a shower of magic sparkles, then when she things of how much brighter Willow's power is, Willow produces a more elaborate shower of sparkles.

* ActionFashionista: Buffy assures Giles that she's not quaking in her stylish yet affordable boots over this latest weirdness.

When she wakes up at the Bronze, Dawn engages in interpretive dance with Sweet as a means of escape. Sweet tap dances as he sings and explains that he thinks Dawn is the one who summoned him and he wants to take her home and make her his queen. He explains that if the melodies go on too long, people will explode from the release of emotions ('How You Feel'). Dawn tells him that her sister is the Slayer which seems to please and not scare him. He tells his minions to bring Buffy to him so he can watch her burn.

* OfCorsetsSexy: Tara. No wonder [[BuxomIsBetter those boys were checking her out]].

* [[DodgeTheBullet Dodge the Throwing Knife]]: During "Standing", Giles throws knives at Buffy during her training, [[SuperReflexes which she dodges or knocks out of the way]].

* [[PrecisionFStrike Precision P-Strike]]: From 15-year old Dawn, no less.

* [[WomanScorned Woman / Vampire Scorned]]: When Giles tells the Scoobies not to go with Buffy, Spike offers to go in their stead.

* NoNameGiven: Sweet. His name is AllThereInTheScript; when Buffy asks for his name, he pulls an IHaveManyNames but doesn't divulge a single one of them.

* {{Gainaxing}}: During Buffy's punching-bag workout ("Standing"), she rather blatantly bounces in slow motion.

** The song with Xander and Anya have a few: "You're the cutest of the scoobies with your lips as red as rubies and your firm yet supple... tight embrace".

* TheBigDamnKiss: Homaged with the kiss between Buffy and Spike, which, as it takes place at the end of a MusicalEpisode, is accompanied by swelling music and falling curtains.
-->'''Spike''': We kissed, you and me, all ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'' with the rising music and the rising… music.

-->'''Demon''': Congratulations! ''[sarcastically]'' You beat the bad guy!

** ''The curtains close on a kiss, God knows / we can tell that the end is near''. The final scene is curtains closing on Spike and Buffy's [[TheBigDamnKiss Big Damn Kiss]]. Buffy sings just before, ''This isn't real / but I just want to feel'' which is a major problem in their upcoming DestructiveRomance; Buffy wants sex from Spike but refuses to acknowledge their relationship to herself or others.

* StringingTheHopelessSuitorAlong: Spike's song "Rest in Peace" is about his suspicions that Buffy is only stringing him along, exploiting his feelings for her so that she can feel desired.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping:
** Spike sings without an accent.
** Creator/AnthonyStewartHead's standard Giles accent (which is Received Pronunciation, aka RP, Posh or "Queen's English") drains away throughout his line "That would explain the huge backing orchestra I couldn't see and the synchronised dancing from the room service chaps," leaving only his real, London accent when he asks Buffy "What did you sing about?"

* CostumePorn: The amazing dresses that Tara (with a ''corset'') and Willow are just wearing for no reason other than being Wiccans, and the ballgown Sweet gives Dawn. Anya's red lingerie (which comes with matching heeled slippers) may also count.

* {{Corpsing}}: Creator/AmberBenson and Creator/EmmaCaulfield dance behind Creator/SarahMichelleGellar during the song "Something To Sing About" on The Bronze set. As the dance was ending, Amber made a misstep while turning and ran into one of the support pillars (you can see this near the end of the line "and every single verse"). Since the sequence was being filmed with a multi-camera setup, you can see her beginning to lose it in the next shot (the line "can make it that much worse") and she quickly ducks behind the pillar to get off-camera.

** FridgeBrilliance, of course; Willow was established as having chronic stage fright and being uncomfortable with singing as early as the first season. On the other hand: When Alyson mimed to the "mustard song" between takes, she definitely hammed UpToEleven.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: "What did you sing about?" Although Buffy is only pierced for a moment before covering up again, she is noticeably shaken by Giles' question. (Her song, ''Goin' Through the Motions'', was about the meaninglessness of her life since returning to life. Naturally she doesn't want to explain it to her friends.)

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: "What did you sing about?" Although Buffy is only pierced for a moment before covering up again, she is noticeably shaken by Giles' question.

* TitleDrop: Keep in mind that this and "Conversations With Dead People" are the only BTVS episodes where the title is shown in the opening.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Upon learning that his bride-to-be is only 15, Sweet calls the whole thing off and leaves.

* RiddleForTheAges: What Tara's theory was going to be in "I've Got a Theory" before Anya interrupted her with "Bunnies".

** "Dawn's Lament" is about her lamenting about her sadness because nobody is noticing her and the things she has been doing (shoplifting), but the song is cut short as she is kidnapped by the [[TheMusicMeister Demon Sweet]]'s henchmen.

* NoNameGiven: Sweet. His name is AllThereInTheScript; when Buffy asks for his name, he pulls an IHaveManyNames but doesn't divulge a single one of them. Earlier, Tara claims that they found a lead on a singing, dancing demon, but couldn't find its name.

** FridgeBrilliance, of course; Willow was established as having chronic stage fright and being uncomfortable with singing as early as the first season. On the other hand: when Alyson mimed to the "mustard song" between takes, she definitely hammed UpToEleven.