YMMV / Buffy the Vampire Slayer S5E11 "Triangle"

• Ensemble Dark Horse: Olaf is one of the more popular one-shot villains. He even survived the episode and came back in a flashback in "Selfless".
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • When Willow offers to teach her magic in exchange for letting her use store supplies, Anya says that it's peer pressure and soon Willow will make her do drugs. In Season 6, Willow suffers from Addictive Magic.
  • Anya and Willow have a long talk while threatened by Olaf about Xander, and commit to being better people. Come season 6, they both turn evil due to going on different paths. Xander manages to keep Willow from ending the world, but fails to convince Anya to become normal.
  • Anya swears to Willow that she will never try to harm Xander. Cue next season's "Entropy" where after their break up, she repeatedly attempts to trick the Scoobies into wishing ill for Xander.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Spike points out that he has no intent to drink from bleeding disaster victims in The Bronze, stating that he knows Buffy wouldn't like it. Buffy immediately calls him disgusting and storms off, and this act is framed as him wanting a prize for basic decency. However, contextually Spike was only defending himself from Buffy's clear accusatory tone when he was helping her with the injured patrons, and for him—a soulless defanged vampire who hasn't been able to have human blood in almost 2 years—not taking advantage of the situation to "sample" human blood without setting off his chip is a legitimately notable effort on his part.

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