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* RetroactiveWish: A callback to "Something Blue" when everything Willow said came true.

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* RetroactiveWish: A callback CallBack to "Something Blue" when everything Willow said came true.
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"YOU CANNOT APPEASE ME! DO NOT TRY!"

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"YOU ''YOU CANNOT APPEASE ME! DO NOT TRY!"
TRY!''
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* MoralDissonance: Olaf demands babies to eat. Spike turns to Xander and asks, "What do you think, the hospital?"

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* MoralDissonance: Olaf demands [[EatsBabies babies to eat.eat]]. Spike turns to Xander and asks, "What do you think, the hospital?"
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* AskAStupidQuestion: Buffy is sitting on her bed, reading a magazine.
-->'''Dawn:''' What are you doing?
-->'''Buffy:''' Playing soccer.
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* TrickDialogue: Spike (holding a [[EverythingsBetterWithChocolate gift-wrapped box of chocolates]]) appears to be apologizing to Buffy for his part in the Riley affair. [[RevealShot It turns out]] he's rehearsing his lines with the [[SurrogateSoliloquy shop dummy he'd dressed up as Buffy]]. Eventually Spike loses his temper over Buffy's assumed rejection and hits the dummy over the head with the box, only to calmly put things back in order and start again.

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* TrickDialogue: Spike (holding a [[EverythingsBetterWithChocolate gift-wrapped box of chocolates]]) appears to be apologizing to Buffy for his part in the Riley affair. [[RevealShot It turns out]] he's rehearsing his lines with the [[SurrogateSoliloquy shop dummy he'd dressed up as Buffy]]. Eventually Spike loses his temper over Buffy's assumed imaginary rejection and hits the dummy over the head with the box, only to calmly put things back in order and start again.

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* SurrogateSoliloquy: Spike rehearses a grovelling apology to Buffy [[EverythingsBetterWithChocolate while holding a gift-wrapped box of chocolates]]. He then looses his temper over Buffy's assumed rejection and hits the dummy over the head with the box.


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* TrickDialogue: Spike (holding a [[EverythingsBetterWithChocolate gift-wrapped box of chocolates]]) appears to be apologizing to Buffy for his part in the Riley affair. [[RevealShot It turns out]] he's rehearsing his lines with the [[SurrogateSoliloquy shop dummy he'd dressed up as Buffy]]. Eventually Spike loses his temper over Buffy's assumed rejection and hits the dummy over the head with the box, only to calmly put things back in order and start again.

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* EverythingsBetterWithChocolate: Spike rehearses a grovelling apology to Buffy while holding a box of chocolates. He then looses his temper over Buffy's assumed rejection and hits his [[ReplacementGoldfish Buffy dummy]] over the head with it.


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* SurrogateSoliloquy: Spike rehearses a grovelling apology to Buffy [[EverythingsBetterWithChocolate while holding a gift-wrapped box of chocolates]]. He then looses his temper over Buffy's assumed rejection and hits the dummy over the head with the box.
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* AccidentalPublicConfession: Dawn overhears Giles, Buffy and Joyce talking about the Key.

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* AccidentalPublicConfession: Dawn overhears Giles, Buffy and Joyce talking about the Key.Key, and that it has something to do with her.
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-->'''Anya:''' Your menacing stance is merely mildly alarming and your roar is less than full-throated!
-->'''Olaf:''' DESIST! MY GOD, WOMAN, IT'S BEEN A THOUSAND YEARS AND YOU ARE YET AS AGGRAVATING AND EMASCULATING AS EVER YOU WERE!
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* SadisticChoice: Olaf demands Xander choose which women to spare -- his girlfriend or best friend. Xander refuses on the grounds that it's InsaneTrollLogic.

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* SadisticChoice: Olaf demands Xander choose which women woman to spare -- his girlfriend or best friend. Xander refuses on the grounds that it's InsaneTrollLogic.
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* SadisticChoice" Olaf demands Xander choose which women to spare -- his girlfriend or best friend. Xander refuses on the grounds that it's InsaneTrollLogic.

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* SadisticChoice" SadisticChoice: Olaf demands Xander choose which women to spare -- his girlfriend or best friend. Xander refuses on the grounds that it's InsaneTrollLogic.
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* AccidentalPublicConfession: Dawn overhears Giles, Buffy and Joyce talking about how she is the Key.

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* AccidentalPublicConfession: Dawn overhears Giles, Buffy and Joyce talking about how she is the Key.
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* ChekhovsGun: Olaf's Hammer is used in the season finale.

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* ChekhovsGun: [[DropTheHammer Olaf's Hammer Hammer]] is used in the season finale.
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* BoisterousBruiser: Olaf

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* BoisterousBruiser: OlafOlaf the Troll

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-->'''Anya:''' Xander? If you ever decide to go, I want a warning. You know, big flashing red lights, and-and-and one of those clocks that counts down like a bomb in a movie? And there's a whole bunch of, of colored wires, and I'm not sure which is the right one to cut, but I guess the green one, and then at the last second "No! The red one!" and then click, it stops with three-tenths of a -->'''Xander:''' Check. Big bomb clock.

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-->'''Anya:''' Xander? If you ever decide to go, I want a warning. You know, big flashing red lights, and-and-and one of those clocks that counts down like a bomb in a movie? And there's a whole bunch of, of colored wires, and I'm not sure which is the right one to cut, but I guess the green one, and then at the last second "No! The red one!" and then click, it stops with three-tenths of a second left, but then you don't leave. Like that, okay?
-->'''Xander:''' Check. Big bomb clock.
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* WireDilemma / IncrediblyObviousBomb: Used as a metaphor by Anya.

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* WireDilemma / IncrediblyObviousBomb: Used as a metaphor by Anya.Anya.
-->'''Anya:''' Xander? If you ever decide to go, I want a warning. You know, big flashing red lights, and-and-and one of those clocks that counts down like a bomb in a movie? And there's a whole bunch of, of colored wires, and I'm not sure which is the right one to cut, but I guess the green one, and then at the last second "No! The red one!" and then click, it stops with three-tenths of a -->'''Xander:''' Check. Big bomb clock.
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* GirlishPigtails: Buffy
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* RetroactiveWish

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* RetroactiveWishRetroactiveWish: A callback to "Something Blue" when everything Willow said came true.
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"YOU CANNOT APPEASE ME! DO NOT TRY!"

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-->You fight well, although you are a tiny man.

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-->You fight well, although you are a tiny man.-->YOU FIGHT WELL, ALTHOUGH YOU ARE A TINY MAN!



-->'''Anya:''' "He probably got sent to the Land of the Trolls. He'll like it there. Full of trolls.''
* ThisIsThePartWhere

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-->'''Anya:''' "He He probably got sent to the Land of the Trolls. He'll like it there. Full of trolls.''
* ThisIsThePartWhere
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-->'''Willow:''' I wish I had a million dollars!

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-->'''Willow:''' I wish I had a million dollars!dollars! Just checking...
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* DrivesLikeCrazy: Anya is driving Giles car without having learnt to drive.
* EverythingsBetterWithChocolate: Spike rehearses a grovelling apology to Buffy while holding a box of chocolates. He then looses his temper over Buffy's assumed rejection and hits his Buffy dummy over the head with it.

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* DrivesLikeCrazy: Anya is driving Giles Giles' car without having learnt to drive.
* EverythingsBetterWithChocolate: Spike rehearses a grovelling apology to Buffy while holding a box of chocolates. He then looses his temper over Buffy's assumed rejection and hits his [[ReplacementGoldfish Buffy dummy dummy]] over the head with it.
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* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Spike assumes Buffy is angry over his part in the Buffy/Riley breakup, when Buffy is so miserable Spike isn't even on her radar screen.


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* EverythingsBetterWithChocolate: Spike rehearses a grovelling apology to Buffy while holding a box of chocolates. He then looses his temper over Buffy's assumed rejection and hits his Buffy dummy over the head with it.

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* MoralDissonance

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* MoralDissonanceMoralDissonance: Olaf demands babies to eat. Spike turns to Xander and asks, "What do you think, the hospital?"



* SadisticChoice

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* SadisticChoiceSadisticChoice" Olaf demands Xander choose which women to spare -- his girlfriend or best friend. Xander refuses on the grounds that it's InsaneTrollLogic.
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* MoralDissonance
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* {{Get Thee to a Nunnery}}: For a moment it appears Buffy is coping with her problems this way, then she appears and stakes a vampire who's about to eat the young blonde-haired nun. After staking the vampire...

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* {{Get Thee to a Nunnery}}: For a moment it appears Buffy is coping with her man problems this way, then she appears and stakes a vampire who's about to eat the young blonde-haired nun. After staking the vampire...

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-->You fight well.

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-->You fight well.well, although you are a tiny man.



* BoisterousBruiser:Olaf

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* BoisterousBruiser:OlafBoisterousBruiser: Olaf



* {{Get Thee to a Nunnery}}

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* {{Get Thee to a Nunnery}}Nunnery}}: For a moment it appears Buffy is coping with her problems this way, then she appears and stakes a vampire who's about to eat the young blonde-haired nun. After staking the vampire...
-->'''Buffy:''' So, um, a-about being a nun... ''(They begin to walk along together)'' You know, um, with the whole ... abjuring the company of men ... you know, how's that working for you? The... abjuring.
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* WrongWireProblem: Used as a metaphor by Anya.

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* WrongWireProblem: WireDilemma / IncrediblyObviousBomb: Used as a metaphor by Anya.

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* AccidentalPublicConfession: Dawn overhears Giles, Buffy and Joyce talking about how she is the Key.
* BaddieFlattery: Olaf to Xander
-->You fight well.



* ChekhovsGun: Olaf's Hammer

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* ChekhovsGun: Olaf's HammerHammer is used in the season finale.
* CovertPervert: Spike wears a smirk after Buffy falls on him during the Bronze fight.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Anya is driving Giles car without having learnt to drive.
* {{Get Thee to a Nunnery}}
* InsaneTrollLogic: Xander becomes the TropeNamer.



* PunctuatedPounding: ''"Their love! Will last! Forever!"''
* ShapedLikeItself: ''"He probably got sent to the Land of the Trolls. He'll like it there. Full of trolls.''
* TrashTheSet: The Bronze.

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* PunctuatedPounding: ''"Their PunctuatedPounding
-->'''Buffy:''' Their
love! Will last! Forever!"''
Forever!
* ShapedLikeItself: ''"He RetroactiveWish
-->'''Willow:''' I wish Buffy were here.
-->'''Buffy:''' I'm here!
-->'''Willow:''' I wish I had a million dollars!
* RunningGag: The AlternateUniverse without shrimp is mentioned again.
* SadisticChoice
* ShapedLikeItself
-->'''Anya:''' "He
probably got sent to the Land of the Trolls. He'll like it there. Full of trolls.''
* ThisIsThePartWhere
* TrashTheSet: The Bronze.Bronze.
* WeNeedADistraction: Anya being irritating.
* WrongWireProblem: Used as a metaphor by Anya.
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* BoisterousBruiser:Olaf


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* ChekhovsGun: Olaf's Hammer
* LargeHam: ALL OF OLAF'S LINES WERE WRITTEN IN CAPS.

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