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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: After deciding to go cold turkey, Willow tells Buffy that she won't miss the [[PowerAtAPrice headaches and nosebleeds]] and keeping stinky yak cheeses [[VictoriasSecretCompartment in her bra]]. (off Buffy's look) "Don't. Ask."
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* ChekhovsGunman: Rack will return in "Villains" and "Two to Go".
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* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Rack will return in "Villains" and "Two to Go".]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: For Dark!Willow -- BlackEyesOfEvil, VillainTeleportation, and killing in nasty ways.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: For Dark!Willow -- BlackEyesOfEvil, VillainTeleportation, and killing in nasty ways.]]
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* SexChangesEverything: Spike points out that their RelationshipUpgrade (and the fact that his chip doesn't work with Buffy) has altered the power dynamic between them. Buffy's refusal to accept this is a major cause of the DestructiveRomance to follow.
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* SexChangesEverything: Spike points out that their RelationshipUpgrade (and the fact that his chip doesn't work with Buffy) has altered the power dynamic between them. [[spoiler: Buffy's refusal to accept this is a major cause of the DestructiveRomance to follow.]]
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** Buffy ending the episode with her room hung with garlic, huddled on the bed, a cross in hand--in case of Spike--is reminiscent of her and Willow doing the same in Willow's room to avoid Angelus in season 2.
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* UptightLovesWild: Control freak Buffy lets loose all her inhibitions in a wild tryst with bad boy vampire Spike.
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* UptightLovesWild: Control In-control freak Buffy lets loose all her inhibitions in a wild tryst with bad boy vampire Spike.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Buffy gives Willow a well-deserved one over her magic addiction, especially since she summoned a demon and crashed a car while high, nearly killing Dawn in the process.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Buffy gives Willow a well-deserved one over her magic addiction, especially since she summoned a demon and crashed a car while high, hurting and nearly killing Dawn in the process.
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** Spike tells Buffy he's finished taking her abuse. [[FetishizedAbuser He hasn't even started.]]
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** Spike tells Buffy he's finished taking her abuse. [[FetishizedAbuser He hasn't hasn't]] [[LoveMartyr even started.]]
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** Buffy ending the episode with her room hung with garlic, huddled on the bed, a cross in hand--in case of Spike--is reminiscent of her and Willow doing the same in Willow's room to avoid Angelus in season 2.
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* SleepCute: The episode with Tara and Dawn asleep on the couch.
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* SleepCute: The episode opens with Tara and Dawn asleep on the couch.
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* ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin: Magic = Drugs, with Willow becoming heavily addicted into magic.
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* ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin: Magic = Drugs, with Willow becoming heavily addicted into magic.dark spells.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Willow gets addicted to visiting an extremely powerful wizard by the name of Rack. He's referred to as "dealing" and Willow's experiences are more than a little trippy. The people in the lobby are all strung-out and when Willow leaves with Dawn, her eyes are dark and she's a little "off." To make matters worse, Willow treats the demon as a hallucination. Combining the "awakening lesbianism = magic" and "drugs = magic" metaphors makes for some UnfortunateImplications, and it also got a lot of criticism for there being no subtlety to the analogy; it literally just comes off like a story about drugs with "magic" search-and-replaced onto it.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Willow gets addicted to visiting an extremely powerful wizard by the name of Rack. He's referred to as "dealing" and Willow's experiences are more than a little trippy. The people in the lobby are all strung-out and when Willow leaves with Dawn, her eyes are dark and she's a little "off." To make matters worse, Willow treats the demon as a hallucination. Combining the "awakening lesbianism = magic" and "drugs = (dark/abuse of) magic" metaphors makes for some UnfortunateImplications, and it also got a lot of criticism for there being no subtlety to the analogy; it literally just comes off like a story about drugs with "magic" search-and-replaced onto it.
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* IJustWantToBeSpecial
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* IJustWantToBeSpecialIJustWantToBeSpecial: Willow admits that this was her motivation for going overboard with magic: lingering insecurity from her time as a "nobody" in high school (hinted at in [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E22Restless "Restless"]] with her nightmare) and a resultant desire to be extraordinary.
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* ArmorPiercingSlap: Dawn slaps Willow after she nearly gets her killed.
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* KickTheMoralityPet: Willow's downward spiral into magic addiction reaches its head here, and leads to her crashing a car with Dawn in the passenger seat; Dawn suffers a broken arm as a result and is so pissed at Willow for her actions that she responds to Willow's tearful apology with an ArmorPiercingSlap. The sheer guilt of this incident is what convinces Willow to quit magic completely.
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* KickTheMoralityPet: Willow's downward spiral into magic addiction reaches its head here, and leads to her crashing a car with Dawn in the passenger seat; Dawn suffers a broken arm as a result and is so pissed at Willow for her actions that she responds to Willow's tearful apology with an ArmorPiercingSlap.a slap. The sheer guilt of this incident is what convinces Willow to quit magic completely.
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* CurseCutShort / OpenMouthInsertFoot
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* CurseCutShort / OpenMouthInsertFootCurseCutShort
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* AirHugging / CradleOfLoneliness: Willow magically fills out one of Tara's dresses and cuddles up to it.
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* CradleOfLoneliness: Willow magically fills out one of Tara's dresses and cuddles up to it.
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** Spike tells Buffy he's finished taking her abuse. [[BastardGirlfriend He hasn't even started.]]
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** Spike tells Buffy he's finished taking her abuse. [[BastardGirlfriend [[FetishizedAbuser He hasn't even started.]]
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* CrossReferencedTitles: Second episode out of three in a row named after an euphemism for being drunk or high.
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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Second episode out of three in a row named after an euphemism for being drunk or high.
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** Buffy describes what happened last night as a "freak show" (just as Angel described his relationship with Buffy when breaking up with her in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E20TheProm The Prom]]") and Spike as "convenient" (as Xander described Buffy's attitude to her relationship with Riley Finn in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E10IntoTheWoods Into the Woods]]").
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** Buffy describes what happened last night as a "freak show" (just as Angel described his relationship with Buffy when breaking up with her in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E20TheProm The Prom]]") and Spike as "convenient" (as Xander described Buffy's attitude to her relationship with Riley Finn in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E10IntoTheWoods "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E10IntoTheWoods Into the Woods]]").
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** Buffy describes what happened last night as a "freak show" (just as Angel described his relationship with Buffy when breaking up with her in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E20TheProm The Prom]]") and Spike as "convenient" (as Xander described Buffy's attitude to her relationship with Riley Finn in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E18IntoTheWoods Into the Woods]]").
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** Buffy describes what happened last night as a "freak show" (just as Angel described his relationship with Buffy when breaking up with her in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E20TheProm The Prom]]") and Spike as "convenient" (as Xander described Buffy's attitude to her relationship with Riley Finn in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E18IntoTheWoods "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E10IntoTheWoods Into the Woods]]").
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'''Spike:''' I don't think so. Wouldn't be nearly as interesting now, would it?
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'''Spike:''' I don't think so.Hardly. Wouldn't be nearly as interesting now, would it?
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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: After deciding to go cold turkey, Willow tells Buffy that she won't miss the [[PowerAtAPrice headaches and nosebleeds]] and keeping stinky yak cheeses [[VictoriasSecretCompartment in her bra]]. (off Buffy's look) "Don't. Ask."
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* MeaningfulEcho: Buffy describes what happened last night as a "freak show" (just as Angel described his relationship with Buffy when breaking up with her in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E20TheProm The Prom]]") and Spike as "convenient" (as Xander described Buffy's attitude to her relationship with Riley Finn in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E18IntoTheWoods Into the Woods]]").
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* MeaningfulEcho: MeaningfulEcho:
** Buffy describes what happened last night as a "freak show" (just as Angel described his relationship with Buffy when breaking up with her in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E20TheProm The Prom]]") and Spike as "convenient" (as Xander described Buffy's attitude to her relationship with Riley Finn in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E18IntoTheWoods Into the Woods]]").
** Buffy describes what happened last night as a "freak show" (just as Angel described his relationship with Buffy when breaking up with her in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E20TheProm The Prom]]") and Spike as "convenient" (as Xander described Buffy's attitude to her relationship with Riley Finn in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E18IntoTheWoods Into the Woods]]").
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** Xander researches demons in [[Film/Ghostbusters1984 Tobin's Spirit Guide]].
** Xander researches demons in [[Film/Ghostbusters1984 Tobin's Spirit Guide]].
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**ShoutOut: Xander researches demons in [[Film/Ghostbusters1984 Tobin's Spirit Guide]].
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* SleepCute: The episode with Tara and Dawn asleep on the couch.
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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: After deciding to go cold turkey, Willow tells Buffy that she won't miss the [[PowerAtAPrice headaches and nosebleeds]] and keeping stinky yak cheeses [[VictoriasSecretCompartment in her bra]]. (off Buffy's look) "Don't. Ask."
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** Spike and Buffy's bruises, scratches and GettingCrapPastTheRadar comments hint that things got quite depraved last night, and Buffy is implied to have enjoyed it -- at least while it was happening.
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** Spike: "I knew the only thing better than killing a Slayer was [[CurseCutShort fu--]]" ''[Buffy punches him before he finishes the sentence]''
** Dawn: "It was like a meat party in my mouth! ... Okay, I'm just a kid, and even I know that sounds wrong."
** After creepy magic drug dealer Rack "tastes" Willow, he says she tastes like strawberries. Beyond the usual Strawberry Shorthand, in certain parts of the US, a "strawberry" is drug culture slang for a woman who trades sexual services for drugs.
** Spike: "I knew the only thing better than killing a Slayer was [[CurseCutShort fu--]]" ''[Buffy punches him before he finishes the sentence]''
** Dawn: "It was like a meat party in my mouth! ... Okay, I'm just a kid, and even I know that sounds wrong."
** After creepy magic drug dealer Rack "tastes" Willow, he says she tastes like strawberries. Beyond the usual Strawberry Shorthand, in certain parts of the US, a "strawberry" is drug culture slang for a woman who trades sexual services for drugs.
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** Spike: "I knew theGettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only thing better than killing a Slayer was [[CurseCutShort fu--]]" ''[Buffy punches him before he finishes until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the sentence]''
** Dawn: "It was like a meat party in my mouth! ... Okay, I'm just a kid, and even I know that sounds wrong."
** After creepy magic drug dealer Rack "tastes" Willow, he says she tastes like strawberries. Beyondfuture, please check the usual Strawberry Shorthand, in certain parts of trope page to make sure your example fits the US, a "strawberry" is drug culture slang for a woman who trades sexual services for drugs.current definition.
** Spike: "I knew the
** Dawn: "It was like a meat party in my mouth! ... Okay, I'm just a kid, and even I know that sounds wrong."
** After creepy magic drug dealer Rack "tastes" Willow, he says she tastes like strawberries. Beyond
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** Spike pleads to Buffy not to "mock this", referring to their relationship and his feelings, just as he had when Buffy had mocked his failed LoveConfession in "Crush".
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Written by Creator/MartiNoxon, Creator/RebeccaKirshner, & Creator/StevenSDeKnight
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Buffy feels guilty over her night of passion with Spike. Amy gets Willow hooked on black magic with disastrous results.
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Tara and Dawn wake on the couch and find that neither Buffy feels guilty over her night of passion with Spike. Amy gets nor Willow hooked returned home the night before. Somewhere else, Buffy wakes up naked with Spike, noticing the building around them fell down. Spike tempts Buffy to stay until he's able to leave without the daylight. It works until he tells her that he knew the only thing better than killing a Slayer, which angers her. Buffy argues that this will never happen again, while Spike tells her she won't get over him. She threatens him to not tell anyone about it and he agrees, but shows Buffy her stolen panties. She punches him and leaves.
Willow returns home with Amy, who rambles about Willow's magical use in front of Tara and Dawn. Upset, Tara leaves just as Buffy returns. Amy leaves as well after a chat, so Buffy and Willow go to bed after their long nights. In her room, Willow tries to shut the drapes with magic, but finds that she can't.
At the Magic Box, Xander searches fruitlessly for information onblack what could have frozen the security guard and stole the diamond from the museum, while Anya looks at bridal magazines. Buffy arrives, and the discussion turns to Willow. Xander is concerned that Willow has found herself someone new to hang around with who won't monitor her use of magic. Buffy defends her stating that everyone makes mistakes.
Amy meets Willow again and suggests they visit Rack, a warlock who can give them great spells that last without any recovery time. They enter his cloaked house and find it filled with the magically addicted waiting for their turn, but the two are attended immediately. Rack gives them what they came for, so Amy spins about the room as Willow hangs out on the ceiling, seeing spots and weird images. The next morning, Willow wakes in her own room and cries in the shower. She manipulates some of Tara's clothes to form an invisible body and curls up against it.
Dawn makes some interesting food and makes plans to see a movie with Willow. Buffy returns home to find Amy stealing some of Willow's magical supplies. Buffy scolds her and Amy mentions Willow's whereabouts. Meanwhile, Willow and Dawn talk about food and Tara, then take a detour to Rack's place so Willow can get a fix. Dawn waits impatiently in the waiting room with a strange man. Inside Rack's room, Willow floats and sees a demon holding a limp body, which makes her scream.
Buffy wakes a very naked Spike in his crypt and asks if he knows where Willow and Dawn are. When she mentions Rack, Spike grows concerned, having heard of him. He explains that the warlock deals in dark and dangerous magic, and only witches and vampires can find his cloaked place. Buffy decides to take him along in her search.
Willow finally emerges from Rack's room, hours after she entered. Dawn is mad Willow left her so long, but Willow doesn't care. Dawn realizes that something is wrong with Willow and becomes eager to return home, but Willow refuses and promises her fun to make up for the missing movie. Nearby, while they walk in search of the cloaked house, Spike tells Buffy again how much she really wants and needs him after they spent the night together.
A demon confronts Willow, claiming that she summoned him with her use of magic. Willow expects him to not be real, until the demon cuts Dawn, so the girls run. Willow uses magic to take over and drive a car, but it crashes and both are wounded. Dawn finds that she has a broken arm as Willow is knocked out against the steering wheel. The demon catches up withdisastrous results.
their wrecked car and Dawn tries to fight it off. Spike and Buffy, who heard Dawn scream, come to the rescue. Buffy fights the demon while Spike takes care of Dawn. The demon suddenly explodes into flames as a result of Willow's magic. While Willow apologizes in tears, Buffy tells her to stay back and Dawn slaps her away. Spike leaves with Dawn and Buffy stays with Willow, who continues to cry and begs for help.
At the Summers house, Buffy talks with Willow about her abuse of magic and the consequences. Buffy thinks that Willow became addicted to magic due to her break up with Tara, but Willow admits that the addiction was why Tara left. Buffy tells Willow that she doesn't need magic to be special, and Willow says that before the magic she was "some girl," who never knew. Buffy states that she was far more than this, and reminds her that Tara wants her to stop. Willow knows that, someone will get hurt if she continues the way she is, and declares that she's giving up magic for good. Buffy agrees with that and tells Willow that it's time for them to think about what they're doing before doing it.
Later, Willow fights the symptoms of withdrawal in her bed. Buffy, in her own bed, hugs a cross with garlic surrounding her bedroom.
Willow returns home with Amy, who rambles about Willow's magical use in front of Tara and Dawn. Upset, Tara leaves just as Buffy returns. Amy leaves as well after a chat, so Buffy and Willow go to bed after their long nights. In her room, Willow tries to shut the drapes with magic, but finds that she can't.
At the Magic Box, Xander searches fruitlessly for information on
Amy meets Willow again and suggests they visit Rack, a warlock who can give them great spells that last without any recovery time. They enter his cloaked house and find it filled with the magically addicted waiting for their turn, but the two are attended immediately. Rack gives them what they came for, so Amy spins about the room as Willow hangs out on the ceiling, seeing spots and weird images. The next morning, Willow wakes in her own room and cries in the shower. She manipulates some of Tara's clothes to form an invisible body and curls up against it.
Dawn makes some interesting food and makes plans to see a movie with Willow. Buffy returns home to find Amy stealing some of Willow's magical supplies. Buffy scolds her and Amy mentions Willow's whereabouts. Meanwhile, Willow and Dawn talk about food and Tara, then take a detour to Rack's place so Willow can get a fix. Dawn waits impatiently in the waiting room with a strange man. Inside Rack's room, Willow floats and sees a demon holding a limp body, which makes her scream.
Buffy wakes a very naked Spike in his crypt and asks if he knows where Willow and Dawn are. When she mentions Rack, Spike grows concerned, having heard of him. He explains that the warlock deals in dark and dangerous magic, and only witches and vampires can find his cloaked place. Buffy decides to take him along in her search.
Willow finally emerges from Rack's room, hours after she entered. Dawn is mad Willow left her so long, but Willow doesn't care. Dawn realizes that something is wrong with Willow and becomes eager to return home, but Willow refuses and promises her fun to make up for the missing movie. Nearby, while they walk in search of the cloaked house, Spike tells Buffy again how much she really wants and needs him after they spent the night together.
A demon confronts Willow, claiming that she summoned him with her use of magic. Willow expects him to not be real, until the demon cuts Dawn, so the girls run. Willow uses magic to take over and drive a car, but it crashes and both are wounded. Dawn finds that she has a broken arm as Willow is knocked out against the steering wheel. The demon catches up with
At the Summers house, Buffy talks with Willow about her abuse of magic and the consequences. Buffy thinks that Willow became addicted to magic due to her break up with Tara, but Willow admits that the addiction was why Tara left. Buffy tells Willow that she doesn't need magic to be special, and Willow says that before the magic she was "some girl," who never knew. Buffy states that she was far more than this, and reminds her that Tara wants her to stop. Willow knows that, someone will get hurt if she continues the way she is, and declares that she's giving up magic for good. Buffy agrees with that and tells Willow that it's time for them to think about what they're doing before doing it.
Later, Willow fights the symptoms of withdrawal in her bed. Buffy, in her own bed, hugs a cross with garlic surrounding her bedroom.
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* ActorAllusion: Dawn makes peanut butter pancakes but then decides she doesn't like them. According to the DVD commentaries, on ''Film/IcePrincess'', Creator/MichelleTrachtenberg's character hates peanut butter.
