History Recap / BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E7OnceMoreWithFeeling

* CreatorCameo: Writer David Fury is the guy starting off "The Mustard Song", and writer Marti Noxon is the lady lamenting her parking ticket.

** 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.

** Buffy actually gets TWO I wants: this one and "Something to Sing About".

* DeathSeeker: Buffy nearly dies because of her indifference to life. In a DramaticIrony she's saved by Spike, who'd said in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E7FoolForLove Fool for Love]]" that on the day it happened he'd be the one to kill her.

** Giles comments that when he was singing alone, there was accompanying backup music from an unidentifiable source, meaning that the music exists in universe, nog just the singing.

* HelpingWouldBeKillStealing: Giles' song "Standing" is basically how he's been doing the opposite of this trope for too long, and now he needs to start playing it straight so Buffy can grow. Also the rationale behind him initially insisting that Buffy tackle Sweet on her own, although he's later convinced by Anya and Xander that the Scoobies should go back her up.

* KarmaHoudini: The MonsterOfTheWeek comes to town, kills several people through spontaneous combustion, makes the Scoobies reveal a bunch of secrets about themselves, nearly kills Buffy and leaves town without getting a scratch on him. The only reason he's even "beaten" is that he learns it was Xander, not Dawn, who summoned him and he doesn't fancy making Xander his queen, so he just up and leaves; Buffy never defeats or even engages him in combat. At one point, Buffy states, "I can't kill you," but it's not shown how she learned this.

* IWantSong: "Going Through The Motions". Joss even mentions it being the "I Want" Song in the DVDCommentary.

* KilledMidSentence: The demon Buffy kills during "Going Through The Motions" dies this way.

* RescueSex: Spoofed during Buffy's "Going Through The Motions" song.
-->'''Buffy''': Will I stay this way forever. Sleep walk through my life's endeavour...''[frees a hot guy who was tied up by demons]''

* DeathSeeker: Buffy nearly dies because of her indifference to life. In a DramaticIrony she's saved by Spike, who'd said in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E7FoolForLove Fool for Love]]" that on the day that happened he'd be the one to kill her.

** Buffy turns down the offer of a drink from Spike after her hangover in "Life Serial".

** "His penis got diseases from a Chumash tribe!" is from "Pangs", when Xander caught syphilis from a vengeful Native American spirit.

'''Dawn (miffed that everyone already knows):''' ''"... I... gave birth to a pterodactyl."''\\

'''Buffy:''' ''"Everybody started singing and dancing?"''\\
'''Dawn:''' ''"... I... gave birth to a pterodactyl."''\\

'''Dawn:''' ''"...I... gave birth to a pterodactyl."''\\

'''Dawn:''' ''"I... gave birth to a pterodactyl."''\\

'''Dawn:''' ''"I gave birth to a pterodactyl."''\\

* TheMusicMeister: Upon Sweet's arrival in Sunnydale, everyone in town begins breaking into musical numbers. While this seems harmless enough, the songs are always brutally honest ones that reveal people's deepest secrets, which sows discord among the populace. They also cause certain victims to spontaneously combust.

* FlowerMotifs: Tara finds a sprig under her pillow and smiles at what [[FlowersOfRomance seems to be a romantic gesture]] from Willow. But she later looks up the plant and finds it's called ''Lethe's Bramble'', used in spells of forgetting and mind control. In Greek mythology Lethe is the river of forgetfulness in Hades, and a bramble is known for its [[ControlFreak tangled, prickly stems]].

** 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".

* InvisibleBackupBand: "That would explain the huge backing orchestra I couldn't see and the synchronised dancing from the room service chaps"
* InvoluntaryDance: Not only those singing, but people nearby are often caught up as involuntary backup dancers.

* KarmaHoudini: The MonsterOfTheWeek comes to town, kills several people through spontaneous combustion, makes the Scoobies reveal a bunch of secrets about themselves, nearly kills Buffy and leaves town without getting a scratch on him. The only reason he's even "beaten" is that he learns it was Xander, not Dawn, who summoned him and he doesn't fancy making Xander his queen, so he just up and leaves; Buffy never defeats or even engages him in combat. Buffy states, "I can't kill you," but it's not shown how she learned this.

* KarmaHoudini: The MonsterOfTheWeek comes to town, kills several people through spontaneous combustion, makes the Scoobies reveal a bunch of secrets about themselves, nearly kills Buffy and leaves town without getting a scratch on him. The only reason he's even "beaten" is that he learns it was Xander, not Dawn, who summoned him and he doesn't fancy making Xander his queen, so he just up and leaves; Buffy never defeats or even engages him in combat.

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

* CluelessChickMagnet: Gender-inverted in Tara's case; her family kept putting her down so much that she doesn't realize she is pretty enough to attract men as well as women.

* AwardBaitSong: {{Parodied}} when Anya complained that her song with Xander would "never be a BreakawayPopHit". That would be reserved for Tara's "Under Your Spell".

* WickedWitch: Xander says that evil witches might be responsible, only to shut up when Willow and Tara give him the hairy eyeball.

* WhamEpisode: There's a big moment about pretty much every character. Giles decides to leave, Dawn is becoming a kleptomaniac, Buffy reveals that she was in Heaven, Tara learns that Willow erased her memory of an argument to avoid fighting about her over-reliance on magic, Buffy and Spike kiss, and Xander and Anya start to express fears about getting married.

* WhamEpisode: There's a big moment about pretty much every character. Giles decides to leave, Dawn is becoming a kleptomaniac, Buffy reveals that she was in Heaven, Tara learns that Willow brainwashed her to avoid an argument about her reliance on magic, Buffy and Spike kiss, and Xander and Anya start to express fears about getting married.

* IllNeverTellYouWhatImTellingYou: Heroic version. Anya and Xander's song "I'll Never Tell" is one long string of these, and Buffy is later forced to reveal she was in heaven during her temporary death. This is the result of a demon compelling them to sing the truth.