History Recap / BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E9Smashed

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: Since Amy was turned into a rat; Synder was eaten by a snake, the high school got destroyed, and Gatorade has a new flavor -- Blue.

* LustObject: Buffy to Spike, and much as he hates to admit it, Spike to Buffy.

* FoeRomanceSubtext: The subtext becomes (even more) text -- It's the discovery that Spike can now kill Buffy that is the catalyst for their affair.

* FoeRomanceSubtext: The subtext becomes text -- It's the discovery that Spike can now kill Buffy that is the catalyst for their affair.

* DehumanizingInsult: Buffy takes to calling Spike a "thing" or a "creature" in order to distance him from his humanity so that she can stamp down her growing attraction to him.

-->'''Andrew:''' I've seen every episode of Doctor Who... Not Red Dwarf, though, cause, um...

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* CowboyBebopAtHisComputer: Andrew says he's seen every episode of ''Series/DoctorWho''. As longtime Who fans know to their sorrow, this is impossible, as many of the earlier episodes were [[MissingEpisode destroyed by the BBC]] and unable to be viewed. Although he could be referring to fanmade reconstructions, but those would have been far more difficult to locate in 2001.

* PeekABangs: Buffy's hair once Spike starts pounding on her.

* KidsPlayMatchmaker: Dawn is trying to get [[HasTwoMommies her two mommies]] back together.

** Tara's "[[HasTwoMommies divorced parents]]" discussion with Dawn.

* BalefulPolymorph: Actually "transmogrification" would be the accurate term within the show's mythology. Willow and Amy transform the dancers at the Bronze into sheep, giant strawberry people, cage dancers, and various other things [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks just for the Hecate of it]].

* ShoutOut: Apart from various geek references with the Trio, Spike says, "[[Series/LostInSpace Oh the pain, the pain]]...[[BaitAndSwitchComment is gone]]."

* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Four and a half years of FoeYay and {{UST}} culminate in a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown with Spike getting Buffy so excited she gives into her lust for him.

* CameBackWrong: Spike becomes the TropeNamer in reference to Buffy. If he can hit her without his RestrainingBolt firing, it means that [[NotSoDifferent she too is a demon]]. It's this revelation, as well as the [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence sexual excitement generated by fighting Spike]], that causes Buffy to give in to her feelings for him.

'''Spike:''' Hello! Vampire! ''[They exchange punches]'' I'm ''supposed'' to be treading on the DarkSide. ''[Spike throws Buffy against the wall]'' [[NotSoDifferent What's your excuse?]]

* SurprisinglyAproposMusic: We cut back and forth between the scene of Spike and Buffy fighting in the abandoned house which ends with them having sex for the first time, and Willow and Amy doing magic for fun at the Bronze. An all-male band called Virgil is playing their song "Here", with the chorus: "What is wrong here?/What is wrong with you?/What is wrong here?/Where is your head?" Willow and Amy decide they dislike the music, so they turn them into the all-female band Halo Friendlies, performing their song "Run Away": "I don't wanna be, I don't wanna be alone/I don't wanna go, I don't wanna go it alone/Every time I see you/I just can't find words to say/I just want to turn and run away/I can't find the time and place to say what I need to say..." Eventually Willow and Amy decide that they've had their fun and turn everything back as it was, including turning the band back into Virgil performing "Here".

* DestructiveRomance: The self-destructive cycle of the Spuffy relationship is established before it even begins. Buffy deals with the guilt over her lust for Spike by pigeon-holing him as an evil demon, despite knowing Spike is at his best when treated as an equal. Faced with this attitude, Spike feels the only way he can have Buffy is to drag her down to [[DarkSide his level]], which makes Buffy feel even more guilty. And the only way they can communicate without restraint is [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence through sex and violence]].

* IronicEcho: In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E22TheGift The Gift]]" Spike said that he's a monster, but he likes the fact that Buffy treats him like a man. Here Buffy says, "You're not a man. You're a thing!" causing Spike to act like a monster again.

* TalkingToThemself: Spike working himself up to bite the girl in the alley.

* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Buffy rejects Spike's advances as he's "an evil twisted thing." It's at this point Spike discovers the chip doesn't work, so Spike's first act is to find a female victim and try to feed on her.