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* CryForTheDevil: Tucker Wells summons a bunch of demons to attack the high school senior prom. Buffy, determined to allow her friends ''one'' unspoiled moment in high school, corners him and angrily demands to know why someone would want to destroy "the happiest night of the year". The culprit sneers that he has his reasons -- and we're treated to a brief flashback of him shyly and politely asking a girl to go to the prom with him, only for the girl to cruelly reject him. This is played entirely for laughs.

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* CryForTheDevil: Tucker Wells summons a bunch of demons to attack the high school senior prom. Buffy, determined to allow her friends ''one'' unspoiled moment in high school, corners him and angrily demands to know why someone would want to destroy "the happiest night of the year". The culprit sneers that he has his reasons -- and we're treated to a brief flashback of him shyly and politely asking a girl to go to the prom with him, only for the girl to cruelly flatly reject him. This is played entirely for laughs.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The villain turns out to be a teenager planning an attack on his school. Not only did this air the year UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} happened, but in three seasons' time, three such characters (including said boy's brother) will cause trouble for Buffy.
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* HarsherInHindsight: The villain turns out to be a teenager planning an attack on his school. Not only did this air the year UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} happened, but in three seasons' time, three such characters (including said boy's brother) will cause trouble for Buffy.

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* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Buffy's big prom moment is easily one of the great feel-good moments of the series.
-->'''Giles:''' You did good work tonight, Buffy.
-->'''Buffy:''' ''*holding up Class Protector award*'' And I got a little toy surprise!
-->'''Giles:''' ''*chuckling*'' I had no idea children, en masse, could be...gracious.
-->'''Buffy:''' Every now and then, people surprise you.
-->'''Giles:''' ...Every now and then. ''*takes Class Protector award and nods for Buffy to turn around*''
-->'''Buffy:''' ''*turns around and sees Angel has arrived, wearing a tuxedo*''
* TearJerker: Angel knows he's right. We ''all'' know he's right. But that doesn't make the big breakup scene with Buffy any less agonizing to watch.

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* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Buffy's big prom CryForTheDevil: Tucker Wells summons a bunch of demons to attack the high school senior prom. Buffy, determined to allow her friends ''one'' unspoiled moment in high school, corners him and angrily demands to know why someone would want to destroy "the happiest night of the year". The culprit sneers that he has his reasons -- and we're treated to a brief flashback of him shyly and politely asking a girl to go to the prom with him, only for the girl to cruelly reject him. This is played entirely for laughs.
** The scene can
easily one be read as a parody of many scenes earlier in the great feel-good moments of the series.
-->'''Giles:''' You did good work tonight, Buffy.
-->'''Buffy:''' ''*holding up Class Protector award*'' And I got a little toy surprise!
-->'''Giles:''' ''*chuckling*'' I had no idea children, en masse, could be...gracious.
-->'''Buffy:''' Every now and then, people surprise you.
-->'''Giles:''' ...Every now and then. ''*takes Class Protector award and nods for Buffy to turn around*''
-->'''Buffy:''' ''*turns around and sees Angel has arrived, wearing a tuxedo*''
* TearJerker: Angel knows he's right. We ''all'' know he's right. But
series that doesn't make were legitimately this trope (like the big breakup scene poor kid in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E7LieToMe Lie to Me]]") - we're set up to expect some deeply scarring, tragic scene, and what we get is fifteen seconds of, "Hey, want to go to the prom with Buffy any less agonizing to watch.me?" "Nope."
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-->'''Giles:''' ''*chuckling*'' I had no idea children, en mass, could be...gracious.

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-->'''Giles:''' ''*chuckling*'' I had no idea children, en mass, masse, could be...gracious.
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-->'''Giles:''' You did good work tonight, Buffy.
-->'''Buffy:''' ''*holding up Class Protector award*'' And I got a little toy surprise!
-->'''Giles:''' ''*chuckling*'' I had no idea children, en mass, could be...gracious.
-->'''Buffy:''' Every now and then, people surprise you.
-->'''Giles:''' ...Every now and then. ''*takes Class Protector award and nods for Buffy to turn around*''
-->'''Buffy:''' ''*turns around and sees Angel has arrived, wearing a tuxedo*''
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* TearJerker: Angel knows he's right. We ''all'' know he's right. But that doesn't make the big breakup scene with Buffy any less agonizing to watch.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Tucker Wells was originally to have been the BigBad of "The Trio" in Season 6.

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* TearJerker: Angel knows he's right. We ''all'' know he's right. But that doesn't make the big breakup scene with Buffy any less agonizing to watch.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Tucker Wells was originally to have been the BigBad of "The Trio" in Season 6.
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* DevelopmentGag: Cordelia tells Wesley he'd look "way [[Film/JamesBond 007]] in a tux". The shooting script for "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E14BadGirls Bad Girls]]" describes Wesley as "thinks he's SeanConnery but he's pretty much George Lazenby."
** HilariousInHindsight given how Alexis Denisof lost out to Daniel Craig to play the newest Bond. That's okay, he got to play Craig!Bond when he followed Angel to LA.
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* TearJerker: Angel knows he's right. We ''all'' know he's right. But that doesn't make the big breakup scene with Buffy any less agonizing to watch.

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* TearJerker: Angel knows he's right. We ''all'' know he's right. But that doesn't make the big breakup scene with Buffy any less agonizing to watch.watch.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Tucker Wells was originally to have been the BigBad of "The Trio" in Season 6.
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* AntiClimaxBoss: The hellhounds don't seem as vicious as Giles described when Buffy makes short work of them.
* DevelopmentGag: Cordelia tells Wesley he'd look "way [[Film/JamesBond 007]] in a tux". The shooting script for "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E14BadGirls Bad Girls]]" describes Wesley as "thinks he's SeanConnery but he's pretty much George Lazenby."
** HilariousInHindsight given how Alexis Denisof lost out to Daniel Craig to play the newest Bond. That's okay, he got to play Craig!Bond when he followed Angel to LA.
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Buffy's big prom moment is easily one of the great feel-good moments of the series.
* TearJerker: Angel knows he's right. We ''all'' know he's right. But that doesn't make the big breakup scene with Buffy any less agonizing to watch.

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