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* RelationshipWritingFumble: Buffy and Spike getting married and acting like SickeningSweethearts was supposed to be a joke and the catalyst to Buffy deciding she was over bad boys, but there was so much chemistry between them that the Spuffy pairing just took off with fans.

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* FranchiseOriginalSin: Some of the major events that most polarized the fandom in Seasons 6 and 7, including Buffy and Spike hooking up in a relationship [[note]] Granted, the ire there was more from it being a DestructiveRomance rather than from the fact that that they hooked up at all. [[/note]] and Willow's witch powers spiraling out of control following her relationship ending, are (coincidentally or not) foreshadowed, to the point of the whole episode seeming HarsherInHindsight. Heck, it even brought Amy back! (Albeit for only two seconds on-screen.)
* FunnyAneurysmMoment:

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* FranchiseOriginalSin: HarsherInHindsight:
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Some of the major events that most polarized the fandom in Seasons 6 and 7, including Buffy and Spike hooking up in a relationship [[note]] Granted, the ire there was more from it being a DestructiveRomance rather than from the fact that that they hooked up at all. [[/note]] and Willow's witch powers spiraling out of control following her relationship ending, are (coincidentally or not) foreshadowed, to the point of the whole episode seeming HarsherInHindsight. Heck, it even brought Amy back! (Albeit for only two seconds on-screen.)
* FunnyAneurysmMoment:
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** After Willow's spell-gone-awry is broken, Buffy jokingly tells her that "we may be into a forgetting spell later". [[spoiler:Loses its funny after season six, where Willow uses magic to erase Tara's memories.]]
* HarsherInHindsight:

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** After Willow's spell-gone-awry is broken, Buffy jokingly tells her that "we may be into a forgetting spell later". [[spoiler:Loses its funny after season six, where Willow uses magic to erase Tara's memories.]]
* HarsherInHindsight:
memories]].
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* FoeYay: Buffy/Spike, some of the most blatant yet even before the spell. Spoofed with Willow's accidental love spell.

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** The episode was largely made in response to the Buffy/Spike shippers, to point out how ridiculous a relationship between them would be. [[spoiler: Less than two years later, the show bowed to the pressure and began to move toward pairing them up for real. By the end of the series, Spike was generally considered Buffy's second main LoveInterest alongside Angel, edging out and overshadowing Buffy's current-to-this-episode LoveInterest.]]
*** Ironically, Creator/JossWhedon admitted in a 2016 interview that despite how much he was originally against another vampire boyfriend for Buffy, Spike is now his personal preferred LoveInterest for Buffy.

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** The episode was largely made in response to the Buffy/Spike shippers, to point out how ridiculous a relationship between them would be. [[spoiler: Less than two years later, the show bowed to the pressure and began to move toward pairing them up for real. By the end of the series, Spike was generally considered Buffy's second main LoveInterest alongside Angel, edging out and overshadowing Buffy's current-to-this-episode LoveInterest.]]
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]] Ironically, Creator/JossWhedon admitted in a 2016 interview that despite how much he was originally against another vampire boyfriend for Buffy, Spike is now his personal preferred LoveInterest for Buffy.


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* ValuesDissonance: Buffy reacting with shock at Willow drinking beer can be laughable to viewers from countries with a lower drinking age. Particularly in the UK and Ireland, where the legal age is eighteen, but it's considered normal for sixteen-year-olds to drink. The idea that everyone is freaking out at Willow - a nineteen-year-old - having a beer makes the scene quite {{Narm}}y in other territories.
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** In the season 10 comics: [[spoiler: The same Scoobies who expressed horror and disgust with the Spike/Buffy pair are, after several years of healthy friendship and CharacterDevelopment, [[ShipperOnDeck actively urging them to get together]]. Yes, even [[ShippingTorpedo Xander]].]]

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** In the season 10 comics: [[spoiler: The same Scoobies who expressed horror and disgust with the Spike/Buffy pair are, after several years of healthy friendship friendship, ensoulment, and CharacterDevelopment, [[ShipperOnDeck actively urging them to get together]]. Yes, even [[ShippingTorpedo Xander]].]]
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** After Willow's spell-gone-awry is broken, Buffy jokingly tells her that "we may be into a forgetting spell later". [[spoiler: Loses its funny after season six, where Willow repeatedly uses magic to erase Tara's memories.]]

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** After Willow's spell-gone-awry is broken, Buffy jokingly tells her that "we may be into a forgetting spell later". [[spoiler: Loses [[spoiler:Loses its funny after season six, where Willow repeatedly uses magic to erase Tara's memories.]]
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** Xander asks to be blind along with Giles after watching Spike and Buffy kiss. This becomes less funny in season seven, when he gets [[EyeScream an eye gouged out]] by Caleb.
** After Willow's spell-gone-awry is broken, Buffy jokingly tells her that "we may be into a forgetting spell later". Loses its funny after season six, where Willow repeatedly uses magic to erase Tara's memories.

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** Xander asks to be blind along with Giles after watching Spike and Buffy kiss. [[spoiler: This becomes less funny in season seven, when he gets [[EyeScream an eye gouged out]] by Caleb.
Caleb.]]
** After Willow's spell-gone-awry is broken, Buffy jokingly tells her that "we may be into a forgetting spell later". [[spoiler: Loses its funny after season six, where Willow repeatedly uses magic to erase Tara's memories.]]



** Buffy and Spike's "love" being portrayed, beneath the veneer of their magically-induced adoration for each other, as largely dysfunctional hits a lot harder after their DestructiveRomance in season 6.
** While under the spell, Buffy and Spike have a small squabble because Spike implies that he believes he needs to protect Buffy...come the midpoint of Season 5, Buffy and Riley will break up after a long pile-up of conflicts, the catalyst of which is Riley carrying this same belief.

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** Buffy and Spike's "love" being portrayed, beneath the veneer of their magically-induced adoration for each other, as largely dysfunctional [[spoiler: hits a lot harder after their DestructiveRomance in season 6.
6.]]
** While under the spell, Buffy and Spike have a small squabble because Spike implies that he believes he needs to protect Buffy... [[spoiler: come the midpoint of Season 5, Buffy and Riley will break up after a long pile-up of conflicts, the catalyst of which is Riley carrying this same belief. belief.]]



** Spike freely offering to help out Giles with his blindness simply because he loves Buffy will end up mirroring his CharacterDevelopment down the line.
** Buffy and Spike's tendency to hold hands and be very casually affectionate is very similar to how they're portrayed when they're dating in earnest in the season 10/11 comics.

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** Spike freely offering to help out Giles with his blindness simply because he loves Buffy [[spoiler: will end up mirroring his CharacterDevelopment down the line.
line.]]
** Buffy and Spike's tendency to hold hands and be very casually affectionate [[spoiler: is very similar to how they're portrayed when they're dating in earnest in the season 10/11 comics.]]



** The episode was largely made in response to the Buffy/Spike shippers, to point out how ridiculous a relationship between them would be. Less than two years later, the show bowed to the pressure and began to move toward pairing them up for real. By the end of the series, Spike was generally considered Buffy's second main LoveInterest alongside Angel, edging out and overshadowing Buffy's current-to-this-episode LoveInterest.

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** The episode was largely made in response to the Buffy/Spike shippers, to point out how ridiculous a relationship between them would be. [[spoiler: Less than two years later, the show bowed to the pressure and began to move toward pairing them up for real. By the end of the series, Spike was generally considered Buffy's second main LoveInterest alongside Angel, edging out and overshadowing Buffy's current-to-this-episode LoveInterest.]]



** In the season 10 comics: The same Scoobies who expressed horror and disgust with the Spike/Buffy pair are, after several years of healthy friendship and CharacterDevelopment, [[ShipperOnDeck actively urging them to get together]]. Yes, even [[ShippingTorpedo Xander]].

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** In the season 10 comics: [[spoiler: The same Scoobies who expressed horror and disgust with the Spike/Buffy pair are, after several years of healthy friendship and CharacterDevelopment, [[ShipperOnDeck actively urging them to get together]]. Yes, even [[ShippingTorpedo Xander]].]]
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** Xander asks to be blind along with Giles after watching Spike and Buffy kiss. This becomes less funny in season seven, when he gets [[EyeScream an eye gouged out]] by the season BigBad's TheDragon.

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** Xander asks to be blind along with Giles after watching Spike and Buffy kiss. This becomes less funny in season seven, when he gets [[EyeScream an eye gouged out]] by the season BigBad's TheDragon.Caleb.



** While under the spell, Buffy and Spike have a small squabble because Spike implies that he believes he needs to protect Buffy... come the midpoint of Season 5, Buffy and Riley will break up after a long pile-up of conflicts, the catalyst of which is Riley carrying this same belief.

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** While under the spell, Buffy and Spike have a small squabble because Spike implies that he believes he needs to protect Buffy... come the midpoint of Season 5, Buffy and Riley will break up after a long pile-up of conflicts, the catalyst of which is Riley carrying this same belief.



*** Ironically, Whedon admitted in a 2016 interview that despite how much he was originally against another vampire boyfriend for Buffy, Spike is now his personal preferred LoveInterest for Buffy.

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*** Ironically, Whedon Creator/JossWhedon admitted in a 2016 interview that despite how much he was originally against another vampire boyfriend for Buffy, Spike is now his personal preferred LoveInterest for Buffy.
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** The episode was largely made in response to the Buffy/Spike shippers, to point out how ridiculous a relationship between them would be. Less than two years later, the show bowed to the pressure and began to move toward pairing them up for real. By the end of the series, Spike was generally considered Buffy's second main LoveInterest alongside Angel.

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** The episode was largely made in response to the Buffy/Spike shippers, to point out how ridiculous a relationship between them would be. Less than two years later, the show bowed to the pressure and began to move toward pairing them up for real. By the end of the series, Spike was generally considered Buffy's second main LoveInterest alongside Angel.Angel, edging out and overshadowing Buffy's current-to-this-episode LoveInterest.

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* FoeYay: Buffy/Spike. Spoofed with Willow's accidental love spell.

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* FoeYay: Buffy/Spike.Buffy/Spike, some of the most blatant yet even before the spell. Spoofed with Willow's accidental love spell.



* HarsherInHindsight: Buffy and Spike's "love" being portrayed, beneath the veneer of their magically-induced adoration for each other, as largely dysfunctional hits a lot harder after their DestructiveRomance in season 6.

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* HarsherInHindsight: HarsherInHindsight:
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Buffy and Spike's "love" being portrayed, beneath the veneer of their magically-induced adoration for each other, as largely dysfunctional hits a lot harder after their DestructiveRomance in season 6.6.
** While under the spell, Buffy and Spike have a small squabble because Spike implies that he believes he needs to protect Buffy... come the midpoint of Season 5, Buffy and Riley will break up after a long pile-up of conflicts, the catalyst of which is Riley carrying this same belief.



** The episode was largely made in response to the Buffy/Spike shippers, to point out how ridiculous a relationship between them would be. Less than two years later, the show bowed to the pressure and began to move toward pairing them up for real. By the end of the series, Spike is generally considered Buffy's second main LoveInterest alongside Angel.

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** The episode was largely made in response to the Buffy/Spike shippers, to point out how ridiculous a relationship between them would be. Less than two years later, the show bowed to the pressure and began to move toward pairing them up for real. By the end of the series, Spike is was generally considered Buffy's second main LoveInterest alongside Angel.

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* FranchiseOriginalSin: Some of the major events that most polarized the fandom in Seasons 6 and 7, including Buffy and Spike hooking up in a relationship and Willow's witch powers spiraling out of control following her relationship ending, are (coincidentally or not) foreshadowed, to the point of the whole episode seeming HarsherInHindsight. Heck, it even brought Amy back! (Albeit for only two seconds on-screen.)

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* FanPreferredCouple: Ironically, though the episode was meant to poke fun at the idea, it pretty much single-handedly pushed Spuffy into this status.
* FoeYay: Buffy/Spike. Spoofed with Willow's accidental love spell.
* FranchiseOriginalSin: Some of the major events that most polarized the fandom in Seasons 6 and 7, including Buffy and Spike hooking up in a relationship [[note]] Granted, the ire there was more from it being a DestructiveRomance rather than from the fact that that they hooked up at all. [[/note]] and Willow's witch powers spiraling out of control following her relationship ending, are (coincidentally or not) foreshadowed, to the point of the whole episode seeming HarsherInHindsight. Heck, it even brought Amy back! (Albeit for only two seconds on-screen.)



** Xander asks to be blind along with Giles after watching Spike and Buffy kiss. This becomes less funny in season seven.

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** Xander asks to be blind along with Giles after watching Spike and Buffy kiss. This becomes less funny in season seven.seven, when he gets [[EyeScream an eye gouged out]] by the season BigBad's TheDragon.



* HilariousInHindsight[=/=]HarsherInHindsight: Depending on your point of view. The episode was largely made in response to the Buffy/Spike shippers, to point out how ridiculous a relationship between them would be. Less than a year later, the show bowed to the pressure and began to move toward pairing them up for real.
* RelationshipWritingFumble: Buffy and Spike getting married was supposed to be a joke and the catalyst to Buffy deciding she was over bad boys, but there was so much chemistry between them that the Spuffy pairing just took off.

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* HilariousInHindsight[=/=]HarsherInHindsight: Depending on your point HarsherInHindsight: Buffy and Spike's "love" being portrayed, beneath the veneer of view. their magically-induced adoration for each other, as largely dysfunctional hits a lot harder after their DestructiveRomance in season 6.
* HeartwarmingInHindsight:
** Spike freely offering to help out Giles with his blindness simply because he loves Buffy will end up mirroring his CharacterDevelopment down the line.
** Buffy and Spike's tendency to hold hands and be very casually affectionate is very similar to how they're portrayed when they're dating in earnest in the season 10/11 comics.
* HilariousInHindsight:
**
The episode was largely made in response to the Buffy/Spike shippers, to point out how ridiculous a relationship between them would be. Less than a year two years later, the show bowed to the pressure and began to move toward pairing them up for real.
real. By the end of the series, Spike is generally considered Buffy's second main LoveInterest alongside Angel.
*** Ironically, Whedon admitted in a 2016 interview that despite how much he was originally against another vampire boyfriend for Buffy, Spike is now his personal preferred LoveInterest for Buffy.
** Buffy declares she's ''completely'' over the "Bad Boy thing" at the end of the episode. Oh, Buffy... [[TemptingFate give it a couple of seasons]].
** In the season 10 comics: The same Scoobies who expressed horror and disgust with the Spike/Buffy pair are, after several years of healthy friendship and CharacterDevelopment, [[ShipperOnDeck actively urging them to get together]]. Yes, even [[ShippingTorpedo Xander]].
* RelationshipWritingFumble: Buffy and Spike getting married and acting like SickeningSweethearts was supposed to be a joke and the catalyst to Buffy deciding she was over bad boys, but there was so much chemistry between them that the Spuffy pairing just took off.off with fans.
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* RelationshipWritingFumble: Buffy and Spike getting married was supposed to be a joke and the catalyst to Buffy deciding she was over bad boys, but there was so much chemistry between them that the Spuffy pairing just took off.

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* FranchiseOriginalSin: Whether it was intentional or not, the episode foreshadows a ''lot'' of the things that fandom later reacted negatively to in Season Six.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Xander jokingly asking if he can be blind too.
* HilariousInHindsight / HarsherInHindsight: Depending on your point of view. The episode was largely made in response to the Buffy/Spike shippers, to point out how ridiculous a relationship between them would be. Less than a year later, the show bowed to the pressure and began to move toward pairing them up for real.

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* FranchiseOriginalSin: Whether it was intentional or not, Some of the major events that most polarized the fandom in Seasons 6 and 7, including Buffy and Spike hooking up in a relationship and Willow's witch powers spiraling out of control following her relationship ending, are (coincidentally or not) foreshadowed, to the point of the whole episode foreshadows a ''lot'' of the things that fandom later reacted negatively to in Season Six.
seeming HarsherInHindsight. Heck, it even brought Amy back! (Albeit for only two seconds on-screen.)
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: FunnyAneurysmMoment:
**
Xander asks to be blind along with Giles after watching Spike and Buffy kiss. This becomes less funny in season seven.
** After Willow's spell-gone-awry is broken, Buffy
jokingly asking if he can tells her that "we may be blind too.
into a forgetting spell later". Loses its funny after season six, where Willow repeatedly uses magic to erase Tara's memories.
* HilariousInHindsight / HarsherInHindsight: HilariousInHindsight[=/=]HarsherInHindsight: Depending on your point of view. The episode was largely made in response to the Buffy/Spike shippers, to point out how ridiculous a relationship between them would be. Less than a year later, the show bowed to the pressure and began to move toward pairing them up for real.real.
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Magnum Opus has been declared In Universe Examples Only per TRS.


* HilariousInHindsight / HarsherInHindsight: Depending on your point of view. The episode was largely made in response to the Buffy/Spike shippers, to point out how ridiculous a relationship between them would be. Less than a year later, the show bowed to the pressure and began to move toward pairing them up for real.
* MagnumOpus: This is Tracey Forbes' most well-regarded episode of the series; in fact, the [[http://www.phi-phenomenon.org/buffy/byrank.htm Buffy Phenomenon]] website (which ranks the episodes using data collected from a massive number of "best/worst episode" lists) has it ranked 19th out of all 144 episodes! Of course, considering that her only other episodes are the widely-reviled "Beer Bad" and "Where the Wild Things Are" (which incidentally, fall as 139 and 142 on the same list), most fans consider this episode to be a fluke.

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* HilariousInHindsight / HarsherInHindsight: Depending on your point of view. The episode was largely made in response to the Buffy/Spike shippers, to point out how ridiculous a relationship between them would be. Less than a year later, the show bowed to the pressure and began to move toward pairing them up for real.
* MagnumOpus: This is Tracey Forbes' most well-regarded episode of the series; in fact, the [[http://www.phi-phenomenon.org/buffy/byrank.htm Buffy Phenomenon]] website (which ranks the episodes using data collected from a massive number of "best/worst episode" lists) has it ranked 19th out of all 144 episodes! Of course, considering that her only other episodes are the widely-reviled "Beer Bad" and "Where the Wild Things Are" (which incidentally, fall as 139 and 142 on the same list), most fans consider this episode to be a fluke.
real.

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*FunnyAneurysmMoment: Xander jokingly asking if he can be blind too.



** Another example of HarsherInHindsight is Xander jokingly asking if he can be blind too.
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* FranchiseOriginalSin: Whether it was intentional or not, the episode foreshadows a ''lot'' of the things that fandom later reacted negatively to in Season Six.
* HilariousInHindsight / HarsherInHindsight: Depending on your point of view. The episode was largely made in response to the Buffy/Spike shippers, to point out how ridiculous a relationship between them would be. Less than a year later, the show bowed to the pressure and began to move toward pairing them up for real.
** Another example of HarsherInHindsight is Xander jokingly asking if he can be blind too.
* MagnumOpus: This is Tracey Forbes' most well-regarded episode of the series; in fact, the [[http://www.phi-phenomenon.org/buffy/byrank.htm Buffy Phenomenon]] website (which ranks the episodes using data collected from a massive number of "best/worst episode" lists) has it ranked 19th out of all 144 episodes! Of course, considering that her only other episodes are the widely-reviled "Beer Bad" and "Where the Wild Things Are" (which incidentally, fall as 139 and 142 on the same list), most fans consider this episode to be a fluke.

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