YMMV / Buffy The Vampire Slayer S 7 E 6 Him

• Fridge Horror: While RJ and Lance seem unaware of the jacket's magical power (especially seeing how RJ made no significant effort to get the jacket back after it had been stolen by Xander and Spike), their father apparently does as he insisted they wear it and made a big deal of the fact he met their mother while wearing it. Which leads to additional Fridge Horror with respect to their mother, who is implied to have been a victim of the jacket's spell - in other words, their mother was being raped throughout her entire marriage, and Lance and RJ are Children By Rape.
  • The jacket is implied to stop working if the user stops regularly wearing it, given that Lance isn't surrounded by admirers anymore. So their mom wasn't under its influence throughout their entire marriage, because a grown man presumably wouldn't have been wearing it. But the fact their relationship started that way still makes it Questionable Consent.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Xander's horrified reaction to unknowingly finding Dawn attractive is hilarious if you've read the comics, where they actually become a couple.
• No Yay: Buffy and RJ. Buffy is not only in her twenties while he is likely to be 16, but she's also working at the school RJ (and Dawn who also has a crush on him!) attends. At one point, Xander finds her straddling him on a school desk, making out deeply enough that it's clear that if Xander had been much later, it almost certainly would have escalated to sex (and possibly did, we have no idea what Buffy and RJ got up to before Xander arrived or what they continued to do after he leaves them alone again). The fact that it only happens because she's under an extremely potent love spell at the time only makes things worse.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Riki Lindhome of Garfunkel and Oates (and other stuff) is a cheerleader!
  • Brandon Keener played Lance and would go on to co-star with Seth Green in the Mass Effect series as Garrus Vakarian.

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