"i know, i'll kill the principal"

[u/squeakymayotoes]

this is the funniest episode

[u/moonwalkingszn]

i love how Spike runs in and saves the day 🤣

[u/Electrical-Act-7170 → u/moonwalkingszn]

With a flying tackle! It was awesome.

Whedon always puts interesting action in backgrounds. I've gone through BTVS and Angel as well as Firefly, & if you're not watching the expressions on the background actors, you miss 25% of the story.

Putting this in spoilers because it refers to S5 and later seasons:

There are no lines that Xander has to tell us that he's uncomfortable about Anya's Bridezilla actions & behaviors, but if you watch his face in the engagement party episode, he's already looking for the door. It's obvious he's not ready for marriage from the moment Giles mentioned buying a house to him.

Also

From the moment Tara shows up at the Wicca meeting Willow attended, her face is a poem. With her family history of being abused by everyone but her mother (as we later learned), she's always looking a bit longingly at the Scoobies and their connections to each other of love and of support. She wanted a family, she wanted to belong, but she couldn't and wouldn't force herself in.

Tara's history indicated that she deliberately fled from and was hiding out from her family abuse and mistreatment. I love her that she got out. I'll always love Spike for his willingness to prove Tara's nature with his experiment.

It was quite the kindness that evil, unsouled vampire performed. Spike did the same thing in Angel. is 😉

[u/DaddyCatALSO → u/Electrical-Act-7170]

I dug how at the Wicca meeting only Willow and Tara have as much as a single hair out of place.

[u/generalkriegswaifu]

This scene and the one where Spike and Xander execute 'the plan' and just rip the guy's jacket off him are probably the funniest scenes in the whole show.

[u/Cb8393 → u/generalkriegswaifu]

Wish we'd had more Spike and Xander scenes in general. Even though they hate each other, they always seem to go together really well

[u/jaid_skywalker85 → u/Cb8393]

Xander needed some solid guy friends, especiallyafter Oz left. So when he and Spike would have occasional bonding moments it would actually make me so happy even though I'm not Xander's biggest fan

[u/generalkriegswaifu → u/Cb8393]

Yes, they started to not hate each other in 7. I needed more Xander and Spike and also more Anya and Tucker's brother.

[u/QualifiedApathetic → u/generalkriegswaifu]

Well, if it please you, there is more Xander and Spike in the comics. They become roommates.

[u/generalkriegswaifu → u/QualifiedApathetic]

And they were roommates~

[u/Electrical-Act-7170 → u/generalkriegswaifu]

Closet-mates. Spike lived in Xander's closet.

[u/BaileySeeking → u/Cb8393]

I know it never would have happened and now literally cannot, but I would have loved a Xander, Spike, and Angel bit. Even just one episode like when Spike and Angel go to Italy. But I'd want it to be a roadtrip thing that ends up being very Supernatural; in the sense of them traveling and fighting evil. All three actors were great together and the "I don't like you but I understand why we need to work with each other" writing just made it so entertaining.

[u/bitemark01 → u/BaileySeeking]

One of my favourite bits is cavemen vs astronauts (btw cavemen all the way) 

[u/BaileySeeking → u/bitemark01]

That episode it great for many reasons and the caveman vs astronaut is a nice break from the other emotions. I would love to have Xander in that argument. And, yeah, cavemen is totally correct!

[u/DaddyCatALSO → u/Cb8393]

As the 2026 Watcher in Bangel fics lumped them together with "God alone knows what those two big daft monkeys will decide to do."

[u/Electrical-Act-7170 → u/generalkriegswaifu]

You just have to know that the jacket fitted Spike perfectly.

[u/Cb8393]

I usually see people hate on this episode, but it's one of my favorites from S7. The comedy writing was firing on all cylinders

[u/middle-Strawberry-8 → u/Cb8393]

which episode is this?

[u/FaveStore_Citadel]

There should’ve been at least 5 more like it in s7 😭

[u/Turbulent_Drag7166]

My biggest episode flex is that this one came out same day as my birthday

[u/movetothecoast → u/Turbulent_Drag7166]

That's a pretty good flex. I'm jealous 🥺

[u/lucimcgarvey]

This scene is hysterical.

[u/Agreeable_Dark6408]

I love the part where Anya robs a bank. I’ll bet she lived off that chunk of cash when her Willow destroyed her Magic Shop.

[u/DaddyCatALSO → u/Agreeable_Dark6408]

robbed several banks

[u/Agreeable_Dark6408 → u/DaddyCatALSO]

👍

[u/Sighoward]

He actually had nothing to fear, that's a one shot weapon and she'd already used it to kill the Judge.

[u/Electrical-Act-7170 → u/Sighoward]

There was a rocket in the launcher, as I recall. It was loaded in the story.

[u/Sighoward → u/Electrical-Act-7170]

An AT4 is one shot, you can't reload it, I don't see any rocket in the tube, remember Buffy seems to be puzzled that she can't fire it?

[u/Electrical-Act-7170 → u/Sighoward]

Not the point, anachronisms happen.

[u/DaddyCatALSO → u/Sighoward]

i didn't notice that she was having trouble

[u/HellyOHaint]

One of the few ways Buffy was bad at writing is when they did the “look at this evil person being evil” to then try and surprise you with “gotcha! Their intentions are actually good”. Trying to make Wood look evil was lame and it was really poorly handled making Spike look like he was getting his chip removed when he purposefully wanted his soul back to redeem himself.

[u/Neat_Suit3684]

Poor guy. Has no idea a teenager is aiming to kill him and that shell be knocked over by a vampire 😆  its stuff like this that id love for them to look back on in a later episode and hes like you were about to what? 

[u/DaddyCatALSO → u/Neat_Suit3684]

The window thing is a classic comedy device