Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S7 E3 Same Time Same Place

The Scooby Gang finds flayed corpses and believe it may have been done by Willow, who has just returned from England. Unknown to all concerned, Willow has become invisible to her friends, and vice versa.

"Dawn: We can develop a database of tooth impressions and demon skin samples, and I could wear high heels more often.
 * 555: Buffy's address book. Willow is saddened to see she's not listed.
 * And I Must Scream: Gnarl paralyses his victims, then skins them alive and eats their flesh.
 * All Women Love Shoes

Buffy: Wow, that was so close to being empowered.

Dawn: Everybody loves a slender ankle."

"Anya: Oh, wouldn't it be tragic if you were here being kinda silly with your comically-paralyzed sister while Willow was dying?"
 * Black Comedy

"Willow: I found a dead body near the school.
 * Buffy-Speak: Shock Face. Wiggins with extra wig. Helmouthy. Poseable.
 * Clear My Name
 * Continuity Nod
 * Xander writes his WELCOME BACK WILLOW sign in yellow crayon, in a deliberate homage to his Talking the Monster to Death speech in "Grave".
 * The flayed body is of course similar to how Willow killed Warren in "Villains".
 * The Magic Box is boarded up after it got destroyed in the fight between Giles and Dark!Willow.
 * On seeing Buffy, Spike tries to think up a word that rhymes with 'glowing'. This refers to the love poem William wrote for Cecily in "Fool For Love".
 * Dawn does research on the "Demons, Demons, Demons" website seen on Angel.
 * Anya's teleporting rights have been removed in punishment for her reversing the vengeance spell in the previous episode.
 * The demon location spell was first seen in Season 4's "Goodbye Iowa".
 * Anya asks if her spell-casting session with Willow will "get all sexy", a wink at how 'casting spells' was used as a Getting Crap Past the Radar way of portraying Willow and Tara's lesbian relationship in Season 4.
 * Willow avoids mentioning bunnies around Anya, who has a phobia about them.
 * Xander suggests asking questions about the demon at Willy's.
 * Deadpan Snarker

Anya: Yes, that can happen."

""Gnarl loves spells. He keeps them as pets. They love him, and they leave him alone.""
 * Evil Laugh / Third Person Person: Gnarl
 * Eye Scream: Buffy kills Gnarl by gouging out his eyes with her thumbs.
 * Femme Fatalons / The Paralyzer
 * Foreshadowing: Buffy sharing her strength with Willow forshadows the events of "Chosen".
 * Flashback Echo: When Willow goes near the window, she has an audio flashback of Warren killing Tara.
 * Flayed Alive
 * Friendship Moment: Anya wishes things were better for Willow. Buffy and Willow hold hands.
 * I Just Want to Have Friends: Anya and Willow both.
 * Immune to Bullets: Willow's magic is no good against Gnarl.

"Buffy: Spike follows the exciting smell of blood, and we follow the fairly ripe smell of Spike.
 * Incredibly Lame Pun

Dawn: It's smellementary."

"Willow: Well, that's why you teleport over there real quick like a bunn-- (Death Glare from Anya) real quick and, uh, see if I'm right."
 * Invisible to Normals: Only demons Spike and Anya (and Gnarl) can see Willow, implying she regards herself as Not So Different.
 * The Killer in Me: What Willow fears is happening.
 * Lampshade Hanging: While helping Willow with a spell, Anya asks for advance warning if it's gonna "get all sexy". It's like she watched all those Does This Remind You of Anything? moments with Willow and Tara back in season four.
 * Laser-Guided Karma: Willow helpless like Warren was, unable to stop the skin from being stripped from her.
 * Last-Second Word Swap

"Anya: It did get a little sexy, didn't it?"
 * Les Yay: Buffy and Willow holding hands on the bed? Willow and Anya doing spells together?

"Xander: We can't use the blueprints to find our way around down here. It's like the walls move or something."
 * Lotus Position / Holding Hands
 * Mobile Maze: The basement of Sunnydale High.

"Buffy: Dawn! Are you OK?
 * Monster of the Week
 * Mortal Wound Reveal

Dawn: I guess so... (looks down to see cut across belly)"

"Dawn: OK, so I looked up demons that skin their victims and demons that flay their victims 'cause, you know, same thing. There's a ton of prospects. Anything else gone? Uh, eyeballs, toenails or viscera? That's guts.
 * Never My Fault / Poor Communication Kills: Lampshaded by Dawn, who points out that everyone is blaming themselves for what Willow has done. "When are people going to ask for help when they need it?"
 * Nothing Is Scarier: The Gnarl demon is only shown fully towards the end.
 * Nightmare Fetishist: They'll make a Watcher of Dawn yet.

Buffy: She knows about viscera. Makes you proud."

"Anya: Buffy's got some kind of job there helping junior deviants, Spike's insane in the basement, Xander's there doing construction on the new gym-—
 * Obstructive Bureaucrat: Anya has to file a flight plan every time she teleports.
 * Parrot Expowhat

Willow: Wait, Spike's what in the what-ment?

Anya: Insane, base."

"Xander: Well, give him a break, Buffy. Maybe it's a vicious skin-eating rock cliff.
 * Pass the Popcorn: Buffy munches Brazilian nuts while Anya poses her paralytic little sister.
 * Power Perversion Potential: The implications of Dawn getting hit by the paralysing agent has 'inspired' certain Fanfic writers, as seen in this NC-17 fanfic.
 * Rhymes on a Dime: Gnarl
 * Sarcasm Mode: The Scooby Gang follow Spike to...a cliff.

Spike: There's a cave in it. Look. (pushes the bush aside) I'm insane. What's his excuse?"

"Anya: Uh, it's not "The Gnarl", just "Gnarl"."
 * Spell My Name with a "The": Averted

"Willow: Something horrible killed a boy. Took his skin right off.
 * Shadow Discretion Shot
 * Speak in Unison

Willow & Anya: (suspicious) Was it you?

Willow & Anya: (defensive) No!"

"Xander: I saved the world with talking from my mouth. My mouth saved the world."
 * Talkative Loon: Subverted as Spike actually figures out what's happening before the Scoobies do.
 * Talking the Monster to Death: Xander re his heroics in "Grave".

"Buffy: It says the paralysis is permanent.
 * Two Scenes, One Dialogue / Switching POV: Willow goes down to the Sunnydale High basement to see Spike. Suffering from a slight case of crazy at the time, Spike carries on a disjointed dialogue with Willow, at times speaking to an invisible person who we assume is the First. Minutes later, the scene shifts to Buffy (who can't see Willow) asking questions in the exact same room, with Spike repeating the exact same responses as before, only now the "blanks" from the audience's point of view are filled in.
 * Victim of the Week: The graffiti artist, who of course wears a Red Shirt.
 * Verbal Backspace

Dawn: Sht!

Buffy: No. Oh, wait. My bad. Um, permanent until the creature dies. Sorry."