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** Buffy insisting everyone but her is affected by the spell, as she did in "Somthing Blue".
** Buffy insisting everyone but her is affected by the spell, as she did in "Somthing Blue".
** Dawn brings up Buffy's taste for rough sex -- according to a deleted line on the shooting script, she found this out from Anya who would have got the information during her drinking session with Spike in "Entropy".
** Dawn brings up Buffy's taste for rough sex -- according to a deleted line on the shooting script, she found this out from Anya who would have got the information during her drinking session with Spike in "Entropy".
** Xander identifying the effects of a love spell is due to his experiences in "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)/Recap/S4 E9 Something Blue|Something Blue]]" and "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)/Recap/S2 E16 Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered|Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered]]" -- the latter also showed how the spell can affect a person's sense of right and wrong, with the affected girls all trying to murder Xander as shown in the flashback.
** Xander identifying the effects of a love spell is due to his experiences in "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S4 E9 Something Blue|Something Blue]]" and "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S2 E16 Bewitched Bothered and Bewildered|Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered]]" -- the latter also showed how the spell can affect a person's sense of right and wrong, with the affected girls all trying to murder Xander as shown in the flashback.
* [[Dawson Casting]]: Thad Luckinbill, who portrays RJ is actually TEN years older than Michelle Trachtenberg and two years older than [[Sarah Michelle Gellar]].
* [[Dawson Casting]]: Thad Luckinbill, who portrays RJ is actually TEN years older than Michelle Trachtenberg and two years older than [[Sarah Michelle Gellar]].
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]
{{quote| '''Willow:''' Damn love spell. I have tried every anti-love spell spell I could find.<br />
{{quote| '''Willow:''' Damn love spell. I have tried every anti-love spell spell I could find.<br />
'''Anya:''' Even if you find the right one, the guy would probably just do an anti-anti-love spell spell... spell. ''(Willow looks confused)'' }}
'''Anya:''' Even if you find the right one, the guy would probably just do an anti-anti-love spell spell... spell. ''(Willow looks confused)'' }}
* [[Distracted By the Sexy]]: Dawn slides along the bleachers to keep RJ in sight until she [[Amusing Injuries|falls off the end]].
* [[Distracted by the Sexy]]: Dawn slides along the bleachers to keep RJ in sight until she [[Amusing Injuries|falls off the end]].
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Anya discusses the feelings a gay Willow has for RJ.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: Anya discusses the feelings a gay Willow has for RJ.
{{quote| '''Anya:''' His physical form has a ''penis!''<br />
{{quote| '''Anya:''' His physical form has a ''penis!''<br />
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* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: Plenty of this as each love-struck Scooby tries to explain why their love is the real deal.
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: Plenty of this as each love-struck Scooby tries to explain why their love is the real deal.
* [[Interrupted Intimacy]]: Xander walks in on a half-(un)dressed Buffy in a [[Catholic School Girls Rule|plaid skirt]], making-out cowgirl-position with RJ on a school desk.
* [[Interrupted Intimacy]]: Xander walks in on a half-(un)dressed Buffy in a [[Catholic School Girls Rule|plaid skirt]], making-out cowgirl-position with RJ on a school desk.
* [[Kill It With Fire]]: The letterman jacket is burnt.
* [[Kill It with Fire]]: The letterman jacket is burnt.
* [[Lampshaded Double Entendre]]: Buffy tells RJ that she's pretty much the same age as him, "but with the sexual experience and stuff."
* [[Lampshaded Double Entendre]]: Buffy tells RJ that she's pretty much the same age as him, "but with the sexual experience and stuff."
{{quote| '''RJ:''' I think I hear what you're saying.}}
{{quote| '''RJ:''' I think I hear what you're saying.}}
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{{quote| '''Xander:''' I refuse to answer that on the grounds that it didn't fit.}}
{{quote| '''Xander:''' I refuse to answer that on the grounds that it didn't fit.}}
* [[Relative Button]]: Dawn trying to kill herself shocks Buffy out of the effects of the spell. Mostly.
* [[Relative Button]]: Dawn trying to kill herself shocks Buffy out of the effects of the spell. Mostly.
* [[Riddle for The Ages]]: Where did RJ's father get the magic jacket?
* [[Riddle for the Ages]]: Where did RJ's father get the magic jacket?
* [[Rule of Three]] / [[The Last of These Is Not Like the Others]]
* [[Rule of Three]] / [[The Last of These Is Not Like the Others]]
{{quote| '''Buffy:''' (to Slut!Dawn) Where do I start with the bad? First, you told me you were going to the library. Second, you do not go out on a date without informing me first. Third, Anna Nicole Smith thinks you look tacky.}}
{{quote| '''Buffy:''' (to Slut!Dawn) Where do I start with the bad? First, you told me you were going to the library. Second, you do not go out on a date without informing me first. Third, Anna Nicole Smith thinks you look tacky.}}

Revision as of 04:36, 9 April 2014

 Welcome to the Hellmouth, where even outerwear isn't safe.

The Scoobie girls fall for Dawn's classmate RJ, thanks to his magical letterman jacket.

 Buffy: You shredded my outfit.

Dawn: I'll buy you a new one.

Buffy: That's not the point. I don't want a new cheerleading outfit.

Xander: Now, now, let's not be hasty...

  • An Axe to Grind: Buffy vs. the demon that D'Hoffryn sent to kill Anya.
  • Bare Your Midriff: Dawn, the Pushy Queen of Slut Town.
  • Blatant Lies: Anya claiming she wrote an epic poem for BJ, when actually she robbed several banks to get him money.
  • Buffy-Speak: Soul-having. Rant Girl. No more with the talky.
    • Xander re Spike: "Crazy-Basement-Guy is better than Stalking-Buffy-Guy."
  • Breather Episode
  • Call Back
    • Dawn asks Buffy if she loves Spike, just as Tara did in "Dead Things". This time Buffy is able to answer the question -- no, but she does have feelings for him.
    • Dawn fears she can't compete with her cooler, more assertive, and sexually-experienced sister, just as teenaged Buffy once worried about losing Angel to girls like Cordelia or Faith.
    • Xander walking in on Buffy straddling RJ is like when he came across the Buffybot straddling Spike in "Intervention".
    • Spike turning the angel statuettes so they couldn't face him, like Drusilla bandaging the eyes of her dolls.
    • Spike moving in with Xander, and Lance living in his mother's basement and working dead-end jobs, is a call back to Xander in Season 4.
    • Willow trying to sort out a relationship problem by immediately resorting to magic.
  • Cat Fight: Dawn and another of RJ's paramours get into a hair-pulling contest outside the Bronze.
  • Chekhovs's Bazooka: The rocket launcher Buffy used to dust The Judge is used again to try and kill Wood.
    • Also the cheerleader outfit that Buffy last wore in Season One ("The Wish").
  • Coincidental Broadcast: Quickly turned off by Anya when the radio starts talking about the masked gunman who held up a number of businesses--
  • Continuity Nod
    • Buffy follows up on her insistence that Spike move out of the Sunnydale High basement, making him room with a reluctant Xander.
    • Buffy startles when Spike touches her unexpectedly; his attempted rape still leaves its scars.
    • Buffy's poor driving skills in her mother's SUV, as seen in "Band Candy".
    • Buffy insisting everyone but her is affected by the spell, as she did in "Somthing Blue".
    • Dawn brings up Buffy's taste for rough sex -- according to a deleted line on the shooting script, she found this out from Anya who would have got the information during her drinking session with Spike in "Entropy".
    • Xander identifying the effects of a love spell is due to his experiences in "Something Blue" and "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered" -- the latter also showed how the spell can affect a person's sense of right and wrong, with the affected girls all trying to murder Xander as shown in the flashback.
  • Dawson Casting: Thad Luckinbill, who portrays RJ is actually TEN years older than Michelle Trachtenberg and two years older than Sarah Michelle Gellar.
  • Department of Redundancy Department

 Willow: Damn love spell. I have tried every anti-love spell spell I could find.

Anya: Even if you find the right one, the guy would probably just do an anti-anti-love spell spell... spell. (Willow looks confused)

 Anya: His physical form has a penis!

Willow: I can work around that.

 Xander: Good times...

  • Funny Background Event: Buffy trying to kill Wood with a rocket launcher, and Spike stopping her, is turned into a Crowning Moment of Funny due to taking place entirely in the background while Wood remains oblivious.
  • Gender Bender: Willow's solution to RJ is to turn him into a girl, thus eliminating her competition so she can him...err, her all to herself. It's the less extreme of the bids for his attention.
  • Hot for Teacher

 RJ: (after Buffy's "Shut Up" Kiss) You're like a teacher.

Buffy: Not really. (sweetly) But, I mean, does it bother you?

RJ: (smiling) Not so much.

 RJ: I think I hear what you're saying.

 Xander: Dawn? What's wrong? Is this... Did that guy in the jacket--

Dawn: I don't even want to hear his name anymore!

Xander: I just called him "that guy in the jacket".

Dawn: That's what I used to call him in my head before I knew his real name!

 Dawn: Last night, you said you weren't helping Spike out of pity. What is it [if not that]?

Buffy: It's a good question. (sips her drink through a straw)

Dawn: Is sitting there drinking soda some kind of a Zen non-answer?

 Xander: I refuse to answer that on the grounds that it didn't fit.

 Buffy: (to Slut!Dawn) Where do I start with the bad? First, you told me you were going to the library. Second, you do not go out on a date without informing me first. Third, Anna Nicole Smith thinks you look tacky.

 Willow: "Right there with ya".

 Lori: I'll never let you have him, bitch. R.J. is mine. I mean it! Stay away from him!

Buffy: (to Dawn) Well, at least someone agrees you shouldn't be dating this guy.

 Buffy: You've been out of the basement for half an hour, and you've already stopped talking to invisible people.

Spike: Bollocks.

Buffy: OK, so there was that one episode in the car...
 

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