Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S6/E06 All the Way

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Giles: Mist ... cemetery ... Halloween. Should end well. (slips and falls on his face)

Dawn sneaks out on Halloween night with her friend and a couple of boys. Xander and Anya announce their engagement. Tara starts criticizing Willow's use of magic.

Spike: Feel like a bit of the rough and tumble?
Buffy: (startled) What?
Spike: Me...you...(Buffy's eyes widen) Patrolling. Hello?

Justin: Oh, be still my heart -- cute and bad.

  • Bait and Switch: The creepy old guy appears to be the Monster of the Week. Instead he's the first victim of the boys Janice and Dawn are with, who are actually vampires.
  • Bare Your Midriff: Janice
  • Beauty and The Beast: Justin and Dawn are quite taken by each other.
  • Bond One-Liner: Subverted -- a vampire rushes at Buffy shouting, "Die, Slayer!" Buffy casually stakes him and goes, "Mm-hmm."
  • Car Fu: Buffy kills a vampire by decapitating him with a car door.
  • Call Back: Buffy is reluctant to go down to the Magic Shop's basement for fear she'll be caught in another Groundhog Day Loop as per "Life Serial".

Buffy: Don't blame me if we have this conversation over and over... (Smash Cut to Buffy walking down the basement stairs) ...and over ... and over, and over.

We don't have wings. We just skate around with perfect hair, fighting crime.

Xander: I'm gonna marry that girl.
Buffy: What?! She's fifteen and my sister, so don't ev-- (gets it) Oh.

Willow: And while you're at it, why don't you try removing that broomstick from your-- Dawn!
Dawn: Hey. Don't stop the invective on account of me.

  • Defrosting Ice Queen: Buffy is clearly playing with the thought that she might "misbehave" with Spike.
  • The Easy Way or the Hard Way: A vampire is holding Dawn by the throat. Giles, who has already staked one vamp tonight, moves menacingly towards him.

Giles: Now, you have a choice, son. We can do this the easy way, or we can do this the ha--
Car headlights turn on; a gang of teen vampires get out of several parked cars, surrounding Giles)
Justin: What were my choices again?

  • Description Cut
    • Janice asks excitedly, "You have a car?" Cut to one of the vampire teens throwing the dead boy of a driver out of his car.
    • Buffy looks worried when she finds out Xander is going to marry Anya. "Giles, we have to do something!" Cut to them throwing Xander a party.
  • Disappointed in You: Lampshaded and subverted.

Giles: We need to have a conversation.
Dawn: This the part where you tell me you're "not angry, just disappointed"?
Giles: Pretty much. Except for the bit about not being angry.

Buffy: (hugging Xander) You're getting married! You!
Xander: (hoarsely) Me. Choking...

  • Evil Is Petty: Spike nicking burba weed from the Magic Box. Vampire teens let down car tires, throw eggs against walls and kick off mailboxes.
  • Famous Last Words: (after being staked) "Dude, that sucks!"
  • First Kiss: Dawn shares her first kiss with Justin. From her reaction, he figures out that it was her first. She tries to deny, before admitting that it was her first, and babbling about how bad it must have been for him. Justin replies by kissing her again. Sadly, he's actually a vampire, and becomes her first staking.
  • Four-Fingered Hands

Willow: I could whip up a jaunty self-cleaning incantation; it'll be like Fantasia.
Giles: We all know how splendidly that turned out for Mickey. (gives Willow a broom and dustpan)
Willow: I think I'm a little more adept than a cartoon mouse.
Tara: And you have more fingers, which is good, 'cause there's no need to wear those big White Gloves to overcompensate.

Yes, well, if anything calamitous is going to happen tonight, history suggests it will happen to us.

Anya: But you get to dress up and play games. Xander's gonna teach me a new one after work called Shiver Me Timbers. Ever heard of it?

    • And later:

Anya: How about you? Ever played?
Tara: Not really one for the timber.

  • Gilligan Cut: Dawn's friend Janice didn't want her and her friends to go into the creepy old man's house. Sure enough...
  • Glasses Pull: Xander/Anya start snogging passionately to celebrate their engagement. Giles promptly removes his glasses.

Buffy: Is that why you're always cleaning your glasses? So you don't have to see what we're doing?
Giles: Tell no one.

Buffy: (re Xander's pirate costume) You know, if you had a real peg leg, you wouldn't just have a lame costume, you'd actually be lame. Which is completely different.

"Let's just forget it ever happened. (Willow casts spell) Forget..."

Buffy: Were you parking?! With a vamp?
Dawn: I didn't know he was dead!"
Justin: Living dead.

Buffy: Didn't anyone come here just to make out? [two human teenagers raise their hands] Awww... that's sweet. Run.

Buffy: (to civilians) "You, run. (to vampires) You, scream."

Spike: You stay in on Halloween. Those are the rules.
Teen Vampire: Me and mine don't follow rules. We're rebels!
Spike: No, I'm a rebel. You're an idiot.

Buffy: Bell. Neck. Look into it.
Spike: Come with a nice leather collar, does it?

Buffy: Over my dead body. The kind that doesn't come back.

Buffy: (re Xander's marriage) I can't believe it. Seems like only yesterday you had to pay a girl to date you.
Xander: Like I'd ever pay. (snickers nervously) Define 'date.'

Buffy: So much easier to talk to when he just wanted to kill me.

Spike: You know in civilized cultures, that's called trespassing.
Buffy: Good thing you're uncivilized.
 

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