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{{quote|'''Buffy:''' You heard about Principal Flutie, right?}}
* [[Buffy-Speak]]: Willow is worried she'll [[Mark of the Beast|go all veiny]] again. Xander says the [[Arc Words]] sound "monsterific".
* [[Call Back]]: After Buffy [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S1 E7/E07 Angel|finds out Angel is a vampire with a soul]], they kiss and we see Buffy's cross necklace searing his chest. Here after Buffy realizes Spike has a soul, he drapes his body on a large cross as it burns him. Likewise Angel tells her in that episode, [[Meaningful Echo|"I wanted to kill you" and Spike uses the words "I dreamt of killing you"]].
** Spike's [[Game Face]] and [[Evil Gloating]] in the Bronze harks back to when he was an unambiguous villain in Season 2.
** Buffy not telling her friends about Spike's return matches her actions re Angel's return in Season 3.
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* [[Good Costume Switch]]: Spike's blue shirt. After his breakdown he takes it off, saying, "It didn't work. Costume. Didn't help. Couldn't hide."
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Spike after he impales a human (Ronnie who'd just been changed back from a worm demon).
* [[Ho Yay]] ([[In-Universe]]): The intertwined sexual history of Buffy, Spike, Xander and Anya is explained to Nancy. In exasperation she asks if any of them haven't slept together -- Xander and Spike share an awkward look.
* [[Holy Burns Evil]] / [[Macho Masochism]] / [[Crucified Hero Shot]]: The episode ends with Ensouled!Spike draping himself over the church cross.
* [[Mission Control]]: Dawn appoints herself this. When Buffy gives her a look, she says she'll actually be doing her homework, "but the other one sounded cooler."
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* [[Moral Myopia]]: Anya being upset over the dog being eaten.
* [[Musicalis Interruptus]]: The techno-beat music stops when the Frankfurt Potential is killed.
* [[Nightmare Fetishist]]: Principal Wood jokes that kids only understand "the boot, the bat and the bastinada." When Buffy just stares, Wood mutters that the joke never works because no-one knows what a bastinada is.
{{quote|'''Buffy:''' Wooden rod to slap the soles of the feet in Turkish prisons, but if made with the correct wood makes an awesome Billy club?
'''Wood:''' I think you're going to fit in just fine. }}
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