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* [[Accidental Innuendo]]: Though knowing [[Joss Whedon]], [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|it might not be.]]
{{quote| "[[A Date Withwith Rosie Palms|Holding myself]], spilling useless buckets of salt over your...[[Last-Second Word Swap|ending]]."}}
* [[Am I Just a Toy Toto You?]]
{{quote| '''Spike:''' Am I flesh? Am I flesh to you? Feed on flesh. My flesh. Nothing else. Not a spark. (nods) Oh, fine. Flesh then. Solid through. (starts unzipping his pants) Get it hard; service the girl. }}
* [[Arc Words]] / [[Vagueness Is Coming]]: From beneath you, it devours. The Hellmouth, as Willow knows, has teeth.
* [[Avengers Assemble]]: Averted -- Dawn suggests they round up the Scoobies to deal with the [[Monster of the Week]]. Xander points out that what's left of the Scooby Gang is already there in the room.
* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]] / [[If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...]]: Dawn getting unbelievably scary.
{{quote| '''Dawn''': Spike. You sleep, right? You. Vampires. You sleep.<br />
'''Spike''': Yeah. What's your point, niblet?<br />
'''Dawn''': Well, I can't take you in a fight or anything, even with a chip in your head. But you do sleep. If you hurt my sister at all... touch her... you're gonna [[Kill It Withwith Fire|wake up on fire]]. }}
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Buffy comes swinging in on a rope to snatch Nancy from the jaws of the monster. Errol Flynn would be proud.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]] / [[Suspiciously Apropos Music]]: Involving a Potential in Germany being chased by assassins near a nightclub. A techno piece by Stillste Stund blares on the score, with the only lyrics being "Von der Tiefe verschlingt es" -- German for "From the depth it devours".
* [[Bored Withwith Insanity]]: Subverted; Spike appears to have reverted to normal, but Buffy doesn't believe his explanation that the zombie ghosts in "Lessons" were responsible for his ravings. She soon discovers his 'sanity' is only a facade.
* [[Brick Joke]]: Wood doesn't eat at the Doublemeat Palace because he's a vegetarian -- the [[Secret Ingredient]] of their burgers is soy meat. He also warns Buffy not to befriend the students as they'll "eat you alive."
{{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 (TV)/Recap/S1 E7 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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* [[I'm Having Soul Pains]]: "They put the spark in me, and all it does...is burn."
* [[Leitmotif]]: The Season 7 Spuffy theme is heard for the first time.
* [[Literal Genie]]: Subverted as Anya - feeling the pressure from her fellow demons - is embellishing the wishes. Nancy just wished her [[Stalker Withwith a Crush|ex-boyfriend Ronnie]] [[Pitiful Worms|was a worm]], not that he'd turn into a giant Sluggoth demon.
* [[Love Martyr]]: Buffy is shocked that Spike would damage himself like this by getting a soul.
{{quote| '''Buffy:''' ''Why?'' Why would you do that--<br />
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* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]: [[Played for Drama]] -- being alone in close proximity to a half-naked demon who once tried to rape her puts Buffy on edge.
* [[Worm Sign]]
* [[Would Hit a Girl]] / [[Talk to Thethe Fist]]: Spike attacks Anya when she's about to blurt out that he has a soul. He ends up getting [[Punched Across the Room]] by Anya in [[Game Face]].
* [[Why Would Anyone Take Him Back?]]: Asked by Buffy of Spike [[In -Universe]]. "Do you think you could just come back and...''be'' with me?" Spike snarks back that [[Am I Just a Toy Toto You?|there's a first time for everything]].
 
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