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Series:[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]<br />Episode: Season 5, Episode 16 <br />Title: "The Body"<br />Previous: [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S5
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{{quote|'''Buffy:''' Mom? Mommy?}}
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This is also the only episode that doesn't show [[James Marsters]] (Spike) since becoming a regular cast member.
The first scene is the same as the last in [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S5
While the credits run, we get a flashback scene to the previous Christmas. The whole cast is there apart from Spike.
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Dawn walks to the morgue, finding her mother's body. Behind her, one of the bodies rises from the slab - a vampire. Dawn turns around.
In the lobby, Xander, Willow, and Anya return with a ton of food. They notice that Dawn's not there. Buffy goes looking for her, and arrives at the morgue just in time. She grapples with the (naked) vampire, decapitating him with a bonesaw. Dawn stares up at Joyce's body. "Is she cold?" she asks. "It's not her," Buffy says.
Dawn reaches her hand toward the body's face. "Where'd she go?"
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** The second one was more of an [[Imagine Spot]].
* [[Daylight Horror]]: Joyce died on a bright sunny day. The scene of Buffy wandering around the kitchen after the EMT's leave is so bright that it's almost overexposed.
* [[Death Is Such an Odd Thing]]: The long pauses and fragmented dialogue give the whole episode this feeling, but Anya's bewildered reaction most clearly demonstrate this trope.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Paramedics can't pronounce a patient dead; only a doctor can do that.
* [[Everything's Better with Chocolate]]: The Scoobies go to get Buffy something to eat and returns with armfuls of candy, coffee and sandwiches.
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{{quote|'''Anya:''' (softly) Xander cried at the apartment. It was weird.
'''Willow:''' ([[Death Glare]]) I-i-it's a, it's a thing we do. }}
* [[Meaningful Background Event]]: Dawn goes into the morgue to look at her mother's dead body and a vampire silently rises from under a sheet in the background.
* [[Mood Dissonance]]: Seen with the Christmas flashback, and Dawn before she's informed of Joyce's death -- where the episode uses several ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' [[Running Gag|Running Gags]] (e.g. [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]], [[Not So Dire]], and [[Last-Second Word Swap]]) to heighten the tragedy that the audience already knows has occurred.
* [[Not So Dire]]: Buffy says she'll have to tell Dawn about her mother's death. Dawn is then shown in tears...about something mean a classmate said about her. She rallies herself and returns to class, only for Buffy to enter with the news, whereupon Dawn breaks down completely.
* [["Previously On..."]]: Averted, at least involving clips from previous episodes. Instead the moment when Buffy walks in the door and finds her dead mother is reshown, with events proceeding directly from there.
* [[Punch a Wall]]: Xander puts his fist into the wall, gets it stuck and suffers bleeding knuckles when the Scoobies help him extract it.
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* [[Tear Jerker]]: All of it. The whole damn episode.
** But especially Anya's speech, quoted above. Even with the commentary on, [[Tropers/Bring The Noise|This Troper]] can't get through it without weeping.
** Compare the scene of Buffy calling 911 and trying to revive Joyce to a similar scene in "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S1
* [[That Came Out Wrong]]: Again played seriously, with Buffy blurting out to Giles' "You're not supposed to move the body!" then her horrified look when she realises what she just said.
* [[Vomit Discretion Shot]]
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