Buffy The Vampire Slayer 6x09 - "Smashed" Reaction

[@stardustvideo]

I've never seen a sex scene with those "explicit movements" on a teen drama anymore since then. And this is the censored version lol

[@corvus1970]

That's because UPN didn't have a standards-and-practices department at the time. Joss and the producers knew they could get away with more, but also knew that it might not last, so they got it in while they could.

[@NoThankUBeQuiet]

@@corvus1970 UPN was for lack of a better phrase HBO adjacent. They couldn't get away with much more than basic cable but they could push the limit.

[@ninjanibba4259]

Smallville had plenty of it

[@takewhataway]

censored version??? what??

[@astridramea2714]

"censored version" implies that there is uncensored version? ??!!!

[@circling-girl]

Fun fact, they had to drop out the sound and play that music because Sarah and James made too many loud sex noises. You can hear it in the dailies and it is obscene, lol.

[@jossland1628]

dailies?

[@CarrotFlowers421]

Yes link please for...reasons

[@alysiamerdavid-wasser9165]

@@CarrotFlowers421 😂😂😂

[@actioncats]

@@CarrotFlowers421 kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJu4f4aejst3h7c&t=7m06s shhhhhhhhhhhh you didnt get this from me

[@metalhead3066]

@@actioncats omg! Thank you 😊

[@nodiggity4283]

Also could be wrong but I think the scene was voted one of the hottest love scenes in tv history

[@tsukigalleta]

I don't know about that, but it was voted by fans the hottest sex scene in the Buffyverse. Sarah told James, and he changed his position on the sit, kind of Spike style and said "Take that, Angel" XDDD

[@nodiggity4283]

I do remember it got recognition outside the Buffy universe. The only other scene I remember on the list was Kate/Sawyer cage from Lost

[@fenixjpb]

You are Right! Number one of the Best hot scene ever by tv Guide

[@elizabitty213]

If it didn’t it should have! 😎

[@Olivetree80]

Wouldn't call it a love scene, but it was hot

[@catrin3944]

The ending was really awkward to watch as a 13 yr old with my mum lol

[@MsScatterbrained]

Saaaaaame haha

[@omalleycaboose5937]

It was awkward to watch alone in my basement at 16

[@bangtan2303]

I didn't know what they were doing when I first saw this scene, I got mad at my sister for changing the channel. It wasn't till years later after rewatching the scene that I got it.

[@alysiamerdavid-wasser9165]

It was awkward to watch as a 30 y/o with my 50 y/o Mom, lulz!

[@chef-man-make-pasta7657]

super awkward watching it alone at 7

[@lucas.2.3.9.4]

The episode name "Smashed" is pretty accurate

[@spangelicious837]

20:47 for the reason we're all here, lol. Great reaction, Shan. I'll catch the rest later. :D The sound fading out and the house falling down around them - it doesn't get more metaphorical than that. "How is she doing that in a gigantic long skirt?" Shan, asking the real questions.

[@Buffy8Fan]

I like that you don't feel sympathy towards Willow about this situation. I remember having to justify why I didn't feel said sympathy when this first came out. And thank you Anya for being the only character who did say something to Willow despite all other characters needing and not saying anything. Plus Anya also tells the gang exactly what is going on with Willow and Buffy dismisses it then turns said words on herself instead of helping Willow. Thus sex with Spike while Willow is abusing magic at The Bronze.

[@antonbrakhage490]

Indeed. What Willow did here was... evil, honestly. Also, Anya is awesome.

[@bipstymcbipste5641]

I didn't feel ANY sympathy for Willow save for when Tara offed and the season finale

[@transmatized]

willow deserved sympathy and empathy. she’s an addict and amy coming back pulled her further into magic. anyone who doesn’t feel for her is a jackass. you don’t have to agree with what she’s doing to have compassion for her

[@transmatized]

Anton Brakhage oh fuck off it wasn’t “evil”

[@Buffy8Fan]

​@@transmatized In _All the Way_ and in the musical Willow hasn't only erased Tara's memory of Tara being angry at her, but she has had sex with her after she erases Tara's memory of the fight. Rape plain and simple. People criticize the bathroom scene, but Willow is worse, as she follows through, with a soul, and does so twice. Perhaps she does deserve sympathy and empathy, but her actions are very evil, even at this point. That is why addiction is so bad. In this episode Willow hasn't even acknowledged she is doing anything wrong and is destroying all her relationships. I do feel sympathy and empathy for Willow, but only starting at the end of _Wrecked_ and even then, I don't think Buffy was as cautious about how she treated Willow as she should have been. For one, by that point Willow should not be anywhere near Dawn, If this season was Willing to do a storyline about child services, then Willow should have moved out so Buffy wouldn't get a possible checkup from them and start having Willow's actions affect that as well. Can you imagine the reaction they would have if they learned an addict broke Dawn's arm and Buffy was allowing her to live there? And for another, Willow's whole goal of getting magically clean should not be about hoping Tara will come back to her if she does. Also as you said not agreeing with someone is fine, but there isn't any reason for the name-calling or swear words against myself, Anton Brakhage or anyone else.

[@norasmith2474]

Back then teenage me was like we'll they're just gonna suck face again and I was like 'I'm so okay with that.' And then she climbed aboard Spike and it broke my brain. I did not blink the whole time, I don't think I believed what I saw. I taped every episode so I rewound the tape, watched it not once, not twice but six times. After I was satisfied that I hadn't lost my mind. I went online to squeal with the other Spuffy shippers.

[@Cliohna]

17:55 Captain Peroxide. I love it. So much! xD

[@davidf6799]

I only just realised that for all the years Amy was a rat, all Willow had to do was to ask Giles how to de-rat her. Because he helped Amy when she did the de-ratting spell on Buffy in Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered.

[@beachgirl4583]

She accidentally de-ratted Amy in season 4’s Something Blue, but didn’t realize it.

[@russellward4624]

I would argue it’s another instance if the scoobies being self centered. When Buffy was a rat they did everything to change her back and wouldn’t have stopped until she was. The same would go for Xander or Willow. Anyone else is an afterthought.

[@moriellymoproblems7842]

@@russellward4624 didn't Amy turn Buffy into a rat?

[@russellward4624]

@@moriellymoproblems7842 Yes she turned Buffy into a rat. My point was that the gang went to the ends of the world to change her back immediately. What steps did they take to change Amy back? She was a rat for 2 or 3 years.

[@RB-vo4gi]

@@russellward4624 Giles broke the love spell. Amy turned Buffy back into a human. That spell is really complicated.

[@alexwright4930]

"I think she said no". Oh Willow cares about consent now. After Amy offered her a mind controlled woman to sexually assault? Or after Willow wiped Tara's memory twice and effectively sexually assaulted her (by wiping her memory of a fight and then having sex with her, which Tara probably wouldn't have done if they'd still been fighting)?

[@Belnick6666]

well connor fucked his "mother" while cordelia could not stop it, Cordelia was not controlling her body, but connor's semen entered her body anyway

[@caitlynskiff2001]

Willow said no to Amy's offer instantly. I know some may think it was because she wasn't over Tara, but I've always seen it as she knew it was wrong.

[@DmGray]

@@caitlynskiff2001 If she knew it was wrong, why did she say nothing? Why continue to "hang out" and do magic (some of it just as bad in terms of violating other people) all night? I'm NOT saying she didn't know it was wrong, but I doubt she was processing that in the moment. She was just uncomfortable. It can be read generously, but I'm in the camp that thinks it's the more selfish variety. Compare that scene to the later episode with the Trio wanting to make "willing sex slaves" Andrew and Jonathan convince themselves that it's all fine & the girls will be willing, but when Katrina tells them off, they're immediately defensive and disgusted. Their actions are vile & they are shown exactly this reality. The scene with Willow is played for laughs and any moral quandary she has must be inferred. As for Conor & Cordy, he's a teenager and she is manipulating him. This is stated explicitly by the show. The fact she was being controlled at the time does not change this. To even come CLOSE to comparing that to an assault ON Cordy is.... monstrous. In that scenario, they were both victims.

[@tabata68]

yes, you can clearly hear the zipper and the belt unbuckling. And, by the way, there's an extended version of the final scene, after they fall through the floor. I don't know if it's on DVD outtakes or specials but You can search for it, maybe it's still out there, somewhere...

[@ЖаннаБултачеева]

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[@savannah115]

I have watched that last scene way more than I'd like to admit in and I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN BOTHERED BY THE LOGISTICS OF THAT SKIRT.

[@fenixjpb]

The first time i saw it, i scream and cry and All together!!. I waited yearrsss for this moment. I was shipping spuffy from Season 2

[@Belnick6666]

you wanted buffy to shag a demon or william? as you know they are two different entities? the demon buffy had sex with is the demon that took over williams body when Dru had killed william. We see William in season 7 and that is not the demon buffy had sex with here and later on, william is the original owner of the body that buffy violated while she slept with the demon.....

[@actioncats]

@@Belnick6666 i think ur reading into this too much, its not that deep

[@mayadargeon2172]

@@Belnick6666 they aren't two different entities tho ? The demon takes after the original personality of its host. William and Spike are the same persons, but Soulless Spike/William had different ... Standards let's say, than Soulful Spike/William.

[@jsbaldo5556]

@@mayadargeon2172 If we consider the brain the person, But look at it this way, The soul of buffy is what Moved on to heaven, That was completly buffy, But her bodies brain and memories were dead, For a vampire, The person actually dies , their soul is removed from their body, Just like buffy, DEAD, We just are never told where it goes, Then a demon comes into that body from a hell dimension etc and WEARS the body as a suit but it is completly dependend on the BODIES memories etc So it is like a robot A.I being given a Soul, The SOUL is the person, not the memories, If you were to simply switch memories with a person, You would still be you but think you were someone else, It would FEEL like you switched bodies but your soul is still there, if that body dies The memory mix up ends and the soul in its purist form Knows everything about you because it IS YOU, The show introduced heaven and hell demesions, and souls, Which means it is playing by afterlife rules which mean that spike is only William in memory and the soul is the ACTUAL william , The show used to explain it this way but once they needed to make it a grey area they changed it without saying exactly what it is, Angels soul for instance is punishing the demon, Because angelus is NOT angel but as angelus once said , it is torture , it is forced to be in the backseat and feel what Angel feels and see himself do good things, since angelus is pure demon , he can't stand the thought of it. Soul = true person and has the ability to go to heaven/afterlife No Soul = DEMON in control , there is no more person just the memories Picture CHAT GPT being given a soul. Chat GPT can access human memory information but it cannot KNOW that it is doing it, it can pretend to know and speak like it knows but it will never be awake but the programmers could never tell, so it goes with spike, We find it hard to seperate human and demon because of how he acts like William BUT ... william is gone. As said before in season 1/2 'he is not jesse he is the thing that ate jesse'

[@fujiwarasai5976]

I don't get the problem with the skirt... you can easily raise the hem of a skirt to have sex on the spot (even long skirts.. takes about 1-2 seconds), you know. It's quite practical in that situation, actually (lmao).

[@bloodyawfulpoetry5719]

Not when they're made of leather! Any tight ankle length skirt I've ever worn (even with a slit as someone else suggested) takes quite a lot of unladylike wriggling and hitching to get it up. If the skirt was made of something like leather then you could double that time (at least!). Realistically if she didn't want to kill the mood by fighting it up her legs then she should just take it off and let it drop down. But as we see when they fall through the floor and she lands on top of him - it's still covering her completely. They don't even pay lip service to the fact that she hitched it up during a moment we didn't see (because there is nothing sexy about forcing a tight ankle length skirt above your knees and then up to your hips). She's still wearing the skirt the same as she would if she were walking down the street in it (also incredibly difficult in a tight ankle length skirt - and then there is the attempts to climb stairs...) Realistically Spike has absolutely no access to her genitals in this scene. I've never enjoyed this scene because the mechanics are so impossible it throws me out of the world. So clearly written and directed by men who have never worn a long skirt in their lives. A loose flowy skirt is ideal for a fully clothed quickie. But this skirt ... she might as well be wearing a pair of iron knickers.

[@Malaika-wa]

Doesn't look that tight of a skirt, during the fight if you slow the speed of the video you can see it spreads out under her butt and there's indeed a slit. So he took her up in his arms, and could raise the skirt towards the top of her thighs quite quickly to do the "dirty" :p

[@bloodyawfulpoetry5719]

I'm not sure what skirt you're looking at - but that looks a very tight and constricting skirt. Both her legs are entirely encased in material which is touching her skin. I'm old enough to remember when they were fashionable - and wore them plenty - even with high splits they were tight and difficult to move in. In order for her to - ahem - get her legs open, that split would have to be front and back and go up to almost the waist band. A split from the back that came up to just under her butt would require *a lot* of moving the skirt out of the way to get access. It would result in a lot of excess material around the front that just isn't there in the shot. It would be undignified, time consuming, not in the least bit sexy - but completely necessary in such a skirt. And he hasn't even moved it out of the way anyway - her butt is still fully covered when they fall through the floor and she is on top of him.

[@TufShadow]

@@bloodyawfulpoetry5719 She has a superstrength. Maybe she ripped it at the front or something? Superstrength can olso helps her to lift up her skirt, even if it is from leather.

[@bloodyawfulpoetry5719]

@@TufShadow But she doesn't rip it! we see the whole encounter and at no point does she take hold of her skirt and tear it apart. Plus it is still intact the next day when she wears it home. There's no point in iffing and butting about what isn't on the screen - we see them go from kissing to riding each other, no interruptions. She *could* have ripped it. She *could* have taken it off. She didn't - she left it exactly in place. I can understand why the writers/.directors who never wore a skirt like that in their lives might not realise why what they were filming was so ridiculous, but nevertheless - ridiculous it was. It isn't the myriad of possibilities of what she could have done, or what might have happened, that throw me out of the reality of the show - it is the fact that what they show us (and therefore canonically what happened - no ifs and buts) is completely, logistically impossible. And super strength wouldn't help her lift it. The heaviness isn't the problem, it is the tightness and clinginess. Without simply pulling it off (which she has the strength to do but she clearly doesn't do) she would *have* to wriggle it up. That is just physical reality. Her knees and hips are no less obstructive because she is the slayer - nor does the material have any more give in it. And all the super strength in the world isn't going to get rid of the excess material that bunching it up would create. She doesn't pull it up (we clearly see she has no time to do this), she doesn't tear it (we clearly see she has no time to do this), we see it firmly in place in the closing shot and intact in the next episode. And when all those facts are taken on board ... sex becomes impossible. Hence why it throws me out of the world. If they'd just put her in a more floaty skirt the scene would have been fine. But that particular skirt - with no indication that she does rip it, lift it or take it off ... it can't happen. And it's too 'real' (as in - something I have real world experience of myself) to allow suspension of disbelief for me. It just ruins the scene.

[@nataliej54]

One of my favorite episodes of the season. The revelation that spike can hurt buffy is still shocking. And seeing your reaction to spuffy love scene is soo cool.

[@ErikaAriza13]

love scene is a bit of an overstatement :P not sure it gets more physical than that

[@nataliej54]

Sorry didn't mean to say it wrong. Just didn't want it to sound weird and crude.

[@fruzsanna23]

When you think about it later on, it is really amazing how Willow's character shows the problems of being on drugs but through magic. She gets addicted and cant stop and all. Really amazingly done to help relate to such problems yet hiding the message , not so obvious. Just ever so brilliant mr Whedon.

[@rotru4977]

Wait...S6, E9...so 69? I see what you did there Joss W 🤣

[@fenixjpb]

That was the Best hot tv moment on history!!!! Damn! So so so on fire

[@tsukigalleta]

Obviously nobody owned the place. Otherwise Spike wouldn't have been able to get in. The skirt thing, just skip any possible explanation. There's none. But if we can buy vampires getting a hard-on with a dead body, we can buy anything. Just saying. I was grinning soooo much at the end that my cheeks hurt! Did you notice some kind of metaphorical connection between two of the characters? Thank you so much, Shan!

[@bgill7475]

tsukigalleta they’re constantly stiff because they’re dead.

[@tsukigalleta]

Omg, hahahahahaha!!!

[@weaponsofwarfare9537]

I agree with people that say spike confuses love with LUST when it comes to buffy and the walls crashing down is suppose to be buffy's walls.Hitting rock bottom from depression and using spike sexually here to feel something positive out of it.

[@Muirmaiden]

Weapons Of Warfare, there was an emotional connection before the sex. Not particularly healthy, but true.

[@BreezeOnTheLake]

Even though physical lust is a big part of Spike's longing for Buffy, I do think he feels actual "love"-love too, it's just that for him the two go so closely together because he's such a sexual person anyway. As you probably know, in later seasons it becomes clear that his feelings go deeper and are about the essence of what she is (final episode "Chosen")

[@yasminr2999]

hahaha your face at the end was priceless loving your reactions to season 6!

[@frakkintoasterluvva7920]

I'm sure everyone was waiting for your reaction to this one :) The last 10 or so minutes of this episode are anong the most memorable in the show. Even the intercut club scenes wirh Williw and Amy work perfectly to comment on the Spuffy that's happening at the same time. Listen to the songs perforned at the club: The band originally playing was an all-male band, Virgil. Their song goes" "What is wrong here? What is wrong with you? What is wrong here? Where is your head?" Then Willow and Amy turn them into an all female band (Halo Friendlies). The song goes: "I don't want, I don't want to be alone I don't want to, I don't want to go it alone Every time I see you, I can't find words to say I just want to turn and run away..." And then Willow and Amy get bored and rurn them back, and they conrinue their song: "What is wrong here?..."

[@kotonohakatsura6930]

nice analyses :)

[@Margot1704]

Wow! Nothing was left to chance!

[@AshLee92490]

The Tara and Dawn scene is a scene I abosolutely love. Willow and Tara's breakup hit Dawn hard (being their biggest canon shipper) and we saw that in Tabula Rasa. Tara was like Dawn's second mom, especially after Joyce and Buffy died (Tara acted as a comfort to Dawn since The Real Me). The Tara and Dawn scene is like the divorcing parent trying to assure the child that the parents didn't breakup because the them and still love their child (which is a common with a child divorcing parents feel. Remember Buffy in "Nightmares"). Dawn accepts and eases Tara's parental fears. Chances are she had to go through this aleeady with (not to mention with all she's been through the past year alone, Willow/Tara isn't as traumatic). I'm not a child of divorce, but that scene always gives me feels. Tara taking Dawn out and trying to give her a good time and show that she still loved her and show that it wasn't her fault hits my heart and great in re subtext sense .

[@titusmoody5616]

"Don't hurt the Fett, cos Man you are not comin back from that"! that line kills me every time, what are they going to do to Spike? Lol!

[@LittleMissDivine]

notice the first song in the bronze was ´´what is wrong here?´´ and willow switched it to ´´i just wanna run away´´...

[@nodiggity4283]

-Mr Freeze robbed the museum, not just any mr Freeze. Arnold Schwarzenegger Mr Freeze. -9:08 I just want to know what your reaction was after Buffy hits spike and the camera closes in on James Marsters face and he gives that smile. I'm not even gay but even I was like "damn dude." -I love hot scenes,the scene was hot, but I remember just thinking "wait this isn't how they are supposed to end up together. Plus I was very confused because I didn't hear the zipper so I was confused how he got it in her. I was like "does spike have a magic penis?"

[@blackkatt777]

"SMASHED" is exactly what they did to that abandoned house, and each other...in more than one way.😄I remember when this first aired, but I missed it and a friend recorded it. When I came over, she told me to listen very carefully for something. I heard the zipper being opened. My mouth dropped. I said, Did she just unzip....and before I could finish the question, Buffy was riding pony.😆 I was like, "GET IT, GIRL!". When she lost her virginity to Angel, it was all teenage romanticism. But this was her handle her grown woman business.😂I felt sad and disappointed with Willow. I understood her using magic to help her grow confidence and feel like she was contributing to the group. She got caught up in the thrill of breaking new ground and making the impossible, possible until it got away with her. She's in a state of denial about her loss and addiction because she can't see how much she's changed.

[@Logan_Baron]

"I wonder if anyone lived there?" Well Spike was able to enter so, no.

[@kristagemini]

There is a lot that happened logistically that I didn't quite understand with that situation, but I still loved it. Lol. Perhaps her skirt had a zipper up the side, and they really got rid of clothing quite fast, I mean usually it takes a few minutes of frustration to get through those clothes, but I still will willingly suspend my disbelief. Lol. The hardest thing for me was them falling through the floor, still... connected.... I mean... wouldn't that be...OW? Idk.... Either way, SPUFFY! *squee!*

[@blacktronlego]

10:50 Anya has no empathy, but I think that's just what Willow needs to hear at this point. 15:40 Those guys deserve everything they got. 'No' means 'no' seems to have passed them by.

[@anastasiabrown3801]

the skirt in the previous episode was a tight pencil skirt this one is flowy - its pretty easy to fight in - also its an abandoned house

[@iloveyourunclebob]

Hmm..."Smashed" is this episode I think it is? - scrolls down - Yep, it is 😈 I like how Spike frequently has therapy sessions with himself outloud

[@ethancharles2189]

"She climbed up on THAT bod, just then." 🤣

[@mskaylamichele92]

'How is she fighting in a skirt?'' Sorry to remind you but she is Buffy Anne frickin Summers, okay?

[@cobbsta88]

People tend to dismiss that Spike is souless at the end of the day, of course he would have no qualms about killing someone if he could

[@krosssword]

I will always remember the first time I watched this episode as a kid when I was a Spuffy shipper and was like "yay they're kissing!". But (as a kid) I was a little confused as to what exactly was happening towards the end of that scene. And I asked my dad who was watching with me at the time "what are they doing?" And he awkwardly replied "ummm... Adult stuff"

[@camgeorge6222]

Classic addict behaivor denial. Willow is suffering from

[@wendywoodruff2871]

The sound of that zipper and I'm all over goosebumps. 🎉

[@johncspine2787]

No, she (Amy) was saying she ‘didn’t’ want any cheese..ie, she was tired of getting cheese as a rat..

[@davidwhite8643]

Amy was in season four albeit for like seconds during Something Blue when Willow's spell went tit's up and everything she said happened.

[@kodicoulter2573]

11:05 God I love Anya! 😂🤣

[@MrHaddow777]

That kind of reminded me of SmallVille when Lana got her powers. Clark and she created earth quakes. Here we have a super powered slayer and a vamp going at it so hard and wild they bring the house down, literally. I like how falling quite some distance down a hole didn't even phase them. Feeling no pain.

[@Fenris77]

I'd call that sex scene at the end at the very least "soft porn" basically when we moved away from the teen angst/drama thing... Not complaining mind you, I was rooting for Spike ever since season 4 at least...

[@lisaesmeralda9112]

Is 4 minutes to 11 on a Friday night I have absolutely nothing to do you just saved my life with your reactions yay

[@blacktronlego]

Spike has a screwed up idea of love, with him it is always related to violence. Possibly because even as a human it was related to pain, albeit emotional pain.

[@reesewithoutaspoon]

I also think Drusilla played a big part in what his idea of love was Drusilla, the bat shit crazy vampire who, according to James, liked it rough so there's probably violence there too and she was his first big love

[@Qualimar]

As a D&D fan I love the idea that Anya of all people is the gamer in the group. I bet she's a total rules lawyer.

[@emmag3783]

I just remember this when It was on tv, and my tape that I was recording on ran out so I was quickly getting a new tape and all I got was the spike and Buffy moment.

[@AMoniqueOcampo]

Ahem. 🎶And all the pieces fall right into place. Get caught up in a moment. Lipstick on your face. So it goes. I'm yours to keep and I'm yours to lose. You know I'm not a bad girl but I do bad things with you. So it goes.🎶

[@spangelicious837]

There aren't cheese cookies, but there are cheesecake cookies. :) "You came back wrong." Regardless of why Spike can hit Buffy now, this is how Buffy feels. She's been struggling to get back into the swing of things - going through the motions - and mostly succeeding in pretending to her friends that she's managing. But she's not. She was in heaven, and now she's not, and it's not something you just bounce back from. She doesn't feel like herself, she's depressed and every day is a struggle. The fact she chooses someone she despises to make out with tells you a lot about her mental state right now. :( Spike was talking himself up: Performance anxiety, probably. Almost like it's been so long he wasn't sure he could remember how to do it. :D Amy's back and not being a good influence. I think her comment about staying home alone like in high school was hitting closer to Willow's time before Buffy, or more just how she perceived herself growing up. As Anya said, Willow was always the responsible one - old reliable - and she's always been self-conscious about that. It distorts the way she remember things. Amy struck a nerve that she knew was there to get Willow to go out. And yes, what she does to Bree was pretty gross, regardless of what Bree's sexual orientation was. (We know she was at the Bronze with a woman, but she could be bi or pan for all we know.) Amy basically gave her magic roofies. And that's just the tip of the nopeberg. I love Tara taking time to hang out with Dawn, proving that just because she and Willow split up and she moved out, she's still cares about Dawn.

[@Kal911]

You know the sex scene was censored at 22:20? Some times ago you could find it whole on youtube, I don't know if it's still there. It was censored because parents complained that it was too much for the kids (even if they were still completely dressed up, no nude). There was Buffy riding Spike and moaning.XD

[@silverspike1]

Oh I think the original's still out there. :)

[@KayzeeXD]

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[@KayzeeXD]

found it

[@jamesscanlan6240]

I remember watching this with my gf and saying,"Wait a minute, did Spike just enter her?" Very explicit for the time.

[@AshLee92490]

Thay skirt has a slit. Backstory on how K realized that. I watched this show from the beginning (I was a fan a the movie as a chikd and watched the show becaise I hsd 2 older sisters so Inwas young among injtial.airing).I was 11 when this happened. I didn't think much about it. I just assumed it was excessive dry humping. Fast toward to years later that I'm confused to what's going on. because I don't realize that Buffy is wearing a long skirt. I'm thinking she's wearing pants as usual. One time some years ago, I'm watching this episode again, I hear the fucking zipper! I 'm still confused until analyzer that she's wearing a skirt with a FULL slit!Then rewatch again and realize that she wearing a skirt with later then I was confused. Again, I was thinking aggressive set humping. It wasn't til I finally heard the zipper that it smack me what really happemed lol...

[@mayadargeon2172]

The zipper is Spike's trousers tho ?

[@AshLee92490]

@@mayadargeon2172 I know. Spike's zipper is what made me realize that Buffy was wearing a skirt with a full slit, which made the dots connect for me. Also, my OP is terribly done and confusing. I'm blaming autocorrect or alcohol lol...

[@EdmundKempersDartboard]

They got pretty heavy handed with the drug addiction metaphor this season... nevermind things literally falling apart when she gives in to spike...

[@metalhead3066]

To answer your question about the skirt is that if pay attention to it, the skirt has a long slit to it. I also had to go back to that and see it 😂

[@willparks3429]

Buffy the vampire layer

[@Belnick6666]

I wonder, when spike came, is it cold? like getting "ice water" inside....?

[@visitorzeta1669]

Yeah, I wondered why it was so difficult for Willow to figure out a spell to de-rarify Amy.

[@PapayaStyle]

I mostly think she put that 'problem' aside for a while, pretty sure she could've reversed the spell like 2 years ago if with the right priority

[@visitorzeta1669]

Maybe, but still a friend of yours living their life as a rat for three years should have been priority much sooner lol.

[@ronaldfasshauer4390]

Plot holes plot holes everywhere

[@willow8186]

Transfiguration is pretty heavy stuff (at least in any fiction I’ve read), so fair that Willow wouldn’t have dabbled in that.

[@TheCrippledEgg]

I like how that lead singer barely reacted to suddenly changing sex among other weird shit going on in the Bronze. Only in Sunnydale.

[@corystanish]

Honestly, the absurdly loud obvious zipper takes me right out of the scene. I laugh every time.

[@beachgirl4583]

It explains Buffy’s skirt, though, and how they were able to have sex without obvious bunches of leather between them.

[@corvus1970]

A collectible item doesn't have to be in-box or on-card to be graded as "mint condition". That's why you have terms for "mint-on-card" or "mint-in-box" as separate grades. Yes, an item is less likely to be graded mint if its open, because its more likely to suffer damage or wear, but opened items can and have indeed been rated as mint.

[@Letyparatore]

If you hear it there's a zip opening (i think buffy opened it) . i don't think they could do it without unzippin it don't you think 😂

[@aracelikiwrna5778]

1. Seeing Amy back was great for like a sec until we were remembered she was a very naughty witch lol. 2. We finally got Spike and Buffy together. It's disturbingly hot but I like him better than Angel. 3. Why is Spike able to hurt Buffy without the chip going off? Could it be that it's because she was a being who was once in heaven? Or is it because he truly loves her and can't actually hurt her because deep down he doesn't want to hurt her? I mean he did say to her at 20:53 that he wasn't planning on hurting that much. I don't know. After all of these years, I'm still not certain as to why he's able to hit her. - Yvette

[@liamcoombe854]

There is a reason why he can hurt her, but it's hard to explain

[@aracelikiwrna5778]

I wish you could explain but if it's spoilery then I get it. We don't want Shan to read that lol. - Yvette

[@danwiesdamageinc]

The skirt? It's no where near as tight as the skirt Buffy was wearing in Flooded, and it has a long slit in it. The final scene of the 2 of them after falling through the floor into the basement was much racier. There used to be a KZbin video of it with sound, but it is no longer up. Here is the shot with no sound. kzbin.info/www/bejne/raqbiattjNCUbLc

[@touchstoneaf]

Dear God why haven't I seen this before, bless you for a saint!

[@danwiesdamageinc]

Have you seen this? kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJu4f4aejst3h7c

[@alysiamerdavid-wasser9165]

@@danwiesdamageinc Oh my Lord! SMG: "That was horrible.". Uhmmm... No, to quote Rona: "That was hot.", lol. I didn't believe that the music was needed bc they made too much noise until I heard James growl & SMG grunting, lmao!! 😮😅

[@touchstoneaf]

The consensus is that she tore her skirt up the side. Instant access. And thank you for this reaction, I've been dying to see it all week!

[@beachgirl4583]

The zipper we hear is on her skirt (since the skirt seems intact the next morning).

[@victorsixtythree]

11:58 - "That's a limited edition, 1979, mint condition Boba Fett..." if the rest of Andrew's sentence was going to be, "...with rocket firing launcher." then that thing is worth big bucks. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJSVp6uKndF5ns0

[@silverspike1]

To watch all that and yet fixate on the skirt? Weird. That last shot of them together is the edited version that was broadcast. The original unbroadcasted version is on youtube somewhere where she rides him like a pony. lol eta Here's a link to it. No sound though. kzbin.info/www/bejne/raqbiattjNCUbLc

[@chae1557]

3:35- that’s what I was confused about too lmao

[@Gingernat089]

I’ve been so looking forward to you watching this!!! Xx

[@FireflyMALcontent]

So, I can't stop watching your reactions, so, thanks for sharing- And, not to be a nit picker but yes, you can have a collectible on MINT condition without it being in the box. There is MINT and MINT in Box.

[@horrorshow3643]

I love rewatching Buffy with you ❤️❤️❤️

[@СвятославБезтака]

Spike+Buffy=love

[@toshomni9478]

Spike is definitely not a good guy. I don't think the writers intended Spike and Buffy hooking up like that to be something to celebrate even if you love his character.

[@jacquelynnicole8499]

Tosh Omni I agree. I don’t think it was meant to be so celebrated either.

[@Strangely_Sexy]

why is it that all the evil ones are so HOT? 😭

[@trexinvert]

Spike cannot strike "non-demons" without pain. Spike hits Buffy and no pain. Buffy is demon...hmmm...

[@notaaudit7390]

buffy finely getting spiked

[@fidel2xl]

People are casually and brutally murdered in this series, and that's totally okay. But the scene at the Bronze when Amy compelled a girl to approach Willow, is WRONG beyond anything ever in history. Alrightee then...LMAO

[@DmGray]

Goodness me, it's fantastic Shan picks up on just how bad some things are. Amy "mind controlling" ("date rape drugging" is my "real life" analogue) a stranger on behalf of Willow is not different to what the Trio does in a later episode, but the two actions are treated with EXTREMELY different weights (obviously the latter is objectively worse, even without the extreme consequences. But there's not a magnitude of difference between them. Willow doesn't even appear disgusted with the act, only uncomfortable with her own situation. Jonathan and Andrew both seek to justify it in their own minds by declaring their victims "made willing" and are immediately horrified when the reality is shown to them. I've always really appreciated the underlying themes of consent & how things can be complicated. How clear communication cuts through a lot of misunderstanding. Taking it to extreme allegory for the show, but still these ideas are important and oft-neglected. I might have hated the "teach men not to rape" campaigns of a few years ago for being extremely sexist, but the idea of teaching about consent and how misunderstandings CAN happen remains essential. No means no, but sometimes a yes can't be taken at face value due to circumstances, especially when mental capacity is affected, like with excessive alcohol) First time I've seen a reactor pick up on it so strongly. Fantastic.

[@mrspidey80]

Good call about the mint condition thing. Looks like you're more nerdy than the Nerd Trio.

[@mythdefied9070]

By this point I knew I was gay, but it was Spike and they were wrecking the shit out of that place and it was just hot af. not ashamed to admit that, since I'd taped it, I rewound and rewatched (Spike) a good half dozen times or so

[@marionmalfoy7901]

Oh my god Spuffy 😍😍😍😍

[@hnek]

Those braids with the barrette in the middle tho- What was up with that?

[@somedudeontwitterstalkedme3829]

Remember this is what you asked for, this was what we all asked for. Joss Whedon delivers once again when you least expect it.

[@Dannydarko27]

15:41 lol that didn't age well

[@alysiamerdavid-wasser9165]

Agreed. "Ellen is not a fckng god." lol.

[@garabaterodiaz5288]

When they party they know how to bring the house down!

[@eventhorizon6366]

you should see the dailies of this episode if you haven't yet. you gotta commend their professionalism for how they do these scenes. also you get to see how serious of an actor james really is when you noticed how frustrated he gets when he forgets his lines kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKXPkHeuYrx5r9U kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJu4f4aejst3h7c&t

[@youtert]

If you dig Spuffy, check out the 'Smashed dailies' videos that have extra footage and outtakes.

[@metroplex7986]

We're only 9 eps into Season 6, and ASR has been thrown for a loop a few times. This is going to be fun to watch. Having Amy back is great. I still can't tell if she's rooting for Buffy and Spike, or is she jealous of Buffy being with Spike. :D

[@CarrotFlowers421]

If you rewatch this episode through Buffy's perspective, you can see that she's reacting to the subject of Willow as if they're talking about her and her temptation with Spike. That's why she's so dismissive and defensive.

[@ty_thedragonwolf933]

They didn’t kiss just a couple of kisses, remember Willows spell where they where getting married....

[@jasondavid3969]

Love the accent! Australian isn't it?! 😜G day lol

[@angeluvsvid]

That whole episode scene shocked me I never seen when it aired so when I watched it on Hulu I was shocked that she and spike did it it made me look at her different 🤭sluuuu..er I mean hussy 😂

[@kirstiebriggs3068]

I like to think that Amy was just controlling that girl so that Willow would have someone to dance with 🤔 rather than anything more sinister 🤨 but that might be wishful thinking 🙈 it's still wrong to take away someone's choice like that! 😒 But at least Willow said no 😁❤️ XxXxX

[@ashleyolson5301]

I can finally say it!!! Breaking the house!!

[@donkorte80]

Actually putting the pushy guys up on the balcony dancing half naked was the fall back position. The writers were going to have them magically forced to make out but joss objected to forcing gayness on them. As for the girl offered to willow, you later see her sitting down getting reasonably chummy with another girl. At least enough so you might suspect she’s gay.

[@lechugaquemada99]

I don't don't want to make a negative comment but I really want to point something out, I believe that what Amy did to the girl at the club was similar as if someone put a drug into your drink just to hook up with you, so that's rape cuz that girl wasn't consciously agreeing to do that and that's really fucked up. So that's why I disagree with you Shan when you said it is worst if that girl doesn't have Willow's same sexual orientation. Being raped is just fucked up and it doesn't matter the gender who did that. It's not like you're gonna say: oh at least I wasn't raped by a girl. Don't get me wrong, I love your reactions and it's been really cool to watch the series with you but that's something I wanted to call out, even though I know that you didn't really mean it that way.

[@transmatized]

what amy did is not worse because the girl *might* have been straight. you wouldn’t have said “wait what if he’s gay” if she’d done that to a man

[@TOMMYFARRWALES]

well,, guessing you now know what the title meant by smashed,, ;D lol

[@rasputinnostradamus916]

When you think about this It is technically necophilia

[@Tricker-the-licker]

SPIKE STEP AWAY FROM THE FETT' Please don't hurt him. Please by all means' destroy all their other nerdy shit.... JUST DON'T HURT THE FETT.