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Buffy 7x06 (Extended) - Him (Patreon)

Published:
2023-11-24 19:00:07
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2024-07-15 22:10:26
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okay i'm simply never ever going to be able to stop laughing over this episode just oh my god WHY DID NOBODY TELLL ME BUFFY STRAIGHT UP BECOMES A SITCOM. we <3 him!!!!!!!

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Girl4Music

“I can work around it!” 😖 The fact Willow had to give RJ a magical sex change just to prove her love for him and justify her attraction towards him. She somehow manages to be both biphobic and transphobic at the same time. 😩 What were the writers thinking? 😑 This wasn’t funny at all. This was downright idiotic and even insulting. One of the worst episodes of the entire show. Easily. And the fact it’s in Season 7 just supersizes that.

Preaching to the Horse's Mouth

I've seen that a lot of folks don't care for this episode and I get why, it's definitely a little cringe in places. But I always enjoy/respect when they do a bit of a concept episode, they had an idea, albeit a kinda goofy one, and they stuck to it, man. And I always love anything with some extra silliness and camp to it. Describing it as a sitcom is pretty accurate lol

Richard Ashton

"Willow had to give RJ a magical sex change just to prove her love for him and justify her attraction towards him." Willow didn't do any magic on him and she was under a spell so needs no justification.

zerofk

While I love Dawn and an episode centered around her would normally be a joy, I really don't like this one. It's a rehash Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered - which wasn't good in the first place, and this doesn't really improve on it. Well okay, I guess it's funnier. But it's just as problematic, if not more. If the jacket affects Willow, then why not Xander? And everything is a joke in this episode: Buffy having sex with a student, Willow going to just change his gender, Dawn pushing someone down the stairs, Xander admitting he wanted to try the jacket, Xander daydreaming about his previous foray into taking away women's ability to consent, etc.

Captain Hammer

I think this episode is hilarious. However, in the modern day where people take everything too seriously and you are blasphemous if you make jokes about sacred topics, there are a lot of haters of it. The cartoonish background of Spike yoinking Buffy's rocket launcher and running away with it while the principal does paperwork is classic comedy.

Lime Pie

The jacket didn't affect Xander because he is a guy. We saw in "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered" that the love spell affected, as Giles put in that episode, "the entire female population". I don't think it is that far fetched that the jacket similarly affects people based on their gender, not their orientation. Everything is a joke in this episode because it is a comedy episode. I get that the humor might not be everyone's cup of tea, but I personally really like how this episode combines the horror with the humor. It adds to the whole theme of "love is messy and weird" that the show has going. I guess I just don't see how the episode is problematic if it never endorses any of the disturbing acts that take place in it. I mean, the love jacket is the antagonist of the episode.

Girl4Music

Yeah but she was going to. Like her mindset immediately went there when Anya mentioned it.

Stuart Reinke Williams

Personally always really enjoyed this episode. Nice to see Sarah Michelle be able to play a less serious version of Buffy which hadn't happened for a while. Some people take this one way too serious/ or get far too offended by it. People who think it's too cringy are missing the point, the women are all under a spell hence of course they'll act way out of character. ( for example Dawn's awful cheer leading or Buffy making out with him)

Bud Haven

Get off the boy, Buffy. lol I guess Buffy still had the rocket launcher in her closet somewhere. While it seems that Buffy has forgiven Spike for the attack, she isn't over it completely as we see her jump when he touches her shoulder in Xander's apartment.

Ron Fehr

Why did Anya turn off the radio? I wanted to learn more about the late night bandit.

Ron Fehr

You're opinion of the episode is just that, yours. While definitely not the best episode, it was an okay one. Although, what I remember from the season, it's hard to rank this above the others.

Thom Purdy

A connection to "Inca Mummy Girl": Devon asks Oz what a girl has to do to impress him. Oz: "It has to do with a feather boa and The Theme from a Summer Place". The music that plays when Dawn, Buffy, Willow, and Anya are affected by the Jacket is...Theme from a Summer Place.

Ron Fehr

Her reaction to Spike tapping her shoulder may have been due to what you said, but consider this. Was it just her Slayer reflexes about to react? I'm not disagreeing with you, but just pointing out another option.

Ron Fehr

I recognized the music, but I never knew where it was from.

Ron Fehr

I think sometimes your views keep you from enjoying the episode for its intended purpose. This was meant to be a funny episode, and not to be taken so seriously.

Girl4Music

I know that but there’s things actually funny to joke about and then there isn’t. These are serious issues and they shouldn’t be made into jokes. I get that it was the times back then and lots of TV shows made jokes like this about these things. But that doesn’t make it any easier to watch it. So, yeah, you’re right. It does keep me from enjoying the episode. Because I don’t believe it should be something that is enjoyed.

Ron Fehr

I'm glad that you understood my last comment, and that it was just a concern of mine. I see what you mean about the topics of this episode, and that things that were intended as a joke at the time can actually be found to be inappropriate.

Girl4Music

Especially the suicide subject. I can stomach the “magical sex change” because Willow was just under a spell but the suicide attempt was too much. Yeah, it’s eventually treated seriously in that Buffy realizes her sister is scaring her but they still have the both of them say stupid stuff on account of them “being under a spell”. Either make them fully come to or don’t make them come to at all. Don’t do a half/half thing because that’s the tone of the episode. Not when it’s suicide. I just do not like the way this episode is written or executed at all. Fair enough if other people do. That’s them. But this is me and I’m making my views about my experience of it known. For me, this is one that they shouldn’t have done. I mean I don’t even understand how they could still be under a spell when they’re no longer looking at the magical jacket. That’s never explained. Some careful thought put into the writing of this episode would have helped it a lot. But like I said. I shouldn’t be surprised because this is Season 7 and Season 7 has some really sloppy writing where they don’t think things through at all.

Ron Fehr

Little did Xander know when I he said it, but he was right on the money early on in the episode. It was the jacket all along. And one thing that proved it was when Xander and Spike met RJ's brother. Xander had just built him up to be almost a God, for lack of a better word., and when the door opens, it's just a regular guy. By the way, the phrase is 'Alma mater,' not 'Alpha mater.'

Alex Wright

Thought it was bi-erasure at least definitely. It seemed Willow was genuinely attracted to Xander and Oz after all. And one would assume a magic spell like this could override sexual orientation just as it overrides the free will of heterosexual women. I guess the writers just saw another potential avenue for comedy and went with it. "This wasn’t funny at all." At least at the time most people would have found the idea of a witch casting a sex change spell funny - especially when the word penis kept coming up too. If you watch - for instance - Friends and listen to the contemporary live audience laugh tracks, a lot of jokes that got laughs in that era were just references to homosexuality (including in episodes that were progressive for the time like The One with the [not legally binding] Lesbian Wedding), men being uncomfortable with being seen as unmanly and gender non conformity in general.

Alex Wright

Yeah the suicide attempt was a bit much. I suppose it shows how dangerous magic can be like Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered? Indeed there's some similarities with that episode too.

Alex Wright

I feel so much cringey, second hand embarrassment when Dawn walks up to "him" and the cheerleaders. Always found it hard to watch characters doing something potentially embarrassing.

Alex Wright

Buffy under a "love" spell - in this episode and Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered - reminds me a fair bit of Kathryn in Cruel Intentions.

Ron Fehr

Buffy's 'mom' behavior reminds me of the time shortly after the big Joyce episode, when Buffy wanted Giles to be the parent. To which Giles replied "I may be the grown-up, but you're her family." It looks like Buffy has gotten more comfortable in her new role as mother-figure.

Steve Quast

I never saw Dawn's attempted suicide as an attempt at being funny or trying to make a joke. If anything, that's when the episode finally took a more serious turn.

Steve Quast

The worst part for me is when she does her cheer audition.

Girl4Music

“At least at the time most people would have found the idea of a witch casting a sex change spell funny - especially when the word penis kept coming up too.” I know. And that’s why I said jokes like that do not age well.

Girl4Music

It does. I knew what they were going for but they just shouldn’t have executed it the way they did with the dialogue afterwards. That cheapened what should be a very serious moment. The tone was very off.

Girl4Music

It isn’t really. They do treat it seriously. But it’s a careless thought of putting something as serious as that into primarily a comedy episode.

X-man

Because she is the late night bandit.

Ron Fehr

I actually knew that. I was only joking, as it was obvious that it was her.

Steveo

Thank you for enjoying this episode and not taking it seriously like it was meant to be. Too many in the fandom hate on this episode for ridiculous reasons.