The look on Giles' face as she goes through the list is just hilarious. It goes from concerned, to confused, to a very simple "my kids are so dumb" look until he just breaks down laughing at the absurdity
I’d buy it. I always hated this scene. It feels like a complete break in the show. So for it to be an outtake, I would buy it. There’s a few movements from SMG that feel very Un-acted.
@@JazGalaxy Really? I thought it was a model for the whole show, always defying cliches and surprising you. Bringing in darkness where the cliche would show light, but then showing humor when everything seems depressing and the cause already lost. Dehumanizing characters who started off good but suffered too much, humanizing characters who tried to deal with their mental injuries by acting like a robot through some simple laughter.
@@anatoldenevers237 I guess cause everyone went so far from where they were going. Everything got so off track. I think it's pretty fitting that he laughed. Cause everything that what was talked about was so heavy. If he had had any other reaction it probably would have set her off.
I love how Giles face was that of a disappointed father and Buffy was waiting for a "Buffy I am so very disappointed in you" and instead we get this magic scene A.S.H is an underrated actor
It might not have been planned, but the way the scene ended up is bloody brilliant. The end of the world is coming, everyone's upset, worried, and the two simply needed a few moments like this in order not to explode from fear
@Ztslobebird Actually according to Joss Whedon and Anthony Stewart Head - you are SPOT ON! 😂👌it indeed was a blooper that they loved so much and thought it lightened the mood after so much drama they included it in
I'm almost certain this is a blooper but I'm so glad that it was kept in. It's so sweet to see Giles get the giggles and when Buffy joins in, it's just adorable. A wonderfully unexpected moment of light relief, in an otherwise dark and grim episode.
in one laugh, Anthony Stewart Head, provides the catharsis that the entirety of season 6 needed. definitely one of the best moments in season 6 and the show in general. I actually like a lot of season 6 even though it gets a lot of flak and I understand why. There's some really, really bad episodes, some poor pacing choices, and some missed opportunities. but I love what it tried to do, and some things it did exactly right. My two favorite moments in season 6 is this moment, and by contrast, the very unfunny but devastating moment of Buffy begging Tara not to forgive her in Dead Things, one of the most powerful moments in TV Drama.
@Logia SD I hated them up until Dead Things, when Warren's character was shown to be significantly disturbing. He was a perfect representation of the incel-type sexual predator.
Great editing in that you don't see her face when she says 'And I've been sleeping with a Spike.' Instead you see her face straight after as she looks up at him, worried about his reaction. This subtlety gives the scene it's power.
It sounds so absurd from Giles' perspective, that uncontrollable laughter is a natural response. And Buffy getting roped in after reealizing how stupid it sounds just completes the scene. Maybe later scenes should have been adjusted to account for the sudden but brief mood change, but that moment feels so real for the characters.
actually you're almost right - it was actually a blooper - Anthony Steward Head lost control and they decided it was better than him being serious so they edited that in with Buffy's new reaction
I saw Buffy for the first time only a year and a half ago. Before this I had seen Anthony Head only as Uther Pendragon in the Merlin series. Well, I must admit it was strange to see him like THIS. 😅😂😂
Bottom lines is that things tend to fall to pieces when Giles isn't around. He's pretty much the glue that holds the fragments of Buffy's world together.
Of all the reactions they COULD have gone with.... anger, sympathy, sorrow, disdain etc.... but to just plain laugh in her face..... THAT is real life. On Film. No drama, no story just "You did fucking WHAT - hahahahahahhaa" which is exactly how your friends would react to you doing something monumentally stupid. "You're a total tit - now lets hug".
At I never understood is that she never gets anyone from the council for her slayer work. I mean they should want her to do her work all the time hence at least give her some kind of money.
Holy shit, you're right. Why the hell in thousands of years would they never start paying the Slayer? Maybe they were worried about them asking for too much danger pay ... but no, fuck that, she's your one soldier who needs to focus on killing demons, and they won't cover her living costs? How did this never occur to me before?
Yeah that bugged me too. She was able to get Giles' job back with a raise or money paid for the time he wasn't her watcher (I've slept since watching that episode) I don't get why they didn't at least offer to support her after the death of her mom. Someone else brought it up but, she's your main source for saving the world, why would you not do everything in your power to make sure she is up to the task? Like not being homeless, or having to work multiple jobs, therefore stretching herself thin and making her a possibly less effective slayer.
This always bothered me too, but you know why I think it has never been brought up before. I think there are two reasons. In other cultures, the slayer lives with and is supported by her watcher (we saw this come up briefly with Kendra). In addition, the slayer has a short life expectancy and as crass as it sounds, many of them didn't live long enough to be beyond teen years and need any sort of independent life. I think that's why in a nutshell, though it would still be nice once a slayer comes of age that she is supported by the council in the same way the watcher is. I mean Giles got paid AND had a job as the school librarian for much of the time, then owned the magic shop.
yeah, I was also thinking about the short life expectancy. I would've had there be like a bank account or a rolling trust fund for the slayers that just passes onto the next slayer and so on. That way, the money just wouldn't be floating out in space when a slayer dies.
Every time I see this, I start laughing, too. Every time. I try so hard not to, but Giles' laugh is so funny it just cracks me up every friggin time, so I just give up and laugh.🤣🤣🤣🤣
You look at Rupert's face as she regales him with her story, and you realize he has to be scared with how things've gone quite literally here to "Hell in a handbasket" as the saying goes; what with Dawn getting addicted to stealing, Anya having rejoined her gang she'd been involved in, and this assorted naughtiness that these people got into, including Willow being a magic addict.
His laugh is so contagious! :D I'm currently watching the show again (for the 5th oder 6th time maybe ;)) and had to rewind this scene several times because it was so fucking funny and I kept on laughing my ass off. :-)
He's laughing at how absurd some of the things that happened are (especially Buffy being with Spike probably). I actually really like this scene because it shows that even when everything's going to shit you can still laugh about it and not take it so seriously all the time.
I think it's a pretty natural reaction actually, have you ever felt super stressed and things keep piling up and then something even more crazy stressful comes along and you just laugh because you're like...'of course...of course that comes up now' - sometimes you just have to laugh
Am I the only person who felt like buffy brought out the true humanity in spike? Angel turned all psycho cereal killer without a soul but spike didn't have a soul and still was gentle enough to love buffy... Even with the demon inside he was a good man... He didn't change much once he had a soul.. I get that SMG had an issue with Spuffy, I thought they were great together..
she didn’t have an issue with Spuffy, she was the one who suggested the idea to Joss in season 4 but she had an issue with how dark the relationship turned into. she thought Buffy was too OOC during season 6
Perhaps, but Spike needed to learn to fight not just for love, but because its right. Otherwise, it wouldn't have mattered if he went out and got a soul. Not to mention, he wasn't that great without one either as seen in this season.
"Aren you worried about them Giles? What will they do without you?" "Well it's not like Anya will become a vengeance demon, Dawn will become a klepto, Buffy will go broke and sleep with Spike just because I left. Have some faith in them."
"Sleeping with?!" more like "using him sexually, in an affair." for better terminology of the naughtiness she'd gotten herself in over her head in this.
@@flipclone It seemed more of a tension-relief laugh than genuine amusement over Buffy and Spike. I don't remember anything about Giles ever bringing them up again
The look on Giles' face as she goes through the list is just hilarious. It goes from concerned, to confused, to a very simple "my kids are so dumb" look until he just breaks down laughing at the absurdity
He was probably thinking "Why did i ever think i could leave them alone? " 😒
Hearing Giles laugh makes me happy
Coral Roper me too omg tony is soooo cute u know wpt i SWEAR me him would get along wed laugh at stupid silly things
What makes it better is that, it wasn't even in the original script. It just happened to that way and they kept it. Always my fav scene tbh
This is how uther laughs at arthur love life
same, makes me so, so happy 🥺
Makes you want to laugh too, doesn’t it?
Histerical giggling probably wasn't the reaction she was expecting lol
DragonMother7 but its what she needed.
DragonMother7 no one was 😂😂😂
Giles go from straight face then dies fulla laughter 😂😂😂
DragonMother7 anthony has such an infectious laugh lol its soooo cute
Waliur Rahman that part was funny
00:47 The way she looks at him like a daughter looking to her father to see if he's disappointed in her
Rumor has it, this was originally an outtake, but it seemed so real, so human; and so it stayed.
Conceivable.
I think you can hear a cast member or two laughing at like 1:25-ish 😂😂
It's true, i've heard the same rumour.
I’d buy it. I always hated this scene. It feels like a complete break in the show. So for it to be an outtake, I would buy it. There’s a few movements from SMG that feel very Un-acted.
@@JazGalaxy Really? I thought it was a model for the whole show, always defying cliches and surprising you. Bringing in darkness where the cliche would show light, but then showing humor when everything seems depressing and the cause already lost. Dehumanizing characters who started off good but suffered too much, humanizing characters who tried to deal with their mental injuries by acting like a robot through some simple laughter.
I think it was the sleeping with Spike bit that set him off the most 😀.
Or even *only* that part :)
Probably
👈😀😃😄😁
@@dominiquemcclaney128 he actually looked alarmed at first when she said Anya was a vengeance demon again
@@anatoldenevers237 I guess cause everyone went so far from where they were going. Everything got so off track. I think it's pretty fitting that he laughed. Cause everything that what was talked about was so heavy. If he had had any other reaction it probably would have set her off.
I CAN HEAR THE CREW LAUGHING IN THE BACKGROUND!!!
I love how Giles face was that of a disappointed father and Buffy was waiting for a "Buffy I am so very disappointed in you" and instead we get this magic scene A.S.H is an underrated actor
this scene was SO cute. it felt so relieving to just see them laughing after such a dark season
It might not have been planned, but the way the scene ended up is bloody brilliant. The end of the world is coming, everyone's upset, worried, and the two simply needed a few moments like this in order not to explode from fear
As a bonus noticed that the dramatic music stops the moment Giles start laughing
Rene sooo funny when giles goes from straight face to fulla laughter 🤣🤣🤣
I'm guessing he broke character and couldn't get it together, so Joss decided to go with it.
@Ztslobebird
Actually according to Joss Whedon and Anthony Stewart Head - you are SPOT ON! 😂👌it indeed was a blooper that they loved so much and thought it lightened the mood after so much drama they included it in
I just gave the 111th like to your comment!
Anthony Head's laugh makes the world a better place.
Kitty Grimm THIS
I'm almost certain this is a blooper but I'm so glad that it was kept in. It's so sweet to see Giles get the giggles and when Buffy joins in, it's just adorable. A wonderfully unexpected moment of light relief, in an otherwise dark and grim episode.
in one laugh, Anthony Stewart Head, provides the catharsis that the entirety of season 6 needed. definitely one of the best moments in season 6 and the show in general. I actually like a lot of season 6 even though it gets a lot of flak and I understand why. There's some really, really bad episodes, some poor pacing choices, and some missed opportunities. but I love what it tried to do, and some things it did exactly right. My two favorite moments in season 6 is this moment, and by contrast, the very unfunny but devastating moment of Buffy begging Tara not to forgive her in Dead Things, one of the most powerful moments in TV Drama.
Don't forget the best episode in the series
"Once More With Feeling"
@Logia SD I hated them up until Dead Things, when Warren's character was shown to be significantly disturbing. He was a perfect representation of the incel-type sexual predator.
Great editing in that you don't see her face when she says 'And I've been sleeping with a Spike.' Instead you see her face straight after as she looks up at him, worried about his reaction. This subtlety gives the scene it's power.
I started laughing fulla tears when giles started to smurk and die fulla laughter 😂
The actors were brilliant on this show with the subtleties
And that's why we love Giles
Absolutely one of the best reactions ever. I think they both really needed that.
Giles laughing hysterically when he finds to about Spuffy😄.
“I leave you kids alone for 5 minutes”
That moment when your whole life has gone to shit and all you can do is laugh... been there so many times 😂
It sounds so absurd from Giles' perspective, that uncontrollable laughter is a natural response. And Buffy getting roped in after reealizing how stupid it sounds just completes the scene.
Maybe later scenes should have been adjusted to account for the sudden but brief mood change, but that moment feels so real for the characters.
It’s even funnier because his laughter spreads to Buffy.
Giles at the end is like: Welcome to Adulthood! It fucking sucks! Oh to be young with no clue what to do. Welcome to the rest of your life. 😄😂🤣
i bet this scene was improvised. And they kept this scene as it was because it felt much better than the original script.
actually you're almost right - it was actually a blooper - Anthony Steward Head lost control and they decided it was better than him being serious so they edited that in with Buffy's new reaction
@@life4fireforever273 That's what Tan Newton said you fucking dork
@@freddiewolfe545 He/she was agreeing and confirming what Tan said. Read it again.
@@freddiewolfe545 exactly learn to read
His laughter is contagious!
Rosannasfriend yasss lol
I’m telling You.
GOD!!! If u dont LOVE Tony's laugh your CRAZY!!!!! SOOOO ADORABLE!!!
lexy jade it RLY is lol
lexy jade it is soooop cute n infectious
Probably the one of the best scenes of buffy. I cannot keep a straight face when giles starts laughing
This was a blooper but they loved it so much they put it in
True Fact 😎
And Giles' laughter is a breath of fresh air into a very murky season!
I love this scene. It's one of the funniest moments
Have you seen the video of Anthony Stewart Head as Frank N Furter in the Rocky Horror Special on TH-cam?
Whenever I watch this scene I also start laughing 😂
I absolutely loved his response to that bit of news.
Anthony Stewart Head is a national treasure and must be cherished.
I saw Buffy for the first time only a year and a half ago. Before this I had seen Anthony Head only as Uther Pendragon in the Merlin series.
Well, I must admit it was strange to see him like THIS. 😅😂😂
I had only seen him like this, so we can imagine one another's reaction to the different settings.
“I mean, I naturally just assumed that you’d be completely Lost without me -
But THIS?!?”
- Cordelia
You cut out my favorite part lol.
*laughing* ... Buffy: and we're all just stupid.
Giles: *immediately stops laughing* i know you're all stupid
Bottom lines is that things tend to fall to pieces when Giles isn't around. He's pretty much the glue that holds the fragments of Buffy's world together.
Giles laughing makes me not feel depressed anymore so I’m replaying it 😂
A whole season's worth of release right there. That is powerful.
I love this scene cause it's so like Buffy (as a show). It served as a great tone changer for a little while and it's great
I think he lost it when she said: "I've been sleeping with Spike."
icing on the cake 😂
Of all the reactions they COULD have gone with.... anger, sympathy, sorrow, disdain etc.... but to just plain laugh in her face..... THAT is real life. On Film. No drama, no story just "You did fucking WHAT - hahahahahahhaa" which is exactly how your friends would react to you doing something monumentally stupid. "You're a total tit - now lets hug".
What? How? What? Three excellent questions.
I have trouble breathing! When Giles start laughing, I do the same! Omg, how hilarious this is!!! xD
0:55 I'm dying
Soph same
the way Buffy delved it laughing was then only outcome
Giles has an adorable laugh XD
At I never understood is that she never gets anyone from the council for her slayer work. I mean they should want her to do her work all the time hence at least give her some kind of money.
Holy shit, you're right. Why the hell in thousands of years would they never start paying the Slayer? Maybe they were worried about them asking for too much danger pay ... but no, fuck that, she's your one soldier who needs to focus on killing demons, and they won't cover her living costs? How did this never occur to me before?
Yeah that bugged me too. She was able to get Giles' job back with a raise or money paid for the time he wasn't her watcher (I've slept since watching that episode) I don't get why they didn't at least offer to support her after the death of her mom. Someone else brought it up but, she's your main source for saving the world, why would you not do everything in your power to make sure she is up to the task? Like not being homeless, or having to work multiple jobs, therefore stretching herself thin and making her a possibly less effective slayer.
This always bothered me too, but you know why I think it has never been brought up before. I think there are two reasons. In other cultures, the slayer lives with and is supported by her watcher (we saw this come up briefly with Kendra). In addition, the slayer has a short life expectancy and as crass as it sounds, many of them didn't live long enough to be beyond teen years and need any sort of independent life. I think that's why in a nutshell, though it would still be nice once a slayer comes of age that she is supported by the council in the same way the watcher is. I mean Giles got paid AND had a job as the school librarian for much of the time, then owned the magic shop.
yeah, I was also thinking about the short life expectancy. I would've had there be like a bank account or a rolling trust fund for the slayers that just passes onto the next slayer and so on. That way, the money just wouldn't be floating out in space when a slayer dies.
The Council wanted the Slayer to be all about the mission- no attachments to the world.
The binge I went on with this show
Giles hysterical reaction to finding out about Spuffy;)😄.
Every time I see this, I start laughing, too. Every time. I try so hard not to, but Giles' laugh is so funny it just cracks me up every friggin time, so I just give up and laugh.🤣🤣🤣🤣
You look at Rupert's face as she regales him with her story, and you realize he has to be scared with how things've gone quite literally here to "Hell in a handbasket" as the saying goes; what with Dawn getting addicted to stealing, Anya having rejoined her gang she'd been involved in, and this assorted naughtiness that these people got into, including Willow being a magic addict.
Saw him as Dr Frankenfurter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He's brilliant.
Ummm...but it's Giles. Do I really want that image of our favorite librarian in my head????? Innocent blinking noises.
The short cut at 1:14 where SMG let her head sink down shows that this was definitely unplanned and they were not in acting mode there :D
...How does that prove it's unplanned?
@@Onigirli Because it doesn't seem for SMG to be in acting mode, more like the behavior after a blooper.
His laugh is so contagious! :D I'm currently watching the show again (for the 5th oder 6th time maybe ;)) and had to rewind this scene several times because it was so fucking funny and I kept on laughing my ass off. :-)
That probably helped her more than a year of therapy.
This is one of my fave scenes of all time.1
I'm not sure I fully understand it. I mean, this is all bad news, right? How come Giles is laughing?
He's laughing at how absurd some of the things that happened are (especially Buffy being with Spike probably). I actually really like this scene because it shows that even when everything's going to shit you can still laugh about it and not take it so seriously all the time.
I think it's a pretty natural reaction actually, have you ever felt super stressed and things keep piling up and then something even more crazy stressful comes along and you just laugh because you're like...'of course...of course that comes up now' - sometimes you just have to laugh
He's like really? Spike? 😂😂
Was everybody ignoring how Spike had killed two Slayers and spent a year attempting to kill Buffy and her friends ?
Them laughing felt like a blooper that they just kept in because it's better just to ease the tone instead of being fully dramatic
Am I the only person who felt like buffy brought out the true humanity in spike? Angel turned all psycho cereal killer without a soul but spike didn't have a soul and still was gentle enough to love buffy... Even with the demon inside he was a good man... He didn't change much once he had a soul.. I get that SMG had an issue with Spuffy, I thought they were great together..
she didn’t have an issue with Spuffy, she was the one who suggested the idea to Joss in season 4 but she had an issue with how dark the relationship turned into. she thought Buffy was too OOC during season 6
Perhaps, but Spike needed to learn to fight not just for love, but because its right. Otherwise, it wouldn't have mattered if he went out and got a soul. Not to mention, he wasn't that great without one either as seen in this season.
*cereal killer 😂😂❤
i love this scene so much ugh
I couldn't stop laughing too. Thankyou for this walk down memory lane. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The last thing that I expected him to do... cool😎.
Five seconds of deadpan, disbelief stare Thirty seconds uncontrollable laughter Priceless! ROFLMAO!🤣🤣🤣🤣
The most cathartic scene in the history of TV.
Giles needed more times to tell jokes
The Laugh of... "Fuck this Season."
Anthony Head is fantastic. Great laugh.
he straight up wheezing lmao
That's why Giles is a great friend
Giles: willows clearly been abusing her magic.
Buffy: you think
Omg giles *sorry* was so cute n omg his laugh is so infectious
i love the laugh
Giles is laughing because he was _the fuck out of there_ while all that shit she described was going down. 🤣
Funny moment and also the only way to do, good Giles!
A laugh to lighten the mood
True moment of "it's so bad that it's funny"
I love him sm 😭
Greatest moment in the whole series
"Aren you worried about them Giles? What will they do without you?"
"Well it's not like Anya will become a vengeance demon, Dawn will become a klepto, Buffy will go broke and sleep with Spike just because I left. Have some faith in them."
giles just cracks up lol
I love Giles
That's y we love u Anthony 😇😂
I miss this show.
Giles is the best dad
best scene ever!
Best scene ever my boyfriend reminds me a lo like Spike
Grace Lindsey u lucky lucky lucky girl!
I'm Jealous!
LOL I love that scene !
"Sleeping with?!" more like "using him sexually, in an affair." for better terminology of the naughtiness she'd gotten herself in over her head in this.
ikr, using Spike sexually was no laughing matter, it is a severe coping mechanism for depression and self destructive behavior.
@@flipclone That's kind of my point: she was major-league wrong to engage in that.
@@flipclone It seemed more of a tension-relief laugh than genuine amusement over Buffy and Spike. I don't remember anything about Giles ever bringing them up again
The existential laugh, very Whedon
oh, bless them
That was perfect
What a great show 😊❤️
Buffy: AND I’VE BENN SLEEPING WITH SPIKE!
Giles: 😐😐😐😶
Giles: HEHEHEHHEHEHEHHEHEHHEH HEHEHEHHEHEHEHHEHEHHEH HEHEHEHHEHEHEHHEHEHHEH HEHEHEHHEHEHEHHEHEHHEH
😂😂😂
I literally started laughing too
If I was Giles, would have said: When you say sleeping with, you are actually referring to an activity other than sleeping ?
That laugh means : Shi t all of us are going to hell😂😂😂
Every parent recognises that reaction.
This whole episode is so grim and dark and bleak, this moment of levity comes completely out of the blue, and the episode was better for it.