@@seanm77654 Yes! It was all about him being different levels of drunk on Thanksgiving. At one point, she yells at him "I hate you, you big fat turd!" and he shouts back, "You cannot talk to me that way! I drive a Dodge Stratus!" :)
Oz didn't become a werewolf because it runs in his family, it's because his little cousin bit him. It was easy to miss because it's in the same scene that Larry said that he had been bit by a dog. Oz comments that he had been bit by his cousin who "doesn't like to be tickled."
@@ScribblebytesWorldwide ....huh? lol I don't get at all what you mean. its about Oz's LITTLE cousin biting his finger for tickling him. his cousin just happened to be a werewolf.
You know, it's interesting, I went into this episode reaction fully prepared to find that this episode has aged a lot more poorly than I hoped, but nope, it's still fucking fantastic. Hilarious, genuinely anxiety-inducing at times, great writing, great performances, it's got almost everything. I hate to be this guy, but you guys need to get absolutely everybody in for the next episode. I won't say any more, but trust me, nobody should miss it.
I'd say a few bits have aged poorly, but it's still mostly a great episode. Which is really fucking impressive considering it's basically a sex comedy and sex comedies are particularly prone to aging terribly.
"Love Potion #9" is a song by songwriting superstars Lieber and Stoller and recorded by black R&B group The Clovers in 1959, but later popularized by white pop group The Searchers. In the song, the love potion backfires and makes the guy who bought the potion start "kissing everything in sight".
i'm with micky. when this ep first aired porn really wasn't that accessible so this ep certainly got me going at the time. plus i was 17 so linoleum got me going.
and very much about the letter of the word, not the intent that counts the most. ya know, asking Dianna the goddess of the hunt (aka. Artemis) to channel a lovespell.... is perhaps not a good idea. It's like asking Ares for the power of peace XD
Angel/Angelus wanted to leave something for Buffy to find on Valentine's Day❤ makes you wonder what he was going to do Xander before the spell worked on Drusilla🤔
He could have turned him but I don't think the timing would have worked for the theatrics he would want. If I was Angelus I would repeat the rose and note motif. I would send a single red rose with the location of a place Buffy and Angel went to for a date if any. I would take out Xander's heart, maybe dress him up like Angel and and lay him down with a bunch of white roses but place red ones in the hole in his chest along with a Valentine's Day card
We all know what the uploader was thinking with _"We Talk About Ear Play"_ and _"Buffy nude"_ (as stated in their comment they considered). I'm also surprised the video's title had the correct episode title considering their butchering of it. 😁 I laughed so hard when Suraj asked if Xander and Buffy were going to get together and couldn't wait for the spell to start. I also laughed hard at Pat finding out how the spell worked. Watching Suraj and Pat acknowledge Drusilla's possible infatuation had me waiting to see their reactions to her under the spell. But the hardest I laughed (this one not because I was amused though) was The Normies applauding good guy Xander. The whole episode revolved around Xander attempting revenge on something Cordelia had a right to do (dump Xander) whether people agree with the decision or not, and whether they agree with when she did it (Valentines Day) or not. I disagree with Suraj in that Xander wasn't abusing the power. Taking away Cordelia's right to dump him, and free will in general, only to dump her is horrible. On top of that her obsession could have turned deadly on him. Xander's revenge plot makes my sympathy for him disappear. When Cordelia gets back together with him at the end, I feel even more sympathy for how much he doesn't deserve her as her whole reason for breaking up with him initially was choosing between two groups that the world pits against each other. Xander shows that, even if Cordelia doesn't realize it, neither group is worthy of her hanging out with them. The Buffy Rat equals Sarah Michelle Gellar hosting SNL. Cordelia said, "Keep your mom-aged mitts off my boyfriend...former," but The Normies missed the "former" line because they reacted to the boyfriend line so loudly.
One of the best lol episodes of the series and one of my fav..say what you will about Xander but if he was truly a dog he would have abused the hell out of this spell but he didn't, which speaks volumes about his inner character..I mean he even had his dream crush Buffy coming on strong to him but he cared to much about her to use her like that.. same with Willow.
In re Oz - being a werewolf isnt genetic. In Phases, he mentioned that his cousin bit him. He later found out that his cousin was a werewolf. So it's basically a contagious disease.
Interesting, because, yes, this episode is comedic-heavy, but other Xander-centric episodes, not so much. The Zeppo one you just mentionned, or The Replacement. They have their comedic moment for sure, but they also deal heavily with Xander's emotional status, in quite a serious way. One thing I always love about Xander I guess, he has some of the best speeches, in the future at least (that's not really his thing yet, but it will be)!
The title refers to a song none of you children know about... "I'm wild again Beguiled again A simpering, whimpering child again Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I"
This episode is a nice breather. Which means that things are gonna hurt next episode. The reason Buffy was semi-absent was because she was on SNL during the time this episode was filmed.
I love these reactions! I do kind of wonder if with a group this large, a lot of the subtleties of the show are going to get lost. Like Oz being bitten by his baby nephew. I hope they pick up on Xander being abused at home.
I'm glad that we've finally gotten past Buffy losing her V-card. I believe that's when the series really finds itself & just takes off. Becomes a little less "monster of the week" and the overall arc of the seasons become a bigger deal. I mean, season 1 did have the Master arc but it was always kinda bubbling under the surface of the show. But from here on out there are CLEAR season-long stories to be told.
I think he will :( I've seen on the discord that they film two episodes at a time, the last two episodes they were wearing the same clothes so I think this is the first of the 2 episodes they'll watch so he'll be absent for the next one
This one is always fun on the rewatch, but you guys heightened it. Loved the vibes and the memories it got out of all of you. I'm now looking forward to comedic episodes w your reactions.
I love Joss Whedon's music selection to end episodes with awesome instrumentals 🎸 it always makes me want to break the 4th wall & wink to the camera 😉 God I love the 90s
That’s all he needed! 😂 It has been nearly two decades since I watched the episode - I didn’t remember Drusilla being a part of the Xander storyline. (I tried a rewatch of the series 10-11 years ago and the furthest I got was about 3 episodes back, I think.)
Not sure if I should be embarrassed or proud of this, but I once broke up with someone over Buffy the Vampire Slayer... 😅 (I mean not literally, we were just watching together and one scene suddenly opened up the perfect talk/argument for me to finally say it. It's still surreal to think how it happened LOL)
Quick note, werewolf doesn’t run on Oz’s family. I guess you missed that line in that episode where Oz told Larry in the gym that his cousin Geordi bit him.
There are many love-spell-gone-wrong stories but this takes it to a new level. Giles is correct that the spell created obsession from the "level" of love the girls/women felt. I really wanted Xander to get seduced by the lunch lady, lol.. The mob of obsessed women was similar to a zombie horde in the context of sheer numbers. Great dialogue and fun acting all around.
That ending is always so satisfying no matter how many times I see it. Cordelia officially rose up to one of my top 5 characters at this point and stayed there permanently.
At least from a viewer's POV, I don't think Ms. Calendar did anything all that terrible... I'm surprised the Normies think she did worse than what Giles did. Also she was still willing to have Giles talking to her, not that that means Giles should feel the same way.
A common fan theory on this episode is that Amy didn't mess up the spell and what messed it up was the fact Xander was trying to use an evocation (i.e. calling on a higher power) love spell with spiteful intentions. This likely insulted the Goddess they were evoking, making her deliberately screw with it.
Huh that’s a decent theory. I always just kinda thought Amy messed up the spell and made it affect everyone and it just didn’t work on Cordelia because she was already in love with Xander but that makes a lot more sense
@@mizzdiiva92 Yeah Diana is the roman goddess of the hunt, which I always liked to think played into why the girls were all so aggressively pursuing him.
It's not so much a fan theory as it is implied. The point of saying the intent has to be pure. Magic is already an uncertain art, if you add in an uncertain motive, to a multifaceted deity. It doesn't require the deity to be insulted for things to go wrong.
Love the reaction to this and whether you know this fact but one of the comments made was a reference to Hocus Pocus. Larry who comes out as gay in a previous episode played Ernie aka Ice in Hocus Pocus
Mark 3:09. 🎉🎊 Finally! The return of, "Harmony Kendall", as played by one, Mercedes McNab! I've been waiting! It took long enough! I've "met", ahem, cardboard "Spike", "Yoda", and "Buffy", at the same time, as they were set up so that you could pose with them for a picture, one at a time probably, but my friend managed to get me and them in the same frame. 🤔 I've met an actor named, "David", whose last name I can't read, so I don't remember it. It wasn't the actor that plays, "Angel", by the way! I've met, Armin Shimerman, more than once. But out of all my, "Buffy/Angel", moments at conventions, Mercedes McNab, was my favorite and most fun! 🤩😘. Though I wish that she had teamed up with, Julie Benz, so that they could call it the, "Mercedes-Benz Tour"! They may have been thought of it, but their lawyers probably told them no. 🤔 (No, I missed out on meeting, Julie!) By the way, if you've seen the first two live-action movie versions of, "The Addams Family", with Christina Ricci as, "Wednesday Addams", then you've seen, Mercedes, before she was in this series and, "Angel". She was the, "Girl Scout", in the first one, and the not so happy camper in the second one. Mercedes, told me that she was told, that each character was different, and not the same girl!
This is my favorite episode of the show even though it does nothing for the season wide story. I love Sarah but I’m so glad she was stuck on snl and they were forced to deviate from the main storyline because it ended up being so funny.
I dated a girl in college. She was my second girlfriend and the first time I did the breaking up. I texted her, "we need to talk", to prep her expectations, then I met her in person and then broke up. I feel like you should text first so they know what's coming, but do the break-up and discuss why in person. And always give the reasons why. I broke up with her because of what she was doing, and I told her. People can't improve if you don't air your complaints.
Now that is setting a great example of how to break up with someone. I never thought of the texting her with “we need to talk” as a way to prepare them, but it makes perfect sense.
As a forty eight year old - while I agree that your reasoning seems sound - I can't help but laugh at how different the modern world is, as expressed through your post here. "I feel like you should text first" was an option which didn't exist not tht long ago. but, so much has changed so quickly, from the presence in school of personal, internet-accessible telephones to wardrobe. When I was in school, in the nineties (and things i've seen seem to show that Gen X was more conservative in this area than what came before or after), shorts which ended as short as a couple inches above a woman's thigh were absolutely unheard of, in high school or college. Today....
Mark 5:58. Oh wait! Seth Green! I just realized that I only saw his name in the opening credits of something new that I viewed last night, so I looked for him, but I guess that I didn't recognize him, and I forgot until just now. Hmm. 🤔 "Young Sheldon"? 🤔 No. "Ghosts"? 🤔 No. "Walker: Independence"? 🤔 Maybe? "Alaska Daily"? 🤔 Maybe? Well, "Google", just adds to the confusion! His face is hairy enough now to have been in the pilot episode of, "Walker: Independence", but he has also replaced, Jim Gaffigan, in the series, "DC's Stargirl"! I didn't even know that, JG, was in that!
Mark 15:59. In one of the, "Monty Python", movies, a guy is chased to his death, by bare breasted girls in roller skating gear! He goes off a cliff, and into his awaiting casket, and once he is pronounced dead, his beach memorial service begins. It turns out that he was about to die soon, but he wanted to die on his own terms, and that was how he wanted to go! 😎😁
Mark 5:16. Juliet Landau! 😘🤩. When you have the time, you may want to check out and react to her parents in both the original version of, "Mission: Impossible" & "Space: 1999"! 🤓😎
So now we know. In the Buffyverse, a pove spell is one of the most dangerous spells possible. A lot of shows like to make light of it and how it would most likely be abused. The show didn't really want to touch the likely rape aspect of a love spell too much, so they showed how forcing a strong obsession will bring the likely bad and violent side effects strong obsessions bring.
This is a super cool , funny , suspense filled episode. Xander becomes the obsession of many many high girls and adult women caused by witchcraft. The directing is so good I like this naughty side of Willow and Buffy, Ms. kicking up her own naughty behavior. And OMG! Buffy’s Mother too. Hilarious. A favorite. ❤❤❤
Mark 8:58. Who went darker with their hair? 🤔. In, "Petticoat Junction", we never even saw a picture of, Mister Bradley, but his widow, Kate, a blonde, and he had the hair color trifecta with their daughters! A blonde, a red, and a brunette! The studio was enamored that they had the same trifecta with, Buffy, whose name is a synonym for her blonde hair, the red Willow, and the brunette, Cordelia. (Riff Regan's hair color matched my paternal grandmother's hair. I don't know what to call that color. 🤔 ) They didn't like it when the actresses git bored and changed their hair colors, and were told to change them back! Sarah, dyed her brunette hair blonde in the first place, to audition, because it matched, Kristy Swanson's hair. She didn't know what, "Buffy", meant! Charisma, didn't dye her hair. Mercedes, was already a blonde, as was Julie Benz. But you get the point, right? 🤔
Fun fact : , Buffy was pretty much absent throughout the episode even though it's not noticeable. Sarah was rehearsing and doing SNL that week, hence the excuse of turning her into a rat to justify her lack of screen presence!
I realise this episode is a pivotal step in Xander's growth, in fact while he's never perfect I don't think the amount he does (eventually) mature gets recognised. However I don't think you should get any credit for not taking advantage of a magic-roofied person.
love the reaction an the conversation after i broke it off with my girl friend an i forget she had a extra key to my place i came back after work an she took everything out my place no lie even all the light bulbs hahaha an the ice cube trays out the fridge. i though the power was cut hahaha i was going around turning on an off switches.she took the most random stuff
Angel just showing up and snatching Xander out of the window out of nowhere with the line “works in theory” gets me every time lol
Cruel Intentions group reaction PLEASE. Also, FUN FACT: The reason Buffy is barely in this episode is because SMG was hosting SNL that week.
Oh I remember that snl Will Ferrell was her dad
@@seanm77654 Yes! It was all about him being different levels of drunk on Thanksgiving. At one point, she yells at him "I hate you, you big fat turd!" and he shouts back, "You cannot talk to me that way! I drive a Dodge Stratus!" :)
Druscilla calling Xander "Kitten" is still one of the funniest, most disturbing things ever. Lol!
“This happened to me when I started using axe…”
Lmfao Mickey 😂 how did no one on the couch laugh at that?! 😂😅
I like how from Angels POV Dru is just being Dru lol "Damnitt Dru can you not randomly fall in love with people again?"
Oz didn't become a werewolf because it runs in his family, it's because his little cousin bit him. It was easy to miss because it's in the same scene that Larry said that he had been bit by a dog. Oz comments that he had been bit by his cousin who "doesn't like to be tickled."
How did his little cousin get bit? Is it ever explained, or was it just a throwaway joke line that's never fleshed out?
And we all know that whole exchange was an allegory. "Tickled"? And "bite"...we all know what *that* means.
@@ScribblebytesWorldwide ....huh? lol I don't get at all what you mean. its about Oz's LITTLE cousin biting his finger for tickling him. his cousin just happened to be a werewolf.
You'd think 'don't screw with magic' would be a lesson Xander wouldn't need to learn more than once, but...
I think Willow is the one that ends up needing that one the most
You know, it's interesting, I went into this episode reaction fully prepared to find that this episode has aged a lot more poorly than I hoped, but nope, it's still fucking fantastic. Hilarious, genuinely anxiety-inducing at times, great writing, great performances, it's got almost everything.
I hate to be this guy, but you guys need to get absolutely everybody in for the next episode. I won't say any more, but trust me, nobody should miss it.
agreed
Agreed
I'd say a few bits have aged poorly, but it's still mostly a great episode. Which is really fucking impressive considering it's basically a sex comedy and sex comedies are particularly prone to aging terribly.
@@Talisguy Yeah fully agree, it would not be at all surprising if it had aged catastrophically badly but it really hasn't
@@Talisguy Which bits? Genuinely curious since it looks fine to me.
"Love Potion #9" is a song by songwriting superstars Lieber and Stoller and recorded by black R&B group The Clovers in 1959, but later popularized by white pop group The Searchers. In the song, the love potion backfires and makes the guy who bought the potion start "kissing everything in sight".
Glad to see you loving Drusilla. She's one of my fav characters.
i'm with micky. when this ep first aired porn really wasn't that accessible so this ep certainly got me going at the time. plus i was 17 so linoleum got me going.
I see what you did there, Xander.
Man this episode came out when I was 13 and like, Buffy in that trenchoat was revelatory.
Sexual awakening
This whole time, none of us realized, SURAJ is Cordelia, not Rana.
I realized because I've seen every single one of these and Suraj outed himself as Cordy in Season 1.😂😂😂
@@ScribblebytesWorldwide Man, what did he know back then? The reaction here was concrete evidence
The post-show discussion was gold.
Rana straight did a music video type of break-up.
I like how this show portrays magic. There are legitimate drawbacks and it's usually a case of "Be careful what you wish for."
and very much about the letter of the word, not the intent that counts the most. ya know, asking Dianna the goddess of the hunt (aka. Artemis) to channel a lovespell.... is perhaps not a good idea. It's like asking Ares for the power of peace XD
Gym shorts was a bad idea lol 😂 😂 Mickey’s comments the best!
I knew this episode would make for an absolutely hilarious reaction vid, and you guys did *not* disappoint. 🤣
That's exactly right. As fun as the episode is, I found *vastly* entertaining their reaction to it. 😄
You guys are *totes* crazy 😂😂😂
Angel/Angelus wanted to leave something for Buffy to find on Valentine's Day❤ makes you wonder what he was going to do Xander before the spell worked on Drusilla🤔
He could have turned him but I don't think the timing would have worked for the theatrics he would want.
If I was Angelus I would repeat the rose and note motif. I would send a single red rose with the location of a place Buffy and Angel went to for a date if any. I would take out Xander's heart, maybe dress him up like Angel and and lay him down with a bunch of white roses but place red ones in the hole in his chest along with a Valentine's Day card
@@artee4297 well then, I guess we're going to have to see the next episode to see if Angelus continues with his "theatrics" or maybe not....😈
This is when Sunnydale starts to feel like Hogwarts. We know so many background characters.
We all know what the uploader was thinking with _"We Talk About Ear Play"_ and _"Buffy nude"_ (as stated in their comment they considered). I'm also surprised the video's title had the correct episode title considering their butchering of it. 😁
I laughed so hard when Suraj asked if Xander and Buffy were going to get together and couldn't wait for the spell to start. I also laughed hard at Pat finding out how the spell worked. Watching Suraj and Pat acknowledge Drusilla's possible infatuation had me waiting to see their reactions to her under the spell. But the hardest I laughed (this one not because I was amused though) was The Normies applauding good guy Xander. The whole episode revolved around Xander attempting revenge on something Cordelia had a right to do (dump Xander) whether people agree with the decision or not, and whether they agree with when she did it (Valentines Day) or not. I disagree with Suraj in that Xander wasn't abusing the power. Taking away Cordelia's right to dump him, and free will in general, only to dump her is horrible. On top of that her obsession could have turned deadly on him.
Xander's revenge plot makes my sympathy for him disappear. When Cordelia gets back together with him at the end, I feel even more sympathy for how much he doesn't deserve her as her whole reason for breaking up with him initially was choosing between two groups that the world pits against each other. Xander shows that, even if Cordelia doesn't realize it, neither group is worthy of her hanging out with them.
The Buffy Rat equals Sarah Michelle Gellar hosting SNL.
Cordelia said, "Keep your mom-aged mitts off my boyfriend...former," but The Normies missed the "former" line because they reacted to the boyfriend line so loudly.
Next Episode, ANGEL. That's all you need to say. Episode is a lot better than I remembered, rewatch it recently in my own.
I just checked which one it is and oh Holy 💩
oh right 17 is passion isn't it?
Xander centric episodes just hit different
(bcs he's a proxy for Joss Whedon so he writes the funniest ones for him)
Can't wait for THE ZEPPO. "What you too good to be DEAD? Wait....do you have a problem with dead people?"
I cannot wait until they get to "The Zeppo"
@@BlaiseRashelHarman10 This episode was written by Marti Noxon.
@@skywalkerslegacy that’s possibly my fav btvs episode, makes me laugh the hardest
One of the best lol episodes of the series and one of my fav..say what you will about Xander but if he was truly a dog he would have abused the hell out of this spell but he didn't, which speaks volumes about his inner character..I mean he even had his dream crush Buffy coming on strong to him but he cared to much about her to use her like that.. same with Willow.
Cruel Intentions for the next Normie movie night!
28:22 Rana's yawn into muscle pose was hilarious
In re Oz - being a werewolf isnt genetic. In Phases, he mentioned that his cousin bit him. He later found out that his cousin was a werewolf. So it's basically a contagious disease.
Thank you. Came on to say that. Hopefully they actually read the comments.
@@Angela-bm3lp I don't think they do. They sprinkled hearts around in the earlier episodes, but the spoilers were rampant and now there are no hearts.
That's why it's an allegory for *you know what* in the 90s in the 90s🤘🤘🤘
Notice how Drusilla throws Xander aside to save herself from the mob.
She has PTSD from angry mobs
If I need a laugh, Xander-focused episodes are my favorites. He is truly under appreciated…kind of like Zeppo Marx
Lol
iconic, can't wait
Interesting, because, yes, this episode is comedic-heavy, but other Xander-centric episodes, not so much. The Zeppo one you just mentionned, or The Replacement. They have their comedic moment for sure, but they also deal heavily with Xander's emotional status, in quite a serious way.
One thing I always love about Xander I guess, he has some of the best speeches, in the future at least (that's not really his thing yet, but it will be)!
The title refers to a song none of you children know about...
"I'm wild again
Beguiled again
A simpering, whimpering child again
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I"
This episode is a nice breather.
Which means that things are gonna hurt next episode.
The reason Buffy was semi-absent was because she was on SNL during the time this episode was filmed.
I love these reactions! I do kind of wonder if with a group this large, a lot of the subtleties of the show are going to get lost. Like Oz being bitten by his baby nephew. I hope they pick up on Xander being abused at home.
This whole reaction was funny, but the aloe plant bit at 38:31 had me cracking up
i think this episode started the Angel/Xander shipping and the more crack Oz/Buffy shipping in fanfics 😂
@@serenityq26 yeah me too but once in a while i remember seeing the Oz/Buffy pairing pop up in tags 😂
Petition for the normies to watch the two episodes of Buffy and angel one after the other in a single video
I've watched A LOT of Buffy Reactions on this platform. These are SO MUCH fun! I look forward to these all week. Lots of loves!!
Great Buffy episode and your commentary and reactions made it even better. Awesome watch.
I'm glad that we've finally gotten past Buffy losing her V-card. I believe that's when the series really finds itself & just takes off. Becomes a little less "monster of the week" and the overall arc of the seasons become a bigger deal. I mean, season 1 did have the Master arc but it was always kinda bubbling under the surface of the show. But from here on out there are CLEAR season-long stories to be told.
it feels like ive waited ages for this reaction. think you should do 2 a week lol. love it
chris missed a great episode, hope he doesnt miss next episode
I think he will :( I've seen on the discord that they film two episodes at a time, the last two episodes they were wearing the same clothes so I think this is the first of the 2 episodes they'll watch so he'll be absent for the next one
@@norasmith2474 Although "Innocence" had five reactors while "Phases" had six.
This one is always fun on the rewatch, but you guys heightened it. Loved the vibes and the memories it got out of all of you. I'm now looking forward to comedic episodes w your reactions.
One of Nicholas Brendon's favorite episodes, he found it hard not to laugh while filming the seduction scenes.
I love Joss Whedon's music selection to end episodes with awesome instrumentals 🎸 it always makes me want to break the 4th wall & wink to the camera 😉 God I love the 90s
That’s all he needed! 😂
It has been nearly two decades since I watched the episode - I didn’t remember Drusilla being a part of the Xander storyline. (I tried a rewatch of the series 10-11 years ago and the furthest I got was about 3 episodes back, I think.)
Not sure if I should be embarrassed or proud of this, but I once broke up with someone over Buffy the Vampire Slayer... 😅 (I mean not literally, we were just watching together and one scene suddenly opened up the perfect talk/argument for me to finally say it. It's still surreal to think how it happened LOL)
I'm proud of you and the fact that my industry was able to give you a way out of a bad situation. That's why we do it!
Oh, watching these episodes takes me back... those splayed collar over the suit jacket, so much 90s edge, I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!
Quick note, werewolf doesn’t run on Oz’s family. I guess you missed that line in that episode where Oz told Larry in the gym that his cousin Geordi bit him.
There are many love-spell-gone-wrong stories but this takes it to a new level. Giles is correct that the spell created obsession from the "level" of love the girls/women felt. I really wanted Xander to get seduced by the lunch lady, lol.. The mob of obsessed women was similar to a zombie horde in the context of sheer numbers. Great dialogue and fun acting all around.
Xander does not know how to barricade doors. I'm flashing back to the season 1 finale where the vampires are trying to get into the library.
That ending is always so satisfying no matter how many times I see it. Cordelia officially rose up to one of my top 5 characters at this point and stayed there permanently.
Always have subtitles on... unless it becomes very badly synced.
I love this show SO MUCH, it’s life changing. Love your reactions to it too! Please don’t quit it ❤❤❤
At least from a viewer's POV, I don't think Ms. Calendar did anything all that terrible... I'm surprised the Normies think she did worse than what Giles did. Also she was still willing to have Giles talking to her, not that that means Giles should feel the same way.
A common fan theory on this episode is that Amy didn't mess up the spell and what messed it up was the fact Xander was trying to use an evocation (i.e. calling on a higher power) love spell with spiteful intentions. This likely insulted the Goddess they were evoking, making her deliberately screw with it.
Huh that’s a decent theory. I always just kinda thought Amy messed up the spell and made it affect everyone and it just didn’t work on Cordelia because she was already in love with Xander but that makes a lot more sense
I mean didn't she call Diana who isn't the goddess of love? I feel like that had something to do with messing it up.
@@mizzdiiva92 Yeah Diana is the roman goddess of the hunt, which I always liked to think played into why the girls were all so aggressively pursuing him.
It's not so much a fan theory as it is implied. The point of saying the intent has to be pure. Magic is already an uncertain art, if you add in an uncertain motive, to a multifaceted deity. It doesn't require the deity to be insulted for things to go wrong.
This isn't a fan theory. Its literally what we saw in the episode. They stated it and it happened.
12:35
Fun Fact: This episode coined the term "Big Bad"!
The second part of season 2 just keeps getting better and better- can’t wait for you guys to experience it
Love the reaction to this and whether you know this fact but one of the comments made was a reference to Hocus Pocus. Larry who comes out as gay in a previous episode played Ernie aka Ice in Hocus Pocus
Mark 3:09. 🎉🎊 Finally! The return of, "Harmony Kendall", as played by one, Mercedes McNab! I've been waiting! It took long enough!
I've "met", ahem, cardboard "Spike", "Yoda", and "Buffy", at the same time, as they were set up so that you could pose with them for a picture, one at a time probably, but my friend managed to get me and them in the same frame. 🤔
I've met an actor named, "David", whose last name I can't read, so I don't remember it. It wasn't the actor that plays, "Angel", by the way!
I've met, Armin Shimerman, more than once.
But out of all my, "Buffy/Angel", moments at conventions, Mercedes McNab, was my favorite and most fun! 🤩😘. Though I wish that she had teamed up with, Julie Benz, so that they could call it the, "Mercedes-Benz Tour"! They may have been thought of it, but their lawyers probably told them no. 🤔
(No, I missed out on meeting, Julie!)
By the way, if you've seen the first two live-action movie versions of, "The Addams Family", with Christina Ricci as, "Wednesday Addams", then you've seen, Mercedes, before she was in this series and, "Angel". She was the, "Girl Scout", in the first one, and the not so happy camper in the second one. Mercedes, told me that she was told, that each character was different, and not the same girl!
GREAT reaction to one of my most favorite episodes! “Make me yak!!” 🤣 The next episode is an absolute classic, not to be missed!
Mark 24:27. Magic, being a, "Marvel Mutant", has the ability to prevent people from doing that to her though! 🤣
This is my favorite episode of the show even though it does nothing for the season wide story. I love Sarah but I’m so glad she was stuck on snl and they were forced to deviate from the main storyline because it ended up being so funny.
I dated a girl in college. She was my second girlfriend and the first time I did the breaking up. I texted her, "we need to talk", to prep her expectations, then I met her in person and then broke up. I feel like you should text first so they know what's coming, but do the break-up and discuss why in person. And always give the reasons why. I broke up with her because of what she was doing, and I told her. People can't improve if you don't air your complaints.
That’s about as polite as you can do it.
Now that is setting a great example of how to break up with someone. I never thought of the texting her with “we need to talk” as a way to prepare them, but it makes perfect sense.
As a forty eight year old - while I agree that your reasoning seems sound - I can't help but laugh at how different the modern world is, as expressed through your post here. "I feel like you should text first" was an option which didn't exist not tht long ago. but, so much has changed so quickly, from the presence in school of personal, internet-accessible telephones to wardrobe. When I was in school, in the nineties (and things i've seen seem to show that Gen X was more conservative in this area than what came before or after), shorts which ended as short as a couple inches above a woman's thigh were absolutely unheard of, in high school or college. Today....
(19:11) My man really laughed like the Space Kook from Scooby Doo.
One of my favourite episodes and that was one of my favourite reactions. Awesome stuff, and Mickey's gym shorts comment killed me! :)
Mark 5:58. Oh wait! Seth Green! I just realized that I only saw his name in the opening credits of something new that I viewed last night, so I looked for him, but I guess that I didn't recognize him, and I forgot until just now. Hmm. 🤔
"Young Sheldon"? 🤔 No.
"Ghosts"? 🤔 No.
"Walker: Independence"? 🤔 Maybe?
"Alaska Daily"? 🤔 Maybe?
Well, "Google", just adds to the confusion! His face is hairy enough now to have been in the pilot episode of, "Walker: Independence", but he has also replaced, Jim Gaffigan, in the series, "DC's Stargirl"! I didn't even know that, JG, was in that!
You guys totally need to react to Cruel Intentions, y'all will love it. It's Sarah Michelle Gellar at her finest.
Mark 15:59. In one of the, "Monty Python", movies, a guy is chased to his death, by bare breasted girls in roller skating gear! He goes off a cliff, and into his awaiting casket, and once he is pronounced dead, his beach memorial service begins. It turns out that he was about to die soon, but he wanted to die on his own terms, and that was how he wanted to go! 😎😁
Mark 5:16. Juliet Landau! 😘🤩. When you have the time, you may want to check out and react to her parents in both the original version of, "Mission: Impossible" & "Space: 1999"! 🤓😎
Oz' cousin bit him when he was tickling him. He mentioned when Larry said he had been bitten by a wild dog.
the chomp sounds effect when willows goes for xanders ear killed me. have tears rolling down my face.
Rana, Im with you about the ear first base, I love it
Happy Chaos Day with the Normies
GET EVERYONE BACK ON THE COUCH FOR THE NEXT EPISODE THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!
Mark 23:44. Those axes are for fighting fires with, so you're going to find them in handy places in public buildings such as high schools! 🪓
That episode is hilarious, all the women playing crazy are so good.
Also Angelus, messing with Spike is the best, he’s such a petty asshole.
So now we know. In the Buffyverse, a pove spell is one of the most dangerous spells possible. A lot of shows like to make light of it and how it would most likely be abused. The show didn't really want to touch the likely rape aspect of a love spell too much, so they showed how forcing a strong obsession will bring the likely bad and violent side effects strong obsessions bring.
And this is why you should never mess with love spells. 😄
I'm so glad they liked this ep. It's so silly. Now I'm hyped to see them watch the next episode!
i am not a fan of xander at all but his episodes are always really good. lol. loved this reaction!
33:50 Omg Rana "Dear Johned" someone!
PS: Aha! Belatedly, I noticed your saying the name, "Sandra Bullock"! Whew! That's better! ✌️👍🖖🖐️🙏😎🤓🤠
Love The Xander episodes they are so much fun
This is a super cool , funny , suspense filled episode. Xander becomes the obsession of many many high girls and adult women caused by witchcraft. The directing is so good I like this naughty side of Willow and Buffy, Ms. kicking up her own naughty behavior. And OMG! Buffy’s Mother too. Hilarious. A favorite. ❤❤❤
Bro in the silver shirt got hard watching sarah 😂
Mark 8:58. Who went darker with their hair? 🤔. In, "Petticoat Junction", we never even saw a picture of, Mister Bradley, but his widow, Kate, a blonde, and he had the hair color trifecta with their daughters! A blonde, a red, and a brunette!
The studio was enamored that they had the same trifecta with, Buffy, whose name is a synonym for her blonde hair, the red Willow, and the brunette, Cordelia. (Riff Regan's hair color matched my paternal grandmother's hair. I don't know what to call that color. 🤔 ) They didn't like it when the actresses git bored and changed their hair colors, and were told to change them back!
Sarah, dyed her brunette hair blonde in the first place, to audition, because it matched, Kristy Swanson's hair. She didn't know what, "Buffy", meant! Charisma, didn't dye her hair. Mercedes, was already a blonde, as was Julie Benz. But you get the point, right? 🤔
Xander gets all kinds even from different species and even undead ones
Ok I gotta get a week ahead and see next week's. You got me on the Patreon
Mark 10:31? "Love Potion #9"?! Song reference, Sandra Bullock movie reference, or both? 🤔 Whichever it is, thanks for it! 😎👍
Mark 14:26. Haha! Coincidentally enough the, Ferengi, love playing with ears as it is an erogenous zone to them! Armin, played, "Quark"! 🖖
Loved this reaction! 😄
Fun fact : , Buffy was pretty much absent throughout the episode even though it's not noticeable. Sarah was rehearsing and doing SNL that week, hence the excuse of turning her into a rat to justify her lack of screen presence!
Didn't Oz say his little cousin bit him at a family gathering? I could be mis-remembering.
Yeah he mentions being bitten by his cousin right after Larry talks about being bitten by a dog.
The: "he wants me enough to put a spell on me" should not be hot. 90's logic was not of this world.
I realise this episode is a pivotal step in Xander's growth, in fact while he's never perfect I don't think the amount he does (eventually) mature gets recognised. However I don't think you should get any credit for not taking advantage of a magic-roofied person.
Why not? 99% of teenage lads would definitely take advantage of that scenario.
@@iFruit96 agree to disagree.
@@iFruit96 not men, boys. We're talking about a teenage virgin. Not a grown man.
I think by 90's standards it's supposed to indicate he's 'doing the right thing' but yeah, as with most television it didn't age super well in spots.
@@chrisbergsten1429 If I'm a robot I'm so poorly made and ill-conceived that I must be an Elon Musk joint.
love the reaction an the conversation after i broke it off with my girl friend an i forget she had a extra key to my place i came back after work an she took everything out my place no lie even all the light bulbs hahaha an the ice cube trays out the fridge. i though the power was cut hahaha i was going around turning on an off switches.she took the most random stuff
Mark 24:47? I finally got it to pause at the right spot, but I don't see a gun? Or gum? 🤔
Spidey might be Swole, but Rana finna rip his arm off at the end of the episode!
You guys were right the first time. The real title of this episode is 'Bitched, Buffy, and Boobs'.
The SMG, SNL episode of Buffy
Y did it take me this long to realize that giles is uther pendragon