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Buffy the Vampire Slayer 4.11 | "Doomed"

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BUFFY SUMMERS + up-dos

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BUFFY SUMMERS + ponytails

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer – 4.12: A New Man

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer – 5.21: The Weight of the World

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | 7.04

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Modern Family (2009 - 2020) I 6.07

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And what about you? What are you gonna do next?

Doctor Who (2005 - ) I The Christmas Invasion

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer 6.11 | "Gone"

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sweet boyyyyy

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BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER | S5E21: The Weight of the World

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer 4.04 | Fear Itself

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ABBOTT ELEMENTARY -- 4.07 Winter Show

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AVA & O'SHON ABBOTT ELEMENTARY 4x07 "Winter Show"

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Returning to the Greatest Double-Act, and - oh my god, the way that Spike backs Buffy up with Joyce. He's got no skin in this, she needs his help and they both know it, and he's still coming up with (terrible! Who claims to play the triangle in a rock band) lies to back her up even as he can't fathom not telling her mum about her being the Slayer.

(Which- yes, is painful, thinking about Spike's first reaction to vampirism being to go home and tell his mum that he had a way for her to live forever now, and how that one ended.)

And then that absolutely seamless joint slaying, the way they work together so smoothly both to kill the vampire Angel sent after them and to figure out what was going on after he's dust, just- beautiful. Then her looking to Spike for help explaining what the hell is going on to her mother afterwards, just- already, they've fallen into acting like a team, operating as a team so naturally that they're doing it on instinct.

I also love the sort of- the combination of queer-coding the vampire slayer reveal (right down to 'have you tried not being the Slayer') and framing this whole thing as a quasi-romantic awkward meet-the-parents scene, which just- I mean, Spike has got...something...gender-y going on. Just witness the way he looks like he's doing drag every time he's in conventionally masc attire.

Also - 'You hit me with an axe, one time. Remember? Get the hell away from my daughter' - this absolute dork. No wonder they had to bring him back next season, even if only for an episode. And- just the trust of...leaving Spike alone in a room with Buffy's mum, letting them sit in her living room and make awkward conversation while she's on the phone without a moment's apparent worry that he might decide to kill Joyce while Buffy is in the other room.