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Hoo boy are we close now...

I have a theory..😂 Yes you will..

Im a 6'4 man, and there is zero chance im walking around Sunnydale alone, let alone let my teenage child do it!

Willow's problem with magic is that she stopped respecting it. When she was first learning, she only used magics in life or death situations. Now she's using magic with no consideration or hesitation. When you stop respecting a force of nature, that force inevitably teaches you why you're wrong to do so.

Please full couch for next week 🙏🏽🙏🏽

Next week is so far away.

26:52 no, the writers have had willow mention working on and failing to turn amy back a few times over these few seasons.

The episodes are the same length as in previous seasons. 42-45 minutes throughout the entire series except the next episode that is 50m and that is also the single episode that was widescreen in original.

Dawn, to vampire: "I know, I suck." Marketa: "Not yet"

21:39 Mickey said the thing a week early 😂

I love how obsessed everyone is with calling Giles "the ripper"

Every time reactors get to this episode. My first thought is, now you have to rewatch the entire series to see all the time and things that Giles thought warranted “not wanting to see”.

The bit at 4:45 is DEEPLY funny to anyone who has read the continuation comic books written after the show went off the air.

"Can I try it on?" "No she'll steal it". Ya'll are READY

What Willow did is even more fucked up considering Tara was gaslighted and abused by her family her whole life.

97 was near the end of 15 yr olds basically raising themselves, babysitting by age 12, come home when the street lights came on. 18 year olds in this time let a completely different life then the 12 year olds of this time. People were starting to pay attention to the kids that were 12 at this time. 18 year olds at this time remember being 12 year old latchkey kids. Dawn is at that middle age in between

definitely caught me with the angel at the door, as if i havent seen this episode 10 times lol

Season 6 Big Bad is real life.

God i love the misdirect of that old man...I find it kinda sad, he was being nice all along and in the spirit of Halloween of treat...Dumb vampire !!

4:44 When you know what happens in the comics… 😰

In the Buffyverse magic is more like Lord of the Rings not Harry Potter. You can use magic to fight the forces of evil but not to help yourself.

Fun episode! Wonder what next week's will be like?

I just realised something when watching this video. If Willow can cast spells on everyone in a given crowd who doesn't meet specific criteria, could she not have just made everyone in the crowd who _is_ a fifteen-year-old girl glow faintly or something? Given herself IRL videogame quest objective markers? She's not just resorting to spells to sort out minor inconveniences, she's doing it in the most dangerous way possible when safer magical alternatives have to exist.

I think everyone (especially Rana) has forgotten from what kind of family background Xander comes from. There are clear indications of a disfunctional maybe even abusive (mentally if not physically) family. Remember his dream at the end of season 4 and how his father was portrayed. Heck he rather sleeps outside come Christmas time than face his family. So when he has has issues with attachment and the permancy of marriage it should come as no surprise.

Xander is afraid of what's going to happen in his future. Marriage scars him. Dawn is a little coleptomaniac. Giles thinks Buffy is too dependent on him and he's worried she won't make hard decisions for herself. Willow is getting way to into using magic for eveything and Tara knows it. Spike is still obsessed with Buffy. Lastly Buffy is still all messed up from being in heaven then coming back to this crappy planet. It will be interesting to see where we go from here.

ITS ALMOST TIME!!!!! But…. Doses anybody even notice, does anybody even care…

Everyone say ALL THE WAY Once more with feeling😊

Anya's dance of capitalist superiority😂. Yes, Willow wiping Tara's memory is very effed up, a total abuse of trust. I can't wait to see your reactions to the next episode, it's famous for a reason!

These last 2 season are gonna be a roller-coaster. Strap in.

I like this as a Halloween episode, it does really bring that eerie, spooky Halloween vibes

OMG I CANT WAIT FOR THE NEXT EPISODE!!!!

I imagine Sunnydale is mostly cemetery.

Rana has me dead

HEY COMMENT SECTION! I got a Patreon so I could watch the full uncut of the next episode. You guys…it’s great

#SUNDAYRUNDOWN okay Rana going nuts with the hand gestures as she hopes for some spuffy action is too funny, these reactions are always the best when everyone is full of sass and pep.

With Willow, her use of magic presents substance addiction/abuse. It gets pretty intense this season.

I love that most of the comments are about what's coming. 😂 Literally as I'm typing this they're talking about something coming. Brilliant timing. I also love their discussion at the end. Great points about Willow and Tara. Can't wait for next week! 😉

So closeeee

La amiga de Dawn trabajo en The Grudge 2 como la hermana de Sarah Michelle Gellar

Fantastic episode and a wonderful commentary from The Normies.

It’s Halloween in Sunnydale. What could go wrong? Hard to do something new but they did. You were right about the 2 teen vamp dudes reminding you of the guys in Scream. Remember the times and the scary movies of this time. This episode touched on most of them . I am often surprised about the lack of understanding Dawn and her stealing. Two things…. A teenager that has gone through the traumas that Dawn has without a family to give her support would act out somehow. Also there is the genetics of shoplifting from Buffy. In Becoming, Part 1, she tells her first watcher… if your from Bullocks, I meant to pay for that lipstick. “ There were many things that happened in both parts that started in those crucial episodes. We saw the back stories on Angel, Drusilla, and Buffy because they happened in the past. There were other stories about Becoming but those were in the present.

SQUEEEEEEEE!!! A Linkin Park reference!!!! Thank you!! About Xander having cold feet, his experience with how his parents were had really messed with him and the whole idea of marriage is terrifying for him, despite wanting it.

When i say i can speak for the other normies that we cant wait for next week's episode

Schifty Five? Now, that's a deep cut.

Oh you want sad willow, evil willow even. Well, wish granted

Xander annoys me sometimes. I get that he has doubts about marriage and about his future, but HE proposed, and then made her wait MONTHS until telling anyone. Anya deserves better. :(

Chris funding out the rest of the couch became vampires is hilarious.

21:07 I want everyone to remember Spidey's words for later. And Chris' words at 26:58

Pat: "What the hell is that?" reguarding the _Peanuts_ Halloween special. ☹🤦‍♂🤦‍♀🤦 3:28-3:38 The first Halloween episode was Spike taking advantage of a human aka Ethan Rayne causing chaos. Spike just took advantage of what was already happened and was caused by a human. The second was a human causing something magic to happen accidentally to a human Halloween party. And this episode was rebel vampires even Spike thought gave vampires "a bad name." No mythology rules being broken. Xander has cold feet regaurding his upcoming marraige, Dawn is a coleptomaniac, Giles thinks Buffy is too dependent on him and that she needs to learn to grow up, Willow has an addiction to magic that is getting worse with every episode (with Tara starting to acknowledge), Spike is still obsessed with Buffy, and Buffy is depressed from being resurrected from heaven. Where will the show go from here? Dawn is officially the same age Buffy was when Buffy became the slayer. In the origin story. The joke of Angel being at the door when Giles opened it had me laughing hard. Even for those like Chris who don't understand Willow's addiction, her attitude towards Tara is showing it just as much as the usage itself. That's how true addiction works. "Mist, cemetary, Halloween. Should end well." *Almost knocks himself out* "Bloody brilliant." Buffy can't really argue that, "That was different." Her argument, whether she believes it or not, should have been, "Learn from my mistakes." Buffy killed like Kinpin fourteen years before Kingpin made it famous. If Willow has sex with Tara at the end of this episode, it's blatant rape considering we know Tara wasn't in the mood before Willow erased her mind. But, even if they didn't have sex, snuggling is (and any other lovy-dovey moments at this point) considered sexual assualt. The episodes are the same legnth, but I cannot remember commercial break legth on The WB vs UPN. The reason the older people start freaking out towards the younger generation and assuming things are different is that their lesson for that stage in life is to make the realization that things like kissing and sex and dating etc. don't change and that when they were younger, their older siblings and parents were going through the same thing thing they are now going through concerning their younger relative. Suraj, no one thinks its harmless to make people forget. The problem is all the little things The Normies are trying to dismiss are not harmless. Willow is addicted and it's been a minor problem since restoring Angel's soul (ignoring advice and worry from Giles and other characters, casting spells that go wrong without a worry for the consequences, blaming others for the fallout, etc.) the beginning, but since Willow resurrected Buffy her addiction is msking even the small problem bigger than they ever have been.

Dawn at fifteen.. and we thought things couldn't get any worse than the time she was the Key and Glory was after her! 😂

Loved the reactions and the predictions.

omgggg I've been waiting for the next episode ever since they started this series!!

Amber Tamblyn.. was on Joan of Arcadia and was the first chick to die in The Ring.

ONCE MORE WITH FEELING IS NEXT AHHHH!!!!!

You chatted their entire conversation. 3:05 he suggested they go on patrol, so kind of asked her out, to spend time with her. But she went even further and started thinking about inappropriate things out of a sudden. And that was the hint for the future. 😉

Remember, every character in this shoe represents someone that is neglected, rejected, insecure and inexperienced...just like most real people.

After waiting for this episode since they started s1ep1 I am ready for next episode

In All The Way, again we can see the tensions between Tara and Willow reaching new levels. Willow is gradually becoming totally addicted to magic, and the look that both Giles and Tara gave Willow was very telling. Xander eventually tells them of the impending marriage, which somehow gets overshadowed in the story here as we focus on Dawn. Dawn is course growing up now, and is very much under peer pressure from her friend. The date with the two guys is interesting in that when they go to the old man's house we are convinced it is him who is bad, only for one the guys to be a vampire and bite into him, replicating the very first scene in BTVS E1 S1 where Darla is the vampire and we were led to believe it was the boy she was with. Some funny comedy relief when they are all standing in a circle in the park, and the Vampire says 'are we gonna fight', and Buffy says 'did anyone come here just to make out' and the couple put their hands up. The juxtaposition of Buffy/Dawn interesting too, with Buffy acting like Joyce was towards Buffy. I have to say at this point in the show I was really missing the Oz/Willow relationship, as it was so innocent and never had any arguments etc, things of course are very different now, with constant bickering and mistrust with Tara. Dawn of course has her coming of age moment here with her first kiss and dusting her first vamp. The groundwork is continually being laid by the writers for the episodes ahead.

Just waiting for the next episode!!!!!

I haven't seen the episode before pure awesomeness. In a long time it's awesome.

It's the next episode 😁 "They got the mustard out!"

i cant wait for the next episode, if you know, you know.

Just one more episode... with feeling! (this episode feels like a set up when you know what happns in the next one. Like every episode from this season have been a set up for the next.)

I have a theory... They're gonna get the mustard out!!!!

I’m so happy I happened to glance up from my project @ 11:49 bc that edit killed me

Oh god I need the reaction to the next ep I’m so excited

Well... it's time for some vocal warm-ups.

Rana during 5x20: "we need one-word spells." Well, now you got them.

3:00: Rana: “I want them to make out.” 13 episodes later: This aged well.

Ngl I literally can’t pay attention t8 this ep when all I care about is counting down the days til the next une *resists urge to sub to Patreon in impatience*

Would love to see y'all react to charmed series the original show

Can't wait for the next episode. I hope they get the mustard out.

I love how ya'll have finally warmed up to the thought......of Spuffy and Bike being a thing, when ya'll were pretty unanimous about how creepy and pathetic Spike was behaving back in season 5. Remember season 5? Things were so simple then, stop the God from opening a portal, be weirded out by Spike's attraction, that early season. Then Buffy's mom dies, then she dies, and now everything is just sad. Willow is getting a little too loosey goosy with those powerful magics, Dawn a clepto and Buffy? PTSD from having been in heaven and now isn't.

Buffy is just going through the motions, and everyone’s got a theory, but only Tara knows who’s under the spell, but thank god she’ll never tell. Dawn knows what you feel though, so good thing they’ll all walk through fire to save her. But geez, give Buffy something to sing about! Mustard. 😉👍🏼

Jesus, I’m sure sometime in my life I’ve hummed Pop Goes the Weasel. I hope the Normies don’t think I’m a sociopath for that🤣

Here we go….next two episodes are just the best.

Carjacking in Sunnydale. I feel like I'm in Newark.

I'm glad we are all now on the same page about Willow's behaviour. Up until this episode there were still some people that thought that maybe she wasn't abusing her magic, but now it's clear as day.

Good job. Thanks.

You guy's calling her Dark Willow in this episode... 👀

... and for the next one: 28:35

ONE MORE EPISODE AWAY..... 😬😬

After Dwan kicked the vamp, she should have said "Vampire got nards!?!"

neeeeeed episode 7 like nowww

Omg it’s HERE 🎵I gotta feeling they will work it out 🎵 don’t come at me for spoilers they’ve already seen it.. it’s just not uploaded yet!

BG3 Mention.

It's coming lol

you mean pat has a line even he wont cross WHAT!! shocking

Go Zaddy Ripper

Mickey said "I've got a theory " lololololol

Don't feel too bad for old man Kallenbach. It was a fun plot fake-out, but this is Sunnydale! He was definitely up to something nefarious; he just forgot that the kids he invited in to prey on, could be vampires. Plus, the vampire who bit him said, "that dude was rank," which is a hint that he wasn't a normal human, similar to the swim team in "Go Fish." I think of it like the Cabin in the Woods, where there were multiple horror plots that could have happened.

Wonder... Where do we go from here? ^^

Money obsessed Anya is my favorite Anya

All I want to know is, when is Danny DeVito returning to the couch? I miss his reactions

I'm under your spell Suraj :)

I wonder how they will respond to the next episode

Did spidey do a team America reference when he held his finger up awkwardly during the "Shh" scene?

The musical episode is coming soon. Thats going to be a very interesting reaction 😅🙈 have fun guys!! Its going to be a rollercoaster. Some great moments in that episode ❤

Sorry I'm useless with names, lady in the middle, your top was doing like optical illusions this whole video 😂