- You'd think Spike is literally a crumbled, used toilet tissue from the way Buffy is so disgusted by his declaration of love. It's not because he's a vampire, because Buffy has no problem with getting attracted to vampires. I think she's revolted by Spike as a person. She still doesn't know the real man behind that cocky, motorcycle-rider, cigarette-smoker, bad-boy guise.

- Puffy Xander is adorable, I love his supportive, lift-Buffy's-spirits-up speech. If I were Buffy, I'd have hugged him as well. Why don't I have a guy friend like Xander? I want one!

- BUFFY: Yeah, and the minute after that I can terrify him with my alarming strength and remarkable self-involvement.

Riley-issues.

- Poor Joyce, she has a date and she's so happy. That's when you know something bad is gonna happen soon.

- I love the scenes between Anya and Tara when they're alone without the other Scoobies. Their scenes are always amusing it's nice to see them bonding with someone who's not their significant other. 

- Tara is talking about Willow being good at the computer stuff. Sigh, I miss Computer Nerd Willow, I've always seen her as more appealing and interesting than Witch Willow.

- ANYA: But you have to try online trading, it's great! The secret is avoiding the tech companies everyone was jumping on, and, and going with the smaller firms that supply the basic components.
TARA: Uh-huh.
ANYA: Anyway, I took the money from working for Giles, and I tripled it.
TARA: Tripled? Like, first money, then money money money?
ANYA: Yes. I'm thinking about buying something very expensive. Maybe an antelope.

Go Anya!!! :D

- XANDER: How you doing, having o' the fun?
BUFFY: You know, I am. Dancing with you is way better than trying to hook up with some good-looking guy.
XANDER: I think I liked it better when you were kicking me in my puffy groin.

Heee! Adorable. Again, I want a Xander of my own.

- Anya is also adorable, it was her idea to have Xander dancing with Buffy in order to lift her spirits up. I love when Anya thinks of others before herself and Xander.

- Ben is certainly the best choice for a rebound guy after Riley. They're disturbingly similar, except Riley is more endearing for some reason.

- Look at how Insecure Buffy is trying to score *hugs her*

- ANYA: She speaks with a strange evenness and selects her words a shade too precisely.
XANDER: Well, some of us like that kind of thing in a girl.
Anya smiles at him.

WILLOW: There's something strange about her. She talks funny.
ANYA: Some men find that appealing.
She smiles at Xander, who smiles back.
 
Aww! Too much adorable for one episode :D

- Wow, check Tara's lack of blouse and exposed back ;)

- It's cute that Mature Tara is the one annoyed by Willow noticing a beautiful girl, while Immature Anya is more aware than to get upset over a trivial thing.

- Spike just never gives up. :D His attitude here is different than the earlier episode, I guess appearing like a love-sick-puppy after being humiliated by Buffy's decision to de-invite him won't do good to his image. So he's back to taunting, which is why I just love him!

- It's interesting that Ben wants to date Buffy even though he knows she's the slayer. You'd think he'll stay away from her knowing that her sister is the key Glory, his other half, is searching for.

- Awww, Spike breaks my heart trying to get Buffy jealous but choosing the wrong girl, ending up thrown through the window, breaking the glass, out of the newly redecorated club in front of everybody, especially Buffy and the Scoobies. *Hugs him* I know some fans dislike having Spike put in an embarrassing situation, to be honest, it's why I love him. I hate when male leads are made to be cool and manly, they become boring and not relatable. When a guy stumbles now and then into a funny situation, I'm in love.

- Hee, loved Buffy's gleeful grin at Spike being thrown out. However, she'll get punished for it. Why didn't Spike stick around to watch Buffy's humiliation?

- For a robot, April sounds like a human. How can she express emotions like guilt? My mind is still working on how Warren was able to build such a robot. He's just twenty, or even younger when he had built her, and judging by the few months he'd spend on the Buffy-bot, I assume it didn't take long to make April. I think some aspects of the show are better left alone and fans shouldn't hurt their heads thinking about how to make plot-points sound believable. In the end, it's just fiction.

- It’s funny how the Scoobies were able to tell that April was a robot but they couldn't tell that Buffy-bot was not their Buffy, but a robot as well.

- Why they didn't show us Giles baby-sitting Dawn? That would have been so much fun! :D

- It's adorable when Joyce jokes about having sex to Buffy, and Buffy's "Mother!" was so great.

- Love Tara using the word "ass" :D She's so comfortable around the Scoobies now, I'm glad she's over her outsider feelings.

- ANYA: It's okay for him to say that, 'cause I know that he really loves me only.

Love a confident girlfriend ;)

- TARA: Oh, do you have any books on robots?
GILES: Oh, yes, dozens. There's an enormous amount of research we should do before - no, I'm lying. I haven't got squat, I just like to see Xander squirm.
XANDER: (fake laugh) Funny. Charming and funny.

Too adorable for words!

- Xander misses Oz, who can blame him? He seriously needs a guy friend in the group, since I'm sure he has some working in construction.

- Buffy's disgusted reaction to Warren's sexbot foreshadows her disgusted reaction to Spike's sexbot, with Spike it'll be double disgust since his sexbot is Buffy.

- I wonder why Warren and Katrina were still in Sunnydale next year? Don't they have to get back to college in Dutton?

- I wonder what Dawn's role was in the whole Ted episode. I guess she was as deceived as her mom, Xander and Willow.

- So in order to go to school, Dawn goes to the Magic Box looking for Buffy or Xander to do the job of having her be there safe and sound? Why doesn't she go by herself? She had done it in Blood Ties.

- Wow, everybody is against Spike. And by that I mean EVERYBODY. Willow who's usually sweet with him has a whole new hostile attitude toward him, which I'm not sure she'll ever recover from in the future. We rarely see Willow and Spike interacting in S5, S6 and S7. I'm sure this anger is because of Spike chaining Buffy in the previous episode as well as Buffy's disturbed feelings about this whole subject. The gang is aware that Spike follows Buffy around from place to place, which is creepy stalking. So I can understand why they're so upset with him now. Nonetheless, Spike still breaks my heart in this scene.

- I do feel slightly bad for Warren, I mean, yeah, he turned out to be a monster in S6 but you don't turn out to be a monster out of the blue, you go through stuff that make you turn out that way. I believe Warren needed love, he needed someone's attention, which is why he made April. Then he met a real girl who gave him that attention. I think if he dealt with April better, like turned off her batteries and locked her somewhere else, things would have worked out fine for him. He might have grown to be a better person.

- Warren's reasons for creating April were also the same reasons Spike wanted Bot-Buffy to be made: Love, attention and sex. Warren invented a random girl from his imagination, Spike had asked for his robot to look like the girl he loves, a girl who exists. Spike's robot is probably ickier than Warren's, since it looks like an alive girl. Poor Buffy. But I guess loneliness, rejection, being resented make you do crazy things. What I love about the show is that you sympathize with all the sides: Warren, April, Katrina, Spike and Buffy. Or that's just me.

- The way Buffy is talking about April like she's a real person is the writers telling us how she's letting out the frustrations she buried inside about her break up with Riley. Warren left April like Riley had left Buffy, without giving her a chance to fix what's wrong or work things out. It's nice to see bits and pieces of how Riley's departure affected Buffy.

- This is ridiculous. April is a robot. How can he tell her and do it right? Just take off her batteries, Warren! And then Buffy has some sentimental chat with April who's mind, thoughts and views on life is created by Warren… *shakes head*

- Aww, I love Xander's proud smile at himself finally being a grown-up, someone useful and important. He came a long way from the bibbling idiot in S1.

- It's an interesting conversation between Buffy and Xander. Being too obsessed with your partner to the point where you have nothing else going on in your life but to please said partner… that can't be said about both Buffy and Xander. Xander doesn't get it, because Anya isn't his only priority, he has his friends and his job. His whole life isn't centered around Anya. Same goes for Buffy, her life isn't centered on her current boyfriend, she has her slaying, her family and her friends. Actually, Buffy and Xander are just being healthy.

- BUFFY: (to herself) Still a couple of guys gettin' it right.

Those couple of guys, are they Brian and Ben? Or Brian and Xander?

- Okay, the writers are smart. Having a funny episode before a tear-jerking one is very balancing. I had a good laugh watching this episode, and I'm ready for some tears. Bring 'em on!
 

I disagree. I think it has a lot to do with him being a vampire.

You're right. Buffy had been attracted to Angel before she knew about him being a vampire. Spike has to work harder to gain her love and trust after what happened with Angel/Angelus.

No idea what Katrina's deal is, but she only shows up for that one episode, so maybe she was just visiting.

Maybe she was visiting her sister, she mentioned her in this episode.

I wonder if he actually liked Buffy, or if he had some ulterior motive in wanting to get to know her. Maybe he was trying to get closer so that he could to keep an eye on the Key, knowing it was important to Glory (which pays off, since as he discovers later, he could benefit from killing Dawn). Or maybe he was looking for help, and thought if he got to know Buffy well enough, she'd help him get rid of Glory so he could have his body to himself. He'd still be taking a risk, though, knowing that Glory could take over their body at any time.

Perhaps it's one of those reasons, I believe whatever it was, his intentions weren't evil or bad. That's not the vibe I got from him.

When do we see her go by herself? She announces to Joyce that she'll go to school, and then storms past her out of the bedroom, but Joyce could've followed and given her a ride.

I see your point, but why didn't Joyce give her a ride this morning as well? Why have her walk to the Magic Box searching for Buffy?

I'm all for making fun of the characters, but not when they have to be written out of character to do it.

I agree. Out of character is always bad IMO. What I meant was that I like Spike being put in a funny embarrassing situation now and then rather than have him always cool and untouchable.

Not to dredge up the old arguments from "Triangle," but I think this type of reaction is what we should've seen sooner, rather than the crying fits and the nuns - Buffy seriously being affected by Riley's departure, showing us that she really did care, and she really does regret the way it ended. The way the theme pops up in this episode, it almost feels a little out of place, since we've had a few episodes where Buffy seemed to have completely gotten over Riley (is he even mentioned after "Chekpoint"?), and now she's back to missing him.

I think they show us a small bit in every episode to remind us that she does miss him and that his departure affects her. In Checkpoint, she uses Riley's speech patterns to tell off the watchers and in Blood Ties she's upset he hadn't sent her a card. I guess the reason we don't see her thinking about him much is because she has so much going on what with Glory, Dawn and her mother slowly recovering.