Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S6 E6 All the Way

Giles: Mist ... cemetery ... Halloween. Should end well. (slips and falls on his face)

Dawn sneaks out on Halloween night with her friend and a couple of boys. Xander and Anya announce their engagement. Tara starts criticizing Willow's use of magic.

• Accidental Innuendo: Buffy shows where her mind is at re Spike.

Spike: Feel like a bit of the rough and tumble? Buffy: (startled) What? Spike: Me...you...(Buffy's eyes widen) Patrolling. Hello?

• Badass Adorable: Dawn the Delinquent.

Justin: Oh, be still my heart — cute and bad.

• Bait and Switch: The creepy old guy appears to be the Monster of the Week. Instead he's the first victim of the boys Janice and Dawn are with, who are actually vampires.
• Bare Your Midriff: Janice
• Beauty and The Beast: Justin and Dawn are quite taken by each other.
• Car Fu: Buffy kills a vampire by decapitating him with a car door.
• Call Back: Buffy is reluctant to go down to the Magic Shop's basement for fear she'll be caught in another Groundhog Day Loop as per "Life Serial".

Buffy: Don't blame me if we have this conversation over and over... (Smash Cut to Buffy walking down the basement stairs) ...and over ... and over, and over.

• Comically Missing the Point: Anya dresses up as an angel called a Charlie.

We don't have wings. We just skate around with perfect hair, fighting crime.

• • Xander watches Anya doing the Happy Dance with Dawn.

Xander: I'm gonna marry that girl. Buffy: What?! She's fifteen and my sister, so don't ev-- (gets it) Oh.

• Curse Cut Short: Willow is cursing (not that way) a customer dressed as Wicked Witch.

Willow: And while you're at it, why don't you try removing that broomstick from your-- Dawn! Dawn: Hey. Don't stop the invective on account of me.

• Defrosting Ice Queen: Buffy is clearly playing with the thought that she might "misbehave" with Spike.
• The Easy Way or the Hard Way: A vampire is holding Dawn by the throat. Giles, who has already staked one vamp tonight, moves menacingly towards him.

Giles: Now, you have a choice, son. We can do this the easy way, or we can do this the ha-- Car headlights turn on; a gang of teen vampires get out of several parked cars, surrounding Giles) Justin: What were my choices again?

• Description Cut
  • Janice asks excitedly, "You have a car?" Cut to one of the vampire teens throwing the dead boy of a driver out of his car.
  • Buffy looks worried when she finds out Xander is going to marry Anya. "Giles, we have to do something!" Cut to them throwing Xander a party.
• Disappointed in You: Lampshaded and subverted.

Giles: We need to have a conversation. Dawn: This the part where you tell me you're "not angry, just disappointed"? Giles: Pretty much. Except for the bit about not being angry.

• Does Not Know Her Own Strength

Buffy: (hugging Xander) You're getting married! You! Xander: (hoarsely) Me. Choking...

• Evil Is Petty: Spike nicking burba weed from the Magic Box. Vampire teens let down car tires, throw eggs against walls and kick off mailboxes.
• Famous Last Words: (after being staked) "Dude, that sucks!"
• First Kiss: Dawn shares her first kiss with Justin. From her reaction, he figures out that it was her first. She tries to deny, before admitting that it was her first, and babbling about how bad it must have been for him. Justin replies by kissing her again. Sadly, he's actually a vampire, and becomes her first staking.
• Four-Fingered Hands

Willow: I could whip up a jaunty self-cleaning incantation; it'll be like Fantasia. Giles: We all know how splendidly that turned out for Mickey. (gives Willow a broom and dustpan) Willow: I think I'm a little more adept than a cartoon mouse. Tara: And you have more fingers, which is good, 'cause there's no need to wear those big White Gloves to overcompensate.

• Genre Savvy: Giles

Yes, well, if anything calamitous is going to happen tonight, history suggests it will happen to us.

• Getting Crap Past the Radar

Anya: But you get to dress up and play games. Xander's gonna teach me a new one after work called Shiver Me Timbers. Ever heard of it?

• • And later:

Anya: How about you? Ever played? Tara: Not really one for the timber.

• Gilligan Cut: Dawn's friend Janice didn't want her and her friends to go into the creepy old man's house. Sure enough...
• Glasses Pull: Xander/Anya start snogging passionately to celebrate their engagement. Giles promptly removes his glasses.

Buffy: Is that why you're always cleaning your glasses? So you don't have to see what we're doing? Giles: Tell no one.

• Groin Attack: Dawn punches a vamp in the groin when he says how special she is...being the Slayer's sister.
• Halloween Episode
• Happy Dance: Anya's "Dance of Capitalist Superiority".
• Hey, It's That Guy!: Its Joan!
• Hypocritical Humor: Willow snarks over a shopper's stereotypical Wicked Witch costume, then coos over a cute kid in the same outfit. Buffy complains about Dawn smooching with someone she barely knows who turns out to be a vampire.
• Improvised Weapon: Dawn stakes a vampire with a pencil.
  • It may have been the crossbow bolt Spike discharged in the air.
• Incredibly Lame Pun: Literally!

Buffy: (re Xander's pirate costume) You know, if you had a real peg leg, you wouldn't just have a lame costume, you'd actually be lame. Which is completely different.

• Ironic Echo

"Let's just forget it ever happened. (Willow casts spell) Forget..."

• Insistent Terminology

Buffy: Were you parking?! With a vamp? Dawn: I didn't know he was dead!" Justin: Living dead.

• Large Ham: Pirate!Xander. Ahargh!
• Laser-Guided Amnesia / Moral Event Horizon: Willow uses a spell to wipe Tara's memory of their argument.
• Make-Out Point: Even vampire teens have them.

Buffy: Didn't anyone come here just to make out? [two human teenagers raise their hands] Awww... that's sweet. Run.

• Money to Throw Away: Anya is so happy that Xander has finally announced their engagement she tosses Dawn a bundle of money.
• Mundane Utility: Tara complains about Willow's use of magic for everyday purposes.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Xander after the responsibility of married life begins to sink in.
• Parental Substitute: Giles is trying to avoid this trope, realising that Buffy isn't.
• Post Mortem One Liner: Subverted — a vampire rushes at Buffy shouting, "Die, Slayer!" Buffy casually stakes him and goes, "Mm-hmm."
• Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner

Buffy: (to civilians) "You, run. (to vampires) You, scream."

• Pretender Diss

Spike: You stay in on Halloween. Those are the rules. Teen Vampire: Me and mine don't follow rules. We're rebels! Spike: No, I'm a rebel. You're an idiot.

• Shout-Out: "Pumpkins — very dangerous. You go first" riffs on John Rhys Davies line about asps in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Willow sees a couple dressed as Luke and Leia doing the Mating Dance and asks, "Don't they know they're brother and sister?" The Fantasia reference is to "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" where Mickey Mouse spells a broom to do the cleaning for him, only to make an even worse mess.
• Slumber Party Ploy: Dawn is "sleeping over at Janice's" (and vice versa). Afterwards the Scoobies gripe about falling for such an old ploy, let alone one they've used themselves.
• Stab the Salad: The creepy-looking man is wielding a knife and talking about how he's going to give Dawn and her friends "something special" for Halloween. Turns out it's a baked dish.
• Stealth Hi Bye / Casual Kink: Buffy jumps as she suddenly bumps into Spike.

Buffy: Bell. Neck. Look into it. Spike: Come with a nice leather collar, does it?

• Stock Phrases: Dawn asks if she can get a tattoo.

Buffy: Over my dead body. The kind that doesn't come back.

• Suspiciously Specific Denial

Buffy: (re Xander's marriage) I can't believe it. Seems like only yesterday you had to pay a girl to date you. Xander: Like I'd ever pay. (snickers nervously) Define 'date.'

• Terror At Make Out Point
• Too Much Information: Spike mixes burba weed with the blood he drinks.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: Spuffy

Buffy: So much easier to talk to when he just wanted to kill me.

• What Could Possibly Go Wrong?: Looking for Dawn in the crowded Bronze, Willow suggests a spell to shift everyone who isn't a fifteen year old girl into an Alternate Universe. This proves the last straw for Tara.
• Who Wears Short Shorts?: Anya the Angel.
• You Must Be Cold: Justin gives Dawn his letterman jacket when she starts shivering. After his death she's seen cradling it in her lap.
• Your Door Was Open: Buffy barges into Spike's crypt as usual.

Spike: You know in civilized cultures, that's called trespassing. Buffy: Good thing you're uncivilized.