Happiness Meme!

[lirazel]

So Buffy fandom sucks right now. Not us, obviously, but everyone else. ;D

I know that all the drama is sucking the fannish happiness right out of some people, and that breaks my heart. I also know that it's creating a sort of vortex of negativity that threatens to devour us all.

So what I want to do--what I've been wanting to do for the last few weeks--is for all of us to take a few moments to remember things that we love. Straight-up love. Purely, perfectly, whole-heartedly. Characters, scenes, episodes, lines that we have zero complaints about because they are perfect to us. They set us flailing or sighing or crying or smiling. They bring us joy.

So I'm going to start. I'm going to list ten Things I Love that immediately come into my mind, knowing that that I'm leaving a thousand things off of this list. Read them. Take a few minutes, think of your own, make a list here in the comments of as many or as few Things You Love as you like. Read other people's thoughts and remember other Things You Love. Then pimp this out as much as you like. Send people over here to contribute to the collection so that we can create a sort of scrapbook of Things That We Absolutely Love. If you think of more Things You Love, add them to the list. Keep going as long as you want. Revel in the Love.

This is a thread of happiness. No attacking anyone else's squee. If you disagree, just ignore it. Also, if you want to list Angel things--like how awesome Lilah is or the scene where Angel and Connor sing the Jasmine song--go right ahead! Angel fandom's getting hit pretty hard right now, too.

Here are the first ten Things I Love that pop into my head:

1. Spike and Dawn arguing about who is badder in Blood Ties
2. The perfectly in-character Scooby-thoughts that Buffy hears in Earshot: Cordy thinks it and says it, Oz has an existential crisis, Willow is insecure, Xander thinks about sex
3. Buffy and Spike on the back porch in Fool for Love. THEY. SIGH. IN. SYNC.
4. Spike and Joyce in the living room in Becoming: Part II--"Have we met?"
5. The Class Protector Award in The Prom
6. Anya's speech in The Body (And in End of Days. And in Hell's Bells. QUIT MAKING ME CRY, ANYA.)
7. The rocket launcher scuffle behind Robin Wood in Him
8. Restless. All of it. (But especially Riley the Big Dumb Cowboy.)
9. The last half of Tabula Rasa, and the switch from hilarity to beautiful angst in the space of a few moments.
10. The sad, heartbroken montage at the end of Lovers Walk...that becomes Spike barreling down the road singing "My Way" on the top of his lungs

Got the idea? Now. GO!

Comments

[deird1]

1 - Buffy handing Faith the scythe in Chosen, during the battle.
2 - Dawn snuggling up next to the Buffybot.
3 - Joyce and Giles acting like teenagers.
4 - Angel in disguise by putting on a hawaiian shirt and a hat.
5 - Wes owing Lilah a dollar.
6 - Buffy inviting Spike in... for the second time.
7 - The Dance of Joy.
8 - The Dance of Capitalist Superiority.
9 - Buffy and Spike laughing over her bridemaid's dress.
10 - Buffy and Faith dancing at the Bronze.
11 - Willow seducing Xander.
12 - "Rat. You?" "Dead." "Oh."
13 - 147 days.
14 - Fred with a flamethrower.
15 - The first time Connor smiles in season 4.
16 - Vi becoming a Slayer.
17 - Andrew turning off the camera.
18 - Illyria finding out her world is gone.
19 - Karaoke.
20 - "We are as gods!"
21 - Tara being subtly snarky.
22 - My icon.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

OH YES! SO MANY WONDERFUL THINGS!

I thought I was the only one who was so in love with the "Rat. You?" "Dead." "Oh." scene!

Also, I have always adored that icon!

the gif edition!

[dollsome.livejournal.com]

Spike and Drusilla being sexy adorable creeps in love!!!:








BUFFY VERSUS DEMON ROOMMATE:



("Sid the Wiley Dairy Gnome" will always be one of my favourite phrases ever uttered on this show.)


Gifless but wonderful:
+ Harmony's "Slayer, come out and die!" note where the i's dotted with a smiley face.

+ Xander and Harmony catfighting!

+ Riley's adorably awkward attempts to court Buffy. And actually using the word "court."

+ Jenny taking Giles to monster trucks on their blind date! ("I thought it would be a change!" "It was a change.")

+ Every time Buffy and Faith are way too subtextual for it to even be subtext anymore. Buffy kissing her on the forehead in the hospital.

+ Faith's picnic-with-the-Mayor dream.

+ Xander and Cordelia's first kiss!

+ Any time anybody dances.

+ Giles walking into a tree after Buffy mentions him having sex with her mother.


Also, everything! God, it has been way too long since this show and I hung out properly.

Re: the gif edition!

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

OH OH OH THOSE .GIFS. SPIKE AND DRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU. *loves them so hard*

Anything involving Harmony is made of awesome and underrated. The catfight is the GREATEST FIGHT SCENE OF ALL TIME!

[madcap-shiny.livejournal.com]

Crazy-busy at the moment with homework, but I would like to give a shout-out to one my favorite Willow lines of all time: "You were real brave. Do you need to barf?"

As for other LW-related love, I am also very fond of Spike beating up that one vamp while shouting "DOES BABY LIKE HIS SUPPER? DOES BABY LIKE HIS SUPPER?" over and over. Man, that was a good ep.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Good luck with your homework!

LW is just fantastic. I loooooove that episode.

Yay for more happiness!

[snickfic]

YAY, fannish goodness! I wholeheartedly approve this sentiment!

1. Spike dragging the Annointed One into the sunlight in School Hard. "From now on, we're going to have a little less ritual around here, and a little more fun!"

2. Buffy's dream in the Bronze at the beginning of Surprise: the background music, Willow and the monkey, "Honey, are you sure you're ready?"

3. Spike and Dawn on the couch in Bargaining, arguing about school.

4. Giles busting into the Magic Box in Two to Go.

5. The church scene in Beneath You. Spike's monologue just blows me away every time.

6. Jonathan's intro in Superstar. And his singing number at the Bronze. And his power shot in the title sequence. In fact, the whole title sequence with him in it. Okay, fine, the whole episode.

7. Amanda in S7, because she's brave and weird and totally secure in who she is, and because she doesn't look like a Hollywood glamour girl.

8. Every single Spike scene in Lover's Walk. It's the episode of breakups and heartbreak, and yet I only ever think of how funny it is.

9. Xander's "What Would Buffy Do?" speech in The Freshmen.

10. Spike trying to stake himself in Doomed, because he's just so pathetic and I want to give him a hug.

Yanno, I might just copy this into a post in my own journal, if you don't mind spreading the meme around a bit...

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

OH EVERYONE COMES UP WITH SUCH LOVELY LISTS. This is really making me flaily and grinny and happy!

Go ahead!

[ohwaluvusbab.livejournal.com]

Um, word to your whole post. And awesome idea.

1. The fire trucks passing behind the Scoobies on "Let it... BURN" in Walk Through the Fire! GENIUS.
2. "Oh Spike, you're the big bad! You're the BIG bad!"
3. "The hardest thing in this world is to live in it." Buffy is my girl.
4. The Beneath You church scene. dfjlakjfadsawea;lv <Oh look, I became incoherent. 5. "If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do." Angel sometimes gets it right. 6. Lilah dressing up like Fred. Pwnsome. 7. Angel choosing to sacrifice his life for Darla's in The Trial. Sigh. My poor dead ship. 8. "How can I thank you, you mysterious black-clad hunk of a night thing?" Spike's rooftop speech in In the Dark. All of it. 9. Every time Wesley pulls out a gun. 10. "Killing pigs is so wrong. And also hard."

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I think we need this right now, don't you?

And you know that the fire trucks was an accident, right? That it happened that perfectly? They were just going to drive past, and it just so happened that it was at the "Burn!" moment. WHICH MAKES IT BETTER!

The scene in your icon would also make my list!

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

What a great idea!
In no particular order:
1 - The first time Spike rolls over the Sunnydale sign and those boots step out of the car.
2 - "Hello, cutie" and the ensuing walk to her house.
3 - Buffy hearing Joyce's thoughts about boinking Giles during Band Candy. "Stevedore?"
4 - "I want you to get out of my face!" (to the First in Chosen)
5 - "Do you even like me?" "Sometimes..."
6 - Buffy's birthday party in Season Six and the flirting that went on right in front of everyone (even if only Tara recognized it for what it was)
7 - Once More With Feeling - the whole thing!
8 - When Giles goes after Angelus with a torch and a stake.
9 - Xander lighting Spike's cigarette for him (season 5)
10 -The door scene

I could have gone on! Tried to pick different ones from yours.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I really could go on forever! And people keep coming up with ones that I LOVE but that I wouldn't have thought of on my own! And yeah--I love that we're getting so many different ones!

[menomegirl.livejournal.com]

10 things that I love about Buffy the Vampire Slayer:

1.Buffy telling a vampire Live in the now. You look like DeBarge..
2.Giles totally going after Angel with a baseball bat that was on fire.
3.Spike standing up from that wheelchair.
4.Faith and Buffy dancing. Faith and Buffy fighting. Faith and Buffy kissing. What? They totally did. *nods*
5.Riley admitting that he's a lesbian.
6.Spike insulting the hell out of Glory.
7.Buffy getting drunk with Spike.
8.Dawn being happy for that brief little while in "Seeing Red".
9.Spike and Faith fighting.
10.Flames arising from Buffy and Spike's joined hands.

10 things I love about Angel the series:

1.Lindsey and Angel Darla kissing on his desk.
2.Darla telling Angel God doesn't want you but I still do.
3.Cordelia's dance of joy because Angel bought her new clothes.
5.Wesley wanting to stake Harmony for popping her chewing gum.
6.Lorne singing The Star-Spangled Banner in the lobby of the Hyperion.
7.Lilah fucking with Wesley's head.
8.Evil!Cordelia calling Gwen Super Tramp.
9.Eve, Harmony and Lorne screaming in sync.
10.The surprise of Amy Acker's acting talent as she transformed from Fred to Illyria.

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I like to imagine what would happen if you had run AtS. The A/L/D threesome would have been epic. I can only imagine the snarky but intense dialog going on during.

[hkath.livejournal.com]

OMG, soooo many things. In no particular order, and I will most certainly go over ten:

1. Jonathan giving Buffy her Class Protector award at prom. ;___;
2. The scene at the Bronze in Him when Willow and Xander both realize they were perving on Dawn.
3. Spike showing up with anonymous flowers for Joyce.
4. Xander lighting Spike's cigarette in Spiral.
5. 147 days. His face <3
6. Getting to see Buffy through Riley's eyes at the beginning of season 4. "You don't think she's... peculiar?"
7. When the fire engine crosses into the shot right on cue in Once More With Feeling :D
8. When Dru snatches the word "effulgent" out of the air (literally) in Fool For Love.
9. Lorne, in general. But specifically: "Winifred Burkle once told me after a sinful amount of Chinese food, and in lieu of absolutely nothing, "I think a lot of people would choose to be green. Your shade, if they had the choice."
10. Angel's Indiana Jones-like fantasy life in Awakening
11. Anya on rollerskates. GUH.
12. Cavemen versus astronauts
13. Wesley, in general. But specifically: when he tries to destroy Lilah's contract in Home.
14. Harmony orders a whole camel from catering, and gets yelled at for it, even though it was totally the right thing to do. HER UNLIFE IS SO UNFAIR.
15. Spike punches Tara in the face. I like to consider this the first nice thing he did without really thinking of impressing Buffy. And it was punching someone in the face. Awesome.
16. "Fluffy! Fluffy, the dog? The dog you don't have? The universally recognized code for 'I'm being held prisoner. Send help.'" And also, Fred dressed up as a Lornette in the same episode :)
17. Buffy hugging sumo!Xander

I have to stop or I'll be at this all night :)

[snickfic]

I like to consider this the first nice thing he did without really thinking of impressing Buffy. And it was punching someone in the face.

Hee. Yes! So totally appropriate...

[crackers4jenn.livejournal.com]

Yay! Here are some of my favorite things:

01. Spike and Joyce's awkwardness in Becoming Pt. II, oh man. I just love how they sit there in silence. I laugh ALWAYS.

02. "Out. For. A. Walk... Bitch." (Paired up with "And I never really liked you anyway, and--you have stupid hair." Best insult ever!)

03. The end of the Angel episode "Power Play", with Angel, Spike, Gunn, Wes, and Lorne raising their hand in sacrifice of The Greater Good.

04. Buffybot!

05. "I... love you. You're all I bloody think about. Dream about. You're in my gut... my throat. I'm drowning in you, Summers, I'm drowning in you."

06. "What's this? Sittin' around watching the telly while there's evil still afoot? It's not very industrious of you. I say we go out there and kick a little demon ass! What, can't go without your Buffy, is that it? Let's find her! She is the chosen one, after all. Come on! Vampires! Grrr! Nasty! Let's annihilate them, for justice, and for... the safety of puppies... and Christmas, right? Let's fight that evil! Let's kill something! Oh, come on!"

07. That HILARIOUS stare-off Buffy and Giles have upon Giles opening of the Magic Box, where he's dressed up as a wizard.

08. "I do remember, what I said. The promise. To protect her. If I'd done that ... even if I didn't make it, you wouldn't've had to jump. I want you to know I did save you. Not when it counted, of course. But after that. Every night after that. I'd see it all again, do something different. Faster or more clever, you know? Dozens of times, lots of different ways. Every night I save you."

09. The Girl in Question. LOVE THAT EPISODE. ("I signaled her with my eyes" = HAHAHAHAHAHA!)

10. Everything ever that is Willow/Oz.

11. Wes, Cordy, and Gunn singing "We Are the Champions" after Angel fires them. Actually, ALL of their interaction post-Angel firing them is fantastic.

12. Xander's Snoopy dance.

13. Once More, With Feeling.

14. In Checkpoint, this ENTIRE EXCHANGE:

SPIKE: So, what's with the family outing?
BUFFY: (quietly, walking up close to him) I need your help.
SPIKE: Great. I need your cash.
BUFFY: I'm serious. (even more quietly) You have to look after them.
SPIKE: Well, that's a boatload of manly responsibility to come flying out of nowhere. What's the matter, Slayer? You're not feeling a hundred percent?
BUFFY: (frowns) No.
SPIKE: They didn't put a chip in your head, did they?
BUFFY: No!
SPIKE: Be funny if they did.
BUFFY: (annoyed) Spike, I need an answer. Now. In or out? (quietly) You're the only one strong enough to protect them.
SPIKE: (looks at her for a moment) All right then.

It is MY FAVORITE because Buffy smacks him! and he smiles! and it's some strange kind of adorable.

15. When Angel tries to suffocate Wes. I know: DARK! But it's such a strong, powerful, super awesome moment right there.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

02. "Out. For. A. Walk... Bitch." (Paired up with "And I never really liked you anyway, and--you have stupid hair." Best insult ever!) YES YES YES. snickfic says that is the best example ever of character-driven humor, and I agree.

("I signaled her with my eyes" = HAHAHAHAHAHA!) PETTY!ANGEL IS THE BEST ANGEL.

YOUR CHOICES ARE WONDERFUL. I LOVE THEM AAAAAAAAALL.

[gabrielleabelle.livejournal.com]

Oh...this might take a while.

1. The Scoobies teasing Giles at the beginning of The Puppet Show. I LOVE FUN SCOOBY MOMENTS.
2. Buffy's "I don't want to die" speech in Prophecy Girl. I don't want her to die, either!
3. Spike knocking down the Sunnydale sign in School Hard.
4. Spike and Buffy's first FIGHT in School Hard. I'll even forgive Buffy's tiny skirt.
5. Xander and Ampata eating twinkies in Inca Mummy Girl.
6. The final Giles-Buffy scene in Lie to Me.
7. Buffy shooting the fuck out of the Judge with a rocket launcher in Innocence.
8. Oz finding formerly-rat!Buffy now naked!Buffy in Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered.
9. Jenny's death scene in Passion. HAI I'M MORBID!
10. Buffy's awesome moment of awesome in Becoming. SHE CAUGHT THE SWORD WITH HER HANDS, GUYS!!!
11. All the town's grown-ups acting like kids at the Bronze in Band Candy.
12. Joyce and Spike having hot chocolate in Lovers Walk.
13. Buffy going after Kralik in Helpless. THAT'S MY GIRL!
14. Doppelgangland. All of it.
15. Buffy getting the Class Protector Award in The Prom.
16. Spike panther crawl in Harsh Light of Day.
17. Gachnar's appearance in Fear, Itself.
18. drunk!cave!Buffy in Beer Bad.
19. The Harmony-Xander slappy-fight in The Initiative.
20. BUFFY MADE A BEAR IN PANGS
21. Giles' overhead lecture scene in Hush
22. Spike in shorts trying to stake himself in Doomed.
23. Buffy giving Maggie the Slayer speech at the end of The I in Team.
24. SCOOBY SLUMBER PART IN GOODBYE, IOWA.
25. Restless!
26. Spike's sexy Spuffy dream in OOMM.
27. Fool For Love. I LOVE WILLIAM SO MUCH!
28. Olaf the Troll in Triangle
29. Buffy laying the smackdown on the Council at the end of Checkpoint.
30. Spike and Dawn doing crime in Blood Ties.
31. Spike dressed in Rileywear in Crush
32. SMG's acting in The Body.
33. Dawn and Buffy holding each other and crying at the end of Forever.
34. The Buffybot in Intervention!
35. Spike's sexy bedhead look in Intervention.
36. Willow getting her dark magick on in Tough Love
37. Giles killing Ben in The Gift.
38. Buffy's jump in The Gift, complete with shmaltzy speech. MAKES ME CRY EVERYTIME.
39. Spike's "Every night, I save you" speech in After Life.
40. Buffy telling Spike she was in Heaven in After Life.
41. Buffy the Construction Worker in Life Serial. THE HAT IS CUTE!
42. Buffy telling Spike, "Good fight" before he leaves in All the Way.
43. OMWF!!!
44. Buffy and Spike bringing the house down in Smashed. It's HOT!
45. Buffy and Spike have the whole, "Unspoken communication" thing down at the end of Wrecked. Buffy fights the demon; Spike runs to make sure Dawn is okay. Then as they're walking away with Willow behind them, Spike and Buffy share this look, and Spike takes Dawn away while Buffy goes back to Willow.
46. naked!Spike in Gone. I am a shallow fangirl.
47. Dead Things.
48. Buffy and Spike playing cards together in Older and Far Away.
49. Buffy doing charades in Hells Bells.
50. Buffy's final conversation with her mom in Normal Again. BUFFY KEEPS MAKING ME CRY.
51. Dark Willow!
52. Xander's yellow crayon speech in Grave.
53. The final scene of Grave with Spike getting his soul.
54. The Beneath You church scene. DUH!
55. Willow visiting Tara's grave in Help.
56. The cut from Anya singing to Anya with a sword through her chest in Selfless. OUCH!
57. When Buffy rescues Spike in Showtime.
58. Buffy taking care of Spike in The Killer in Me.
59. Storyteller!
60. LMPTM!!!
61. Spike's "You're the one" speech to Buffy in Touched.
62. SPUFFY BURNY HAND-HOLDING OF FLAMING LOVE IN CHOSEN.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

YAY YAY YAY!

Please tell me that when you were compiling this, you opened up a list of all the episodes and looked at each one and remembered your favorite moments. Because that's how I pictured you making this very chronological list!

[maddie2927.livejournal.com]

oooh I like this! and it's as good a time as EVER.

1 - Spike's hair the first few episodes of S6, all curly and mussed and delicious. yum
2 - Staking motions getting confused with masturbatory motions in Hush
3 - Wesley and Lilah in general. I really wanted a happy ending for them
4 - AtS S5 Spike and Angel. The snark, the jealousy, the sexy fighting. loves ittt.
5 - Spike and Harmony sexytymez in Harsh Light of Day. I know, it's an affront to the fandom, but he pulls her hair and I go ohhh yeahh
6 - Spike and Giles moments (Lick me to death? We band of buggered. Heavy machinery. Cuppa Tea.)
7 - Buffybot moments. for sure. (You're right, I am interesting. Who's there?! You're recently gay! Guyles, etc.)
8 - Buffy talking about holding Dawn and getting choked up in The Gift
9 - Buffy's mom hair in Lessons
10 - Cordy and Wesley being Buffy and Angel
11 - With the rising music, and the rising... music
12 - We thought you were a myth. Well, you were mythtaken
13 - I'd like to keep Spike as my pet. (Oh, Illyria. Wouldn't we all?)
14 - Possibly ever single Andrew scene ever written.
15 - Xander under Dracula's thrall (the dark master... bator. and the unholy prince... bator.)

that's all I can think of right now. stuff like this always reminds me to get my head out of fannish stuff that never actually happened and catch up on some good old canon. yum =)

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Oh, such great choices!


10 - Cordy and Wesley being Buffy and Angel I can't believe no one said that one already! It's perfect!

And yay for Andrew love!

[eilowyn.livejournal.com]

Okay, so the gifs were making my page loading a nightmare, and I got all worried that all my favorite scenes of awesome would be taken, then I realized THERE IS SO MUCH AWESOME TO GO AROUND!!!!!1!

1. Tara comforting Buffy in Dead things. I love Tara so much because she really is the most compassionate of the Scoobies. Some people don't like her because she's so generally nice, and nice = boring, but I love that there is someone there for Buffy who can sympathize and not judge about Spike because she doesn't have the Angelus baggage everyone else does.

2. Joyce and Spike bonding over Passions. When I first got my TiVo, my mother would mock me because the first three shows I set up to record were Buffy, Angel and Passions - I like my soaps with a large helping of crack - and I felt extremely validated that SPIKE AND JOYCE WATCH MY SOAP!!!

3. Buffy juggling at Xander and Anya's not-wedding. As hard as that episode was, we got some well-adjusted Buffy as a side dish, and it made even those hideous dresses bearable.

4. Andrew and Anya wheelchair fighting! What else are you supposed to do when there's an approaching apocalypse?

5. Oz' Willow Kissage speech. One of the many reasons I heart Oz.

6. Oz' Animal Crackers speech. The guy never says much, but he does, it's brilliant!!

7. Cordelia praying in the closet during School Hard. And gabrielleabelle's subsequent Cordy/Willow fics it inspired.

8. Clem. Can we just bask in the underused awesome that is Clem?

9. Young Felicia Day in season 7. Who knew the redhead who inherited Willow's funny hat fetish would grow up to be such an awesome businesswoman and entertainer?

10. Fred. I just love the nice people others find boring. And Fred is so adorable, and I love how she's kinda Willow-ish while being totally not a Willow clone.

[gabrielleabelle.livejournal.com]

7. Someday I'm gonna have to write up a post about how I know Cordelia and Willow were TOTALLY DOING IT IN HIGH SCHOOL! Seriously, y'all think I'm just making it up, but IT'S THERE! And it's hot. *nods*

[dee81.livejournal.com]

Oh this is fun! I'm doing a Top 10 for BtVS and a Top Ten for Angel (Especially since I'm in the midst of a marathon as I type)

BtVS
1) Season 2: Angelus. Spike. Drusilla. Enough said.
2) Cordelia and Xander from Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered: "And I'll date whoever the hell I wanna date! No matter how lame he is!"
3) Dawn and Xander at the end of Potential : "You're not special...you're extraordinary." (Sigh)
4) The final moments of The Wish alternate reality of Buffy fighting in the factory intertwined with Giles and Anya. The eerie, yet beautiful music alone gave me the chills.
5) Willow and Oz in Phases: "Three days out of the month I'm not much fun to be around either."
6) "Say you're happy now, Once More With Feeling."
7) The actual size of the Fear Demon in Fear Itself. "Who's the little fear demon?' And then...splat.
8) The look on Spike's face in As You Were when Buffy went to go see him at his crypt (before Riley got there). "Tell me you love me."
9) Something Blue : Giles being blind and the lip smacking of Buffy and Spike.
10) The famous Faith and Buffy switch in Who are You. Two quotes come to mind: "You can't do that. It's wrong, I'll kick your ass," and "I could squeeze you until you popped like warm champagne."

And honorary mentions go to Passion, Fool for Love, Hush and Restless. Works of art, all of them.

Angel:
1) Darla to Angel in Dear Boy: "God doesn't want you...but I still do."
2) Spike perched on the roof during In the Dark: "Biiiiig fluffy puppy with bad teeth."
3) Cordelia and Angel's first scene from City Of. "Nice to see she's grown as a person."
4) Cordelia and Angel's final scene. "Oh...and you're welcome." (Sob)
5) Angel trapping the Wolfram and Hart employees with a hungry Drusilla and Darla in Reunion. The evil humans were going to die, and Angel's response: "And yet somehow, I just can't seem to care."
6) The puppet. Oh the wee little puppet man.
7) Wesley's character development in regards to Lilah and Angel trying to murder him
8) RIP Doyle
9) The shared smile between Angel and Faith at the end of Orpheus when Fred started to babble about some magic spell to Willow.
10) "You gotta do what you can to protect your family. I learned that from my father." Hi all grown up and matured Connor! I like you...can I please introduce you to a super cute girl in Sunnydale? Her name is Dawn.

Bonus mentions to any episode that provides us with flashbacks (except the one with the submarine...that was meh) and where Darla was a central part of the storyline.

You chose great moments by the way. I like how you had really specific and small scenes, but they were so memorable. (Such as the one from Him).

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

The look on Spike's face in As You Were when Buffy went to go see him at his crypt (before Riley got there). "Tell me you love me." That is the only scene in that episode I can watch. *sob*

I SHIP CONNOR/DAWN, TOO. Do you have any recs? I wants to read lots of fic of them.

Aw! Thanks! I love your picks, too! I was going for the little moments, because so many of them are like jewels: tiny and perfect in themselves.

[rebcake.livejournal.com]

Just the bad, dirty, wrong bits (pre-S6, 'cos otherwise we'd be here all day):
1. Buffy branding her crucifix into Angel's chest while they kiss. Angel
2. Dru "caressing" Spike's cheek, then licking up the blood. School Hard
3. "They make me feel all manly." School Hard
4. Joyce dangling the handcuffs. Band Candy
5. Wish!verse Xander and Willow eating Cordy. The Wish
6. Vamp!Willow licking Fuzzy!Willow. (Also, "Have you guys been doing a bunch of drugs?") Doppelgangland
7. Willow rockin' the Barry White. Amends
8. Panther crawl. Harsh Light of Day
9. "...you'd beg me to hurt you just a little bit more." Who Are You!
10. "Out. For. A. Walk. Bitch." With crotch thrust. No Place Like Home

(I really am a nice, vanilla girl. Heh.)

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! I love your Dirtybadwrong Edition of this meme!

Um...I have never noticed the crotch thrust.

*rushes off to rewatch*


(I really am a nice, vanilla girl. Heh.) Hee! Suuuuure you are!

[molly_may]

1. "You were supposed to die! It was written!" "What can I say? I flunked the written."
2. Buffy smacking Ted across the face with a frying pan, the teenage girl using a domestic weapon to defeat the misogynist would-be stepfather.
3. "What did you get for your birthday?" "I got older." ::sniff::
4. When Cordelia thinks that Xander has turned into a fish monster, she says that they can still date, and that she'll bring him bath toys!
5. A tiny moment in "Dead Man's Party": Giles in his kitchen, taking just a minute to let the relief of Buffy's re-appearance wash over him.
6. "I walk. I talk. I shop. I sneeze. I'm going to be a fireman when the floods roll back. There are trees in the desert since you moved out, and I don't sleep on a bed of bones. Now give me back my friends."
7. Spike lending a hand to help Buffy off the floor in "Listening to Fear", as useless Riley busts in uselessly.
8. Spike's face when he sees Buffy on the stairs in "Afterlife".
9. Buffy and Spike drinking. "Bleagh" and "Be free, kittens!".
10. Xander and Anya dancing in OMWF.
11. Buffy singing "Life's a Show". "To be like other girls/and fit into this glittering world".
12. The fighting-turned-to-fucking in "Smashed". The zipper sound.
13. The cut from Anya singing in her wedding dress to Anya run through with a sword in "Selfless".
14. "You faced the monster inside of you and you fought back. You risked everything to be a better man. And you can be. You are. You may not see it, but I do. I do. I believe in you, Spike."
15. "Are you ready? Are you ready to be strong?"

Um, I could do this all night.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I think we could all do this all night!

You have some really awesome small moments in here that probably wouldn't be on other people's lists but that are totally awesome. Yay!


7. Spike lending a hand to help Buffy off the floor in "Listening to Fear", as useless Riley busts in uselessly. I knew you would get a Riley-dig in! LOVE IT.

[mollivanders.livejournal.com]

I wish I could read this right now :) But, just wanted to let you know that S4 (though a little dull at first) is becoming very funny :) I approve of 'Something Blue' very much! And looking forward to 'Hush'. Angel, by all accounts, is the best and Cordy having a poltergeist roommate? omgyay <3

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

When you are done with the show, you should return and soak in the love!

But I'm glad you're enjoying the funny! It's definitely a bit dull at first, but things get better as they go along.

"Something Blue" is a classic!

Later, we're gonna have to talk about how you feel about Riley..... ;D

I looooove Dennis the Ghost! Yay for Cordy's roommate! Oh, early!AtS!Cordy! How I love you!

[ladysophiekitty.livejournal.com]

1. Buffy/Spike's snuggle in Touched
2. Faith and Angel fighting in the rain and then she cries in his arms
3. Faith when she goes to Angel season 4. Pretty much the only good thing about that season.
4.Cordelia's cheerful, "you don't know who he is, do you? Oh boy, you're about to get your ass kicked"
5. How awesome Lilah is. That bitch is fierce and awesome.
6. Restless, and the part where Tara has the Greek writing on her back. I've always loved that.
7. My friend and I always laugh over how incredibly cheesy The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco. I go to Guatemala quite a bit, so I could appreciate the culture! Just thinking about it makes me laugh.
8. Anya. I love how if she thinks it, she says it!
9. The Cordy/Angel goodbye kiss
10. Connor and Angel singing Mandy

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

I feel like I could break this down by character and still have dozens and dozens of entries. You reminded me of so many awesome Cordy moments!

[ava-leigh-fitz.livejournal.com]

THIS POST COULD NOT COME AT A BETTER TIME LAUREN. NO REALLY, BECAUSE I HAVE TO WRITE AN ESSAY:

‘Art and cultural consumption are predisposed, consciously and deliberately or not, to fulfil a social function of legitimating social differences’ (Bourdieu). Discuss with reference to at least two cultural productions.

AND I WAS THINKING OF DOING BUFFY ANYWAY TO ATTEMPT TO ARGUE AGAINST IT AND NOW I HAVE A LIST OF SCENES AND DIALOGUE AND STUFF FOR REFERENCE. SO YAY FOR FANDOM, YAY FOR MY ACADEMIC LIFE. THIS IS WHY YOU CONTINUE TO BE AWESOME IN EVERY WAY.

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

OH AWESOME! I LOVE YOU AND YOUR ACADEMIC LIFE SO MUCH.

I have to admit that the allergies that are stuffing up my head, and so I cannot even begin to really pick apart that quote and figure out what it means but nonetheless I AM PLEASED TO PROVIDE FODDER FOR YOUR AWESOME ACADEMIC LIFE. YAY YOU!

[nicole-anell.livejournal.com]

Okay, without even looking at other people's yet! Here's my ten:

1. All of "Once More With Feeling", especially the Xander/Anya lyrical amazingness.
2. "The bird's dead, Dru! You left it in a cage and you didn't feed it and now it's all dead, just like the last one." (Dru whimpers) "I'm sorry, baby. I'm a bad, rude man. Would you like a new bird? One that's not dead?"
3. The phrase "insane troll logic."
4. Dawn's squee!face when she sees Willow and Tara are back together.
5. Faith in Buffy's body hitting on Spike and snarking on everyone and being traaagic.
6. From Angel: Cordy, Wes, and Gunn singing "We Are the Champions"
7. Also from Angel: PUPPET ANGEL. Including but not limited to Fred playing with his hair, his detachable nose, and Spike beating him into a wall to get him to stop biting his arm.
8. Buffy gets the ability to read minds; discovers Joyce had sex with Giles under the candy influence. On the hood of a police car. Twice.
9. Doppelgangland! Willow impersonating Vampire-Willow and vice versa.
10. That friggin' kid with the baseball bat in "Chosen".

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! I had totally forgotten about the "the bird's dead, Dru!" scene. OMG I LOVE THAT SCENE SO HARD. I will never stop laughing over that!

[ubi4soft.livejournal.com]

So many posters already mentioned fabulous scenes already.

1. I love Spike in any scene and if didn't go well or it was too hard to watch I think how amazing actor JM was and still find something to appreciate.
2. Buffy/Riley in Something Blue "I'll just go away and stay away"/"You're ruining my happy day!".
3. Lawson on AtS looking for a reason.
4. Andrew fanboying over Spike in Damage "you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever".
5. In fact all Andrew in Damage.
6. Gunn in Life of the party taking a piss on Angel's chair.
7. Angel's low-esteem dream in Soul Purpose.
8. The change from Fred to Illyria while smashing Veil's head.
9. The awkward Wesley/Cordelia kiss.
10. Joyce Summers.

[local-max.livejournal.com]

Some moments

1. Willow shooting Xander down when he tries to move on from Buffy to her for the Spring Fling. ("You think that's my idea of high jinks?") And then Xander listening to country music.
2. "I'm sixteen years old--I don't want to die!"
3. Willow explaining to Giles about the costumes. "I'm a ghost!" "Uh...ha, yes, but the ghost of what, exactly?"
4. Buffy and Angel's main scene in "Lie to Me" in the kitchen. "I don't want you to lie to me, I can't take it." And Buffy hearing about Drusilla for the first time.
5. Xander boiling his young ("Bad Eggs")
6. Cordelia wishing Buffy SURPRISE
7. Willow seeing X & C. "No, all it means is you'd rather be with someone you hate than be with me."
8. Dru and Angel's reaction to the rocket launcher.
9. Giles' speech to Buffy outside her house. ("All I can offer you is my support...and my respect.")
10. "Aren't you going to make a wish?" "Let it burn." (Yes, "Innocence" is that good.)
11. "Are you worried about Oz? He's sweet, but he's not you." "Yes, he is! And you should go to him! Because he's me!"
12. Angel's gift to Giles, the rose petals on the stairs. Willow and Buffy hearing the news on the phone.
13. Angel and Buffy reliving the ghosts of Sunnydale student/teacher past.
14. Darla promising to show Angel the world.
15. Buffy's slow-mo run to find Kendra's body with Whistler's "Big moments" speech
16. Spike's "I love this world" speech
17. Buffy's Slayery coming out to Joyce
18. "Kick his ass."
19. "Close your eyes."
20. "I'm Buffy, the Vampire Slayer. And you are?"
21. Giles' smile when he realizes Buffy is back.
22. Giles' plan to get Buffy talking about Acathla (and Angel)
23. Joyce producing handcuffs.
24. Giles to Buffy: "You have no respect for me or the job I perform."
25. Oz giving Willow a Pez witch. "We need to get a Pez werewolf so Pez witch can have a boyfriend!" "I think we might just have to settle for a wacky cartoon dog."
26. Spike and Willow in that fuzzy sweater. And then Spike and Joyce, and then....
27. The slow-mo deaths in "The Wish."
28. Oz and Willow's night in "Amends."
29. Giles tending to Buffy's wounds at the end of "Helpless."
30. Xander's "I like the quiet" speech to Jack while chaos rages on upstairs.
31. Buffy and Faith dancing at the Bronze.
32. "You don't understand--YOU KILLED A MAN." "No, you don't understand. I don't care."
33. Willow crying in the toilet stall.
34. Xander describing Willow as a geiser of fun that goes off at regular intervals. ("That's Old Faithful.")
35. Anya trying to order a beer. ("I.D." "Give me a coke.")
36. Buffy and Xander trying so hard to be reasonable when they run into Vamp!Willow at the Bronze.

OK I HAVE TO GO BUT I COULD REALLY GO ON FOREVER AND I'M ONLY MIDWAY THROUGH SEASON THREE. GAH. I MISS THIS SHOW.

[diamondtook862.livejournal.com]

I just have to say, this really made my night. It made me smile like a million times.

Not in order- moments I don't think have been mentioned yet cause pretty much all of the above are my favorites.

1. Were you there with me? I was.
2. The conversation on dating on the hellmouth in season 1.
3. The convo of the 3 scoobies and Giles at the end of The first two-parter, and the parallel at the end of Chosen.
4. Buffy's last line ever. Spike.
5. The look on Spike's face when Buffy kisses him and he realizes she's not the bot. Just that look.
6. Anya's speech in the body (sorry, it needed saying again).
7. God, no! Please, no.
8. Spike almost caressing Dawn's hair in Tough Love (?) but then not.
9. The Buffy mumbling/disconcertedness when she encounters Spike in the basement in All the Way.
10. Spike's pout at the beginning of As You Were when Buffy wouldn't bring him in.
11. The in-Buffy's-bed part of the dream in Dead things. Sweet, hot and symbolic! Go read Gab's post in the series on Buffy's depression!

So, so many more, but I'll leave some for the others :).

[sarahlovesa.livejournal.com]

1. Were you there with me? I was.
YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! - and when she caresses his face when he says 'I don't know what I would have done if you had walked up those stairs.'

Actually, your list is so like mine will be when I get roundto finishing it, it is spooky. But the more I put down the more I think of! What other show has so many of those 'moments' that make you want to shout or sigh or laugh or cry or just generally run around the room in sheer delight?

[treadingthedark.livejournal.com]

"I'm not sure if I'm driving this car or wearing it!"
Spike while driving Giles the Fyarl demon around.

"Stupid limey peice of crap" Puppet Angel to Spike

"the slayer is going to kick your skanky lopsided ass..."
Intervention

The look on Spike's face when he sees Buffy alive on the stairs in Afterlife.

"Cuppa tea, cuppa tea, almost got shagged...."

"Ooh look at my mask, isn't it pretty" Giles about Joyce's zombie raising mask in Dead Man's party.

Angel trying to find his Irish accent in Spin the Bottle.

"Me? Cheating? He's got X-ray vision!"
"I wasn't using it" Kitten Poker

And almost every single thing that others have listed. This has been an exercise in joy. Thanks.

[hkath.livejournal.com]

How could we all have forgotten about Giles' snarky little zombie mask grumble until now? LOOOOL.

[flake-sake.livejournal.com]

Weee! Love that idea!
I'll just answer from the top of my head:

1. Angel in Spin the Bottle, going into the bathroom, finding he has no mirror image, running out screaming "I'm invisible!" This scene has the ability to always make me laugh, no matter the circumstances.

2. The look on Spike's face when he finds Buffy uninvited him inS5 and then the look when she invites him back in.

3.Giles and Ethan every time they interact and you feel that there's a whole world of backstory between them.

4. Giles overhead lecture in Hush.

5. Willow and Tara kissing for the first time.

6. Spike being the cool guy who doesn't want to be filmed and then turning out to be acting for Andrew in S7.

7. Spike giving poetry in Not Fad away.

8. Spik explaining the thrill of fight that you can lose to Angelus in the mine shaft.

9. Buffy and Angel in The Zeppo

10. Spike's speech to Buffy in the abandoned house.

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

1. Spike and Dawn sharing that battered box of candy.

2. Spike practicing apologizing to Buffy with said box of candy.

3. The back porch scene from Fool for Love "sighs".

4. Buffy beating the daylights out of the Master in Prophecy Girl.

5. The scream in Tabula Rasa.

6. Spike turning from vampire face to human face in School Hard.

7. Harmony and Cordy painting toenails, etc.

8. Wes burning Lilah's contract.

9. Spike and Xander meeting Olaf.

10. Anya and Giles in Tabula Rasa - the spells, the kiss, the avoidance - all of it gold.

11. Spike and Giles in the car in A New Man. "Hey, picked up a tail.

GILES
Just a little one. Hurts to sit." :: dies ::

12. Spike and Buffy under the spell in Something Blue. "Oooh. Fluffy. Wear this to the rehearsal
dinner and the whole thing's off.

BUFFY
Shut up, Honey."

13. Spike watching Angel in Lover's Walk. "SPIKE
Yeah. I'll show you who's...
cool guy. You're going down." And then... flames.

14. Willy and Spike over Angel - "WILLY
What're you gonna do with him, anyway?

SPIKE
I'm thinking - maybe dinner and a
movie. I don't want to rush into
anything. I've been hurt, you know."

15. Andrew carrying on over Spike in Damages, all 82% more manly of him.

16. Olaf and Anya's "Swedish" conversation in Selfless.

17. Spike's Angel "sketch" in Chosen.

18. Buffy's speech to the Watcher's Council in Checkpoint.

19. Xander, Willow and Anya patrolling with bags of chips - and Riley - in Fool for Love.

20. Spike's speech in Where the Wild Things Are - "SPIKE
I am.
SPIKE grinds out his cigarette and steps boldly forward.

SPIKE (cont'd)
I know I'm not first choice for
heroics - and Buffy's tried to kill me
more than once - and I don't fancy a
single one of you all - but:

Long beat while Spike thinks…

SPIKE (cont'd)
Actually, that all sounds pretty convincing.
(beat)
Think Asian House is still open?"

And bonus points for the looks on everyone's faces at Giles singing.

Happiness is . . .

[probablecylon.livejournal.com]

1. Dawn writing in her journal --

DAWN: She and Willow are both witches. They do spells and stuff, which is so much cooler than slaying. I told Mom one time I wished they'd teach me some of the things they do together. A-and then she got really quiet and made me go upstairs. . . . Huh. I guess her generation isn't cool with witchcraft.

2. Spike sees Buffy dancing for the first time while the band plays "I'm just one step away from crashing to my knees/I'm just one step away from spilling my guts to you . . . "

3. The coming of Ripper, with Giles' greeting, "Hello, Ethan," and Ethan's leer, "Hello, RIPPER" -- such a fantastic curtain lifting on Giles' dark past.

4. Buffy turning around to see Angel in his tux and the slow, slow dance to 'Wild Horses' . . .

5. The dream sequences of 'Restless'

6. 'What can't we face if we're together' -- especially 'We have to try - we'll pay the price -- it's do or die' 'Hey, I've died twiiice' -- and 'There's nothing we can't face' - "Except for BUN-nies . . . "

7. Lorne's debut, the sinister green-faced, horned, red-lipped demon . . . breaking into "I Will Survive!"

. . . How many hundred others . . .