On the cusp of marital bliss, Xander goes back to the future to heed dire portents of trauma, alcoholism, and disrespectful half-elf children. Also, Buffy juggles. The Boys are back and sitting on the bride's side in "Hell's Bells".

Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:

• 'Part Satyr on your mother's side' - the matrilineal demonic dynamics of Anya's vengeance heritage
• Family Should be Heard and Not Seen: metaphor made manifest and mortal in the Harris household
• Redeemable for Off-Screen Only and the paradox of likeable villains
• "Ah! Hymen's greetings"

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Agent Riley Finn is back on the Sunnydale scene, with a badass (tm) black ops wife and mysterious scar in tow. What will this mean for Buffy and her permanent burger stench? The Buffy Boys seek a leathery egg in S06E15 "As You Were".

Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:

• To Sound the Riley Reveille: military minded counterpoints to the Season 6 soap opera
• Sartorial sexual signals - deliberate fashion mirroring and unmirroring in the Buffy/Spike relationship
• The Helicopter back to Planet Supporting-Characteria
• "What a bitch"

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It's the Buffster's birthday - time for bad fashion, mortal peril, and uncomfortable personal revelations! What do you get the Slayer who has everything? A phase-shifting demon trapped in a sword of course. The Buffy Boys bring the charcuterie in S06E14 "Older and Far Away".

Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:

• The Apothesis of Tara Maclay: a supporting character who grows towards her own dissolution
• "Mr Redshirt was my father" - people as throwaway narrative devices reverse-engineered from the outcome
• That 'justice demon' gag was pretty funny tbh
• "A muscle cramp? In your... Pants?"

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Warren's misogyny and Buffy's trauma collide on a downward spiral as Season 6 kicks into a gear that'll take more than a spell and a witty comeback to fix. The Buffy Boys dial down the laugh track in S06E13 "Dead Things".

Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:

• "Sensors, or Whatever" the hodge-podge of magic and technology in Buffy's plotting
• "Your Ex? That's Messed Up" - the veneer of the 'boys will be boys' sliding scale of acceptably gross behaviour
• Slayer? I hardly know her!: The protean metaphor of Spike as seer, sinner, and saviour to Buffy's problems
• "She washed up half a mile from the cemetery."

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Buffy is a vision in polyester as she explores her exciting career options in the quick service restaurant industry. But does something sinister lurk beneath the bun of this capitalist dream?

The Buffy Boys deal with yet another Wig Lady in S06E12 "Doublemeat Palace".

Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:

• Feminist Vengeance - Femigeance? Xander's anti-demon micro-violence contend with Halfrek's macro-violence approach
• Something borrowed: Amy's infusion of ill-begotten power as a literal and narrative catalyst
• The monster that made us straight, finally
• "What? Another eight hours? Right after these eight hours? That's... so many hours."

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Yours in Slaying,

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A glancing blow from the Trio's latest superweapon transforms our Slayer into an invisible menace to pedantic social workers, proud hairdressers, and problematically nude vampires alike.

The Buffy Boys lament a parched wig in S06E11 "Gone".

Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:

• The Googly Eyes of the Beholder: female gaze in the unseen mode
• the repressed tech nerd to lesbian witch detective pipeline
• Troi(ka) - the coalition of misdirection
• "I swear, it's not... what it looks like. It's magic weed. It's not mine."

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Yours in Slaying,

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Pancakes, larva Stinky yak cheese in my bra

Willow dances on the ceiling, Amy does some herb-y stealing, Dawn's arm's broken, Buffy rants: -Spike's in flesh-toned underpants! The Buffy Boys didn't start the fire in S06E10 "Wrecked".

Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:

• Implicit versus Explicit - vampire/slayer slash as star-crossed or horned up parables
• Imperfect Magical Metaphors: the widening gyre of Willow's sudden moral spiral
• Threadbare Ensemble and the maturing tone of late - stage BtVS
• The modern marvel of televisual teletext service
• "Last night was the most perverse, degrading experience of my life."

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Yours in Slaying,

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Willow de-rats Amy, her old witch-in-arms from high school and they hit the Bronze for a carefree romp with no emotional repercussions whatsoever. Spike and Buffy explore the exciting world of home remodelling. The Buffy Boys buckle up in S06E09 "Smashed".

Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:

• Schrödinger's Chip: variable perceptions and inhibitions from Spike's plot device
• Double Double, Gigilo Trouble - lampshading problematic behaviours through the lens of magical boys dancing in cages
• the demolition of the Home as Self: Hitchcock has a field day
• ""But, when I kissed you... you know I was thinking about Giles, right?"."

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Yours in Slaying,

The Buffy Boys

Willow has a classic magical whoopsie with some Lethe's Bramble leaving our amnesiac Scoobies to reverse-engineer their personal relationships while contending with the mythical vampyr. The Buffy Boys...wait, I forget...in S06E08 "Tabula Rasa".

Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:

• Essentialist identity and extrinsic magical ideation
• The Folly of Translation: an Ode to Alex Harris
• Soft-focus emotional indie moments of the 00s
• "Welcome to the nancy tribe."

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Yours in Slaying,

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It's an all-singing bonanza as the Scoobies face two enemies that remain undefeated: Dancing Demon and being dramatic as all hell. The Buffy Boys spin up their old soundtrack CD for S06E07 "Once More With Feeling".

Key Buffy Bits from this episode include:

• Soft shoe semiotics: the musical format as a short-circuit to revealing secrets
• Timelessness and television - the impact of the 'Event Episode' sub-genre, its presentation and perception
• Lesbian Bedroom Flotation and the myth of the missing edits
• "I think this line's mostly filler."

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Yours in Slaying,

The Buffy Boys