Buffy the Vampire Slayer

'I Was Made to Love You' is a nice funny episode from the series. It doesn't help the main arc a lot, except for some Ben/Buffy/Glory interaction, but it still has great lines, a bit of action and an entertaining plot, not to mention a great last scene that paves the way to the wonderful 'The Body'.

Warren, here introduced to the audience, makes a sexbot, April, played by Shonda Farr, who delivers a really good performance. Made to love him (hence the title), she tracks him down to Sunnydale, doing everything she can to find him after being left behind. It's not a big, monster plot, but holds your attention for an hour with no major problems and is a delight to see April, one of my favorites MoW, if you can call her that. She is naive, hopeful and it's impossible not to feel sorry for her in the end. It is through her that Buffy sees that she doesn't need a man to be happy.

At the mean time, Joyce goes on a date and it's great to see her trying to get back with her life after the brain tumor, although that ultimately fails as seen in the devastating finale. Spike, on the other hand, is still dealing with his feelings for Buffy, and I always feel bad for him especially, during the confrontation with the Scoobies in the Magic Box. By the way, those Scoobies can be pretty mean when they want to (Dead Man's Party, anyone?). Finally, he goes to Warren to ask for his very own Buffybot.

All in all, the writing is fine, the acting is fine and all of the technical stuff is fine, making 'I Was Made to Love You' a fine episode. It's not the best, but it is also not bad like some. It's just a fine episode that always brings laughs (mainly due to Anya and Spike) and enjoyment.

The Good;
All the scenes with Buffy and April are wonderful plus the Scoobies robot humour and Giles babysitting Dawn. A nice lightweight episode before some of the heaviest storylines in the show's history.

The Bad;
A fairly slight tale but fun. How does Spike know about Warren? Jane comments on Buffy's self-involvement which is true but understandable. She says it's Tara who shows sympathy with Warren but actually surely it's Willow?

Best line;
Buffy; "I've had it with superstrong little women who aren't me!"

Women good/men bad;
Warren the sleazoid shows his ugly face. Hate the way that when April doesn't answer him it actually causes her pain? That said he does have some redeeming features, preferring a human girl over his ideal sexbot due to her humour and intellect. Him redirecting April's rage onto Buffy hints at his ruthlessness to come. Buffy thinks that she should try to please men by laughing at their jokes (much as CC used to) but Xander assures her she doesn't need to, again the one who sees. The boys at the coffee shop are horrible to April. Buffy wonders if she is to blame for Spike's attraction to her. Buffy decides she doesn't want a guy right now. Warren programmed April not to cry as 'Crying is blackmail' (jeeez!). Note even though she's walked out from Warren when she meets April, Katrina still tells him to stay away from her man. Also see Captain Subtext.

Jeez!;
April picking up Katrina and breaking her ribs is cringeworthy (although you can see how the perspective gag is done)

Kinky dinky;
April is probably what every 14 year old boy/Xander dreams off (or is that Britney Spears who was rumoured to be lined up for the role?) What exactly did Spike whisper in her ear to make him chuck him through a window? Joyce has a date with Brian and claims that it went so well she left her bra on the dessert cart (we hope she's joking but after Band Candy...?). Her dress is the same one as she wore in Ted and Buffy believes it cries 'Randy sex kitten' (Dawn also remembers Ted and suspects there may have been more of him about). April is programmed for fetishisms, positions and sex. Ben cross dresses. Buffy says that her secret to attracting men is to 'Slap them around a bit, torture them, make their lives a living hell" which she actually has done to all her boyfriends. Giles comments that Buffy is attractive. Dawn wonders if Bryan is a gigilo and thinks they can be spotted by their shiny shirts? Buffy says she's had 2 boyfriends so I guess she doesn't count Owen, Parker, Dracula, Scott or Jeffrey from her LA days. Spike tells Buffy he wants her to put her hands on his 'hot tight little body'. Tara tries the spicy talk saying April has 'Genuine molded plastic stamped on her ass'. Warren programmes April to growl?

Captain Subtext;
Glory seems genuinely disappointed that Buffy turned her/Ben down. Willow seems very appreciative of April which suggests that it's not just Tara who does it for her. It's a lovely little scene where Magic Jane defies our expectations, Tara is jealous, Anya isn't. "Too many girls" moans Xander who misses Oz (wait until next season when he doesn't even have Giles), it would probably have been Riley but he doesn't want to mention his name in front of Buffy. Xander finally get's a nice big hug from Buffy but unfortunately he's in the training suit so can't really appreciate it. Xander says a good guy will come along for Buffy eventually. We're still waiting really. Is it just me or would anyone else have liked a scene where Buffy actually has sex with Ben only for him to turn into Glory half way through?
Giles and Dawn talked about boys whilst he was babysitting?

Scoobies to the ER;
Xander pummelled in the puffy suit

Apocalypses; 5,

Scoobies in bondage:
Buffy: 8
Giles: 4
Cordy: 5
Will: 3
Jenny: 1
Angel: 4
Oz: 1
Faith: 3
Joyce: 1
Wes: 1
Xander; 1
Dawn; 1

Scoobies knocked out:
Buffy: 16
Giles: 10
Cordy: 6
Xander: 8
Will: 5
Jenny: 2
Angel: 6
Oz: 3
Faith: 1
Joyce: 3
Wes: 1
Anya;1

Kills:
Buffy: 94 vamps, 32 demons, 6 monsters, 3 humans, 1 werewolf, 1 spirit warrior & a robot
Giles: 5 vamps, 1 demon
Cordy: 3 vamps, a demon
Will: 6 vamps
Angel: 3 vamps, 1 demon, 1 human
Oz: 3 vamps, 1 zombie
Faith: 16 vamps, 5 demons, 3 humans
Xander: 5 vamps, 2 zombies, a demon, a demon
Anya: a demon
Riley; 18 vamps + 7 demons

Scoobies go evil:
Giles: 1
Cordy: 1
Will: 2
Jenny: 1
Angel: 1
Oz: 1
Joyce: 1
Xander: 3

Alternate scoobies:
Buffy: 6
Giles: 3
Cordy: 1
Will: 2
Jenny: 2
Angel: 3
Oz: 2
Joyce: 2
Xander: 3

Recurring characters killed: 9
Jesse, Flutie, Jenny, Kendra, Larry, Snyder, Professor Walsh, Forrest, McNamara

Sunnydale deaths;
98;

Total number of scoobies: 6
Giles, Xander, Willow, Buffy, Anya, Tara,

Xander demon magnet: 5(6?)
Preying Mantis Lady, Inca Mummy Girl, Drusilla, VampWillow, Anya (arguably Buffy & Faith with their demon essences?), Dracula?

Scoobies shot: no but Xander says he should be (but never is as far as I'm aware?)
Giles: 2
Angel: 3
Oz: 4
Riley; 1

Notches on Scooby bedpost:
Giles: 2; Joyce & Olivia, possibly Jenny and 3xDraccy babes?
Cordy: 1?
Buffy: 3 confirmed; Angel, Parker,Riley, 1 possible, Dracula(?)
Angel: 1;Buffy
Joyce: 1;Giles, 2 possible, Ted and Dracula(?)
Oz: 3; Groupie, Willow & Verucca
Faith:2 ;Xander, Riley
Xander: 2; Faith, Anya
Willow: 2;Oz and Tara
Riley; 3; Buffy, Sandy and unnamed vampwhore

Questions and observations;
The return of Ripper threatening Spike. Note even Dawn has turned against Spike due to his treatment of Buffy. Another lovely Anya/Tara scene, the outsiders on the Scoobygang to a degree. Love Joyce's Wonder Woman spinning routine, if they were to make the movie she should be Queen of the Amazons (or Lynda Carter should be). Xander refers to his Uncle 'Dave the Plumber' (is he the one with money?) Note it's actually Willow who feels sympathy for Warren, so lonely he has to make himself a sex bot. Once again it seems Warren know's Buffy is the Slayer, it's an open secret. So what do they do with April? Is she too sitting in the basement of the Magic Shop? A fanfic staple is that if a Scooby dies the others bring their soul back and re-install it in the robot's body.
Marks out of 10; 8/10

I Was Made To Love You-A strange girl arrives in Sunnydale searching everywhere for her boyfriend Warren. She is sweet, pretty, and strong enough to throw Spike through a window when he hits on her. Buffy and the gang decide that they must do something before someone less impervious to injury gets in her way and gets seriously hurt.



A gimmicky episode that despite some humorous moments, is still just a filler episode. April makes for a cute character and her robotic mannerisms do produce some funny moments. I like the fact that it's so obvious to Buffy and the gang that April is a robot, not to mention the scene where April throws Spike out is priceless. This episode also introduces, Warren, who will play a much bigger role next season. Even if this episode is Buffy-lite, it does brings some good morals like when Buffy and Xander have their chat about relationships. Buffy realizes that April all along was the victim here and people in general are just strange how they think they can find happiness is bizzare ways. Buffy realizes that she doesn't need love in her life and thankfully, turns Ben down on his date proposal. Wouldn't it have been weird if Ben and Buffy kissed and suddenly she's kissing Glory...wow!



But the most introspective part of the episode is Joyce. The scenes between Joyce and her daughters are pricless, but unknowingly at that point, were her last. The final scene of the episode is one of the most heartbreaking as Buffy comes home to find her mom's lifeless body. A shocking twist of events that leads into the profound "The Body".

I Was Made To Love You is a decent episode that isn't bad but just isn't particularly good either. Jane Espenson's script is good enough but certain things just didn't do it for me and it isn't an episode I rewatch a lot.



The story of the April-bot was interesting enough and I like that it sets up next season's Trio arc well enough but overall it doesn't work for me. I think the actress playing April was severely miscast- she just couldn't really handle comedy particularly well and it grated a bit. When I compare her to the job that Sarah did playing Buffybot, she is especially disappointing. I just felt I could see her acting when she was on screen and it just never felt natural.



I like that Warren was introduced here before he became the villain in Season 6. The Trio wouldn't have worked if they had have been three random guys but the fact that 2 were established characters already really helped them. Even here, it is easy to see Warren's attitude towards women. It's subtle but he definitely doesn't treat them like equals.



However, there were some good things here. The brilliant interaction between Tara and Anya was awesome. They are so opposite to each other and they played really well off each other. The dialogue was very sharp and witty and I wish they had gotten more screentime together. Also, nice to see Tara coming out of her shell more and more!



The last scene is the episode's real saving grace however. Shocking and it definitely makes you look forward to next episode. Seeing Buffy call upstairs for her mother while we can see her dead on the couch was extremely sad and her reaction was heartbreaking. Definitely a terrific cliffhanger.



I Was Made To Love You is an average episode but not a complete waste of time. It's alright but definitely not a favourite of mine.

I Was Made to Love You was a good episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in which we meet April who is looking for her boyfriend Warren. We soon discover there is more to April than meets the eye. We are also introduced to Warren and his new girlfriend Katrina. I found this episode very entertaining. It was a quirky side track from the main story line of the season, however it lays ground work for future episodes. It was also nice to see another side of Ben. There was some character development, action, and humor. I can't wait to see what comes of Spikes agenda. The ending was also quite shocking and left me gasping and wanting to know more.

This was an enjoyable episode. Buffy and Xander demonstrate their dynamic chemistry, and the show once again stretches it's limits beyond magic and demons. I don't get why so many people seemed to hate this episode. It was pretty good. It had good cliff-hangers, decent fight scenes, and Buffy learns a lesson about love and not being such a useless piece of sh!t. The show had good writing as always and that thing with Spike being thrown through a window. It also had some references to one of my all time favorite episodes: TED, which included one of the few televised appearances before the death of the late John Ritter.

A man named Warren decides to build a robot that will love him to be his girlfriend, but she becomes dangerous when he leaves her in his dorm room and begins to search Sunnydale for him. Meanwhile, Joyce prepares for a date with a man. After all is said and done, Buffy comes home to a shocking surprise.



This episode was definitely very different. I thought the plot was a little weird, yet not bad. The actress that played April was good, but April was weird. I loved when Joyce said that she left her bra in the man's car, then at the restaurant on the dessert cart. Plus, everyone hates Spike again. Interesting. OMG Joyce is dead! :'( Great episode, and this was definitely Joyce's greatest.

I absolutely loved the beginning of this episode. It was nice to see Buffy beating up puffy Xander while going on about Spike. It was so amusing to see Giles completely flustered when trying to convince Buffy that the Spike thing wasn't her fault. I loved Xander being all comforting and sweet while in a whole lot of pain from being beaten up by Buffy.



Joyce getting ready for her date was beautiful. I loved Dawn and Buffy teasing her and trying to get her to spin around. It was nice and cute. I loved Joyce asking Buffy for advice and Buffy going off after that was kinda cute too. I loved Buffy saying that maybe Brain (Joyce's date) had a son and the two of them could go out on some incredibly awkward double dates it was rather humorous.



I loved Tara and Anya hanging out together and talking. They are a pair that isn't usually together in any scenes and it was nice to see them talking about something normal like the internet. It was nice seeing Tara address the horrible spelling of many people online because people do have some pretty bad spelling online. It was nice that they saw the crazy robot when they were walking too.



Buffy was trying way too hard with Ben in the beginning her fake laughter was so incredibly annoying. I liked the end where she called him to tell him she didn't wanna do the coffee thing. It was nice that we saw Glory and her minions thought Ben might have been trying to help her out.



I loved how Giles got stuck on Dawn watching duty. It was nice to see him complaining to Buffy about it. It was nice that Buffy was talking about switching places with him and then deciding that seeing Spike thrown out a window was a memory she wouldn't want to give up.



It was so sad to see how Warren just abandoned his robot. It was so sad to see Buffy talking to her as her battery was dying. Spike asking Warren to build him one was creepy in so many ways but it is Spike we're talking about.



Buffy finding Joyce on the couch the way she did at the end was so completely horrifying and sad.



This was a mostly amusing episode used to take us to the depression that was to come and the ending of the season.

This was the last episode I ever watched of Buffy TVS (in that I missed it when it was on television and thus saw it on DVD) and I was disappointed. A silly thing about robots. But seeing it as a two-parter musing on the theme of love and/or as a funny-yet-poignant stand-alone before the misery of the next episode enhanced it on re-viewing.



So puffy Xander is taking a beating on Spike’s behalf whilst Buffy is whining that she can’t attract/get/keep a man who isn’t a creepy stalkery dead thing who used to kill people for kicks. Buffy goes all Season 1 as she wonders if she played down her slayer strength and her self-involvement and giggled more then she’d be knee-deep in man love. Her theory behind this seems to be that a) Riley was intimidated by her super powers and b) Spike isn’t. She wants a “normal guy” therefore she must act normal. But haven’t we been through all this before? The only normal guys she has attracted were the wimpy Scott Hope and the nasty Parker Abrams. She rejected regular guy Owen Thurman because he was too attracted to her dangerous life. But gals never stop getting flustered over guys. Joyce, going out on her last ever first date, is as hopeless as Buffy, worrying over her dress, films, restaurants and candles. Buffy, for her part, goes to a party (uh-oh, never goes well) to stand near to Ben/Blaine so that he can talk to her and she can over-laugh at his jokes like Cordelia in "Reptile Boy", much to Spike’s disgust. He, however, is not above trying to chat up April - and gets thrown through a window for his attempt. We also get confirmation that Willow is actually a lesbian as she eyes up other women (although still seems upset when Oz is mentioned later. Sometimes I get the impression that the pain of Oz’s departure “turned” Willow).



In order to save time, the gang deduce that April is a robot and thus start the defence of April’s creator, from Xander’s rather queasy sleazy justification of men wanting a woman “willing to do anything” speech to Tara’s soppy vindication of people getting lonely and not being able to get a regular partner - to which Buffy of course relates despite the fact a) she’s had two important loves already when b) she’s only 20 c) she’s horribly attractive, funny and intelligent and d) has a handsome doctor after her, even if he is the unintentionally transvestite brother to a hell-goddess who wants to kill her. However, she realises that Warren is unpleasant and this is further shown by his treatment of Katrina, his real girlfriend. Buffy moves from relating to Warren to relating to April as he tells how he left his own personal robot in his dorm room with no explanation. Despite his assertion that he prefers Katrina, who is funny and gives him “a hard time”, he treats women as objects to be ordered around. It’s no wonder he couldn’t get a girlfriend. His ideal, before it became “too easy and predictable”, was someone who listens and supports – Warren doesn’t have to give anything back and can abandon her when he is fed up. We see April’s functions as Listen, Sympathy, Praise, Positions 1-6, Sex 1-4, Fetish and Neck Rubs. Warren hasn’t created a girlfriend, he created a slave (this will come back in S6). He has even programmed April to believe that crying is blackmail and good girlfriends don’t cry. He’s every worst boyfriend.



Talking of bad boyfriends, Spike is from the pre-feminist days, before No Means No had taken off as a concept, and he turns up at the Magic Box in search of the Buffster, making it necessary for Giles to go all father figure on his ass. He tells Spike: “We are not your friends, We are not your way to Buffy. There is no way to Buffy”. As Spike believes punching to be foreplay and Buffy’s distaste to be a game, it’s left to Giles to channel Ripper as he tells Spike to “move the hell on” – figuratively and literally. Thus we see that April is not so much a metaphor for Buffy as she is for Spike. Like April, he is persistent and fails to see rejection staring him in the face. He is humiliated by the gang just as April is by the boys in the canteen. April wonders if “he doesn’t love me, what am I supposed to exist for?” If Spike has given up evil and Buffy doesn’t love him then who is he? He has put all his energies into his “love” for Buffy and now he has no purpose. The difference is that Buffy did not create Spike’s feelings, he has to take responsibility for them himself.



Buffy still relates to April however. The robot-ess “rechecked everything and I did everything I was supposed to” – she did everything right and still lost her boyfriend. Maybe now Buffy will stop blaming herself for Riley’s departure. She gets her feminism on, blows out Ben and realises that she don’t need no man, sister. She needs to be comfortable with herself rather than jump into another relationship with the first pretty doctor who shows an interest.



The other difference is that April accepts her loss, whereas when it looks like Spike is finally throwing out his shrine to Buffy, he is actually taking it to Warren to make a poor plot device, I mean a Buffy-bot. He’s not yet prepared to accept his pointless existence. Buffy, showing what Xander called her “good heart”, shows kindness to April as her batteries run down and she prepares to die on the swing. April responds by spouting platitudes that unfortunately have resonance when we get to the last heartbreaking scene, contrasting the bright happy flowers with Joyce’s inert body on the sofa and Buffy’s: “Mom. Mom? Mommy?”



“When things are sad, you just have to be patient”

A middling episode that delves into Buffy's feelings of self worth, especially when it comes to romance. She's feeling off-center since Riley's exit from her life and the fact that Spike has found something in her that is attracting him has her wondering if something is wrong with her.



The gang tries to tell her that it is Spike's problem, not hers. Still, she wonders if she could be more accomodating to what a guy might like her to be... more attentive, laughing at his jokes, showing more interest in the most minor of topics about him. She tries to put this new plan of action in motion by chatting up Ben at a party while Spike stews.



Buffy's dating life is put on hold, however, when she has to deal with a robot wandering town looking for her 'boyfriend' Warren. After battling the super-strong robot and as its batteries begin to die, Buffy is able to talk to it and realize that right now she really needs to get along with Buffy...she doesn't need a guy to complete her.



The actress playing April did a marvelous job. April is sympathetic and charming and her plight is genuinely touching. When she begins to power down, still hoping that Warren is only testing her, its just a little bit sad.



But the episode is, naturally, remembered for the last few seconds. As Buffy comes into the house, we see over her shoulder that Joyce is lying stiffly and strangely still on the sofa. When Buffy asks her what she's doing, there is no response....

I am a big fan of the show and this one in perticular was not one of my favorites. Althought when April throws spike throw a window was good. The way that Giles makes Xander squirm was good. I mean the way that he thought he had to do some research was good. Why would anyone make a girlfriend. They are not real. Warren fell in love with Katrina after he had made a girlfriend. When Katrina and April meet Katrina tells her to stay away from Warren so April kills her. I really didn't care for this episode or the other robot episode there are just some that don't sit well with me. Well all have our own veiws but I didn't like this one.

I don't know what to make of "I Was Made To Love You." It's not a bad episode, and for once the interior and exterior conflicts of the hour match up with each other (maybe a little too obviously). However, you can skip over it in the Season 5 sequence and miss absolutely nothing. Nothing comes of Ben's awkward attempt to date Buffy, and although Warren will become an important character later, his little triangle here with April and Katrina is pretty dull. It seems like the whole episode was put together for the sake of one (admittedly funny) Joss Whedon joke -- the act break where the music swells, the camera zooms in, and Warren says as if it's a big surprise, "She's a robot!" Sarah Michelle Gellar gives one of her best line readings of all time with the unimpressed "uh-huh" she delivers here.



A few very beautiful scenes with Buffy and Xander manage to establish in an understated way what the rest of "I Was Made..." practically beats you about the head with. If you change yourself to be someone's perfect woman, you'll only end up boring them. Ultimately it's the things we could never dream up ourselves that appeal most to us in our loved ones. Warren actually earns a little bit of our pity as he rambles on about Katrina and her little model trains.



So what about Warren, since this is the first time we see him? Well, he's another good example of a character created for an episode or two that the showrunners ended up going back to thanks to the strength of the actor's performance. Adam Busch is a little offputting from the outset. He has a very weird laugh which he lets out at extremely inopportune times. He has an amoral, opportunistic streak that's revealed when he sics April on Buffy. Sunnydale has a way of amplifying human traits both heroic and base, and in the season to come Warren will serve as the show's strongest argument yet that just as humans can choose to become heroes, they can choose to become truly evil villains as well. Busch could have played Warren as a run-of-the-mill nerd (something like Andrew ended up being, only less gay), but even in this first appearance it's clear there's something missing in Warren Meers, a moral compass strong enough to make him accept responsibility for his own actions.



None of this really pays off in this episode, though. We do get the setup, at the end, for the much superior robot episode "Intervention," and Tara (mildly) cursing, and for some reason a lot of carpentry dialogue from Xander. The scenes with Joyce preparing and then returning from her date are lovely, especially in light of what's to come.



That's the biggest problem with "I Was Made To Love You." The closing scene, Buffy returning home to find her mother's lifeless body on the couch, makes everything that came before seem trivial. Of course the whole point of "The Body" was to make us feel uncomfortable. The juxtaposition between "I Was Made..." and the episode that follows it is obviously orchestrated. It doesn't put sad li'l robot April and her struggles to find love into perspective, it just makes it all feel like a waste of time.

There is, in this episodes defense, a surprising ending but the whole robot dying bit is sooooo overdone and cheesy. If it wern't for the season story arc, this episode would have very little going for it. The flirtation with the doc is pretty dull, the presumably "hot" robot is hardly that hot and the robot girlfriend concept is strained at best. Not that things in Buffyland all need to make sense, but there is some mystical logic that holds the world together. In this episode, the Robot is prgramed to be a good girlfriend and only to love. Can anyone explain why she can fight? I know, it's silly, but why on earth would she have Karate programing. . .ugg.

I Was Made To Love You



Though it's not one of the best it's still a really good episode. really funny. specially April was great. and the end ofcourse. the beginning of the body,



cut to Buffy telling Giles how gross she feels because Spike had feeling for her. she keeps hitting a dummy. it's Xander in pain so she stops, Giles goes away and she tells Xander that she changes the good guys away but not the bad ones, she thinks it's her fault but Xander says that she has to be Buffy and the good guys will love her. she hugs him and Xander says that maybe it doesn't work out because they live on a hellmounth. cut to a girl stepping out of a car. she says she is looking for true love.



the credits start



cut to Joyce and her daughters. they are making her spin around. Joyce is going out on a date and asks Buffy for advise but she says she's not home cause her boyfriends both left town because of her. cut to Tara and Anya walking together and talking about computers. then that girl at the beginning of the episode comes to them and asks if they know a Warren but they don't and she keeps walking. cut to a party, Xander is dancing with Buffy and Anya says she let them do that. then Buffy sees Ben and goes over to him. he sees her and talks to her and they flirt, she wants to dance and he says he's not good but he will, first he has to get something.



the Scooby’s see that girl again coming for Warren, they think she's hot. Warren hears it and he takes his girl and they go away. Buffy sees Spike and he annoys her again but then leaves. Ben comes over to her and he gives her his phone number before she sees him dance and he wants to know coffee better. then Spike bumps into the girl, she's named April and he says he's her boy but she gets upset because he's not her boyfriend and throws him out of the window. Buffy goes over to her and she throws her away because she needs to fiend Warren.



cut to the gang talking about it. Buffy is angry with small woman who aren't her. they all think it's a robot and are going to track the guy. cut to Buffy coming to her home. Giles is going and Joyce comes and tells her about leaving her bra in the car and Buffy gets all upset and runs upstairs. cut to the magic shop. Willow is on track, they know it's a sexbot and Xander thinks it's funny but there are to many girls so they don't get it. Tara says it's kinda sad because he couldn't find anyone. cut to Buffy going to a phone and she calls Ben to get coffee and he says that could be nice for tomorrow. Ben is in Glory's dress.



cut to Buffy going to Warren his girlfriend Katrina is sick of him and she leaves him. Warren tells Buffy that April is a robot but she already knew. cut to the gang talking about April. then Spike comes in and he talks like they're friends but they all want him away, they say that he isn't the way to Buffy because there is no way and they throw him out. cut to Buffy to Warren. he says that he didn't make a toy but a girlfriend. she's only made to love him but she got bored and he fell inlove with Katrina, Buffy says she's dangerous and they gotta find her.



cut to Katrina running into April. April asks her about Warren and she says that Warren is her boyfriend but April grabs her and says that it isn't true. she has to stop lying. she starts to crush her. cut to Warren and Buffy getting there and April tells them that Katrina went to sleep. Buffy grabs her and feels that she's still alive. Warren brakes up with April and April becomes upset. Warren says that he's inlove with Buffy and April attacks her. Katrina wakes up and says that it's over and goes away and Warren goes after her. Buffy fights April and April wants to kill Buffy but she doesn't have more energy. they go on the swings and April can't move, she says that she was a good girlfriend and then she starts to talk slower and stops. she dies.



cut to Buffy talking to Xander about the girl. she's sad for her because she was only made to love him. then she says that she doesn't need a guy so she calls Ben and says that it's better that they don't have coffee. Glory is listening and doesn't get it. she sad that she turned them down. cut to Warren talking with Katrina. but she hangs up. Spike comes over and tells him to make a girl. he has to make a Buffybot. cut to Buffy coming home. She calls her mom but she doesn't answer. then she sees Joyce not moving and calls her. mom, mom, mom...mommy?



black out



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Best episode quotes:



Buffy: Spike! Spike wants me -- how obscene is that?

Giles: Well, it is very strange, I can't imagine what he's thinking. Not that you're not attractive!

Buffy: I feel gross, you know, like, like, dirty.

Giles: That's ridiculous, you can't be responsible for what Spike thinks or, feels.

Buffy: Well, aren't I responsible? I mean, something about me had to make him feel that, right? Something that made him say, "woof, that's the one for me!"

Giles: Buffy, I think you should perhaps calm down.

Xander: Me too.

Buffy: Oh! Puffy Xander, uh, I'm sorry, I got ... guess I got carried away. Are you okay?

Xander: I'm alive. I can tell 'cause of the pain.

Buffy: Do you wanna sit down?

Xander: I'm not that bendy. I could lean.

Giles: I'll get some ice.

Buffy: Here. Comfy?

Xander: Oh, yeah. This leaning? This is the stuff.

Buffy: That's my secret to attracting men. You know, it's simple really, you slap 'em around a bit, you torture 'em, you make their lives a living hell-

Xander: Buff...

Buffy: ...and sure, the nice guys, they'll run away, but every now and then you'll meet a real prince of a guy like Spike who gets off on it.

Xander: Buffy ... Stand me up. The problem is not you. Don't do this to yourself, please.

Buffy: It's just ... I just wanna know that there's gonna be another good one. One that I won't chase away.

Xander: There will be. Promise. He's out there, he could come along any minute.

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

Xander: What? I don't think you're like that.

Buffy: Maybe I could change. You know, I could, I could work harder. I could spend less time slaying, I could laugh at his jokes, I mean, men like that, right, the, the joke-laughing-at?

Xander: Or maybe you could just be Buffy, he'll see your amazing heart, and he'll fall in love with you.

Buffy: Xander, that's ... aw!

Xander: This is the day you choose to hug me? Buffy?

Buffy: Mm?

Xander: You ever think maybe the reason you haven't found a great relationship on the Hellmouth is ... because it's a Hellmouth? Seems to me it's a pretty terrible place to try to build anything.



Buffy: I might like it more than the others. Can you spin around again?

Dawn: Ooh, I'm not sure. Once more.

Buffy: Now could you go the other way?

Joyce: You're messing with me!

Buffy: We just wanted to see how many times we could get you to do it.

Dawn: Was that five, or four and a half?

Joyce: So is anyone gonna talk about my dress?

Dawn: I like it.

Joyce: You sure? I mean, it's not too mom-ish?

Dawn: Oh. That was why I liked it.

Buffy: You're both crazy. It's not mom-ish at all. It's sexy. It screams, "Randy sex kitten, buy me one drink and I'll..." Oh, wait, that's not really good either.

Joyce: Oh god. What time is it?

Buffy: 4:23. You have lots of time until seven. Vast acres of time in which you could plant crops. Now tell me about this Brian and what his intentions are.

Dawn: Maybe he's a gigolo. Was his shirt all shiny?

Joyce: No! He works for a publishing house. He's a nice normal guy, okay?

Buffy: I think I've heard of those.

Joyce: He came to the gallery ... my first day back, when I was, you know, kinda shaky, starting over. And he asked a question about these antique cameos and I was so lost, because ... Carol had been doing the ordering while I was sick. Well, it turned out that he didn't know anything about them either, so we had a lot to talk about.

Dawn: So what's the plan for tonight?

Joyce: Dinner and then a movie. Or maybe it was ... a movie and then dinner. Which might be better, because ... you know, then we could talk about the movie. Or maybe a movie isn't a good idea at all, because, well, you know, you can't talk during, and, and then, you know, what's the point of any of it? Oh, and about the restaurant. Do you think ... that it should be one with candles, and romantic music, or is that pushing it? Buffy, what do you think? Should I, you know, try to make things romantic, or ... sorta let him set the pace?

Buffy: Oh, no. Love Doctor Buffy is not in. I am not qualified to give dating advice. I've had exactly two boyfriends, and they both left. Really left. Left town left.

Joyce: Honey, you just had some bad luck.

Dawn: Well, you're going to that spring break party tonight. Maybe you'll find someone there.

Buffy: Mm-hmm. Or maybe Brian has a son, and Mom and I can go on some unspeakably awkward double dates.

Joyce: Oh god... Brian. What time is it now?

Buffy: 4:24.

Joyce: You sure the dress is okay?

Dawn: Hmm. Spin again. Real fast this time.



Tara: Willow's good with all that computer stuff, but me not so much. Do you really understand all that?

Anya: Oh, well at first it was confusing. Just the idea of computers was like, "Whoa, I'm 1100 years old." I had trouble adjusting to the idea of Lutherans.

Tara: I go on-line sometimes, but everyone's spelling is really bad. It's depressing.

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.



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.



Buffy: And again with the non-medical clothing.

Ben: Well, actually, these are orthopedic pants. Man, that sounded so funny in my head.

Buffy: AHAHAHAHA It's very, very funny. It's funny in my head, too.



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.



Ben: Was that guy bothering you? Should I offer to get inappropriately violent or something?

Buffy: No.

Ben: Good, 'cause, honestly, I don't wanna.

Buffy: So, are you ready to dance?

Ben: Um, first...

Buffy: What's that?

Ben: Oh, yeah, my phone number. I was gonna try to subtly work it into the conversation, but it didn't pan out, and I thought I should try to give it to you before you see me dance.You know, in case you wanna get coffee.

Buffy: Thank you. Um, I, I just, I-I think you should know that I kind of have this bad history in which, you know, we go get coffee and, well, it all ends with you leaving town, and you just got here and everything...

Ben: Apparently we'd be risking a tragic chain reaction, but I just really like... coffee. I think coffee might be worth it. And I would like to get to know coffee better.



Spike: Bloody hell. You threw me through a window! What's that about?

April: You cannot make those suggestions to me. I have a boyfriend. Warren is my boyfriend.

Spike: You know what? My bleeding sympathies to Warren.



Buffy: Ow! I don't know about you guys, but I've had it with super-strong little women who aren't me.



Willow: I'm not sure this is a code red. Hey, is there a code pink? We need more codes.



Buffy: What did she make you do?

Giles: Well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance. Then we ate cookie dough and talked about boys.

Buffy: I'm sorry. I'm very very sorry, but if it makes you feel any better, my fun-time-Buffy party night involved watching a robot throw Spike through a window. So, if you want to trade-- No, wait... I wouldn't give that memory up for anything!

Giles: A robot? Sounds interesting.

Buffy: We're gonna work on it in the morning. I mean, unless you wanna stay for a while, and then you and I could-

Joyce: Who wants to hear everything?

Buffy: ...listen to my mom talk about boys.

Giles: Right. Must go. See you tomorrow. Bye Joyce.

Joyce: Bye Rupert. Gosh, I'd forgotten how much fun dating can be.

Buffy: I don't know. I was standing right here. I didn't see Prince Charming. I didn't even see a goodnight kiss. It all looked pretty tame to me.

Joyce: I suppose, by your standards, it could seem pretty... Oh, dear.

Buffy: What?

Joyce: I left my bra in his car.

Buffy: Mother!

Joyce: I'm joking.

Buffy: Good god, that's horrible. Don't do that.

Joyce: I left it in the restaurant.

Buffy: No more! No more! No more!

Joyce: On the dessert cart.

Buffy: I can't hear you!



Giles: And you're certain she was a robot?

Buffy: Absolutely.

Tara: Well, she practically had "Genuine Molded Plastic" stamped on her ass. Just ... tryin' a little spicy talk.

Anya: She was looking for someone named Warren.

Buffy: Willow's already checked the Sunnydale enrollment.

Willow: And got nothin'. I found one Warren, but he moved out of the country a year ago. I'm checking nearby schools.

Xander: Whoever he is, he knows his stuff. That girl, well... that was a nice-lookin' girl.

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

Giles: Is there something the rest of us could be doing?

Xander: What can we do?

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: Funny. Charming and funny.

Willow: Hey! I think I found him. A Warren Mears. He went to Sunnydale High with us for a semester, and then he went to the tech college over in Dutton.

Tara: He's probably home for spring break.

Buffy: Well, I'll go talk to him.

Giles: No no no no no, wait, we don't know what you're walking into. Uh, we have no idea what his motive is for building this thing.

Tara: Um ... don't you think she's just...

Willow: Yeah ... she's just sort of a...

Xander: She's a sexbot. I mean, what guy doesn't dream about that? Beautiful girl with ... no other thought but to please you ... willing to do anything... Too many girls. I miss Oz. He'd get it. He wouldn't say anything, but... he'd get it.



Warren: There's something you need to know about her.

Buffy: I know.

Warren: No, wait, this is important.

Buffy: Believe me, I worked it out.

Warren: No, this is something that you can't possibly know. She's a robot.

Buffy: Uh-huh.



Dawn: A robot? Really? Was it Ted? 'Cause I always said there could have been more than one of him.

Willow: Nope, whole new robot. This one was a girl.

Xander: Buffy's busy tracking down the guy that made her, so I'll drop you off at school, and if she's not finished, then-

Spike: Coming through! Coming through. Fire! Fire! Hello, all. What's going on then?

Giles: Spike, you're not welcome here.

Willow: Yeah, and by the way, we're working on a way to de-invite you from here. Even if it is a public place.

Xander: Nah, forget it. Letting him in is good, 'cause then we get to toss him out.

Anya: Ooh, can we throw him out the window like the robot did? 'Cause that was neat.

Spike: Robot? That's what she was? Knew something wasn't right. Hey. Someone's glad to see me, aren't you, little bit?

Dawn: Stay away from me.

Tara: I think you better go.

Spike: Okay, now, I was afraid of this. Misrepresentations, misunderstandings, slurs and allegations. I don't know what Buffy told you, but the thing is, the Slayer and I worked together, side by side, to get rid of Dru. Who was up to no good. And I don't mind telling you-

Giles: Spike ... listen to me.

Spike: It's just ... I'm trying to explain. She might have said some things that sounded like I expressed some kind of feeling-

Giles: We are not your friends. We are not your way to Buffy. There is no way to Buffy. Clear out of here. And Spike, this thing ... get over it.

Spike: I don't know what you mean.

Giles: Yes, you do. Move the hell on.



Warren: I didn't make a toy. I made a girlfriend.

Buffy: A girlfriend. Are you saying ... are you in love with her?

Warren: I really thought I would be. I mean, she's perfect. I don't know, I ... I guess it was too easy. And predictable. You know, she got boring. She was exactly what I wanted, and I didn't want her. I thought I was going crazy.

Buffy: Really? You?

Warren: Then something happened. Katrina was in my engineering seminar, and she was really funny and cool. You know, she was always givin' me a hard time, real ... unpredictable. She builds these little model monorails that run with magnets, and ... Anyway. I fell in love with Katrina.

Buffy: Swell. Romance and magnetic trains. But first you decided to take April out of the box... play with her for five minutes, and then what? You got bored, decided to dump her, tell her to go away?

Warren: Kinda.

Buffy: And she got mad. She didn't go, huh?

Warren: Okay, I didn't really dump her, as much as I, uh, went out, and, uh, didn't come back. I left her, I ... left her in my dorm room.

Buffy: You left her in your dorm room?!

Warren: Well, I figured I could just kinda get away until her batteries gave out. Which should have been days ago.

Buffy: Did you even tell her? I mean, did you even give her a chance to fix what was wrong?

Warren: I didn't need to fix anything. I mean, her batteries were supposed to run down. Really, they should be completely dead by now.

Buffy: So why aren't they?

Warren: I don't, I don't know. I mean, maybe ... uh, she must be recharging them somehow.

Buffy: Warren, This is important. Is she dangerous?

Warren: She's only programmed to be in love.

Buffy: Then she's dangerous.



April: Where have you been? I couldn't find you, and this girl kept lying to me, and ... then she went to sleep.



Buffy: Can you cry? Sometimes I feel better when I cry. But ... there might be rust issues.

April: Crying is blackmail. Good girlfriends don't cry.

Buffy: Oh.

April: I rechecked everything. I did everything I was supposed to do. I was a good girlfriend.

Buffy: I'm sure you were.

April: I'm only supposed to love him. If I can't do that, what am I for? What do I exist for?

Buffy: I don't know. It isn't fair. He wasn't fair to you.

April: It's getting dark. It's so early to be dark.

Buffy: Yeah.

April: What if he comes back and he can't find me in the dark?

Buffy: I'm here. I'll make sure that he finds you.

April: Maybe this is a girlfriend test. If I wait here patiently this time, he'll come back.

Buffy: I'm sure he will. And he'll ... he'll tell you how sorry he is. You know, he told me ... how proud he was of you and ... how impressed he was with how much you loved him and how you tried to help him. He didn't mean to hurt you.

April: He's going to take me home, and things will be right again.

Buffy: It'll be fine.

April: When things are sad ... you just have to be patient. Because ... because every ... cloud has a silver lining. And ... when life ... gives you lemons ... make ... lemonade.

Buffy: Clouds and lemonade, huh?

April: Yes. And ... and ... things are ... always ... darkest ... before.... [dies]



Xander: See, you construct the wood jamb and frame the glass into it, and that's what you set into the opening.

Buffy: Yeah?

Xander: One of the cool things about that, you see is, uh, the jamb can be shimmed to be square, even if the opening isn't.

Buffy: Shimmed? Is that even a real word? Do you have any idea what you're talking about?

Xander: Yeah, I do. Scary, isn't it? I think I've actually turned into someone you want around after a crazed robot attack.

Buffy: And if you ever start your own business, you have your slogan right there. And she wasn't crazed.

Xander: Yeah?

Buffy: She devoted everything to making this one person happy. And then it was like, with him gone, there was just ... no reason for her to exist any more.

Xander: Robots are the strangest people.

Buffy: No ... people are the strangest people. I mean, look at me obsessing about being with someone. It's like ... I don't need a guy right now. I need me. I need to get comfortable being alone with Buffy.

Xander: Well, I'll say this, she's a pretty cool person to be alone with.

Buffy: Thank you.



Glory: What the hell?

Jinx: If I may, your inconceivableness, it sounds to these humble ears like our Ben tried to make a date with the Slayer.

Glory: A date with the Slayer? No. No. No, no, no. He is planning something, he's working against me. She turned us down?



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Story: 8

Acting: 9

Writing: 9

Picture: 8

Gripping: 8

My Rank: 8

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Total: 8.3