Smashed

Season 6, Episode 9, Aired
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After breaking up with Tara, Willow successfully de-rats Amy and the two witches begin hanging out and having fun with magic, drawing Willow further into her growing addiction. Meanwhile, Spike notices that his chip doesn't kick in when he hits Buffy, leading him to believe that she may not be entirely human anymore.moreless
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  • Spuffer's delight

    7.0
    "Good"
    By joxerlives, Jan 20, 2012 Report Abuse
    The Good;
    Everything with Amy and the Geeks at the museum/with Spike. Especially love Amy and Bufy catching up and Buffy jumping up and down to see over the crowd at the museum, reminding you for all her superpowers she's still a tiny little woman.

    The Bad;
    If the diamond is so valuable surely even in Sunnydale they'd have more security than some guy called Rusty?

    Best line;
    Buffy; "How have you been?"
    Amy; "Rat. You?"
    Buffy; "Dead"

    Women good/men bad;
    The 2 jerks who dance with Amy at the Bronze

    Jeez!;
    Don't mind the sex but dislike Spike hitting Buffy before they have sex, fine with a little slap and tickle/hairpulling roleplay but punching and kicking, it's all a little too brutal. It certainly brings the house down.

    Kinky dinky;
    Joss is right he does write pure porn. Naked Amy. Warren comments that 'size is everything'. Buffy says she thinks about Giles when she's kissing Spike. Must have done the Guffers' hearts good until she catches herself on. As Spike comments he may be into dark sexuality but he is a vamp, he should be treading on the darkside. Interesting point in the commentary that Joss made sure that Buffy kissed Spike first rather than him forcing the kiss on her and her succumbing after a little resistance gothic romance/rape fantasy style.

    Captain Subtext;
    Spike comments that he's the only one 'here for you' in regard to Buffy which is very true. Amy wanted to go to the Prom with Larry, unaware he was gay. Tara and Dawn on the sofa, awwww! (lovely pic of that on the Buffy 2009 calender) Anyone else think that the girl Amy selects for Willow at the Bronze looks the spitting image of Cordelia? (Her stand-in/stunt double?) Maybe Amy picked up on something they never could admit to each other? Warren is concerned that when Spike asks him to examine his 'chip' it's British slang for something else.

    Apocalypses; 6

    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; 3

    Scoobies knocked out:
    Buffy: 17
    Giles: 12
    Cordy: 6
    Xander: 11
    Will: 6
    Jenny: 2
    Angel: 6
    Oz: 3
    Faith: 1
    Joyce: 3
    Wes: 1
    Anya;3
    Dawn; 2

    Kills: none but Buffy beats up 2 muggers
    Buffy: 103 vamps, 41 demons, 6 monsters, 3 humans, 1 werewolf, 1 spirit warrior & a robot
    Giles: 8 vamps, 2 demon, 1 human, 1 god.
    Cordy: 3 vamps, a demon
    Will: 6 vamps + 1 demon +1 fawn.
    Angel: 3 vamps, 1 demon, 1 human
    Oz: 3 vamps, 1 zombie
    Faith: 16 vamps, 5 demons, 3 humans
    Xander: 6 vamps, 2 zombies, 1 a demon,
    Anya: 1 vamp and 1 a demon
    Riley; 18 vamps + 7 demons
    Spike; 8 vamps and 2 demon
    Buffybot; 2 vamps
    Tara; 1 demon
    Dawn; 1 vamp

    Scoobies go evil:
    Giles: 1
    Cordy: 1
    Will: 2
    Jenny: 1
    Angel: 1
    Oz: 1
    Joyce: 1
    Xander: 4
    Anya; 1
    Dawn; 1

    Alternate scoobies:
    Buffy: 7
    Giles: 4
    Cordy: 1
    Will: 3
    Jenny: 2
    Angel: 3
    Oz: 2
    Joyce: 2
    Xander: 4
    Tara; 1
    Dawn;1
    Spike; 1

    Recurring characters killed: 10
    Jesse, Flutie, Jenny, Kendra, Larry, Snyder, Professor Walsh, Forrest, McNamara, Joyce

    Sunnydale deaths;
    93

    Total number of scoobies: no more Tara or Giles so 5
    Xander, Willow, Buffy, Anya, Spike,

    Xander demon magnet: 5(6?) Amy remarks on Xander's yen for demons so presumably she was always aware of the events of seasons 1-3
    Preying Mantis Lady, Inca Mummy Girl, Drusilla, VampWillow, Anya (arguably Buffy & Faith with their demon essences?), Dracula?

    Scoobies shot:
    Giles: 2
    Angel: 3
    Oz: 4
    Riley; 1

    Notches on Scooby bedpost: Buffy and Spike and how!
    Giles: 2; Joyce & Olivia, possibly Jenny and 3xDraccy babes?
    Cordy: 1?
    Buffy: 4 confirmed; Angel, Parker, Riley, Spike. 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
    Spike; 1 Buffy

    Spike; good or bad?
    Spike thinks he should be able to feast in muggers. He says he's at the museum out of compassion for the guard but he's surely lying, just an excuse to meet Buffy. Once he thinks his chip is not working he goes out to slaughter the first pretty girl he can find but seems to need to psych himself up to do so.

    Dawn in peril; 7

    Dawn the bashful virgin; 5

    Questions and observations;
    Buffy always wanted a pony. Maybe CC let her ride hers? The mugging scene is funny, nice to have some lightness as the writer comments. Spike can punch Buffy, a huge plotline right there. Spike mocks the geeks but isn't he the guy who referred to KITT and Yoda even in season 2? The Geeks have a glitterball in their lair, the same one that Andrew's brother used to train his hellhounds? Dawn refers to a talking cat on TV, Sabrina;TTW?
    So, Buffy and Spike? My personal opinion on this is not that Buffy loves Spike but that she needs someone, anyone after her ordeal of being ripped out of heaven (to quote Justine on Angel 'better to feel something than feel nothing"). Unfortunately neither Willow or Xander is available, Angel has his curse, Riley's unreachable, Giles is out of picture and Dawn is out of the question unless you're into some pretty damn extreme Summers/slash (which in fairness a LOT of people are to judge by the plethora of Buffy/Charmed fanfiction in that fetish genre) so Spike fits the bill. That's not to say she doesn't develop feelings for him later but even Spike here comments that he's the only one 'here for her'.
    Marks out of 10; 7/10, one for the Spuffers and no mistake, unfortunately I'm not one



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  • Welcome To Disturbia

    7.0
    "Good"
    By lenzinoH20, Oct 20, 2011 Report Abuse
    Smashed-After breaking up with Tara, Willow successfully de-rats Amy and the two witches begin hanging out and having fun with magic, drawing Willow further into her growing addiction. Meanwhile, Spike notices that his chip doesn't kick in when he hits Buffy, leading him to believe that she may not be entirely human anymore.
    Up to this point, Season 6 has been a pretty dark season, but with this episode, these not only get even darker, but depressing. Season 6 was the season that took the characters' to some really shocking places, that we thought we'd never see and it starts here. First off, the tension between Buffy and Spike has been building up a lot all season. Buffy has kissed Spike twice at this point and you can't really blame the guy for being so persistent with confronting Buffy about them. He's right, Buffy has been a tease and her typical shtick about Spike just obsessing over nothing just doesn't work anymore. The she goes as far as calling Spike "an evil disgusting thing" which beyond cruel at this point. Spike may not be the nicest guy, but he's proved more than once that he's more than just an "evil disgusting thing". He was the one protecting her sister all summer while she was dead, not to mention protecting Dawn's secret from Glory from before. I think Spike has more than proven himself to Buffy and the others of how loyal he can be despite having no soul. That has to stand for something right? I'm not surprised that once Spike realized he could hurt Buffy with no pain from the chip, he went off to attack the first helpless girl he saw. Which kinda contracts the scene that took place before. Spike suddenly gives in to his desire to feed despite knowing the woman he's supposedly in love with wouldn't approve. Sure, he's still soulless, sure he was upset about Buffy rejecting him again, etc. But after seeing such a noble Spike so far this season, why make him out to be a monster again in that one scene. Just lessens the episode for me.
    Of course, it does lead to a hilarious couple of scenes between Spike and the Trio, one is where Spike threatens the break one of the Trio's priceless Star Wars action figure and the other is when Spike desperately calls out for Warren after being extremely annoyed by Andrew and Jonathan's Dr. Who rants. We soon learn from Warren that Spike's chip is fine and that the problem is Buffy. Following a hilarious phone call between them, Spike confronts Buffy about his new ability to hurt her, leading to probably the most disturbing fight scene I've ever seen on this series or anywhere else. There are so many conclusions to make out of this fight: is Buffy suddenly turned on by the fact that Spike can hurt him? If you think about it, Spike can't really have sex with a human cause of the chip and now that Buffy knows he can very well do what he pleases with her, it seems to full some kind of sexually charged reaction from her. What makes the fight even more eerie is Buffy and Spike are getting off on hurting each other. What seems like an tiresome fight leads to a graphic sex scene between the two. I honestly give Sarah Michelle Gellar and James Masters props for making that scene so surreal and compelling. The looks on their faces are haunting between Spike's utter disbelief to Buffy given into her desire and making one of the most painful mistakes of her life. The combination of that, the stunning music that overshadows the actual noise in the scene and the house falling apart around them.....chills. It's really cringe-worthy and I honestly don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing.
    In other news, Amy's not a rat anymore! It's good to have her back and you got to love the first few scenes of her being human. From her horrifying scream to finding out how long she's been rat to her casual chatting up with Buffy, it's all pretty solid stuff. It's obvious the writers brought Amy back to continue to push Willow over the edge with her magic addiction. I did love the Bronze scenes, especially when they teach a couple of jerks at thing or two by locking them in a cage, to dance half naked in ahumiliatingfashion. Even then, I don't feel bad for Willow in terms of her break-up with Tara. Her heavy magic use is still unhealthy and during the scenes between Dawn and Tara, she seems to be doing fine without her. It's a nice bonding moment between the two but it's shame Dawn gets Tara's hopes up when she lies about Willow doing less magic. It's just Dawn trying to bring them back together and wanting Tara back in her life. The Trio, besides their scenes with Spike, are once again just given some annoying material, though I did like Warren's "freeze ray" codes. The whole mystery with the frozen guard goes no where, in fact, it takes up the next two episodes too. Though, you got to love Buffy's no so sudden defensive with Xander and Anya. All in All, "Smashed" is pretty good episode that sees some of the characters descending even more to dark places. As for the following episode "Wrecked", no so much....moreless

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  • Just when you think Willow's magic problems can't get any worse they do

    4.7
    "Poor"
    By Slayergirlkal, Mar 19, 2011 Report Abuse
    This was an awful episode of Buffy. Willow was completely out of control you would have thought that after loosing Tara the way she did she would have at least made an attempt to use a little bit less magic. The only good parts were of Tara and Dawn in this one I loved the two of them after the movie they saw and Tara was cute telling Dawn to eat something green after that milkshake. I loved how Dawn suckered Tara into staying with her until someone got home. The relationship between them here was so adorable.

    Willow finally bringing Amy back was interesting. Amy's character was always something interesting that could be played around with and I like how the writers brought her back as a kind of Tara replacement for Willow.

    Buffy and Spike was completely disturbing. It was obvious that Spike was gonna follow her around about their kisses but the end was just too awful for words. They didn't need to beat the crap out of each other and have sex like that because the two of them doing it controlled most of the season after that and it was not good.

    I loved when Buffy found the muggers. That was classic I loved that she had bad guys that weren't vampires or demons it was amusing. I did like Spike trying to jump in and then realizing that the muggers were human and him and Buffy arguing there was decent. I loved how Spike reacted to Buffy telling him she was thinking about Giles. It was great to see Spike say something about that relationship.

    I liked how Anya pointed out that the recent crimes in Sunnydale were kinda lame. That was something that needed to be firmly established sooner but Anya was perfect in saying that.

    I loved the Trio and Spike. I found it humorous that Spike was gonna behead the "Boba Fett" doll.

    This was a terrible episode of Buffy but the few comical moments saved it from being a complete waste.moreless

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  • Smashed

    10
    "Perfect"
    By TrueTvWatcher, Nov 06, 2010 Report Abuse
    Smashed was a perfect episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Sixth Season. This episode really exploited some of the characters emotions and we saw them doing things they normally wouldn't have. It was interesting to see how both Buffy and Willow were dealing with their respective issues. I thought that the story of this episode was very interesting and a great way to tie every thing together. I think the ending was the most shocking part of all, though not totally unexpected. I look forward to watching what happens in the next episode. There are a lot of possibilities this season!!!!!moreless

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  • Amy returns, a security guard gets "iced" and Spike finds something revealing

    9.0
    "Superb"
    By exterminator25, Feb 08, 2009 Report Abuse
    Willow de-rats Amy, who believes it's weeks after the events in "Gingerbread", so Willow tells her the events of the 3rd season finale. The Nerd Trio break into a museum to steal a diamond and then use their freeze ray on the old security guard. Spike tries to confront Buffy about their kisses, which ends up with them hitting each other. Spike thinks his chip has stopped working, so tries to attack an innocent, but the chip prevents him. He goes to the nerd trio to see whats up and it turns out the chips fine. Spike goes to Buffy and fights her, revealing to her that his chip doesn't work on her, meaning Buffys not all human. Their fight moves to a mansion, where they start kissing, then have sex.moreless

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    • In the scene where Anya informs Xander that he's reading a D&D manual, Xander checks the so-called manual revealing that it is in fact a standard hard-cover book with a jacket around it. The glitch here will be obvious to anyone who has played the game: no hardcover D&D manuals through the various editions have ever had a jacket, and they were much thinner, and a little wider and taller the book Xander was reading. The book is actually the novel Dragons of a Fallen Sun by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. Edit
    • While Buffy and Amy are watching the news report about the museum robbery, behind the reporter you can see someone wheel out an ambulance gurney, presumably holding the injured guard. However, when Buffy goes to the museum, she arrives in time to see the man removed from the building. Edit
    • In the fight scene between Buffy and Spike, right before they start fighting in the old house, you can see that Buffy punches the left side of Spike's face with her right hand, but then the scene cuts to show Spike flying up in the air as if she had used an uppercut punch. Edit

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    • In the original pitch for the script, Drew Z. Greenberg had the two guys in the Bronze magically kiss each other after they gay bash Willow. Joss Whedon changed this because he didn't like the idea of homosexuality being used as punishment, as something bad. Edit
    • On the commentary it is said that the most controversial part of this episode wasn't the sex scene but rather Spike seeking out someone to kill immediately after thinking that his chip didn't work. The writer says that it was written with Spike being forced to talk himself into the killing to explain his conflicting character. Edit
    • The band Virgil performs "Vermilllion Borders" and "Here" at the Bronze, later Halo Friendlies perform "Run Away" at the Bronze as well. Edit

  • Quotes

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    • Willow: I know. Xander engaged. I couldn't believe it either.
      Amy: It's so weird. So, what's she like?
      Willow: Thousand year old, capitalist ex-demon with rabbit phobia.
      Amy: Well, that's so his type. Edit
    • Xander: (about Spike) So what did Captain Peroxide want? Edit
    • Xander: Tara thinks Willow is doing too much magic. And she's not the only one. Buffy: I know. But I think she'll be fine. You know, it's Willow, she of the level head. Anya: Well, those are the ones you have to watch out for the most. Responsible types. Buffy: Right. She might go crazy and start alphabetizing everything. Edit

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    • Spike: You can play holodeck later. This is a reference to Star Trek. The holodeck was introduced on Star Trek: The Next Generation as recreation for the crew and as an occasional plot device. The holodeck would create realistic and dynamic holographic environments. Edit
    • Spike: Examine my chip or else Mr Fett here is the first to die. Boba Fett is a bounty hunter from the Star Wars film series. Edit
    • Spike: Help me out here Spock. I don't speak loser. Yet another reference to Star Trek, this time to the Vulcan, Spock, played by Leonard Nimoy in the original Star Trek series. Edit

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