Smashed

Buffy. Spike. Fight. She slams him against the wall. Banter about whether or not he's hurt her. Aside: I don't care how physically well matched they are. This scene is just disturbing on so many levels. These are two very, very screwed up people. And I certainly hope that it was Mutant Enemy's intent that we be disturbed by this, because otherwise I am completely confused as to the message that this is sending. Spike thinks that Buffy is afraid of giving him the opportunity to hurt her. "Afraid I'm going to�" he continues, but the rest of his sentenced is drowned out by the smushing of Buffy lips on lips of Spike. Suddenly there's all this�rocking, and the first time I saw this, my brain actually let me have a few blissful seconds during which I believed the movement was caused by the house collapsing around them, making them lose their footing or something.

Ace: "How did this happen?"
Sep: "Oh, you know how it is. You're in the middle of a fistfight. Your pants fall down. Next thing you know, you're screwing someone. It's happened to all of us, I think."
Ace: "Thank God I got distracted thinking about the layers of clothing that mysteriously disappeared."
Sep: "Some people heard a zipper sound. You'll have to do your own fact-checking on that, though."
Ace: "Did I tell you that I read in The New Yorker that UPN is the only 'major' network without a Standards and Practices department?"
Sep: "What? UPN has no standards? Next you'll be telling me that the earth is round! Doesn't this show air at 7 PM where you are? Man, 7 PM isn't what it used to be. The Muppet Show used to be on at that time. I miss the good old days, when I never had to worry that Ms. Piggy would suddenly start dry-humping Kermit."