Him=HILARIOUS!

This episode is very funny, is have to agree with some other people, that Spike knocking Buffy over with the rocket launcher was the best bit in this episode. Not seen this one is a while...might have to go watch it now! 🙂 lol
 
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Lou
I know, I alwasy rewind to see it like 12 times!
I'm not crazy about this episode, but it has it's funny moments. I always laugh when Willow says 'he doesn't have to be'!! That's hilarious!
 
An absolutely hilarious episode! My favorite moment features Robin Wood listening to his CD player inside his office, while outside of his window, Spike is trying to prevent Buffy from attacking the principal. Hilarious!
 
BuffyElevated
BuffyElevated
That is one HOT siggy! Whew!
Its not the funniest i agree. My personal favourite like most of here i guess is the rocket launcher part.

Beside that it shows how Anya feeding others with ideas what to do. Buffy takes her killing idea and Willow sex change one. Dawn is only one beside her that takes original one, altough i am not exactly sure if that is compliment to Dawn in this case. I suppose it on other hand fits her character being so overly dramatic. I do wonder did Anya get the cash and how much, also what happened to it.

I do have to wonder should not Spike chip go off at taking the jacket as i doubt he did it so cleanly without hurting him. Also did Spike have temptation to try it on as we never got answer to that while Xander admit it did not fit him.

Maybe as nice tie, especially with flashback, could have somehow linked the jacket to Catherine Madisson (Amy mother) as it is totally plausible she might have had something to do with it.
 
^^ Spike's chip goes off intent, so as long as he wasn't intending on hurting anyone and was actually intending on helping, I think he'd be just peachy, right?
 
It´s funny, but noe the funniest or hilarious like the thread say...

And I think it was missplaced, in a such dark season, with people dying, being blind, heavy episodes like Conversation With Dead People... and of course the Show Finale, Him it´s like a forgetful episode.
 
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Lou
I think that may be why I like it so much. But that is just me.
BuffyElevated
BuffyElevated
I agree... I thought it was very out of place for the rest of the season. LOVE your siggy!
I really don't like Him. I didn't find it funny, and it's one of my least favorite of the series. Dunno why, but I never could figure out its appeal. Maybe it's one of those things where the more you watch it, the funnier it gets?
 
i love "him." i think it has some of the funniest dialogue/scenes/situations in all of buffy. one of my favourite quotes from it is in my signature. i also love the "his physical presence has a penis" line and xander and spike being all serious and xander saying.."ok, you understand the plan?" and then they just run at him and grab his jacket and run away haha. and of course, the rocket launcher scene.
 
I do find this episode very funny. Most of the best bits have already been mentioned - rocket launcher, coat, Willow and Anya looking at RJ's backside...all classic. I also love the split screen they use when all the girls are off do their thing to win RJ and the 70s music they use in the background. It's very cool.
 
I love the Spander in this episode 🙂 Xander and Spike are just meant to be. I wish they had a Spike spin off with Xander as his sidekick, that would have been a great show to watch.
 
I disliked this episode for a number of reasons.

1. We've seen it before, and they did it better then. "Him" is one of a number of ways in which Whedon tried to take the franchise back to its roots after the overly grim season 6, but the fact that he did so by repeating a concept from Season 2 reveals that he had run out of ideas.

2. None of the female characters came off well. Of course, they're not supposed to, but whereas BBB took the erratic behavior of the show's women just far enough to be funny, "Him" reaches that line and keeps going for about a mile. I'm not a huge fan of Buffy as a character (I watch the show for her sidekicks), but seeing her humping RJ was just painful. Was there any reason for them to show that?

3. Willow's spell is another example of Season 7's desperate efforts to confirm that she's gay and not bi, thereby asking the viewers to ignore pretty much everything she did for the first half of the series. (Honestly, besides Vamp Willow - who was bi, as exemplified by the way she groped Xander - was there even the slightest indication that Willow was gay before Tara showed up? And, given her ultra-liberal family and her own ultra-liberal politics, was there any reason for her to repress? But that's another rant for another time.)

4. The fact that Xander looks back with open nostalgia on the events of BBB, when his desire for revenge nearly got everyone killed or worse (what if Buffy's transmogrification had proved as hard to reverse as Amy's?) is another example of the ways in which the later seasons seek to paint the guy who faced down Angelus in the hospital as a perpetual child who, uniquely of all the major characters, never grows or develops. Look at how angry with himself Xander quite rightly is in the final scenes of BBB - can you seriously see him ever looking back with nostalgia at the way he humiliated Buffy, Willow and Joyce?
 
Airam
Airam
I love this ep but big clap for point 3!!
Parcae said:
I disliked this episode for a number of reasons.

1. We've seen it before, and they did it better then. "Him" is one of a number of ways in which Whedon tried to take the franchise back to its roots after the overly grim season 6, but the fact that he did so by repeating a concept from Season 2 reveals that he had run out of ideas.

2. None of the female characters came off well. Of course, they're not supposed to, but whereas BBB took the erratic behavior of the show's women just far enough to be funny, "Him" reaches that line and keeps going for about a mile. I'm not a huge fan of Buffy as a character (I watch the show for her sidekicks), but seeing her humping RJ was just painful. Was there any reason for them to show that?

3. Willow's spell is another example of Season 7's desperate efforts to confirm that she's gay and not bi, thereby asking the viewers to ignore pretty much everything she did for the first half of the series. (Honestly, besides Vamp Willow - who was bi, as exemplified by the way she groped Xander - was there even the slightest indication that Willow was gay before Tara showed up? And, given her ultra-liberal family and her own ultra-liberal politics, was there any reason for her to repress? But that's another rant for another time.)

4. The fact that Xander looks back with open nostalgia on the events of BBB, when his desire for revenge nearly got everyone killed or worse (what if Buffy's transmogrification had proved as hard to reverse as Amy's?) is another example of the ways in which the later seasons seek to paint the guy who faced down Angelus in the hospital as a perpetual child who, uniquely of all the major characters, never grows or develops. Look at how angry with himself Xander quite rightly is in the final scenes of BBB - can you seriously see him ever looking back with nostalgia at the way he humiliated Buffy, Willow and Joyce?
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But you have to take it for what it is. It wasn't meant to give a message or add to the progression of the season. It was meant to have fun. Although, I do see your point, sometimes you have to forget what kind of message it's sending and just accept it and laugh. To over analyze something that wasn't meant to be analyzed at all is silly. It was made to poke fun at itself and it did just that. I got a good laugh and moved on and to have one silly little episode mean so much doesn't make sense.
 
I was just watching this episode actually , and all the parts already mentioned are great and my favorites too... theres also another Anya part that is underrated but SO hilarious. Its when all the girls are deciding what they're going to do to win RJ's love, as they all scatter off to carry out their plans Anya's running out the door and we hear her say to herself, "Ooh, I know what he'll like!" LMFAO! I just laughed so hard. And of course anyone on their second viewing of the ep will know she's referring to money and she's about to go rob a bank. And its just like, lol, she loves money, she loves RJ, so her immediate thought is of course he'll love money too and its the thing she can give him to win him over... its just a little moment, but man, it cracks me up so hard :biggrin:
 
Agreed

I completely agree that this was one of the funniest episodes so far! :lmao: I loved the part where Anya and Willow first met RJ, and the part afterwards where they were arguing over him. Too funny. :biggrin: All the scenes previously mentioned were all very funny as well. I also especially like the "daddy likes" scene. Classic. : popcorn:
 
Guess I have to go against the majority here even though I´m not alone. This really isn´t one of my favourites, Sure it has a lot of funny moments but I feel like I can fast forward half of it and that I never have to do with my favourite episodes.
 
I am jumping on the wagon to join the majority - I adore this episode. Buffy for me is at its most charming when its being funny, and this episode is an absolute joy, in fact reading this thread has made me want to go watch it again. I'm off to kick flatmate off the XBox.
 
This was one of the few big highlights of season 7...though I didn't care so much for the Dawn parts. It didn't get really good until Anya and Willow got in on the RJ love...and hey, I woulda believed it even without a spell. RJ was hottttt.
 
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