r/buffy • u/Big-Restaurant-2766 That Other One • Apr 03 '25

Content Warning Buffy The Vampire Slayer and/or Angel moments that give you secondhand embarrassment?

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For me, the most secondhand embarrassing thing I can think of is Ford In the episode "Lie to Me", every time Ford rehearses those awful lines to Spike... or tells him "And that's when you say".

And Buffy getting yelled at by a teacher in front of everyone that's a personal nightmare, same with the Dawn in the episode "Him" in season 7 where she fails at cheerleading and trying to talk to those other students in the hallway, both make me kind of sad, bad memories.

I rewatched "Seeing Red" recently and every time I watch that scene, I cringe a little at Warren before Xander finally intervenes. The first time I watched that episode, I remember making a slight expression at it and thought, 'Oh please, no more of that', lol.

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u/LinuxLover3113 Apr 04 '25

It's amazing how DB went from being kind of a shitty actor and then just overnight became fantastic and then material to be the leading man non stop for the next 20 years.

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u/carnuatus Apr 06 '25

Maybe I'm way off but he was never that great. I think once he got to Bones he stopped being wooden but even in Angel his "goofy" lines never quite hit for me.