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[thebratqueen]

So I was talking about how The Gift has some of the worst continuity that BtVS has possibly ever seen and it got me and others talking about moments in Buffy and Angel that are so bad or dumb that at this point you can't help but look back on them with an indulgent smile

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[nikitangel]

Power center? What power center? Vengeance demons don't need power centers. She just thought that necklace was ... pretty.

[thebratqueen]

HA! Yes! I totally forgot about that one! That was one of their best.

[nikitangel]

Oh, and the classic - The First Evil is incorporeal. This means it can't do things like hold Angel's head in its lap and stroke his hair. Wait ...

[thebratqueen]

Another good one! That reminds me of another fav of mine: Giles might be the First because nobody saw him touch anything! Except when he was sitting down earlier in the episode! (Guess the First has really good thigh strength ;) )

[vylit]

Fred spontaneously having all science knowledge ever.

Soulless means that you can't love, only you can; no, you can't; well, sometimes... (Spike/Dru, Darla/Angel, the vampire couple in s3)

No one noticing that Cordy is obviously pregnant.

Wes appearing to forget a large amount of his demon knowledge in s5.

[thebratqueen]

Fred spontaneously having all science knowledge ever.

Which also pairs nicely with Wes having expert knowledge of how to not only work, but accurately read an ultra-sound. I guess if the Watcher thing didn't work out for him he was going to be an OB/GYN.

[mpoetess]

Fred spontaneously having all science knowledge ever.

And being a web expert after having been in a hell dimension since 1996 and then spending the summer locked in her room!

[vylit]

Dude, she has these mad psychic powers. Really, we should all bow down to her and her crazy computer, spellcasting, and science skills.

[apocalypsos]

Buffy working fast food. Because lord knows she has no successful waitressing skills to fall back on.

AMEN. Not to mention that the woman can lift a hundred pounds easily -- that qualifies her for warehouse jobs that pay twice as much as fast food, not to mention what she could have gotten as an hourly wage going through an employment agency with her skills.

... says the woman with a pretty similar track record as Buffy's in the education/experience field. Watching that whole plotline made me wince.

[thebratqueen]

I hear ya. Especially since waitressing would have paid better and had far more flexible hours.

Hell, for that matter why didn't she become a bouncer at the Bronze? Considering how many vamps showed up there two birds/one stone.

Buffy's Job skills

[apocalypsos]

Not to mention what a security guard she'd make! And that pays a lot better than waitressing.

Diane

[septembergrrl]

Amen. The show tried to cover its ass with Buffy's line about needing something that would give her money quickly, but Sunnydale has to have a worker's market in the employment sector. She should have been able to find something much better.

It's almost, but not quite, redeemed for me by the "my hat has a cow on it" line.

[kelly_girl]

Oh I forgot about Buffy waitressing. She could have gone to work at Hooters! That would have been funny.

Umm, season six and Spike standing in front of sunlit windows and not even smoking up but under a dark blanket he's almost on fire. Um okay.

What episode did Spike get his head held under water?

[thebratqueen]

I'm not as good for remembering Buffy eps as I am Angel, but it was in s7 when Spike was being tortured by the minions of the First.

[kelly_girl]

Ohh, I was thinking it was earlier in the series. I didn't watch season seven as much as the others. Though I did love the Nathan Fillion eps. He did crazy preacher well. And he and The First with their perverse flirting thing.

[ashcomp]

Oh I forgot about Buffy waitressing. She could have gone to work at Hooters!

Um. . .Buffy cute, yes. Very much so. But Hooters material? Not by a couple of cups, at least.

[miggy]

Along with non-smoking sun-strolling Spike in "Spiral" (alliteration is fun!), the Riley/Sam timeline is just absurdedly amusing when you take into account Sam's comments about how long they've been together, how long it took Riley to get over Buffy, etc.

I know they wanted to keep the chip a surprise until later in the episode, but boy, Spike sure was shoving those Initiative boys around an awful lot on his way out of the base.

BIGGEST DORM ROOM EVER.

[thebratqueen]

Hee! Yes! Hell, didn't the Riley/Sam timeline actually work out that Riley was still in mourning over breaking up with Buffy for a few months after he married Sam?

[miggy]

Hell, didn't the Riley/Sam timeline actually work out that Riley was still in mourning over breaking up with Buffy for a few months after he married Sam?

The man really was quite a catch.

In my comment directly below this one: it should be scalps. Not scalp. Even though the image of a joined-at-the-head conjoined twin pairing of Joyce and Spike is amusing.

[miggy]

Oh! Oh! The fact that Sunnydale's brain surgeons are by far the most skilled in the world, given that they were able to perform surgery on Joyce and Spike without needing to shave even one square inch of their scalp before the procedures.