View Full Version : Him=HILARIOUS!
Bangelxx
01-14-2008, 04:27 PM
I loved this episode! omg, i laughed so hard!! Especially with the willow part! hehe poor dawnie!
"ok...so icecream - my treat!"
lol
great last line!!!
watcha think?
GATEGOD
01-14-2008, 04:31 PM
I didn't love it but I did think it was funny. I hear that most people on the forums didn't like it though.
It was very funny when everyone was trying to get him and doing all that crazy stuff.
Especially at the end when we find out what Anya did :p I think it was Anya :p I haven't seen this episode in a while
Keanoite
01-14-2008, 04:38 PM
My fav part is Spike knocking Buffy down just before rocket launcher part deux! hilarious:D
white avenger
01-14-2008, 05:38 PM
(What was it you told me that time when I posted the same thing twice? Something about losin' my memory?)
I have to agree with you about the rocket launcher scene. It's one of my favorite comedy scenes in the entire series, and it's also an example of perfect timing and duration. It could have been drawn out into a longer scene, but those few seconds were almost perfect. The only thing I would've changed if I had have been the director might have been Wood actually seeing enough of the action to recognize the threat, but not Buffy, and diving under the desk, where Buffy would find him cowering the next morning.
Randy Giles
01-14-2008, 05:38 PM
Him is one of my favorite episodes, it is hilarious. Everyone trying to prove their love was great, especially Willow trying to zap him into a girl, lol.
Blondie Bear
01-14-2008, 05:48 PM
I won't lie, I hate this episode. The only redeeming quality is the rocket-launcher scene. I just squirm with embarrassment for the characters every time I watch it (which so far has been twice; I skip it almost every time I'm going through the DVDs).
DarklyDreamingDrusilla
01-14-2008, 07:14 PM
My fav part is Spike knocking Buffy down just before rocket launcher part deux! hilarious:D
Man you beat me to saying this was the best part. OMG I laugh so hard at this part every time. P. Wood is just sitting there with his easy listening when Buffy pops up with a rocket launcher and then Spike grabs her and knocks her to the ground. Just so funny. :lmao:
Dlou444
01-14-2008, 07:28 PM
I don't know why, but I always giggle everytime Buffy acts like everyone else is under the spell but her. Maybe it reminds me of my own blonde moments.
Andrew Wells
01-14-2008, 07:41 PM
I love that flashback that Xander has from Bewiched, Bothered and Bewildered where all the women are all trying to kill him and Cordy, and he follows it up with "good times". Also I agree Buffy and the rocket launcher is one of those classic funny scenes.
Harm's Way
01-14-2008, 07:47 PM
I do love the flashback. My favorite part(s) are the Anya ones. How she accidentally
tells Willow that she can turn RJ into a man, that was funny. Watching her in front of the
bank was hilarious, and what the radio said about her...then ice cream? hehe :nod:
Anya: "His physical presence has a penis!" ---best quote of the episode!
white avenger
01-14-2008, 10:29 PM
Spike and Xander grabbing the guy's jacket was pretty good, too.
GATEGOD
01-14-2008, 11:02 PM
lol!! Didn't they both rush at him pull off his jacket and keep running? :lmao: !!
VisionGuy
01-15-2008, 03:37 PM
Spike and Xander grabbing the guy's jacket was pretty good, too.
It was funny. It reminded me of two high school hoodlums robbing somebody and hauling ass.
alexa
01-17-2008, 11:00 PM
One of my favourite episodes of this season. I love it because it's really funny, and not totally concerned with the arc. The only part I squirm at is when Buffy sees the boy with his jacket on :p When Dawn does the bad cheer leading.. classic.
Darling
10-13-2008, 08:57 AM
Itīs a great episode, funny and refreshing... Good quotes, and Spike and Xander running xD
So weird to think in the same season so many bad things happens >.<
Cordelia Chase*
10-13-2008, 09:08 AM
I love at the end when the radio is on and it says that the bank was robbed and Anyas face. LMAO!!!!
Fake Shemp
10-13-2008, 09:30 AM
i didnt realize people apparently didnt like it... whats wrong with them its fantastically funny
and we re-visit the cheerleader outifit and dawns TERRIBLE routine.... xander and buffy are very parent-y in it.
and ooh(the game of life) i love the framing of buffy trying to kill principal wood. and spike making a running tackle at her. that looks sooooo good.
(and Anya actually gets away with robbing banks! come on! she coulda dealt with their collective money issues, as everyone seems to pile into the summers residents)
Him is probably the funniest episode of all 7 seasons.
Makes me smile just to think about it :)
It doesn't even ends sadly like some other episodes that are funny otherwise.
/SK
littlewilly
10-13-2008, 12:00 PM
I dont like this episode that much, but i have to admit, the bit when Spike and Xander steal the guys jacket was hilarious.
Cangel
10-13-2008, 12:10 PM
Maybe it's just me, but after repeatedly watching this episode, it's just not as funny anymore. I still love the parts with that music playing (when they all always fall in love), and the funny scenes (like Buffy with the Rocket Launcher...that one was just too hilarious....how we see Wood and then Buffy and Spike in the background, haha), but the rest of it is rather slow going.
SpoonsAreCool
10-13-2008, 12:32 PM
I hate RJ Brooks, what a mook.
Pink Slayer
10-20-2008, 09:55 AM
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
BASBritt
10-20-2008, 10:23 PM
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!
LadyLavinia
10-21-2008, 12:24 AM
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!
pernilleborup
10-21-2008, 04:44 AM
......Not THE funniest...
Atren
10-21-2008, 07:22 AM
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.
Dlou444
10-21-2008, 08:26 AM
^^ 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?
Darling
10-21-2008, 08:38 AM
Itīs 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 itīs like a forgetful episode.
Aethra
10-21-2008, 10:54 AM
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?
hazzard
10-21-2008, 11:13 AM
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.
Tranquillity
10-22-2008, 07:35 AM
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.
sosa lola
10-24-2008, 12:43 PM
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.
IdiotJed
10-26-2008, 03:51 PM
"Ooohhh... daddy like."
"Ooohh...daddy no..." lol
Parcae
10-26-2008, 09:52 PM
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?
IdiotJed
10-26-2008, 11:52 PM
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?
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.
Airam
10-27-2008, 12:09 AM
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:
Wishing Oceans
11-11-2008, 12:20 PM
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:
The Kinslayer
11-11-2008, 12:54 PM
Guess I have to go against the majority here even though Iīm not alone. This really isnīt 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.
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