This Year's Model of Humanity

I forgot how much "I Was Made To Love You" makes me weep. April is a robot but she made me cry so hard. She's such a tragic symbol of what the patriarchy is all about -- it demands that girls be impossibly perfect and even then they are never good enough. And Warren... god,  Adam Busch does such an amazing job with this guy who just gets slimier and slimier and becomes all the worst things that a guy can be. Amazing actor.

But it's the April & Buffy interaction at the end that really brings out the tears for me. Because after everything that's happened April still believes that if she's patient enough, if she's a good enough girlfriend, Warren will come back to her and he'll take care of her (and, as Buffy notes with disgust, he made it so that it hurts her if she doesn't answer when he calls; and then there's the heartwrenching bit where Buffy asks her if she can cry, because that might make her feel better, and April answers that crying is blackmail and good girlfriends don't cry and my heart just clenches so tightly in my chest and it hurts so much).

And all that's before the surprise ending.

This episode also has possibly the most incredibly sweet Buffy & Xander friendship scenes in the whole series.