The end of FFL where Spike fully intends to kill Buffy, and then can't.

Yes, this, coupled with the alley/subway scene that set it up.

Willow flaying Adam was (IMO) HFSQ squared. And yet, I can remember a few people on the board complaining that the flayed body of Adam didn't move after the flaying. Not that we're bloodthirsty, or anything. At the time it aired, for me it was more like, "I can't believe they showed that!" Even with the lack of a Standards and Practices unit at UPN, I couldn't believe it got on the air. Funny, I don't recall any groups protesting about it, though.

A moment that would have been "fluttery" had I not known that Seth Green wasn't re-joiining the cast, was when Oz entered Giles' apartment in "New Moon Rising".

Xander by the bomb in The Zeppo.

"I like the quiet." Yep.

Bitch entry: Crazy!Spike first seen in the basement, then him all curled up on himself as the villain's parade goes by (damn, I wish they could have got DB for some of that season.)

May not all fit the pattern, but these memorable buffy moments stand out off the top of my head.

Giles' moment of anticipation when he assumes the note "Upstairs" was left by Jenny.

Grieving Giles goes after Angelus.

Buffy kissing Angel before running him through with the sword. "Close your eyes."

Spike's face when he realizes that it is Buffy, alive coming down the stairs.

Giles running the Mayor through with the epee.

Spike standing up from his wheelchair.

Spike telling what he thought was the buffybot not to tell Glory as he couldn't bear the hurt it would cause Buffy.

Giles with the chainsaw.

"Mom? Mom? Mommy?"

Giles suffocates Ben.

Tired, more later, I think.

I think my favorite moment of all time is...

"No weapons, no friends, no hope...take all that away and what's left?"

"Me"

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Gets it done for me every damn time.

Some of mine have already been mentioned, but

The end of "Hell's Bells," with the look on Anya's face when D'Hofryn offers her the chance to re-become a vengeance demon.

Tara falls at the end of "Seeing Red."

Buffy's smile at the end of "Chosen."

Spike breaks down at the end of "The Gift" isn't so much a "this is something big," as a "it always, always gets to me."

One that gets me still is the one that made me fall in love with the show...

XANDER: " Can I have you?"

I'm home sick today, and listening to Radio Sunnydale (UK), an early Christmas gift. Between the music, the photos in the liner, and the Flutter Moments here, I'm really missing the show. Or maybe not the show, but the characters. It's like having really good friends who moved away - I want to hang with them again.

I didn't know that Joss wrote Blue for CwDP. Cool.

I think that's really pushed me to ficness, Raquel...I wasn't done yet.

that fluttery feeling I had in my stomach when that teaser ran, not knowing what was going to happen next

I remember that exact feeling very specifically from the moment when Buffy first sees Angel again (Beauty and the Beast?) after she thought he was dead and thinking "No effing way - what the hell is going to happen now." and then after the commercial I was like "No seriously, what the hell is this show doing - What was the first part of this season about? What is it going to be now? What the hell is going to happen.." I could hardly stand it.

Also - during Tara and Giles' duet in OMWF when I knew they were leaving the show and they were singing about it right there - it was very odd - and I just kept thinking - What are they going to do without Giles?

It may seem silly now - but at the end of the season finale of S6 - when Spike got re-souled. Not trying to bring up the MANY problems with that storyline. But I remember sitting in front of my TV as the credits rolled just totally shocked. And wanting to scream with anticipation as to what was going to happen next.

Most of my big moments have been hit, but there are still a few from my favorite episode "Prophecy Girl" that no one's mentioned:

• Joyce giving Buffy her prom dress and telling her that at 16 everything seems like it's a matter of life & death
• Willow's sobbing reaction to the A/V room deaths—her "they took our world and made it theirs" line in particular—maybe Aly's best performance
• Cordelia's come-with-me-if-you-want-to-live moment mowing down the Master's minions and driving Willow and Miss Calendar to relative safety inside the school (Did anyone else think she'd been called at the moment of Buffy's death?)

And what may be for me the quintessential moment of the entire series: Buffy's "I may be dead, but I'm still pretty."