<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">That was one of the lines whilst watching with my then 11 year old I had to explain, yes it’s funny BUT that is not acceptable behaviour from Spike and it’s actually creepy and criminal. He might be joking, in which case it’s ok, but it’s not made clear, so… yikes!<div><br></div><div>There were a lot of toxic men presented as romantic or aspirational boyfriends in the 90s/00s - Angel from Buffy, all the ones from The Gilmore Girls, Ross from friends. They were all deeply troublesome.</div><div><div><br></div><div>Mostly PG holds up really well in terms of script and Spike isn’t truly toxic, but there are a few moments like this (mostly Spike-based but sometimes Colin and occasionally Lynda) where you really notice times have changed!</div><div><br></div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 18 Aug 2025, at 21:54, Paul Bathgate <starbuck320@googlemail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><div>🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣</div><div dir="auto">Great writing </div><div><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Peace & One Love</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 18 Aug 2025, 03:27 prydonia, <<a href="mailto:prydonia@proton.me">prydonia@proton.me</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><p style="margin:0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Spike:<span>
</span>Isn't this fun? I haven't done this since I took those pyjama shots of
you.<u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="SV">Lynda:<span> </span>Pyjama shots?<u></u> <u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in;font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Spike:<span>
</span>You thought it was lightning, didn't you?<u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br>
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