I Was Made to Love You

Infobox Television episode
Title=I Was Made to Love You


Series=Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Season=5
Episode=15
Airdate=February 20, 2001
Production=5ABB15
Writer=Jane Espenson
Director=James A. Contner
Episode list=List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes
Prev=Crush
Next=The Body

"I Was Made to Love You" is the 15th episode of season 5 of the television show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".

Plot synopsis

ummary

Warren Mears has created a robot girlfriend which turns up in Sunnydale to find him and Buffy must track her. Joyce goes on a good date. At the end of the episode, Spike asks Warren to make him the Buffybot, and Joyce is found dead.

Expanded overview

Buffy rants about her problems with Spike to Giles while pounding away at Xander who is wearing a sumo-sized bodysuit. Xander consoles the Slayer about her love life, blaming the Hellmouth for her not being able to find a decent guy. A young woman (April) arrives in Sunnydale by car, searching for her true love. Joyce nervously prepares for a date with a man named Brian with the help of her daughters.

Anya and Tara discuss the internet and Anya's knowledge of online stock trading and websites. April approaches them, asking if they know where Warren is but when the girls can't help her, April moves on to another person and asks the same question. Buffy and Xander dance at a university party while Anya, Tara and Willow watch on. After dancing, Buffy locates Ben at the party and casually catches his attention. They chat briefly but awkwardly, and Buffy asks Ben to dance.

Anya admires the Chex Mix with Xander when April arrives at the party, still searching for Warren. Warren just so happens to be at the party and escapes with his date before April discovers him. April questions the people at the party, offering that Warren is her boyfriend and he lost her. Tara is minorly concerned about her relationship with Willow when Willow remarks:(eyeing her)'Yeah a pretty girl like that wont stay lonely for long(!)'Spike approaches Buffy while she's waiting, but she tells him off before Ben returns. Ben offers Buffy his number for a possible coffee date and isn't scared off when Buffy warns him of her bad history.

After seeing Buffy with Ben, Spike is inspired to hit on April, but his suggestive comments only anger her and lead her to throw the vampire through a window. Buffy tries to talk to April, but April throws her aside and leaves. Later, at Xander's apartment, the gang unanimously agrees that April is a robot but concludes she isn't a threat. Buffy returns home, and Giles suggests he not watch Dawn alone anymore because he can't take much more exposure to the habits of a young teenager. Joyce returns from her date in an extremely good mood, shocking her daughter with the joke that she left her bra in Brian's car.

April goes door to door searching for Warren's residence. Willow finds Warren Mears on her computer and the house where he could be living. The gang talks about Warren and how he made April to fill a void in his life. Buffy finally gets up the nerve to call Ben, but the phone rings at Glory's place. She morphs into Ben to answer the phone, and a date is made for coffee.

Warren rushes to get packed and move away with his current girlfriend, Katrina, but she doesn't understand why. Buffy shows up at Warren's in search of answers relating to April while Katrina finally walks out upset about being kept in the dark. Spike shows up at the magic shop but meets incredible hostility from the gang, including Dawn. Warren reveals to Buffy that he made April to love him, but she became boring after a while and he left her, letting her batteries run down.

Katrina encounters April at a park, and April uses force to make Katrina admit that Warren is her boyfriend. Warren finally tells April that he can't love her, then April turns on Buffy, and the two fight. Buffy damages April's electrical work, and she is finally stopped. After talking with April in her final moments, Buffy realizes that she doesn't need a man in her life. Buffy leaves a message for Ben on his answering machine, canceling the date, but Glory listens to the message, not Ben.

Spike confronts Warren about making a robot for him, one based completely on Buffy. Warren refuses, but Spike won't take no for an answer. Buffy calls out to her mother, then finds her lying on the living room couch. Worried by her mother's awkward appearance, Buffy calls out to her, but Joyce doesn't move and doesn't answer.

Acting

tarring

*Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers
*Nicholas Brendon as Xander Harris
*Alyson Hannigan as Willow Rosenberg
*Emma Caulfield as Anya Jenkins
*Michelle Trachtenberg as Dawn Summers
*James Marsters as Spike
*Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles

Guest starring

*Clare Kramer as Glory
*Charlie Weber as Ben
*Shonda Farr as April the Robot
*Adam Busch as Warren Mears
*Troy T. Blendell as Jinx
*Amber Benson as Tara Maclay
*Kristine Sutherland as Joyce Summers

Co-starring

*Amelinda Embry as Katrina Silber
*Paul Darrigo as Driver
*Gil Christner as Resident
*Kelly Felix as Teenager
*Paul Walia as Friend

Production details

Music

*Caviar - "Ok Nightmare"
*Los Straitjackets - "Kawanga!"
*Mellonova - "Hi Dee Ho"

Translations

* Italian title: "La ragazza dei sogni" ("The dreams' girl")
* German title: "Auf Liebe programmiert" ("Programmed on love")
* French title: "Chagrin d'amour" ("Love Grief")
* Spanish title: "Yo te hice hecha para amarte" ("I Was Made to love you")

Quotes and trivia

* Britney Spears was originally cast to play April, but scheduling conflicts made it impossible. [ [http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271|72723|1|,00.html Zap2it.com, " 'Buffy' Nerds Embrace the Dark Side" by Vanessa Sibbald. December 22, 2001.] ]

* As April runs down, her last words are "It's always darkest just before...." The final words would have been "the dawn."

* Unlike the later Buffybot, April is not salvaged and kept for later examination and/or repair; the fate of her inert body is a mystery.

Continuity

Arc significance

* Warren will return as a major villain in Season Six and the canonical "Season Eight" comics.

* Katrina is also introduced in this episode. She will play a minor role in the Season Six episode "Dead Things" by disrupting the Trio's unity.

* When Buffy tells Warren her name and asks him "Do you know who I am?", what she is really asking is if Warren realizes she is the "odd" Sunnydale High student who protected other students from the dangers they almost never admitted exist in the town. Warren answers in the affirmative; the episode clarifies that he spent his senior year at Sunnydale High, meaning that, although this is his first actual appearance, he was "behind the scenes" as a member of the Sunnydale student body throughout Season Three. Warren's status as a Sunnydale alumnus is also referred to in Season Six, where it is revealed that he attended the school play that was attacked by Monkey Demons sent by Andrew Wells (an incident that was itself never actually depicted).

* Spike places an order with Warren, who will produce the Buffybot.

* Technology in Buffyverse has been shown to be advanced enough to produce such an advanced robot as April (see "Ted"). When the gang discusses April, Dawn mentions that she "always thought" Ted might come back, reminding viewers that although Dawn did not appear in any episode prior to Season Five, she nonetheless remembers them, at least to the extent that any other person in Buffy's household would.

* Joyce dies, an event that will profoundly affect Buffy's outlook throughout the rest of the series. Also, true to the series' form, Joyce's death managed to occur while she was at her happiest.

Timing

*Stories that take place around the same time in the Buffyverse:

References

External links

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* [http://www.buffyguide.com/episodes/iwasmade.shtml "I Was Made to Love You" on BuffyGuide.com]