I Was Made to Love You

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

The premise of Buffy the Vampire Slayer is that an adolescent girl, Buffy Summers, is chosen by mystical forces and given superhuman powers to kill vampires, demons, and other evil creatures in the fictional town of Sunnydale. She is supported by a close circle of family and friends, nicknamed the Scooby Gang.

Plot[]

Buffy rants about her problems with Spike to Giles while pounding away at Xander who is wearing a padded 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 named 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 cannot 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 look 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, who happens to be at the party and escapes with his date before April discovers him. April questions the people at the party, telling them that Warren is her boyfriend and he lost her. Spike approaches Buffy while she is waiting, but she tells him off before Ben returns. Ben offers Buffy his number for a possible coffee date and is not scared off when Buffy warns him of her bad history.

After seeing Buffy with Ben, Spike tries to hit on April, but his suggestive comments only anger her and lead her to throw the vampire through a window. Despite her amusement at Spike's pain, Buffy gets similar treatment when April throws her aside and leaves. They realize that April is a robot that needs stopping before she actually harms someone. Buffy returns home, and Giles suggests he not watch Dawn alone anymore because he cannot 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. As Willow finds Warren's home address on her computer, 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 right before answering the phone, and a date is made for coffee.

Warren rushes to get packed and move away with his current girlfriend, Katrina, but she does not 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. 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. Meanwhile, the Scoobies are discussing the situation at The Magic Box when they receive a visit from Spike, who is forced to leave by an icily furious Giles.

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 cannot love her, then April turns on Buffy, and the two fight. Buffy damages April's circuits, 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, also admitting that, despite Xander's belief that April was a "crazed robot", Buffy knows she was just trying to do everything she knew how to do to make the one she loved happy, but fails to draw the subtle parallel between April and Spike. Buffy leaves a message for Ben on his answering machine, canceling the date, but Glory listens to the message, not Ben. Meanwhile, Spike approaches a hesitant Warren about making a robot for him, one based completely on Buffy.

When Buffy comes home, she 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 does not move or answer.

External links[]

• "I Was Made to Love You" at IMDb
• "I Was Made to Love You" at BuffyGuide.com