# Buffy "Go Fish"--eat or rape?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 11, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buffy-go-fish-eat-or-rape/849296 "2020-03-11T20:08:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buffy-go-fish-eat-or-rape/849296/1 "2020-03-11T20:08:11Z")

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I am in the midst of a full _Buffy_ rewatch for the first time in several years, and just finished 2x20, _Go Fish_. Near the end, the coach pushes the school nurse who was having second thoughts into the well with the Creatures From the Sunnydale Steamroom for food. Later, he tosses Buffy in there, stating that they have already eaten, but “boys have other needs.” Moments later after the coach falls in, it cuts away to Buffy and Xander staring into the well in horrified fascination, where Buffy says to Xander that “those boys really love their coach” as he screams in the background. Always before I had assumed that they were eating him, but this time it finally occurred to me that they might have been being even darker than that–the boys had been feed but hadn’t had their other needs met yet, so were they watching the coach get raped?