12 Most Fan-Pleasing TV Moments Ever

4. Once More With Feeling - Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Buffy Once More With Feeling
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Yes, this is an entire episode rather than a moment, but with good reason: while Buffy's six season is a tough watch, Once More With Feeling is the show at its most astonishingly crowd-pleasing. An entire musical episode that ties together important character development and massive showtunes, this is rightly regarded as one of the all-time best episodes of the series, and is the show at its most infectiously charming, without losing its darker elements along the way.

To boil it down to a single moment, though, this also gives us the true first kiss between Buffy and Spike. Their relationship went to some bad places, and Angel is Buffy's true soulmate (shoutout to his return in Season 7), but fans had been waiting for this moment for a long time and, after so much longing on the part of Spike and no one else understanding Buffy's pain, this was the showstopper inside a showstopper.

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