spike's behavior in 6x11 when the social worker comes to visit buffy's house is so fascinating to me. first he's being smugly uncooperative bc he's mad at buffy but then she's like "spike this is the social worker who's here to assess if i can take care of dawn" and his demeanor changes entirely and he becomes very intent on letting the social worker know how great buffy is at taking care of dawn only he tries to do this by saying like "see buffy's very responsible bc she wouldn't let dawn hang out with me on account of the fact that i'm evil". such a puzzling thing to say but is even more puzzling because he is literally in buffy's house at that very moment. like hey man maybe you shoulda thought that one through a little more. it does get me that his first instinct when trying to assert how good buffy is is to emphasize how bad he is and how she always puts him in his place
