Buffy the Vampire Slayer Episode Guide
Warning: May Contain Spoilers
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Season One
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The Witch (March 17, 1997)
AKA When Mom's a Witch
Teacher's Pet (March 25, 1997)
AKA Insects Bite
Never Kill a Boy on the First Date (March 31, 1997)
The Pack (April 17, 1997)
[Xander is edible in this one...]
Angel (April 14, 1997)
AKA Secrets: You Showed Me Yours, Now I'll Show You Mine
I, Robot. You, Jane (April 28, 1997)
AKA Beware of Chat Rooms
Moloch/Malcom fools poor Willow. I just wanted to hug her to make her feel better...
Puppet Show (May 5, 1997)
AKA Woody
Nightmares (May 12, 1997)
Invisible Girl (May 28, 1997)
AKA 9 out of 10 Invisible Girls Think Cordelia Sucks [shortened to Cordelia Sucks]
Prophesy Girl (June 2, 1997)
AKA Tough Day on the Job
When She Was Bad (Sept. 15, 1997)
AKA Trama Rears It's Ugly Fangs, er, Head
Some Assembly Required (Sept. 22, 1997)
AKA Parts Is Parts
School Hard (Sept. 29, 1997)
AKA But She's the Slayer!
Inca Mummy Girl (Oct. 6, 1997)
Reptile Boy (Oct 13, 1997)
AKA Frat Houses are Bad
Halloween (Oct. 27, 1997)
This episode gets bonus points for showing just how beautiful Willow is.
Lie To Me (Nov. 3, 1997)
Someone from Buffy's past comes back. Dying, he wants to become a vampire. Stupid, stupid boy... (Although it is kind of understandable.)
Dark Age (Nov. 10, 1997)
AKA Tattoos Are Bad
What's My Line? (part 1--Nov. 17, 1997)
(part 2--Nov. 24, 1997)
Ted (Dec. 8, 1997)
AKA Always Check the Reciepe --OR-- Cookies Are Bad
Bad Eggs (Jan. 12, 1998)
AKA Always Hard-Boil Your Eggs
Surprise (part 1) (Jan. 19, 1998)
Innocence (part 2) (Jan. 20, 1997)
Phases (Jan. 27, 1998)
[This ep is worth it just to imagine Oz naked!]
Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered (Feb. 10, 1998)
Everybody Loves Xander
Passion (Feb. 24, 1998)
Killed By Death (March 3, 1998)
AKA "A Nightmare on Elm Street" Meets BtVS [A Fairly Lame Ep.]
I Only Have Eyes For You (April 28, 1998)
Big Angsty Ep.
Go Fish (May 5, 1998)
AKA What's that Smell?
Becoming (part 1--May 12, 1998) (part 2--May 19, 1998)
Dead Man's Party (Oct. 6, 1998)
AKA Pet Cemetery OR Night of the Living Dead OR The Mask
Faith, Hope, and Trick (Oct. 13, 1998)
Faith and Trick introduced. I'm not too fond of either of them, although Faith could grow on me...
Beauty and the Beasts (Oct. 20, 1998)
AKA The Monster Food Chain
A VERY Oz-heavy episode. On a scale of 1-10, it's a 53! Oh, and Angel's back and Buffy's hiding him...
Homecoming (Nov. 3, 1998)
AKA Buffy VS. Cordy
Band Candy (Nov. 10, 1998)
AKA Too Much Candy Makes Giles a Naughty Ripper
Revelations (Nov. 17, 1998)
The others learn that Angel's back, and they're not happy...
Lovers Walk (Nov. 24, 1998)
AKA Spike's Back!!
If you're ever looking for some great lines about love, you want to check Spike out in this ep. Really super episode! On the Trama Scale of 1-10, it's a 13!
The Wish (Dec. 8, 1998)
AKA Sunnydale Gets REAL Ugly or Cordy Makes a Stupid Wish
Amends (Dec. 15, 1998)
AKA The Christmas Episode
Spirits play with Angel's mind. "Wackiness Ensues"
Gingerbread (Jan. 12, 1999)
AKA The Crucible
Buffy's mom takes an interest in Buffy's life. Which is a good thing. But, like all things Sunnydale, things go a little nutty...
Helpless (Jan. 19, 1999)
The Zeppo (Jan. 26, 1999)
AKA A Day in the Life of Xander
Bad Girls (February 9, 1999)
AKA Buffy Goes Bad
(I didn't like this episode. Had good parts, but on the whole, I didn't dig it.)
New watcher shows up. Buffy starts hangin' with Faith too much, ignores Willow, and basically does bad things. Oh, and Faith kills (accidentally mistakes for a vamp) the Mayor's lakie.
Consequences (February 16, 1999)
(I liked this ep WAY better than last wk's)
Faith is master of denial, blames Buffy for the murder, almost kills Xander, Wesley attempts to send her to England, she basically beats him up, escapes, then saves Buffy's life. Willow learns Xander and Faith "bonded."
I am now the Keeper of my own personal hatred of Faith... (Everyone can keep their own hatred, right?)
No Oz in this episode at all!!!*grrrrr*
Dopplegangland
AKA Vampy Willow Meets Good Willow
I LOVED this ep! Watch it again and again and again! You will love it!
Enemies (March 16, 1999)
AKA The Psych-Out Episode
The mayor and Faith work to try to make Angel lose his soul. Faith ends up killing a demon, who looked frighteningly like a leprechaun... (It *is* the day before St. Paddy's day) Basically, Joss jerked us all around in this episode. This one is helping to set up the break off for the "Angel" series
Earshot Original Air-Date: April 13, 1999
Post-Poned Due to Frightening Similarities to Recent IRL Horrors
Actual Air-Date: Sept. 21, 1999
AKA Do You Hear What I Hear?
Not to Spoil anything, but Buffy learns in this ep that Giles and Joyce had sex (Band Candy). It is possibly one of the funnies scenes of the whole season! This episode is wonderfully written. Each character gets their own moment to shine. Absolutely superb.
Choices (May 4, 1999)
This eppy was pretty different IMO. Mayor gets big-baddy-important-to-his-asenstion(sp?) box. Scooby Gang gets baddy-box to "deal" with it. Willow gets captured, the gang must trade the box for Willow. I think "choices" talked about the choice btwn Willow or the baddy-box and Angel and Buffy. They always are making big choices just to be together. The conversation btwn Willow and Faith were incredible!
Have I mentioned that I hate Faith?
The Prom (May 11, 1999)
What a wonderful ep! Absolutely beautiful, and painful ep. Angel breaks up with Buffy just before Prom. Xander and Anya go to prom together and it makes for some very funny lines. And of course, Willow and Oz were loverly... *le sigh*
Graduation Day, Part 1 (May 18, 1999)
Angel may be dying. Faith may be dead. (Is it wrong for me to hope?) Oz gives the world a new definition of "panic." And for the record, I LIKE his idea of panicking! He can panic me *ANYTIME*!!!
Graduation Day, Part 2 Original Air-Date: May 25, 1999
Postponed due to violence!
Actual Air-Date: July 13, 1999
Angel must feed from a slayer to live, and Buffy lost Faith (although she put her in a coma), so Buffy forces Angel to feed from her. Angel almost drains her, then takes her to the hospital and, of course, she lives. Cordy and Wesley finally kiss, but he looks very inexperienced! LOL! The mayor turns into a big snakey-demon and ends up eating Snyder! Larry gets swatted by the Mayor-demon's tail and when he lands, his neck snaps. *pout* Buffy lures the mayor into the library, and when Buffy jumps out the window, Giles blows the place up. Sunnydale high is no more. And now we're off to college...
Living Conditions (October 12, 1999)
AKA Roommates Beware!
Buffy determines her roommate, Kathy, must be a demon of some kind and she must kill her. Suprisingly, Buffy's right!
The Harsh Light of Day (October 19, 1999)
AKA the first cross-over episode (Oz and Spike), Spike part 1
Spike's back and now we all remember why we missed him so much! Course, he's with Vamp Harmony now. *gag* He finds this ring that makes Vamps unkillable, but Buffy gets it from him and sends it with Oz to LA. (Oz has a gig there.) It was in this ep that Buffy sleeps with the smooth-talking, sexy Parker who was just using Buffy. He was as Willow said, "a Poop Head."
Fear, Itself (October 26, 1999)
AKA There's Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself
Halloween episode. Giles + chainsaw + Ripper grin = YUM!
Beer Bad (November 2, 1999)
Bartender gets revenge on jocks by putting some concoction in their fave beer that turns them cave-boy. Buffy drinks with them and turns a bit cave-y too. Cave Buffy knocks Parker out twice! YAY! Hit him again Buffy!
Wild At Heart (November 9, 1999)
AKA For Vik's B'day She Gets a Huge Tramafest! (ok, that's just for me...)
WolfOz does it with WolfVeruca. Willow sees them after and of course freaks out. Goes mildly catatonic. Oz end up killing Veruca cuz she was going to kill Willow, then Oz leaves! Nooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *sniff* I am dying!
The Initiative (November 16, 1999)
Riley realizes he likes Buffy and gets advise and help from the still devistated Willow. We also find out that Buffy likes cheese! LOL ::ahem:: Sorry. Anyway, we also find out that Riley is one of the men in black lurking around campus and that the professor is the head of The Initiative. Spike, who had been captured by the Initiative and thought it was Buffy's fault, escapes and goes to eat Willow, but an implant the Initiative put in him puts him in extrodinary pain if he tries to bite (or hurt) any human. Liked this episode very much!
Pangs (November 23, 1999)
(the B/A crossover)
Angel's lurky again watching out for Buffy. Indian spirit comes back and tries to kill her and or course Angel saves her while remaining unseen by Buffy, though everyone else knew he was there. Xander let it slip at the very end. Which leads us into the crossover into Angel...
Something Blue (November 30, 1999)
Willow does a funky spell thing and now everything she utters happens. (She doesn't know it worked!) "If she (Buffy) loves him (Spike) so much, why doesn't she marry him" "Xander, you're a demon magnet" and something else about Giles going blind. FUNNY episode!
Hush (December 14, 1999)
The episode where the Gentlemen take the voices from a town, then take the hearts of 5? people. A scream can stop them though. Riley breaks the box that Buffy dreamed about and it releases the voices and Buffy screams. Riley and Buffy had been fighting the Gentleman and they both think they're busted. This is probably one of the best episodes since the beginning of the show.
Doomed (January 18, 2000)
Buffy and Riley finally know each others' secret. Big earthquake at the beginning of the show makes Iowa-boy excited, while it gives our favorite slayer unhappy memories of her last earthquake where she, well, died. This was another apocalypse thing. The gang (minus Giles) now knows about Riley bein' a cammando guy. Hillarious fights btwn Xander and Spike. The 2 best quip-guys goin' at each other. It was super! And Spike learns he can hurt demons and is excited.
A New Man (January 25, 2000)
AKA Giles the Demon
Buffy's birthday, which plays very little role in the episode. Giles finds out about Riley bein' a cammando and feels hurt that he wasn't told. Ethan's in town and he turns Giles into a big monster demon who doesn't speak english. Buffy, being the slayer and thinking the demon killed Giles, finds out how to kill the demon. Fortunately, Buffy grabs a silver *colored* letter-opener, so when she stabs the Giles-demon, it doesn't kill him. When she does this, the look in his eyes made her realize who it was. Riley takes Ethan into "custody" where he'll await trial (or something). Hmmm.
The "I" in Team (Feb 8, 2000)
Buffy gets deeper into the Initiative and Prof Walsh doesn't like it. She tries to get Buffy killed in an assignment. We see what's in the mystery room. It's Adam, a monster Walsh has been creating. At the end, Adam wakes up and kills Walsh, calling her "Mommy." There are many "spanking" jokes. :)
Goodbye Iowa (Feb 15, 2000)
Poor Riley... With Walsh dying in the last episode, the Initiative's all wonky. Finding out the Walsh tried to get Buffy killed, he's doubting everything in his life, including Buffy. Of course, it doesn't help that he hasn't been taking his "vitamins" which were actually Initiative drugs. He gets all psycho and paranoid, but Buffy's trying to nurse him anyway. Very sweet stuff. At the end of the episode, the Initiative has taken an injured-by-Adam Riley to their own private dr place where Buffy can't go.
This Year's Girl (part 1) (Feb 22, 2000)
Faith awakens from her coma. Wackiness ensues...
Who Are You (part 2) (Feb 29, 2000)
Episode kicks off right after Faith switches bodies w/Buffy and they're taking Buffy (in Faith's body) away. Terrific episode. Fun to watch Eliza and Sarah play each other!
Superstar (April 18, 2000)
For every Jonathan lover or person who wanted to be popular in high school, this episode rocks. Pretty good, though occassionally too cheesy.
Where the Wild Things Are (April 25, 2000)
The Buffy/Riley sex-a-thon.
New Moon Rising (May 2, 2000)
OZ RETURNS!!! And then leaves... *sniff* He learned how to control his inner-wolf, until he learns about Willow and Tara. Great eppie, though tramatic. Willow's now out of the closet.
The Yoko Factor (May 9 ,2000)
Spike has paired up w/Adam (unknown to the Scooby Gang) and is now very subtly putting them at odds w/each other. Best scene, 2 words: Drunk Giles.
Primeval (May 16, 2000)
The final battle w/Adam. Big spell combines Buffy, Willow, Xander, and Giles "powers" or "skills" (or something) to give her the extra *oomph!* to beat him. Matrix rip off in parts, but good.
Restless (May 23, 2000)
Aftermath of the slayerettes "combining" is funky dreams that are all related. Fave parts are too many to mention, but I did love the cheese guy! I loved this episode because it was how dreams really are, disjointed w/things that make you go, "What????"
Real Me (October 3, 2000)
The Replacement (October 10, 2000)
Out of My Mind (???, 2000)
No Place Like Home (???, 2000)
I got behind and never caught up.
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