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My Top 10 Buffy EpisodesIt's hard to believe, but it's been 10 years since Buffy the Vampire Slayer first premiered on television. At first I just didn't buy that a show set at a high school about a vampire slayer named Buffy could possibly be any good, but once I started watching the show (thank God I did!), I totally ate my words. Buffy, in my opinion, is close to perfect.
Not only did creator Joss Whedon and his talented writing team put together an emotionally complex, sometimes laugh-out-loud series, they also delivered network television's best (as far as I'm concerned) portrayal of a lesbian character, Willow Rosenberg (Alyson Hannigan). To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the premiere of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, here are 10 of my favorite episodes from the series. These are just listed chronologically in order of air date — I don't know if I could bring myself to rank them in any kind of order. Without further ado: 1. "Halloween" (2.06): In this Season 2 classic, Buffy and the gang are magically transformed into their Halloween costumes. Buffy becomes a helpless noblewoman, Xander becomes a soldier (whose skills continue to serve him throughout the series), and Willow dresses up as, well, a hot girl. Given Willow's innate modesty, however, she covers her costume with a sheet. When the spell is cast, Willow becomes the ghost of a hot girl. 2. "The Wish" (3.09): After Cordelia discovers that Xander has been unfaithful to her with Willow, she inadvertently summons a vengeance demon, Anyanka (who later becomes the inimitable Anya), and wishes that Buffy had never come to Sunnydale. Anya grants Cordelia's wish, resulting in an alternate universe version of Sunnydale in which Xander and Willow have become deliciously evil vampires; Angel has become a slave to the Master, who was never defeated; and Giles works with Oz and Larry (who came out in Season 1) to fight evil. The best part? The introduction of Vamp Willow. 3. "Bad Girls" (3.14): Buffy develops a friendship with Faith (the hot Eliza Dushku) which involves kicking ass, breaking-and-entering, and dancing together suggestively at the Bronze. Oh yeah, and at the end of the episode Faith accidentally kills a human, thus beginning her descent into Tortured Sexy Badness. (And check out the Buffy/Faith fan video on our Video Picks page.) 4. "Doppelgängland" (3.16): Anya asks fledgling witch Willow to help her with a spell, but the spell, of course, goes awry, and Willow's vampire alter ego from "The Wish" is called into Sunnydale. After the real Willow meets Vamp Willow, she observes: "That's me as a vampire? I'm so evil. And skanky. And I think I'm kinda gay!" 5. "Hush" (4.10): This Emmy Award-winning episode was shot almost entirely in silence, and tells the story of a group of fairy-tale villains who come to Sunnydale to steal hearts (the actual organs). In the process, these "Gentlemen" steal the voices of their potential victims so that they can't scream for help. But being speechless only makes Willow's growing attraction to Tara, a fellow witch, more obvious. 6. "New Moon Rising" (4.19): Willows ex-boyfriend Oz returns to town after having learned how to control some of his werewolf tendencies, only to discover that Willow has another person in her life — Tara. Willow ultimately decides that despite her affection for Oz, she is in love with Tara. 7. "The Body" (5.16): In a show that is all about death, this episode, in which Buffy's mother unexpectedly dies, brought home the reality of mortality with riveting performances from all of the cast. 8. "Once More With Feeling" (6.07): The unforgettable musical episode. 9. "Tabula Rasa" (6.08): Willow casts a spell meant to cause Tara to forget her feelings of anger about Willow's increasing use of magic, but the spell, of course, goes awry. All of the Scooby gang winds up with amnesia, which leads to a hilarious episode in which they all try to figure out who they are. When the spell is broken, Tara realizes that she can no longer be with Willow, who lied to her, but before all of that sadness, there were several laugh-out-loud moments. 10. "The Killer in Me" (7.13): Kennedy (Iyari Limon), a potential slayer, takes Willow out to the Bronze on what turns out to be a date. Their developing attraction is sweet and sexy, but when they kiss, Willow suddenly turns into Warren, the man she killed at the end of Season 6. Talk about dyke drama! This list doesn't even include a number of my other favorite episodes, including "Out of Mind, Out of Sight" (1.11), in which Clea DuVall plays an invisible high school student; "Phases" (2.15), in which Oz discovers he's a werewolf and former bully Larry reveals that he's gay; the Evil Willow episodes from the end of Season 6; "Smashed" followed by "Wrecked" in which Buffy hooks up with Spike; the very scary "Conversations With Dead People" in Season 7 with the ghost of Joyce wreaking havoc on the Summers house; or the bittersweet season finale. What were your favorite episodes? Submitted by on April 12, 2007 - 4:55pm. |
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oh boy, i'd have to list
One of my all time favorites
"Chosen"...
...is definetively one of the all-time best episodes. There are actually a lot of great moments in Season 7, and also a lot of plot-holes but i think feminist!Buffy and Willow/Kennedy made up for it. I'm not sure I would rank "Conversations With Dead People" up there though, the only part of it that didn't feel contrived was the scenes with Buffy.
And who is this "Spike" you speak of? I vaguely remember an interesting villan who for some reason turned into a dull golden boy without a shirt that almost ate the two last seasons of the show, but I seem to have succesfully erased him from my memory...
"Family"
I love all the ones listed
I love all the ones listed above (and many more), I think This Year's Girl and Who am I (was that what that one was called?) are fantastic.
season 2 was the best of all!
I maintain that early Buffy was the best stuff they ever did - Suprise/Innocence (p1&2) when Angel losses his soul oh man, the finale Becoming (p1&2) when Buffy sends Angel to hell was some of the best TV ever - that show was so amazing even before Tara ever came!
Just ten would be tough.
I'd have to keep almost all the ones listed and add at least: "School Hard", "Lovers Walk", "A New Man", "Buffy vs Dracula" (that one's made of pure win!), "Fool for Love" (a great episode overall, but just the Chaos Demon is enough to put it in the top ten), "Triangle" & "Selfless", "Intervention", "Doublemeat Palace" (just so, plain, wrong), "Entropy", "Lies My Parents Told Me", and pretty much every episode once Nathan Fillion shows up.
You know, I think it'd be quicker just to list the one or two bad episodes per season :)
Definitly Agree on Choices
BtVS favorites
BtVS favorites are always so hard... because favorite moments don't mean favorite episode and vice versa... same applies for favorite seasons... and then favorite Faith moments throw everything out of whack for me...
I've been doing a Buffy marathon for months now. Finally in season 7, woo hoo more Faithy goodness to come.
This Year's Girl stands out for me but I don't think its the whole epi, just a few choice scenes.
I don't think I'll ever be able to have a firm Buffy favorites list. We talk about it on the spashley boards still today.
Tabula Rasa
is one of the funniest buffy episodes. I think it gets overlooked too many times. Thanks for including it on the list! Here's a paraphrase.
Randy Giles: "I must be a noble vampire. A vampire with a soul!"
Joan: "A vampire with a soul? That's so lame."
best show ever
Okay, I registered just so I could comment on this post.
Buffy will always be my favorite show, because I started watching it during the first season, when I was 11, and it ended the year I graduated from high school. I discovered my sexuality exactly as the Willow/Tara storyline began, I remember coming home from choir rehearsal and sobbing through "The Gift," and I actually broke up with a guy because he kept coming over to "watch Buffy" and then trying to, er, distract me through the whole episode.
This show was my life for seven years, and I can hardly pick favorite episodes, but I certainly agree that the ones on this list are awesome.
RESTLESS
Restless (4.22) is my favorite episode of all. it´s well written and different.
Buffy Love
All Time Favorite Show
My top 10
1. Once More With Feeling - 6.7
2. Chosen - 7.22
3. The Gift - 5.22
4. Something Blue - 4.9
5. Passion - 2.17
6. Innocence - 2.14
7. The Body - 5.16
8. Fool For Love - 5.7
9. Becoming Part 2 - 2.22
10. Smashed - 6.9
I don't know that I'd be
I don't know that I'd be able to pick only ten favorite moments!
The best part of Willow & Kennedy's date wasn't in the clip...the part where Kennedy talks about how you know a girl is into girls.
"The fun part is the process of - of getting to know a girl. It's like - it's like flirting in code. It's using body language and laughing at the right jokes and - and looking
into her eyes and knowing she's still whispering to you, even when she's not
saying a word. And that sense that if you can just touch her just once everything
will be OK for both of you. That's how you can tell. (sits back, grins) Or
if she's really hot, you just get her drunk - see if she comes on to you."
"watch me make up my mind instead of my face"
Always Buffy
how happy was i to see this piece on the homepage. buffy was by far one of the best written tv shows we've ever had. no arguments! to pick fave eps is always so hard. i thought your list was interesting - different from others i've seen. for me to add a few in there i'd have to say:
the gift: if only for the score at the end - beautiful!
chosen: supremely excellent series finale - whedon you are a genius.
graduation day parts 1&2: you just can't beat that fight between buff and faith. underlying sexual tension? more like full-on unadulterated lust!
restless: much divisive, trippy lynch-fest. look for the clever clues. i love this one.
him: totally underrated season 7 comedy ep. some of the most hilarious lines.
anyway, that's just to name a few. i could go on.....and on. it just goes to show how good the show was that there's still articles about it 4 years after it finished.
Wow.
Now I'm getting nostalgic...
Great top 10! I
Great top 10! I would probably have named these four instead of Bad Girls, The Wish, Doppelgängerland and Halloween though:
Becoming: Buffy killing Angel was soooo sad (but basically made me a Sarah McLachlan fan for life too *s*)
The Gift: Fantastic, yet again, very sad, episode.
Restless: So multi-layered and very different.
Something Blue: Too funny!
Favorite Episodes
Favorite episodes are always hard to choose. Both "series finales" were awesome, and there were those episodes no matter how otherworldly they were, someone out there could relate to what was going on. BtVS is my all time favorite show. In fact I own the series on DVD. I have watched the whole series on Tv (plus reruns) and on DVD combined at least 25 times. I was stationed at Camp Taji in Iraq, and for the whole 2006 year I watched BtVS over and over again from Season 1 -7; it was hard to sleep. It's one of the reasons I remained sane. Thank You Joss Whedon and the cast of BtVS!!!
Spot On
You have definitely selected the best eps. Brilliant Article.It is really difficult to pick just one fave ep .. michelle branch at the end of Tabula Rasa was very hot.
some of the fashion Joss Whedon put the 'witches' in were a little questionable though :)
*applying law of attraction to the following thought --->>** a BTVS movie With the main players. hmm.. happy thoughts..
*unrelated trivia : Adam Busch (warren) and Amber Benson ( Tara) .. are dating..
Besides The Ones You Mentioned
which btw were good ones
living conditions - the episode where her roommates growing toenails puts her over the edge..not the best episode out there but that moment with the toenail clippings and her friends thinking shes lost it is hilarious
fear itself - the episode where buffy and gang face their fears and "the fear demon" that turns out to be smaller than a foot
restless - the episode that brought us tara back painting, the cheese man, and "death is your gift"
family- where taras family comes back for her b-day. that one makes me cry every time and the end where they dance together very very good stuff
the gift - that one always makes me cry too. it was the last episode before the change over in networks and it was still up in the air about SMG's return
tabula rasa - tons of sadness in this episode but intermixed with a hilarious plot
normal again - amazing episode that really takes the concept of the show to task. ill admit i cry during this one as well. probably one of the only episodes where i really feel SMG figures out how to be a good actress (the body is another of those episodes)
entropy - the end is....amazing...nothing like seeing willow and tara back together
him - omg that episode is hilarious with the letterman jacket and all the girls in love with the quarterback. especially the split screen towards the end when you can see what all the girls are doing in different parts of the screen
conversations with dead people - i cant imagine this episode WITH amber benson because the power of it would be different i think
storyteller - seeing andrews videotape is just plain funny.
touched - hot hot sex for everyone
and last but not least chosen - great way to end the series
my personal fave...
Buffy lives on!
At first I wouldn't even touch Buffy with a barge pole because of the horrendously awful movie version. I'm thrilled I gave it a chance because it was definitely one of the funniest, most original shows on TV (and now constantly in my DVD player
Although the show has been finished for four years, I'm not at all surprised at the huge fan base it continues to have, especially all us W/T fans out there! I think I've written close to 600,000 words of W/T fan fiction and am not showing any signs of slowing down, they're just two of the best characters to work with.
I love all the eppys you've chosen (bar the season 7 one for obvious reasons) but would have to add 'Family' for the focus on Tara and some awfully great moments, and basically any other episode with a great W/T scene - big pineapple star gazing scene is one of my faves!
Buffy on DVD
I agree with you on BtVS constantly being in the DVD player, as at any given moment of the day, it's feasible that the show is in my DVD player. I also have to agree with you on the Season 7 barring.
I believe I have read some of your fan fics, as they are more than likely on the Kitten... am I right? I may have even left feedback :o)
These two are a hard couple to not love and adore and still, 10 years later, the show has left a lasting memory, but most people I have talked to remember five characters: Buffy, Angel, Giles, Willow, and Tara.
The Buffy/ Angel relationship was great until they put a sword through Angel and then our newfound hope for a forever love came in the form of Willow and Tara, which ended all too soon. They shared the type of relationship we all secretly hope to find and I have found that they have the best fans.
The episode featuring the Big Pineapple scene may just be one of my favorite episodes, shy of "Famiy" and practically all episodes pre-veiny Willow in season 6.
Does nobody remember Dru?
Buffy is a wonderful show on many levels. Best episodes though? C'mon! Does nobody else remember the absolutely fabulousness that is Juliet Landau's portrayal of the mentally deranged Drusilla?! She was the best part of the bloody show! Many of my friends are in psyche wards, my best friend suffers psychosis and epilepsy. Shes takin her meds now though, so she's fine. Characters like that really hit me, she was gorgeous! Also Spike, Darla, Anyanka, Faith, Glory, maybe Amy are great.
Kennedy was dreadful! Nothing against the actress, but Kennedy was just this aweful, watered-down version of faith. She was a fake little brat of an annoying character and made no sense. Maybe if she was a depressed junkie or something, she'd have something to her.
Best episodes, what about "selfless"? I thought that was a gorgeous episode, Anyas song, she's such a beautiful, naive sincere little character, that she's never really a part of the group. How she clings so hard to people so she's never had to do anything on her own really, which means more at the end of the season when she dies.
"Lies my mother told me", Spike is the greatest bad boy, and he's not a big wanky poof like Angel, (I was however depressed when Angel and Buffy did not end up together at the end of the series.) How it goes into his and principal woods relationships with their mothers. Gotta love it.
"Crushed". Drusilla and Spike are the greatest. I was just sad, she ended up all alone, suffering her insanity for all eternity. No one was even decent enough to stake her.
"Fool for Love", Buffy always is so naive, she wants a blow-by-blow instruction from Spike about how he killed previous slayers, and he says its a dance. Also It has nice little flashbacks to his past, etc. and when it flashes back to his Billy Idol phase
"Becoming Part 1", Again my sympathy for Dru. and the little jealous competition between Spike and Angelus.
"Whats my line Part 2",
Drusilla: Say 'Uncle'. (lowering pitcher of Holy Water) Oh, that's right, you killed my uncle.
Spike: That's it, then. Off to church.
Drusilla: It makes pretty colors.
Spike: Pft! I'll see him die soon enough. I've never been much for the pre-show.
Angelus: Too bad. That's what Drusilla likes best, as I recall.
Spike: What's that supposed to mean?
Angelus: Ask her. She knows what I mean.
Spike: (to Dru) Well?
Drusilla: (to Angel) Shhh! Grrrruff! Bad dog.
Angelus: You shoulda let me talk to him, Dru. Sounds like your boy could use some pointers. She likes to be teased.
Spike: Keep your hole shut!
Angelus: Take care of her, Spike. The way she touched me just now? I can tell when she's not satisfied.
Spike: I said SHUT UP!
Angelus: Or maybe you two just don't have the fire we had.
Spike: That's enough. (about to stake him)
Drusilla: Spike, no! Shhh.
Spike: Oh! Right. Right, you almost got me! Aren't you a 'throw himself to the lions' sort of sap these days. Well, the lions are on to you, baby. See, if I kill you now you go quick, and Dru hasn't got a chance. And if Dru dies your little Rebecca of Sunnyhell Farm and all her mates are spared her coming-out party.
Drusilla: Spike, the moon is rising. It's time.
Spike: Too bad, Angelus. Looks like you go the hard way. Along with the rest of this miserable town.
"weight of the World" Slayer carries the weight of the world. title says it all
"Graduation Part 1", Faith's comment, "Little Miss Muffet counting down from 7-3-0," comes just about 2 years (730 days) before Buffy dies. The term 'Little Miss Muffet' is a reference to Dawn's arrival. A crazy man also refers to "curds and whey" when he accosts Dawn in "Real Me". Glory also makes references to "sitting on a tuffet" when she goes looking for the key during Season 5.
"Lovers walk". It was hilarious. Spike setting himself alight, burning himself and pouring his alco all over himself, then drinkin again. Spike and Dru forever, they were gold. The bad boy and his insane bitch.
I like all the others you mentioned too though.
Gotta agree though, Eliza's the sex. And the tension between her and Buffy? Straight girls my arse. Hope I wasnt too tipsy/drunk when I wrote this and it made sense.
Grad Day
Sorry...
but I'll never, ever, understand the whole Buffy thing; especially the whole lesbians-obsessing-over-Buffy thing. And the scenes were all so dimly lit - was it just me or did anyone else have trouble even seeing what was going on?
And now I'll leave you in peace to tear me to shreds...
Not Only But Also
Not gonna tear you into shreds . . .
I promise. :) My smiley marshmallow kitty (courtesy of Josh Lesnick of http://go-girly.com) purrs at you. Your questions made me think a little. I hope you don't take any offense at whatever I've written.
All of Buffy appears dimly lit in comparison to other TV shows because it was a show which featured night-time beasties and a majority of the scenes took place at night. The show itself was shot on 16 mm (seasons 1 & 2) and 35 mm film (other seasons), which is a truly beautiful format. Some of the stuntmen/women looked very different from the actors that they portrayed and some of the dimly lit-ness wobbly camera action was probably a veiled (heh heh) attempt to hide the imperfections.
As for the lesbians-obsessing-over-Buffy, hell, if someone had created a TV show before Buffy called "All About Dick" in which Mary Cheney, Dick Cheney's daughter, falls in love with a woman, we'll call her Heather Poe, and Mary's friends and family are all okay with her being a lesbian, I'd obsess about it, too. I'd buy All About Dick coffee mugs, and make an All About Dick forum on the web, start an All About Dick fanfiction site called All About Fic and go wild with my All About Dick PJs. I'd even wear my All About Dick paraphernalia to school, and church! Visibility is nice. It really is.
I don't know if it had
I think I have to go change my orientation now...
LOL. I'm sorry but I have to pose the question... How is liking Sarah Michelle Gellar a "lesbian thing?" Is this another one of the stereotypes that come with being a lesbian? If so, I need to go change my sexual orientation. I have to admit, it seems a little presumptuous to assume that. There are many actresses I like, many of which have played lesbian roles on television and in the movies (ie. Amber Benson, Alyson Hannigan, and Jennifer Beals, to name a few), however, in this case, liking the characters each of them play would stand to make a better argument on the "lesbian thing" front. At least there would be some basis to making an argument like that based on the previously mentioned actresses and the roles they play.
I mean no disrespect, but I am truly just trying to understand that statement.
I Love the Top Ten Lists!
Great quote from Halloween..."she couldn't have dressed up like Xena?"
Vamp Willow, Hush, The Body(fabulous episode, powerful), New Moon Rising,Family,Once More With Feeling,Checkpoint,The Gift.
Best. Article. Ever.
It's about time my favorite site went to town with my favorite show.
Loved the list, but I'm going to have to go with:
Something Blue - absolutely hilarious
What's My Line, pt 2 - I cant believe they killed Kendra so quickly. she was a fox.
Doppelgangland - just awesome. Joss Whedon is just awesome.
Becoming, Pt 2 - i hope im not the only one who cried when buffy killed angel
Fear, Itself - "who's a little fear demon?"
Hush - brilliant, and the scene where the gang is trying to figure things out is just laugh-out-loud funny. the hand motions and facial expressions are hilarious.
Once More, With Feeling - i was singing rest in peace in the shower this morning.
Smashed/Wrecked - im sorry, but i found the buffy/spike sex totally hot. it's just unfortunate that after they finally hooked up, he went from being dopey and sweet to completely cruel. am i the only one who didnt understand that transition?
Touched - the perfect episode to precede the end of the series. loved the buffy/spike and xander/anya stuff. and kennedy is freaking cool.
School Hard - spike crashes parent/teacher night. classic whedonesque humor and lots of action. i could watch this one over and over again.
The Body
The epi The Body was the first time my mother sat down and watched a Buffy epi with me. I didn't get one snide comment from her about the show which was a first also. This was just 3 weeks ago as I have been netflixing the series.
I've been out to my parents for a few years now but I still get squirmy whenever anything remotely gay is on television. Residue from always hiding, my instincts are still to change the channel, or devise some kind of distracting behavior. However, this time with The Body the emotional comfort Tara was giving Willow transcended all my squirmyness.
I'm an adult, I moved out of my parents house 11 yrs ago but this episode still resonated as a significant milestone in my visibility with my Mom. She got to see a positive representation of two women sharing a life together. Something she doesn't see on television or in the context of her life. They weren't being emotionally tortured by anyone for their life choices, they were grieving yes, but not because of who they loved or whom they chose to share their life. No one ever said on the show... "I just worry about how you'll be treated." Or, "we'll love you despite this part of you."
Sorry my ramble got a little long. Mostly just pointing out the significance of this show to this particular lesbian besides it just being good TV. The power of W/T aside, I'm a total Buffy/Faith subtexty goodness girl.
buffy coming out
i could never write enough
good things about this show. You made me totally want to start rewatching the whole series. As I was watching the clips i had forgotten that part of me that ached and longed for good tv and positive lesbian representation again. GOD I miss this show. Betweeen Xena and Buffy, I don't know if there will ever be series that are this incredible ever again. Josh Whedon is an effing genius. THANK YOU so much for compiling this list. This by far has been one of my favorite blogs EVER and I've been going to this site for about 6 years now.
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Aidan:"Betweeen Xena and Buffy, I don't know if there will ever be series that are this incredible ever again."
I can't tell you how many times we wished Josh was writing Xena. Imagine the Xena, Gabrielle relationship with Whedon at the helm.
ann 82:" And who is this "Spike" you speak of? I vaguely remember an interesting villan who for some reason turned into a dull golden boy without a shirt that almost ate the two last seasons of the show, but I seem to have succesfully erased him from my memory..."
Let's be honest, BtVS could and possibly should have ended with season five. Marti Noxon did not do the show justice the last two seasons, and what was up with making it the Spike show?
LadyLazarus:"
*unrelated trivia : Adam Busch (warren) and Amber Benson ( Tara) .. are dating.."
NOOO, say it ain't so!! He killed her, she can't date him!!
Comments on the unrelated trivia...
I had the pleasure of meeting both of these wonderful people, and I wouldn't be me without putting my foot in my mouth somehow... I scowled at the poor guy when she was introducing him to me, but he really was a nice guy. There was actually a moment as we (me and my friends) were leaving that he did one of the sweetest things for her.
My initial reaction was, "What could she possibly be thinking? She played sweet, innocent Tara and he... he played the evil nerd who killed her?! How can this possibly make sense?" Then I realized something... Tara and Warren were just characters on a show and these two people just happened to play them.
Willow and Tara
Actually, Willow and Tara were so boring together, I started to worry I was turning straight.
(ducks and covers)
willow and tara together
willow and tara are my absolute favourite tv lesbian couple, beating anyone and everyone else including the l word. this is because they were my first "exposure" to lesbians ever in my little suburban world. for me, the combination of seeing them on buffy and catching the odd episode of ellen, changed my life forever and made me know i could be who i am. seeing their relationship develop was like an epiphany and the memory of their excellent scenes somehow brings me hope and still lets me know i can be whoever i am.
apologies for going all gooey, lol
I couldnt possibly make a
I couldnt possibly make a list.... but some i think were great:
Tabula rasa represented the essence of the show: hilarious, but still kinda sad and meaningfull at the same time.
fool for love was great cause it showed us spike's past, putting even more layers in the spectacularly complex character that spike was.
the body was so on the spot on how things go when someone die. was also brilliantly directed and written... and no one noticed how there was absolutely no music??brilliant!
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"Hush" still gives me nightmares...
I prefer to list in Academy Award-like categories:
Scariest episode: I definitely have to second "Hush." I don't think any ghoul on "Buffy" has been quite as frightening as the gentlemen. The way they floated, those fixed grins, and, well, what they were doing. Nothing has made me pull the covers over my head at night the way that episode did!
Most moving episode: Yeah, definitely "The Body" when Anya asks all those poignant questions. (Sometimes her tendency to say whatever crossed her mind really worked.) Close second to "The Body" would be "Grave," mostly because of the moment when Xander bravely faced down evil Willow and turned her good again. Whether you agree with the killing of Tara or not, this was a very moving episode.
Funniest episode was, yes, probably "Band Candy" although "Earshot" when Buffy can read minds is pretty funny, too.
Buffy Buffy Buffy. . .
Ok, this show meant so much to me growing up. I would have to say that my all time favorite episode was Becoming Part 2. I was seriously mad depressed when this show ended. Everyone should check out the new Buffy comic from Dark Horse, it takes off where the show ended.
HMMM
My fav one would have to be when Oz come back to town. Willow and Tara is just too cute. Love win all ^_^
I like Spike! No wait, I ADORE him. I never really like any guy character but he is definately my fav bad boy. I sympathy with him for the feeling toward Buffy. Even though he dun have a soul, he really love her. so sad when he died >_<
ps, I absolutely DESPITE Angel LOL. Maybe it is his face. I'm pretty sure :)