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"The Best Buffy The Vampire Slayer Episode Of All Time"

I nominate the episode when Buffy leaves Sunnydale to escape her slayer problems when she finds herself working in a Diner under her middle name (Anne) for enough money to live in some wee appartment.

She quickly finds herself friends with a local couple, both who have roughed it for a while and the girl is almost entirely dependant on the guy. She's not the sharpest tool in the shed. When her boyfriend goes missing though and Buffy is the only friend she has Buffy takes it upon herself to solve the mystery.

She discovers that after giving blood a doctor gives the names of all the homeless people who are healthy to a sinister demon who approches these people as some kind of spiritual counsellor before adbucting them and taking them through a portal to a hell demention where they work for what is only a day in our world but is 100 years in the hell demention. Once they have been beaten and worked to death they spit their bodies back up into our world. Corpses lying in drug dens and so on.

Buffy seeks this demon out though and fights his way to the girl she is helping who was just about to be sucked into the hell demention with promises that she'll be reunited with her boyfriend if she cleanses herself in this "pool". Buffy fights her way to her but it is too late and the both fall into the pool and into this hell demension.

Buffy however takes no guff. As the others are beaten down and killed just for acknowledging the individuality of their names she fights back in some beautifully choreagraphed fight scenes as Buffy liberates the workers and gets them to climb back up, out through the pool.

Unfortunately the boyfriend of the girl died of slave labour a couple of days before but now that Buffy realised she could not run from her slayer duties she returns to Sunnydale leaving her crappy appartment, her job and indeed her name for this new girl to try and get her self sufficient.

It's such a good episode and i nominate it as the best Buffy The Vampire Slayer episode of all time. Do I have anyone who agrees or disagrees bold enough to nominate another episode here?

That is a classic line. As is the one when Dawn discovers him outside.

"Lurk much?"
"I wasn't lurking! I was standing about. It's a whole different vibe."

Stryke wrote:
> I prefer to think of myself as enlightened. I would give you respect
> for loving Buffy, but I can't approve of a Buffy/Spike fan. It's
> Buffy/Angel or nothing, I'm afraid.

I was addicted to the Buffy/Angel thing, but it's so much more...naugty with Spike.

My favourite bit is where Buffy comes out of her house and Spike's standing there smoking and she says "what are you doing here, 5 words or under" so he says "out for a walk...bi*ch" cos he couldn't think of a fifth letter!

Bad Girls is an excellent ep and enemies. Those were the days...

I prefer to think of myself as enlightened. I would give you respect for loving Buffy, but I can't approve of a Buffy/Spike fan. It's Buffy/Angel or nothing, I'm afraid.

Stryke wrote:
> Peter Venkman wrote:
> Best Episode erm I can think of three that stand above the rest.
>
> 1. The one where Spike kills the "annoying one".
>
> --
>
> School Hard. Brilliant episode.
>
> --
>
> 2. The one where Johnathon casts a spell and becomes the best in the
> World at everything.
>
> --
>
> Superstar.
>
> --
>
> 3. The one where buffy gets bitten by a demon and can hear people's
> thoughts.
>
> --
>
> Earshot. They didn't broadcast that for ages because it involved the
> threat of death to school kids and had the line:
>
> "I can't believe someone's just going to blow away the senior
> class."
> "Yeah, because that never happens in American high
> schools."
> "It's verging on trendy at this point."
>
> Or something like that, haven't watched the ep in ages.

Wow, someone as sad as me that can tell you what each episode is called!

I have to disagree with Anne being the best, the episode after that is far better, when everyone starts having a go at her for running away at her party.

My favourite episode is the Zeppo in season 3 it's all Xander and he is at his best in it. Helpless was cool too, when Giles takes away Buffys powers and she has to fight that uber vampire without her strength.

But I do love the Spike/Buffy ones, I just watched the other day 'out of my mind' where you see Buffy/Spike kiss and then he wakes up.

AND where Willow gets hooked on magic and is floating and on the ceiling and stuff, like an analogy for drugs or something. Cool.

SHEEPY wrote:
> I also remember one where she works in a fast food place. It was
> rubbish.

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Doublemeat Palace. Yeah, that was dire. Joss Whedon has actually apologised for the epsiode.

And Myst, do not mayube in regard to me. I am definitely the anti-Fool. For Hush is great. But not the best.

SHEEPY wrote:
> I also remember one where she works in a fast food place. It was
> rubbish.

Yeh that was crap. The old lady monster was craaaaaaaaaaaaap. So unscary.

phuzzy wrote:
> Cub!st wrote:
> I'm actually quite posh
>
> Replace 'posh' with 'prude'.
>
> Actually, 'crude'.
>
> You just look down on people though.
>
> Hypocrite! H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E!

I'm a hypocritcal crude prude. Sweet.

Cub!st wrote:
> I'm actually quite posh

Replace 'posh' with 'prude'.

Actually, 'crude'.

> You just look down on people though.

Hypocrite! H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E!

Hush.
You are fools if you disgree.

Except SHEEPY.









and maybe Stryke.