Buffy: "Oh, I'm sorry, was that an offensive term? Should I say undead American?"

Buffy is back from her summer vacation in L.A. with her dad, but she doesn't seem like herself. In fact, she'd be more like an evil version of Cordelia. Hurting everybody's feelings, making nasty comments, flirting outrageously with Xander in front of Angel... Something's definitely on the girl's mind. But what nobody knows is that she is plagued by nightmares about The Master being resurrected. She's not far from the truth. When she finds a bunch of minion trying to resurrect him, she destroy everything, including The Master's bones... and goes back to being good old Buffy.







Buffy: "Sorry but I'm an old-fashion gal. I was raised to believe that men dig up the corpses and women have the babies."

One of Sunnydale's student is making a girlfriend for his dead brother... Literally. He took parts of dead girls and assembled them together to make the perfect companion for his big brother. The only problem is, he's missing a head. And he wants the perfect head. His zombie brother is a man of taste. Who do you think he picked as the lucky gal? Well Cordelia, of course. Who else?







Buffy: “Do we really need weapons for this?”
Spike: “No. They just make me feel all manly.”

There’s a new, exciting, vilain in town and he wants to take over. Spike. And what better way than taking the Slayer down? Buffy is responsible for organizing the parent teacher night and wants everything to go perfectly... she was obviously not counting on Spike. Our boy is impatient and couldn’t wait to be at full strength before attacking the Slayer so he traps her in the school on parent-teacher night. Little did he know that this Slayer had a though mom…







Buffy: "I wasn't gonna use violence. I don't always use violence... Do I?"
Xander: "The important thing is... you believe that."

Xander falls in love with the wrong girl... again! A beautiful exchange student who is in fact, a mummy. She needs to take people's life force in order to stay young and pretty and someone needs to stop her before she kills everybody. Sorry Xandman, but you really are the demon magnet.







Willow: "And you!.. You're gonna live forever, you don't have time for a cup of coffee?!"

Buffy agrees to go with Cordelia at a frat party. But you know how Buffy and alcohol doesn't mix, right? After only one glass, Buffy and Cordy end up chained up in the house's basement… Surrounded by frat boys in cloaks. Turned out they wanted them for a human sacrifice to some reptile God... way to go girls! That should teach you to trust frat guys.








Willow: “Couldn’t she dress up as Xena?”

The big question of the day is: what is Angel's type of girl. After going through Giles’ Watcher journal with Willow and seeing illustration of women from Angel’s era, Buffy comes to the conclusion that it must be one of those aristocratic women from the 1700's. So for Halloween, she gets a little carried away and decides to dress up as one. Unfortunately, an old friend of Giles, Ethan, creates a massive confusion by casting a spell on the Halloween costumes he rented to people. Buffy’s about to find out first hand what it is like to be a 16th century lady.







Willow: "Ok. But do they really stick out? Sore thumbs. Do they stick out? Have you ever seen a thumb and gone 'Wow! That baby is sore!'?"

Buffy's old friend from L.A. moves to Sunnydale and tries to bound with her and her friends. Buffy welcomes him with open arms, but soon, it because obvious that something is off. Strangely, he knows Buffy is the Slayer. But she figures out too late that he's part of a group obsessed with the vampire lifestyle, and plans to give Buffy to Spike in exchange for eternal life...







Ethan: "You know, I hope you're not taking this personal, Buffy. I actually kind of like you. It's just that I like myself a lot more."

Giles' old buddy Ethan comes back to town again, despite The Slayer’s threats. And as usual, he’s up to no good. He brings with him a demon that Giles and him summoned during their bad guy phase... not that Ethan is over that phase, but at least Giles is. They manage to get rid of the demon, but it has really bad repercussions on Giles’ newly found romance with Miss Calendar.







Spike:Some people find pain very... inspirational.

Spike is struck by another one of his great ideas. In order to get rid of the Slayer without risking his own unlife, he hires some bounty hunter to do the dirty work. Not that it works or anything, but at least, it proves he is resourceful, right? And is it HIS fault if that damn Slayer is so damn good and has all these people helping her?








Xander: A Slayer, huh? (to Buffy) I knew this 'I'm the only one, I'm the only one' thing was just an attention-getter.

Spike kidnapped Angel because he is needed in a ritual to cure Drusilla. To save him, Buffy teams up with Kendra, the Slayer who was called after she died against the Master. Kendra has a much different work ethic than Buffy and at first, is more than reluctant about helping a vampire. But after some fighting and much convincing, she finally agrees.








Cordelia: Feels like home. If it's the fifties and you're a psycho.

Buffy's mom has a new boyfriend, and Buffy doesn't like him. The guy is too good to be true, and she's willing to go do everything to prove she's not just jealous and Ted is a fraud. And evil. But nobody listens to her, until Ted attacks her and she accidentally kills him. But he comes back the next day, very much alive. Or is he? The flashing lights and electric wires coming out of his head after she hits him with a frying pan tend to prove otherwise.








Buffy: I can't do this! I can't take care of things! I killed my Giga Pet. Literally, I sat on it and it broke.

A health class assignment gone wrong. Buffy's classmates have each been given an egg to take care of for a week. Turns out these eggs are some demon's spawns or something and they're having some kind of mind control over the person they are attached to. Really gross if you ask me.








Giles: Now remember: discretion is the better part of valor.
Xander: You coulda just said, 'shh!' God, are all you Brits such drama queens?

Spike has another fun idea. (gotta love the man!) He's trying to reassemble pieces of something called The Judge as a gift to Drusilla. The Judge actually has the power to destroy humanity. Buffy and Angel try to stop him by preventing him from getting the last piece. Instead of leaving town with The Judge piece like he should have (and never come back if you ask me) Angel ends up sleeping with Buffy. And that soul of his? Not so permanent. What a great seventeen birthday gift for the Buffster!







Spike: You can't see the stars, love. That's the ceiling. Also, it's day.

Not only does Buffy have to fight The Judge who has been assembled, but she also has to worry about Angel who is now... Angelus. The Judge is supposedly indestructible, but with a little help from Xander and his handy leftover army knowledge from his time as soldier boy, she get a weapon big enough to blow him up. Now, if there was a weapon big enough to destroy her emotional damages…








Willow: Great. I'll give Xander a call. What's his number? Oh, yeah, 1-800-I'm-Dating-A-Skanky-Ho.

There is a werewolf in town. Well, that's new! Knowing the werewolf is human most of the time, they don't want to kill it. But there's a professional hunter after him or her, so they have to do fast if they want to find the werewolf before he does.









Harmony: Gee, Xander, maybe you should learn a second language so that even more girls can reject you.

Cordelia dumps Xander on valentine day. The poor boy's a wreck and finds a really hellmouthy way to deal with the break up. He goes to the local witch, Amy, and asks her for a love spell. Of course, it turns out wrong, and every woman in Sunnydale is affected by it except for Cordelia. It creates a hell of a riot!








Angelus: Well, maybe next time I'll bring you with me, Spike. Might be handy to have you around if I ever need a really good parking space.

Jenny Calendar gets caught in the line of fire in the war between Angelus and Buffy. Angel was stupid, but Angelus definitely isn’t. Realizing that she will probably try to translate the gypsy curse to restore his soul once more, Angelus decides to get rid of her in the most horrifying way, leaving her body to be found by Giles.








Cordelia: Tact is just not saying true stuff. I'll pass.

A very sick Slayer is attacked by Angelus while on patrol and almost gets killed. They take her to the hospital and during her stay over, she realizes something is going on as kids die one after the other. Having a fever herself, she sees in the middle of the night the cause of the kids death: Kinderstood. But only someone really sick can see him, and she's getting better. So she gives herself a fever by injecting the virus into her so she can fight him.








Buffy: What happened?! You just went O.J. on your girlfriend!

Sunnydale High is haunted. A tragedy that took place in the 50s is being reenacted over and over again using the bodies of the school's current inhabitants. It would probably never stop if the ghost didn't chose the Slayer and Angelus to reenact it... (eww)








Buffy: Great. This is just what my reputation needs: that I did it with the entire swim team.

Xander has an hidden talent: he can swim. After members of the swim team end up dead, Xander enrolls in the team to try to figure out what's going on but soon realizes he’s in way over his head. Good thing he’s friend with The Slayer.








Spike: It's a big rock. I can't wait to tell my friends. They don't have a rock this big.

A big rock was found in Sunnydale. That's never good. They call on Giles to examine it and tell them what the thing is, but not long after, the rock disappears. Now, where could a big rock go? To Angelus's place, where else! Turns out this rock demon is Acathla. Once open, it would suck the world into hell. Angelus and his bloody awful ideas again...







Spike: The truth is, I like this world. You've got... dog racing, Manchester United. And you've got people. Billions of people walking around like Happy Meals with legs. It's all right here.

Everything is going to Hell. Not literally yet, but it's coming. Kendra is dead, Willow is at the hospital, Giles is missing, and Buffy is wanted by the police for murder. Not only that, but she has to find Angelus before he kills Giles and start the end of the world. Fortunately for her, her sexy nemesis, Spike, decides that he likes his world the way it is and wants Angelus out of the picture. So he makes a truce with the Slayer and together, they stop Angelus.





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