Directed by: Joss Whedon
Original Air Date: June 02, 1997

Guest Stars:
Mark Metcalf (The Master)

Trivia:

• The demon coming out of the Hellmouth at the end of “Prophecy Girl” was supposed to be frightening, however, seeing as how most mid-season replacements don’t have that big a budget, Joss had to make do with several people each wearing a “tentacle” costume and wiggling around.
• This is the first Buffy episode directed by Joss Whedon.

Quotes:

The Master: You were destined to die, it was written.
Buffy: What can I say? I flunked the written.

Buffy: You have fruit punch mouth.

Key Events:

• Buffy dies for the first time.
• Buffy comes back to life for the first time.
• The Master dies.

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[Coming Soon]

Directed by: Reza Badiyi
Original Air Date: May 19th 1997

Guest Stars:
Clea Duvall (Marcie Ross)
Mercedes McNab (Harmony Kendall)

Trivia:

• Clea stared in Can’t Hardly Wait with Seth Green and Amber Benson
• Clea is also stars as FBI agent Audrey Hanson on Heroes
• Buffy’s line “Crush! Kill! Destroy!” comes from the classic Lost In Space TV show. Robot says it.

Quotes:

Snyder: ” There are no dead students here. This week.”

Giles: “I’ve never actually heard of anyone attacked by a lone baseball bat before.”
Xander: “Maybe it’s a vampire bat? I’m low on that one, huh?”

Key Events:

• Cordelia is proven to actually be human!
• The first time we see a government agency get invloved with the happenings on the Hellmouth.
• We see alot of the school.

Rating:
Jason

Kathleen

Troy

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A young boy is put in a coma and his nightmare world begins to take over Sunnydale. Everyone’s nightmares start to literally come true. Buffy rushes to help the boy before the world goes completely crazy – whilst having to deal with her own nightmare: she’s (temporarily!) become a vampire.

Directed by: Bruce Seth Green
Original Air Date: 12 May1997
Written by: David Greenwalt

Guest Stars:
Dean Butler (Hank Summers)
Jeremy Foley (Billy Palmer)
Johnny Green (Way Cool Guy)

Trivia:

• Giles speaks and reads five languages, on a good day
• First visits to the hospital
• Nerf Herder (the bad who did the theme) logo appears in Willow’s locker

Quotes:

The Master: “A dream is a wish your heart makes.”

Key Events:

• Deepest darkest fears of the Scoobies are revealed
• This is the first time The Master meets Buffy

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Directed by: Ellen S. Pressman
Original Air Date: 5 May 1997

Guest Stars:
Kristine Sutherland (Joyce Summers)
Armin Shimerman (Principal Snyder)
Tom Wyner (Sid’s Voice)

Trivia:

• Julie Benz will be in the upcoming Rambo film (Image Link)
• “REDRUM!” was an ad lib by Nicholas Brendon
• Willow running off the stage in the credits sequence was also not in the script
• According to Joss the reading of Oedipus Rex took a long time to shoot because the actors couldn’t keep from cracking up

Quotes:

Xander: “I have my pride. Okay, so I don’t have a lot of my pride, but I have enough so that I can’t do this.”

Key Events:

• Principal Snyder first appears
• Direct mention of previous slayers
• Cordelia sings

Rating:
Jason:


Kathleen:


Troy:


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Other links:
Jetwolf’s top 100 moments in Buffy

Directed by: Stephen Posey
Original Air Date: 28 April 1997

Guest Stars:
Robia LaMorte (Jenny Calendar)
Mark Deakins (Moloch the Corrupter)
Chad Lindberg (Dave)

Trivia:

• The title is a mashup from Tarzan and Isaac Asimov
• Buffy’s birthday is 10/24/80, no wait, it’s 5/6/79???
• The director also directed the film Slumber Party Massacre. Now you know why this episode seems like a cheesy horror movie

Quotes:

Ms. Calendar: “You’re here again? You kids really dig the library, don’t you?”
Buffy: “We’re literary.”
Xander: “To read makes our speaking English good.”

Buffy: “Access launch codes for our nuclear missiles.”
Giles: “Destroy the world’s economy.”
Buffy: “I think I pretty much capped it with that nuclear missile thing.”
Giles: “Right, yours was best.”

Key Events:

• We meet Jenny Calendar
• Geeks are psychotics. Don’t F with

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• Buffy has spider-sense
• Willow’s luck with men… not so good

Rating:
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Kathleen:

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Buffy and Angel are chased by vampires and hide out at Buffy’s place. There, they kiss and Angel reveals himself to be a vampire. When Buffy later hunts him, she discovers that he actually has a soul. Angel proves his loyalty to Buffy and to the greater good by killing his old comrade and sire, Darla.

Directed by: Bruce Seth Green
Original Air Date: 14 April 1997

Guest Stars:

Kristine Sutherland (Joyce Summers)
Julie Benz (Darla)
Andrew J. Ferchland (Anointed One)

Trivia:

• Buffy’s address is 1630 Revello Drive
• Bullets don’t kill vampires, it just hurts like hell
• The Anointed One has a first name, Colin

Quotes:

The Master: “He was the most vicious creature I’ve ever known……..I miss him.”

Darla: “Do you know what the saddest thing in the world is?”
Buffy: “That hair on top of that outfit?”

Key Events:

• Angel is revealed as a vampire
• Buffy gets to use the crossbow
• One of the very few scenes of gun-play in the entire series

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Directed by: Bruce Seth Green
Original Air Date: 7 April 1997

Guest Stars:

Ken Lerner (Principal Flutie)
Eion Bailey (Kyle)
Brian Gross (Tor)
Jennifer Sky (Heidi)

Trivia:

• Rumor has it, Alyson Hannigan went to de-pants Nick Brendon in the dodge ball game and got more than just his shorts… she got his undies down as well.
• The gym is a seperate gym from what we’ve seen in previous episodes.

Quotes:

Gym Teacher: “God this game is brutal. I love it.”

Xander: “We just saw the zebras mating! Thank you, very exciting…”
Willow: “It was like the Heimlich, with stripes!”

Buffy: “I cannot believe that you, of all people, are trying to Scully me. There is something supernatural at work here. Get your books! Look stuff up!”

Key Events:

• Flutie is eaten. The first principle to die on the show.
• We see many different parts of the school
• First inter scoobie fighting

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Directed by: David Semel
Original Air Date:31 March 1997

Guest Stars:
Andrew J. Ferchland (The Anointed One)
Christopher Wiehl (Owen)

Trivia:

• Giles is knocked out for the second time
• The Buffy house was originally shot on location in Torrance CA. Later the entire house, interiors and front and back exteriors were built on a sound stage. If you compare some of the shots in this episode with the later episodes you’ll see the dinning room seems to move.
• First time a vampire is dusted and leaves something behind.
• Geoff Meed, the ‘Pork & Beans’ vampire, also played Mag, one of the biker-demons in season six’s Bargaining, Part One and Two.

Quotes:

The Master:“…and one of the brethren shall go out hunting the night before and get himself killed because he couldn’t wait to finish his job before he ate. Oh wait” *chokes minion* “…that’s not written anywhere.”

Buffy: “Two points for the slayer while the watcher has yet to score”

Xander: “So Buffy, how’d the slaying go last night?”
Buffy: “Xhander!”
Xander:“I mean… how’d the laying go. NoIDon’tMeanThatEither.”

Cordelia : “Hello, salty goodness.” (upon seeing Angel)

Key Events:

• Cordelia sees angel for the first time
• A student comes into the library to actually get a book
• Buffy actually read, or at least looked at the pictures, in one of the watcher books and remembered the symbol on the ring

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Special Thanks to Cat from the Lipstick Aliens podcast for being a special co-host on this episode.

Directed by: Stephen Cragg
Original Air Date:25 March 1997

Guest Stars:
Ken Lerner (Principal Bob Flutie)
Musetta Vander (Natalie French)

Trivia:

• Xander reveals to Mrs. French that his middle name is Lavelle
• The accent that Mrs. French has is South African, not ‘The Land of Sexy’ as stated in the podcast
• Mrs. French received a split vote between “Smoking hot” and “Meeeh” in this episode of the podcast
• A serial box can be seen displaying a promotion for the movie “The Mask” in the grocery bags Mrs. French is carrying

Quotes:

Xander: “It’s funny how the Earth never opens up and swallows you when you want it to.”

Giles: “Recording bat sonar is something soothingly akin to having one’s teeth drilled.”

Key Events:

• This is the episode where Angel gives Buffy his jacket
• It’s established that Xander is a virgin
• There are somethings that even vampires are afraid of
• It becomes obvious that Willow has feelings for Xander, if it wasn’t already obvious

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Directed by: Stephen Cragg
Original Air Date:17 March 1997

Guest Stars: Elizabeth Anne Allen (Amy Madison)

Trivia:

• The sign in the gym reads 1996 Cheerleading Tryouts” but the show wasn’t aired till 1997.
• Amy’s mom gets trapped in the trophy and since the first school blew up…
• Xander’s first draw to magic is the partial nude woodcuts in the magic books.

Quotes:

Giles: “But that’s the thrill of living on the Hellmouth! There’s a veritable cornucopia of, of fiends and devils and, and ghouls to engage… Pardon me for finding the glass half full.”

Xander: “I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away.”

Key Events:

• We see Giles’s car a crappy Citroen
• The first bit of Witchcraft shows up and establishes that when you are doing bad magic your eyes go all black
• Railroad spike through the head makes it’s first appearance

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Directed by:John T. Kretchmer

Original Air Date:10 March 1997

Guest Stars: Mercedes McNab (Harmony Kendall)

Trivia:

• An earthquake did hit the Torrance High School in 1933.
• Brian Thompson who plays Luke makes a return to Buffy as The Judge in episodes Innocence and Surprise. He’s truly a ‘working actor’ staring in such blockbusters as The Terminator, The Xfiles, Dragonheart, Alien Nation, and scores of others.
• If it’s no cover night at the Bronze… why is the bouncer taking money at the door??

Quotes:

Giles: “A Slayer hunts vampires; Buffy is the Slayer; don’t tell anyone.”

Giles: “Maybe you could wrest some information from that dread machine. That was a bit, um, British, wasn’t it?”

Joyce Summers: “The tapes say I should get used to saying it… no.”
Key Events:

• Giles lays down the ground work for the entire Buffyverse mythos.
• Everyone’s roles are set within the group by the end.
• The master’s goal is revealed.
• Cordelia wears a very short skirt to the Bronze.

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Quotes:
“What is your childhood trauma?” - Cordillia

Trivia:

The unaired pilot stared a different principal and a different Willow.

The High School that was used for Sunnydale High is Torrance High School. The courtyard seen throughout the series is actually the Senior Patio. Uber-Buffy fans will also note that there is no ‘bell tower’, the one where Johnathan was confronted by Buffy. The school is very popular with film makers as it has been used in all of the following:

• Beverly Hills 90210
• The Wild Life
• Not Another Teen Movie
• Bring It On
• Whatever It Takes
• Cursed
• Less Than Zero

The area around Torrance High did experience a real earthquake in 1933, a fact that made it’s way into the story of The Master.

The school charged around $7,000 a day for filming.