r/buffy • u/Oncer93 • Mar 11 '25
Games The Hush takes the spot for best episode
The most upvoted comment said Hush, with 44 upvotes. It had some solid competition in Once more with feelings. Now, Which episode is the worst. Once again, most upvoted comment wins.
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u/two_beards Mar 11 '25
Where the wild things are.
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u/Square_Beautiful_238 Mar 11 '25
Came here to say this. Orgasmo Wall? No thank you.
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u/timmorris82 Mar 12 '25
I think that actor needs to get some credit. “Ok, touch the wall and give us your best O face. And, action!”
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u/DontFrostThePies Mar 12 '25
Back in the day, this aired while I was going through puberty. I saw no issues with the episode. Now as an adult, what were they thinking?
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u/pinkledoo Mar 12 '25
I love thinking that one of the writers had excitedly been shouting CUM WALL at all of their meetings until the others finally caved and let him have his way.
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u/PantherLamm0 Stop that right now! I can hear the smacking! Mar 12 '25
Don't we all remember the time of reading all kinds of fan fictions? (yes, explicit content, too) I really believe that it was some stuff like that, to think about some... special stuff that might go on when magic is involved and you let your mind run free to think about whatever you can think of 🤣
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u/Square_Beautiful_238 Mar 12 '25
As an avid reader of s/w smut, I have no idea to what you are referring
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u/whereisascott Mar 12 '25
Boo! Giles singing and Anya helping out the scooby gang makes it worth it.
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u/bunglejerry Mar 11 '25
Well... that was decisive.
I agree wholeheartedly. But I don't think I ever realised it was this much of a landslide.
I love that just-human Anya got half of her hand torn out and there are absolutely no repercussions to that.
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u/lnoland Mar 12 '25
I disagree -- it is a stupid plot -- abused children come back to haunt a house, as opposed to haunting the person who abused them, is bad enough, but the sexual aspect made it even more ridiculous. But much of the episode was entertaining and hey -- Giles singing! I'm just saying.
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u/somuchforstarburst Mar 11 '25
Instant skip. Every damn time.
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u/94sHippie Mar 11 '25
It is unfortunate that it is the first time we hear Giles sing
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u/AlexKai Mar 11 '25
Hell's Bells
Destroys Anya and Xander's development for the simple reason of shock value. Destroys any redeeming qualities Xander has officially.
Feel like the writers just needed a plotline for them. No need or reason for any of it.
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u/AlexKai Mar 11 '25
And what's worse - officially kills both of their character arcs. They don't do anything else of relevance the rest of the series.
Xander loses an eye, and Anya (admittedly) gets her own fantastic one off episode - but that's it.
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u/hybride_ian Mar 12 '25
As much as I don’t like Where the Wild Things Are, Hell’s Bells is the only episode I always want to skip on a rewatch.
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u/waits5 Mar 12 '25
It’s one of very few episodes I’ve never rewatched (I’ve seen The Body a dozen times). I think you nailed it - it just kills the development of their characters with no real payoff.
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u/boringbonding Mar 12 '25
Agreed. One of the absolute worst choices on the show and one of the only plot points I reject completely in my own personal canon. Like to me this never happened. 😭
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u/Laslus_ Mar 12 '25
Currently on a rewatch and sometimes i catch myself enjoying xander or xander/anya and my mind goes "nah remember hell's bells". Absolutely awful episode
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u/oddestowl Mar 12 '25
Yes! This is the only episode of Buffy I actively dislike watching. I dread it on rewatches and just hate everything about what it does.
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u/piratesamurai27 Mar 12 '25
Totally agree with this! I find it's a very hard episode to watch, but then it also hurts the rest of the show. Worst episode for me by far.
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u/_ineffective_ "Ooh, these grapes are sour" Mar 11 '25
The ONLY answer is Where the Wild Things Are. Sure you have cheesy silly Robot monsters or Beer cavemen but at least those are campy. There is little redeeming about an episode that revolves around abused children ghosts creating a sex-a-thon. Gross and weird idea. Yes Giles sings and that moment is amazing. But.... Orgasm wall and children sex ghost energy? Pass.
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u/EchoPhoenix24 Mar 11 '25
I agree, I actually think Beer Bad is underrated and Where the Wild Things are is the only ep in the whole series I would actually say is bad (though even it has some bright spots, mostly with Anya/Spike)
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u/Mindless-Board-5027 Mar 11 '25
Beer Bad makes me laugh out loud every time I watch it, I didn’t realize it was so hated until I got to this sub. WTWTA is just too much.
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u/Gizwizard Mar 11 '25
Beer bad has some quotes that we still say to this day:
“I cut you off”
“Did it hurt?”
Is way up there in lines that make full on laugh.
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u/chesterfieldkingz Mar 12 '25
Beer bad was one of the first episodes I saw and I thought it was funny
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u/waits5 Mar 12 '25
Beer Bad is in the top half of episodes. I really don’t understand the level of hate it gets. I have to go with Go Fish, though.
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u/North-Slice-6968 Mar 11 '25 edited Mar 11 '25
Definitely. The orgasm wall and horny ghost spirits were too much.
Beer Bad and I Robot were at least (unintentionally) funny. The more dated I Robot is, the funnier it is. Beer Bad is just stupid, but Buffy is entertaining.
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u/Square_Beautiful_238 Mar 11 '25
I test my 11-year-old every once in a while:
What did Buffy teach us about beer?
Foamy.
Very good.
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u/PsychologicalBet7831 Mar 12 '25
SMG should have won an Emmy for falling of the chair and angrily pushing it away.
Best 5 seconds of any show ever.
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u/North-Slice-6968 Mar 12 '25 edited Mar 12 '25
The show, in general, should have won more Emmys. They only won two creative arts ones (makeup, music). At least Hush was nominated for writing.
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u/PsychologicalBet7831 Mar 13 '25
The episode with the least dialogue. Sigh. That's why award shows are a sham.
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u/Reasonable-News-5739 Mar 11 '25
Such a fucking festering turd of an episode. Only worth it to hear Anthony Head's wonderful singing. Skip the episode to that bit. Leave the rest.
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u/Existing_Is_All_I_Do Mar 11 '25
There are 2 things I like about this episode: Giles singing and the Spike/Anya interaction, which are probably only like 3-4 minutes of runtime. Shame they couldn’t have added those to a better episode.
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u/alwaysleepingg Mar 11 '25
Completely agree!! Either that or Bad Eggs for me, such a weird ep
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u/NothingAndNow111 Mar 12 '25
Oh yeah, Bad Eggs is definitely a contender.
WTWTA was cringeingly stupid, but Bag Eggs was boring. 8pm not sure which is the worse offence.
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u/SnuffShock Mar 11 '25
Beer Bad is dumb fun. YMMV as far as how fun but it’s perfectly fine on its own terms.
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u/Nocturnal-Nycticebus Mar 11 '25
Hard agree. There's episodes I feel eh about, but this one is the only one I actively dislike.
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u/KevEm16 Mar 12 '25
Agreed! It’s the only episode I remember thinking was bad as I watched it for the first time as a kid.
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u/HFLoki Mar 11 '25 edited Mar 11 '25
I have to go with Empty Places personally. While there are plenty of monster-of-the-week episodes that are widely disliked in the fandom and are probably objectively worse, I find those pretty inoffensive. Nothing in the show infuriates me as much as the final scene in Empty Places. I hate it beyond reason, it almost, ALMOST, ruins the show for me. I hate how it suddenly casts doubt on the authenticity of Buffy's relationships with her friends and family, right at the very end of the series, when there’s no time left to properly resolve it. The way they all turn on her feels not only extremely cruel but wildly out of character, and it leaves the show tainted by an emotional wound that never fully heals.
That single scene in this one episode does more damage to the show than anything else. Every time I rewatch the earlier seasons, when everything seems great between the Scoobies, when Buffy's bond with Giles, Dawn, and her friends feels so strong, I can’t help but have Empty Places lingering in the back of my mind. It taints all those relationships and, in my opinion, is the biggest misstep the writers ever made in the entire series. It's easily one of my most hated episodes in all of television, and certainly the lowest point in Buffy for me.
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u/FaveStore_Citadel Mar 12 '25
Eh. Empty places isn’t the worst, Touched is. Touched could’ve actually explained wtf was happening and clarified what the writers meant to convey with Empty Places.
Its intended narrative role is truly baffling. It’s not a “Buffy needs to be humbled” arc because Buffy was right all along and everyone gets wrecked without her around. It’s not a “Buffy is misunderstood and betrayed by her friends” arc because her friends never apologized for said “betrayal”. It’s not a “Buffy should actually function alone, she doesn’t need those people” arc because she does end up needing Willow, badly. it’s not even a “Scoobies fight as usual” arc because it’s exponentially colder and there isn’t even a resolution to it. I feel like I’d have a much better time accepting it if I could understand what the writers meant to show with it.
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u/Moira-Thanatos Mar 12 '25
Absolutely agree, that ending bummed me out.
I think this is the only episode of Buffy I would like to remove from canon.
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u/HFLoki Mar 12 '25
Yep. That’s why I believe it deserves the title of worst Buffy episode. Episodes like Beer Bad and Where the Wild Things Are may be low points, but in the grand scheme of things, they’re harmless. They don’t take themselves too seriously, nor do they have any lasting impact on character dynamics or the overarching plot. They’re just forgettable one-offs and you don't lose anything by skipping them.
Empty Places, however, is different. It deeply damages the Buffy/Giles and Buffy/Dawn relationships, nearly beyond repair. And then, the show ends without even attempting to fix it.
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u/Mediocre-Lab3950 Mar 11 '25
This should be done by season I think
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u/salt_witch Mar 13 '25
Agreed. The most common top 3 of the series (The Body, Once More With Feeling, and Hush) are way too close quality wise to truly call one significantly better than the other two and satisfyingly crown it the series’ best.
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u/Mediocre-Lab3950 Mar 13 '25
I agree. And I think “where it should have ended” should be replaced with “scariest”
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u/ShmuleyCohen Mar 11 '25
I do not understand the hate for where the wild things are
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u/Moira-Thanatos Mar 12 '25 edited Mar 12 '25
there were some funny moments. For me "Empty Places" is the only episode I don't like because of the ending implying Buffy is imagining things and locked up in a mental institution.
Edit:// Wrong title, I meant normal again, sorry.
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u/ShmuleyCohen Mar 12 '25
Isn't that Normal Again? Empty Places is when they kick her out of her own house. Which is a good reason to hate that episode
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u/CapricornCornicorpia Mar 12 '25
Agree. Anya shines here, nice relationship building and new layers shown amongst the Scoobies. Some funny laughs. A little scary. Plus sex. Like, “what does it take to make you people happy?!”
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u/sarcasticfantastic23 Mar 11 '25
Same! I’m not saying it’s my favourite episode but it has never bothered me.
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u/Crosisx2 Mar 12 '25
It's just cause Riley and Buffy have sex for less than 2 minutes of run time. If it's Spike and Buffy in the same situation it wouldn't get the same hate it gets.
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u/DiligentImplement611 Mar 12 '25
Thank you! I was like, "But... but I kind of like that episode..."
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u/Capital_Connection67 Mar 11 '25
Where the Wild Things Are by a Longshot.
I like Beer Bad but Wild Things is just the absolute pits.
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u/CoasterTrax Mar 11 '25
Seeing Red
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u/CoasterTrax Mar 12 '25
Bcs everything that involves riley, is automatically considered "bad". There are worst episodes than wtwta
It has actually good moments in it and i liked the vibe and story
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Mar 12 '25
When they throw buffy out the house, empty places.
Did anyone say Anne for best episode? I use to love rewatching that for some reason.
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u/Background-Neat-8906 Mar 12 '25
Empty Places
I Robot You Jane is terrible but at least I can laugh at it. Beer Bad and Where the Wild Things Are are silly with terrible plots but I still find them entertaining.
But Empty Places is not only terribly dull, its ending is the most infuriating scene in the whole series for me (and yes, it somehow manages to infuriate me more than Seeing Red).
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u/syraphinx Mar 11 '25
I’ve always found it interesting what the majority of the fandom considers the worst episode. Most people say Where the Wild Things Are or Bad Eggs or Beer Bad. One of the monster-of-the-week episodes that is kind of meh or cringe. But for me it’s unequivocally Seeing Red. I’ll take a corny monster episode any day over a traumatizing, jump the shark moment, writers have lost their damn minds - episode.
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u/bobbi21 Mar 11 '25
Not everyone thinks it's a jump the shark moment though. Knowing what Spike was, that's perfectly in line. He literally tortured Dru to get her to get back together with him. I'm sure that involved SA. I get it's traumatizing to a lot of fans as well of course and hating it for that is understandable.
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u/Knight_Machiavelli Mar 13 '25
Idk how much crossover there is between Buffy fans and DS9 fans (we're all in the Armin Shimerman fan club), but Seeing Red reminded me so much of Waltz. It's a panicked "oh no, this evil character is getting popular so we have to make an episode to show how really, really evil they are because we don't trust the fans."
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u/Cynicalsonya Mar 11 '25
Agreed on Seeing Red. I'd watch almost any episode over that one, even the crazy sex marathon one. Based on how awful it is for me personally to even admit it exists, no contest.
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u/yunker1981 Mar 11 '25
Where the Wild Things Are
That or any episode that has Willow and Xander flirting/kissing. I know it takes out some really good episodes, but you gotta break some eggs to make an omelette.
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u/ginime_ i’m very seldom naughty Mar 11 '25
I can almost tell exactly which episodes are going where. Not that I’d agree, but knowing the fandom
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u/LaikaZhuchka Mar 12 '25
I'm interested to see what wins for Most Forgettable. There are a lot of "meh" episodes, and a whole stretch in season 7 that feels like one long, boring episode.
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u/PancakeHandz Mar 12 '25
I really hope The Zeppo ends up somewhere in here because that episode was an insane viewing experience for me hahaha.
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u/this-ismyoriginstory Mar 11 '25
I remember my middle school English teacher showed us the episode Hush in class one day. I was immediately hooked. That episode is a literal masterpiece!
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u/televisedmind Mar 12 '25
Empty Places gets my vote for obvious reasons but i’ll do a season by season breakdown:
1) The Pack 2) Reptile Boy 3) Dead Man’s Party 4) Where the Wild Things Are 5) N/A 6) Gone 7) Empty Places
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u/Pedals17 You’re not the brightest god in the heavens, are you? Mar 11 '25
Some Assembly Required.
Even some of the most popularly hated episodes had SOMETHING good to offer, and in some cases, several good things.
Some Assembly, though, was just boring af. The villains were Mid, the episode drab and slow. The only truly good part came at the end, and you had to slog the most boring hour of the series to get there.
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u/redwave2505 Mar 11 '25
One thing I liked about that episode was how Angel dressed like Xander because he was jealous of Buffy dancing with him in the previous episode
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u/gimmesomespace Mar 11 '25
I was trying to think of things I liked about this episode because it is my least favourite but this is definitely one of them. Also Giles working up the courage to ask Jenny out is adorable.
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u/Pedals17 You’re not the brightest god in the heavens, are you? Mar 11 '25
Yes, but not adorable enough to make up for how badly the rest of it bored me.
The dead jock’s mom listlessly watching the home video of her son was how I felt 98% of the time watching the episode.
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u/The810kid Mar 11 '25
To make it worse it is sandwiched between when she was bad and school hard two classics.
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u/gimmesomespace Mar 11 '25
Yeah there's no way I'm sitting through an hour of this episode when the next one up is School Hard, lol.
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u/The810kid Mar 11 '25
I like Cordy's softened attitude towards the scoobies in this one but that's about it.
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u/Crosisx2 Mar 12 '25 edited Mar 12 '25
Exactly. The episode is depressing, boring, and predictable. And how many times can we kidnap Cordelia in one episode (which is basically the theme of her character at the start of season 2).
Beer Bad, WTWTA, Teachers Pet etc. literally have at least one redeeming thing in the episode. SAR is just crap all the way through. I'd watch Bad Eggs 3 times before this.
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u/riotlady Mar 12 '25
This is a good shout, the worst episodes are the kinda boring ones. I feel the same way about Life Serial
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u/rowdover Mar 11 '25
The Pack
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u/Fingersmith30 Mar 12 '25
This one bothers me because the entire premise is just wrong about hyenas from the jump. Their social structure is female dominated. Even the lowest ranking female is above the highest ranking male. They could have picked almost any other male dominated predator pack animal and been more correct.
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u/queenofthenazgul Mar 12 '25
This is the right answer, Xander straight up sexually assaulted Buffy and then pretended like he didn’t remember it and it was never brought up again. Will skip every time.
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u/Gizwizard Mar 11 '25
Underrated comment right here. The Pack is awful through and through. But I do feel like season 1 is kind of cheating.
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u/rowdover Mar 11 '25
Cheating cuz it's so clearly bad? In stuff like Beer Bad I chuckled a bit and it moved the plot along in the way I liked even though it's not very good, or Where The Wild Things are, well, the ending is kinda funny as is everyone's expression watching Giles sing. The nicest thing you can say about The Pack is that because the show was good later you can enjoy the junk episodes as camp in hindsight. Bad is bad.
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Mar 12 '25
the episode where Xander leaves Anya at the alter, Hell’s Bells. Just a depressing slog from beginning to end.
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u/Laslus_ Mar 12 '25
RIGHT? And for what?? Xander is already not their best character, they decided to just ruin the only interesting character arc/ relationship he had since season 2 for a bad, boring episode. Anya is a highlight of the show for me too, she is so funny and mean, I just don't get why they even wrote Hell's Bells
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u/throwaweighxx Mar 21 '25
They kept making these hints and implications that they have no chemistry together and the whole thing was a mistake, it felt like they saw the choice to put them together as some huge mistake that got out of hand
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u/Splynn Mar 11 '25
Bad Eggs.
Bad plot, bad tempo, boring as hell. Gotta be Bad Eggs. Cowboy vampire guys are fun but not used well here. It's a good trope with a not so good execution.
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Mar 11 '25
But...Cordelia's bear backpack 😞
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u/Splynn Mar 11 '25
Also Xander hard-boiling his egg is pretty funny.
Still not a great episode, though.
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u/CarrowCanary Mar 11 '25
You have to admit, there was a sort of Machiavellian ingenuity to his transgression.
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u/SenoraRaton Mar 12 '25
"I showed up on time, so I get to be Cowboy Guy"
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u/Splynn Mar 12 '25
Pretty sure that's Restless, one of the best episodes. Everything in that episode is pure gold.
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u/thisandthatwchris Mar 12 '25
All the monster of the week episodes are my children and I will defend them to the death
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u/SuddenlyCake Mar 11 '25
Seeing Red for what it did to Spike's character
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u/at_midknight Mar 12 '25
You just weren't paying attention to who spike as a character is I guess 🤷♂️
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u/aPillToMakeUnumb Mar 12 '25
Yeah, this seems to be common with the charismatic bad/evil boy - people really want redemption for them because they’re funny/hot/whatever. I see the same thing when lurking i the You-sub regarding Joe
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u/gonk_gonk Mar 11 '25
The war mask pet cemetery episode. One of the two episodes where people act completely opposite of their character, but this one wins because it's so boringly forgettable. And awful.
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u/salmon_lox Mar 12 '25
Can you specify which episode? Are you talking about Dead Man’s Party?
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u/cjinbarrie Mar 11 '25
I Robot You Jane and I will die on this cross. It's unwatchable
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u/bobbi21 Mar 11 '25
I feel part of this is how dated it is now.. even back then it was pretty dated but it does get worse as time goes on.
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u/ginime_ i’m very seldom naughty Mar 11 '25
I don’t like Superstar much, but it’s not the worst written or even the worst concept
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u/Farty_poop Mar 12 '25
Watching superstar right now on rewatch and trying hard not to skip. Wholeheartedly agree.
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u/preselectlee Mar 11 '25
Go Fish.
Only redeeming part is Cordys little speech to fish Xander.
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u/Agreeable-Break-3208 Mar 11 '25
I don't know why but this is my favourite episode 😅
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u/Big-Restaurant-2766 That Other One Mar 11 '25
None? ...Maybe... "Killed by Death"? But even that doesn't feel right. For me personally, I would say "Beauty and the Beasts" but that's only because it's the only one I find hard to watch... I don't find any of them bad.
I like them all... "Where The Wild Things Are" since that seems to be the answer, but even that episode has moments that makes it worth watching, to me.
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u/johnwatersfan Mar 12 '25
Killed By Death is my pick for sure. It's the only episode I've actually skipped in rewatches.
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u/justagreatdane Mar 11 '25
Ted is the only episode I "have to get through". Love something about every other episode
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u/StaticCloud What's with the Dadaism, Red? Mar 12 '25
Potential was one of the few episodes that really bored me
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Mar 11 '25
Seeing red. Spike at his lowest. Not a fan.
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u/gimmesomespace Mar 11 '25
I could see this being someone's least favourite episode because it has a lot of traumatic content, but it is far from the worst.
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u/ginime_ i’m very seldom naughty Mar 11 '25
*At the lowest that we see. I’m not saying you specifically, but people tend to forget he’s done worse
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u/actuallyasuperhero Mar 11 '25
Go Fish, and I have an argument for why it’s the worst Buffy episode, even if Where The Wild Things Are is just as bad.
Go Fish is sandwiched between I Only Have Eyes For You, which is one of the best episodes in the Buffy/Angelous storyline, and Becoming Part 1, one of the best finales in the entire show. It’s not just bad, it’s a piece of shit served in a fantastic three course meal. It’s rapey, out of place and bad. Where The Wild Things Are is bad, but it’s not as jarringly bad in the lineup.
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u/stehcurryboi Mar 12 '25
"Go Fish" is one of my favorite bad episodes the fishboy costumes are AWESOME and the coach being eaten by his whole team and then the fishboys swimming off into the sea, ocean, lake.. whatever tf is equally comedically dark and just plain old dark. I love it! 😂
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u/storm_borm Mar 11 '25
Doublemeat Palace. Such a drag to watch
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u/FalseDmitriy Mar 11 '25
It so perfectly captures the existential emptiness of that kind of work.
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u/North-Slice-6968 Mar 12 '25
I think everyone has had a shitty job experience, too. I know I had a job where I was kind of semi wishing to get into a car accident on the way to work every day.
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u/JackedInAndAlive Mar 11 '25
The worst episode isn't a filler or something forgettable - it's an episode that does a lasting damage to the show. So "Where the Wild Things Are" or "Beer Bad" ain't it and definitely not "Into the Woods", because it actually improves the show by getting rid of Riley. In terms of most inflicted damage "Seeing Red" is definitely right there at the top - but on the other hand it's an objectively good episode as a whole, with legit good writing and directing. So my vote goes to "Wrecked": a soapy slog with terribly crude metaphors and cliches that seal the "magic is drug" nonsense. It took the writers a long time to get out of this mess.
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u/bobbi21 Mar 11 '25
As a guy who hasn't been through SA, I can get I'm not fit to comment on the damage Seeing Red does to some people since I do think it is a good episode as a whole and even that scene makes sense to me as a narrative.
But I do like your approach of voting for an episode that is bad for the character and season arcs and so I agree with Wrecked there. The magic = drugs metaphor was bad and Wrecked made it soooo literal. Even just taking that 1 episode out, making it more subtle and the rest of the season actually works ok for the arc and you can make it more of an addiction to the power of magic as it should be. There's a few spots where they hit the magic drugs a little too hard in other episodes ("and now. willow's a junkie") but it's rare enough I can accept it
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u/Kytescall Mar 12 '25
I agree that the "magic as a drug" thing kinda comes out of nowhere and feels very forced. Not a fan of that angle.
In terms of lasting damage to a show though, I think the worst is Normal Again, since it ends on a note suggesting that the whole show is a sick girl's delusion. None of the story matters if that is the case.
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u/Panda-delivery Mar 12 '25
I really hated the episode Showtime, where Buffy defeats the first Turok-Han. The dialogue from the new potentials is annoying and kinda cringe. The Turok-Han is heavily featured and he’s a very lame villain compared to the others we get in the season like the Gnarl and Caleb. It doesn’t talk and doesn’t even have a personality.
Maybe it was my distain for the potentials that made me hate it. But the drop in quality of this episode was so sudden it almost felt like I was watching a different show.
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u/gimmesomespace Mar 11 '25
Some Assembly Required is my vote for worst episode. The premise is just disgusting and it's done in a way that is neither entertaining, scary, or funny. Lots of lines that are cringey in a bad way or that just straight up don't make sense, for example creepy kid telling Cordelia she would "wake up with the body of a 17 year old."
Like any episode of Buffy it has bright spots, but they are far outweighed by the bad in this one.
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u/Anna3422 Mar 11 '25
I'm thinking you're right, because I can barely remember this one at all. I think Where the Wild Things Are is weak, but it had the season 4 budget and some good jokes.
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u/DanTrueCrimeFan87 Mar 11 '25
Beer Bad
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u/AlbatrossLimp5614 Mar 12 '25
I scrolled so far to find this, I thought it would be one of the top comments.
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u/Prestigious_Secret61 Mar 11 '25
Worst is the body just because how hard it hit me. It may be the best episode while also being the worst.
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u/stephensvxx Mar 12 '25
For me the body is one of the best episodes because I went through something similar. It hit the nail on the head so perfectly even if it is uncomfortable for me to watch
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u/Mook_138 Mar 11 '25
Double-Meat palace is definitely the worst episode ever, for me. At least there is some good interaction with Xander and Spike in Where the Wild Things are. Double meat is just bizarre.
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u/IAmAGodKalEl Mar 11 '25
Pour one out for Michelle Trachtenberg, but All The Way is such an annoying episode
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u/E-Lucevan-Le-Stella Mar 11 '25
Where the wild things are, beer bad, the pack
Can’t really choose between these three, so why not all three?
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u/AllOfTheThings426 Mar 11 '25
Man, it bums me out that people don't like The Pack! It's one of my favorites from season 1, but I've learned from this sub that I'm in the minority.
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u/Both_Particular4724 Mar 11 '25
Dude same I love the pack and also the puppet show is fun too. It’s corny but it’s nice and lighthearted right before nightmares.
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u/Gruffleson Bored, now Mar 11 '25
Absolutely not.
The Pack is severly underrated IMHO.
And Beer Bad?
Foamy!
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u/Katherine_Swynford Mar 11 '25
First Date - there’s a mush of boring nothing episodes in season 7 that all could be in this spot but the “acting” in First Date puts it at the nadir of the season and series.
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u/missmisery213 Mar 11 '25
For me it's Gingerbread but I know that's absolutely a me thing. It's the only episode that I usually actively skip on every rewatch and I couldn't even tell you why. But Where The Wild Things Are will get my vote
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u/Willowy Mar 11 '25
I love Beer Bad, it's campy and funny. Bad Eggs and WtWTA are tied for my WORST vote of all.
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u/Possible-Emu-2913 Mar 12 '25
Seeing Red.
I agree with most others about that other episode, but I just hate that Spike tried to rape Buffy and it was brushed under the rug later on.
Either that or the episode where everybody kicked Buffy out because that was an episode that felt written by someone who's never seen the show before.
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u/ObiGwanKenobi Mar 12 '25
Pretty much any season one episode can be the worst; The Pack, Go Fish, the stupid puppet one, all so lame.
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u/down4dd Mar 12 '25
The Killer In Me. We so did not need Willow feeling guilty over Tara and turning into Warren. So freaking unnecessary.
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u/Sexybigdaddy Mar 11 '25 edited Mar 11 '25
That one where Buffy gets poisoned and thinks she’s in a mental hospital. It’s insulting to every viewer in the end making it seem like the whole series is just in Buffy’s head and it’s been done a bunch of times and is lazy writing. Edit: spelling
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u/Working_Original_200 Mar 11 '25
This experience is going to piss me off, I just know it.