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7-22 2003.05.20 |
It's Buffy's world, we just live in it And now, the end is near; and so we face the final curtain. My friends, I'll say it clear, I'll state my case, of which I'm certain. Buffy's lived a life that's full; she's traveled each and ev'ry highway. But more, much more than this, she did it her way. Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew, when Buffy bit off more than she could chew. But through it all, when there was doubt, she ate it up and spit it out. She faced it all and she stood tall, and did it her way. |
| Ep. | Title | Air/Pub'l | Author |
| 7-22 Recap |
It's Buffy's world, we just live in it Chosen - And now, the end is near; and so we face the final curtain. My friends, I'll say it clear, I'll state my case, of which I'm certain. Buffy's lived a life that's full; she's traveled each and ev'ry highway. But more, much more than this, she did it her way. Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew, when Buffy bit off more than she could chew. But through it all, when there was doubt, she ate it up and spit it out. She faced it all and she stood tall, and did it her way. |
2003.05.20 2003.05.26 |
Ace |
| 7-21 Recap |
Lo! The Prodigal Slayer returns! End of Days - Buffy findeth the weapon Caleb hath concealed from her, and choppeth him in half. |
2003.05.13 2003.05.20 |
Sep |
| 7-20 Recap |
Touched Touched - Faith muses, "Gimme, gimme, gimme, a man after midnight," and uses Wood to help chase the shadows away. Spike tells Buffy, "Take a chance on me," and she becomes the Super Trouper she needs to be to defeat Caleb. Faith finally meets her Waterloo -- she couldn't escape if she wanted to. What's the name of the game The First is really playing? Will the winner take it all? Um, tune in next week for answers to those questions. |
2003.05.06 2003.05.13 |
Ace |
| 7-19 Recap |
Empty Places Empty Places - Andrew and Spike take a little trip and find a possible clue to Caleb's identity. Faith takes the crew dancing, but some Sunnydale cops want to cut in. Buffy orders her troops back to the vineyard, but they're resistant. Snarks and sneer are exchanged, and in the end, Buffy gets booted. |
2003.04.29 2003.05.06 |
Sep |
| 7-18 Recap |
Do U think I'm a dirty girl? Dirty Girls - There's a new sheriff in town. Well, actually he's a fallen religious man working for the First. Buffy decides to take the fight to him. Well, actually she falls into a trap and gets her ass handed to her on a plate. Warning: this episode has a high monologue content. May be harmful for some viewers. |
2003.04.15 2003.04.22 |
Ace |
| 7-17 Recap |
Lies My Parents Told Me Lies My Parents Told Me - Spike and Wood at the Grudge Garage. Two men enter. Unfortunately, both of them also leave. |
2003.03.25 2003.04.01 |
Sep |
| 7-16 Recap |
Put that in your pantheon Storyteller - Andrew's moving on up! To his very own episode full of his videotaped interludes and escapist fantasies. Looks like a tad of character development is in store for our little Weasel as he helps to disable the Seal of Danzig. |
2003.02.25 2003.03.04 |
Ace |
| 7-15 Recap |
Get It Done Get It Done - Buffy goes time-tripping and discovers that the origins of the Slayer lie in violation and misty demon-rape. Still doesn't excuse the bitchy behavior she exhibits in most of this episode. |
2003.02.18 2003.02.24 |
Sep |
| 7-14 Recap |
More like "last date" First Date - Principal Wood takes Buffy on a date and tells her his secret identity. Xander learns that women who shop for hardware while wearing belly shirts are truly, truly evil. |
2003.02.11 2003.02.18 |
Ace |
| 7-13 Recap |
The Killer in Me The Killer in Me - With a little help, Willow's guilt turns her into flay-boy Warren Meers. Buffy and Spike exhibit classic drug-seeking behavior. Giles gets more touch than he's gotten since Season Four. |
2003.02.04 2003.02.10 |
Sep |
| 7-12 Recap |
Thoroughly Modern Millie Potential - Buffy trains the current crop of inept potential Slayers while the rest of the Scoobies attempt to locate another one, who turns out to be Millie from Freaks & Geeks. The less said about Dawn, the better. |
2003.01.21 2003.01.28 |
Ace |
| 7-11 Recap |
Showtime Showtime - More and more Junior Misses are arriving at Casa Summers, and their incessant whining about dying is driving Buffy to distraction, so she whips up a little plan to let them see a successful Slayer in action. Giles and Anya sneak away to "consult an oracle." Is that what the kids are calling it these days? |
2003.01.07 2003.01.14 |
Sep |
| 7-10 Recap |
Bring On The Night Bring On The Night - Giles is back in Sunnydale, bringing with him a few Slayers in training. Between them and Juliet Landau appearing as The First Evil appearing as Drusilla, the English language is mangled beyond belief. |
2002.12.17 2002.12.26 |
Ace |
| 7-9 Recap |
Never Leave Me Never Leave Me - Spike is kidnapped by the First Evil in order to raise a vampire. |
2002.11.26 2002.12.03 |
Sep |
| 7-8 Recap |
Hummer Sleeper - Spike hums. Spike digs. Spike whines. Spike forgets. Spike remembers. Spike feeds. Spike fights. No one else does much of interest, except for Giles, who might be dead. |
2002.11.19 2002.11.22 |
Chuck |
| 7-7 Recap |
Conversations With Dead People Conversations With Dead People - This season's big bad is feeling a little neglected, and decides to act out and play mind games to get some attention. But the big bad ignores Anya and Xander completely -- is that some sort of commentary on their minds? |
2002.11.12 2002.11.19 |
Sep |
| 7-6 Recap |
Him? Huh. Him - Buffy, Willow, Anya, and Dawn act like a bunch of ninnies over a boring boy. It's up to Spike and Xander to save the females from their rampant hormones. |
2002.11.05 2002.11.12 |
Ace |
| 7-5 Recap |
Vengeance! Plague! Death! Confusion! Selfless - Every second-tier character gets one showcase episode. This one is Anya's. |
2002.10.22 2002.10.29 |
Ace |
| 7-4 Recap |
She's gonna die. Believe it. Help - Buffy the counselor faces her first on-the-job challenge, as a girl with the ability to see into the future predicts her own death. |
2002.10.15 2002.10.18 |
Alex Richmond |
| 7-3 Recap |
Where's Willow? Same Time, Same Place - Willow returns to Sunnydale, but whether her friends choose to forgive her remains to be seen. |
2002.10.08 2002.10.15 |
Sep |
| 7-2 Recap |
Beneath Who? Beneath You - The Gang deals with the fallout from Anya's day job. Willow prepares to return to Sunnydale. Buffy finds out about Spike's soul and Spike puts on a few hundred pounds. All that scenery is fattening, doncha know? |
2002.10.01 2002.10.08 |
Ace |
| 7-1 Recap |
Golden rule days Lessons - All those gloomy clouds of misery over Sunnydale have lifted for Dawn's first day at the newly rebuilt Sunnydale High. Oh, except for the fact that Buffy is attacked by a bunch of zombie-spirit things who seem to have learned a vengeful variation on the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you think they have done unto you. |
2002.09.24 2002.10.01 |
Sep |
| 6-22 Recap |
The power of lurve Grave - Evil lesbian Wicca girl goes Satanic and tries to destroy the world, but she and the world are both saved by the power of blue-collar man-love. |
2002.05.21 2002.05.29 |
Ace |
| 6-21 Recap |
Two Too Many Two To Go - Hopped up on goofballs, Willow goes evil in the most annoying way possible. |
2002.05.21 2002.05.28 |
Sep |
| 6-20 Recap |
Willow needs to spank her inner moppet Villains - Looking like nothing so much as the severe headmistress of Miss Minchin's Seminary for Girls, Willow goes after Warren to avenge Tara's death. Ace falls asleep. Frances makes a pointed editorial comment. |
2002.05.14 2002.05.21 |
Ace |
| 6-19 Recap |
Seeing Red Seeing Red - Let Spike go on/Let him blister in the sun/Let Spike go on/Big Joss I know you're the one/Pointy sharp stake or a neck break/I am telling no lie/Burning in sun would be way fun/Please accept that Spike must die/Let Spike go on/Let him blister in the sun/Let Spike go on/Big Joss I know you're the one. |
2002.05.07 2002.05.14 |
Sep |
| 6-18 Recap |
We fall to pieces Entropy - Everybody hurts...sometimes. The only question remaining is: who's hurting the most? Is it Anya, Xander, Buffy, and Spike for having to live this crap, or Ace for having to watch it? |
2002.04.30 2002.05.07 |
Ace |
| 6-17 Recap |
Return to Sunnydale Normal Again - Buffy can't decide if she is living out an existential dilemma or just trapped in a series of self-indulgent in-jokes. |
2002.03.12 2002.03.19 |
Strega |
| 6-16 Recap |
A Match Made In Sunnydale Hell's Bells - Did it ever have any chance of working out? After endless and utterly unamusing wedding preparations, Xander and Anya tie the knot, except NOT, because this is Sunnydale and nobody can ever be happy. Ever. |
2002.03.05 2002.03.12 |
Ace |
| 6-15 Recap |
That old spud of mine As You Were - Just as Buffy's life seems at its lowest point ever, her ex-boyfriend Riley soldiers into town. He's got a job he loves and a perfect little wifey too. After seeing them, Buffy would be perfectly justified in spending another few episodes sniffling into her microwave popcorn, but instead it looks like she sets about making some positive changes. |
2002.02.26 2002.03.05 |
Sep |
| 6-14 Recap |
Real World: Sunnydale Older and Far Away - What happens when people stop being polite and start being real? A fat lot of nothing. The gang is trapped inside the Summers home when a wish by Dawn goes awry. Everyone stands around and talks a lot. |
2002.02.12 2002.02.19 |
Ace |
| 6-13 Recap |
Dead Things Dead Things - As we near the end of the season, the Buffy writers finally pony up some plot progression. Warren and crew devise a device that allows them to enslave women, but the plan goes horribly wrong. Warren decides to pin his crime on Buffy, which hardly distracts her from her usual routine of macking on and mauling Spike. |
2002.02.05 2002.02.13 |
Sep |
| 6-12 Recap |
Buffy's got a job! Doublemeat Palace - Buffy gets a job in a fast food place, and we're treated to many gratuitous meat shots. For once, none of them are of Spike. |
2002.01.29 2002.02.05 |
Ace |
| 6-11 Recap |
The Unbearable Lightness of Buffy Gone - Buffy dons a bowler hat and has sweaty sex with Daniel Day Lewis. No, that's not it. Actually, Buffy becomes invisible, and instead of bemoaning the loss of her ability to turn heads with strange fashions, she finds the experience liberating. And apparently a liberated Buffy wants nothing more than to play petty pranks and partake of porking. |
2002.01.08 2002.01.15 |
Sep |
| 6-10 Recap |
Feed your head Wrecked - One spell makes you cooler / One spell makes you a doll / And the ones that Tara allows you / Aren't very much fun at all. / Go ask Willow / When she's under Rack's thrall. |
2001.11.27 2001.12.04 |
Ace |
| 6-9 Recap |
Smashed Smashed - Willow liberates Amy from her fuzzy prison, and the duo go on a conjure bender at the Bronze. Meanwhile, Buffy, busy saving some orphaned puppies, inhales some dust in an abandoned building and has difficulty breathing, so Spike has to give her the Heimlich maneuver. |
2001.11.20 2001.11.27 |
Sep |
| 6-8 Recap |
The Blankest Slate Tabula Rasa - Willow casts a spell on Buffy to make her forget that she was ripped out of heaven. The spell goes wrong, however, and the whole Scooby gang forget their identities. What follows is either one of the funniest sad Buffy episodes, or one of the saddest fun Buffy episodes, ever. |
2001.11.13 2001.11.20 |
Ace |
| 6-7 Recap |
Once More With Feeling Once More With Feeling - A demon comes to Sunnydale and -- no, wait! It's different this time, I swear! His influence causes the gang to sing aloud their deepest, darkest secrets. Buffy, in an effort to scrimp, has been using inferior hair care products. Tara has a secret stash of Teen Beat magazines -- all featuring the Coreys. Xanya. Well, none of Xanya's embarrassments has been secret for a very long time so we don't learn much when they sing. |
2001.11.06 2001.11.13 |
Sep |
| 6-6 Recap |
Baby Baby Oh Baby All The Way - This week on Adventures In Babysitting (formerly known as Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Dawn pulls a fast one and sneaks out for Halloween night. In the Babysittingverse, demons are supposed to take a night off from wreaking havoc on Halloween, but some dumb teen vamps didn't get the memo. Too bad they're the guys Dawn ends up hanging out with. |
2001.10.30 2001.11.07 |
Ace |
| 6-5 Recap |
Life Serial Life Serial - Buffy is unknowingly menaced by the Legion of Dim. Because of her financial woes, Buffy enters the workforce, and despite years of fighting off legions of demons and other nasties, isn't prepared for a career in retail. |
2001.10.23 2001.10.30 |
Sep |
| 6-4 Recap |
All wet Flooded - Buffy adjusts to normal life as the basement floods, and running gags surface as the new menace in Sunnydale. |
2001.10.16 2001.10.21 |
Strega |
| 6-3 Recap |
My best friend went to hell and all I got was this dumb t-shirt After Life - Buffy adjusts to normal -- ahem -- life as the Scoobies try to convince themselves that they did a good thing by resurrecting her. |
2001.10.09 2001.10.15 |
Sep |
| 6-2 Recap |
Bargaining, Part Two Bargaining, Part Two - A gang of demon bikers is drawn to Sunnydale by the first-rate public schools and affordable real-estate. No, wait. Those are yuppies. Such an easy mistake to make. The demon bikers are attracted by news of Buffy's death. They decide to set up shop in Sunnydale, but the joke is on them when Buffy comes back from the grave and puts the marzipan in their pie plates but good! |
2001.10.02 2001.10.09 |
Sep |
| 6-1 Recap |
What we did on our summer vacation Bargaining, Part One - Fun was had by all. The gang secretly interred Buffy in some remote location; Willow and Tara moved into the Summers home; the Buffybot honed her Buffy impression; and Spike took up baby-sitting. How nice to see him earning some pocket change. |
2001.10.02 2001.10.08 |
Ace |
| Extra |
Help me! I'm stuck in a Dyan Cannon movie! Beverly Hills Family Robinson - Sarah Michelle Gellar yearns for Burger King commercials and quality fare like Swan's Crossing when she gets stranded on an island with the cast and crew of Beverly Hills Family Robinson. |
2001.08.23 2001.08.23 |
Jengod |
| 5-22 Recap |
I wonder what the return policy is? The Gift - Buffy challenges Glory to a game of Chutes 'N' Ladders for possession of Dawn, while Joss attempts to tie up a season's worth of straggling plots. Cameo appearances include the Dagon Sphere, the troll hammer, believable character interaction, and chemistry between Willow and Tara. |
2001.05.22 2001.05.30 |
Sep |
| 5-21 Recap |
The Weight Of The World The Weight Of The World - Ever get that d�j� vu feeling? Ever get that d�j� vu feeling? Ever get that d�j� vu feeling? Ever -- get the point? The second to last episode of Buffy's fifth season is tedious filler with the same three scenes repeating over and over. Willow witch-walks in the catatonic Slayer's mind. Ben and Glory fight for control of Dawn and their body (bodies?). And Spike suffers a humiliating demotion to butt-monkey, a slot he has to share with the original butt-monkey, Xander Harris. |
2001.05.15 2001.05.23 |
Ace |
| 5-20 Recap |
Road Side Story Spiral - The Knights are gonna get the Key, toniiiight! The Scoobies drive a big RV, toniiiight! This year, the minutes seemed like hours The arc progressed so slowly And still no end in siiiight! |
2001.05.08 2001.05.15 |
Sep |
| 5-19 Recap |
Scenes from a passport office Tough Love - Or, "The Unedited Buffy You Never Wanted To See." Buffy routes paperwork. Buffy repairs an appliance. Buffy folds laundry. Buffy goes to a parent-teacher conference. Dawn does homework. Dawn does homework some more. Glory practices personal hygiene. The recapper props her eyelids open with spork tines. To spice things up a little, Giles goes all Ripper, Tara goes all Forrest Gump, and Willow goes all Fairuza Balk. The recapper falls asleep and drools on her cat. |
2001.05.01 2001.05.08 |
Ace |
| 5-18 Recap |
Domo arigato, Buffy Roboto Intervention - Spike's got himself a mechanical honey whose joints need oilin'! Oog, I just made myself sick. Meanwhile, Buffy, scared that slaying is turning her to stone, decides to spend some quality time with a large amount of sand. Upon returning to Sunnydale, she discovers the Scoobies have reached new lows in not being able to distinguish her from her vapid home-sex-appliance double. Glory tortures Spike, but he doesn't give up the goods. Oh no he doesn't, because these days he's a fuzzy-wuzzy, sweetie-pie good guy. |
2001.04.24 2001.05.01 |
Sep |
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