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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. |
| 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 |
B- |
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 |
B |
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 |
B- |
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 |
C- |
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 |
C- |
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 |
B |
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 |
B+ |
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 |
A |
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 |
C- |
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 |
C+ |
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 |
C+ |
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 |
B |
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 |
C+ |
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 |
C+ |
Ace |
| 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 |
A- |
Sep |
| 5-21 Recap |
The Weight Of The World
The Weight Of The World - Ever get that déjà vu feeling? Ever get that déjà vu feeling? Ever get that déjà 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 |
C+ |
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 |
B |
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 |
B- |
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 |
C+ |
Sep |
| 5-17 Recap |
Nevermore
Forever - Once upon a midnight dreary, while Buffy pondered, weak and weary, Over a spell cast by the bereft Dawny with some forgotten lore -- While she stood crying, nearly snapping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at the Summers' door. "'Tis some visitor," she muttered, "tapping at my front door -- only this and nothing more." |
2001.04.17 2001.04.24 |
B+ |
Ace |
| 5-16 Recap |
Ah...memories
The Body - Sadness reigns in Sunnydale when Buffy discovers her mother's lifeless body. Oh, Joyce, can it be that it was all so simple then? Or has time rewritten every line? Now all Buffy has are misty water-colored memories of the way you were. |
2001.02.27 2001.03.06 |
A |
Sep |
| 5-15 Recap |
Luring disco dollies to a life of vice
I Was Made To Love You - Running low on actual dwarfs, Warren builds himself a sexbot named April, who rampages through Sunnydale searching for her creator and teaches Buffy that she's good, she's worth it, and gosh-darnit, people like her. |
2001.02.20 2001.02.27 |
B |
Ace |
| 5-14 Recap |
They fight. And fight.
Crush - And fight. And fight and fight and fight. Fight. Fight. Fight. Fight. Fight. Fight. The Buffy and Spi-ike shooooow! |
2001.02.13 2001.02.21 |
A- |
Sep |
| 5-13 Recap |
Thank YOU very much, Second Law of Thermodynamics!
Blood Ties - Things get ugly at Buffy's birthday party (no, really this time!) when Dawn runs away after learning she's actually just a bunch of energy, and the whole gang rushes to protect her from deregulation. And speaking of the conservation of energy, we find out why there's no loss of suckage when switching between Ben's and Glory's scenes. |
2001.02.06 2001.02.13 |
B |
Ace |
| 5-12 Recap |
Who watches the watchermen?
Checkpoint - The Council of Watchers comes to Sunnydale with information on Glory, but they want Buffy to jump through a bunch of hoops before they tell her anything. |
2001.01.23 2001.01.30 |
B |
Sep |
| 5-11 Recap |
Triangle Xan, triangle Xan, doin' the things a triangle can
Triangle - Tensions run high between Anya and Willow, each of whom mistrusts the other's role in Xander's life. |
2001.01.09 2001.01.16 |
B- |
Ace |
| 5-10 Recap |
Into the woods
Into The Woods - Joyce's operation was a success, so she's out of the woods, but revelations concerning Riley's dark hobbies lead to a final showdown between him and the Slayer. |
2000.12.19 2000.12.29 |
B+ |
Sep |
| 5-9 Recap |
Listening To Fear
Listening To Fear - A meteorite falls to Earth, containing the Queller Feller, a demon that preys on the insane. Because of her brain tumor, it looks like Joyce might be its next victim. |
2000.11.28 2000.12.06 |
B- |
Ace |
| 5-8 Recap |
Without a shadow of a doubt
Shadow - This is not a funny episode. Buffy faces the grown-up reality that her mother might be unable to lead a normal life due to a brain tumor. Riley drifts further afield and allows a vampire to gnaw on his neck. Once bitten, will Riley be twice shy? Only time will tell. Giles and the Scoobies continue their uselessness. The Abimbomination gets a name and a snake from Archie McPhees to play with. |
2000.11.21 2000.11.28 |
Sep |
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| 5-7 Recap |
Fool To Cry
Fool For Love - Buffy suffers the indignity of getting staked by a vamp with questionable hygiene. Wondering how she could slip up despite being in peak physical condition, she seeks out Spike, whom she persuades to tell her how he killed two Slayers. Turns out Spike was a wussy man-child, suffering for his art until he met Dru in a dark alley. Many costume and wig changes later, Spike offers Buffy his theory about Slayers' inherent death wishes and then tries to smooch her. |
2000.11.14 2000.11.21 |
Ace |