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Episodes featuring alternative realities:

  • The Wish
    Sunnydale sans Buffy? Be careful what you wish for...
  • Superstar
    where Jonathan is Keanu, Michael Jordan and Al Gore all rolled into one
  • Normal Again
    is the entire 'verse just insane-Buffy's hallucination?

Episodes featuring big school events:

  • Homecoming
    Buffy fights off an array of assassins, and takes on Cordelia in a battle to be Homecoming Queen
  • The Prom
    Buffy promises the gang a good time even if she has to kill every single person on the face of the earth
  • Graduation Day (part 2)
    "Man, just ascend already." The class of 1999 are fully armed under their gowns...

Episodes featuring Buffy's birthday:

  • Surprise
    Buffy is 17, and takes her relationship with Angel to a new level.
  • Helpless
    Buffy faces her ultimate trial, and her ultimate betrayal, on her 18th birthday.
  • A New Man
    Giles is transformed by Ethan as Buffy celebrates her 19th.
  • Blood Ties
    Dawn goes missing on Buffy's 20th.
  • Older And Far Away
    Buffy is 21, and throws the weirdest, possibly the longest, birthday party ever.

Episodes featuring dairy products:

Episodes featuring dream sequences:

  • Welcome To The Hellmouth
    Buffy's dreaming the very first time we see her
  • Teacher's Pet
    Xander fantasises about being a rock god with Buffy at his feet
  • When She Was Bad
    Buffy dreams that Giles attacks her
  • Innocence
    Buffy's dream tells her Jenny's keeping secrets
  • The Prom
    Buffy and Angel in a nightmare wedding
  • Graduation Day (part 2)
    Faith gives Buffy hints on how to defeat the mayor, plus something about 7-3-0...
  • Hush
    A spooky little girl with the answer to the mystery of the Gentlemen
  • Restless
    The First Slayer invades the dreams of Willow, Xander, Giles and Buffy in turn
  • The Weight Of The World
    Buffy's locked in a recurring dream from which Willow has to rescue her

Episodes featuring literary references:

  • Some Assembly Required
    "Thank you, Cyrano" -- Giles responds to Buffy's val-speak advice on wooing Jenny
  • Band Candy
    The gang are getting "all Willy Loman" with the candy
  • Bad Girls
    Faith, Lady-MacBeth-like, scrubs away at an already-clean shirt
  • Enemies
    Faith is less punctual than Godot
  • The Prom
    Buffy quotes Frost -- "miles to go"
  • Fear, Itself
    Willow calls Oz "Brutus" and then has to explain the reference...
  • New Moon Rising
    Buffy threatens to get William-Burroughsy with Colonel MacNamara
  • Crush
    Dru riffs on Othello: "We can love quite well. If not wisely."
  • The Gift
    Spike's "we band of buggered" echoes Henry V

Episodes Featuring Major Moments In Xander's Love Life:

Episodes featuring Symbolic Weather:

Episodes featuring the watchers' council:

  • Helpless
    They give Buffy a vampire serial killer for her birthday
  • Who Are You?
    They imprison Faith, only it's Buffy, so it's lucky they suck at imprisonment
  • Checkpoint
    Glory's a god, so what? Where's Gile's back-pay?
  • Never Leave Me
    The council falls victim to a particularly cheap-looking explosion

Episodes in which Angel suffers chest-trauma:

  • Angel
    Buffy's cross burns him but he takes it without flinching
  • What's My Line? (part 2)
    Dru sprinkles him with holy water to see the pretty colours...
  • The Wish
    Vamp!Xander and Vamp!Willow torture him with matches

Episodes in which Buffy tries to have a normal boyfriend:

Episodes in which characters have twins:

Episodes in which characters lose their virginity:

Episodes in which Giles sings:

Episodes in which humans die in conflict with Buffy:

Episodes in which major characters die:

Episodes in which other slayers die:

Episodes in which our heroes get drunk:

Episodes in which people wear amusing clothing:

Episodes in which Sunnydale acquires new transport mechanisms:

Episodes in which there's dancing:

Episodes in which vampires are staked with unusual or amusing objects:

  • Band Candy
    Buffy stakes a vampire with a pencil during SAT prep
  • Choices
    Willow levitates a pencil into a vamp while captured in City Hall
  • Real Me
    Mort meets his death by ornamental unicorn

Episodes in which vampires bite Buffy:

Episodes in which we learn the origin of major characters:

Episodes introducing african-american characters:

Episodes named after songs:

Episodes showing Buffy as a child:

Episodes where Dru kisses members of the Scooby Gang:

Episodes where the Mutant Enemy guy is different:

Episodes which cross over with Angel episodes:

  • The Harsh Light Of Day
    Oz goes to L.A. for "In The Dark"
  • Pangs
    Angel visits Sunnydale; Buffy then visits him in "I Will Remember You"
  • The Yoko Factor
    Angel in Sunnydale, following Buffy's visit in "Sanctuary"
  • Dirty Girls
    Faith comes to Sunnydale, having been fetched in "Orpheus" by Willow

Episodes with gay themes:

Episodes with major moments in Willow and Tara's relationship:

Episodes with one-off credit sequences:

Episodes with scary Mothers:

Episodes with subtle callouts to previous episodes:

  • Phases
    Oz notices a cheerleading trophy's eyes "seem to follow you"
  • Who Are You?
    Willow asks if Tara sensed any "hyena energy"
  • Buffy vs. Dracula
    Xander is sick of being the guy who gets the "funny syphilis"
  • Gone
    Xander asks Invisible-Buffy if she's been "feeling ignored lately"
  • Chosen
    The earth is "definitely doomed" according to Giles

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