The Podsters & the Slayerettes

 

01. When She Was Bad 1997-09-15 
Buffy, having been killed by the Master and revived by Xander, gets posttraumatic stress and turns against her friends. Her bad mood and worse judgment almost get everyone killed.

 
02. Some Assembly Required 1997-09-22 
The science-nerd brother of a dead Sunnydale football hero has rebuilt the former gridiron star from various corpses, and now the Franken-jock wants a girl with a body to die for.

 
03. School Hard 1997-09-29 
On threat of expulsion, Buffy organizes a Parent-Teacher Night, an endeavor only slightly more pleasant than the latest arrivals in Sunnydale: Spike (James Marsters) and Drusilla (Juliet Landau), the toughest duo since Sid and Nancy. But these punks don't die.

 
04. Inca Mummy Girl 1997-10-06 
Xander's bad luck with women continues. This time he falls for Ampata (Ara Celi), a Peruvian exchange student who is actually a 500-year-old Inca princess recently transformed from her mummified remains. Ampata wants never to show her true age again, and will drain the breath from anyone to remain young.

 
05. Reptile Boy 1997-10-13 
Buffy rebels from responsibility by attending a college fraternity party with Cordelia (who, with this episode, gets the friendlier nickname "Cordy"). Unfortunately, they pledge the wrong party: Every so often, this frat sacrifices young women to a serpentlike dark lord.

 
06. Halloween 1997-10-27 
Buffy's crew takes some Sunnydale kids trick-or-treating, and everyone transforms into the characters of their costumes. Everyone, that is, except Cordy, who avoided the bewitching costumes of shopkeeper Ethan Rayne (Robin Sachs) - a man with a mysterious connection to Giles. The children behave like gremlins, and their teenage baby-sitters take on troublesome new identities.

 
07. Lie To Me 1997-11-03 
Buffy's fifth-grade crush Billy "Ford" Fordham (Jason Behr) transfers to Sunnydale, with hopes of persuading Spike to make him and his Goth friends real vampires.

 
08. The Dark Age 1997-11-10 
Eyghon, a "sleepwalker" demon (so called because it possesses the bodies of unconscious people and corpses) stalks Sunnydale, and it's all thanks to Giles. The bond between the Watcher and the enigmatic Ethan Rayne (episode 18) is explained in "The Dark Age": During their youthful days in London, the two thrill seekers toyed with the occult, allowing themselves to be possessed by Eyghon only to cast the demon quickly back into the netherworld. And this is one devil who won't let bygones be bygones.

 
09. What's My Line, Part 1 1997-11-17 
Career Week at Sunnydale High usually means getting through those absurd aptitude tests with such questions as, "Do you like shrubs?" But this year Buffy must survive something far more sinister: the Order of Taraka, a lethal group of bounty hunters. Also new on the scene: the beautiful Kendra (Bianca Lawson), who claims that she, too, is a Slayer.

 
10. What's My Line, Part 2 1997-11-24 
Giles learns that the arrival of Kendra was triggered by Buffy's death ("Just a little!" she protests) during episode 12. Angel needs rescuing from Spike, who wants to sacrifice Buffy's love vampire to cure the ailing Drusilla. And Xander and Cordelia get trapped by a pile of flesh-eating worms.

 
11. Ted 1997-12-08 calendar
Buffy walks into a marital monstrosity in the making: She catches single mom Joyce kissing some guy in the kitchen. It's Ted, a software salesman his co-workers call "the Machine." How right they are. Charming, a great cook and seemingly in love with Joyce, Ted is also a homicidal android. Only Buffy sees beyond the banality, and when he slaps her for sassing, she kicks him downstairs, apparently "killing" him.

 
12. Bad Eggs 1998-01-12 
Cowpokes Lyle and Tector Gorch (Jeremy Ratchford, James Parks), who massacred an entire Mexican village and then became vampires, invade Sunnydale. Back at school, a science instructor attempts to impart a message of sexual responsibility by having each student carry around an egg (meant to simulate a baby). The assignment does change the students' behavior, but by demonic means: The eggs sprout parasitic tentacles that invade ears, turning the hosts into zombies.

 
13. Surprise, Part 1 1998-01-19 
Buffy's approaching 17th birthday will be filled with surprises, including a revived Drusilla, who wants revenge on Angel for turning her into a vampire. Angel and Buffy make love and, thanks to that ancient gypsy curse, Angel loses his soul after the moment of bliss.

 
14. Innocence, Part 2 1998-01-20 
The now-evil Angel joins his old cohorts Dru and Spike in a plot to revive a dismembered demon called the Judge. No matter: Buffy blows the Judge away, but hesitates to do the same to Angel, who blew her off. So instead? She kicks him in the groin.


15. Phases 1998-01-27 calendar
A werewolf is loose at Sunnydale, and dumb, sexist jock Larry (Larry Bagby III) is a suspect. But as Willow soon discovers, the wolf man is her man, Oz.

 
16. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered 1998-02-10 
Partly because she can't bear the social consequences, Cordy breaks up with Xander on Valentine's Day. He, in return, recruits Amy the witch (episode 3) to cast a love spell on Cordy just so he can reject her. The incompetent witch causes all women except Cordelia to desire Xander. Suddenly, Xander is like a Beatle in 1964, sprinting for dear life to avoid a tsunami of lusting females.

 
17. Passion 1998-02-24 
Angel terrorizes Buffy by terrorizing her loved ones, sending mementos (pictures, dead fish) to prove his proximity. Jenny Calendar, meanwhile, tries to reverse the gypsy spell on Angel. Her good deed doesn't go unpunished: After a nerve-racking chase, Angel kills Jenny.

 
18. Killed By Death 1998-03-03 
A flu-stricken Buffy checks into a hospital but can't escape her very real demons even there. This time, she battles Der Kindestod (roughly, "the child death"), a breath-sucking monster visible to children. The demon has been targeting sick kids, and Buffy's the cure.

 
19. I Only Have Eyes For You 1998-03-28 
The Sadie Hawkins Day Dance has a special meaning at Sunnydale High: In 1955, on the day when girls do the asking, a boy did the shooting, killing his teacher (and lover), Miss Newman, before turning the gun on himself. Today, their spirits haunt the halls, possessing others and forcing the reenactment of the crime over and over. When Buffy and Angel get taken - Buffy by the boy, Angel by the teacher - they reenact the fight, but this time with a happier (or at least more forgiving) ending. The troubled poltergeists can rest in peace. Our Eulogy: This episode might be tough to watch after the recent spate of shootings in U.S. schools, but "Eyes" works well as a ghost story, and the reenactments of the tragedy are hypnotic.

 
20. Go Fish 1998-04-05 
Sunnydale's swimmers are poised for a championship, and they are already winners at school. Principal Snyder allows the water boys to get away with anything and everything, from flunking computer class to attempting date rape on Buffy (and blaming it on her revealing outfits). So why are the strokers disappearing? The first clue comes when Angel bites a swimmer and spits out the bad blood. Later, we find that the swim coach tinkers with DNA to make his team the best. Problem is, they eventually turn into large fish monsters.


21. Becoming, Part 1 1998-05-12 
Where does Angel come from? This episode shows us, via flashbacks. The young rascal first gets vamped by recurring character Darla all the way back in 1753. Then he converts the convent girl Drusilla circa 1860, and gets cursed with a soul by gypsies in 1898. In contemporary times, the vampires try to unleash yet another ancient globe-gobbling monster, Acathla. Drusilla leads an attack on the school library, and Slayer Kendra is slain.

 
22. Becoming, Part 2 1998-05-19 
Willow, who got conked in the last episode during the library battle, emerges from a coma and casts the spell initiated by Jenny to restore Angel's soul. Despite Angel's new soulfulness, only his blood can close the portal. Buffy stabs him, sending her favorite bad boy to a much, much warmer climate.

 

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