"Buffy-vivor": Pick the ultimate Buffy episode! (Come vote in the finals!)

[Xath]

I just started watching Buffy/Angel about a month ago to keep up in conversation with my boyfriend, who loves both series. So he lent me what he has on DVD. I'm watching them all in order, and am on Buffy Season 5/Angel Season 2 right now. So I guess I'll have to hurry up and watch if I want to keep up with this poll.

My season 4 vote is for Hush.

 

[ShadowDenizen]

Well, no surprises here.
The top Season 4 epsiode is....

Hush, with 14 votes. It will join Prophecy Girl, Passion, and the Zeppo in the finals.

Other choices, in descending order, are:
Restless, with 2 votes
Who are you? with 2 votes
Wild at Heart, with 1 votes
Superstar with 1 vote.

Season 5 coming up.

 

[ShadowDenizen]

Well, here we go with Season 5...

Buffy vs. Dracula: Aired Sept. 26, 2000
Real Me: Aired Oct. 03, 2000
The Replacement: Aired Oct. 10, 2000
Out of My Mind: Aired Oct. 17, 2000
No Place Like Home: Aired Oct. 24, 2000
Family: Aired Nov. 07, 2000
Fool for Love: Aired Nov. 14, 2000
Shadow: Aired Nov. 21, 2000
Listening to Fear: Aired Nov. 28, 2000
Into the Woods: Aired Dec. 19, 2000
Triangle: Aired Jan. 09, 2001
Checkpoint: Aired Jan. 23, 2001
Blood Ties: Aired Feb. 06, 2001
Crush: Aired Feb. 13, 2001
I Was Made to Love You: Aired Feb. 20, 2001
The Body: Aired Feb. 27, 2001
Forever: Aired April 17, 2001
Intervention: Aired April 24, 2001
Tough Love: Aired May 01, 2001
Spiral: Aired May 08, 2001
The Weight of the World: Aired May 15, 2001
The Gift: Aired May 22, 2001

 

[Cthulhu's Librarian]

The Body. Without question. The only time I ever cried watching Buffy.


Anya: "Are they gonna cut the body open?"
Willow: "Oh my God! Would you just... stop talking? Just... shut your mouth! Please!"
Anya: "What am I doing?"
Willow: "How can you act like that?"
Anya: "Am I supposed to be changing my clothes a lot? Is that the helpful thing to do?"
Xander: "Guys—"
Willow: "The way you behave—"
Anya: "Nobody will tell me."
Willow: "Because it's not okay for you to be asking these things!"
Anya (crying): "But I don't understand! I don't understand how this all happens. How we go through this. I mean, I knew her, and then she's, there's just a body, and I don't understand why she just can't get back in it and not be dead anymore! It's stupid! It's mortal and stupid! And, and Xander's crying and not talking, and, and I was having fruit punch, and I thought, well Joyce will never have any more fruit punch, ever, and she'll never have eggs, or yawn or brush her hair, not ever, and no one will explain to me why. (She puts her hand over her face, crying.)"
Willow (after a long pause): "We don't know... how it works... why."

 

[Mr. Patient]

I'll go with The Gift, but I want to also give a nod to Real Me, which is terrific and will probably not be mentioned by anyone else.

 

[Seule]

Buffy Vs. Dracula.

--Seule

 

[Berandor]

This time I'll choose the winner: Real Me!

Just kidding.

It's a very difficult decision. I think the Body is one of the most haunting hours I've ever seen on TV - simply excrutiating.

But I'll go for the Series Finale, simply because it wasn't the series finale

My vote goes to "The Gift".

 

[ShadowDenizen]

I really liked Season 5, especially upon re-viewing it.
There were some stellar episodes. While I loved "The Body" (and I think it will win), my vote is going with "Into the Woods."

 

[Elf Witch]

I have to go with The Body. There are so many layers to this episode. Watching Buffy who is no stranger to death find her mom's body. And you see regardless of the fact that she is the slayer and has saved the world and has to again that she is still just a young woman on the verge of becoming an adult.

 

[Mad Hatter]

The Body for me too. I think it really had some awesome Anya moments. And the fact that it had next to no music made it a great counterpoint between it and Hush. Fool for love was high on my list of choices too.