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For those of us brought up in the 1990s, Buffy The Vampire Slayer played a huge part in helping us grow up...
One of, if not the most iconic television series for teenagers in the 1990s, the Scooby Gang led many of us through our adolescence.
Reminisce by looking at four of the best Buffy episodes ever made
Once More With Feeling: A musical episode isn’t exactly unique or original but Buffy’s dance with the evil demon Sweet was done to perfection and allowed the episode to become one of the most acclaimed episodes the show ever made.
Hush: My favourite episode was the only one to be nominated for an Emmy Award. Introducing us to the alluring, suited and booted demons called ‘The
Gentleman’, the episodes villains were dreamed up in local fairy tales and roamed from town to town and stole people’s voices in order to stop them screaming as they removed seven human hearts. Pretty gruesome stuff. Band Candy: A simply hilarious episode that introduces us to father-like nerd and teacher/watcher Giles in his ‘cool’ younger years, complete with rolled up sleeves and smoking cigarettes after a chocolate bar is ‘spiked’ with a spell that sees Sunnydale’s older generation transformed into the men and women they were in their teens.
The Body: One of the toughest and most heartbreaking episodes to watch, the episode was an almost perfect portrayal of grief as Buffy comes home to find her Mother, Joyce, dead on the couch. Viewers had becoming used to Sarah Michelle Gellar’s character saving the world from the apocalypse, but when she was confronted with life’s one certainly — death — our heroine deals with paramedics, shock and friends who don’t know how to approach the situation. Arguably, The Body is Buffy’s most well made episode.