If you are a fan you will already know all the classic lines and scenes and the phrases that have become part of every fan’s natural dialogue. Its taken me ages to narrow them down and I’m sure I’ll change my mind about all of them once I’ve written this but for the time being here are a few of my personal favourite Buffy moments:
10. “You’re not special, you’re extraordinary.”...
Episode: Potential
Season: 7
I will admit that this is one of the many sappy moments in Buffy that brought a tear to my eye and there are a few more to come. After Dawn has realised that she is not a potential slayer and selflessly passed the power to Amanda. Xander sees this and tells her that “I see more than anybody realizes because nobody's watching me” and he reminds her that what makes her special is that she doesn’t have a power and yet she keeps fighting.In a desperate attempt to give Xander more of a reason to be working with the Scoobies and not just the Jimmy Olsen of the group, the w
riters on many occasions tried to plug him as the ‘Heart’ of the group. I was never fully sold on it until this point, even with the famous Yellow Crayon anecdote at the end of season 6 which by the way nearly made it into this list.
9. “I’ll call you.”..
Episode: Innocence
Season: 2
Joss Whedon describes himself as feeling ‘icky and kinda powerful’ at being able to write such a scene and I can certainly see why. I chose this one simply because of the fact that you could take the dialogue completely out of context and place it in any young person’s life and would most likely fit somewhere. This parallel of real teenage life is an example of exactly why the show was such a hit in the first place.
When Buffy and Angel bump ugly’s for the first time Angel experiences a moment of true happiness. As a result Angel, having not read the small print on the contract for Gypsy Curses, then loses his Soul. Not knowing this Buffy returns the next day and receives a pretty nasty cold shoulder from Angel
8. “Now I remember why I used to have such a crush on him”...
Episode: Where The Wild Things Are
Season: 4
A Frat party goes horribly wrong when everyone at the party gets really horny and starts doing it, which is obviously paranormal and never ever happens at college parties. The gang decides that apparently what this orgy is missing is middle aged English librarian and they go and seek the help of Giles. They find him at The Espresso Pump crooning away to a room full of aging hippies. Every girl and, lets face it, nearly every guy paused whatever they were doing when the stuffy librarian started crooning The Who’s classic ‘Behind Blue Eyes’. Still to this day I believe my face goes to something similar to Willows expression at that moment.
7. “We have one more award to give out”...
Episode: The Prom
Season: 3
The moment when we realised that Sunnydale High students weren’t quite as stupid as we thought. I suppose the writers could only use denial as an excuse for so long. I had to put this moment in here as its pretty much the only point in the whole series where Buffy is fully celebrated for the fact that “whenever there was a problem or something creepy happened, you seemed to show up and stop it.”
There are three elements that make this moment brilliant. The first is Buffy’s dress, the second is Danny Strong as Jonathon and the third is the beautiful score music by Christophe Beck. He has created many tear jerking pieces for Buffy, one of which will be mentioned later.
6. “Oh God, who died?”...
Episode: Doppelgangland
Season: 3
Not one of the most popular episodes and none of the fans ever really mention this scene but it still makes me giggle every time I see it. The gang think that Willow is dead after meeting her obviously spank-happy vampire doppelganger at The Bronze. You can imagine their reaction when she then bounces into the library all rosy cheeked, smiley and wearing a ridiculous jumper. Its the comedy acting from all the scoobies that puts this moment in my top ten. Most of all Xander when his cross doesn’t work on non-vampire Willow he shakes it and tries again. Simple and silly.
Part 2 coming soon...
