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From Official Buffy Magazine

Buffy The Vampire Slayer

50 Greatest Buffy Moments By Buffy Magazine

Transcribed by PJ - From Groups.yahoo.com/group/We_Band_of_Buggered

Friday 2 April 2004, by Webmaster

50 Greatest Buffy Moments

The series’ 50 greatest moments according to the Official Buffy Magazine - Do you agree with their choices?

50. Un-Anointed One ("School Hard" 2x03)
— - Spike dusts the "Annoying One"

49. Death Star Van ("Life Serial" 6x05)

48. Doublemeat Palace ("Doublemeat Palace" 6x12)
— - Buffy’s uniform

47. Dark Willow Defeated ("Grave" 6x22)

46. Riley the Husband ("As You Were" 6x15)

45. Inhuman Pincushion ("Pangs" 4x08)
— - helpless Spike getting shot by arrows and nobody cares.

44. Musical Lust ("Once More with Feeling" 6x07) Tara’s "Under Your Spell"

43. Resurrection ("Bargaining" 6x02)
— - Buffy waking in her own grave

42. Willow-Willow Hug ("Dopplegangland" 3x16)

41. Joyce and Giles Get It On ("Band Candy" 3x06)

40. Who Are You People? ("Tabula Rasa" 6x08)
— - "Randy Giles? Why not just call me `Desperate for a Shag Giles’?..."

39. Adam is Vanquished ("Primeval" 4x21)

38. Kitten Poker ("Life Serial" 6x05")

37. Faith’s First ("Bad Girls" 3x14)
— - Faith kills the Deputy Mayor

36. Sex Marathon ("Where the Wild Things Are" 4x18)
— - Buffy/Riley

35. Xander Saves the Day ("The Zeppo" 3x13)

34. Eating Willow ("Same Time, Same Place" 7x03)

33. Bunny Costume ("Fear Itself" 4x04)

32. Willow’s First Time ("Graduation Day, Part One" 3x21)

31. Monster in the Basement ("Killed by Death" 2x18)

30. Ben Becomes Glory ("Blood Ties" 5x13)

29. Jenny Calendar Dies ("Passion" 2x17)

28. Angel’s Return ("Faith, Hope and Trick" 3x03)

27. Spike Saves the Day ("Chosen" 7x22)

26. Adam Shishkebabs Walsh ("The I in Team" 4x13)

25. Anya is Killed ("Chosen" 7x22)

24. Dark Willow’s Rampage ("Two to Go" 6x21)

23. The Mayor, Invincible ("Graduation Day, Part One" 3x21)

22. Return of... Mom? ("Conversations with Dead People" 7x07)

21. Monkey Pants ("What’s My Line? Part One" 2x09)
— - Oz and Willow and the box of animal crackers

20. Tara Dies ("Seeing Red", 6x19)

19. Giles Kills Ben ("The Gift" 5x22)

18. Buffy and Spike Get It On ("Smashed" 6x09)

17. Let It Snow ("Amends" 3x10)

16. Jonathan, Superstar ("Superstar" 4x17)

15. "Mom!" ("Buffy vs. Dracula" 5x01)
— - introduction of Dawn

14. Buffy vs. Gachnar ("Fear Itself" 4x04)

13. Awakening ("Chosen" 7x22)
— - Slayers are called around the world

12. Heaven ("Once More with Feeling" 6x07)
— - gang find out where Buffy was before they brought her back

11. Angel Goes Bad ("Innocence" 2x14)

10. The Master Kills Buffy ("Prophecy Girl" 1x12)

9. Lovers at Last ("Surprise" 2x13)
— - Buffy/Angel

8. Buffy’s Mom Dies ("I Was Made to Love You"/"The Body" 5x15/16)

7. The End of Sunnydale ("Chosen" 7x22)

6. Willow Skins Warren ("Villains" 6x20)

5. The Gentlemen ("Hush" 4x10)

4. Buffy vs. Faith ("Graduation Day, Part One" 3x21)

3. Sunnydale High vs. the Mayor ("Graduation Day, Part Two" 3x22)

2. Buffy Kills Angel ("Becoming, Part Two" 2x22)

1. Buffy’s Ultimate Sacrifice ("The Gift" 5x22)


21 Forum messages

  • > 50 Greatest Buffy Moments By Buffy Magazine

    2 April 2004 11:56, by Anonymous
    #27 - Spike saves the day should be a LOT nearer the #1 slot

  • > 50 Greatest Buffy Moments By Buffy Magazine

    2 April 2004 13:10, by spikerules
    I cant believe they didn’t include the moment in season 4, "The Initiative" where Spike keeps trying to attack Willow but cant due to the chip they just gave him! Masterpiece.

  • > 50 Greatest Buffy Moments By Buffy Magazine

    2 April 2004 13:34, by Katriona
    That list sucks. Truly awful. What a load of poo. Most of those "best moments" would rank high on my "ultimate crappiest" list... Unbelievable.

  • > 50 Greatest Buffy Moments By Buffy Magazine

    2 April 2004 15:44, by Myrtille
    Where did the scene where Angel bites Buffy go ??? I would have said it deserves to be in the top 10 !!

  • > 50 Greatest Buffy Moments By Buffy Magazine

    2 April 2004 17:01, by norman
    yeah i agree with most of them. i do think spikes sacrifice should have been closer to the top ten but owell. at least they got 1 and 2 right.

  • > 50 Greatest Buffy Moments By Buffy Magazine

    2 April 2004 17:46, by Patty
    Where is Spike saying "Bugger this!" near the end of Once More With Feeling?

  • > 50 Greatest Buffy Moments By Buffy Magazine

    2 April 2004 18:10, by mel
    And Kendra’s death ?? it was really sad !! and riley the husband(46), we didn’t care !!

  • > 50 Greatest Buffy Moments By Buffy Magazine

    2 April 2004 19:59, by Elizabeth
    I wonder who made this up, some depressed Bangel (pardone me, no offence)?

  • > 50 Greatest Buffy Moments By Buffy Magazine

    2 April 2004 20:12, by Anonymous

    Oh come on guys!

    like yu could really pick out 50 distinct moments in a hosw with so many! all you poeple who keeo saying "what about..? and that one where..?" well, they had to choose just 50! leave them alone! its a hard enough thing to do! there were 100’s and 100’s of great moments in Buffy, and let’s just be glad that we can safely say there were more than 50...

  • > 50 Greatest Buffy Moments By Buffy Magazine

    2 April 2004 23:53, by Cobalt Blue
    Id say Spike waking up in the sun was great moment. and i can never forget when Spike tried to stake himself on Xanders Coffee table waring his hawaiin shirt.

  • > 50 Greatest Buffy Moments By Buffy Magazine

    3 April 2004 00:18, by Mikey
    The bunny costume wasn’t even the best moment in that episode! What about Giles’ chainsaw? Or "Actual Size"?

  • > 50 Greatest Buffy Moments By Buffy Magazine

    3 April 2004 02:14, by bigz

    that list is missing one significant moment....

    The Prom... where buffy is announced as Protector of the Year.

    that is the only moment in the entire span of buffy that made me feel slightly moist in the eye!

  • > 50 Greatest Buffy Moments By Buffy Magazine

    3 April 2004 09:38, by Marky
    Every moment of BUFFY kicked ass. How dare you say some were better than others! They are all equal. Each moment helps the other moments and vice versa. For example, her death wouldn’t have been as poignant if we didn’t know what had happened before she arrived at that moment. That total realisation and decision that even tho it wasn’t her OWN blood that opened the portal, she could close it because the monks made Dawn from her, and the desert, and the 1st slayer, and the real meaning of what her gift was, and blah dee blah dee blah blah. In short, I wouldn’t have cried if she had just straight out died. But I did. How dare you rank all of those precious moments! Thanks for entertaining me for a while tho. x

  • > 50 Greatest Buffy Moments By Buffy Magazine

    3 April 2004 20:57, by Anonymous
    i completely agree with teh top 4 at least

  • > 50 Greatest Buffy Moments By Buffy Magazine

    4 April 2004 04:21, by Anonymous
    Tara and Jenny dying are lower than buffy vs. gachnar! it took me a sec to even think of what they meant there. . . oh well

  • > 50 Greatest Buffy Moments By Buffy Magazine

    4 April 2004 18:23, by Kay
    Where the hell is The Prom! I am so annoyed. That was the only scene I ever cried in, apart from The Gift. The people who made this list are so idiotic.

  • > 50 Greatest Buffy Moments By Buffy Magazine

    4 April 2004 22:45, by Lauren J.
    You have got to be joking! spike saved the day should be #1! Why is riley husband even in it?? How about when buffy get turned into a vampire in Nightmares?? that should be on it...

  • > 50 Greatest Buffy Moments By Buffy Magazine

    5 April 2004 02:25, by Wolverine68

    An article I can actually agree with. Buffy Killing Angel & Buffy sacrificing her life to save the world, are the finest moments.

    Though to be technical she didn’t kill Angel. He was already dead, lol j/k.

    Actually, she didn’t kill him because swords don’t kill vamps, unless of course you use them for decapitating them.

  • > 50 Greatest Buffy Moments By Buffy Magazine

    7 April 2004 03:00, by bipolar
    5 words - out. for. a. walk... bitch.

  • > 50 Greatest Buffy Moments By Buffy Magazine

    2 July 2004 17:16, by meg
    You’re absolutley INSANE not to have added the fourth season episode "wild at heart", when Oz leaves Willow and Sunnydale to find himself. I agree some people are getting pretty tedious about what you didn’t add but COME ON. i cried like a baby!

  • What a crap list

    6 July 2004 13:01, by Wesley Windum Qeunton Travers Rupert Giles Price

    this is an example of what the good list looks like

    1# When Giles returns in Two to Go
     "I’d like to test that theory"

    2# When the gang first meet Caleb
     "So you are the Slayer. The slayer, the strongest, the fastest living thing on this earth"(something like that)then punches Buffy across the room

    3# Eppisode ’Enemies’ when Angel says "2nd Best"

    4# When Giles sings ’Standing in the way’

    5# When Buffy sacrifices her life in ’The Gift’

    6# When Giles catches the Bringers axe a centimetre from his face

    7# When Spike uses the Champions amulet

    8# When Oz says hey to everyone in ’New Moon Rising’

    9# When Caleb pokes out Xander’s eye

    10# When Buffy kills Angel