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Gimmick episodes often signal the death of a show. In fact, it happens so often, that the term ’jumped the shark’ was coined (and then promptly overused) to indicate the point at which a show went widely astray, signaling it’s eventual complete decline.
Buffy has several episodes - an all musical, a show in which no dialog was spoken for 3/4 of the episode, the death and revival of the main character, etc. - that, in lesser hands, could have been the point they ’jumped the shark’. But (...)