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   A Definitive Ranking Of The 11 Dumbest ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ One-Off   
   Villains   
      
   Buffy the Vampire Slayer is, at face value, a pretty campy show. At its   
   best, it could be an expertly crafted a mix of quirky humor and genuine   
   creepiness, and at its worst — well, it could be downright cringe-worthy. As   
   far as the season-long arcs and Big Bads go, while some were stronger than   
   others, most of them achieved some level of success on the whole. The area   
   where the series mostly fell flat was during some of the Monster of the Week   
   filler episodes, with one-off villains could range anywhere from laughable   
   to horrifyingly embarrassing. Here are eleven of the worst.   
      
      
   11) Ted — Season 2 - "Ted"   
   This was probably Buffy’s biggest cameo in the entire series, shot only   
   about five years before John Ritter’s death (RIP) — and although John   
   Ritter   
   is great, he deserved better than a sexist robot from the 1950s who wanted   
   to kidnap Buffy’s mom and lock her in an underground bunker. Ritter would   
   have actually made a perfect Mayor — the season three big bad — so talk   
   about wasted opportunities.   
      
   10) A Demon Loan Shark That Was Literally A Shark — Season 6 — “Tabula   
   Rasa”   
   Overall, “Tabula Rasa” was actually a pretty good episode, which left the   
   Scooby Gang amnesiac and vulnerable thanks to Willow’s magic fuckuppery —   
   an   
   overall plot arc that season. But it doesn’t change the fact that Spike was   
   being pursued by a demon loan shark. Because he owed it kittens. What, that   
   doesn’t make perfect sense to you?   
           [Clever idea -  a loan shark that looked like a shark. One of my   
   fave episodes.]   
      
   9) A Jacket — Season 7 — “Him”   
   Not only was this a dumb episode, which involved a high school football   
   player named RJ’s enchanted letter jacket which caused women to fall in love   
   with him — but it featured Dawn at her screechiest, most awful worst. It did   
   have one somewhat redeeming scene in a multiple panel montage that involves   
   Willow trying to cast a spell to turn him into a girl and Anya inexplicably   
   robbing a bank, but on the whole it was a pretty crappy episode. Especially   
   for a final season episode.   
      
   8) Anya’s Troll Ex-Boyfriend — Season 5 — “Triangle”   
   Anya and Willow were fighting, because blah blah blah, Anya was Xander’s   
   boyfriend and Willow was Xander’s best friend, and Anya ran the magic shop   
   and Willow kept stealing shit to do magic, and then they both screw up and   
   release Anya’s ex-boyfriend who she formerly turned into a troll. It wasn’t   
   a very good episode.   
           [This is one of my fave episodes. It made me start wishing for a   
   Willow-Anya spin off, when the series ended]   
      
   7) A Reptile Demon Summoning Fraternity — Season 2 — “Reptile Boy”   
   As a series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer featured some pretty heavy handed   
   messaging about the evils of drinking and addiction, and this was one such   
   episode. After shirking her slayer duties to accompany Cordelia to a frat   
   party, Buffy finally gives in and takes a drink — but finds herself and   
   Cordelia drugged and chained into a basement where the fraternity plans to   
   sacrifice them to a reptile demon. As one does in a fraternity.   
   Unfortunately for the fraternity, they managed to kidnap the one high school   
   girl in all of Sunnydale with super powers, so Buffy quickly ruins their   
   plans.   
      
   6) A Giant Praying Mantis — Season 1: — “Teacher’s Pet”   
   When Xander, who is stupid, is presented with the following two   
   possibilities: That A) his hot teacher is a man-eating bug or that B) a hot   
   older woman wants to have sex with him — he stupidly goes with Possibility B   
   despite the fact that he lives in a town full of vampires and monsters and   
   that his teacher being a giant praying mantis is much more likely than her   
   wanting to have sex with a dorky high school student. You can barely even   
   see the bug but I’m pretty sure the costume came from the Halloween   
   Adventure store. Mmm. Sexy bug.   
       [One of those Season One episodes trying out different things to see   
   what works and what doesn't, as I saw it.]   
      
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