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   10 Buffy The Vampire Slayer Episodes Everyone Remembers For ONE Awesome   
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   These are the Buffy Vampire Slayer moments you remember forever.   
      
   Buffy sends Angel to hell in Becoming, Part Two; vampire Xander and Willow   
   get thirsty for Cordelia in The Wish; Spike rolls into town over the   
   Sunnydale sign in School Hard; Giles and Joyce make out on a police car in   
   Band Candy; Caleb gouges Xander's eye in Dirty Girls; Anya performs a rock   
   number about bunnies in Once More, With Feeling...   
      
   Whatever your flavor, Buffy has scenes that really stick, tearing us in a   
   million different directions at once and never quite putting us back   
   together again.   
   Joss Whedon, Jane Espenson, Marti Noxon, David Fury and co. know their   
   genres, and how to bend them to their will, having sculpted out a series   
   that can go from tense melodrama in one scene to heartbreaking tragedy in   
   the next, always with a quick pause for a one-liner or fan-favorite comedic   
   quotation along the way.   
      
   And, of course, the show is nothing without the cast that brought it to   
   life, trading blows, quips and epic storylines while their characters   
   navigate the speed humps and bumps in the night of life (and, umm,   
   un-life?).With 7 seasons, 144 episodes and somewhere in the region of 6340   
   minutes to choose from, there's a Hellmouth of a lot of scenes, but here are   
   10 of the absolute best and most memorable moments that defined the episodes   
   they were in.   
      
      
   10. The Body - Willow And Tara's First Kiss   
      
   Amid the most tense and emotionally charged episode of the entire show -   
   season five's sixteenth episode, The Body - there is one beacon of   
   light.With the whole gang going into meltdown, Tara acts as a level-headed   
   and stabilizing force. Willow is panicking, barely able to hold herself   
   together, but Tara comes through with a few kind, sensible words and a   
   kiss - something so small and yet so big in such a desperate time, both on-   
   and off-screen.   
      
   Joss Whedon deftly utilized the kiss to juxtapose the deep misery that   
   permeates the rest of the episode - which kicks off with a long, music-less   
   reaction scene of Buffy finding her mum's lifeless body on their sofa -   
   giving the necessary glimmer of love and hope to see everyone through.And   
   the brilliance of this scene is not just in what it does for the episode   
   itself, but in helping 2001's viewers see homosexual affection not as   
   something to mistrust, but something that can provide the same sense of   
   belonging and comfort as heterosexual or platonic love.   
      
      
   9. The Yoko Factor - Riley Vs Angel   
      
   Season four brought a new man into Buffy's life and it was only a matter of   
   time before her old flame caught wind and came storming back from the frames   
   of his own series.After a falling-out in LA (in one of the crossover   
   episodes that season four relished in), Angel follows Buffy back to   
   Sunnydale, ostensibly to apologize, but encounters soldiers on the streets   
   and has to fight his way through them. Riley Finn - Buffy's current   
   squeeze - has been keeping tabs on the soldier's movements and quickly joins   
   the fight.Thus we bear witness to the smack down we waited all season for:   
   soldier vs. detective; man vs. vampire; Riley vs. Angel.   
      
   The two proceed to beat ten shades of Initiative out of each other, throwing   
   down on the streets (complete with WrestleMania-style trash cans) and,   
   though Riley has the superior tech, he is no match for the sheer brute   
   strength of Captain Forehead.As this was the twentieth episode, many fans   
   wanted and expected Angel to stay and help fight the bio-mechanical demonoid   
   Adam in the final battle (which, this season, was in the twenty-first rather   
   than twenty-second episode), but everyone kissed and made up and the vampire   
   with soul scarpered back to the city that never sleeps. But this was,   
   ultimately,   
   the beginning of a very protracted end for Buffy and Riley, as they both   
   knew he just couldn't match up to her one and only(-ish).   
      
      
   8. Lessons - The First's Transformation   
      
   Season seven's opening episode, Lessons, sets up the final run for Buffy in   
   many ways - the Hellmouth high school re-opening, Willow reigning in her   
   powers, the murder of young women by mysterious figures in far-off   
   countries - but none of these moments make such purely awesome and essential   
   viewing as its closing scene.Spike, having gone a little mad since his   
   re-ensoulment, has taken up residence in the Sunnydale High basement and is   
   being haunted by a number of spectres, including Warren Mears, the previous   
   season's skinless meat-free chicken (and leader of The Trio).   
      
   Unbeknownst to Spike, his visions are The First Evil - the biggest bad, last   
   seen trying to get Angel to off himself in season three's Amends. The First   
   delivers a speech to Spike about its plans for him, Buffy and Sunnydale,   
   taking the form of all of the show's Big Bads and morphing through them in   
   reverse order: first Warren, then Glory, Adam, The Mayor, Drusilla, The   
   Master and, finally, Buffy herself.These are the moments that make it all   
   worth it, and this one strikes a perfect tone of foreboding, sets up the   
   season's bad guy, and manages to provide tribute to the rest of the show   
   without once feeling like fan service.   
      
   7. Grave - Giles Returns   
      
   "Uh oh, Daddy's home. I'm in wicked trouble now."   
      
   A continuation of the final scene of the previous episode, Grave picks up   
   right where the action begins, with a battle of magick and wills between   
   veiny, black-haired Willow and Buffy's ex-watcher Rupert Giles.But this   
   watcher has well and truly found his way out of the books and is ready to   
   put   
   everyone back in their place. Gone are the tweed and glasses, replaced by a   
   dark coat, a moody look and a coven's-worth of magical ju-ju to take down   
   Darth Willow.   
      
   Although he only stops her temporarily, Giles' return is a moment of pure   
   badassery that tops any other single scene in this action-packed season   
   finale. It's tense, it's emotional, and it lets us see the darker side of   
   good Giles - not the hell raising Ripper, but the man with a conscience and   
   the weight of the world on his shoulders, who suffocated Ben (the god   
   Glory's vessel) to death in the previous season's final episode and now must   
   bring down one of his own.   
      
      
   6. Innocence - The Rocket Launcher   
      
   What do you do when your evil self is suddenly woken from a century of   
      
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