Beer Bad

What the... This episode is one of the worst BtVS episode ever.

This episode had only one point - don't drink and that's it.

I have never seen an episode as bad as this one on BtVS.

As almost all episodes there often is one moment which makes you laugh and yes - there where some here too.

But there is got to be a reasonable plot - which unfortunately is missing here...

Revenge is the main plot - and we all know that it never ends good.

Even the sun has it marks and this is BtVS biggest mark.

I give this episode 3/10 but it's a really weak three.

I understand fans thinking that this episode is one of the worst in Buffy history, however I love it for a different reason.

Think of young woman out there being treated like they are special to someone, and then that someone uses them to get exactly what they want (sex) and then being thrown to the side so they can move on to the next one. Unfortunately this happens way to often in our society. We lack intimacy all the time. Every new show out there is so full of sex and violence that women and men have no idea what's real and what isn't. They rely on porn to full their void and the expect their relationship or lack there of to have the same type of meaning.

This episode shows us that Parker wants his ego stoked because my guess is in High School woman ignored him so in College he's using them. Buffy on the other hand only knows Angel and that when he truly loves her he turns evil. Buffy can't understand why Parker used her and Parker can't understand why she became attached. Add the comping mechanisms that we as humans do; drinking, sex, drugs and we get beer bad. Not to mention Buffy hitting Parker over the head with a stick. That part ruled! Yet she still saved his life.

Look at this episode as a marker for woman who give their heart to someone and men who believe their owed something from previous women. It's a shoulder shrug for sure. I like it!

"Beer Bad" is a loot of fun, I love that Xander is a barman, i love all the comedy stuff about it. These kind of episode are vital to a show, to change the Pace with more serious episodes.

Can recognise a great show on the way it can change from one episode to another and still beiing good. Like The X files, Buffy is capable of giving us comedy episode, drama, sometime romance episodes, action one, weird one, thats why a show is great.

When a show is not confident enough, it just stay every single episodes with the same stuff, like criminals Minds or NCIS, boring show because its always the same story with just a few things changing from one episode to another.

The premise of Beer Bad has Buffy and some newfound fratboy mates drinking beer and turning into neanderthals. If it was played for drama it would be dumb. It's not. It's played for laughs. And it's very funny.

I mean, come on. How can you not love the image of Buffy spinning around and around in a rolling chair? I love the idea that Sarah Michelle Gellar showed up to work and was directed to talk like a cave woman and freak out over television. And she commits admirably to the performance, silly as it is. What's wrong with being silly every now and again?

Xander is also great in this episode. I love how he romanticizes his job as a bartender. His interactions with the frat boys, in which they talk down to him because he is not a college student, represents his larger feelings of aimlessness and lack of worth compared to his friends. Even so, he's completely devoted to his friendship with Buffy. In my head, at least, he's over his romantic feelings for her by now and just wants to be a good friend. I really enjoy seeing the core Scoobies just being there for each other, no matter what. Unfortunately I feel we get less and less of this dynamic as the show goes on. Maybe that's why I vastly prefer seasons 1-3 to anything that follows.

I honestly don't understand why everyone who reviewed this episode rated it so badly. I found myself laughing harder than I have laughed in quite some time. I really enjoyed seeing an episode with more laughter and fun in it. It was nice to have a break from the usual darkness that is Buffy the Vampire Slayer and to have some, well let's say relatively normal college happenings. I thought Sarah Michelle Gellar did a wonderful job and absolutely loved the ending where Parker guy finally gets a good thump on the head. I seriously recommend, I also really enjoyed the scene where Willow let's Parker have it. Great episode all around.