Go Fish

It's tough to stick a monster episode toward the end of the season when we're dying for more Angel-Spike-Drusilla stuff. If this were a season 1 episode, it'd be one of the better ones, but it's a late season 2 episode, so its placement hurts it. But overall, I found it quite funny and fun and entertaining. Love the scene where Cordelia thinks Xander is a fish monster!

Not sure why this episode gets so much hate? Has some of the best lines of the entire show

The skin's the best part! High cholesterol vampires! Love this episode

When this episode started, it seemed like a normal episode of Buffy. However, once the first person was apparently killed by a monster and the monster can be seen slinking into the sewers on the distance, I legitimately expected The X-Files theme music to start playing and then got surprised that the Buffy theme song started playing. This episode really reads just like an episode of the X-Files from start to finish. If you had dropped Mulder and Scully into this episode, it wouldn't have seemed out of place at all.

//Also, I think that this may be the only time that we see a vampire tasting drugs in someone's system. Why is that never mentioned again? Is Angelus tasting the monster-y fish thing that's about to emerge or the steroids themselves? If vampire's can really taste drugs, then it's a shame Spike doesn't test Buffy like that when she thinks that she's in a mental institution in season six's "Normal Again." Or when Riley's all pumped full of super-pills in season four's "The 'I' In Team." Just a thought.//

Actually, in "School Hard" Spike bragged that he'd been at Woodstock and fed of a flower person, and then spent the next six hours watching his hand move. Hm. This doesn't tell us if he TASTED the drugs or if he merely got affected by them. Perhaps it wasn't the taste of drugs that made Angelus spit out the blood, because, you know, maybe these swimmer boys had changed so much from the "drugs" that they no longer had human blood. Human blood, fish blood, pig blood... big difference.

This episode is nothing special, I would probably rate it a 6 but Willow's line "really? Me? I'll crack him like an egg" makes the whole episode. It's the little things :)