"Nightmares" (1.10)

-"In every generation, there is a Chosen One. She alone will... blah, blah vampires. Blah, blah Slayer." Dude, we're ten episodes in. I got it.

-Buffy's dreams about The Master are back. Good times had by none.

-Buffy's dad is coming for a visit? He must not have gotten the memo that for this series the role of Buffy's father figure will be played by Rupert Giles.

-Sheesh, Cordelia and Xander--get a room already!

-Mr. Wendal, that's his name/ No one ever knew his name cuz he's a no one/ Never thought twice about spiders on a weird kid/ Until I had the chance to really get to seem 'em.

-And the role of Nightmare Kid will be played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Mini-Me.

-It must get really boring down in The Master's lair. I don't see any books or a TV. They don't even have a chessboard or Connect Four.

-Why isn't anyone noticing how freaky Giles is acting? Everyone's freak meter should always be turned up to eleven while they're at Sunnydale.

-Meanwhile, Cordy is acting both nice and helpful. ELEVEN, PEOPLE!

-For the record, poorly lit basements also give me the wig. Especially when they are inhabited by Sloth's angry, violent cousin.

-What is that you say, Dr. Plot Exposition? Laura got off easy, unlike Billy (aka Nightmare Kid, aka Lucky 19) who was beaten into a coma by someone with the same M.O.? Thanks, Dr. Soon to Be Sued for Breach of Privacy! That was all quite helpful and unprofessional.

-Sunnydale has greasers?! Apparently, the school is on a Hellmouth and a rift in time. Bitchin'.

-Given how much of a deadbeat dad Hank is in the rest of the series, I think the timing of his confession might just be a coincidence.

-Xander got off kind of easy with that underwear nightmare. Most people would have been naked. I think he has the FCC to thank for that.

-Cordelia's nightmare is having '80s hair? Better watch out for that time rift, Cord.

-Willow! You were so smart about the whole splitting up thing and now you're going down into the basement alone? For shame.

-Mmmm. Mystery chocolate.

-Willow has stage fright dreams? I thought only people who'd acted got those. Perhaps this is because of those four seconds she spent on stage performing Oedipus Rex. Man, I guess that was pretty traumatizing for her.

-Nothing is scarier than a clown.

-Well, maybe a clown covered in spiders.

-A clown covered in spiders lurking in an empty, poorly lit girls' locker room!

-I'm going to have nightmares for weeks.

-Buffy, I know being buried alive is super scary, but if The Bride can get out, then so can you. Granted, she was running on high-octane revenge, but you are the Slayer.

-Giles' nightmare is failing Buffy and her dying because of it. *sniff*

-Vamp Buffy and vamp Harmony could totally be sisters.

-If a dude gets that unhinged over a "Kiddie League" loss, then he can't have been that stable to begin with. Does no one screen these people?

-Xander was turned on by vamp Buffy, huh? With that, the groundwork for Xander's relationship with ex-demon Anya is laid. I didn't realize these earlier seasons were so much about Xander's eventual turn-ons and fetishes. I feel sort of dirty now.