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Beer Bad
"Beer Bad" is the fifth episode of the fourth season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The episode aired on The WB on November 2, 1999. It is written by Tracey Forbes and directed by David Solomon. It was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Hairstyling in a Series.
The episode, generally unpopular, shows Buffy and some classmates getting drunk on beer brewed by a warlock, with ensuing hijinks. Willow worries about Oz's attraction to Veruca, a singer in a band playing at the Bronze.
Buffy is still hurting because classmate Parker dumped her after a night together. In a daydream during one of Professor Walsh's classes (pointedly, about the role of the id in Freudian psychology) she saves Parker's life and he swears to do anything to get her back. A dialogue with Willow later shows how much Buffy is not over him yet.
In the real world, Xander gets a job as a bartender with a fake ID, and has to endure the behavior of college students so puffed up with their feeling of entitlement as to drip elitist insults upon Xander. He gets to test his empathy skills with none other than Buffy, who proceeds to get drunk on "Black Frost" beer with four college boys.
Oz and Willow are in The Bronze together, but he feels a strange connection to the pretty singer Veruca when she gets on the stage with her band Shy. The next morning, Willow has to cope not only with jealousy over Veruca (whom she calls a "groupie"), but also with Buffy, who seems to be suffering from "Black Frost."
That evening when Buffy drinks herself drunk, it is soon revealed why: somebody has set up a chemical lab and is putting more into the beer than just malt. Xander finally sends Buffy home. When her four drinking buddies turn into violent Neanderthals, he learns that the owner of the pub has been adding a mystical potion, which a warlock taught him, to make ensorcelled beer as revenge for 20 years' worth of college kids taunting him. Despite the pub owner explaining that the effects wear off after a day or so, Xander heads off, knowing the damage that could be done in that time. While the boys escape to the streets of Sunnydale, Xander gets Giles to help. They find Buffy drawing cave paintings on her dorm wall and saying "Parker bad." Giles and Xander are unable to keep Buffy in her room when she gets a craving for more beer.
Meanwhile, Willow confronts Parker with what he has done to Buffy. When he turns his charm on her she plays along, then asks just how gullible he thinks she is, before launching into a rant about how primitive men are.[1] Just then, the Neanderthal students burst into the room. They knock Willow and Parker unconscious and start a fire that rapidly burns out of control. Xander catches up with Buffy and when they see smoke from the Neanderthals' fire, they rush to help. Though afraid of the flames and unable to figure out how to use an extinguisher, Buffy saves Willow, Parker, two students captured by the Neanderthals, and her erstwhile drinking buddies. In the end, Parker thanks Buffy for saving his life and apologizes, just the way she had dreamt — only to be coldcocked by a club-wielding Buffy. The Neanderthal students are subsequently locked into a van by Xander, to be confined until back to normal.
"Beer Bad" is written with a classic frame structure — Buffy's dream — that emphasizes her development; hitting Parker with a stick qualifies as poetic justice. Producer Doug Petrie says, despite the intensely negative reaction of the fans to seeing Buffy being "battered about by the forces of college" and being treated so callously by Parker, they had to "ride that out" until this episode because "we didn't want her to find her strength immediately in this new setting".
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Beer Bad
"Beer Bad" is the fifth episode of the fourth season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The episode aired on The WB on November 2, 1999. It is written by Tracey Forbes and directed by David Solomon. It was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Hairstyling in a Series.
The episode, generally unpopular, shows Buffy and some classmates getting drunk on beer brewed by a warlock, with ensuing hijinks. Willow worries about Oz's attraction to Veruca, a singer in a band playing at the Bronze.
Buffy is still hurting because classmate Parker dumped her after a night together. In a daydream during one of Professor Walsh's classes (pointedly, about the role of the id in Freudian psychology) she saves Parker's life and he swears to do anything to get her back. A dialogue with Willow later shows how much Buffy is not over him yet.
In the real world, Xander gets a job as a bartender with a fake ID, and has to endure the behavior of college students so puffed up with their feeling of entitlement as to drip elitist insults upon Xander. He gets to test his empathy skills with none other than Buffy, who proceeds to get drunk on "Black Frost" beer with four college boys.
Oz and Willow are in The Bronze together, but he feels a strange connection to the pretty singer Veruca when she gets on the stage with her band Shy. The next morning, Willow has to cope not only with jealousy over Veruca (whom she calls a "groupie"), but also with Buffy, who seems to be suffering from "Black Frost."
That evening when Buffy drinks herself drunk, it is soon revealed why: somebody has set up a chemical lab and is putting more into the beer than just malt. Xander finally sends Buffy home. When her four drinking buddies turn into violent Neanderthals, he learns that the owner of the pub has been adding a mystical potion, which a warlock taught him, to make ensorcelled beer as revenge for 20 years' worth of college kids taunting him. Despite the pub owner explaining that the effects wear off after a day or so, Xander heads off, knowing the damage that could be done in that time. While the boys escape to the streets of Sunnydale, Xander gets Giles to help. They find Buffy drawing cave paintings on her dorm wall and saying "Parker bad." Giles and Xander are unable to keep Buffy in her room when she gets a craving for more beer.
Meanwhile, Willow confronts Parker with what he has done to Buffy. When he turns his charm on her she plays along, then asks just how gullible he thinks she is, before launching into a rant about how primitive men are.[1] Just then, the Neanderthal students burst into the room. They knock Willow and Parker unconscious and start a fire that rapidly burns out of control. Xander catches up with Buffy and when they see smoke from the Neanderthals' fire, they rush to help. Though afraid of the flames and unable to figure out how to use an extinguisher, Buffy saves Willow, Parker, two students captured by the Neanderthals, and her erstwhile drinking buddies. In the end, Parker thanks Buffy for saving his life and apologizes, just the way she had dreamt — only to be coldcocked by a club-wielding Buffy. The Neanderthal students are subsequently locked into a van by Xander, to be confined until back to normal.
"Beer Bad" is written with a classic frame structure — Buffy's dream — that emphasizes her development; hitting Parker with a stick qualifies as poetic justice. Producer Doug Petrie says, despite the intensely negative reaction of the fans to seeing Buffy being "battered about by the forces of college" and being treated so callously by Parker, they had to "ride that out" until this episode because "we didn't want her to find her strength immediately in this new setting".