It's a Whedon trope that if a character makes a statement, it will almost immediately cut to the opposite of that statement happening. Once you notice it, you see it happening all the time. I love that every episode advances either the larger story arc or some character development, no matter the main theme.
The Gorch brothers are fictional characters from an old western, The Wild Bunch. They seem like leftovers from a different script that they decided not to film, so they worked them into this one. But they do recognize "Angelus", so they do function in pointing that out for us, in case we forgot.
I've seen other reactors not realise it was a mirror, at least these guys figured it out. Some only found out when they read the comments beneath their video.
I was maybe 10 when I watched this episode when it first aired and it confused me SO much. 10 year old em did not catch on until a few rewatches (I use to tape every episode and watch them in between episodes/seasons lol)
It's really not obvious that it's a mirror. The scene composition doesn't help matters, there's no sign it's a mirror except for the "twin", and you can only see the mirror for a split second.
Ahah the twin thing was so funny. When you realized I was laughing so hard XD Loved the reaction. And I loved this episode too, because we can see Buffy growing into her powers. She literraly killed a beast from the inside. She survived where a vampire did not. She's a beast herself XDD
The critters attach to the back to connect to the spine. Buffy sleeps on her back so hers could not attach while she slept. There is a lot of good character stuff in this as well as a classic monster of the week episode.
I'm not sure what you're talking about... That's simply not what happened. It did attach the first night when it was sapping energy from them. She was sleeping on her back then. This is why they were all tired the next day except Xander who boiled his egg. The next time we see anything it failed to latch onto her because she was just coming back from seeing Angel. She was awake, upright, staring right at it when it hatched and had slayer alertness and agility. Were it unable to latch on simply because someone were sleeping on their back half the school or more would have been fine. Instead we see them get many people while they were awake, part of why how they sleep simply isn't a factor. If it really couldn't get someone sleeping on their back it would have just gotten them when they rolled or got up.
Enjoyed your reaction, glad you liked the episode. IMO, there are no bad episodes of Buffy, just lesser ones and this is one. It still is a fun episode. In this one I do like the cowboy vampires and any scenes between the main cast are fun. The egg creature is also pretty creepy. Looking forward to next week's two-parter and see if we get that "tone shift".
People hate on this episode but i think it’s fun. The monsters are super creepy. I think people Hate on it because so many of the other episodes in this season are so strong.
A fun review. One aspect of the shows early years was taking a familiar horror movie or theme from the 1950’s movies that were shown often on late night television that kids grew up watching. This is a variation of the classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers with a throw in of the Cowboy/Westerns we all saw. The twin vampires were comic renditions of the western Maverick brothers that used their wit instead of guns and joked about running away from a fight.You are fun watching and don’t worry about missing the opening with the mirror and lack of reflection.Half of the people watching at the time missed it also.Lastly you asked about the game room being vacant. This was an inside / joke of the times. The high water mark for old game rooms was over. Kids were starting to get video games for home and every weekend kids would pack Blockbuster to rent games. Stories were appearing about game rooms closing after 20 years of being packed and part of the social meeting places.These type of jokes/social comments were being missed by the older ones but ir was targeted to us and we got the point.Besides, no teen played pin ball then and that’s what they are being tossed into. This was going to be the next to last Buffy on Monday. I think there was going to be a short break before the next episode and there were promos everywhere. The next one is Surprise the last Monday night. The promos all blared this info and not to miss and then the next night, Innocence was to be broadcast. A new concept , at least for us, was being promoted, have a Buffy watching party for the first Tuesday!episode. The 3 of you do a great job and just want to try to get you in the mood. If there is a time to share good and drinks the next 2 are good ones. Keep up the great job and hope you enjoy BTVS
The justification for not telling Buffy's mom about the slayer thing is pretty ridiculous at this stage, since so many others know about it. She would probably be safer knowing. But since the show at this point is a metaphor for the high school experience, it helps to create the misunderstandings between parent and teenager that are a common high school thing.
I think maybe at this point the real justification for not telling Joyce is that the Watcher's Council would worry about Joyce just taking Buffy away from them. Would she be okay with them putting her teenaged daughter in harm's way on a nearly nightly basis? Could she take Buffy someplace without a Hellmouth?
The reason for not telling Joyce is pretty simple: Buffy is not a legal person, so there's not going to be a good outcome. If Joyce thinks Buffy is lying, she's going to be even stricter. If Joyce thinks Buffy is delusional, then Buffy has to worry about being locked up in an asylum, or at least she'll get put on medication, and Joyce won't let her wander the town at night. And if Joyce believes Buffy that vampires are real, she's going to move Buffy's 16-year-old butt to East Nowhere, Indiana before Buffy can blink. Let that lying creepy librarian send some *other* girl out there to fight the monsters…he's not using MY BUFFY as cannon fodder, no sir! The odds that Joyce just be all "have a nice night slaying, dear! Try not to get killed!" are *ridiculously* small at this point. it would take a MAJOR turn of events for Joyce to be anywhere near "okay" with Buffy's life, if she knew the truth. A few days' grounding is nothing compared to the alternatives.
This was an enjoyable mid-season episode without heavy consequences. I think the only reason it's rated low during the season is because so many eps this season have bigger payoffs. But this is a fun one! That being said, buckle up!
I always thought this was a missed opportunity to bring back Ms French's eggs from 1x04 that were left in the school. Angel insurance is a great way of contextualizing his presence. It's nice to see him and Buffy have a rare angst-free episode.
Maybe the title should have been, "Smoochers Gone Wild." Buffy's mom should have put Buffy on, "Double Secret Probation." Star Trek the Next Generation had an episode S01E25 Conpiracy about parasites which looked much like the one in Buffy. There was also a movie about an alien invasion that had similar-looking parasites that would attach to a person's back and control them all before Buffy.
For the kissing scenes in this episode, SMG and David ate as much raw onions and garlic as they could between takes to see if they could gross each other out.
Oh boy . . . . Totally forgot about this episode. Yea. Was fun. Lots going on now that will play out later. it is a Josh Whedon show after all. Very soon. . . . Is it Sunday yet?
I don't think I'll ever understand how this was the episode that got Marti Noxon hired as a writer on the series full time. he mirror in the mall at the beginning didn't show the vampire in it. I don't know what it is about said mirror (I didn't notice it either during the show's initial run), but I think the problem is the camera doesn't linger (for use of a better word) long enough on either image of the mirror without the vampire or the real life moment with the vampire on the other end of the escalator. This is an episode, for me, that shows the feeling Buffy has for Angel really are those of a high schooler in love and she doesn't truly comprehend love the way she thinks. The line is, "Angel. When I look into the future, all I see is you." The two nights where she tries to convince her friends she not a slave to said Angel passion before ignoring those nights of hunting don't help her out in that regard, either. I never understood Buffy's egg being unhatched and Buffy not being possessed the next morning after the bezor climbed all over her face. It was never explained and doesn't make sense. I say this as a non-Xander fan. He's a genius in this episode, even if unintentionally. What rule did Mr. Whitmore lay down about not boiling the eggs? Very few kids in real life would bother with the assignment outside of school hours and just set the egg aside. Seeing Xander boiling the egg more as a protecting the kid/egg (it's still intact) rather than boiling young (thank god what's inside did die) is how this should be seen. Not how the rest of the Slayerettes see it. He protected the egg from the stupidity of the assignment as it isn't a good representation of taking care of a child. My school did flour sacks and that's how it worked, which weren't any better n idea than eggs. It's part of the reason those crying on command dolls started being used. I don't know what they use now, if schools do the assignment at all. Xander boiled his egg and it didn't just save him from possession, but all consequences resulting in possession. I consider him a genius with dumb schoolwork (my teacher though the flour sack assignment dumb also and I never had to do it, but I watched many others in my school do so) and with how he avoided being possessed. All this results in being the secondary hero of the climax. It's actually a good head canon to say they got security because of everything that happens at the school. But what about now that said security dies? Joyce couldn't prove Buffy was going out (or in Buffy's case just gotten back from slaying), so I cannot find a genuine reason she grounded her other than her own suspicion. Saying she was wearing clothes and disbelieving she was on the phone with Willow wasn't proof of any wrongdoing unless Buffy had a bedtime enfrcement and that isn't why Joyce grounded Buffy anyway. Buffy could have just decided to wear clothes to bed so she could get going a little faster in the morning as someone who sleeps in and has to be told numerous times to get out of bed. Joyce's reasons for grounding her are flimsy unless Buffy was caught directly. Until Joyce catches her in the act of sneaking out its just suspicion and suspicion is a flimsy grounding excuse. Joyce also believes the gas story. That means there is no real reason why she couldn't be in the library. Buffy could have known about the gas before anyone else.I understand Joyce's distrust after Hemry (Buffy's former school), but both these moments are more bad-parenting moments, to me. They have loose, but good enough explanations that Joyce jumps the gun on grounding Buffy and just shows the hand of how much she doesn't listen to her daughter. If she was as Joyce fears her to be after Hemry, she wouldn't be hanging out with Xander and Willow, she'd be hanging out with human Sheila from _School Hard._ Buffy even commented in that episode while looking at Sheila that Shelia is what her mother sees when looking at Buffy. That's what happens when there's no communication like shown in this episode. Looks like Joyce's progression with Buffy in _School Hard_ really only did last a week. I don't know if the teacher was possessed from the beginning or if it happened after he passed out the eggs to the kids. Lyle wasn't teaming up with Buffy for any greater good, he was saving himself after unintentionally being the B storyline who fell into the A storyline and needed to save himself. That's why he was still willing to fight Buffy in a moment of downtime from The Mother Bezor.
The only head canon I can come up with regarding the unhatched egg the next morning is that Buffy had a dream about it influenced maybe by the telepathic connection between the mother Bezoar and its egg/unhatched offspring, maybe some reflection of that slipped into Slayer dream space or something. It's pretty lame head canon, because Buffy usually remembers her prophetic dreams. Oh, and you said "unhated" when you mention the egg, instead of "unhatched". 😉
Also, despite the brothers' history, I think Lyle Gorch has some sort of code, twisted as it may be, regarding fist fighting honor. Just like trading punches with Tector, maybe he figured the fight wouldn't be "fair" if he just punched Buffy while she was fending off the controlled people, and of course the Bezoar had ordered its puppets to "kill them" so self defense was a motive.
@@ernesthakey3396 I noticed the typo befoe reading your comment. I always reread my comments (especially the longer ones) to remember what I said and what other comments about mine are referencing. Thanks.
@@Buffy8Fan yeah, as someone who sometimes writes long comments, I know how typos can slip through even on rereading. 😉 And when you react to almost every Buffy reactor out there...a certain amount of copying and pasting can happen. I haven't gotten to the point of keeping a library of comments though. It is nice to bump into some commenters over and over, I appreciate your thoughts!
An advantage of watching Buffy after the show aired is being able to watch the show in a compacted time, understand the flow, and notice the details and dialogue by being able to stop and go back. When we saw Buffy when this aired the advantage we had was it was always new and eventually a community conversation to understand fully what was happening. We thought Bad Eggs and Ted were great and fun episodes. At this time the show had not even been on a year, there were no set expectations because BTVS was setting the mark, and we could only watch once and then wait for the next episode. In 1997 there was no streaming, cable was mostly reruns, movies, and wrestling, and shows for young adults were very dramatic night time soaps that are just weak.Bad Eggs may not be top tier Buffy but we all laughed, thought the monsters were creepy, and all wanted Buffy and Angel to be the coolest bad ass couple. There were no clunkers for us .
This is not a well-regarded episode among the fandom. I think the script needed some work to better integrate the two stories, and some scenes could have been shot and edited better to make things clearer (most viewers do not get that it was a mirror next to the escalator). But there are lot of things in the episode that I do like, Lyle's "hat catch" in particular.
If ever there was an episode that lives up to its name it's this, it stinks like Bad Eggs. I thought Bad Eggs was possibly one of the worst episodes of the series. A real filler to be honest. There are 144 episodes of BTVS they all can't be brilliant, however the E13 and E14 two parter to follow are superb, absolute bangers. Obviously this episode is a homage to 1950s classic horror film Invasion Of The Body Snatchers. Not much more to really say about this, so much better to come.
I don't mind commenting about how good or bad the commenter considers the episode just reacted too; I just wish people didn't talk about future episodes, let the reactors react without bias if possible. Of course many reactors are already ahead on Patreon. 🤷♂️
I enjoy the humor of this episode a lot... but am completely grossed out by the egg creature. Those creepy-ass spindly things reaching out for Buffy's face?? NO THANK YOU. Gross.
Gorches were strangely adorable.
Haha, I loved you guys for liking Bad Eggs 😆
We have fun!
It's a Whedon trope that if a character makes a statement, it will almost immediately cut to the opposite of that statement happening.
Once you notice it, you see it happening all the time.
I love that every episode advances either the larger story arc or some character development, no matter the main theme.
First two minutes alone were worth the upvote.
Thank you
The Gorch brothers are fictional characters from an old western, The Wild Bunch. They seem like leftovers from a different script that they decided not to film, so they worked them into this one. But they do recognize "Angelus", so they do function in pointing that out for us, in case we forgot.
1:50 Lmao 😂 this was pure gold. I couldn't quite tell whether you guys were joking about the twin until you realized
I've seen other reactors not realise it was a mirror, at least these guys figured it out. Some only found out when they read the comments beneath their video.
I was maybe 10 when I watched this episode when it first aired and it confused me SO much. 10 year old em did not catch on until a few rewatches (I use to tape every episode and watch them in between episodes/seasons lol)
It's really not obvious that it's a mirror. The scene composition doesn't help matters, there's no sign it's a mirror except for the "twin", and you can only see the mirror for a split second.
Ahah the twin thing was so funny. When you realized I was laughing so hard XD Loved the reaction. And I loved this episode too, because we can see Buffy growing into her powers. She literraly killed a beast from the inside. She survived where a vampire did not. She's a beast herself XDD
The critters attach to the back to connect to the spine. Buffy sleeps on her back so hers could not attach while she slept. There is a lot of good character stuff in this as well as a classic monster of the week episode.
I'm not sure what you're talking about...
That's simply not what happened. It did attach the first night when it was sapping energy from them. She was sleeping on her back then. This is why they were all tired the next day except Xander who boiled his egg.
The next time we see anything it failed to latch onto her because she was just coming back from seeing Angel. She was awake, upright, staring right at it when it hatched and had slayer alertness and agility.
Were it unable to latch on simply because someone were sleeping on their back half the school or more would have been fine. Instead we see them get many people while they were awake, part of why how they sleep simply isn't a factor. If it really couldn't get someone sleeping on their back it would have just gotten them when they rolled or got up.
Enjoyed your reaction, glad you liked the episode. IMO, there are no bad episodes of Buffy, just lesser ones and this is one. It still is a fun episode. In this one I do like the cowboy vampires and any scenes between the main cast are fun. The egg creature is also pretty creepy.
Looking forward to next week's two-parter and see if we get that "tone shift".
I laugh so hard at your delay reaction to the vampire in the miror! Not that I was not confuse too the first 3 times I watched this episode...
People hate on this episode but i think it’s fun. The monsters are super creepy. I think people
Hate on it because so many of the other episodes in this season are so strong.
A fun review. One aspect of the shows early years was taking a familiar horror movie or theme from the 1950’s movies that were shown often on late night television that kids grew up watching. This is a variation of the classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers with a throw in of the Cowboy/Westerns we all saw. The twin vampires were comic renditions of the western Maverick brothers that used their wit instead of guns and joked about running away from a fight.You are fun watching and don’t worry about missing the opening with the mirror and lack of reflection.Half of the people watching at the time missed it also.Lastly you asked about the game room being vacant. This was an inside / joke of the times. The high water mark for old game rooms was over. Kids were starting to get video games for home and every weekend kids would pack Blockbuster to rent games. Stories were appearing about game rooms closing after 20 years of being packed and part of the social meeting places.These type of jokes/social comments were being missed by the older ones but ir was targeted to us and we got the point.Besides, no teen played pin ball then and that’s what they are being tossed into.
This was going to be the next to last Buffy on Monday. I think there was going to be a short break before the next episode and there were promos everywhere. The next one is Surprise the last Monday night. The promos all blared this info and not to miss and then the next night, Innocence was to be broadcast. A new concept , at least for us, was being promoted, have a Buffy watching party for the first Tuesday!episode. The 3 of you do a great job and just want to try to get you in the mood. If there is a time to share good and drinks the next 2 are good ones. Keep up the great job and hope you enjoy BTVS
The mirror realization! 🤣🤣🤣
Joyce was in Honey, I shrunk the kids .
The justification for not telling Buffy's mom about the slayer thing is pretty ridiculous at this stage, since so many others know about it. She would probably be safer knowing. But since the show at this point is a metaphor for the high school experience, it helps to create the misunderstandings between parent and teenager that are a common high school thing.
I think maybe at this point the real justification for not telling Joyce is that the Watcher's Council would worry about Joyce just taking Buffy away from them. Would she be okay with them putting her teenaged daughter in harm's way on a nearly nightly basis? Could she take Buffy someplace without a Hellmouth?
The reason for not telling Joyce is pretty simple: Buffy is not a legal person, so there's not going to be a good outcome.
If Joyce thinks Buffy is lying, she's going to be even stricter.
If Joyce thinks Buffy is delusional, then Buffy has to worry about being locked up in an asylum, or at least she'll get put on medication, and Joyce won't let her wander the town at night.
And if Joyce believes Buffy that vampires are real, she's going to move Buffy's 16-year-old butt to East Nowhere, Indiana before Buffy can blink. Let that lying creepy librarian send some *other* girl out there to fight the monsters…he's not using MY BUFFY as cannon fodder, no sir!
The odds that Joyce just be all "have a nice night slaying, dear! Try not to get killed!" are *ridiculously* small at this point. it would take a MAJOR turn of events for Joyce to be anywhere near "okay" with Buffy's life, if she knew the truth. A few days' grounding is nothing compared to the alternatives.
@@Jessica_Roth nailed it on all counts!
Lyle and Tector Gorch first appeared in Sam Peckinpah's grimly magnificent, violent and bloody 1969 western "The Wild Bunch."
Highly recommended.
HUH wow
Y'all totally missed that the cowboy had no reflection, until suddenly, light dawned over Marblehead!
🤣🤣🤣 But the twin!
@@732ReviewCrew is no twin! Is mirrored girl! (She did look hotter without a cowboy looming over her though...)
I've seen this series four times and never noticed the twin or the mirror. Very good. I just thought she sniffed out a vamp.
This was an enjoyable mid-season episode without heavy consequences. I think the only reason it's rated low during the season is because so many eps this season have bigger payoffs. But this is a fun one! That being said, buckle up!
"Honey I Shrunk The Kids"
I always thought this was a missed opportunity to bring back Ms French's eggs from 1x04 that were left in the school.
Angel insurance is a great way of contextualizing his presence. It's nice to see him and Buffy have a rare angst-free episode.
Buckle tight for the 2nd half of season 2!
Hahahahahahaha the twins or mirror thing... Priceless hahaha
No spoilers, but in Buffy lore, it's the 7th episode you want to watch out for.
Maybe the title should have been, "Smoochers Gone Wild."
Buffy's mom should have put Buffy on, "Double Secret Probation."
Star Trek the Next Generation had an episode S01E25 Conpiracy about parasites which looked much like the one in Buffy. There was also a movie about an alien invasion that had similar-looking parasites that would attach to a person's back and control them all before Buffy.
Nice
Definitely an Invasion Of The Body Snatchers homage, I thought.
@@ernesthakey3396 Actually, I was thinking of The Puppet Masters (1994) which also stars Donald Sutherland.
For the kissing scenes in this episode, SMG and David ate as much raw onions and garlic as they could between takes to see if they could gross each other out.
Not long now… and this season will blow your minds. Can’t wait.
Oh boy . . . . Totally forgot about this episode. Yea. Was fun. Lots going on now that will play out later. it is a Josh Whedon show after all. Very soon. . . . Is it Sunday yet?
I don't think I'll ever understand how this was the episode that got Marti Noxon hired as a writer on the series full time.
he mirror in the mall at the beginning didn't show the vampire in it. I don't know what it is about said mirror (I didn't notice it either during the show's initial run), but I think the problem is the camera doesn't linger (for use of a better word) long enough on either image of the mirror without the vampire or the real life moment with the vampire on the other end of the escalator.
This is an episode, for me, that shows the feeling Buffy has for Angel really are those of a high schooler in love and she doesn't truly comprehend love the way she thinks. The line is, "Angel. When I look into the future, all I see is you." The two nights where she tries to convince her friends she not a slave to said Angel passion before ignoring those nights of hunting don't help her out in that regard, either.
I never understood Buffy's egg being unhatched and Buffy not being possessed the next morning after the bezor climbed all over her face. It was never explained and doesn't make sense.
I say this as a non-Xander fan. He's a genius in this episode, even if unintentionally. What rule did Mr. Whitmore lay down about not boiling the eggs? Very few kids in real life would bother with the assignment outside of school hours and just set the egg aside. Seeing Xander boiling the egg more as a protecting the kid/egg (it's still intact) rather than boiling young (thank god what's inside did die) is how this should be seen. Not how the rest of the Slayerettes see it. He protected the egg from the stupidity of the assignment as it isn't a good representation of taking care of a child. My school did flour sacks and that's how it worked, which weren't any better n idea than eggs. It's part of the reason those crying on command dolls started being used. I don't know what they use now, if schools do the assignment at all. Xander boiled his egg and it didn't just save him from possession, but all consequences resulting in possession. I consider him a genius with dumb schoolwork (my teacher though the flour sack assignment dumb also and I never had to do it, but I watched many others in my school do so) and with how he avoided being possessed. All this results in being the secondary hero of the climax.
It's actually a good head canon to say they got security because of everything that happens at the school. But what about now that said security dies?
Joyce couldn't prove Buffy was going out (or in Buffy's case just gotten back from slaying), so I cannot find a genuine reason she grounded her other than her own suspicion. Saying she was wearing clothes and disbelieving she was on the phone with Willow wasn't proof of any wrongdoing unless Buffy had a bedtime enfrcement and that isn't why Joyce grounded Buffy anyway. Buffy could have just decided to wear clothes to bed so she could get going a little faster in the morning as someone who sleeps in and has to be told numerous times to get out of bed. Joyce's reasons for grounding her are flimsy unless Buffy was caught directly. Until Joyce catches her in the act of sneaking out its just suspicion and suspicion is a flimsy grounding excuse. Joyce also believes the gas story. That means there is no real reason why she couldn't be in the library. Buffy could have known about the gas before anyone else.I understand Joyce's distrust after Hemry (Buffy's former school), but both these moments are more bad-parenting moments, to me. They have loose, but good enough explanations that Joyce jumps the gun on grounding Buffy and just shows the hand of how much she doesn't listen to her daughter. If she was as Joyce fears her to be after Hemry, she wouldn't be hanging out with Xander and Willow, she'd be hanging out with human Sheila from _School Hard._ Buffy even commented in that episode while looking at Sheila that Shelia is what her mother sees when looking at Buffy. That's what happens when there's no communication like shown in this episode. Looks like Joyce's progression with Buffy in _School Hard_ really only did last a week.
I don't know if the teacher was possessed from the beginning or if it happened after he passed out the eggs to the kids.
Lyle wasn't teaming up with Buffy for any greater good, he was saving himself after unintentionally being the B storyline who fell into the A storyline and needed to save himself. That's why he was still willing to fight Buffy in a moment of downtime from The Mother Bezor.
The only head canon I can come up with regarding the unhatched egg the next morning is that Buffy had a dream about it influenced maybe by the telepathic connection between the mother Bezoar and its egg/unhatched offspring, maybe some reflection of that slipped into Slayer dream space or something. It's pretty lame head canon, because Buffy usually remembers her prophetic dreams. Oh, and you said "unhated" when you mention the egg, instead of "unhatched". 😉
Also, despite the brothers' history, I think Lyle Gorch has some sort of code, twisted as it may be, regarding fist fighting honor. Just like trading punches with Tector, maybe he figured the fight wouldn't be "fair" if he just punched Buffy while she was fending off the controlled people, and of course the Bezoar had ordered its puppets to "kill them" so self defense was a motive.
@@ernesthakey3396 I noticed the typo befoe reading your comment. I always reread my comments (especially the longer ones) to remember what I said and what other comments about mine are referencing. Thanks.
@@Buffy8Fan yeah, as someone who sometimes writes long comments, I know how typos can slip through even on rereading. 😉 And when you react to almost every Buffy reactor out there...a certain amount of copying and pasting can happen. I haven't gotten to the point of keeping a library of comments though. It is nice to bump into some commenters over and over, I appreciate your thoughts!
@@ernesthakey3396 My library of comments is over 54,000 words and still not always helpful. lol.
This is supposedly one of the worst episodes. I love it primarily because of the Gorch brothers .
oh... THIS episode
Congrats on making it through the first of 2 clunkers this season.
Unlike a lot of fans, I never thought of this as a clunker. It's a middling, enjoyable episode. The other, however... yikes!
An advantage of watching Buffy after the show aired is being able to watch the show in a compacted time, understand the flow, and notice the details and dialogue by being able to stop and go back. When we saw Buffy when this aired the advantage we had was it was always new and eventually a community conversation to understand fully what was happening. We thought Bad Eggs and Ted were great and fun episodes. At this time the show had not even been on a year, there were no set expectations because BTVS was setting the mark, and we could only watch once and then wait for the next episode. In 1997 there was no streaming, cable was mostly reruns, movies, and wrestling, and shows for young adults were very dramatic night time soaps that are just weak.Bad Eggs may not be top tier Buffy but we all laughed, thought the monsters were creepy, and all wanted Buffy and Angel to be the coolest bad ass couple. There were no clunkers for us .
This is not a well-regarded episode among the fandom. I think the script needed some work to better integrate the two stories, and some scenes could have been shot and edited better to make things clearer (most viewers do not get that it was a mirror next to the escalator). But there are lot of things in the episode that I do like, Lyle's "hat catch" in particular.
The Gorch Brothers definitely upped the fun of this episode.
Get ready for the next 1 because oh boy it’s good!!
Not supposed to talk about future episodes in general, let them react unbiased by hype or whatever.
@@ernesthakey3396 ok mama
If ever there was an episode that lives up to its name it's this, it stinks like Bad Eggs. I thought Bad Eggs was possibly one of the worst episodes of the series. A real filler to be honest. There are 144 episodes of BTVS they all can't be brilliant, however the E13 and E14 two parter to follow are superb, absolute bangers. Obviously this episode is a homage to 1950s classic horror film Invasion Of The Body Snatchers. Not much more to really say about this, so much better to come.
What I don't like is when people comment how an episode stinks and hammer the point home too much on a video where the reactors like said episode.
I don't mind commenting about how good or bad the commenter considers the episode just reacted too; I just wish people didn't talk about future episodes, let the reactors react without bias if possible. Of course many reactors are already ahead on Patreon. 🤷♂️
It’s honestly probably my least favorite episode. It’s filler. I love monster of the week, but this is just stupid. It does have some moments though.
I enjoy the humor of this episode a lot... but am completely grossed out by the egg creature. Those creepy-ass spindly things reaching out for Buffy's face?? NO THANK YOU. Gross.