season one

• ok ok editor's note: if you wanted the MOST condensed s1 essentials, you can get away with just 1.01-02, 1.07, & 1.12. those are the MOST essential but i do think there's value in 1.03 & 1.10 as well. and 1.06 the pack, i do, shut up.
• 1.01 Welcome to the Hellmouth (1) • It's like a whole big sucking thing.
• 1.02 the Harvest (2) • That's what a secret is, when you know something other guys don't.
• 1.03 Witch • I expect a certain amount of responsibility, instead of which you enslave yourself to this... cult.
• 1.07 Angel • For hundreds of years I offered ugly death to everyone I met.
• 1.10 Nightmares • You'll slay, we'll party!
• 1.12 Prophecy Girl ♥ Giles, I'm sixteen years old. I don't wanna die.

season two

• 2.01 When She Was Bad • Don't you wish I would?
• 2.03 School Hard ♥ You were my Yoda!
• 2.06 Halloween • I just wanted to be a real girl for once.
• 2.07 Lie to Me • No one ever dies & everybody lives happily ever after.
• 2.08 the Dark Age • Hello, Ripper.
• 2.09 What's My Line (1) • A regular kid & her cradle-robbing, creature-of-the-night boyfriend.
• 2.10 What's My Line (2) ♥ Two slayers! No waiting!
• 2.13 Surprise (1) • It's delicious; I only dreamed you'd come.
• 2.14 Innocence (2) ♥ I feel just fine.
• 2.15 Phases • Three days out of the month I'm not much fun to be around, either.
• 2.16 Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered • I'll date whoever the hell I wanna date, no matter how lame he is.
• 2.17 Passion ♥ It will stir, open its jaws, & howl.
• 2.18 Killed By Death • Shh! Hospital zone. No singing.
• 2.19 I Only Have Eyes for You ♥ He can't live with it, Buff. He's dead.
• 2.21 Becoming (1) • It's a big rock. Can't wait to tell my friends. They don't have a rock this big.
• 2.22 Becoming (2) ♥ Me.

season three

• 3.01 Anne • I'm Buffy, the vampire slayer. And you are?
• 3.02 Dead Man's Party • Alright, I'll stop giving you a hard time. Runaway.
• 3.03 Faith, Hope & Trick • Your spell worked at the last minute, Wil.
• 3.04 Beauty & the Beasts • Yet he retained his wildness & wiliness.
• 3.05 Homecoming • I think they could be cleaner!
• 3.06 Band Candy ♥ I've had a ton & I don't feel any diff– never mind.
• 3.07 Revelations • What gives you the right to suck face with your demon lover again?
• 3.08 Lovers Walk ♥ Love isn't brains, children, it's blood.
• 3.09 the Wish ♥ I wish us into bizarro land & you guys are still together?
• 3.10 Amends • Strong is fighting! It's hard & it's painful & it's every day.
• 3.12 Helpless • I think it might be time to put a moratorium on parties in my honor.
• 3.13 the Zeppo • Maybe you should be... fray-adjacent.
• 3.14 Bad Girls ♥ Hey, girlfriend. Bad time?
• 3.15 Consequences • I guess that means you have a job opening.
• 3.16 Doppelgängland • It's all about emotional control.
• 3.17 Enemies • Maybe you didn't notice – Angel's with me.
• 3.18 Earshot • My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it.
• 3.19 Choices • Is that your greater purpose?
• 3.20 the Prom ♥ I'm over the whole "Buffy gets one perfect high school moment" thing.
• 3.21 Graduation Day (1) ♥ Well, look at you. All dressed up in big sister's clothes.
• 3.22 Graduation Day (2) ♥ Just take what you need. You ready?

season four

• 4.03 the Harsh Light of Day • Dru dump you again?
• 4.04 Fear, Itself • IT'S ALIIIIVE!
• 4.06 Wild at Heart • I'm kind of hoping she doesn't use me as a model.
• 4.07 the Initiative • I always worried what would happen if that bitch got some funding.
• 4.08 Pangs • I like my evil like I like my men: evil.
• 4.09 Something Blue ♥ Stop that. I can hear the smacking.
• 4.10 Hush ♥ The gentlemen are coming by.
• 4.11 Doomed • Looks like we're going back to high school.
• 4.12 a New Man • I'm an unemployed librarian with a tendency to get knocked on the head.
• 4.13 the I in Team • Honeymoon is over.
• 4.14 Goodbye Iowa • Leaving you swabs to your dramatics, thanks. I've got my stories on the telly for that.
• 4.15 This Year's Girl (1) ♥ Clean sheets. Like summer.
• 4.16 Who Are You (2) ♥ I guess you never really know someone until you've been inside their skin.
• 4.17 Superstar • If you really want it, you can make anything happen.
• 4.19 New Moon Rising • If I'm old & blue­-haired & I turn a corner in Istanbul & there you are ­–
• 4.20 the Yoko Factor • A chosen one & her friends.
• 4.21 Primeval ♥ You could never hope to grasp the source of our power.
• 4.22 Restless ♥ Oh, I'm beginning to understand this now. It's all about the journey, isn't it?

season five

• 5.01 Buffy vs. Dracula ♥ How do you like my darkness now?
• 5.02 Real Me • Oh, scary vampires, they die from splinters.
• 5.04 Out of My Mind • Oh dear, is the enormous hall monitor sick?
• 5.05 No Place Like Home • She's an innocent in this. She needs you.
• 5.06 Family • It makes me proud. It makes me love you more.
• 5.07 Fool for Love ♥ You're beneath me.
• 5.08 Shadow • Minimal damage of the fighting kind. It's all the other kind.
• 5.09 Listening to Fear • It's a killer snot monster from outer space.
• 5.11 Triangle • That's insane troll logic!
• 5.12 Checkpoint ♥ Power: I have it, they don't. This bothers them.
• 5.13 Blood Ties • It's Summers blood. It's just like mine.
• 5.14 Crush • I knew you loved the slayer. The pixies in my head whispered it to me.
• 5.16 the Body • She'll never have eggs, or yawn or brush her hair, not ever, & no one will explain to me why.
• 5.17 Forever • Who's gonna take care of us?
• 5.18 Intervention • What you did, for me & Dawn. That was real.
• 5.19 Tough Love • She's my girl.
• 5.20 Spiral • I won't let anything happen to you. I promise.
• 5.21 the Weight of the World ♥ It would be over. & I imagined what a relief it would be.
• 5.22 the Gift ♥ Be brave. Live. For me.

season six

• 6.01 Bargaining (1) • If we want her to be exactly she'll never be exactly I know the only really real Buffy is really Buffy & she's gone who?
• 6.02 Bargaining (2) • You're home.
• 6.03 After Life • I can be alone with you here.
• 6.04 Flooded • But then I always thought so.
• 6.05 Life Serial ♥ The only person I can even stand to be around is a neutered vampire who cheats at kitten poker.
• 6.06 All the Way • Let's just forget it ever happened.
• 6.07 Once More, With Feeling ♥ So one of us is living...
• 6.08 Tabula Rasa ♥ You never showed me affection like that. I'd wager.
• 6.09 Smashed • Your job is to kill the slayer, but all you can do is follow me around making moon eyes.
• 6.10 Wrecked • Please help me.
• 6.11 Gone • I didn't – I don't – wanna die. That's something, right?
• 6.13 Dead Things • That's my girl.
• 6.14 Older & Far Away • I wish I could just make them stop going away.
• 6.15 As You Were • My hat has a cow.
• 6.16 Hell's Bells • I, Anya, promise to love you, to cherish you, to honor you, but not to obey you, of course, because that's anachronistic & misogynistic & who you do you think you are, like a sea captain or something?
• 6.17 Normal Again • You've got a world of strength in your heart. I know you do. You just have to find it again. Believe in yourself.
• 6.18 Entropy • Can we just skip it?
• 6.19 Seeing Red • Your shirt...
• 6.20 Villains • Bored now.
• 6.21 Two to Go (1) • I'd like to test that theory.
• 6.22 Grave (2) • I want to show it to you.

season seven

• 7.01 Lessons • It's about power.
• 7.02 Beneath You • To be a kind of man.
• 7.03 Same Time, Same Place •
• 7.04 Help •
• 7.05 Selfless •
• 7.07 Conversations With Dead People •
• 7.08 Sleeper •
• 7.09 Never Leave Me •
• 7.10 Bring on the Night •
• 7.11 Showtime • I'm the thing that monsters have nightmares about.
• 7.12 Potential • You're not special. You're extraordinary.
• 7.13 the Killer in Me •
• 7.14 First Date • I'm not ready for you to not be here.
• 7.15 Get it Done •
• 7.16 Storyteller ♥
• 7.17 Lies My Parents Told Me •
• 7.18 Dirty Girls ♥ Am I the good slayer now?
• 7.19 Empty Places •
• 7.20 Touched •
• 7.21 End of Days •
• 7.22 Chosen ♥ Are you ready to be strong?