Bad Eggs

Buffy Episode Review

In which there is a school activity.

What Happened

The kids are assigned a class project to look after egg "babies," as a way of teaching them responsibility. Unfortunately for their grades, going to school on the Hellmouth becomes an issue once again: the eggs hatch creepy-crawly critters that attach themselves to their students, taking control of everyone except Buffy and Xander.

The Good

• Buffy calmly crunching the eggs under a toolbox as Xander freaks.
• Buffy and Angel kissing at the window. Okay, I thought it was cute.

The Bad

• "Don't you ever think about anything but boys?" "Saving the world from vampires?" Sad, not funny. Joyce and Buffy's shopping trip.
• "This ain't over." Non-funny recurring non-joke from the Gorches.
• Way too loud on the lip smacking during Buffy and Angel's smooch-fest in the graveyard.
• "Eggbert"? Buffy should know better than to saddle her child with a name like that. No wonder it tries to suck the life from her as she sleeps.

The Cliche

• "I can't take care of an egg-baby. I killed my gigapet." Buffy the single mother. It's just an excuse for all the main characters to get their own egg. We certainly never see their partners again.
• Sunnydale security guard. Now, there's job that must have a high turnover rate.
• She's been doing this long enough. Doesn't Buffy have a set of excuses to tell her mother by now, instead of stammering responses.

Best Lines

Willow: "You boiled your young?"
Giles: "There is a sort of Machiavellian ingenuity to your transgression."
Xander: "I resent that! Or, possibly thank you." Xander totally carries this scene while Buffy and Willow are borderline catatonic.

What Did I Think?

One of the much lesser episodes. Easily skippable.