19 "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" Moments That Still Make Me Cry, And 19 That Still Make Me Laugh
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It's been 25 years since Buffy the Vampire Slayer premiered, and there are still dozens of moments that make me cry or laugh just by thinking about them.
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Here are some of the moments from Buffy that still make me emotional after all this time:
1.😂 When Buffy tells the Master he has "fruit-punch" mouth
2.😭 When Buffy smashes the Master's bones
3.😂 When everyone turns into their Halloween costumes
4.😭 When Angel kills Jenny Calendar and leaves her body for Giles to find
5.😂 When Xander joins the swim team
Specifically, Cordelia, Buffy, and Willow's reaction to seeing Xander in his itty bitty speedo — and his reaction to seeing them see him in his itty bitty speedo.
6.😭 When Drusilla kills Kendra
7.😂 When Giles drags Joyce about her evil mask that raises the dead
Early on in Season 3, Joyce, who manages an art gallery, brings home an African mask that ends up being evil — like raise-the-dead evil. Giles' reaction to this discovery is, in a word, hilarious.
8.😭 When Buffy kills Angel
9.😂 Pretty much all of "Doppelgangland"
10.😭 When Buffy saves Jonathan from himself
11.😂 When Buffy calls out Giles for having sex with her mom
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Despite Joyce's best efforts, while caring for her mind-reading daughter, she's unable not to think about the fact that she and Giles hooked up when they had regressed into teenagerhood. Buffy seems more baffled than anything — which makes sense, since she has bigger things to worry about, like not losing her mind — but she doesn't pass up the chance to roast Giles about it later. Watching him literally walk into a tree never gets old.
12.😭 When Buffy gets her Class Protector award
13.😂 When Buffy gets a roommate
14.😭 When Oz leaves Willow
15.😂 When Xander and Harmony fight
16.😂 When Buffy and Spike "fall in love"
17.😂 Giles' presentation about the Gentlemen
18.😭 When Buffy, Giles, Willow, and Xander combine their essences to fight Adam
19.😂 When Dracula comes to Sunnydale
20.😭 When Buffy breaks down about her mom being sick
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This is another one of those watching-people-cry-makes-me-cry moments, and there are few things sadder than Buffy crying about her sick mom (especially when you know what's coming later on).
21.😂 When Giles dresses like a wizard
Why Giles decides to dress like Merlin for the grand re-opening of The Magic Shop is beyond me, but it's a truly ~magical~ moment.
22.😭 When the Scooby Gang sticks up for Tara
23.😭 When Buffy tells Dawn they're sisters no matter what
After Dawn finds out that she's the mystical Key that can open the borders between dimensions, she understandably goes through a major identity crisis and runs away. Buffy assures her that no matter where she came from or how she came to be, she's her sister.
24.😂 When Spike gets thrown through a window by a robot
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Need I say more?
25.😭 Pretty much all of "The Body"
26.😂 When the gang meets the Buffybot
27.😭 When Glory attacks Tara
28.😂 When Spike tries to explain to the Scoobies that Ben is Glory and Glory is Ben
29.😭 When Buffy dies (the second time)
30.😂 When Anya sings "Bunnies"
31.😭 When Buffy reveals her friends pulled her out of heaven
32.😂 When the Scoobies (temporarily) lose their memories
33.😭 When Tara dies
34.😭 When Xander saves Willow from herself
35.😂 When Buffy, Anya, Willow, and Dawn fight over a kid with a magic varsity jacket
36.😭 When Xander tells Dawn she's "extraordinary"
37.😂 When Buffy gets in one final pun
Buffy's quippy one-liners are always A+, and telling the First — who has adopted her visage — to get out of her face is a surprising moment of levity amidst the horrific battle going on around them.
