Apparently there's nothing in Sunnydale you can't be afraid of. This episode asks you to fear eggs. I think. Maybe it was a joke? I can't really tell. This isn't the most coherent episode.
While Buffy has to deal with two cowboy vampires who've come to town, Buffy, Willow, Xander, and their classmates receive eggs (which look like normal chicken's eggs) which they have to take care of as if they were children. But it turns out these aren't normal eggs- they contain weird creepy-crawly things that attach themselves to people and control them. Except Buffy and Xander, who kill their creatures first. Predictably, all the little creatures die when Buffy kills the big mother creature. We don't even get to see the slaying.
There are some good points to the episode, which I vaguely recall seeing in high school; even Giles is concerned that Xander will break his egg (maybe because he doesn't want egg yolk on the library rug?) and the talk about cheating (Xander hard-boiled his egg) is amusing. The cowboy vampires are also colourful, but again, there's problems with coherency. As the other reviewer asked, why are they there? The egg and cowboy vampire story lines don't really mesh. Additionally, the jokes in the opening sequence fall flat. Buffy mentions fighting vampires to her mother, and between this and the events of School Hard, she still doesn't get what her daughter is doing. Joyce isn't the sharpest tool in the shed. Monster of the week episodes are generally weak. With Ted, I asked myself why an evil salesman couldn't just be an evil salesman, and not a robot. Here I have to similarly ask, can't an egg just be an egg? Now I know someone might reply, if you're not interested in supernatural things, don't watch the show. But I am interested in those cowboy vampires- why not focus on them and just make the eggs a minor joke? And why do so many of these things revolve around the school?
While Buffy has to deal with two cowboy vampires who've come to town, Buffy, Willow, Xander, and their classmates receive eggs (which look like normal chicken's eggs) which they have to take care of as if they were children. But it turns out these aren't normal eggs- they contain weird creepy-crawly things that attach themselves to people and control them. Except Buffy and Xander, who kill their creatures first. Predictably, all the little creatures die when Buffy kills the big mother creature. We don't even get to see the slaying.
There are some good points to the episode, which I vaguely recall seeing in high school; even Giles is concerned that Xander will break his egg (maybe because he doesn't want egg yolk on the library rug?) and the talk about cheating (Xander hard-boiled his egg) is amusing. The cowboy vampires are also colourful, but again, there's problems with coherency. As the other reviewer asked, why are they there? The egg and cowboy vampire story lines don't really mesh. Additionally, the jokes in the opening sequence fall flat. Buffy mentions fighting vampires to her mother, and between this and the events of School Hard, she still doesn't get what her daughter is doing. Joyce isn't the sharpest tool in the shed. Monster of the week episodes are generally weak. With Ted, I asked myself why an evil salesman couldn't just be an evil salesman, and not a robot. Here I have to similarly ask, can't an egg just be an egg? Now I know someone might reply, if you're not interested in supernatural things, don't watch the show. But I am interested in those cowboy vampires- why not focus on them and just make the eggs a minor joke? And why do so many of these things revolve around the school?