People hate anything new and different. This episode is different. Some eggs are full of monsters that control people. Eggs aren't the problem this episode deals with, the monsters inside them are. Buffy starts the episode shopping with her mom and fights a vampire. Her class gets assigned "taking care" of eggs. The eggs are secretly have a parasite in each of them. Those parasites are controlled by an underground monster. The parasites get stick on people and make them do the monster's bidding. Buffy fights it. It's not terrible and it's not wonderful. Every tv show gets highs, lows and middle ground.