I still find it impossible to rank my favorite episodes in order...but I have a feeling that 8.4 will be up there considering all the on screen Xander/Andrew lovin'...although since it was sketchy about which parts of the episodes were dream sequences and what were not, it may have been a dream...but this also begs the question, "Who's dream was it?"

I can pull my favorite episodes from each season.

S1 - Welcome to the Hellmouth/The Harvest, Witch, The Pack, Angel, The Puppet Show, Prophecy Girl

S2 - School Hard, What's My Line pt 2, Surprise, Innocence, Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered, Passion, Becoming pt 2.

S3 - Band Candy, Lovers Walk, The Zeppo, The Wish, Earshot, The Prom, Graduation Day pt 1, Graduation Day pt 2.

S4 - The Harsh Light of Day, Pangs, Something Blue, Hush, Doomed, A New Man, The I in Team, Who Are You, Superstar, The Yoko Factor, Primevil, Restless

S5 - The Replacement, Family, Triangle, Checkpoint, I Was Made to Love You, The Body, Intervention, Weight of the World, The Gift

S6 - Life Serial, OMWF, Tabula Rasa, Smashed, Wrecked, Doublemeat Palace, Seeing Red, Villans, Grave

S7 - Lessons, Beneath You, Same Time, Same Place, Selfless, CwDP, Never Leave Me, Bring On The Night(which is odd because first watch I hated it), First Date, Storyteller, Dirty Girls, Chosen.

Well minus the gimmies(episodes that everone loves like OMWF, Hush, Restless) I cannot really tell a pattern in my favorites. Although I feel like the stretch of episodes in S4 starting with Pangs through The I In Team is my favorite in the entire series.

I find season 4 woefully underrated. The Initiative/Adam arc really didn't work, despite moments. But 4 had some of the most outstanding stand-alone episodes in the history of the show. And also has my personal favorite season ending episode - Chosen would be my second. Yeah, I know - heresy, but I thought Chosen was the big finish to end all big finishes, and I thought Restless was fucking sublime.

Notable in that they don't have a single Season 3 Ep. in the top 10.

"Earshot" was outstanding and should make any top 10. It was a great standalone ep and it really summed up the high school experience. Plus, we got to hear what Oz thinks.

I think that Doublemeat Palace would have fit perfectly in S4. In S6 it was out of place, but I loved it anyway. S4 was my favorite season easy. It was fun and great standalones that still had great character development. Plus it was basically the turning point for the entire series. Big things happened that somehow at the time didn't seem so big. Spike's chip, Willow and Tara, Xander and Giles dealing with where do they go next, Buffy moving on from Angel, Faith starting to realize that good is the way to go, and the unbelievable brilliance of Restless setting up the show for the rest of its run.

I, too, love S4 for the stand-alones (save for Earshot, my converter eps come from S4.), but I'm a sucker for arcs. I may love S2 more in a few years, but at this point, S3 is my Buffy uber-arc, so S3 gets best season vote from me.

I totally agree on the Doublemeat Palace comment (you know, except for the season-specific elements. Wouldn't a remix of Doublemeat Palace with Xander be interesting, though...) I think it would have been more fun back then, though, just based on the over-arching worldview at that point, if that makes sense.

My roommate and I just stumbled upon Nicky B's "Pinata" and are already deeply engrossed and troubled at the same time.

It is on AMC now and later at like 1 AM.

Gleebo, thanks for the heads-up. It's on at 2, est, according to TiVo.

No problem, this movie is terrible...in a good way. Okay maybe not, but it's got Nicky B. also look for his name in the credits as an executive on the movie of some sorts.

Their top 10 Buffys (in order #1 to #10) are:Hush, OMWF,Restless, The Body, Innocence, Becoming Pt.2, Surprise, Chosen, What's My Line Pt. 2, Fool For Love.

The Council of Watchers rating of all BtVS episodes.

Their top 10: Becoming Part Two, Once More With Feeling, Passion, The Body, Innocence, Becoming Part One, Conversations with Dead People, Chosen, Selfless, The Wish.

Every time I try to do my top 10 Buffy episodes it is 20 shows long.