YMMV / Buffy the Vampire Slayer S1E3 "The Witch"

• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Amy dealing with her mom's villainy is tougher to watch after Amy's own Face–Heel Turn in season six.
  • Xander asks Willow to kindly stop beating a dead horse: "Will, yeah, that is the point. You don't have to drive it through my head like a railroad spike." Much later, we find out that this was Spike's preferred method of torture.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Buffy asks her mother if she would like to be sixteen again, and her mother is horrified at the thought; Joyce would, in fact, mentally regress to her teenage years in "Band Candy".
  • Amy tells Buffy that the cheerleader Amber trained with Benson.
• Never Live It Down:
  • This episode is likely to blame for pop culture often portraying Buffy as a cheerleader. The Movie doesn't help, granted, but it's somewhat obscure.
  • The infamous cat scare. Which may or may not have been put in the credits to make people think Buffy could turn into a cat.
• One-Scene Wonder: In her one scene in the entire series (for which she is uncredited for), Amber Grove has a very impressively choreographed cheer audition, followed by her nearly being immolated by a witch's spell.
• Padding: The Cat Scare pretty much only exists so it could be put in the credits. Catherine Madison's cat makes no other appearance in the episode, and obviously wasn't a very effective guardian for the spellbook.

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