Episode 88 - The Wig MacGuffin (Into the Woods)

This week on The Sunnydale Diaries, Sean and Melanie head Into the Woods for one of Season 5’s heavier, less laugh-filled episodes. Joyce is finally out of surgery, Buffy and Riley’s relationship reaches its breaking point, Spike continues lurking in deeply unsettling fashion, and Xander somehow becomes the voice of mature relationship clarity. Who saw that coming?

Before diving into Riley’s vampire-suck-house spiral and Buffy’s emotional walls, Sean and Melanie kick things off with a very important discussion inspired by Anya’s strawberry schnapps suggestion: underage drinking stories, questionable liqueurs, wine coolers, Long Island iced teas, Watermelon Pucker, 99 Bananas, and the alcohols they can never touch again.

Melanie questions the purpose of Joyce’s tumor arc, Sean complains about the unnecessary Buffy/Riley sex montage , and everyone says goodbye (or maybe good riddance?) to Riley Finn. Plus, Melanie makes her prediction for the next episode, “Triangle,” and somehow summons an opera-singing demon in a Viking helmet.

Join us for heartbreak, helicopter exits, snack houses, and a surprising amount of chicken feet.