"Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
Bad Eggs (1998)

Director:

David Greenwalt

Writers:

Joss Whedon (creator)
Marti Noxon (written by)

TV Series:

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997)

Original Air Date:

12 January 1998 (Season 2, Episode 12)

Genre:

Drama | Fantasy

Plot:

The students are given eggs to look after, and Buffy finds out that there is something inside of the eggs. Soon the eggs hatch, the creatures inside take over the minds of their owners. Also, a pair of cowboy vampires show up in town.

Plot Keywords:

Library | Female Protagonist | Heroine | Teenage Girl | Male Female Relationship

Cast

Sarah Michelle Gellar	...	Buffy Summers
Nicholas Brendon	...	Xander Harris
Alyson Hannigan	...	Willow Rosenberg
Charisma Carpenter	...	Cordelia Chase
David Boreanaz	...	Angel
Anthony Head	...	Rupert Giles (as Anthony Stewart Head)
Kristine Sutherland	...	Joyce Summers
Jeremy Ratchford	...	Lyle Gorch
James Parks	...	Tector Gorch
Rick Zieff	...	Mr. Whitmore
Danny Strong	...	Jonathan Levinson
Brie McCaddin	...	Cute Girl
Eric Whitmore	...	Night Watchman

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-PG

Trivia:

The Gorches have the same first names, Lyle and Tector, as the Gorches from Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969). Giles refers to them slaughtering a Mexican village in 1886, similar to the event that ends the movie, but the movie is set in 1913.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Willow and Xander first enter the library, there are two paper-trays on top of the catalog cabinet where Buffy is standing; they are absent in subsequent shots. Also on the cabinet is a chained pen, which changes position between shots.

Quotes:

[Xander's boiling of his egg]
Giles: I suppose there is a sort of Machiavellian ingenuity to your transgression.
Xander: I resent that... or, possibly, thank you.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Bad Eggs is bad, like Beer Bad, but Bad Girls is good

I don't think I'll shine any light this one. But what really illuminated (the night it originally aired) was the full moon. SMG actually likes a good moon (in the sky). She even asked the DP to film one while noises by the 'cemetery' (She doesn't like real ones) interrupted shooting. I'd like to believe I'm 1st to designate the 1st original episode airing on a night of an actual full moon. Now for another strange bit of trivia I don't think anyone has mentioned: The theme musics from Buffy and Angel use the SAME first 3 pitched notes. I bet even Joss, Chris, and Jesse T. are unaware of this. I just HAD to tell someone! Consider this 'Easter'- 'Egg' material of the non-DVD kind.