YMMV / Buffy the Vampire Slayer S2E11 "Ted"

• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Ted threatens to have Buffy put in an asylum. This is especially nasty if you've seen "Normal Again".
  • Giles mentions that killing a human being is a hard thing to bear. He himself would murder Ben in "The Gift".
  • Buffy's actions (beating a vampire to a pulp before staking him, accidentally killing someone who might have been human) are harsher to watch after what happened with Faith in season 3. Cordelia even makes the argument that the Slayer should be entitled to a couple of mistake kills, considering all the good she does on balance.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: John Ritter claimed this episode influenced his understanding of his own step-daughter.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Ted's character, with his odd old-fashioned values, jovial persona over a dark side, and love of miniature golf, bears a resemblance to season 3's Mayor Wilkins.
  • Joyce calls Buffy "Sunshine", which is utterly hysterical in Season 5 when A second daughter of hers is retconned into reality... named "Dawn".
  • The final scene between Joyce and Buffy has them sitting on their porch talking about men and about the movie they're about to watch that night, just like a certain mother-and-daughter duo that would premiere two years later on their same channel.

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