YMMV / Buffy the Vampire Slayer S3E4 "Beauty and the Beasts"

• Anvilicious: About domestic abuse. The scene of Pete revealing his true Jekyll & Hyde nature in particular.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Sunnydale guidance counselor Mr. Platt only appears for a few minutes, but he's pretty well-liked for being a warm, quirky Reasonable Authority Figure and many fans wish he'd been a recurring character instead of a disposable murder victim.
• Harsher in Hindsight: After the way Buffy treats Spike in Season 6 "Dead Things".
• Narm:
  • Pete's monster transformation, best summed up as a Mr. Hyde transformation as done by Jim Carrey.
  • This episode also debuts Oz's new werewolf look. Which is sillier: the big fake wolf-head, or the obviously repurposed gorilla suit? You decide!
• Too Cool to Live: Platt. A Reasonable Authority Figure who despite All Therapists Are Muggles actually connects to Buffy to the point that she turns to him to confide a Dark Secret. So of course, halfway through the episode, Pete makes a Cannibal Corpse lyric out of him.
• The Woobie: Debbie Foley is pretty pitiable. She's in an abusive relationship with Pete, a boy who turns into a literal monster. He hits her, kills anyone else he feels she's getting close to and blames her for everything. By the end of the episode she's half catatonic, muttering to herself that Pete does love her. And then he kills her.

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