10 Funniest Buffy The Vampire Slayer Episodes

2. Restless

Buffy Cheese Man
Mutant Enemy Productions

A coda to the closing events of Buffy's fourth season, Restless (its twenty-second and final episode) takes the Slayer and her Scoobies a-wandering through a shared dreamworld where the rules are thrown out the window and into another dimension altogether.

Buffy, Giles, Willow and Xander face repercussions from the First Slayer for invoking a collective magic to defeat the bio-mechanical demonoid Adam, and are having their body parts cut from them in dreams which become nightmares - but there's plenty of time for fun and laughs in-between.

Whether it's Riley starring as a cowboy in a high school production of Death of a Salesman, the rampant sexual fantasies of Xander (Willow, Tara, Joyce, Anya... is anyone safe?!) or the fan-favourite Cheese Man, the episode plays fast and loose with the show's usual sensibilities and elicits every last drop of humour from a thoroughly game cast.

Though his origin and future path are unknown, the Cheese Man will live on in our hearts and dreams forever.

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