10 More Overlooked Buffy The Vampire Slayer Episodes That Are Secretly Classics
7. Anne (Season 3, Episode 1)
After skipping town following the traumatic events of the previous season, Buffy winds up in L.A., working as a waitress in a grotty little cafe and trying to live a new life under the name Anne. Things seem to be going as well as they possibly can be in such dire circumstances when demonic forces begin to make themselves known to her.
Upon investigating a series of disappearances, Buffy discovers an underground realm where humans are forced into slavery by a race of demons. Time works differently in this realm, so the humans are worked well into old age before being spat back out onto the city streets to die.
Try as she might to throw off the shackles of her calling, Buffy simply cannot allow the innocent to be unprotected and it's this episode in which we see her begin to truly accept her destiny as The Chosen One. Armed with her wit, a hammer, and something weirdly sickle-like, Buffy launches an attack against the exploitative demons and frees those enslaved in some of the show's best and most over-the-top fight scenes.
And if all that somehow wasn't enough, Buffy actually says the title of the show in this one. Top marks all around.