10 Overlooked Buffy The Vampire Slayer Episodes That Are Secretly Classics

Season three of Buffy is full of wall-to-wall bangers, so it's easy for some episodes to slip through the cracks. Gingerbread is one such episode, one that took the show's signature snarky humour and thrust it into more absurd and uncomfortably dark territory.

Upon surprising Buffy during one of her routine patrols, Joyce happens upon the corpses of two small children. This shocking discovery leads Joyce to start a crusade against the occult forces that plague Sunnydale - with a particular focus on high-schoolers that show a keen interest in the dark arts.

What seems like a feeble attempt to address an ongoing problem soon becomes something much more sinister when the ghosts of the murdered children begin to exert their influence over Joyce and convince her to form a lynch mob and burn all local witches at the stake.

Naturally, Willow becomes a target and even Buffy herself falls victim to Joyce's deranged crusade, leaving Oz, Xander, Giles, and Cordelia to save the day in their typical bumbling fashion.

What makes Gingerbread such a classic though is that despite the overly dark plot, the show's trademark humour is out in full force, making this one of the show's most quotable episodes.