Buffy The Vampire Slayer: 10 Best Spike Episodes

7. Tabula Rasa (Season 6, Episode 8)

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Since a lot of Spike's best moments come from the show's more emotionally heavy side of things, here's your friendly reminder that Spike is crazy funny when the show lets him.

In Tabula Rasa, one of Willow's spells go awry and causes everyone to forget who they are. Coming out of a deep sleep, the gang wake up and try to figure out who they are. In the madness, Spike mocks Giles for being British, only to realise he himself is British...and maybe Giles's son.

It's an hilarious moment, boosted to all-timer territory by Spike thinking his name is "Randy Giles", a name he mocks and shows hysterical disdain for.

Top all this off with his and Giles's awkward hugging and his team-up with Buffy (going by the name Joan), and what you have is Spike at his funniest and most entertaining. Tabula Rasa is a great episode, but Spike is definitely its highlight.

At least until the end, anyway, when it gets very, very sad.

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