Buffy The Vampire Slayer: 20 Greatest Moments
5. School's Out Forever
It's every high school kid's dream to blow up their school but Buffy got to live out that dream, while saving the world in the process, in season three's finale Graduation Day.
To stop the Mayor - or rather the giant demon snake that he's become - the Scoobies have to trap him inside the school building, which they have packed full of explosives. And so, just like Alice Cooper prophesied, school is blown to pieces. Well, gosh!
As well as a poster moment for Buffy's rebellious, anti-authoritarian spirit, it's also a perfect bookend to the show's high school era. Just like the Mayor, the show and its central character were ascending to the next level.