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Buffy 4x05 (Early Access) - Beer Bad (Patreon)

Published:
2021-06-26 17:00:03
Imported:
2026-06
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Content

"Beer bad" - Xander, 1999

"Beer bad" - Domi + Domi's friend who had to cope with hungover Domi, 2021

Glad we're in agreement, Xander.

Files

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER 4x05 REACTION l Beer Bad

Comments

GenU

I thought this episode was hilarious. Great for drunk re-watches. And who doesn't like to see Parker get hit over the head - twice. And called out by Willow.

Dave Ford

I dunno - there's just something so off about this episode. Not only is it stupid (but BTVS isn't a stranger to really stupid plots), but it seems to be driven by some weird puritanical attitude toward beer that I just don't understand. Beer just isn't bad.

Lee Wilcock

Scuttlebut is that it was the studio doing an anti alcohol evangelising project, asking the story writers in many of their shows to do "dangers of alcohol" storylines, and this was Buffy's donation to the project. Many of these studio virtue signalling projects tend to fall flat, because no writer likes to be backseat driven by the upper management types, and you can't always write the situation into the story at the time they want it, because the characters are not in the situation to be turned into alcoholics, at this time. Also many of these one week studio projects need multi episode build up to set up the main themes. you can't just do it with a couple of weeks notice, hence episodes like 'Ted' ( Domestic violence) and 'Beer Bad' (Evils of alcohol) tend to fall on their face.

Chas Summers

Beer isn't bad but the binge drinking of it by college students can be. This episode is the classic Buffy twist of inserting the fantastical into cautionary life tales.

Loves Bitca

The networks get some kind of bonus or credit for doing the anti drug "special episodes". That's why they are done on any show. Not because the show actually cares. It was especially funny when they did it on the Drew Carey show, where every episode they were always drinking like crazy. So Buffy was asked to do one and this was it. The funny thing is that they still didn't get the bonus for it because it really didn't show "the problem with alcohol". It showed "the problem with MAGIC alcohol" and that didn't count.

James

The cavemen theme is not random, it's the show doing what it does so often: making metaphors literal. Smart college students morphing into primitive “Neanderthals” when they drink beer becomes a literal morphing rather than just metaphorical. The episode is very thematically cohesive – it's about Freud's theory of the id – the pleasure principle, the desire for immediate gratification – discussed by Walsh at the start. The id is something that one must overcome in order to grow up – and the main theme of BtVS is growing up. The id comes out more when we're drunk – e.g. see the discussion by the college students of 'drunk morals' - and the id is also a more primitive state, like the cavemen. The id applies to not only the beer storyline but also to the Parker storyline, and also the Oz storyline as well. And the beer theme works in different ways – the common college pastime of binge drinking is an appropriate topic for early season 4, plus Buffy using it to drown her sorrows is a common thing, plus the 'college versus non-college people' theme (which is linked to Xander by him becoming the bartender which is smart because the season had already showed he has insecurities about this). And this is what causes the bartender to do what he did - beer makes everyone the same – i.e. the college students may act smart, but deep down they have an id, they have an inner caveman/woman, just like everyone else. Plus other fun things about the episode: the funny second version of Buffy's fantasy, which is then called back at the end of the episode, the foreshadowing of Willow being gay, the Willow/Parker discussion of the different meanings of sexual encounters, and Xander's lighter being set up earlier in the episode and then used to frighten the cavemen. Plus cavewoman Buffy is awesome!