Buffy Episode 3

Ok episode three of Buffy.  In this episode there are no vampires and Angel is never shown or mentioned.  Buffy tries out to be a cheerleader and ends up finding out about a witch.  So not only is Buffy dealing with vampires, she is know dealing with witches.  This leaves the show open for other creatures to appear such as werewolves or something like that.  As Buffy is trying out to cheer one of the other girls, Amy, is doing her cheer and her hands catch on fire.  That is when Buffy’s suspicions of Amy being some super natural creature arise.  She discovers that another girl that is trying out is actually a witch.  She starts to cast spells on the other girls to take out the competition.  One girl loses her whole mouth completely in the middle of class, Cordelia becomes possessed like and crashes the drivers ed car.  When Amy finds out Buffy knows her secret she puts a curse on her that makes her super cheery and then turns her deathly sick.  Giles and Buffy must find the spell book to reverse the spell.  When they get to Amy’s house they discover that Amy’s mom switched bodies with her through a spell so she can re-live her high school cheerleading days.  They go back to the school and reverse the spell right at the last second when Amy’s mom, (but in Amy’s body,) comes through the door with an ax.  Then the spell is reversed and Amy is Amy again.  Her mom then tries to cast a spell on Buffy but she knocks a mirror down reflecting the spell onto her causing her to disappear.  

I have a friend that is a cheerleader that is really nice so I feel like I can connect these two.  I think the episode kind of was meant to be a funny metaphor like cheerleaders are witches.  I also feel that even though people can’t technically live in the bodies of their kids, sometimes parents try to live through their kids through sports and put too much pressure on them to be the very best.