Beer Bad

"Beer Bad"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 5
Directed by	David Solomon
Written by	Tracey Forbes
Production code	4ABB05
Original air date	November 2, 1999
Guest appearance(s)
Marc Blucas as Riley Finn Adam Kaufman as Parker Abrams Paige Moss as Veruca Eric Matheny as Colm Stephen M. Porter as Jack the Bartender Lindsay Crouse as Maggie Walsh Kal Penn as Hunt Jake Phillips as Kip Bryan Cupprill as Roy Lisa Johnson as Paula Joshua Wheeler as Driver Patrick Belton as College Guy #1 Kaycee Shank as College Guy #2 Steven Jang as College Guy #3 Cameron Bender as Stoner Kate Luhr as Young Woman
Episode chronology
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"Beer Bad" is the fifth episode of the fourth season of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It is written by Tracey Forbes and directed by David Solomon. It was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Hairstyling in a Series.

Buffy is still hurting because Parker dumped her after a night together. In a daydream during one of Professor Walsh's classes (pointedly, about the role of the id in Freudian psychology) she saves Parker's life and he swears to do anything to get her back. A dialogue with Willow later shows how much Buffy is not over him yet.

In the real world, Xander gets a job as a bartender with a fake ID, and has to endure the insults from students. He gets to test his empathy skills with none other than Buffy who then proceeds to get drunk on "Black Frost" beer with four college boys. Oz and Willow are in The Bronze together, but he feels a strange connection to the pretty singer Veruca when she gets on the stage with her band Shy.

The next morning, Willow not only has to cope with Veruca having called her a "groupie", but also with Buffy, who seems to be suffering from "Black Frost." That evening when Buffy drinks herself further and further, it is soon revealed why: somebody has a chemical lab set up and is putting more into the beer than just malt. Xander finally sends Buffy home. When her four drinking buddies turn into violent Neanderthals, he finds out that the owner of the pub has been brewing the beer as revenge for 20 years of college kids taunting him. While the boys escape to the streets of Sunnydale, Xander gets Giles to help. They find Buffy drawing cave paintings on her dorm wall saying "Parker bad." Giles and Xander are unable to keep Buffy in her room when she gets a craving for more beer.

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