Just to start, this is more of a response to everyone who seems to think that Joyce is a terrible mother. Is everyone writing those things also 16 year old girls who are convinced that their parents "just don't understand" and have no idea what they're going through? Joyce is a great mother, I think. The proof is in how much effort she makes to be a part of Buffy's life. Lets look at the facts, here: Joyce doesn't know that Buffy is the slayer yet, so, to her, Buffy is just this juvenile delinquent that is always sneaking out, lying, dating older men (Angel) and doing terrible in school. And yet Joyce is just supposed to magically trust her daughter, let her do whatever she wants, and listen to her when she says she doesn't like her mom's new boyfriend. How is this making any sense? Of course Buffy is going to have issues with her mom dating; what teenage girl wouldn't? Notice how Xander's parents are alcoholics who fight all the time, and how Willow's parents ignore her because they have better things to do? See, those are bad parents. Buffy's mom? Good parent. I just wish that people would think about it a little more before they started bashing Joyce.

This episode was fairly good. I do have one issue with it though, Buffy's mom. Joyce should start listening to her daughter. A lot of my friends watch this show too. All of them like Joyce, me, I just don't care for her. In some episodes, she is a good mom. In other episodes (like this one) she gets so self consumed that I really want to hit her. Like in the episode "Anne", she says that she liked it better when Buffy was away. That made me very mad. The story line of this episode was great though. The whole, mom's new evil boyfriend theme in BtVS is pretty funny. I love it that Jenny and Giles get back together. This episode does not have a huge place in the storyline of the season, but I think that you should watch it anyway.

I really dislike Buffy's mom, She never trusts Buffy and she doesn't even bother telling her about new people in her life.

Awesome episode, and Buffy's mom needs to be more trusting of her own daughter. Doped up or not.

Ted was really quite creepy - from Buffy's perspective, he was the mom's boyfriend from hell. If their relationship had gone on any longer, I would have moved in with Angel.