Buffy the Vampire Slayer – “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered”

Original Air Date: February 10, 1998

Directed by: James A. Contner

Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode!

Synopsis: Xander (Nicholas Brendon) blackmails Amy (Elizabeth Anne Allen) into using witchcraft to exact revenge for being dumped, but things go terrible awry.

Kitty Cameo: At one point Amy changes Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) into a rat. Buffy scurries off and ends up in a basement. While there, she has a brief encounter with a snarling black cat.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered - black cat facing Buffy as rat
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered - black cat snarling

The cat runs after Buffy but we do not see what happens, only that later Buffy has gotten away.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered - close up of black cat
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered - close up of black cat
Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered - Buffy as rat encounters black cat animated gif

Final Mewsings: To cats, rats are rats.

Many thanks to Mark Murton for letting us know about the cat in this episode.

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