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By its very nature, Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a show that's suitable for Halloween viewing, though some of its episodes fit the holiday more than others. The teen horror series is teeming with vampires, monsters, demons, ghosts, and other creatures typically associated with the spooky season and things that go bump in the night. With Halloween being the best time for marathons of scary movies and TV shows, a guide to the best Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes to watch in this setting is in order.

There are actually three Buffy the Vampire Slayer Halloween episodes, so of course these installments fall into this category. Other suitable episodes may not have had Halloween in mind, but they're particularly spooky or scary and fit the bill for the scariest night of the year. If Buffy the Vampire Slayer is in the cards this October 31, there are definitely certain episodes to consider watching.

Did you or did you not gasp as loudly as NBC commentator Sandra Bezic when China's Xue Shen and Hongbo Zhao bobbled on that lift? They finally got their gold medal, China's first in figure skating, and ended the Russian domination of the pairs discipline that lasted for 12 straight Games. (Yuko Kavaguti and Aleksandr Smirnov finished fourth, but he gets the gold in men's thighs, if it's any consolation.) Almost as long a wait, the time it took for Shen and Zhao to realize they'd won. If they hadn't screamed like they did, I would have felt like such a...

Presumably not just so the world's figure skating commentators could keep discussing how poetic it was for the pairs to take the ice on Valentine's Day, competition got underway Sunday at the Vancouver Games. China's married two-time Olympic bronze medalists Xue Shen and Hongbo Zhao (pictured, far left), who came out of retirement in their thirties (!) to go for gold, performed first and set a new short program record. NBC's package on their 18-year partnership and dorm-room marriage made me emotionally vulnerable, so yes, I got chills when they hit their perfect side-by-side triple toe loops. They were skating to...

Truth: All it takes to get us psyched for the Olympics is hearing Scott Hamilton's voice for five seconds. The man is still pure joy. In preparation for our PopWatch on Ice coverage of the Vancouver Games, we tuned in for the U.S. Figure Skating Championships over the weekend to see which men and pairs will be representing us. (The ladies and ice dancing competitions are next weekend.) Jeremy Abbott, who delivered what Hamilton referred to as a "beat down" to defend his title, was the talk of Sunday's men's free skate. Except for in my apartment, where...