Blog #3: Buffy, Buffy, Buffy

I chose to continue with the Buffy episodes and I watched episode number 3, “Teacher’s Pet.” This episode was interesting and did not really have a huge main problem that could be directly applied to our daily lives. The problem in this episode has to deal with the fact that being a teacher’s pet is not always a good thing. In the episode, Zander who is one of Buffy’s friends goes gaga over their new substitute biology teacher, who is in fact a preying mantis in human form. She uses her beauty along with other features to get the boys in her class to fall in lust with her so that she can use them to mate with and create more killing mantises. Zander actually goes to her house and is almost killed, and this is all due to the fact he considered himself a teacher’s pet. This is an example of how being a teacher’s pet isn’t always a good thing. I think it is trying to say that being a teacher’s pet will not get you very far and that in the end you might get in trouble, possibly life threating trouble in Zander’s case, that is. It is basically saying that you should also do your homework (Buffy did not) so you understand what is going on in class and might be able to help with a real life problem. If Buffy had done her homework, maybe she would have been able to stop it right away before Zander was put in danger. So, overall this episode is telling us, in a fun and dramatic way, that being a teacher’s pet is not always good, but doing your homework is! (I know it may seem redundant and stupid, but it is the only major theme that I could elaborate on.)