Red Hot Mother

Alyson's 'Buffy' Picks

1 HUSH (Season 4; creepy floating demons the Gentlemen rob everyone of the power of speech.) ''It was a whole new way of figuring out how to act, the not-talking thing.''

2 THE BODY (Season 5; Buffy's mom dies from an aneurysm; the episode had no background score.) ''I just remember the no sound, no music — it was so disconcerting.''

3 TED (Season 2; John Ritter guests as Buffy's mom's evil robot suitor.) ''John Ritter was the best. We would all just hang out in his trailer and be like, 'Hi, John Ritter!!' and he didn't care. And, we got to shoot at a mini-golf place.''

4 DOPPLEGANGLAND (Season 3; a spell gone awry spawns Willow's nefarious twin.) ''I was in the vampire Willow outfit, and Alexis had some holy water, and he made this noise, like FFFFT!! And it just cracked me up. I had such a crush on him.''