Actually, the first episode I ever saw was "The Puppet Show". I dismissed it immediatly, I thought it was kind of dumb.🙄
Quite a few years later, FX was re-running Buffy eps. I flipped it to FX, for no obvious reason, and it was "Blood Ties". I got immediately hooked, and watched those eps after it. At that time, UPN was playing the new Season 6 episodes. Well, I didn't know that WB had given up Buffy, so I didn't know when to catch the new ones. I finally found Buffy one day, and it was the episode "Wrecked". And that was when my Buffy fandom had started. I now have seen every episode so far, except for "Bargaining 1&2".🙂😀😉
So, Season 5 for me!🙂