What is the title of the Buffy episode where Giles sings in a coffeehouse?
Answer
Where the Wild Things Are
The Buffy episode where Giles sings in a coffeehouse is “Where the Wild Things Are.”
It is the 18th episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s fourth season, broadcast on April 25, 2000. Giles visits the Espresso Pump, a Sunnydale coffeehouse, where he performs a subdued acoustic version of “Behind Blue Eyes,” played by Anthony Stewart Head.
The musical moment is a memorable contrast with Giles’s usual role as the cautious Watcher and research expert. His singing also reflects the character’s established British rock background and Head’s real-life musical ability. The scene occurs while the others are trying to understand supernatural disturbances at a fraternity house.
The episode’s main plot involves Buffy and Riley’s sexual energy awakening abused ghost children connected to the house’s past. Viewers sometimes confuse this episode with “Once More, with Feeling,” the season-six musical episode, in which the entire cast is compelled to sing. “Where the Wild Things Are” is not a full musical; Giles’s coffeehouse performance is only one scene.