• Air Date – March 17th, 1997
• Writer – Dana Reston
• Director – Stephen Cragg
• Producers – Joss Whedon

Summary

The Slayer plans to use her incredible physical prowess to become a cheerleader.  At the first tryout, Buffy meets Amy for the first time.  Amy is clearly apprehensive about tryouts, and

has more spirit that talent.  During one of the first routines, a potential cheerleader begins to smoke and her hands catch on fire.  After Buffy puts out the burning student, Amy confides in her that she doesn’t really care about cheerleading, but her mother is pressuring her into it.  Neither Buffy nor Amy makes the squad, Buffy being first alternate and Amy third.  Amy is clearly worried about how her mother is going to react.  Cut too a boiling cauldron and hanging voodoo dolls with a chanting voice over.  This can’t be good.

Cordelia Chase, who is on the cheerleader squad, goes completely blind while taking her driving test (again).  This, among other things, leads Giles to believe that Amy might be a witch trying to clear the way for her to get on the cheerleading squad.  Willow performs a test to prove that indeed witchery is afoot.  Another cheerleader is injured, and Amy seems very fearful.  This reaction leads Buffy and team to believe while there is a witch, it might not be Amy.

Amy returns home and orders he mother to do her homework.  Amy is holding a piece of Buffy’s jewelry.  Buffy is clearly next on the witch’s list.

Do too previous injuries, Buffy is now a cheerleader.  While practicing Buffy begins acting strangely and throws a girl across the gym.  Clearly the team should call in another alternate, and Amy makes the team.  Buffy collapses and is too weak to move.

Giles deduces Buffy is dying, and to save her they needed Amy’s spell book.  While Xander and Willow watch Amy, Giles and Buffy head to Amy’s house to find the book.  After a brief conversation with “Amy’s Mother” Giles and Buffy discover that Amy and her mother have switched bodies.  Amy’s mother wanted to relive her high school glory days, and to do this she stole her daughter’s body.

Buffy and Giles find the spell book, and head off to school to break the witch’s spell.  As Amy begins to cheer, Giles chants the spell that will reverse the body swap.  Amy’s mother, now still in Amy’s body, becomes weak and disoriented.  Amy and her mother revert to their own bodies.

Amy’s mother, now insane with rage, begins to cast a spell at buffy.  Using a mirror, Buffy reflects the spell back at Amy’s mother and she disappears.

Cut to the cheerleading trophy case where the trophy Amy’s mother won is kept.  Its eyes are moving.