"Beer Bad" is the fifth episode of the fourth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and is the sixty-first episode altogether. It was written by Tracey Forbes and directed by David Solomon. It originally broadcast on November 2, 1999. Xander gets a job as a bartender at the college pub. Buffy is still upset about the incident with Parker. To drown her sorrows, she drinks beer with some upperclassmen. Things get out of hand when the four intelligent, handsome college men that she drinks with turn into extremely hairy and dumb cavemen/Neanderthals.