Ten Forward: Evil Eggs

In honor of the tradition, I’m giving you a list of 10 episodes of sci-fi/fantasy series from the past ten years that contain eggs bearing … things.

1. Bezoar eggs from the "Bad Eggs" episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" contained tentacled creatures that attached themselves to the faces and brains of Sunnydale high schoolers. The eggs, which were handed out in sex ed class as "babies" high school couples have to care for, were being laid by a bezoar, a giant creature under the school, which was using its offspring to lure people in to be bezoar food.

The only two people not affected by the bezoar progeny are Buffy, who stabbed hers shortly after it hatched from an egg, and Xander, who hard boiled his egg – and almost bit into its contents for lunch.

2. Demon eggs in the "Buffy" episode "As You Were," were stored underneath Spike’s crypt. Riley Finn appeared in Sunnydale over a year after leaving Buffy behind. Back to hunt down a demon to find its eggs to destroy them before they hatch, Riley and his new wife wreak havoc in Buffy’s personal life and pound the final nail on the coffin for Buffy’s tryst with Spike.

Buffy finds the eggs as they hatch, and spidery creatures come running out of them.

Why do sci-fi eggs almost always have spiders in them? Why can’t they have kittens on occasion?

3. There has been one case where a hatch eggs yields something somewhat like a kitten. In "Surface," teenager Miles and his friends find eggs in the ocean by their beachfront homes. He brings one home and keeps it in his fish tank.

Soon, the fish are gone, and the egg has hatched into a baby sea creature that can generate electricity and heal injuries. The creature, which Miles names Nimrod, bonds to Miles, who, after being saved by Nimrod from death, begins to exhibit the amphibious qualities that Nimrod has.

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