Parker Abrams

Parker Abrams was a UC Sunnydale student and a one-night stand of Buffy Summers. He was portrayed by Adam Kaufman.

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First appearing in the episode "Living Conditions", he meets Buffy and forms a seemingly intimate relationship with her. The pair sleep together in the next episode, "The Harsh Light of Day". However, while Buffy feels that the encounter represented an emotional bond, Parker considers it to be merely physical gratification, a moment of "healthy fun". Buffy waits hoping Parker will contact her, which he never does. She eventually confronts him, but he is mostly cold and aloof. Buffy soon realizes that the emotional intimacy she felt she had experienced with Parker was actually part of his calculated method to attract girls. In the episode "Beer Bad", Buffy's best friend Willow confronts Parker over what had happened. During that conversation, Parker attempts to seduce Willow, who initially plays along, but soon reveals she has seen through him and verbally attacks him, countering his argument for spontaneity by pointing out that his seduction implies more for the girl than he actually gives. Later in the same episode, Parker tries to apologize to Buffy after she saves his life in a fire. However, Buffy, who had been mystically reverted to a cavewoman, merely responds by knocking him unconscious with a wooden club.

Parker's final onscreen appearance is in the episode "The Initiative", in which Buffy's college TA Riley punches him when he makes some rude comments about Buffy — specifically that "the difference between a freshman girl and a toilet seat is that the toilet seat doesn't follow you around after you use it".

The creators of the show have stated that Parker was merely Buffy's failed attempt at a normal, new relationship, as she was still trying to completely get over her separation from Angel.

Parker also makes an important appearance in the non-canon "The Lost Slayer" novel series, where he is a human minion of the Vampire King- a vampire Rupert Giles- in an alternate future, providing the temporally-displaced Buffy with vital information about the current social structure of the world she is now in before she is forced to deal with a vampire attack. He is later killed by Council Operative Yancy who shoots him in the head to Buffy's disgust.

In the canonical comic series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, after Dawn reveals to Xander that her thricewise boyfriend, Kenny, put a spell on her because she had sex with his roommate, Xander uses Buffy's brief tryst with Parker, as an example of how her older sister too, has made sexual mistakes too, and they came back to bite her in the butt.

Appearances

 * Living Conditions
 * The Harsh Light of Day
 * Fear, Itself
 * Beer Bad
 * The Initiative