Neanderthals

Neanderthals
The Neanderthals were a group of four college men who were placed under a temporary spell from a potion that was tainting the beer that they were drinking. The potion turned anyone who drank it into a caveman. The potion was brewed by Jack, the owner of the pub that they were drinking at, as an act of revenge for being mistreated by college students for twenty years.

= Description = One night, four friends - Colm, Kip, Hunt, and Roy - went to the local pub. Xander, who had recently obtained a job as a bartender, attempted to flirt with a sorority girl named Paula. Paula responded cheerfully to Xander, but their conversation was interrupted by Colm. Colm immediately tried to dismiss Xander and talk to Paula himself, but when Xander refused to go away, Colm immediately insulted Xander's intelligence by purposefully acting smarter than him. Colm then asked that Xander serve him a pitcher of Black Frost (beer), to which Xander initially refused to serve him unless he could provide an ID. Before he could obtain the ID, Jack, the bar owner, told Xander to "just give him the beer," to which Xander, although annoyed, obliged.

Later, Buffy, still suffering from the sadness of a breakup with Parker, accidentally bumps into Roy. She is invited to join the four men for a few drinks, an offer that she accepts, hoping to drown her sorrows.

The nights pass as the four continue to drink together and descend further and further into a state if drunken stupidity. Xander, in an effort to protect Buffy decides to cut her off. The four guys remain and continue to drink, although they are disgruntled with the fact that Buffy left.