9/6/08
In this episode, SHE tries to avoid making jokes, HE ponders the structure of the universe, and we learn why it's called 'show business' and not 'show friends'.
Morgan and Sid
SHE: I’m going to be completely serious with my interpretation of this episode.
HE: You’re not going to crack any jokes.
SHE: Nope. Not a one.
HE: Not even about the violinist who suckolas?
SHE: Nope.
HE: Or the fact that there’s a mime in the show?
SHE: Nope. Although we know the mime is poor research. No high school kid would be a mime.
HE: Another lesson we can take is that we should always beware of “method” ventriloquists who are always in character. Also, the stretchy ballerina is history. And what’s with ballerinas on TV all being really tall? They’re not, really. They tend to be petite like Summer Glau. So you can toss’em.SHE: You’re an expert on ballerina tossing?
HE: And when they’re not dancing, they’re usually falling down or knocking something over.
Rehearsal
HE: “I have my pride,” says Xander. No you don’t. Otherwise you wouldn’t be wearing that idiotic shirt. It’s like he’s a scrub for the sockmonkey team.
SHE: Sock Monkeys are funny. You’re still going to try to be funny.
HE: You’re the humorless one, not me.
SHE: “I think I have touched and felt for the last time.” Like Principal Snyder.
HE: Scary you’re taking cues from him. On the other hand, he does have that great line in this scene: “Kids. I don’t like them.” I take it back. I love Principal Snyder.
SHE: He’s very realistic.
Emily
SHE: If you want to be killed, hang out in the locker room. They should post a sign: “Ladies, this locker room is for your getting-killed convenience.”
HE: At least she didn’t fall and land on somebody like what usually happens.
SHE: Some corpses are so rude.
HE: Did you notice that they film Giles taller in this season? Willow seems really tiny next to Giles. They shoot down a lot. Say, what do you think the significance of that is, Miss Serious?
SHE: I think they’re trying to reinforce the idea that these kids are actually kids. Are any of these actors actually in their high school years?
HE: You know Cordelia isn’t. She was 27.
SHE: Buffy isn’t. She was 20. How old was Alyson Hannigan?
HE: 23. Giles was…
SHE: 600?
HE: Close. 43.
Asking Morgan
HE: Morgan gets migraines. They come with the craziness.
SHE: You get migraines. You come with the craziness.
HE: That sounds dangerously near a joke, sweetie.
SHE: But I’m not laughing. And you don’t think it’s funny.
HE: What’s really not funny is Buffy’s leopard dress. Holy cow. That’s very horrible.
Morgan’s Locker
SHE: Count it. Principal Snyder sneaks up on Buffy. Ever notice how no other teacher ever gets in Buffy’s way?
HE: They’re too busy trying not to get killed to worry about her.
HE: Is that an interdimensional locker? How can Morgan fit that ginormous suitcase in there?
SHE: Yeah! And Buffy can open it in there without even taking it out of the locker.
HE: I guess that comes with living on the Hellmouth. We take things like three-dimensional space so for granted.
Buffy at Home
HE: What kind of lotion is that? You know all about lotions.
SHE: Looks like something from Body and Bathworks.
HE: So what, a hand cream maybe? I really have no idea.
SHE: Bless your heart for trying.
SHE: The dummy in the window really is creepy.
HE: Demonic puppets don’t need to be invited into your homes, you know. They can come right in.
SHE: How do we protect ourselves?
HE: I don’t know. Rust-Oleum, maybe?
A Live Dummy?
SHE: Buffy’s outfit is really great today. I like the black number.
HE: It’s a timeless look. You can’t go wrong with it.
SHE: You don’t even remember it.
HE: I was thinking about Xander’s scheme to get rid of Cordelia—just criticize her hair.
SHE: I read today how to work it so you never have to go into Abercrombie and Fitch with your teenager.
HE: And how’s that?
SHE: You know how they play that music really, really loud? All you can hear is that? Just dance to it. You’ll embarrass them so badly they’ll never want you to walk in there again.
HE: Ooh, a brotherhood of 7 demons…show me a picture! show me a picture! Bingo! There is it! Thanks, Giles!
SHE: I love the pictures. You get to see what they’re looking for.
HE: They are rather convenient.
Looking for Morgan
SHE: What’s up with this guy bringing his dummy to class? No one says anything. Not Mrs. Jackson. Nobody.
HE: What’s up with the teacher using the word “eponymous” in class? Hot damn, I think I’m in love!
CORDELIA: Looks like someone likes you. That’s adorable. You and the dummy could join the freak show.
HE: Cordelia, I just love her.
SHE: She has the best lines.
HE: You know who doesn’t have the best lines? Mrs. Jackson. She thinks Morgan has become detached.
SHE: Have you confronted a student lately about becoming detached?
HE: You have to be attached in order to risk becoming detached.
Not Inanimate
HE: So Xander stole Sid from Mrs. Jackson’s cupboard. What a thief!
SHE: It’s funny when he loses the puppet.
HE: He should have stored that dummy in the cage.
SHE: What was he thinking, sitting the dummy down in a chair? That’s kind of girly.
HE: Like he was going to play with it later?
SHE: “Would you like some tea, Mr. Sid?”
HE: I wonder if he has a set of those tiny chairs at home.
A Demon Hunter
SHE: One of my favorite scenes.
HE: This is an awesome reveal. Sid the dummy thought Buffy was the demon. Meanwhile, Snyder is stalking Buffy around the school.
SHE: Because he has no other responsibilities.
HE: Other than causing misdirection. Did you notice the demon picture next to the dressing room door? I wonder what play that was for.
HE: What is Xander supposed to be doing? I forget.
SHE: Did you notice that he was writing in a library book? He should have been killed just for that.
HE: If Giles was any kind of a librarian, he’d have done it himself.
HE: Buff got jumped by a chandelier. Must have been super heavy.
SHE: It snuck up on her. Count it.
HE: And that dummy is a lousy stab. Missed her from what, eighteen inches?
SHE: Hard to imagine he killed anything.
The Power Circle
SHE: The power circle…Giles assumed it was mystical, not a showbiz thing.
HE: He doesn’t know crap.
SHE: Sid knew a slayer in the 30s. The one Spike killed?
HE: No, that one was Chinese, not Korean. And about 30 years earlier, during the Boxer Rebellion.
SHE: It would have been funny if it were the same one, and Sid said, “Korean, Chinese…they all look the same to me.”
HE: And then someone could have said, “You know what? You really are a dummy.”
SHE: “The More You Know.” Ahhh.
SHE: I like the suggestion that Snyder might be the demon, simply by his behavior.
HE: There’s also the scene where his ears are translucent. That was a creepy effect.
A Rejected Brain
HE: I want to know why Snyder allowed a guillotine in the school.
SHE: There’s progressive, and then there’s…I don’t know what the hell that is.
SHE: Giles is so easily duped in this scene.
HE: Who is the amazing Mark? Well, Giles is.
SHE: It’s amazing he lasted the whole series.
The Magic Act
SHE: I can’t believe someone decided to open the curtains after they went through all that.
HE: Right. All that chaos going on, and they hang around, manning the ropes. That’s dedication to the craft.
SHE: Apparently they don’t look out to see if the first act is actually behind the curtain.
HE: They have a schedule to keep. Besides, the show must…
SHE: Stop right there.
HE: I know you enjoyed the ending. What did you think of Xander playing Oedipus?
SHE: He was lousy. Sid the Dummy gave a less wooden performance.
HE: Willow runs off. Another stage humiliation for Willow.
SHE: Another?
HE: The Season 4 finale where she dreams she’s in the play?
SHE: You’re like an encyclopedia of Buffy.
HE: I really am.
Next time: "Nightmares"
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