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Ted
Writers:
David Greenwalt
Joss Whedon
Director:
Bruce Seth Green
Aired: December 8, 1997
Trivia:
- One of Alyson Hannigan's favorite episodes, largely because of the participation of John Ritter.
- In the final fight between Buffy and Ted, both actors were ill. Sarah Michelle Gellar had flu and John Ritter was suffering from food poisoning.
- John Ritter was the first actor on the show to be billed as a Special Guest Star.
- At the beginning of this episode, Buffy, Xander and Willow refer to the events of "What's My Line." The Order of Taraka has apparently been called off, and Angel is still recuperating from the injuries he suffered at the hands of Spike and Drusilla.
- Cordelia also refers to the events of "The Dark Age," remembering how Giles helped raise Eyghon.
Goofs:
- There's no way Willow could have done a chemical analysis on the cookie Xander was eating just by looking at a few crumbs under a microscope.
Best quotes:
- Buffy: Vampires are creeps.
Giles: Yes. That's why one slays them.
Buffy: I mean, people are perfectly happy getting along and then vampires come and they run around and they kill people and they take over your whole house, they start making these stupid little mini-pizzas and everyone's like, "Oh, look! A mini-pizza!" but I'm telling you, I have...
Giles: Buffy, I-I-I believe the subtext here is rapidly becoming, uh, text.
- Xander: How is Angel?
Xander: Pretend I care.
- Angel: Kiss me.
Buffy: Finally, something I wanna do!
References:
- "I think maybe we're in Sigmund Freud territory." The Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud (1865-1939) is known as "the father of modern psychoanalysis." His theories revolutionized the field of psychiatry by introducing such now-common concepts as unconscious repression, defense mechanisms, and the ego and the id.
- "Like Stepford." As noted in Monstervision, much of this episode seems inspired by The Stepford Wives, the 1972 Ira Levin novel (adapted by The Princess Bride writer William Goldman into a successful movie in 1975) about robotic wives in a sleepy Connecticut town.
- "I guess we're Thelma & Louise-ing it again." In the 1991 movie Thelma & Louise, two women (played by Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon) go on a road trip during which they kill a would-be rapist, blow things up, break numerous laws, and generally bond like mad.
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Writers:
David Greenwalt
Joss Whedon
Director:
Bruce Seth Green
Aired: December 8, 1997
Trivia:
- One of Alyson Hannigan's favorite episodes, largely because of the participation of John Ritter.
- In the final fight between Buffy and Ted, both actors were ill. Sarah Michelle Gellar had flu and John Ritter was suffering from food poisoning.
- John Ritter was the first actor on the show to be billed as a Special Guest Star.
- At the beginning of this episode, Buffy, Xander and Willow refer to the events of "What's My Line." The Order of Taraka has apparently been called off, and Angel is still recuperating from the injuries he suffered at the hands of Spike and Drusilla.
- Cordelia also refers to the events of "The Dark Age," remembering how Giles helped raise Eyghon.
Goofs:
- There's no way Willow could have done a chemical analysis on the cookie Xander was eating just by looking at a few crumbs under a microscope.
Best quotes:
- Buffy: Vampires are creeps.
Giles: Yes. That's why one slays them.
Buffy: I mean, people are perfectly happy getting along and then vampires come and they run around and they kill people and they take over your whole house, they start making these stupid little mini-pizzas and everyone's like, "Oh, look! A mini-pizza!" but I'm telling you, I have...
Giles: Buffy, I-I-I believe the subtext here is rapidly becoming, uh, text.
- Xander: How is Angel?
Xander: Pretend I care.
- Angel: Kiss me.
Buffy: Finally, something I wanna do!
References:
- "I think maybe we're in Sigmund Freud territory." The Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud (1865-1939) is known as "the father of modern psychoanalysis." His theories revolutionized the field of psychiatry by introducing such now-common concepts as unconscious repression, defense mechanisms, and the ego and the id.
- "Like Stepford." As noted in Monstervision, much of this episode seems inspired by The Stepford Wives, the 1972 Ira Levin novel (adapted by The Princess Bride writer William Goldman into a successful movie in 1975) about robotic wives in a sleepy Connecticut town.
- "I guess we're Thelma & Louise-ing it again." In the 1991 movie Thelma & Louise, two women (played by Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon) go on a road trip during which they kill a would-be rapist, blow things up, break numerous laws, and generally bond like mad.
http://imdb.com
