The Puppet Show - Interesting Facts

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The Puppet Show

Aired:
May 5, 1997
Writers: Dean Batali
Rob Des Hotel
Director: Ellen S. Pressman

Trivia:

- The pen that Willow used in History class, where Morgan gets Sid taken away from him, is the same pen that Buffy drops when she needs to steal hair from Amy in "Witch".

Goofs:

- While Buffy is searching around in the backstage area, there is a mirror in the background of the shot. For a brief second, you can see the reflection of a crew member.

- The chandelier that Sid drops on Buffy looks as though it's made of cast iron, an impression reinforced by the difficulty Buffy has in moving it. You'd think that an object made of iron, which is as heavy as that chandelier obviously is, would crack a few ribs or something, even with Buffy's supernatural resilience.

- Did no-one in the audience hear the rather loud fight going on just behind the curtain at the end?

Best quotes:

- Cordelia: All I can think is, it coulda been me.
Xander: We can dream.

- Principal Snyder: That's the kind of wooly-headed liberal thinking that leads to being eaten.

- Cordelia: What?
Giles: Oh, I-I'm sorry. Um, you're hair, uh...
Cordelia: There's something wrong with my hair?
Cordelia: Oh my God.
Giles: Xander was right. It worked like a charm.

Body Count:

- Emily, Morgan, Marc.

References:

- The song Cordelia sings in the first Talent Show scene is "The Greatest Love Of All," written by Linda Creed and Michael Masser, which was a huge hit for Whitney Houston in 1986.

- "Our führer, Mister Snyder." Führer is the German word for "leader," and was the title used to address Adolf Hitler during his time as leader of Germany.

- "Redrum! Redrum!" In the 1980 movie The Shining, based on Stephen King's novel, the word "redrum" "” "murder" spelled backwards "” is one of the images seen by Jack Torrance's son Danny, as his father is slowly going mad.

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This one has never really been one of my favourites but not only is the end priceless but also the reactions when Snyder tells them that they have no option but to appear in the show followed up by that smug smile of Giles.
 
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