The Puppet Show
- Episode aired May 5, 1997
- TV-PG
- 45m
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
4.3K
YOUR RATING
Buffy suspects that a ventriloquist's dummy may be harvesting organs from classmates performing in a talent show.Buffy suspects that a ventriloquist's dummy may be harvesting organs from classmates performing in a talent show.Buffy suspects that a ventriloquist's dummy may be harvesting organs from classmates performing in a talent show.
Anthony Head
- Rupert Giles
- (as Anthony Stewart Head)
Rich Werner
- Morgan Shay
- (as Richard Werner)
Jim Childs
- Student Audience
- (uncredited)
Linda Li
- Talent Show Violinist
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaSarah Michelle Gellar admitted having nightmares about puppets after filming.
- GoofsAs Giles is announcing 5 minutes until the power circle, the violin player behind him is very obviously 'playing' the violin with the bow 2 inches from the strings.
- Quotes
Principal Snyder: Kids today need discipline. It's an unpopular word these days: discipline. I know Principal Flutie would have said, "Kids need understanding. Kids are human beings." That's the kind of woolly-headed liberal thinking that leads to being eaten.
Rupert Giles: I-I think perhaps it was a little more complex than, um...
- Crazy creditsThe original US WB airing had a sequence where Buffy, Xander and Willow performed their theatrical scene in the talent show during the closing credits.
- Alternate versionsThe original US WB broadcast had a sequence where Buffy, Xander and Willow performed their theatrical scene in the talent show during the closing credits, but it was removed for re-runs and syndication. The season one DVD box-set restores the original closing credits sequence.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Gift (2001)
Featured review
A Plot Slight of Hand
Good writing leads you down a path and just when you think you've got this thing figured out, whoops! Nope. Not only was there a twist, but the next likely suspect also turned out to be a red herring. No vampires here again, so this could be a 'deviation' to Buffy canon perhaps, but the show did establish a wider scope to include demons, so here we are again with a different kind of supernatural evil.
Fun to watch the acting as part of the show was to have bad acting as well, which was also conducted exceptionally well. We have the action we've come to expect, along with Hitchcockian classic horror elements. Use of shadows, familiar theme. Worth a re-watch to follow the character's dialogue and intentions one more time.
Fun to watch the acting as part of the show was to have bad acting as well, which was also conducted exceptionally well. We have the action we've come to expect, along with Hitchcockian classic horror elements. Use of shadows, familiar theme. Worth a re-watch to follow the character's dialogue and intentions one more time.
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- Aegelis
- Mar 8, 2024
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