The Puppet Show

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The Puppet Show

EPISODE ESSENTIALS

Air date:

Episode number: 09

Season: 01

Writer(s): Dean Batali & Rob Des Hotel

Director(s): Ellen Pressman

Guest star(s): Kristine Sutherland, Richard Werner, Burke Roberts & Armin Shimerman.

SYNOPSIS

Someone or something is killing the school's talent show contestants for their organs and all eyes are a spooky ventriloquist dummy named Sid.


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MONSTERS / BADDIES IN THIS EPISODE

Name:
Species:	Demon
Powers:
Physical characteristics:	Scaly and human shaped.
Motivation:	Every seven years demon has to find a heart and a brain to maintain his human form.
Fate:	Killed by guillotine and stabbed in the heart.

REVELATIONS

UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

Sid is a demon hunter that was cursed to have his soul animate a ventriloquist's dummy. When he kills the last demon responsible for the curse, he dies.
Cordelia is a terrible singer.
Toys can be subject to magicks that cause them to act upon a desire to become real (i.e.: dolls who "want" to become human)
Although there is only one chosen Slayer, some people choose to take on the vocation of Demon Hunter.

SCOOBY GANG MONSTER SLAYING TALLY

MONSTER TYPE	LOCATION	HOW WERE THEY SLAYED?
Demon	On Stage	Guillitene and stabbed heart.

MEMORABLE MOMENTS

BUFFY EPISODE TRIVIA

Sid head rotating 180 degrees while in class.
At the end of the episode the curtains go up to start the talent show, revealing Buffy cradling Sid (the dummy), Willow holding an axe, Xander and Giles looking bewildered and the beheaded demon on the guillotine.
During the credits, Buffy, Xander and Willow perform an awkward rendition of a scene from Oedipus Rex.

This is the first appearance of Principal Snyder.

QUOTES FROM BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER

"Giles, into every generation is born one who must run the annual talentless show. You cannot escape your destiny." (Buffy to Giles)
"I saw a dummy, it gave me the wig. There really wasn't a story there." (Buffy)
"Creep factor is also heightened, it could be anyone. It could be me! It's not though." (Willow)
" I can't go out there, all those people staring at me and judging me like I'm some kind of ......Buffy!" (Cordelia)
"So that horny dummy thing isn't really an act, is it?" (Buffy)
"I don't get it! What is it, avant-garde?" Principal Syder

MUSIC IN THIS EPISODE

ARTIST	SONG	LISTEN	SCENE

EPISODE PHOTO GALLERY

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