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Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Halloween Season 2, Episode 6 First Aired: October 27, 1997
Writer: Carl Ellsworth
Regulars:
Guest Stars:
Other Cast:
There are lots of tricks but no treats when Giles' old demon-worshipping friend, Ethan
Rayne, arrives in Sunnydale and creates chaos by turning everyone into their Halloween
costume characters. Spike uses the chance to make a move against the powerless slayer.
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Traditions - PUMPKINS: The episode starts off with Buffy fighting a vampire in Pop's Pumpkin Patch.
Traditions - DECORATING: The Bronze goes all festive with cob webs, a big spider web, ghost cut outs and
there are black and orange balloons everywhere. At Sunnydale High they plaster cut outs all over the place, some
of the ones that can be seen include pumpkins, witches, a skull, black cats and a Happy Halloween sign.
Traditions - TRICK-OR-TREATING: Principal Snyder is in charge of the 'volunteer' trick or treating safety
program where high schoolers take younger children trick or treating. Xander: "Sign up and get your own pack
of sugar-hyped little runts for the night." Buffy winds up with 4 kids, Xander with 5 and Willow with 6 or 7.
Traditions - PRANKS/BOBBING FOR APPLES: Snyder: "Halloween must be a big night for you. Tossing eggs,
keying cars, bobbing for apples, one pathetic cry for help after another. Well, not this year missy." As far as
Halloween pranks go, tossing eggs is one of the most common, keying cars is not often associated with Halloween
pranks, its a more vicious act than usual. However, bobbing for apples isn't in the prank category at all but is a
Halloween tradition that dates back a long time.
Spooks - The supernatural: Apparently, vampires and other sorts of demons consider Halloween to be much
too crass, they just don't bother going out at all. Buffy: "The one night a year things are supposed to be quiet
for me." Xander: "Halloween Quiet? Oh, I figured it'd be a big old vamp scare-apalooza." Buffy: "Not according
to Giles. He swears that tomorrow night is, like, dead for the undead. They stay in."
Quip - Buffy: "So! How come Halloween is such a big yawner? I mean, do the demons just hate how commercial it's become?"
Quip - Buffy: "It's just... You're never gunna get noticed if you keep hiding. Your missing the whole point of Halloween."
Willow: "Free Candy?"
Costumes - Xander dresses up as an Army Solider. Xander: "I got fatigues from an Army surplus at home. Call me the
two-dollar costume king, baby!"
Quip - Spike: "Tomorrow's Halloween. Nothing happens on Halloween."
Drusilla: " Someone's come to change it all. Someone new."
Costumes - Buffy is dressed as a noble woman from 1775.
Buffy: "Call it a blast from his past. I'll show him I can coif with the best of 'em."
Quip - Buffy: "Look, Halloween is the night that not you *is* you, but not *you*. Y'know?"
Costumes - Buffy almost talks Willow into dressing up all sexy but at the last minute she puts on her ghost costume.
When Ethan's spell hits, she becomes a ghost and has to walk around all night in her sexy outfit anyway.
Willow: "I'm a ghost!" Giles: "Yes. Um... w, uh, uh, uh, the ghost of what, exactly?"
Costumes - Cordelia dresses up in a leopard print leotard with cat accessories.
Oz: "Jeez, you're like a great big cat." Cordelia: "It's my costume."
Quip - Xander: "Okay, on sleazing extra candy: tears are key. Tears will normally get you the double-bagger.
You can also try the old 'you missed me' routine, but it's risky. Only go there for chocolate."
Quip - Buffy: "What did Mrs. Davis give you?" (The kids hold up toothbrushes) "She must be stopped."
Spooks - Janus: To work his spell, Ethan Rayne performs a ritual in honor of the god Janus. The
two-faced god is actually in Roman mythology, however he wasn't really as bad as this episode would
suggest. He was a peaceful god of gates, of doors, and of beginnings and endings, and was worshipped at
harvests, marriages, births, and other kinds of beginnings.
Quip - Willow: "Something crazy is happening. I was dressed as a ghost for Halloween, a-and now I am a ghost.
And you were supposed to be a soldier, and now I, I-I guess you're a real soldier."
Quip - Giles: "This Halloween stunt stinks of Ethan Rayne."
Other costumes seen in the episode include - Teenagers: chef, phantom, cheerleader, surgeon, Diva, a werewolf
and a Hunchback. Kids: princess, ballerina, sorceress, soldier, Scream ghost, medieval princess, 50's girl, bunny,
Mr. Potatohead, black widow, pirate, witch, harlequin, fairy, football player, devil, doctor, dalmatian, flower,
monsters.
Drusilla: "Do you love my insides? The parts you can't see?"
Willow: "No, no, no. I don't get wild. Wild on me, equals spaz."
Xander: "Buffy! Lady of Buffdom, Duchess of Buffonia, I am in awe! I completely
renounce spandex!"
Cordelia: "Is Mr. I'm-the-lead-singer-I'm-so-great-I-don't-have-to-show-
up-for-my-date-or-even-call gonna be there?"
Willow: "Okay, your name is Cordelia, you're not a cat, you're in high school,
and we're your friends. Well, sort of."
Spike: "Well, this is just... neat!"
Why would broody Angel even pretend to be interested in this conversation?:
Buffy as eighteenth-century-girl is a bit over-the-top:
Cordelia: "My Barbie Dream Car had nicer seats!"
Buffy: "Well, she said that you were a... hunk of burning... something or other."
Cordelia: "Like a Care Bear with fangs?"
Ethan: "I feel quite moved to make you a deal you can't refuse."
Buffy: "But wait till you see . . . Casper."
Willow: "She couldn't have dressed up like Xena?"
Cordelia: "I was just attacked by Jo-Jo, the Dog-Faced Boy."
Xander: "Catwoman, you're with me."
Buffy: "Honey I'm home!"
Prop: Note - Reads "Be seeing you"
When Buffy and Willow are in the bathroom reading the stolen Watcher's diary, they
say that there is no name for the girl they are looking at. If you look at it close, it does
have the name Sarah something-or-the-other by the picture.
While reviewing the tape of Buffy's kill from the beginning of the episode, Spike orders
the vampire holding the remote control to rewind the tape. When Spike gives the order,
you can see that both Buffy and the vamp are still standing and fighting. However, after
the tape has finished "rewinding" and resumes playback, the vamp is lying on the ground
and Buffy is raising the wooden sign post over the vamp for the death blow. Perhaps the
vamp just got the remote control buttons confused?
When Buffy slams Larry against the pop machine, a Diet Dr. Pepper falls into the
drop slot. However, Diet Dr. Pepper is not a choice according to the buttons on the
panel. Of course, I can't rule out the possibility that some incompetent putz just
loaded the wrong drinks into the machine.
Someone ask Principal Snyder how the hell bobbing for apples is considered a prank.
Since their only reason for going out on Halloween was to take little kids trick or
treating, I dont think it was such a good idea for Buffy to tell Willow to dress up
all "Sexy and wild."
Although vampires can't enter a house without an invitation, a kid-turned-vampire attacks
Buffy and Angel in her kitchen, with no explanation as to how he got in. Of course, he's
not technically a "real" vampire, so it could be argued that the rule doesn't apply.
It is established that Ghost Willow can't touch anything (she couldn't turn the pages of
a book), yet when Giles tells her to leave Ethan's shop, you can see her shoulder brush
the curtain in the doorway, and you can hear the door open and close, despite the fact
that as a ghost she should just walk through it all.
Before this season of BtVS, Sarah Michelle Gellar appeared in 2 scary movies,
I Know What You Did Last Summer and Scream 2. As a plug for Scream 2, there
is a kid dressed in the ghostface costume that the killer wears in the movie series.
When Alyson was just a young teenager, she was a regular in the cast of a
short-lived series called Free Spirit who also did a Halloween centric episode.
One of Nicholas Brendan's first roles ever was as a basketball player in
Children of the Corn III.
Back when he was just a young kid in 1990, Seth Green was in the horror movie It,
which was based on Stephen King's best selling novel.
Larry Bagby was also a bully in the Halloween themed movie Hocus Pocus, starring
Sarah Jessica Parker and Bette Midler.
This was not guest star Robin Sachs' first encounter with the bloodsucking undead.
A much younger Sachs starred as Heinrich the vampire acrobat in the 1971 British
horror film Vampire Circus.
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This episode begins on October 29th, 1997 and ends with the last and only scene on
November 1st, 1997.
Buffy: "Gosh, I'd love to sign up, but I recently developed carpal tunnel syndrome and
can tragically no longer hold a flashlight." Carpal tunnel syndrome is a condition that
causes pain or tingling in the fingers, hand or wrist. Recently the ailment has become
generally known as a type of repetitive stress injury that can be caused by typing.
Larry is played by Larry Bagby III who is a Mormon. The religion does not condone
homosexuality, however in a later episode, we find out that Larry is in
fact gay when he confides in Xander.
Buffy: "So! How come Halloween is such a big yawner? I mean, do the demons just hate
how commercial it's become?" In the Charmed Halloween episode, All Halliwell's Eve,
they also mention how Halloween has become so commercialized.
A WP sticker can be clearly seen on the lockers in scene where Cordy stops by Oz's
locker. You can see other WP stickers on the lockers, but they're blurry. The letters
stand for Widespread Panic, a band which has never performed on or for this show.
However, posters and stickers have been seen on notebooks, walls of the school, in
character's rooms and at the Bronze. Usually bands that performed on the show
would add some stickers here and there to sets but in this case it was a set designer
that was a big fan of the band.
Ethan's preparation prayer is:
Ethan's spell that causes all the chaos, translates as follows:
Xander's army training from his stint as a soldier due to his costume in this episode is long
referenced in the rest of the series, as well as used in order to defeat several supernatural
enemies and to take command.
The van that Oz is driving at the end of the episode has its steering wheel located
on the right side and is painted in Zebra print. According to set decorator David Koneff,
"We would have found a lot more about Oz if you had seen the inside of the van. It was
just like a little sugar shack, a love shack, with black light and a mirror ball, black
light posters on the ceilings and a bean bag chair and the whole van was carpeted and wild."
Alyson Hannigan had makeup wiz Todd McIntosh do her up as a vampire for a Halloween
party in 1997.
THEME: Nerf Herder
"Shy" by Epperley
"How She Died" by Treble Charger
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