Buffy S1 E9: "Sunnydale's Got (No) Talent!"

About this episode

The hosts discuss the episode 'The Puppet Show' while reflecting on various character dynamics and themes.

This week we are trying to avoid joining the school talent show while we discuss “The Puppet Show”! We’re talking the cavernous catacombs under this school, that Joyce only thinks of bills and taxes, Principal Quark’s weird psychosexual obsession with Flutie, damsel in distress Giles, and how heartwarming it is that Cordelia has embraced self-love. We rolls our eyes as they really try to wring some pathos out of the horny puppet dying, wonder if we’ve ever chortled, try to identify a horse gi...

People in this episode

Host: Sunnydale Nation Pod

Topics covered

• school talent show
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• character analysis
• humor
• self-love
• puppets

Keywords

• Buffy
• Puppet Show
• talent show
• Giles
• Cordelia
• humor
• self-love
• Principal Quark

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Puppet Show

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