She tells Dawn she needs to run to the Magic Box if that’s okay, and Dawn replies with what we’ve all been saying in the comments for weeks now: “Yes. Of course, Tara doesn’t remember the fight, but she looks at the Lethe’s Bramble she’s had pinned to her outfit all day and comprehension begins to dawn. Just come to pump me for information.”Īt the Summers’ residence, Dawn tells Tara she’s happy her and Willow made up after their fight about magic.
Spike is clearly disappointed she’s only there to talk shop: “Oh. I could just quote the whole thing, honestly, but this line and the way Anya sings it tickles me: “When things get rough he / just hides behind his Buffy / Now look, he’s getting huffy / ‘Cause he knows that I know” and later she interrupts his verse to interject that his eyes are beady, and this gets referenced back to multiple times throughout the episode.Īfter sunset, Buffy stops by Spike’s crypt to ask him if he knows what is causing all the singing. It’s a great culmination of their serious relationship problems and shows why everything goes wrong later in “Hell’s Bells”. This is, hands down, the funniest, cleverest, and best song in the episode and will get stuck in your head for DAYS. The next morning, Xander and Anya wake up in engaged bliss, but, uh oh, jump into a “retro pastiche” musical song-and-dance number about their various flaws and now not-so-secret concerns about getting married. Researching fizzles out after Tara and Willow leave, and Dawn muses that all the music is kind of romantic, but, because it’s this show, we cut to a man dancing himself to a spontaneous combustion death while an unknown demon looks on in glee. Kudos on making a sweet and yet super dirty song that makes the homophobes out there clutch their pearls as Tara-“spread under her willow tree”-takes Willow to bed, suggestively gestures downtown, and floats off the bed at the climax of the song and, uh, other things. It’s a catchy pop ballad, and Amber Benson’s voice is so pretty, but in addition to making me want to tell Tara she is awesome all on her own, it has a slightly creepy undertone since Tara is literally under Willow’s forgetting spell and would definitely NOT be singing this song if she knew. Tara is looking especially gorg in this episode and gets checked out by two dudes, and when Willow points it out, Tara sings her a love song about how the best part of her is…Willow’s influence.
Willow and Tara decide it’s much too nice of a day to stay inside doing research, so they play hooky and take a walk in the park. It’s her Disney Princess, “I want” song, complete with background vocals from vamps/demons and lots of visual gags, punny lyrics, and an epic, Little Mermaid-esque aerial camera shot where dusted vampire particles swirl around her as she belts her final note (instead of crashing ocean spray):Īnya, singing: “Bunnies aren’t just cute like everybody supposes! / They’ve got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses! / And what’s with all the carrots? / What do they need such good eyesight for anyway? / Bunnies, bunnies, it must be bunnies!” #sorrynotsorryīuffy patrols the cemetery and kicks off our first big song about how she still feels disconnected to her new earthly life. I’m gonna break format a bit because…I really want to talk about every big song. The fact that this 50-minute episode is jam-packed with catchy number after number, that it manages to be true to its characters’ personalities, AND move major season-long plots along so well-it’s truly a classic hour of television. It’s almost passé now for a show to do a musical episode, but when this aired I remember my mom and I were just floored at how cinematic and fun it was. A consummate professional.īuffy isn’t the first television show to do a musical episode, but it was one of the first to gain real critical acclaim for it, and many will say it was the inspiration for lots of future copycat attempts. SMG apparently had a real rough go of it, but when they talked about dubbing her singing to give her a break, she adamantly refused to let her character’s biggest emotional moments be sung by anyone else but her. The cast will tell you it was one of the most difficult episodes to shoot since most of them are not singers/dancers. Joss Whedon had wanted to do a musical episode for YEARS but the WB was not on board, so after the move to UPN it was time, and he spent months putting it together. First, we just need to talk about how freaking iconic this episode is.
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