Summary: Here it is the ninth episode of the Hellmouth Podcast. In this episode we discuss "The Puppet Show". The Talentless Talent Show A Dummy who's no dummy The Slayer follows a hunch And the show must go on... Pay special attention to the discussion about the SlayAlive (http://slayaliveforums.proboards.com/index.cgi) forums. Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 1 Episode 9 “The Puppet Show” * Welcome to the Hellmouth Podcast * Thinking about creating a voicemail line where listeners can call in and leave comments about the show. * i. Email me and let me know what your thoughts are on that. * Recently found an established community on SlayAlive forums. * Will be shutting down Hellmouth forums. * Will change the page to allow Hellmouth podcast listeners to list the username they use on the SlayAlive forums so that we can find each other readily there. I will also link to the SlayAlive forums. * This will not in any way affect the podcast. It is just a way to key us in to a Buffy community that we can interact with. One that is established. * My username is Hellmouth (Shocking) * Forums will be shutting down * Re-iterate this will in now way affect the Hellmouth Podcast itself. I will just be taking the forums down. * We open this episode with a crotch shot of a girl dancer, looks like a ballerina. * We here some creepy perv-voice talking about being whole again. He makes his way through what looks like backstage rehearsals for something. * Finally Cordelia is back! * i. She is performing a rousing rendition of Whitney Houston’s Learning to Love Yourself. * This appears to be rehearsals for the Sunnydale talent show. * Buffy, Xander and Willow show up to taunt Giles about his involvement in the talent show. * i. The new “Fuhrer” Mr. Snyder (New Principal) has made Giles the producer of this year’s talent show. * As the trio is leaving Mr. Snyder catches them in the aisle. Apparently he has heard their mocking of Giles and decides that because they are anti-social types and have been caught skipping classes that they are going to be in the school talent show and it is mandatory. * “My predecessor Mr. Flutie may have gone in for all that touchy-feely relating nonsense, but he was eaten.” * Next up is for rehearsal is a ventriloquist act. Buffy is creeped out by the dummy. Willow thinks dummies are cute (Xander reference). Xander is creeped out by mime. * Morgan and Sid are the act. Sid is the Dummy. * Crotch ballerina is putting her things away in her locker. * i. She hears something and goes to investigate. * Opening Credits * Back at rehearsals for the talent show. * Buffy, Xander and Willow are rehearsing their dramatic scene. * Snyder and Giles are walking through the auditorium. Snyder is expressing to Giles his theories about education. * Flutie’s downfall that led to his being eaten was the way he treated kids as human beings. * Snyder considers Buffy, Willow and Xander the “bad element” * Someone has finally found the crotch ballerina in the locker room. * Giles has inspected the body and it wasn’t a vampire. * Her heart was removed. * Because the murderer used a knife, the group assumes they are dealing with a human murderer. * All except Buffy, she can’t help but think that because of the Hellmouth they are still dealing with a demon here. * The group starts to investigate the others in the talent show. * All the kids are being helpful and trying to provide information. * i. Except Cordelia who just like when Flutie died says, it’s just such a tragedy for me. * ii. Discussions lead back to Morgan having suspicious behavior. 10. Buffy goes to the auditorium to look for Morgan. * She hears Sid talking to Morgan as though they are having a conversation not rehearsing.
