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CHEERLEADER FROM HELL - When students start dropping out of cheerleading tryouts by spontaneously combusting, going blind and losing the power of speech, Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and her posse suspect a powerful witch is in their midst. Buffy herself soon becomes the target of a deadly spell as they discover the witch's true identity. Meanwhile, Xander finally musters up the nerve to ask Buffy out on a date but in the throes of a witch's spell, Buffy's response isn't exactly as he'd hoped. Anthony Stewart Head, Alyson Hannigan and Charisma Carpenter also star. Dana Reston wrote the episode directed by Stephen Gragg.
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| Number: |
Episode 3 |
| Titel: |
The Witch |
| Book: |
Dana Reston |
| Direction: |
Stephen Cragg |
| on TV: |
USA: 17.03.1997 / |
| Guests: |
Mrs. Joyce Summers Kristine Sutherland
Amy Madison Elizabeth Anne Allen
Catherine the Great Robin Riker
Mr. Pole Jim Doughan
Lishanne Davis Nicole Prescott
Senior Cheerleader Amanda Wilmshurst
Dr. Gregory William Monaghan |
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Buffy, in an attempt to bring some normalcy into her complicated life, decides to try out for cheerleader. When she goes to the big tryout, she meets a quiet girl named Amy. As one girl auditions, she gets more and more into her routine, and suddenly her hands begin to smoke. Buffy knocks her to the ground and puts the girl's smoking hands out. Amy tells Buffy that her mother was a cheerleading star and she feels pressure to make the squad. When Amy leaves, Willow says it's a lot more than pressure — she thinks Amy's mom is a tyrant. Neither Amy nor Buffy is chosen as part of the regular squad — both are alternates. Amy is distraught when she is only chosen to be third alternate — with Buffy as first alternate.
In a spooky attic with a cauldron, someone is casting spells with dolls. The next day, snooty Cordelia Chase, who has made cheerleader, is temporarily blinded while taking her driving test. Giles thinks Amy's a witch, but the only way to prove it is to form a potion and pour it on her — if her skin turns blue, she is a witch. Buffy, Xander and Willow join forces to test this theory in chemistry class, and Giles is proven correct. Then another cheerleader has a mysterious accident, and when Amy reacts to it with horror, it makes Buffy doubt whether Amy realizes what she's doing. Amy comes home in a huff to find her mother on the couch watching TV. She tells her mother to write her history report. We see that Amy is holding an ID bracelet which Xander gave Buffy for good luck at the cheerleading tryouts — Buffy will be Amy's next victim.
As first alternate, Buffy is now on the cheerleading squad, and starts acting strangely during practice. When she tosses another cheerleader across the room, it's time for the next alternate to come in — Amy. Buffy suddenly becomes weak, and Giles says the only way to keep her from dying is to get Amy's spell book. Willow and Xander stay at school to keep an eye on Amy. Giles and Buffy force their way into Amy's house, and Buffy discovers that the woman they're speaking to is not really Amy's mother but Amy herself. The mother switched their bodies so she could relive her glory days as a cheerleader.
Giles finds the spell book, and they all troop off to school, where "Amy" is getting ready to cheer. As Giles chants, "Amy" becomes weaker as the transformation begins. "Amy" charges out of the gym to find Buffy and kill her. Just as she's about to get her, the transformation is complete. "Amy" is now the real Amy, and the mother goes berserk. She starts to cast an evil spell on Buffy, but Buffy deflects it with a mirror and sends it back to the mother, who disappears. Everything seems to be back to normal, until we catch a glimpse of the mother's cheerleader trophy in a school display case. Its eyes are moving...
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Xander: "I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away."
Buffy looking at her mother's high school yearbook: "Mom, I've accepted that you've had sex. I am not ready to know that you had Farrah hair."
Joyce: "This is Gidget hair. Don't they teach you anything in history?"
Buffy: "I'm inscrutable, huh?"
Joyce: "You're sixteen."
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The Master Source (Music Library) - "No Heroes" (CD Info Unavailable)
Plays as Buffy's mother drives her to school the first day.
Sprung Monkey - "Saturated" (From Swirl, Surfdog Records, 1996)
Plays in the background as Buffy tries on clothes.
Sprung Monkey - "Believe" (From Swirl, Surfdog Records, 1996)
Sprung Monkey plays this on stage as Buffy enters the Bronze for the first time.
Sprung Monkey - "Swirl" (From Swirl, Surfdog Records, 1996)
This is the second song the band plays onstage at the Bronze.
Sprung Monkey - "Things Are Changing" (From Swirl, Surfdog Records, 1996)
The band plays this on stage at The Bronze before Buffy leaves to save Willow.
Sprung Monkey - "Right My Wrong" (From Swirl, Surfdog Records, 1996)
Plays in the background as Principal Flutie tries to keep Buffy from leaving school grounds.
Dashboard Prophets - "Wearing Me Down" (From Burning Out the Inside, No Name Recordings, 1996)
The song Cordelia loves and goes to dance to as the vampiric Jesse watches from the shadows.
Dashboard Prophets - "Ballad for Dead Friends" (From Burning Out the Inside, No Name Recordings, 1996)
The song playing as Darla and the other vampires approach the Bronze in slow motion.
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