Something is killing the school Talent Show contestants and taking their body parts. The Slayerettes suspect a classmate and his dummy. First appearance of Principal Snyder.
* Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
* All Part of the Show
* Arbitrary Skepticism: With all of the supernatural stuff that the Buffy gang encounters on a daily basis, is it really so far-fetched to think that a dummy might be animate?
* Bad Bad Acting: The Scoobies' stiff, laughable performance of Oedipus Rex.
* Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
* Bait and Switch: The dummy is actually a cursed demon hunter who believes that Buffy is the demon after seeing her Slayer strength.
* Credits Gag: The Scoobies 'talent' performance is shown during the credits.
* Demonic Dummy: Averted; the dummy is in fa
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| - Something is killing the school Talent Show contestants and taking their body parts. The Slayerettes suspect a classmate and his dummy. First appearance of Principal Snyder.
* Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
* All Part of the Show
* Arbitrary Skepticism: With all of the supernatural stuff that the Buffy gang encounters on a daily basis, is it really so far-fetched to think that a dummy might be animate?
* Bad Bad Acting: The Scoobies' stiff, laughable performance of Oedipus Rex.
* Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
* Bait and Switch: The dummy is actually a cursed demon hunter who believes that Buffy is the demon after seeing her Slayer strength.
* Credits Gag: The Scoobies 'talent' performance is shown during the credits.
* Demonic Dummy: Averted; the dummy is in fa
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| - Something is killing the school Talent Show contestants and taking their body parts. The Slayerettes suspect a classmate and his dummy. First appearance of Principal Snyder.
* Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
* All Part of the Show
* Arbitrary Skepticism: With all of the supernatural stuff that the Buffy gang encounters on a daily basis, is it really so far-fetched to think that a dummy might be animate?
* Bad Bad Acting: The Scoobies' stiff, laughable performance of Oedipus Rex.
* Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick
* Bait and Switch: The dummy is actually a cursed demon hunter who believes that Buffy is the demon after seeing her Slayer strength.
* Credits Gag: The Scoobies 'talent' performance is shown during the credits.
* Demonic Dummy: Averted; the dummy is in fact hunting the demon himself.
* Distracted by the Sexy: Sid by Buffy.
* Double Entendre: Sid has plenty in his act. It turns out Sid isn't acting though, he really is horny.
* Everyone Hates Mimes: Xander yelps at the sight of a mime on stage.
* Falling Chandelier of Doom: Buffy gets trapped under one (rather unconvincingly, as it looks like something an ordinary cheerleader could lift, let alone Buffy).
* Faux Horrific: The Scoobies horror at being forced to take part in the Talent Show.
* Gilligan Cut
* Hollywood Tone Deaf: Cordelia's utter butchering of Whitney Houston's "The Greatest Love of All."
* Hypocritical Humor
* Hey, It's That Guy!: Quark is now a student-hating principal! (Mmm, perhaps it should be Hey, It's That Voice!).
* Imagine the Audience Naked
* Jaws First Person Perspective: Emily's death.
* Laser-Guided Karma: Buffy, Xander and Willow tease Giles for being forced to supervise the school's talent show by Principal Snyder. Moments later, the principal appears and tells all three to participate themselves. Giles fails to suppress a smirk in the background.
* The Mean Brit: Averted as Giles is too polite to tell the contestants they suck.
* Monster of the Week
* Mr. Exposition
* No Guy Wants an Amazon: Sid is a notable exception, having been involved with a Slayer back in the 1930's and putting the moves on Buffy.
* Off with His Head: The fate of the episode's villain.
* Open Says Me: Buffy spends a second or two trying to pick a combination lock, then just smashes it through the locker door.
* Organ Theft
* Person as Verb
* Pieta Plagiarism: Buffy holding Sid after his 'death'.
* Slippery Slope Fallacy: Played for laughs with the new principal.
* Throw It In: Willow running away in the middle of the final scene. It's worked in perfectly.
* Nicholas Brendon screaming "REDRUM!!!" while playing with the puppet was shot between takes.
* True Art Is Incomprehensible: The Scoobies have just defeated the Monster of the Week when the curtain rises exposing them to the audience. Buffy is cradling a ventriloquist dummy. Willow is holding a hatchet. Xander and Giles are next to a guillotine with a decapitated demon lying on it.
* Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Buffy's fear of dummies.
* You Are Who You Eat
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