Gareth’s favourite episode

Gareth Davies, a Buffy producer, said that Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered was his favourite episode in the October 1, 1999 issue of Entertainment Weekly. He just loved the rat.

Saturday Night Live

Buffy was turned into a rat in Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered so that Sarah Michelle Gellar could film Saturday Night Live. They filmed all her scenes first, and then she headed off to New York.

Sky TV

After the episode Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered aired in Britain, Sky TV dropped the show from it’s Saturday 8pm slot (why? this was one of the funniest episodes of the season!) and replaced it with Third Rock from the Sun. The series wasn’t shown for another year, and was only aired again after loads of complaints from bitter fans.

Kristen Winnicki

Kristen Winnicki played Cordelia’s friend Gwen in Inca Mummy Girl and Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered. She has also been in Lola’s Game.

Tamara Braun

Tamara played a vampire named Tara in When She Was Bad and (one of the many) “Frenzied Girl” in Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered. Tamara played Carly in General Hospital and has been in Party of Five, 7th Heaven and Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane (with Azura Skye, who played Cassie in season seven).

Cody Weinberg

Cody Weinberg was a local college student mentioned by Harmony in Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered. In that episode, Harmony says that she is his third choice for the pledge dance, so it can be presumed he is in college and a fraternity. It is also stated he owns a Mercedes-Benz 350SL.

Miss Beakman

Miss Beakman was the teacher Amy Madison bewitched to believe that Amy had done her homework in Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered.

Alpert tomb

The Alpert tomb is a memorable tomb which can often be spotted when the Scoobies are wandering through Sunnydale’s graveyard. The tomb is named after Buffy producer Marc David Alpert. The tomb can be seen in Becoming (Part 1) (Angel comes out from behind it to fight Buffy when the other Scoobies are being ambushed), Revelations, The Zeppo, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, Killed By Death, Something Blue (when Buffy wants her wedding photos taken there), Superstar, Real Me, and Grave.

Angel the puppy

Angel is referred to as a ‘puppy’ on a couple of occasions. In The Wish, vampire Willow keeps Angel locked in a cage as her plaything, and refers to him as “Puppy”. In The Harsh Light of Day, when Parker asks Buffy about the scars on her neck, she replies that they they were caused by an “angry puppy”. They were actually from when Angel bit her in Graduation Day (Part 2).
Puppies are a recurring theme with Angel - in Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered, Giles tells Buffy that one Valentine’s Day, Angel nailed a puppy to something (we don’t find out as Buffy stops him before he can finish). In Orpheus, we see that Angel saved a puppy from being killed in early 1920s Chicago.

Beratted

It’s apt that it’s Oz who finds the naked Buffy in the school basement, after her spell as a rat in Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered. It’s a predicament he must find himself in often as he is a werewolf and often wakes in odd places. Amy Madison herself is turned into a rat in season three for a good few years.

Dingoes Ate My Baby

Dingoes Ate My Baby were a rock band, fronted by Devon with vocals, and Oz, who played lead guitar. They played on various occasions at venues including the Bronze (Inca Mummy Girl, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered and Doppelgängland) and Buffy’s house (Dead Man’s Party - where they played ‘Never Mind’, ‘Sway’ and ‘Pain’). The band were mentioned in the unaired pilot, when Xander said, “They don’t know any actual chords yet, but they have really big amps”.
In Earshot, Freddy Iverson writes a bad review of the band in the school paper (”Dingoes Ate My Baby play their instruments as if they have plump polish sausages taped to their fingers”) but Oz thought it was fair. Cordelia briefly dated Devon (Inca Mummy Girl).
The band’s name comes from a famous Australian outback incident, in which Lindy Chamberlain was accused of killing her baby, which had actually been taken by dingoes. The Dingoes’ music was provided by real-life band Four Star Mary, with whom James Marsters has occasionally performed. Four Star Mary themselves appeared in the season four finale Restless.
The Four Star Mary song “Pain” became one of the signature tunes for Dingoes Ate My Baby. It was heard in Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (performed in the Bronze), Dead Man’s Party (performed at Buffy’s house) and Living Conditions - on the stereo in the dorm when Willow moves in suggesting that the Dingoes had recorded a CD.

Happy memories

In season seven’s Him, Xander has a happy flashback to being pawed at by the women of Sunnydale in Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered.

Jewellery

Xander likes to give girls he likes jewellery. In Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, he gave Cordelia a necklace; in The Witch, he gave Buffy a bracelet saying ‘Yours Always’, and he bought Anya an engagement ring in The Gift.

Joyce and Xander

Joyce fell for Xander in Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered when Amy’s spell went wrong. In Restless, Xander dreamt that Joyce was attracted to him again.

Works in theory

In Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, when Xander and Cordelia are hiding in Buffy’s house, Xander says it should be safe in there. Angelus appears suddenly at the window and says “Works in theory” before pulling Xander out of the house. Angel says the same line in the Angel season three episode ‘Waiting in the Wings‘ when he and Cordelia are trapped below the theatre.

Xander’s bedroom

We get a decent look at Xander’s bedroom in the episode Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered. He has loads of Marvel posters, a Widespread Panic poster, a ‘Hazardous Waste’ sticker, a giant alarm clock, and an acoustic guitar. We see Xander playing the guitar in his dream in Teacher’s Pet but he doesn’t seem to play as he asks Oz in The Zeppo, “Is it hard to play the guitar?”

Four Star Mary

The music for Oz’s band Dingoes Ate My Baby was provided by real-life band Four Star Mary. James Marsters has performed with them on stage (off screen) a few times. The band themselves appeared in the season four finale Restless, as the band who play with Giles during the Exposition Song.

Four Star Mary songs can be heard in the following Buffy episodes:

• Inca Mummy Girl - The songs ‘Shadows’ and ‘Fate’ at the Cultural party in The Bronze.
• Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered - ‘Pain’ is heard in The Bronze.
• Dead Man’s Party - The Dingoes mime to ‘Pain’, ‘Nevermind’ and ‘Sway’ at Buffy’s party.
• Homecoming - we hear the song ‘She Knows’ at the Homecoming Dance - it’s the song Oz wrote for Willow.
• Living Conditions - ‘Pain is heard when Buffy and Willow move into their dorm room.
• Band Candy - the Dingoes mime onstage at The Bronze to ‘Violent’, when the adults are acting weirdly.
• Revelations - Dingoes Ate My Baby perform ‘Run’ in The Bronze at the start of the episode.
• The Harsh Light of Day - ‘Dilate’ is played at the Bronze at the start of the episode.
• The Initiative - Riley gets the song ‘Fate’ turned off at the party as it upsets Willow.

Naked

We hear Naked’s “Drift Away” playing in the background when Cordelia breaks up with Xander in Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered. In Go Fish, we hear Naked’s song “Manns Chinese” being played at the beach party.

Nero’s Rome

The song “Got the Love” by Nero’s Rome plays as Xander walks through the school halls in Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered. In Go Fish, we hear their song “If You’d Listen” as Buffy watches Gage at The Bronze. Both songs are from the album The Average White Band.

Diana

In Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, Amy calls upon Diana, goddess of love and the hunt, for her spell on Cordelia. Diana is the Roman goddess of forests, animals and hunting, but not love. Venus is the Roman goddess of love. This may be a mistake on Amy’s part and it’s probably why the spell went awry.

Hecate

In Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, Amy calls upon Hecate, the patron goddess of witchcraft, to turn Buffy into a rat. Hecate is known in many different guises, including a young woman in a black robe holding torches, as three bodies standing back to back, and as a dark and evil ghost found haunting dark nights with terrifying hounds of hell. In Gingerbread, Amy did a spell to turn herself into a rat, which involved invoking Hecate. Willow also called upon the goddess in Him to turn R.J. Brooks into a woman.

Love spell

In Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, Xander asked Amy Madison to put a love spell on Cordelia after she broke up with him. Amy needed something personal of Cordelia’s and lots of candles. In Lover’s Walk, Spike returned to Sunnydale and kidnapped Willow to make her perform a love spell to get Drusilla back. She had left him for a chaos demon. Willow needed a spell book, essence of violet, cloves, a set of runic tablets and rat’s eyes for her spell. Another example of a love spell was in Him, when a bewitched letterman jacket made women fall for it’s wearer.

Bewildered

The title of the episode Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered could come from the song “Bewildered” by Rodgers and Hart, made famous by Frank Sinatra, the lyrics include the lines,

This song can also be heard in Woody Allen’s movie Hannah and Her Sisters.

Elvis Presley

In Wild at Heart, Willow mentions she’s a big Elvis Presley fan, and loves the song ‘Hound Dog’. Cordelia references the king of Rock ‘n’ Roll when she says to Xander in Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, “Damn it Xander what’s going on? Who died and made you Elvis?”

I Know What You Did Last Summer

Sarah Michelle Gellar appeared in the movie I Know What You Did Last Summer in 1997. There are a couple of possible references to this film in Buffy. In Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, Angel sends Buffy a bunch of roses with a card reading, “Soon”. This could be a reference to I Know What You Did Last Summer, in which the character played by Sarah wakes to find the same message written on her mirror in lipstick.
When Faith is running from Buffy in her dream in This Year’s Girl, the scene is reminiscent of the scene in the movie where Sarah Michelle Gellar’s character runs from a killer.

Lotion

The band Lotion play their track “Blind For Now” from their album Nobody’s Cool when Willow and Cordelia are talking in The Bronze in Phases. In Revelations, we hear Lotion’s song “West of Here” (from The Telephone Album) as the Dingoes leave the stage.
There are two stickers for the band seen in Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered. One is on the locker behind Giles at the beginning of the episode, and the other is on the locker next to Cordelia’s.

Michael Jackson

In The Zeppo, Jack says, “You wanna be startin’ somethin’?” Xander’s replies, “What? Starting something? Like that Michael Jackson song, right? That was a lot of fun. ‘Too high to get over, yeah, yeah…’ Remember that fun song?” They’re referring to Michael Jackson’s song ‘Wanna Be Starting Something’.
Oz sings the song “Ben” by Michael Jackson in Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered when he’s trying to find Buffy, who has been turned into a rat. The song was used as the title song for the 1972 movie Ben about a boy who befriends a rat.

Midol

Midol is a pharmaceutical medication prescribed for menstrual cramping in women. Cordelia name-checks Midol when she offers hers to Harmony while Harmony is under Xander and Amy’s love spell in Bewitched, Bewildered and Bothered.

Pogo comics

The name of the episode Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered may come from the Pogo comic books. The comics came out in the 1950’s and were created by Walt Kelly. Among the many characters of these comics were three bats (who wear top hats and trousers and do not resemble bats in any way) named Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered.

Rohypnol

Buffy says to Xander in Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, “She loved you before you invoked the great Roofie spirit.” Roofie is the street name for Rohypnol, also known as the “date rape drug,” which enhances the effect of alcohol and causes sleepiness and memory loss.
In Harm’s Way, Tamika tells Harmony, “So I slipped a roofie in your drink while you were busy slutting it up. Then I followed you back to your place with that guy and waited till you passed out, and then broke in, had myself a little snack “

Valentine’s Day

According to Buffy, “Valentine’s Day is just a cheap gimmick to sell cards and chocolate”. Valentine was actually a priest in Rome, who was persecuted under Claudius II. When the prefect of Rome couldn’t make him renounce his faith, he sentenced him to be beheaded. That sentence was carried out on February 14. In the Buffyverse, the only episode to be set on Valentine’s Day is Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, when Xander and Amy performed a love spell on Cordelia after she broke up with Xander. In that episode, Spike bought Drusilla a necklace for Valentine’s, whilst Angel got her a fresh heart.

WP (Widespread Panic)

A black and white oval sticker with the letters “WP” can often be seen in Sunnydale. The sticker is for a band called Widespread Panic. Examples of episodes in which this is seen include:
Inca Mummy Girl: behind Xander when he says to Ampata, “Why’d you run away?”.
Halloween: next to Cordelia when she’s dressed as a cat and talking to Oz (on Oz’s locker door), and when Willow walks into the library when she’s a ghost, there is one on the bulletin board to her right. There is also a sticker on the bathroom wall, seen behind Buffy’s right shoulder when she an Willow look through the book.
Reptile Boy: at the beginning of the episode, behind Xander’s left shoulder in Buffy’s room.
Bad Eggs: behind Jonathon’s right shoulder on the locker when he is being attacked.
Surprise: on the locker behind Cordelia when she is talking to Xander and behind Xander when he calls Giles a party weasel. A colourful Widespread Panic poster can also be seen behind Joyce in Buffy’s dream.
Phases: when Buffy is in the Bronze looking for the werewolf, a WP sticker can be seen on a pillar behind her right shoulder.
Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered: poster in Xander’s room and behind Xander when Harmony tells him he should learn a second language so more girls can reject him. A sticker can also be seen on the locker behind Cordelia when Harmony is telling her off for breaking up with Xander.
Becoming (Part 2): at the beginning of the episode, when the cop is arresting Buffy in the hall, you can see a WP sticker on the lockers behind her.
Dead Man’s Party: on a guitar case behind the drums during the party.
A New Man: behind Giles when he’s at Buffy’s party.
Wild at Heart: a colourful WP poster (not the sticker) can be seen to the right of Oz’s bedroom door.
The Yoko Factor: in Buffy and Willow’s dorm room.
The Replacement: on the payphone that Xander uses to call Buffy.

Seen at 05.30 minutes:

As Buffy talks to Giles in the library she is sitting on the chair with her right hand holding her left one. In the wider shot, Buffy’s left hand is holding the right one.

Seen at 22.46 minutes:

In Xander’s slo-mo walk down the hallway, he passes a group of girls right at the start who then appear in front of him, walking to his right. In the very next shot they can be seen stood to his left. Look for the girl with the dark curly hair wearing the long brown cardigan.

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In the slow-mo sequence of Xander walking down the corridor in Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, the same guy can clearly be seen twice, once behind Xander and then in front of him only seconds later.

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Up to this point in the series, the doors to the library have always opened inwards, and there are only handles on the inside. When Xander pulls a bookcase across the doors to barricade himself in, Buffy easily opens the door outwards.

Seen at 31.30 minutes:

After Xander finds out that Amy’s spell went wrong, he takes Cordelia and runs out of school with her, during the day. They head to Buffy’s place, but when they get there it is night.

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When Drusilla pushes Buffy’s door down, her hands go into the house - but Drusilla was never invited in.

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When Cordy and Xander are lying on the ground, fighting off all of the angry love-struck females in Buffy’s basement, Cordelia somehow finds time to stop struggling and scratch her nose.

Seen at 38.34 minutes:

In Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, when Giles is doing the spell with Amy to cancel Xander’s love spell, 38:34, we can clearly see a string attached to Giles’ cravat, in the right side of the screen near a balcony.