MISTER ROGERS. BtVS Intertext/Allusion.
In "Gingerbread," we find the following exchange between Willow and her mother, Sheila Rosenberg (who makes her only appearance of the series on this episode):
Willow: Mom, how would you know what I can do? I mean, the last time we had a conversation over three minutes, it was about the patriarchal bias of the Mr. Rogers Show.
Sheila: Well, (makes finger quotes) with King Friday lording it over all the lesser puppets . . .
Mister
Rogers Neighborhood (1967-2001) was a long-running PBS television show
for children hosted by Fred
Rogers (1928-2003) and produced by WQED-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a
regular segment of the show, Mister Rogers paid a visit to the Land of
Make-Believe, where King
Friday was the puppet ruler.