Chris Snellgrove | Published
Buffy the Vampire Slayer It’s a show that changed some of its stars into common names, changing pop culture forever. The show effectively made history, as evidenced by many well-known awards, including multiple Creative Arts Emmy Awards and 10 Satellite Awards. However, one Buffy The worst way to make history: “The Puppet Show” was the lowest rated episode of the series Until nowand even worse, it broke franchise tradition by playing credits along with the final scene, not separately.
Buffy and the puppet play
This is usually where we summarise the episode in question; Buffy Fans, “The Puppet Show” is an infamous episode. It’s the tale of bait and switch where Buffy and the Scoobys first believe they have to fight against the demon dolls they walk and talk about, which sounds as creepy as they look. However, he turns out to be in fact a demon hunter who is cursed to live in the doll’s body until he completes a special task. In other words, they hunt and kill each member of the seven demonic brotherhood.
meanwhile Buffy Fans consider “The Puppet Show” to be fewer episodes (to say it gently), but most of the time they don’t realize it is the lowest rating of the entire series. In this case, “the lowest rating” is not a measure of quality, but the episode I’ll do it It has a terrible reputation, of course. for example, Rolling Stone This episode was ranked as #127 on the Best Best List Buffy story. It’s not too bad until you think that there are only 144 episodes. That means this is coming Something dangerous Near the bottom of the barrel.
In this case, “the lowest rating” means that instead of everything Buffy the Vampire Slayer The episode, “The Puppet Show” Even a little Originally when it was broadcast. According to Nielsen’s ratings for the show, when it first aired, only 1.9 million households were tailored to the doll’s misfortune. The “first broadcast” part is important. Because, as you can imagine, it always reruns fewer viewers than the original.
Buffy Fans dislike “The Puppet Show” for a number of reasons (including strange plots and clunky dialogues), but it’s worth noting that there’s less competition for episodes that are underrated than you think. The show became more popular in subsequent seasons, so even truly bad episodes (watch you, season 6!) have millions of viewers than the average episode. The ratings were lowest in season one, with “The Puppet Show” having the dubious honor of being the most common episode in the early days of those turbulent times.
Talk to many years Buffy Fans are also frustrated that “Puppet Show” made history in another negative way by performing end credits in the final scene via split screen. Creatively, this was a strange choice that ruined the flow of what was already a very bad episode. Apparently the network agreed. After the first airing, this final scene was removed from future WB broadcasts, but (for better or worse) it is now available to watch the restored scenes on DVD, streaming and TV.
There you have it, Buffy Fans: From an audience’s perspective, “The Puppet Show” is the worst episode of the franchise. And the strange choice to split the credits meant that the already underlying episode could not paste the landing. Luckily, the subsequent episodes only got better, and this small puppet publum has become a thing of the past for fewer puppet fans who talk to more stalker demons.
