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Share this story Twitter Facebook. She never sang professionally before, and before the rumors of a musical Buffy episode, she never intended to sing on-camera. All of that changed when the cast was on board. She spoke about this with EW, too. So my original intention was to have someone else do the singing.
Whedon put Gellar and the rest of the cast to the fire. They got a script two or three weeks before the production, and by that time, it was too late to go back. Luckily for Whedon, Gellar, and the rest of the team behind the series, the episode remains a favorite among fans and critics alike. To a audience, musical episodes may not be all that rare. Several hit series rode the same wave that Buffy helped set from the medical sitcom Scrubs to Riverdale.
I really love it when Fen walks in singing because she so clearly looks like she does not understand why the fuck this stuff is coming out of her mouth.
Genre shows that allow for fantastical elements seem to work the best, but a few outliers figured it out also, in sometimes surprising ways. How Well Did It Work? The number came in at the end to cap the episode, and afterward, Gladys Knight even made a cameo.
Granted, musical episodes appear to work best with genre shows where a fantasy element is involved, but in this case, the music was a crucial part to the storytelling and moved the characters forward in their arcs. Also, the original songs ranged in style from s sitcom-lite to rock opera, had clever lyrics and were accompanied by some fine dancing.
In this case, each song marked how one member of the study group was convinced to join the glee club in order to do the Christmas pageant. There was no problem having the song sequences fit at all. The comedy was already well-known for one-off concept episodes at this point the puppet episode, mockumentaries, the stop-motion animation one, etc.
It was a one-off, and it allowed us to hear Victor Garber, Jesse L. Also, he was smoking his strain of marijuana called Brown Betty, so maybe pot contributed to the quirkier musical elements.
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