"Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
Ted (1997)

Regisseur:

Bruce Seth Green

Drehbuchautoren:

Joss Whedon (creator)
David Greenwalt (written by) ...

TV-Serie:

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997)

Erstausstrahlung:

8. Dezember 1997 (Staffel 2, Folge 11)

Genre:

Drama | Fantasy

Plot:

Buffy has parental issues when Joyce comes home with a boyfriend, the computer expert and master chef Ted...

Plot Keywords:

Library | Robot As Menace | Female Protagonist | Heroine | Cult

Nutzerkommentare:

Arnold Schwarzenegger ain't got nothing on John Ritter.

Besetzung

Sarah Michelle Gellar	...	Buffy Summers
Nicholas Brendon	...	Xander Harris
Alyson Hannigan	...	Willow Rosenberg
Charisma Carpenter	...	Cordelia Chase
David Boreanaz	...	Angel
Anthony Head	...	Rupert Giles (as Anthony Stewart Head)
John Ritter	...	Ted Buchanan
Kristine Sutherland	...	Joyce Summers
Robia LaMorte	...	Jenny Calendar
Ken Thorley	...	Neal
James MacDonald	...	Detective Stein (as James G. MacDonald)
Jeff Langton	...	Vampire

Länge:

60 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

1.33 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Dolby

Altersfreigabe:

USA:TV-PG

Firma:

Mutant Enemy

Dies und das:

In the final fight between Buffy and Ted, both actors were ill. Sarah Michelle Gellar had flu and John Ritter was suffering from food poisoning.

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: The "stock" exterior shots of the house in Torrance are missing the "1630" address of Buffy's house and have the "1313" address of the actual house visible, while the exterior shots specific to this episode have "1313" removed or obscured and "1630" in place. (This is pervasive through all seven seasons of the series.)

Dialogzitate:

Cordelia Chase: I guess you should know since you helped raise that demon that killed that guy that time.
Giles: Yes, do let's bring that up as often as possible.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger ain't got nothing on John Ritter.

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

There is something suspicious about the man that Buffy's mother is dating and it isn't that he lives with two women. John Ritter plays a warped Mr. Cleaver perfectly as he tries to mini pizza his way into the hearts of the gang. The episode itself uses him to send up the idea that evil comes in only one form, a theme that plays out a lot in this series. This is also the first episode where Buffy faces what she believes to be the reality of killing a human, a plot line that would return in the third season. Whether playing one serious game of putt putt or fighting to the death with Buffy in an amusing action sequence, John Ritter proves that he is real mean machine. Kristen Sutherland has one of her better episodes as well.

9 out of 10.

Ted(half his face warped to revel the robot beneath): "Buffy, would you like to play some Parcheesi?"