1.9 The Puppet Show

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Quotes

	Xander:	I have my pride! Okay, I don't have a lot of my pride, but I have enough so that I can't do this.
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	Snyder:	My predecessor, Mr. Flutie, may have gone in for all that touchy-feely relating nonsense, but he was eaten. You're in my world now. And Sunnydale has touched, and felt, for the last time.
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	Willow:	I think dummies are cute. You don't?
	Buffy:	Uh-uh. They give me the wig. Ever since I was little.
	Willow:	What happened?
	Buffy:	I saw a dummy. It gave me the wig. There really wasn't a story there.
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	Snyder:	I know Principal Flutie would have said, 'Kids need understanding. Kids are human beings'. That's the kind of woolly-headed liberal thinking that leads to getting eaten.
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	Willow:	The creep factor is also heightened. It could be anyone. It could be me!
	(Everyone looks at her in amazement)
	Willow:	It's not, though!
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	Buffy:	You don't actually turn into a prince, do you? I-I mean, your body...
	Sid:	...is dust and bones. When I say "free"...
	Buffy:	You mean dead.

Pop Culture References

Xander: "Redrum! Redruuum!"
Reference to the film "The Shining" based on the novel by Stephen King. The word is "murder" spelled backwards, and is understood by one of the characters when she sees it in a mirror.

Xander: Does anybody else feel like they've been Keyser Soze'd?
Calling to mind the classic misdirection used in the film "The Usual Suspects", where the mafia-like "Keyser Soze" is continually blamed, but it is not until the end of the film that we learn who the name refers to.

What We Learn

Willow is petrified of performing in public
Cordelia can't sing for toffee!

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