Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a television series created by Joss Whedon. It, and it's spin-off series Angel, have made several references to Muppet projects and share some common cast and crew.


 * Alice Dinnean-Vernon performed a demon puppet in the Buffy episodes "As You Were" and a mummy hand in "Life Serial."
 * Buffy staff writer Jane Espenson wrote some episodes of Dinosaurs.
 * Victor Yerrid, Drew Massey, Alice Dinnean-Vernon and Leslie Carrara performed in a special puppet episode of Angel called "Smile Time."
 * The Buffy episode "The Puppet Show" is a take on The Muppet Show.
 * Creator Joss Whedon's father, Tom Whedon, wrote the Muppet production Hey Cinderella and worked for the Children's Television Workshop.
 * In the Angel episode "The House Always Wins," Lorne sings "Bein' Green" in Las Vegas. The song made it to commercial release on the Angel soundtrack.

Quotes
Xander: And them?
 * From the unaired Buffy pilot (pointing out which high school kids belong to what cliques)...

Buffy: Uh... film club.

Xander: They spend their time deciding that every movie is an existential meditation on Freudian sexuality.

Buffy: Even The Muppets Take Manhattan?

Xander: Esepcially The Muppets Take Manhattan.

Buffy: What's inside it?
 * From the Buffy episode "Get It Done" (trying to find their enemy's weakness)...

Robin: I don't know. Hasn't been opened since...

[Buffy cracks open the case]

Robin: Well, since now.

Xander: [removing items and chuckling] Puppets... that's it! The First hates puppets. Now if we can just airlift Kermit, [sic] Fozzie the Bear and Miss Piggy into town the first will be a'runnin'.

Willow: Those are Muppets.

Dawn: And these things are shadowcasters. You put them in motion and they tell you a story.

Cordy: They're taking... people and, whoa, big bird.
 * From the Angel episode "Disharmony" (Cordy has just had a vision and informs her colleagues of the trouble)...

Gunn: Big Bird?

Cordy: Not the Muppet, you dumb ass.