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Very funny episode! I like the scene seconds before the last commercial cut when Wes, Fred, Gunn and Angel (in front) walk out the door in a self-parody of the show's own group shot, with Angel's carrying his favorite broadsword on his puppet shoulders to the tune of an obvious knockoff of the Conan The Barbarian theme. I also liked the final battle with the puppets in their studio and when the puppet Angel morphed into a vamp. And great near-nudie shot of Nina when she awakens after being a werewolf! Of course she covers herself up but hey, a guy can dream, can't he?

Technically Angel was a muppet and not a puppet.
I think the only reason why Angel and the others
weren't referred to as muppets was due to the
fact that the Henson co. probably as the term
copyrighted.Still the correct term would be
muppet.


I wonder what Josh Whedon was smoking when he
wrote this ep.

After watching it my sole regret is that I didn't go with my first instinct after reading the review in the paper and watched Pokemon instead.

The only good part was the brief fight between
Muppet Angel and Spike.James Marsters looked like
he was having a blast.

Witch Hunter Robin on Cartoon Network was far better.

Wesley says "99.99999 ad infinitum..." --unfortunately 99.99999...% is 100%; So Wesley is saying all relationships have had to suffice with a happiness level of "acceptable" despite the fact that we know Buffy and Angel achieved prefect bliss.

Note: 9.999999... is the limit of the series

9×S^¥ _n=0(1/10)ⁿ = 9×(1/(1-10^-1)) = 9×(1/(9/10)) = 10

I could not stop laughing,looking at the "perma-frown" on the muppet angel's face...I loved it when Nina woke up with a bit of stuffing in her mouth, thinking she had done the unthinkable...
I was pretty stoked about Wesley and Fred's kiss, too. It's about time! Now Fred might die in the very next ep. poor wesley. his luck with the Ladies just stinks.

That's TV for ya.

Wow, that was great. Just seeing Angel as a muppet had me laughing for half of the episode. And the evil, cussing muppets were funny too. Reminded me of "Greg the Bunny" (RIP).

Though the eyebrow ridges through half the episode threw me off. I thought that it was supposed to be his vampire ridge or something until he morphed at the end.

The Angel muppet/Nina scenes were hilarious. His leap behind the desk and suffering the werewolf attack were just inspired. Wonderful.

That episode was brillant - and it could have gone so terribly wrong had it not been so well written. The only thing I could think of while watching it was "Imagine if this is your first ever episode".

I thought my fiance was going to •••• herself watching the episode. When he went into the cell and pulled off his nose...just brillant.

This ep was downright hilarious...

I'm sure it must've been based on this story here:
http://www.ghosts.org/stories/tales/muppet-dream.html

It's done the rounds on a few of the more paranormal sites before and bears a striking resembleance to this story.

Managed to see this last night (along with the pilot of Tru Calling).
It was hilarious. The crew must have had an absolute ball doing this episode. The fight between muppet Angel and Spike was brilliant. Although I wonder if Spike getting beaten up by a muppet (even if it's Angel) will get refered to again

The creator of Smile Time reminded me a lot of the late Jim Henson.

Didn't Henson Studios actually do the muppets for the episode?

Ben Edlund (creator of The Tick) and Joss Whedon really should work together again.

OK, first Angel posting. This ep was vintage Joss Whedon, and the actors did a great job of playing it straight while obviously having a great deal of fun at the idea of Angel as a Muppet/puppet.

If I took the time to list every funny thing about playing the whole vampire-puppet-with-a-soul, I'd fill the board. But one funny was a serious in-joke shout out to David Boreanaz, and that's the "Action Math News" bit on Smile Time.

For those who don't know, Boreanaz's father is Dave Roberts, who's been the weatherman on Philadelphia's Channel 6 Action News for something like 35 years now. And they always start off their newscasts with, "But the Big Story on Action news.." I swear, seeing puppets parodying Action News had me on the floor...the only way it could have been better is if they sang the Action News theme like David Boreanaz and Jon Stewart did one night on The Daily Show.

NITS:

Polo realized only belatedly that Angel has "a bit of demon" in him. Why wouldn't he know that the CEO of W&H is a vampire?

Gunn is probably one of the best-paid employees at W&H. If he cannot afford Doc's services, who could? Why is Doc still in business? And if he's so rich, why doesn't he solve his customs problems with a bribe?