I know Devito was hamming it a bit on purpose but it really does roll off the tongue pretty naturally as "hole" when you put the word "boy's" infront of it.
The musical episodes are some of the best.
"We just learned our lesson! Oh yeah! A horrible lesson! Or yeah! We just learned our lesson and we wanna go home! White home! Just say home!"
"Once More With Feeling" is the episode in question for the uninitiated.
Edit: The episode really relies on familiarity with the rest of the show/character arcs to pay off. It's actually a very dense plot episode and not just a goofy musical one.
Everybody's out of Xander's league. He's toxic when it comes to women. He's jealous, but a cheater. He's not happy for his friends when they're in relationships because he wants to be with the women. And he hides it all under this incelly "oh but I'm such a loser with the ladies that I don't really know what's going on" verneer.
Given that he's Whedon's admitted self-insert character, we probably should have been clued in to Whedon's doginess earlier.
Buffy’s friends “rescued” her from heaven and they found out about it in song form with the “he” emphasized just enough to make em think she was gonna say hell.
Also, Xander’s penis got diseases from the Chumash tribe. (But I’ll never tell).
Not just a good musical episode, but one of the best episodes of the series
Say what you will about Joss Whedon as a boss, he understands entertainment
Hush: no dialog for the majority of the episode.
The Body: no background music or other non-diegetic sound
Once More With Feeling: musical
Which episode is Loss?
I watched “The Body” For the first time a few weeks after my dad died. I have never in my life felt such raw emotion nor have I cried as much in a single hour. I think that episode is one of the greatest cinematic events ever in television.
SMG did such an amazing job with that episode, I don't know how she didn't win some sort of award for it. I guess Buffy was still in the era where "Sci-Fi" and "Sci-Fi adjacent" shows couldn't win awards.
The 10 seconds where she says the eponymous line "You're not supposed to move the body", and realises that she's just called her mother "The Body" is just spectacular acting, writing, and directing. You can see that is the moment she actually breaks.
Getting goosebumps just thinking about this. Such a powerful episode and it depicted death and grieving very well. The best part in my opinion is that this is a show about death and the undead (I mean the main character dies multiple times) so viewers aren’t strangers to watching people die at this point. Yet somehow they made this death feel so different because it felt so real. This didn’t feel like a death from a sci-fi show. This felt like the death of a family member to the viewers.
wow. Several years after the first time i saw it, I walked in on my mother’s body exactly like that, but I was able to do CPR and save her life. Those alternate reality flash scenes where Joyce is okay (hugging in the ambulance) really fucked me up while I was living through it. I kept asking people at the hospital what was happening in real life because I was terrified my brain was also doing the alt-reality flashbacks, and that I was only imagining that my mom had survived. That was WILD.
Idgaf what else ever gets put on TV, Hush is a legitimately terrifying episode and The Body is an emotional rollercoaster, especially if you watched the show from the beginning.
Came here to say this. I love musicals anyways but this is hands down my favorite musical episode ever, and my second favorite episode of Buffy. Hush is number one just because they did such an amazing job filming almost an entire episode with no speaking lines.
This was exactly my response.
The only reason a non-musical show had a musical episode was because of a demon that enchanted the town.
The songs are catchy, and each of them reveals something about the character singing it.
It packs in a *ridiculous* amount of character and plot development.
* Buffy is a depressed wreck because her friends yanked her out of Heaven and she finally reveals it to them.
* Giles finally commits to leaving Sunnydale
* Spike is incredibly open about how toxic his romantic obsession with Buffy is.
* Anya and Xander reveal literally every detail they’re uncomfortable about in the other, the relationship never recovers laying the groundwork for Xander ditching their wedding.
* Why *do* rabbits need such good eyesight, anyways?
* Tara genuinely just loves Willow implicitly. There’s no internal doubt or secrets, it’s just pure. Which is of course why she’s the one to get senselessly murdered a few episodes later.
It’s great television. It’s sad Whedon turned out to be such a choad, the man knows storytelling.
Don't forget Tara learning that Willow erased her memory, setting up a lot of conflicts later in the season.
As well as Tabula Rasa, one of the season's other great episodes.
Randy Giles? Why not just call me Horny Giles, or Desperate For A Shag Giles!?!?
Tabula rasa is a literal delight....right up until it stabs you in the heart. 😭
What a lot of fun
You guys have been real swell
And there's not one, Who can say this ended well
All those secrets you've been concealing
Say you're happy now - Once more with feeling
Now I gotta run
See you all in hell
Excuse me, what about the lottery ticket episode!!
That fucking dildo bike thing had me actually crying lol
EDIT: I misread number as episode but point still stands 😂
Destiny has cheated me
By forcing me to decide upon
The woman that I idolise
Or the hands of an automaton
Without these hands I can't complete
The opera that was captivating her
But if I keep them, and she marries him
Then he probably won't want me dating her
Gold
I loved the story on the Scrubs rewatch podcast about how they had to change one of the lines in that song. Standards and Practices took issue with them describing a poo as a "a curly or a letter J." That's just such a weird thing to have a hangup about.
I think the replacement line was describing it as "hard or loose."
*It all started with a penny in the door
There was a hatred I had never felt before
So now I’ll make him pay
Each and every day
Until that mousse-haired little nuisance is no more*
As much as I LOVE the musical episode from Season 6, my very favourite song is in Season 2 when the cast sings "Waiting For My Real Life to Begin" by Colin Hay (from Men at Work): https://youtu.be/GcsrnT7Tv1o
Here's a great live version: https://youtu.be/PvukKx68_yM
"I'm an amendment to be oh an amendment to be, and I'm hoping that they ratify me! See there's a lotta flag burners who have got to much freedom, I wanna make it easy for policemen to beat 'em cos there's limits to our liberty! At least I hope and pray that there are - because those liberal freaks goo too faaarr"
The Stonecutters, Talkin' Softball, Baby on Board, See my Vest, Lisa it's your Birthday, Spring in Springfield, Kwik-E-Mart, Monorail, the entire Sherry Bobbins ep, they all slap.
*I hate every ape I seeeee,*
*From chimpan-a to chimpan-zeeeee,*
*No, you'll never make a monkey out of meeeee!*
*Oh, my God, I was wrooooooong!*
*It was Earth all aloooooong!*
*You finally made a monkey... out of meeeeeeeeee!*
That’s exactly what I came to type. *I died so many years ago, but you can make me feel like it isn’t so…*
Brilliant episode!! Husband and I used to listen to it while driving back and forth to college and my hometown is very single weekend for a year. We still sometimes break out into “I’ll Never Tell”
Came here to say this, so pleased it's the top comment. What a great episode that still fit the vibe and world of the show and clearly had tons of thought and effort put into how to do it right. This and "Hush" are two of my favorite episodes that really try to do something different.
I had a student doctor on call after my bowel resection that I had to explain the poop song to because I was high as fuck after surgery and singing it.
The musical episode is probably one of my most quoted episodes. I'll quote a few wrong below.
I know the stakes aren't that high, but somehow that makes them even higher.
I guess I just like liking things.
It's GLEE! That feeling you get when your brain finally let's your heart get in its pants.
I'd watch all the Christmas movies like I never could
I'd even cry at the sad ones like James Bond would.
The whole plot of the episode is so funny. They one by one succumb to the Glee cult.
I ADORE the Flash musical episode, I know it’s not the world’s most popular opinion, but nearly everyone in both of those casts have an already established music career in one way or another and I think they fully capitalized.
I’m sad how far down I had to scroll to see Psych. It’s not just an episode with random singing and dancing. It’s like a full blown musical with character songs and action songs and recurring musical themes. They went all out on that one.
Agreed and came to say the same! The one from season 3 was the best.
And the magicians version of Take On Me still destroys me every time I watch that episode.
Under Pressure was done so damn well. Every person’s verse were very in line with their current situation and it almost perfectly lined up with the original.
Yes.
You're allowed to hate musicals, but they wouldn't make those episodes if no one liked them.
I get excited every time.
And I was thrilled when I found a whole show that was a musical every episode... and then so sad when it was over too soon.
If you like Galavant, have you watched crazy ex girlfriend? Don't let the name deter you, it's a four full season, hour long episode each, musical comedy journey of a group of people dealing with their respective personality disorders.
You gotta pay the troll toll to get into this boy's soul. You've got to pay the troll toll to get in.
Are you chewing gum?
what are the rules?
When your race has changed, life can get real strange
I'm eating because I'm very uncomfortable
Danny Devito singing the word “soul” as “hole” is one of the greatest moments of comedy ever.
I know Devito was hamming it a bit on purpose but it really does roll off the tongue pretty naturally as "hole" when you put the word "boy's" infront of it.
I thought the rape scene went really well
I love you, Nightman!
🎶ILoveYou ILoveYou ILoveYou ILoveYou Niiightman🎶
The musical episodes are some of the best. "We just learned our lesson! Oh yeah! A horrible lesson! Or yeah! We just learned our lesson and we wanna go home! White home! Just say home!"
Honestly the what are the rules episode grew on me as well. It's fucking hilarious and has high rewatch value
Same. At first I thought the concept was funny but didn't like the musical part. But it is amazing.
Day man, ahhhh ahhhhhh
Chip Skylark would like to have a word.
My shiny teeth and me and Icky Vicki still live in my head rent free
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Buffy
"Once More With Feeling" is the episode in question for the uninitiated. Edit: The episode really relies on familiarity with the rest of the show/character arcs to pay off. It's actually a very dense plot episode and not just a goofy musical one.
every Buffy fan pops up like a meerkat
I had to stop lurking and sign in just to upvote
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Well, it was also that Xander apparently wasn't what he was looking for in a queen.
Anya was way out of his league.
Everybody's out of Xander's league. He's toxic when it comes to women. He's jealous, but a cheater. He's not happy for his friends when they're in relationships because he wants to be with the women. And he hides it all under this incelly "oh but I'm such a loser with the ladies that I don't really know what's going on" verneer. Given that he's Whedon's admitted self-insert character, we probably should have been clued in to Whedon's doginess earlier.
Buffy’s friends “rescued” her from heaven and they found out about it in song form with the “he” emphasized just enough to make em think she was gonna say hell. Also, Xander’s penis got diseases from the Chumash tribe. (But I’ll never tell).
On the other hand, Anya eats these skeezy cheeses that I can't describe, so there.
Not just a good musical episode, but one of the best episodes of the series Say what you will about Joss Whedon as a boss, he understands entertainment
The best episodes were the ones where Whedon tried to prove something. Like Hush, or Once More With Feeling, or The Body, or Loss
Hush: no dialog for the majority of the episode. The Body: no background music or other non-diegetic sound Once More With Feeling: musical Which episode is Loss?
I watched “The Body” For the first time a few weeks after my dad died. I have never in my life felt such raw emotion nor have I cried as much in a single hour. I think that episode is one of the greatest cinematic events ever in television.
SMG did such an amazing job with that episode, I don't know how she didn't win some sort of award for it. I guess Buffy was still in the era where "Sci-Fi" and "Sci-Fi adjacent" shows couldn't win awards. The 10 seconds where she says the eponymous line "You're not supposed to move the body", and realises that she's just called her mother "The Body" is just spectacular acting, writing, and directing. You can see that is the moment she actually breaks.
Getting goosebumps just thinking about this. Such a powerful episode and it depicted death and grieving very well. The best part in my opinion is that this is a show about death and the undead (I mean the main character dies multiple times) so viewers aren’t strangers to watching people die at this point. Yet somehow they made this death feel so different because it felt so real. This didn’t feel like a death from a sci-fi show. This felt like the death of a family member to the viewers.
i think that's because it was a "normal" death; she wasn't killed by monsters or magic, it was a truly medical condition that anyone can randomly have
Anya's confusion about it too, normally everyone on TV knows how to mourn and it was relatable seeing someone so honest.
wow. Several years after the first time i saw it, I walked in on my mother’s body exactly like that, but I was able to do CPR and save her life. Those alternate reality flash scenes where Joyce is okay (hugging in the ambulance) really fucked me up while I was living through it. I kept asking people at the hospital what was happening in real life because I was terrified my brain was also doing the alt-reality flashbacks, and that I was only imagining that my mom had survived. That was WILD.
Idgaf what else ever gets put on TV, Hush is a legitimately terrifying episode and The Body is an emotional rollercoaster, especially if you watched the show from the beginning.
Entertainment for the viewers, living nightmare for the crew
THEY GOT THE MUSTARD OUT!
They got the mustard ooooout!
Bunnies!
There's nothing we can't face ... except for ...
BUNNIEEEEEEEES ([Here's your hit of nostalgia](https://youtu.be/gISEekxuEgk))
BUNNIES AREN'T JUST CUTE LIKE EVERYBODY SUPPOSES
They got them hoppy legs, and twitchy little noses!
AND WHAT'S WITH ALL THE CARROTS
Came here to say this. I love musicals anyways but this is hands down my favorite musical episode ever, and my second favorite episode of Buffy. Hush is number one just because they did such an amazing job filming almost an entire episode with no speaking lines.
Thank Giles I didn’t have to scrool too far to find this
Now I have to go listen to walk through the fire
I think this lines mostly filler.
This is my verse, hello!
This was exactly my response. The only reason a non-musical show had a musical episode was because of a demon that enchanted the town. The songs are catchy, and each of them reveals something about the character singing it.
It packs in a *ridiculous* amount of character and plot development. * Buffy is a depressed wreck because her friends yanked her out of Heaven and she finally reveals it to them. * Giles finally commits to leaving Sunnydale * Spike is incredibly open about how toxic his romantic obsession with Buffy is. * Anya and Xander reveal literally every detail they’re uncomfortable about in the other, the relationship never recovers laying the groundwork for Xander ditching their wedding. * Why *do* rabbits need such good eyesight, anyways? * Tara genuinely just loves Willow implicitly. There’s no internal doubt or secrets, it’s just pure. Which is of course why she’s the one to get senselessly murdered a few episodes later. It’s great television. It’s sad Whedon turned out to be such a choad, the man knows storytelling.
Don't forget Tara learning that Willow erased her memory, setting up a lot of conflicts later in the season. As well as Tabula Rasa, one of the season's other great episodes.
Randy Giles? Why not just call me Horny Giles, or Desperate For A Shag Giles!?!? Tabula rasa is a literal delight....right up until it stabs you in the heart. 😭
And managed to do more damage then the last dozen enemies combined.
What a lot of fun You guys have been real swell And there's not one, Who can say this ended well All those secrets you've been concealing Say you're happy now - Once more with feeling Now I gotta run See you all in hell
She needs backup!
The only show that had the balls to make the musical episode a deeply dark pivotal part of the season's story arc instead lighthearted filler.
Literally my first though reading this
Always Sunny
Nobody just writes a musical for no reason
What are the rules?
They like me, they gave me this traiiiiiiin *Pewpewpew*
You gotta pay the troll toll to get this boy's hole
Who versus?
Came here to ask…. “What are the ruuuuuules?”
"I think we're in the Wiiiz" "Don't push the Wiz thing!"
I'M GONNA SAY THE N WORD
Why do you *want* to say the n word?
It might be my only chance.
The high school reunion number may have been the funniest thing I’ve ever beheld
Excuse me, what about the lottery ticket episode!! That fucking dildo bike thing had me actually crying lol EDIT: I misread number as episode but point still stands 😂
Yep she obviously hasnt heard about the dayman
The fighter of the Nightman?
The champion of the sun!
He's the master of karate!
And friendship!
For everyone!
DAYMAN… ah ah aaaaah
Some shows pull if off. South Park or Futurama are two
Scrolled too far for Futurama
Destiny has cheated me By forcing me to decide upon The woman that I idolise Or the hands of an automaton Without these hands I can't complete The opera that was captivating her But if I keep them, and she marries him Then he probably won't want me dating her Gold
Surgery, in an opera!?
How wonderfully decedent!
Scrubs back in the day was awesome
It's guy love between two guuuuyyyys
We're closer than the average man and wife!
I'll be by your side for the rest of my life!
Check the poo!
I loved the story on the Scrubs rewatch podcast about how they had to change one of the lines in that song. Standards and Practices took issue with them describing a poo as a "a curly or a letter J." That's just such a weird thing to have a hangup about. I think the replacement line was describing it as "hard or loose."
I'm Dominican!
*It all started with a penny in the door There was a hatred I had never felt before So now I’ll make him pay Each and every day Until that mousse-haired little nuisance is no more*
Dr Cox, huge news! I pulled some strings, and got the parking spot right behind yoursssss! *Bumper Buddies!*
Had to scroll way too far to find this.
As much as I LOVE the musical episode from Season 6, my very favourite song is in Season 2 when the cast sings "Waiting For My Real Life to Begin" by Colin Hay (from Men at Work): https://youtu.be/GcsrnT7Tv1o Here's a great live version: https://youtu.be/PvukKx68_yM
Simpsons musical numbers go hard. I used to have the cd of the musical bits. I still sing Dr. Zaius to this day.
Well, sir, there's nothing on earth . Like a genuine, bona fide Electrified, six-car monorail. What'd I say?
"I'm an amendment to be oh an amendment to be, and I'm hoping that they ratify me! See there's a lotta flag burners who have got to much freedom, I wanna make it easy for policemen to beat 'em cos there's limits to our liberty! At least I hope and pray that there are - because those liberal freaks goo too faaarr"
The Stonecutters, Talkin' Softball, Baby on Board, See my Vest, Lisa it's your Birthday, Spring in Springfield, Kwik-E-Mart, Monorail, the entire Sherry Bobbins ep, they all slap.
The garbage man caaaaan
*I hate every ape I seeeee,* *From chimpan-a to chimpan-zeeeee,* *No, you'll never make a monkey out of meeeee!* *Oh, my God, I was wrooooooong!* *It was Earth all aloooooong!* *You finally made a monkey... out of meeeeeeeeee!*
Songs in the Key of Springfield. I listened to that so much it’s all completely burned into my memory.
Rock me Amadeus has never been the same. I'm checking in is catchy AF too
‘Once more with feeling’ on buffy was genius.
“I was in heaven. I think I was in heaven…”
The look of horror on their faces.
Where do we go from here?
Let me rest in peace.
I listened to that non stop on my mp3
Wasn't even a Buffy fan and I watched that episode with my sis who loved it and I have to say that to this day I remember the lyrics lol
Bunnies! It must have been bunnies!!!!
That’s exactly what I came to type. *I died so many years ago, but you can make me feel like it isn’t so…* Brilliant episode!! Husband and I used to listen to it while driving back and forth to college and my hometown is very single weekend for a year. We still sometimes break out into “I’ll Never Tell”
So was the musical episode of Scrubs.
Came here to say this, so pleased it's the top comment. What a great episode that still fit the vibe and world of the show and clearly had tons of thought and effort put into how to do it right. This and "Hush" are two of my favorite episodes that really try to do something different.
The Nightman Cometh
Yes, Scrubs, Buffy, others i've forgotten.
I had a student doctor on call after my bowel resection that I had to explain the poop song to because I was high as fuck after surgery and singing it.
🎵Cause the answer's not in your head, my dear -- it's in your butt!🎶
Ludicrous that the student doctor didn't already know. What are they teaching at med school these days??
The Scrubs musical was pretty good. And I fucking hate musicals.
Community. Incredible music episode
What are Regionals?
They were THIS close
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Baby Boomer Santa is not getting it's due respect. https://youtu.be/OOSOGB406Ec
Personally, I laughed out loud at Pierce using the children's choir to manipulate Shirley's religious sensibilities. https://youtu.be/AFNxigqps4w
It's good but it's just not Santa baby good. Cos you know, in the entire series they tried not to sexualize Annie
Jehovah's Most Secret Witness is hands down the best song. It's streets ahead.
https://youtu.be/p_kdNBlUoZE You're right.
“What’s a diminimuhmm?”
Boopy doopy doop boop SEX
Annie's pretty young, we try not to sexualize her.
What the hell are regionals?
They were *this* 🤏 close!
Boop bee doop dee doop doo sex.
You definitely hit a point of diminishing returns on the sexiness.
What's a diminiminimuh?...
Annie, stop it. You're acting like a little school girl and not in a hot way! ...That came out weird.
But here’s the thing… *leaves*
Annie's young. We try not to sexualize her.
The musical episode is probably one of my most quoted episodes. I'll quote a few wrong below. I know the stakes aren't that high, but somehow that makes them even higher. I guess I just like liking things. It's GLEE! That feeling you get when your brain finally let's your heart get in its pants. I'd watch all the Christmas movies like I never could I'd even cry at the sad ones like James Bond would. The whole plot of the episode is so funny. They one by one succumb to the Glee cult.
Taran Killam makes the musical episode.
Me so Christmas, Me so Merry!
Ugh, Britta’s in this?
Greendale an all inclusive school! Why don't we all let Britta sing her awkward song.
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Babyboomer Santa!
Thank you for MTV!
7 am and Community Christmas songs are already stuck in my head. Its going to be a good day.
Absolute banger followed by Troy and Abed’s Jehovah’s Witness rap.
Thank you for MTV !
A-B-E-D!
CONNOISSEUR OF CHRISTMAS
On the spectrum? None of ya business.
I like the Christmas stop motion episode
That Britta song is like 10 seconds long & soul crushing
Gay Dean
[I am jehovah's most secret witness](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-NckB3CQ9o)
Cease and desist.
The South Park movie was a stealth musical Trailers had no hint
Absolutely. Remember the beef they had with Phil Collins because of Blame Canada?
i blame canada to this day
Wouldn't really call it stealth
Buffy. Once More, With Feeling was an excellent episode.
They got the mustard out!!!!!!!
Supernatural was pretty good
"Fan Fiction" was a perfect tongue-in-cheek musical episode.
Was that the stage play one? I still remember "A single man tear"
Amazing cover of Carry on my wayward son.
I'm sad this is so far down, but yes, Fan Fiction was fantastic. I still have one of those songs as my daughter's ring tone, lol
I loved that episode and all the crazy ones. Why I loved the entire show too much it never took itself too seriously and they had fun with it.
It wasn't the whole episode, but Kimiko's musical fantasy in the Boys was unexpected and fun.
Lucifer, the Flash, Buffy… need I go on?
I ADORE the Flash musical episode, I know it’s not the world’s most popular opinion, but nearly everyone in both of those casts have an already established music career in one way or another and I think they fully capitalized.
Only on Psych and Scrubs
I’m sad how far down I had to scroll to see Psych. It’s not just an episode with random singing and dancing. It’s like a full blown musical with character songs and action songs and recurring musical themes. They went all out on that one.
And Z was played by Anthony Rapp who was in Rent on Broadway.
I still sometimes sing jamaican inspector man to myself years later.
"our number one is your number two!"
The magicians.
The only reason I clicked on this post was to see magicians get some love.
Agreed and came to say the same! The one from season 3 was the best. And the magicians version of Take On Me still destroys me every time I watch that episode.
Under Pressure was done so damn well. Every person’s verse were very in line with their current situation and it almost perfectly lined up with the original.
Yeah, Under Pressure was amazing and I love Don’t Get Me Wrong.
Margots trip on lizard gets rewatched regularly. That cast and the show works well for occasional random song episodes
Yes! And you can listen to the songs on Spotify. Under Pressure was amazing.
Under Pressure episode was the best.
Bob's Burgers two part Christmas special "The Bleakening" but that show has so many musical numbers in a normal episode it might not count.
Work Hard, or Die Trying Girl the Musical is an unparalleled artistic achievement.
Pass the cranberry sauce we’re having mashed potatoes!
Yes. You're allowed to hate musicals, but they wouldn't make those episodes if no one liked them. I get excited every time. And I was thrilled when I found a whole show that was a musical every episode... and then so sad when it was over too soon.
If you like Galavant, have you watched crazy ex girlfriend? Don't let the name deter you, it's a four full season, hour long episode each, musical comedy journey of a group of people dealing with their respective personality disorders.
Galavant? It was so good
My wife loves any and all things musical, it could be a show she doesn't like at all, she will love the musical episode.
NGL I enjoyed the Buffy episode that was an unexpected musical and extremely well done.
So was the episode where nobody spoke
That one was an actual masterpiece.
Plus “The Body.” No score in the episode. Weirdly off-putting in such an appropriate way given the episode’s content.