Yep, fell off the couch laughing at Angel. Which the WB cancelled why? Because it sounds like they love Joss Whedon and David Borenaz to bits. And it seems that the writer/director of “Smile Time,” the puppet episode, loves everybody, too.
So the WB is cancelling this excellent and daring show why?
I’ve really, really enjoyed this season and don’t want to see it end too soon – I’ve been waiting for the payoff to the Wolfram & Hart “deal with the devil” and I hope to see a resolution, and not have to wait for a hoped for or “on the table” special TV movie. Feh.
Anyway, aside from the sucky cancellation newshanging over it, excellent ep!! Full of mad puppet violenz! Evil demonic puppets getting the stuffing beat (or bitten) out of them! Stuffing everywhere! A “hero walk” with the Angel gang striding out behind their leader, all of 18″ tall, carrying a broadsword casually across his manly felt shoulders! Some kissing and people maybe hooking up and stuff! Angel posing as the big crusading good guy (with sword again) in the showdown looking all hunky and ironic, yet sweetly Muppetlike! Angel getting his bad vampire puppet face on!
Best line: “I’m made of felt. And my nose comes off.”
Possible secret shout-out in the script to Miss Alli and Sars: the whole “I’m not that guy” speech.
The good folks t Television Without Pity. are already collecting a bunch of other “favorite lines,” too. There were so many in this episode.
I kept watching the puppets and wondered if Jim Henson Co. had anything to do with them – the dog sure sounded like a Henson-style dog. And there was the whole nose-coming-off thing. But they were demons. Couple that with the news that Disney is buying the Muppets, but not rights to Farscape or Fraggle Rock, and it seemed even creepier, though I’m sure it was just a funny coincidence.
Oooh. Scary. Disney possessing the Muppets. Creepier now than it was this morning.