Band Candy
August 15th, 2010 | 
Author: 
It is time for the students of Sunnydale High to raise money for new band uniforms so the whole school has to sell candy bars. But the Mayor has an agenda that may not be so sweet.
Directed by: Michael Lange
Original Air Date: Nov, 10 1998
Guest Stars:
K. Todd Freeman (Mr. Trick)
Robin Sachs (Ethan Rayne)
Harry Groener (Mayor Richard Wilkins III)
Trivia:
- Joyce and Giles are listening to albums and Cream ”Tales of Brave Ulysses” is playing. In season five’s episode “Forever” Giles plays the record after Joyce’s funeral.
- This was the first episode written by Jane Espenson. What a first shot!
Quotes:
Snyder: “Whoa, Summers! You drive like a spaz!”
Giles: “No you listen to me, I’m your watcher so you do what I tell you. Now, sod off!”
Key Events:
- Xander and Willow getting all footsie
- Buffy shows off her (bad) driving skills
Rating:
Jason: 
Kathleen:
Troy:
Overall Score:
In Other News:
- W fest
- Eliza Dushku in the movie ‘Locked In‘
Posted in 
FYI
The mayor stars as a political figure in the final few episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise.
Great to hear a new episode, but when I downloaded it either from iTunes or the web site, it cuts out at about 51 minutes and everything after that is the beginning of the episode replayed.
I had the same problem as Bob D. the first time I downloaded it. The second download was able to play all of the way through, but has tons of echoes on our intrepid hosts.
Great content on what of the greatest episodes…just hard to hear at times
hi guys,
enjoyed the latest podcast. i am most jealous about the meetings of shows stars… closest i came to was meeting angie hart (who at the bronze in ‘i only have eyes for you’ and ‘conversations with dead people’).
that’s what you get for living in australia i guess… no one comes to visit! ok, well they probably do, just not to my town very often.
keep up the tales, i don’t mind living them vicariously!
As an addendum to the update about Julie Benz, her daughter on “An Ordinary Family” will be played by Kay Panabaker, who was the creepy little girl whose name I forget in the white room with black curtains….I mean at Wolfram & Hart.
Yay New Watchercast! PS: I love Jason’s new voice effects – they’re great fun to listen and scare the cat with!!!
Thanks for the heads up, Lawnbuddha, I am listening to the rest of the episode now. The echo/Cylon thing is usually a Skype issue, unplugging the headset and plugging back in will fix it. It seems to happen on ling recordings.
I’m having trouble downloading from itunes too. It’s downloading really slowly, saying it’ll take up to an hour (all other podcasts of the same size are downloading fine) and getting stopped by errors about a quarter of the way in. Is there any way you could take it down and put it back up or something, to see if that fixes the downlaod problems? I can’t wait to listen to the new episode!!!
I’ve been trying to download this episode through iTunes for the past few days. It will only download it so far, then stop. When I go to resume download, it starts over and cuts out in approximately the same place. Still no success.
Yeah, you guys keep echoing, and I actually couldn’t hear anyone at all the first twenty minutes.
I enjoyed it though!
FYI, they are now airing BtVS on Logo in the evenings. Last night was a mini marathon with “Homecoming”, “Band Candy” and “Revelations”. Thanks for pointing out the scene in the hospital with all the non-bandcandied delivering moms lighting up the switchboard, because that scene now makes me crack up.
Ahh, Buffy…you catch something new with every airing….
Hey, I loved the podcast. I’d like to point out that Michelle Trachtenberg is still on Gossip Girl, currently as Dan’s baby mama. Keep up the podcasts, they make me laugh so hard!
I just had an Alumni sighting! This is probably old news, but here in the UK, How I Met Your Mother (Neil Patrick Harris’ and Alyson Hannigan’s show) is about a series behind, and Harry Groener showed up as Ted’s hippy stepfather-to-be. Like, the anti-Mayor.
FYI the mayor has played at least 3 charters on star trek.
I live in Ohio and I went to college here as well and I only took the SAT. Pretty sure I didn’t take the ACT…but it was like 6 years ago so I can’t remember…